What Justice on a Burning Planet? Join Andreas Malm, Wim Carton, @triofrancos.bsky.social, and @learning2live.bsky.social for an urgent conversation on climate catastrophe and the left. With @versobooks.bsky.social. Friday, Dec 19th at 12PM ET RSVP: events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

ICYMI: Aaron Boehmer's reflection on the aesthetics of war in Isayama's Attack on Titan is still live on our website.

Julian Assele reviews @redprof.bsky.social 's Slavery and Capitalism ( @ucpress.bsky.social ) for @cosmonautmag.bsky.social .

Hey y'all! This week Olive Demar and @elimeyerhoff.bsky.social look at the university’s role as a colonial and capitalist apparatus, arguing that we need to free education from the institutions that betray and abandon it. spectrejournal.com/reckoning-wi...

"Anti-Zionism may be the most profound break with Republican foreign policy yet, a kind of antidote to what they see as a disastrous recent history of foreign wars: Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, and Ukraine," writes @shaneburley.bsky.social

Listen to the full episode here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

@cihantugal.bsky.social 's piece with us has been translated into Indonesian. Thanks to the comrades at @indoprogress-rss.bsky.social for making that happen.

@jonasmarvin.bsky.social , Shanice McBean, and Joe Todd talking Your Party's founding conference on the Life of the Party pod. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

ICYMI: You can watch the launch for our twelfth issue on YouTube. With @redprof.bsky.social and Clara Mattei . Moderated by Izzy Plowright. Thanks to @haymarketbooks.org for hosting. www.youtube.com/live/PTS-cJ3... @freefreeforum.bsky.social

Here's a sneak peek at the Table of Contents for Heatwave Issue 2. We're excited for this issue and can't wait for you to read it. Subscribe before tomorrow (12/12) to get your copy!

Purdue Professor Declines MLA Prize Due to Association’s Policies on Gaza https://bit.ly/4rAWL3b #EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

@palfest.bsky.social 's book of the week! www.plutobooks.com/product/maki...

ICYMI: Ryan Breeden's review of Kevin B. Anderson's The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads ( @versobooks.bsky.social ) is still live on our website.

tempestmag.org/2025/12/soci... Our very own Charlie Post writing for Tempest.

I reviewed two fantastic books by @reproutopia.bsky.social , @fullnommunism.bsky.social and Mijke Van Der Drift for @histmat.bsky.social - reflecting on tolerable levels of dissonance in comradely feminisms: www.historicalmaterialism.org/enemies-comr...

TONIGHT

Saw comrade mcnally at the hm keynote and found his ideas on the current conjuncture very original and compelling.

This is tonight y'all! 7pm EST

Heatwave Issue 2 is coming soon! Subscribe to our Patreon by this Friday (12/12) to get it shipped to your door.

Hey y'all! This week we have Aaron Boehmer's reflections on war, empire, and aesthetics in Hajime Isayama's Attack on Titan. spectrejournal.com/in-the-belly...

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... Katy Fox-Hodess and @rafeefz.bsky.social writing on the Block the Boat Campaign for Critical Sociology.

"Those who engineer authoritarian state regime projects are eager to suppress this [abolitionist] history," David McNally tells @cheatherton.bsky.social in the new Conjuncture. They discuss his book Slavery and Capitalism @ucpress.bsky.social. Check out here: trinitysocialjustice.com/david-mcnall...

Our twelfth issue launch is tomorrow (12/9) y'all!

ICYMI: @cihantugal.bsky.social 's analysis on the movement dynamics of HTS and Syria's current political conjunction is still live on our website.

Fall issue of @journalspectre.bsky.social is really good. Topics include Frantz Fanon and Vietnam, austerity and fascism, the welfare state in Latin America.

"The initiator of an online petition calling for accountability for the fire was arrested for 'incitement.' It is quite obvious that 'national safety' does not include fire safety in the eyes of the government’s security agents." lausancollective.com/2025/tai-po-...

Check out this new article by @ucberkeleycrws.bsky.social faculty affiliate @cihantugal.bsky.social, "The Evolution of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Syria’s Future: The Interplay between Islamism and Capitalist Geopolitics."

R.F. Kuang, the bestselling novelist behind Katabasis, Yellowface, and Babel, is taking a stand with the BDS movement. lithub.com/author-r-f-k...

Hey y'all! We're doing our launch for our twelfth issue in less than a week (12/9). With @redprof.bsky.social and Clara Mattei. Moderated by Izzy Plowright. Thanks to @haymarketbooks.org for hosting with us. Register 👇🏽 events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...

Check out this new article by CRWS faculty affiliate @cihantugal.bsky.social, "The Evolution of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Syria’s Future: The Interplay between Islamism and Capitalist Geopolitics."

This is what academic integrity looks like.

Extended teaser here: soundcloud.com/deathpanel/t...

In our latest, @nhold.bsky.social returns to the show to discuss the way law creates the bounds of “justifiable” violence and consecrates brutality, and why deportation is wrong, no matter the circumstances www.patreon.com/posts/144753...

tithi remains an utter comrade and academic hero in these bleak times

Check out "After the Last Word: Review of Kevin B. Anderson's 'The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads" by Ryan Breeden now at spectrejournal.com/after-the-la... Youu can pick pick up a copy of Kevin Anderson's book at @versobooks.bsky.social.

Spectre's Tithi Bhattacharya on her refusal of the MLA's Scaglione Prize. www.tithibhattacharya.net/new-blog/202...

spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur... Hey y'all! We're breaking our schedule a bit to post this call from some comrades for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE in solidarity with the people of Sudan. Please read it! We'll have a new original piece for y'all tomorrow.

This is tomorrow! If you're in NY, come through 👇🏽

November is in the books! Thanks to Keith Rosenthal, Ralf Ruckus, @yige-dong.bsky.social , John Mullen, and @cihantugal.bsky.social for letting us put your work on the web. And thanks to all the contributors to our twelfth issue! Links in thread 👇🏽 🧵

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/v... New episode of Victor's Children ( @harbingermedia.bsky.social ). Great discussion here!

This is tomorrow y'all 👇🏽

Important interview with Alan Sears on eros and alienation, by Sean K Isaacs and Isadora Seconi @histmat.bsky.social www.historicalmaterialism.org/alienation-e...

My analysis of Syria’s ongoing transformation, based on sources in Turkish, Arabic, English.🧵 1) After the defeat of the democratic revolution, the transformation has been guided by capitalist geopolitics and the remaking of the global field of Islamism. spectrejournal.com/the-evolutio...

Clip from - Why the Climate Crisis Still Makes Sense Under Capitalism. youtu.be/shTNvH_Is0U 
👉 Watch the full episode for the deeper dive into climate crisis, fossil fuels, and movements fighting back.
 #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #ClimateJustice #AndreasMalm #FossilFuels #FREEPodcast

What if “saving the economy” now means sacrificing the conditions for human life? Andreas Malm explains why the climate’s hard limits force a choice: either we strand fossil assets and shut down extraction or we strand entire regions and peoples. youtu.be/shTNvH_Is0U

ICYMI: Ralf Ruckus's interview with @yige-dong.bsky.social on Social Reproduction Theory and feminist struggle in the PRC is still live on our website.

It was great to work with Spectre again!

All the books in the Mapping Social Reproduction Theory ( @plutopress.bsky.social ) series are 30% off. Use code SRT30. www.plutobooks.com/product-cate...

Social reproduction theory shows how capitalism depends on life’s renewal. In Palestine, settler colonialism wages war by obstructing that renewal at every turn. Making Death and Life in Palestine edited by Tithi Bhattacharya and Susan Ferguson is OUT NOW! www.plutobooks.com/product/maki...