ERU is delighted to start the year with a panel on Digital Work, in collaboration with @cusocsci.bsky.social, featuring Agnieszka Rydik @agnirydzik.bsky.social and Mattia Dessi @mattiadessifrau.bsky.social, Nov 12 at 12:00, @cu-cardiffbusiness.bsky.social

Save the date!! BUIRA 2026 conference will be held on 23-25 June in the Wivenhoe campus of Essex University

אדם רז ואסף בונדי @assafbondy.bsky.social נותנים פרספקטיבה חשובה על מלחמה שכולם מעורבים בה - ואיך נוצרה קהילת פשע www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/202...

Interesting perspective on how Israel buys complicity in mass killings, by @assafbondy.bsky.social and Adam Raz: www.theideasletter.org/essay/the-ec...

Obscene, but let's stop using the phrase "is worth" for rich people. They aren't "worth" any more than you or me. They "have" more. Though even that term is problematic in its neutrality.

Elon Musk Just Became The First Person Ever Worth $500bn. He has used his wealth to buy govts/legislators, unleash Trumpism, promising to hand $100m to Farage, create social strife and divisions. Like the rest of us, he will leave the world empty-handed.

Since privatisation England's water companies paid £88.4bn in dividends. 90% of water companies owned by foreign investors/govts. 90% of dividend not recirculated in the UK economy. No UK tax paid on dividends. Public ownership would make a difference.

HE members we are calling on you to vote! 🗳️ UCEA's offer of 1.4% not only fails to stop the decline in salaries, it’s yet another real-terms pay cut. Haven't received your e-ballot? You have until 12 noon TOMORROW to request a replacement: yoursay.ucu.org.uk/s3/ucu-he-re...

Prof Peter Turnbull gives the presidential address at BUIRA 2025, held at the University of Exeter, Cornwall campus - What's the Place of IR Academics and their Association(s)? www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP9p...

There is no Water shortage in the UK. Just an excess of people running Water Companies who should be in jail.

England’s reservoirs at lowest level for a decade, experts call for hosepipe bans. No new reservoirs built since 1989. Over a trillion litres of water a year lost to leaks. Water companies paid out £85bn in dividends. No regulator/Govt had a national plan. Crisis created by privatisation.

READ: CUNY just suspended a leading Palestinian student organizer and fired four faculty for protesting Israel’s genocide. This is a blatant crackdown on free speech — a McCarthyite purge to silence the growing movement for Palestinian liberation. mondoweiss.net/2025/07/cuny...

Just received news that 27 people have been arrested in Parliament Square under the Terrorism Act 2000 for holding signs saying "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action". This is real police state behaviour.

Why BBC editors must one day stand trial for colluding in Israel's genocide In a confrontation with BBC news chief Richard Burgess, journalist Peter Oborne sets out six ways the state broadcaster has wilfully misled audiences on Israel’s destruction of Gaza jonathancook.substack.com/p/why-bbc-ed...

Today the order banning #PalestineAction as "terrorists" came into effect. But they are not terrorists. They are protesters trying to stop a genocide. This is a "first they came for ..." situation. Unless we stand in solidarity against this assault on our freedom, they will pick us off one by one.

"The BBC should hang their heads in shame" for not airing the 'Gaza: Doctors Under Attack' film, said Gary Lineker at a screening in London tonight. Luckily, Zeteo bought the global rights to this hugely important documentary and is airing it here: gazadoctors.film

JVL Official Statement We oppose the proscription of Palestine Action and send them our solidarity We support the right for people to engage in direct action to prevent greater harm e.g. for Palestine, to limit environmental catastrophe, to support rights of asylum seekers https://is.gd/NEoGfH 1/2

🚨 EMERGENCY DEMO: Defend The Right To Protest, Don't Ban Palestine Action ⏰ Wednesday, 2 July, 6PM 📍 Outside Parliament, London Join us to protest this government's attacks on the right to protest and to demand that MPs vote against the plans to proscribe Palestine Action.

The U.S. and Israel aren't rational actors. They bomb nuclear sites, escalate a regional war, commit genocide, then act shocked when there's retaliation.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... It's a very dangerous step to define groups that do not threaten physical harm as terrorist. The extension from bullets and bombs to paint is another step towards a fascist state

Never forget Israel started this war with Iran, and they are still committing Genocide in Gaza.

Enough with the myth of Israel-as‑victim. The latest strike on Iran—killing civilians, including children—is not self‑defense. It’s aggression. A decades‑long pattern of impunity. Israel casts itself as wounded, weaponizing narrative to justify regional dominance mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra...

I am proud to announce that a group of 21 Iranians and Israeli have come together to call for ceasefire, diplomacy and an end to this devastating war. Please spread our message as far and wide as you can, -- and consider joining us! docs.google.com/forms/d/1DmH...

Weekly Briefing: Israel attacks Iran as Gaza genocide reaches new depths mondoweiss.net/2025/06/week...

8 years later and not a single person has been put on trial for Grenfell, even though a report a year ago listed all the people involved, and what they did or didn't do. They don't want to convict them, because they are rich.

We are told, again and again, that Israel is defending itself. But it is only defending its right to act with impunity throughout the Middle East to maintain its supremacy. Israel's attack on Iran is just the latest example. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/isra... #Palestine #Israel

Trump wants you to believe that this is about Iran signing a nuclear deal - one he tore up in 2018! - but Israel just killed Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator who was telling US television just two weeks ago that Iran was open to a deal.

A very important and fascinating book on how property works. The chapter on how states have surrendered to international investor power is crucial. Well done, @brisunipress.bsky.social and thank you, Paddy Ireland

Water Follies In the 35 years before privatisation, 100 reservoirs built; no major English reservoir built since. Asset-stripping: Thames Water sold-off 25 reservoirs. Southern Water to decommission 43 of 93 by 2030. Companies paid £85bn in dividends, borrowed £70bn. People fleeced and abused.

Watch this montage of clips from Israel's Channel 14, filled with racist and genocidal bile, shocking stuff, ask yourself why you don't see these clips on US or UK mainstream news, and then read Prem's deep dive for Zeteo into Channel 14: zeteo.com/p/inside-the...

Reimagining Solidarity in Israel/Palestine - with Arees Bishara, Assaf Bondy, Walid Habbas, Jonathan Preminger, and Ibrahim Shikaki. Featured panel at the upcoming @sasemeeting.bsky.social annual meeting: sase.org/event/2025-m...

A timely investigation into democracy and trade unionism by @assafbondy.bsky.social - I suspect we'll be seeing more of this kind of study as democracy appears ever more under threat www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I also discuss the bizarre and disturbing association between the Starmer government and former special advisers to Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. I vaguely remember being told something about "Change". But this continuity is beyond our worst nightmares. Not just Tory policies, but actual Tories.

Keir Starmer is caught in yet another trap of his own making | Rafael Behr

Israel is annihilating Palestinian children. Amer Rabea was one of them | Ahmad Ibsais

Israel carried out its plan to erase Gaza over the course of 18 months. Now that the plan has clearly fallen into place, the Netanyahu government is openly discussing ethnic cleansing. And still, Israel enjoys complete international impunity. mondoweiss.net/2025/05/exte...

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social doing his usual wonderful work. An infuriating tale of power and destruction (paid for by us!)

Jesus, we are going backwards so fast it's terrifying

NatWest profits soar 36% as full privatisation looms. After the 2007-08 crash UK govt bailed it out for £46bn. Tory/Labour sale of shares expected to recoup £25bn. Another state subsidy to the City/rich. Natwest could have become UK's public bank to revive the economy, but govts lack vision.

In the last week, 3,099 trade unionists called on the government of Azerbaijan to free the jailed union activists. But we need many more — if 5,000 of us did this, it might work. Your union could email its members, or mention this in its newsletter. Let’s make this happen! bit.ly/labor-desk

READ: Palestinian workers are calling for a general strike. U.S. unions are being asked to act, not just post statements. An injury to Palestine is an injury to all. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/an-i...

Synchronisity again. Wondering same after driving from Limerick to Galway

NATURE IS DYING! LET'S GIVE PUBLIC BODIES A DUTY TO CHANGE THAT! 🌿 💪 Tell your MP to approve the amendment to the planning and infrastructure bill ahead of its 2nd reading next Thursday. Info here: actionnetwork.org/letters/natu... @climateemergencyuk.bsky.social @wclnews.bsky.social

Very interesting insight into Saudi tensions in light of Israel's war on Gaza

Kenneth Mohammed with a clear and timely call for former colonies to give the finger to fading empires mired in racist nostalgia www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

NatWest proposing 43% pay hike for CEO to £7.7m. Barclays 45% hike to £14.3m. HSBC 43% hike to £15m. Banks bailed out by the people, gamble with other people's money. Govts tell workers pay rises are inflationary, but rise in exec pay, dividends, share buybacks OK. Let customers vote on exec pay

Since 2020, energy giants have made £514,000,000,000 in profit while bills soar. Meanwhile, UK billionaires hoard £795,000,000,000 as 4.5 million children live in poverty. If the government wanted to tackle poverty & lower bills, it would tax billionaires & nationalise energy.

Since 2021 your Food Bill has gone up £300 a year above inflation, your petrol bill (including Public Transport) £250 a year, your Energy Bill £800 a year and Water £200. The average person is now paying an extra £2500 a year for excess profits. It needs to be stopped.