Call for Papers: Control, Survival, Struggle: Rethinking and Renewing Vincent Mosco’s Political Economy of Communication. A special issue of Work Organisation, Labour & Globalization I'm co-editing w/ @ursulahuws.bsky.social, Leslie Shade, and Catherine McKercher wolg.wordpress.com/special-issu...

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Interview with me about forthcoming book by Christine Evans Pughe www.howandwhy.com/ideas/are-we...

Wide ranging conversation with Valentin Niebler and Kenzo Soares about changes in tech workers' identities and class consciousness in the current conjuncture (and some reflections on how this has changed over the last 50 years) www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Oow...

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My latest blog post looks, inter alia, at the question of choice in assisted dying ursulahuws.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/c...

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The Slough of Despond?

reposted by request (the sound quality is not wonderful and the powerpoint slides are not shown) but this is one of the most concise summaries of what Ursula Huws has drawn from Marx www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ywv...

My latest blog post - on my troubled relationship with technology ursulahuws.wordpress.com

This is where I was first introduced to Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Arundhati Roy, James Baldwin, Naomi Klein, Mike Davis, Leo Panitch, Tariq Ali, Ursula Huws and so many other great thinkers. www.howardzinn.org

TEKRAR BASIM | Küresel Dijital Ekonomide Emek Ursula Huws, günümüz küresel kapitalist ekonomisinin farklı görünümleriyle ilgili kışkırtıcı analiziyle, son yılların iktisadi, kültürel ve siyasi olgularını bir araya getiriyor. www.yordamkitap.com/kuresel-diji...

Classroom report: This article by @ursulahuws.bsky.social can still strike the hearts of students learning to be creative workers (and of at least some of the teachers who teach them). It's also a crystal-hard model of dialectical thinking.

My little book of clerihews is now published and available from www.thegreatbritishbookshop.co.uk/products/the...

Researchers at the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands have received a questionnaire from the US with questions that are an attack on academic freedom. The University of Leiden advises not to respond www.staff.universiteitleiden.nl/announcement...

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A clerihew for February 28, 2025 Villain or hero? Serious or phony? You grasp the disputed status of Luigi Mangione When you realise that in the US your life and health Depend on your wealth.

A clerihew for February 27, 2025 Born around the time Il Duco Began his ascendancy in Italy, Michel Foucault Devoted his career to studying power Which made him quite the intellectual of the hour.

A clerihew for February 26, 2025 Attracting acclaim at every turn, Jacinda Adern May have inspired high popular turnout But eventually succumbed to emotional burnout.

The big reversal in Germany’s election Extreme right (AfD) gained every where but particularly in the poorest regions. Social Democrats (SPD) lost everywhere but particularly in the poorest region.

A clerihew for February 25, 2025 As Volodymyr Zelensky Knows, what’s at stake in this war is immense: key To the outcome’s what’s under the soil. What the oligarchs want is rare metals as spoil.

A clerihew for February24, 2025 With a fortune made from blowing things up, what would impel Dynamite mogul Alfred Nobel To donate from his riches to further world peace? Was he trying to rebuild it, piece by hurled piece?

A clerihew for February 23, 2025 Fittingly, since for hardness of heart few could match her, ‘No such thing as society’ Margaret Thatcher Ended her life, as history admits, Looked after by strangers in a suite at the Ritz.

A clerihew for February 22, 2025 Ukrainians must look on with consternation At international procrastination As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Put the boot in.

A clerihew for February 21, 2025 But did it please her? There was this geezer. Julius Caesar. Fancied this Cleopatra. Wanted to tease her. Hotfooted it to Egypt with this army to seize her.

A clerihew for February 20, 2025 When discussing with a neighbour Party leaders, we agreed we’d like to turn them Into those of Andy Burnham.

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A clerihew for February 19, 2025 Don’t cry for Javier Milei, Oh Argentina, whatever pundits might say. Weep for the planet. The true fraud is that crypto’s apparent fictionality Is based on the looting of all-too-material reality.

NEW: Last week’s newsletter had ‘IT’S A COUP’ in big red letters on front page of NYT. Well, guess what? It still is. We have to stop framing what’s happening as in any way normal. It’s a coup & a collapse in the international order & none of this is ‘normal’ broligarchy.substack.com/p/us-coup-ga...

Vanderbilt has apparently paused doctoral student admissions (they fully fund everyone accepted). Expect quite a bit of this at wealthier institutions that typically guarantee funding.

It's time to start a thread on higher ed budget cuts announced due to actual and potential cuts to federal funding. Northwestern is placing additional scrutiny on all spending and trying to cut non-personnel spending by 10% this year.

A clerihew for February 18, 2025 It seems that Tariq Ali Has been very pally With just about every international lefty, Which explains why his memoirs are so extremely hefty.

A clerihew for February 17, 2025 Donato di Niccolò di Betto Bardi, aka Donatello Was clearly a very talented fellow Who didn’t, it seems, cause Florentine scandals Notwithstanding the campness of his David with sword, hat and sandals.

A clerihew for February 16, 2025 How, in troubled times, we rewrite history Is always something of a mystery. Now that European diplomacy cannot work well Is there nostalgia for Angela Merkel?

A Clerihew for February 15, 2025 Rule nothing out A friend just asked me for a response on The question whether Boris Johnson Might want to rejoin the global fray Like a drunk revisiting last night’s vomit. Yes, I said, he well may.

A clerihew for February 14, 2025 Childhood deprivation It seems that childhood wasn't easy For Anthony Albanese. Now, though supposedly words hurt less than sticks and stones, He’s banning Australian kids from using mobile phones.

A clerihew for February 13, 2025 Though sunflower petals and star-studded skies Might dazzle their eyes What most people know about Vincent van Gogh Is that he cut some outer parts of his hearing organ off.

A clerihew for February 12, 2025 Reaction to this morning’s headlines With its snout up his rump Donald Trump, It seems safe to say, will think it’s OK To ignore the UK.

A clerihew for February 11, 2025 Attraction and ardour and fury in torrents Deluge the writing of David Herbert Lawrence. Though literary truth may have been his credo, He was better known for his libido.

A clerihew for February 10, 2025 Winston Churchill Didn’t realise he’d be left in the lurch till The post-war British electorate told him to bugger off Having had enough of being ruled by a toff.

A clerihew for February 9, 2025 If a lazy reader had to make a choice Which novel by James Joyce To take to devour on a holiday break I bet it wouldn’t be Finnegan’s Wake.

A clerihew for February 8th, 2025 Wherever you publish and whatever you print on, If you’re writing a biography of William Jefferson Clinton You’ll have to concede That his sexual behaviour was very bad indeed.

A clerihew for February 7, 2025 How it hurts! Many thought they’d go to heaven When (in 1947) Aneurin Bevan Invented the NHS. Now, it pains me to report, it’s in a hell of a mess.

A clerihew for February 6, 2025 You can croon, you can groan, You can softly intone You can sing from the rooftop or tenderly moan But you won’t touch the beauty of Nina Simone.

A clerihew for February 5, 2025 Since seduction, trickery and lies Are what social media ‘town squares’ monetise, Shouldn’t these ‘towns’ be named things like Vicebury, Fraudsville or Hookerburg? I’m asking you, Mark Zuckerberg.