I'm happy to announce this new paper — we compile evidence on the extraordinary harms caused by IMF and World Bank structural adjustment programmes in the global South since the 1980s. gh.bmj.com/content/11/S...

It's actually enraging how the World Bank can suddenly change its mind about industrial policy like "Oops, for the past 45 years we systematically prevented you from using the most obvious tool for sovereign development, keeping you stuck in poverty and dependency, lol".

time and time again, liberalism gives way to fascism. why does this happen? @jasonhickel.bsky.social explains:

I'm excited to announce this new dossier on reparations, published in the BMJ Global Health. Five case studies covering damages related to slavery, conflict-related sexual violence, climate change, racial injustice and structural adjustment. gh.bmj.com/content/11/S...

As far as I can tell, the "special relationship" between the US and UK boils down to the UK being willing to do genocide and war crimes alongside the US, no questions asked. It is a pact among brutes, for naked imperialist violence, and it should be destroyed forever.

The Zionists are ethnically cleansing southern Lebanon using genocidal tactics deployed in Gaza. Israeli journalists report this openly, and yet there is silence from Western media.

🙌Yes, it’s possible: there are pathways to well-being and a safe climate without growth.🌍 New reseach by ICTA-UAB, @unil.bsky.social and IIASA @aljosaslamersak.bsky.social @jasonhickel.bsky.social @jksteinberger.bsky.social www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

🙌 Sí, es posible: existen vías para lograr el bienestar y un clima seguro sin necesidad de crecimiento. 🌍 Nueva investigación de ICTA-UAB, la @unil.bsky.social y IIASA. Realizada x @aljosaslamersak.bsky.social, @jasonhickel.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social www.uab.cat/web/sala-de-...

Let me tell you something about Cuba. US officials are constantly saying "socialism in Cuba is a failure". But in fact Cuba's achievements with socialism are extremely impressive:

What Israel is doing to Southern Lebanon is *clearly* aimed at ethnic cleansing and colonization, using the same tactics as in the Gaza genocide. Nearly 1 million people forcibly displaced. We have to reject this evil with all our might, and support those who are resisting it.

I'm excited to announce this new paper we have in Nature Climate Change, establishing the core principles of a post-growth climate mitigation scenario that can achieve rapid decarbonization and high well-being. nature.com/articles/s41...

Never forget that when the US and NATO invaded, bombed and regime-changed Libya they did it in the name of “human rights”… and in the process transformed one of the most developed countries in Africa into a place riddled with civil war and infamous for open-air slave markets.

This is a really powerful, important podcast episode with Prof David McNally -- I strongly recommend it.

It's insane that Starmer's government is joining illegal attacks on Iran, after the US and Israel have spent the last week committing war crime after war crime, including bombing hospitals and massacring children in schools. Absolutely sick and depraved man.

“Why is it that these apparently liberal democracies in the West are such incredibly violent warmongers?”

West Asia absolutely needs, and can create, a regional security framework that removes and prohibits any US military bases going forward. This is a *minimal* condition for regional peace and stability.

The US bombing of schoolchildren in Iran is the biggest single US massacre of civilians since My Lai. The Israeli bombing of Tehran’s oil storage constitutes the biggest single act of chemical warfare against a civilian population in history. Grotesque new depths of barbarism.

Sanchez is correct in refusing to allow the US to use joint military bases to carry out their war crimes against the people of Iran. He demonstrates real spine here, and models leadership to the rest of Europe.

I was honoured to support The Hague Group over the weekend. If your government has not yet agreed to join Hague Group measures, to uphold their obligations under international law, please organise and pressure them to do so!

Every single person in the entire chain of command that massacred the schoolgirls in Minab, and that is currently carpet bombing Iranian civilians, needs to be tried and jailed in The Hague. Sick, depraved monsters drunk on imperial hubris.

For the Gulf states, the obvious response is to kick the US military bases out, and they should do it immediately, for the good of the whole region.

It is wild that European countries want to join a war that was started illegally by and for a man who is wanted for war crimes and genocide by their *own* institutions.

The US and Israel are bombing schools, hospitals (nine hospitals) and other civilian facilities in Iran. They have massacred over 700 civilians, including nearly 200 children. Absolute genocidal monsters.

“Death and destruction from the sky all day long.” I'm telling you, these people are genocidal fanatics. And no, this did not begin with Trump. They want to do to Iran what previous US administrations did to Vietnam, Laos, Korea, Iraq, Libya... the evil is 100% bipartisan.

on the 24th of Feb, 1966, Kwame Nkrumah, the first president of independent Ghana and co-founder of the Non-Aligned Movement, was deposed in a coup backed by the US and UK. The coup was part of a coordinated effort to destroy socialist and Pan-Africanist movements on the continent.

The new Lancet study on the genocide in Gaza finds that total deaths were 1.71 times higher than reported by the Gaza Ministry of Health as of January 2025. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The US does not care about the people of Iran. It does not care about democracy, or political freedom, or human rights, at all. Zero. It is pure propaganda.

The vast majority of US Americans oppose a war of aggression against Iran. If your ruling class chooses to perpetrate an illegal invasion, and in the face of this kind of opposition, you don’t live in a democracy. It’s really as simple as that.

Rubio's speech was obviously imperialist and repulsive (and all global South states should take note, and plan deterrence accordingly).

I came across this "critique" of degrowth today in Catalyst magazine, by two prominent writers. I was struck by how wildly incorrect it is.

Capitalism cares about our species’ prospects as much as a wolf cares about a lamb’s. But democratise our economy and a better world is within our grasp | Jason Hickel and Yanis Varoufakis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Our existing economic system, capitalism, is incapable of addressing the social and ecological crises we face in the 21st century.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

To understand how monstrous the US blockade on Cuba is, think about the endgame. What are they trying to achieve? The goal is clearly to starve people to the point where they are too weak to resist an invasion, or so desperate they are willing to accept US control.

The US campaign to starve Cuba of fuel should be understood as genocidal. They are targeting a whole nation, deliberately destroying conditions necessary for life, in flagrant violation of international law. Pure barbarism, there is no other way to describe it.

The US cutting off oil to Cuba is truly one of the most depraved acts it is possible to imagine. Hospitals will close, food production will collapse, people will starve. It is urgent for US citizens, and every sane person, to oppose this barbarism with all their might.

The US *does not* have the capacity to impose its will on Latin America if the region’s nations are united and actively support one another. The Monroe Doctrine hinges on divide and rule. It can be deterred through regional unity.

🚨🧵The 2024 UCU General Secretary was so corrupt that @vickyblake.bsky.social + I are fighting a Certification Officer case to re-run it, 10 Feb. Grady won by 182 votes from 114,310 members, turnout 15%. In secret, Grady ordered UCU managers to "Re-elect GS" +said she'd "destroy" her opponents...

The comment is one of Xi Jinping's clearest remarks on his ambitions for China’s currency as Beijing seeks to play a greater role in the international monetary system: ft.trib.al/HGgdPcs

The notion that the US would bring "freedom" to Cuba is actually obscene. The US effectively controlled Cuba for half a century before the revolution, and ran it as a dictatorship characterised by gangsterism, political repression, sex tourism, racial hierarchy and mass poverty.

This is an excellent episode of @upstreampodcast.bsky.social on what Cuba was like before the revolution. Listen to understand why we can never allow the US and its stooges to re-establish neocolonial power in Cuba. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...

The US is gearing up to literally starve Cuba into submission. It is absolutely criminal and obscene. And this to a country that everyone knows poses *zero* threat to the US. The people of Cuba need our full solidarity in resisting this onslaught.

Jason Hickel, investigador de l'ICTA-UAB: "Mentre depenguin del dòlar, els paisos del Sud Global seran vulnerables a les sancions" Explica a @diaridebarcelona.bsky.social com redistribuir la riquesa radicalment per salvar el futur. @jasonhickel.bsky.social www.diaridebarcelona.cat/w/entrevista...

Allowing elites and corporations to fund political campaigns means they install political leaders who shape policy to their benefit. It is institutionalised political corruption, there's no other way to describe it. Democracy cannot function under these conditions.

This is excellent political messaging. @zackpolanski.bsky.social hits straight to the core of the problem. This system is intolerable and it must be overcome: production should be organized around human well-being and ecology, not around maximizing profits for the rich.

Israeli forces are massacring Palestinian journalists - committing war crimes on a scale that would normally make headline news - and yet Western media are still calling this a "ceasefire". Pure propaganda.

This is clear evidence that green policy framed *within* a socialist transformation, with a strong populist narrative, can 100% be a winning political platform.

"We are totally aligned on bombing brown people, let's just keep doing that"

On the 20th of January, 1973, Portuguese agents assassinated Amílcar Cabral, the anti-colonial revolutionary who led the struggle to liberate Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde. "Either we admit that there really is a struggle against imperialism which interests everybody, or we deny it."

New Oxfam report finds that billionaire wealth increased 3x faster last year than in previous years. A clear reminder that right-wing populism is fake populism. www.oxfam.org/en/press-rel...

'Workers literally build our society; they produce all the value and wealth that we collectively enjoy. And this is particularly true for public services.' @jasonhickel.bsky.social newint.org/equality/202...