This is a brilliant easy on empire loyalism, multicultural drift and dispossessed whiteness in outer south London. Cc @academicdiary.bsky.social @transpontine.bsky.social @ashdisorient.bsky.social @liamliburd.bsky.social

Gaza has sealed the fate of the West, even if the repercussions are not felt for decades. The damage has been done. There is no way to undo what has been witnessed by billions of people, both in the West and in the Global South.

No more statements of condemnation. No more “keeping dialogue open” to allow trickles of aid deliveries. No more complicity in ethnic cleansing and genocide. We call on every government in the world to urgently suspend trade and sanction Israel NOW. action.eko.org/a/gaza-invas...

UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza www.bmj.com/content/390/... The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign forms.cloud.microsoft/pages/respon...

"Western powers are not only colluding in genocide, but ... language has been twisted beyond recognition: mercenaries slaughtering the starving call themselves the ​'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation'; wars of aggression become ​'self defense.'"

The deliberate starvation of Gaza was predicted 18 months ago by the top UN expert on the right to food. This is not unexpected, our political leaders knew this what they were backing @michaelfakhri.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2024/f...

Now that U.S. officials have wrapped up their visit to Potemkin aid distribution sites in Gaza, the IDF can resume the regularly scheduled shooting of desperate people seeking food.

You might be interested in Stuart Hall comparing the active urban risk-based play of Sesame Street quite favourably to its much more paternalistic, domestic and racialised middle-class British equivalents for the Open University. youtu.be/_AQ6BzxURX0?...

"We’ve had authorities in Bangladesh telling us we shouldn’t even be editing footage of garment workers and activists advocating for their rights, and we’ve been followed by the police in Cambodia, but we have never encountered anything like this" www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id... Today!

Latest Tricontinental Dossier, The Bandung Spirit In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of it left? thetricontinental.org/dossier-the-...

Frantz Fanon once said “The colonized’s sector is a famished sector, hungry for bread,meat,shoes,coal,& light” In it “you are born anywhere, anyhow. You die anywhere, from anything" I was on Return to Bandung podcast on how societies are being beat back into poverty open.spotify.com/episode/7vOZ...

Can we fulfill the aspirations of Bandung without bringing forth a post-capitalist system of economic, social, and political relations? www.commondreams.org/opinion/glob...

So this looks good: a Bandung conference at LSE. Kuan-Hsing Chen, Noer Rachman, Hilmar Farid, Su Lin Lewis, John Munro, Jesook Song, Priyamvada Gopal, Ashwani Sharma ('independent scholar' -- way to go), Ling Zhang, Zhiguang Yin. #Bandung

www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/... Might be of interest.

Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 100 people over the past 24 hours, as bombs, missiles and drones fell on homes, businesses, apartment buildings, and tents housing displaced Palestinians. www.democracynow.org/2025/5/8/hea...

Except that no credible biologist would support this definition of "biological sex." Reason and facts have not triumphed. Only reaction, bigotry and gender conformism.

What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...

(and lots of online attendance left too of course!)

We still have some places left for in-person attendance. Read more and register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/radical-op... (please note the separate registration for each day!)

Full schedule now available for the Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism conference on 10 and 11 April 2025 (online and Cambridge University Library): radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/...

Call for papers: Historical Materialism Conference East and Southeast Asia, 'The Asian Capitalist Conjuncture: Contradictions and Critiques'. Taking place at Walailak University, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand, between 23–24 July 2025. Please circulate to colleagues and comrades widely!

The Masterplan has just one aim, to make money for Westfield insidecroydon.com/2025/03/09/t... #Croydon #Westfield

Here's the news in 1925: policing, airport expansion and sport insidecroydon.com/2025/03/02/h... #Croydon #History @davidmorgan100.bsky.social

Looking for some weekend reading? Take a peek at our new Virtual Special Issue on The New Left This collection of 22 articles & podcasts is free-to-access - with work on May 68, the SCUM manifesto, Spies for Peace, Women's Liberation, the ANC, the Hungarian Uprising & more www.historyworkshop....

That only happened just now, of course, because we screwed over a European country. It did not happen for the decades of funding autocrats and genocidal wars in Asia and Africa and South America because they don't count. How edifying

Revision by Fred Moten & Brandon López (Tao Forms 2025) taoforms.bandcamp.com/album/revision

Souleymane Cissé, an award-winning writer and director who became the first Black African filmmaker to win the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival, died on Wednesday. He was 84.

We are very happy to publish this interview by @seanobrien.bsky.social with Beverly Best about her recent book: "The Automatic Fetish: The Law of Value in Marx’s Capital" (@versobooks.bsky.social 2024) endnotes.org.uk/posts/sean-o...

www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the87... There was a payment issue for people buying tickets that has now been resolved! Please buy them, please come! 3 new books from @the87press.bsky.social

The DOGE firings have nothing to do with “efficiency” or “cutting waste.” They’re a direct push to weaken federal agencies perceived as liberal. This was evident from the start, and now the data confirms it: targeted agencies overwhelmingly those seen as more left-leaning. 🧵⬇️

radicaloa.postdigitalcultures.org/conferences/... Radical Open Access III: From Openness to Social Justice Activism conference 10-11 April 2025 Cambridge, UK

darkmatter journal hub darkmatter-hub.pubpub.org #darkmatter

Check out this playlist: Dis-Orient30. open.spotify.com/playlist/0kN...

open.substack.com/pub/ashwanis... Whither the University: After the love has gone

📢Our March Seminar: '3 Model of Form: Samuel Delany as a Theorist of Racial Capitalism, With Samuel Fisher. Friday 28th March, 5.30-7.30pm, @UCL_IAS IAS Common Ground, G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT. www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...