Jeffery R Webber
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Professor of Politics, York University, Toronto Editor, Historical Materialism
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www.democracynow.org/2026/3/26/ha...
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Bottling the World Economy | Adam Hanieh
Amid the destruction of the US–Israeli war against Iran, much of the world’s attention has fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage through which
https://www.nybooks.com/online/2026/03/23/bottling-the-world-economy-hormuz-gulf/
about 2 months ago
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Highlights the important element of blockages in fertilizer shipments and attendant rising costs (eventually translated into food prices), which alongside energy cost spikes will hit unevenly and make inequality worse in all realms.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If oil price shocks weren’t bad enough, Trump’s war could have other unintended consequences | Adam Hanieh
China consumes around 90% of Iran’s oil exports, so could be forced to rely on alternative suppliers – particularly Russia, says Adam Hanieh of the Soas Middle East Institute
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/12/oil-price-shocks-trump-war-china-iran-russia?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
2 months ago
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Important new article by Sean K Isaacs Alienation and Abstract Labor-Time: Marx and the Romantic Critique
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3 months ago
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A piece by
@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social
and me, up on
@histmat.bsky.social
site
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Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism - Historical Materialism
Let’s start from the premise that capitalist rule confronts an endemic problem of order. That problem of order is traceable ultimately to the primary social division that characterises capitalist soci...
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/trump-2-0-fascism-and-the-problem-of-order-under-capitalism/
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3 months ago
Now online: 'Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism' by Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber (
@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social
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Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism - Historical Materialism
Let’s start from the premise that capitalist rule confronts an endemic problem of order. That problem of order is traceable ultimately to the primary social division that characterises capitalist soci...
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/trump-2-0-fascism-and-the-problem-of-order-under-capitalism/
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Pluto Press
4 months ago
“Those two things, queer politics and Marxism, were together in my mind but not always reconciled. So, I began having to puzzle the connections together myself”
@alansearslefty.bsky.social
interviewed in
@histmat.bsky.social
about Eros and Alienation:
www.historicalmaterialism.org/alienation-e...
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Alienation, Eroticism, and Utopia: An Interview with Alan Sears - Historical Materialism
At a time when the lives of trans people, migrant workers, and women, amongst others, are threatened by the far Right, it is important to engage with the demands and analyses of these groups, both on…
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/alienation-eroticism-and-utopia-an-interview-with-alan-sears/
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From hysteria about imminent US invasion to left defenses of nationalism that mirror most of the talking points of the Canadian mainstream press, there is widespread disorientation in this country vis-a-vis Trump. David Camfield offers a useful antidote.
tempestmag.org/2026/02/how-...
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How should the Left respond to Trump’s threats against Canada?
Tempest member David Camfield argues for a socialist strategy in response to Trump’s bullying of Canada.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/02/how-should-the-left-respond-to-trumps-threats-against-canada/
4 months ago
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This is very good from several different angles on the Venezuela scenario.
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4 months ago
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This argument from
@aycacu.bsky.social
becoming more important and relevant by the day unfortunately
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Notes on Campist Internationalism
This was a talk delivered at a panel on The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism at the Historical Materialism Conference in London that took place on 9 November 2025. You can w...
https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/notes-on-campist-internationalism
4 months ago
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This event was originally scheduled for January 15 but had to be postponed due to a snowstorm closing York University on that day. We have rescheduled for this Thursday (January 22, 4pm). Please make it if you can.
4 months ago
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Tomorrow at York
4 months ago
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Jeffery R Webber
Tempest Collective
4 months ago
Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since October 27, 2025. Chris Little and Jeffery R. Webber sat down with CUPE 1281 members, Nicole Leach and Manuel Marqués, to discuss the reasons behind the strike and the development of the dispute to date.
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Being on strike when your employer is a union
Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since late October 2025. CUPE 1281 members discuss the reasons.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/being-on-strike-when-your-employer-is-a-union/
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Adam Hanieh with a more sophisticated take on the question of oil and Venezuela than many others that have been circulating thus far.
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Venezuela’s Oil in the Grip of US Empire
The Trump administration’s kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro has refocused global attention on Venezuela and its enormous oil reserves. Yet to simply accept Trump’s bellicose language at face value – inclu...
https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/news/venezuela-s-oil-in-the-grip-of-us-empire
4 months ago
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First public event of the Toronto Tempest Organizing Collective. On Socialism from Below at York University Thursday, January 15, 4pm.
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First public event of the Toronto Tempest Organizing Collective. On Socialism from Below at York University Thursday, January 15, 4pm.
4 months ago
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On the ongoing strike by the staff of the York University Faculty Association (YUFA) in Toronto. So, not a strike by YUFA, but by its staff.
tempestmag.org/2026/01/bein...
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Being on strike when your employer is a union
Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since late October 2025. CUPE 1281 members discuss the reasons.
https://tempestmag.org/2026/01/being-on-strike-when-your-employer-is-a-union/
4 months ago
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New material from
@pashukanist.bsky.social
and Mary Robertson.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime
Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09692290.2025.2606781#abstract
5 months ago
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Anticapitalistas
6 months ago
Ante las amenazas imperialistas de EEUU contra Venezuela. Lee nuestro comunicado completo en
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Important interview with Alan Sears on eros and alienation, by Sean K Isaacs and Isadora Seconi
@histmat.bsky.social
www.historicalmaterialism.org/alienation-e...
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Alienation, Eroticism, and Utopia: An Interview with Alan Sears - Historical Materialism
At a time when the lives of trans people, migrant workers, and women, amongst others, are threatened by the far Right, it is important to engage with the demands and analyses of these groups, both on ...
https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/alienation-eroticism-and-utopia-an-interview-with-alan-sears/
6 months ago
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Honor to speak on a plenary at this year's
@histmat.bsky.social
conference in London. My intervention focused on Trump 2.0 and the fascism debate. Drawn from collaborative project with
@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social
on authoritarian disposition of capitalist rule.
www.youtube.com/live/4KS8jYX...
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Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms
YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory
https://www.youtube.com/live/4KS8jYXlaXA?si=13BossYPwWTyFq2O
6 months ago
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A new short piece, "Latin Amerrica's destituent impasse," in Capital and Class. Open access.
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10 months ago
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Jeffery R Webber
Rob Knox
10 months ago
Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and
@rafeefz.bsky.social
seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso -
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Jeffery R Webber
10 months ago
Just landed in London bookshops: Resisting Erasure. A radical critique of Israel's settler-colonial capitalism and empire. by @AdamHanieh
@pashukanist.bsky.social
and myself. Preorder link live too
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Jeffery R Webber
@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social
and I have a piece out in
@journalspectre.bsky.social
on Trump.
spectrejournal.com/water-on-the...
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal
Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.
https://spectrejournal.com/water-on-the-brain/
11 months ago
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Jeffery R Webber
John Clarke
11 months ago
#Trump
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal
Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.
https://spectrejournal.com/water-on-the-brain/
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Jeffery R Webber
Todd Gordon
11 months ago
Here’s Jeff Webber’s and my intervention on the nature of the Trump regime and fascism for
@journalspectre.bsky.social
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@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social
and I have a piece out in
@journalspectre.bsky.social
on Trump.
spectrejournal.com/water-on-the...
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal
Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.
https://spectrejournal.com/water-on-the-brain/
11 months ago
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Important piece by
@nhold.bsky.social
at
@journalspectre.bsky.social
spectrejournal.com/hands-off/
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Hands Off! – Spectre Journal
Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.
https://spectrejournal.com/hands-off/
11 months ago
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Jeffery R Webber
12 months ago
Catch
@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social
and
@jefferyrwebber.bsky.social
talking with David Camfield about capitalism and the far right on Victor's Children (
@harbingermedia.bsky.social
)
open.spotify.com/episode/6bhgMk…
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Todd Gordon and I talk with David Camfield on David's podcast, Victor's Children. We cover Trump, liberalism, fascism and much else besides.
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#53: Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Trump w/ Gordon & Webber -- and a few words about Mark Carney
Play #53: Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Trump w/ Gordon & Webber -- and a few words about Mark Carney by Victor's Children on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
https://m.soundcloud.com/user-737267994/53-capitalism-democracy-fascism-trump-w-todd-gordon-and-jeff-webber-and-a-few-words-about-mark-carney?si=2d058b608de44d9e90386b2ae844187a
12 months ago
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New piece in Historical Materialism on Latin American populism.
www.academia.edu/128965234/Se...
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Self-Saboteur: The Experience of Latin American Populism
This editorial perspective develops a theoretical critique of populism in Latin America, which it takes to be the predominant form that reformist politics has assumed in the region since the 1930s. It...
https://www.academia.edu/128965234/Self_Saboteur_The_Experience_of_Latin_American_Populism
about 1 year ago
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I have a new piece on Latin American populism in Historical Materialism. Open access at the moment.
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https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/aop/article-10.1163-1569206x-bja10067/article-10.1163-1569206x-bja10067.xml
about 1 year ago
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Jeffery R Webber
Historical Materialism Journal
about 1 year ago
Artist, comrade, and long-time visual contributor to the Historical Materialism project, David Mabb, has produced another great conference poster.
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Adam Hanieh on imperialism, global capitalism and the unstable world order.
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Crude capitalism, new centres of capital accumulation and the Middle East’s place in global imperialism: An interview with Adam Hanieh
Adam Hanieh explores the need to foreground value transfers in understanding imperialism, Israel’s role in global fossil capitalism and the rising influence of the Gulf states.
https://links.org.au/crude-capitalism-new-centres-capital-accumulation-and-middle-easts-place-global-imperialism
about 1 year ago
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I have a new piece, “Democracy, Left-Populism and Participatory Budgets in Latin America," on Gabriel Hetland's book on Venezuela, in Critical Sociology
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/08969205251320378
about 1 year ago
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An important intervention by Stefan Kipfer for a robustly internationalist politics on the Canadian left. Another antidote to the rising tide of dead-end 'left nationalism' in this country
socialistproject.ca/2025/03/ansc...
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<i>Anschluss, Schulterschluss</i> or Concrete Internationalism?
In these turbulent and rapidly shifting times, we often search for quick answers. “How to respond to Trump 2.0?” is a question that calls for an immediate response here in Canada. This question harbor...
https://socialistproject.ca/2025/03/anschluss-schulterschluss-or-concrete-internationalism/
about 1 year ago
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I offer a critical appraisal of twenty first century populism in Latin America, with special attention to Bolivia, in the latest Socialist Register.
fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/opening...
You can access my piece here
www.academia.edu/127278968/TH...
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Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads: The Socialist Register 2025
Socialists are at a crossroads, pressed by the urgent need to find new directions amid mounting crises. Is the “new socialist” left starting over or moving on?
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/openings-and-closures-socialist-strategy-at-a-crossroads
about 1 year ago
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Todd Gordon with an antidote to the flag waving of the last few weeks
www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-work...
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We Need Workers’ Solidarity, Not “National Unity,” in Response to Trump’s Tariffs
Todd Gordon on why Canadian nationalism is a dead end, and on the need for a strategy centred around mass struggle and workers’ solidarity across borders.
https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-workers-solidarity-not-national-unity-in-response-to-trumps-tariffs/
about 1 year ago
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Alan Sears and I talk about Alan's new book Eros and Alienation
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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...
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