Your appointment reading on @ppesydney.bsky.social today is Jim Stanford unveiling the hidden supply chain factors (electricity, food, child care, housing) driving the RBA’s latest flawed rise in interest rates @jimstanford.bsky.social @grogsgamut.bsky.social

Essential reading 👇🏽👇🏽 @adamtooze.bsky.social

Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual Terrain of Enquiry, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/02/diss... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social @jokubassalyga.bsky.social

Through his own generosity, managed to pick up this classic today from @garethbryant.bsky.social — previously owned by Stuart Rosewarne in Political Economy @sydney.edu.au THANK YOU!

Fantastic to see @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social in paperback in the @manchesterup.bsky.social PPE Series. Accompany blog post here: www.ppesydney.net/capitalism-i... @abieler.bsky.social

Fantastic to receive this book from Matthew Costa @plutopress.bsky.social

What were F.A. Hayek’s insights on international order and what was his beef with E.H. Carr on this theme? A follow up to my article in @iajournal.bsky.social

Reading Gramsci: interpretion, appropriation or negotiation?

Does anybody know more about the intellectual circle of the Praxis, or Korčula Summer School, a forum for critical, non-dogmatic Marxism in Yugoslavia, where figures such as Henri Lefebvre, alongside Herbert Marcuse, Ernst Bloch, and Lucien Goldmann were involved? @stuartelden.bsky.social

The recording of my @cssgj.bsky.social talk from November 2025, entitled 'All That Has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism', is now online here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJE-... It was an enjoyable event, with great questions!

All 34 books read in the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social (so far) including commentaries on each one from Alex Callinicos, to Jairus Banaji, Heide Gerstenberger, Susanne Soderbergh, Mario Tronti, Aileen Moreton-Robinson, Nancy Fraser, Henri Lefebvre, Silvia Federici and more...

What are the specificities of past and present forms of market and violence in Heide Gerstenberger’s *Market and Violence*? @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @drmeljohnston.bsky.social

Found in one of my volumes of the Collected Works of V.I. Lenin - a packet label from the Kalinin Printing Works (now the city of Tver) of Progress Publishers, with my collected set

This blog post originally featured on my personal blog For the Desk Drawer, which now no longer exists. I thought it was transferred to @ppesydney.bsky.social but this was not so. Here it is for for the first time on PPE.

Rather than getting mixed-up in mixed economy arguments, a focus on a class-relational account of development banks in the mid-twentieth century can better assist understanding the hothousing for development @davidaviles.bsky.social @quinnslobodian.com @abieler.bsky.social

📣 My new article on Iran’s latest unrest for @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/ira... Iran has witnessed another wave of unrest beginning on 28 December—the fourth major uprising since 2017. (1/5)

Drawing on his recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, Oliver Dodd explains why framing Colombia’s civil war as a narco problem fundamentally misunderstands how and why the conflict escalated @abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social

The paper edition of my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran: Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics" will be released this month and is included in Manchester University Press’s January Sale. (1/8)

Now that’s what I call some Pashukanis — For the student members of the @ppesydney.bsky.social Past & Present Reading Group @rikiscanlan.bsky.social @plutopress.bsky.social

There’s a crafted version and then a dollar shop version. This is the crafted version of Großraum and today’s geopolitics

From the archive, published in @jird-jour.bsky.social

From October on the geopolitics of Venezuela by @armandovanrankinir.bsky.social “Venezuela appears in the equation as a more feasible and less geopolitically risky target, and one more profitable in the political calculations of MAGA’s interlocutors”.

Wow a New Year and more new @itspetergabriel.bsky.social - the track Been Undone is stunning. Thank you!

To commence 2026 on @ppesydney.bsky.social we start the year with Kevin Gray reviewing @alfnilsen.bsky.social *Southern Interregnum* published with @manchesterup.bsky.social www.ppesydney.net/review-of-so...

Henri Lefebvre and Patrick Tort, “The Lukács Question”, translated by Federico Testa, edited and introduced by Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton, Historical Materialism, online first (open access). brill.com/view/journal... @morton.bsky.social

My "novel" reading in 2025 - always loosely defined - with a nod here in the list to @criveragarza.bsky.social who's literary archive was acquired this year as part of the fabulous Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at University of Texas, Austin www.lib.utexas.edu/about/news/b...

Latest book drop!

The next text to start 2026 in the Past & Present Reading Group @ppesydney.bsky.social has been announced @plutopress.bsky.social

Jamie Morgan on Money in the 21st Century

What another “mainstreaming” of Marxist critique!? Mark Carney proves he’s environmentally-friendly by recycling Giovanni Arrighi - on the variable geometry (of imperialism) 1/2 @versobooks.bsky.social

Revolutions are Back! www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Such a pleasure to have my book, Cultivating Socialism, reviewed with such care and depth by an amazing group of scholars and comrades. Read all about it at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site 👇

All the blog posts on @bolshierowbot.bsky.social book forum *Cultivating Socialism* - a diverse set of engagements and a wonderful rejoinder from Rowan Lubbock himself www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...

Clearly not dancing the dialectic with Bertell Ollman - Dialectic investments in The Economist (15-21 November 2025)

My commentary on Brett Heino’s wonderful new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland* @springer.springernature.com @springernature.com

Brilliant overview by Brett Heino on his new book *Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland* launched @gleebooks.bsky.social @springer.springernature.com

This frustrates the hell out of me. Differences between first and second imprint. Then different book sizes within the second imprint (volume two is smaller in height) and then different font sizes on the spine for the completed trilogy (with volume three). Agggh! @dukepress.bsky.social

Now out! Although not got to Volume II yet and reckon I need to go back to reread the first in the trilogy to do it all justice @ianbruff.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social

Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social

Why the past, present and future struggle for political economy is so important, by Evan Jones @albomp.bsky.social

Nearly finished on this set of books.

The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Review of Kevin B. Anderson’s latest book, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... @morton.bsky.social

Perhaps the biggest gig in Sydney for Political Economy this year: the 50th anniversary celebration of the Department of Political Economy!! www.ppesydney.net/celebrating-...

Second forum post on "Cultivating Socialism" by Kyla Sankey that engages with Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, discussing issues of class and dependency 1/2

JOB! Permanent Lecturer / Senior Lecturer position (education focused) in Political Economy at the University of Sydney.

Brett Heino, Literary Geographies and the Work of David Ireland: An Australian Atlas - Springer, 2025 link.springer.com/book/10.1007... book launch in Sydney with @morton.bsky.social gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-...

First post in a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, with the engagement started by @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- more to follow in subsequent weeks!!

Making War Safe for Capitalism is out in a week with @brisunipress.bsky.social! I'm honoured to share this endorsement from the fantastic Ukrainian scholar and sociologist Dr Volodymyr Ishchenko

Just received! Brett Heino’s new book on the spatial unconscious in literature. Brimming with original insights. Book launch soon at Gleebooks for those in Sydney 👇🏽 gleebooks.com.au/event/brett-... @stuartelden.bsky.social @danieljhartley.bsky.social

Fascinating little-known story of an Australian man who fought and died supporting Jakob Marengo's uprising against German colonial rule in Namibia in 1905: namibian-studies.com/index.php/JN...