We noticed how the concept of “Global South” has been turned into a handy word to lazily designate two-thirds of the world’s earthly area and 90% of its population, thus flattening the millions of specificities that characterize this grouping.

Following an initial article by Onesphore Sematumba in our 61st issue (September–October 2025), we continue to explore the various complexities of the war in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. We therefore asked Josaphat Musamba to describe the role of mining extractivism within this

One of the critiques we can make of the concept of Global South is the flattening of any regional specificity and the invisibilization of colonial domination committed by states such as the Indonesian, Sri Lankan, Moroccan, or Indian ones (to name only a few).

“Laying Waste: Pre-Emption, Dispossession, and Deputization in Colonial British Columbia” important new article by Brenna Bhandar and Nicolas Blomley! Open access! @antipodeonline.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

‘Fans will celebrate their winger’s last-minute winner, then discuss the finer points of repatriating him to his mother’s home country in the pub afterwards.’ @judeinlondon.com on conditional Englishness, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

this, in combination with betting/gaming shops becoming the most stabile physical spaces in so many neighbourhoods due to gentrification and thus becoming spaces for substitute socialising

I don't think it's hyperbole to say that legalized, online gambling is one of the most socially destructive forces in society today.

Republicans threatening tariffs on Canada over wildfire smoke and gloating about Europeans dying because they don't have air conditioning are really bad omens for what happens as the climate crisis becomes undeniable and goes unexplained

The only professional images of executions from the war in Yugoslavia have long been a subject of rumor and controversy. Barbara Matejčić investigates how and why they came to exist. 

After traveling on the Una line last week I put my thoughts into a blog post. This is very long and detailed and emotional. I've never had such an intense experience researching a piece of infrastructure before. I hope you'll enjoy it and perhaps be inspired to visit this beautiful part of Bosnia.

‘A 2024 survey by the IMO indicated that only 1 per cent of the nearly two million seafarers plying the waves are women, and most of them work on cruise ships or passenger ferries.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on female sailors, past and present: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I wrote about what looks very much like a formal US plan to institutionalize a global network of concentration camps.

Also did door-to-door community lead testing, seized a mobile x-ray unit and held a sit-in at the Dept of Health to demand testing kits. Badass

How did the Netherlands transition from one of Europe’s strongest welfare states into less of a country than "a company of traders"? Our book of the week maps the elite consensus behind Dutch "no-nonsense" politics. By @merijnoudenampsen.org on @versobooks.bsky.social buff.ly/MpwRg1d

Today at 10 AM EDT Who Framed Roger Rabbit? | Dubravka Sekulić @dubravka.bsky.social & Samantha Youssef @samanthasketches.bsky.social | The Imperial '80s Episode 48 www.youtube.com/live/2LgJ2tK...

looking forward to returning to my favourite millennials are killing capitalism‘s imperial ‘80s tomorrow to discuss ‘who framed roger rabbit’ www.patreon.com/imperial80s/...

#OtD 12 Jul 1979 Olive Morris, feminist, squatter and activist in the Brixton Black Panthers and the Organisation of Women of African and Asian Descent, died aged just 27. More information, sources and map: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8405...

Pablo Neruda was born on this day in 1904. Here he is on political and environmental corruption, from ‘America, I Do Not Invoke Your Name in Vain’, part six of Canto General. This translation is by Ben Belitt. #poetry

Tomorrow is the 31st anniversary of the #Srebrenica #Genocide and the beginning of the mass executions of over 8,000 people. Honour them by better understanding what happened. I worked on this resource below and it remains one of the things I am most proud of. srebrenica.sense-agency.com/en/

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Susana Caló & Godofredo Enes Pereira, CERFI – Analysis Everywhere. Militancy, Research, Architecture and Psychiatry - Minor Compositions, 2026 (print and open access) www.minorcompositions.info?p=1661

Today we mark the International Day of Reflection and Commemoration of the 1995 Srebrenica Genocide. We honour the more than 8,000 Bosniak Muslim men and boys killed, remember all those forcibly displaced, and reaffirm our commitment to standing against hatred and division.

For those who haven't heard of this fight, really good local press writeup here www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/2026/05/oppo...

happy to be back in @thefunambulist.bsky.social with a co-written text with Sanja Horvatinčić in which we trouble our Yugoslav position and ask what are the conditions for international solidarity today, beyond romanticism of the non-alignment

on the 1000th day of genoc!de, anything else that floats across your feed today is a distraction

THIS IS VERY SERIOUS 🚨🚨🚨🚨 According to his lawyer, Nasser Odeh, Dr. Abu Safiya was struggling to breathe and speak, and during the meeting he appeared close to losing consciousness several times.

New from The Natural History Museum -- The Other 250, a counter-atlas which "shows how place-names shape past and present struggles over land, power, and belonging, and holds the histories that official commemoration works to sanitize or suppress." wordsaremonuments.org/the-other-250/

If people read Black abolitionists and Black feminists more carefully and with the rigor that afford to white male theorists, then lots more things be might be clearer to them.

It's the master's POSSESSION of the tools that is central to oppression rather than the tools in and of themselves. Once you understand this, you stop focusing on tactics for social change and start interrogating actual oppression.

The coverage of Exeter's cuts rightly points out that there's no financial need. The coverage of Edinburgh's - for which there is also no financial need - was framed as 'even Edinburgh' being in financial trouble. This is very frustrating. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Spot the difference: "Citizens from eTA countries – like Australia, Germany, Croatia, New Zealand – had all visitor requests approved Others that required visas – like Ghana, DRC, Syria, Uganda, Sri Lanka – had applications mostly denied." www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

i was moved enough to post this 2023 piece of mine - substack.com/home/post/p-...

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

Robin D.G. Kelley recommends three books every radical should read

a beautiful multi-voiced tribute to the mighty Greg Tate hammerandhope.org/forums/greg-...

#OtD 24 Jun 1763 William Trent in Philadelphia recorded an attempt to use biological warfare against Native Americans. He wrote that British troops gave blankets and a handkerchief from a smallpox hospital to 2 chiefs during peace talks. More here: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

networksofny2026.bigcartel.com/product/netw... hi, did you like my book Networks of New York when it came out in 2016? you might like the updated 2026 edition which I'll be releasing in September and you can pre-order now

Understanding fascism is one of the most important tasks to face our current political moment. The Institute for Advanced Studies, UCL is hosting a workshop on this 30 June. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

'A lost interview (1995) with award-winning writer #OctaviaButler and filmmaker @juliedash.bsky.social at her home in Los Angeles for Marc Boothe, Digital Diaspora, and "40 Acres & A Microchip" the first Black cyberspace conference in the UK for digerati of African descent.' vimeo.com/163190768

It's rare that a newspaper says this out loud.

Please enjoy this first taste of our new album FIFTEEN, out in August on @nonesuch.com, featuring legendary Henry Threadgill, genius Cuban drummer Dafnis Prieto, & myself!!! !!!!!!! youtu.be/LKj7-JwzhHw?...

This is... I mean, just read it. Whether you like football or not.

Dossier of a pogrom in Northern Ireland ( 9 – 16 June 2026) ⤵️ irr.org.uk/article/doss...

Can't wait to read A Right to Housing? by the brilliant Sam Stein! Coming this September @versobooks.bsky.social + available for pre-order now. www.versobooks.com/products/355...

western history:

ending this academic year with a super rare onlina conversation with two rojava mayors about the past present and future of municipalism in rojava. convened by my collaborator charlotte grace as part of our little research program“bureaucratic capture from below” www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bureaucrat...

🙏🏻🙌🏻 [though i just got myself off spotify, as it is evil]