The two party system is collapsing. Is a new 'Mass Party' the answer for anti-racists? Mohammed Elnaiem, Gargi Bhattacharyya & Shanice Octavia McBean discuss decolonial politics, the failure of social democracy & the need for an internationalist movement against barbarism & the ruling class.

Latest update from @britishlibrary.bsky.social says they are launching a new version of their main catalogue on Monday 8 December and around that time also launch an interim version of their Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue. Hooray! www.bl.uk/stories/news...

Michael Goldman's "Hidden Empire of Finance" investigates the dark arts of global finance that muscle into everyday life and city government, profiting from racialized dispossession and undermining the right to the city. Read the intro for free now: buff.ly/A09zJCV

“Seven women told Bloomberg about alleged rapes or sexual assaults across the university in the past five years, while more than 30 described direct experiences of harassment or bullying over the past 20 years.”

Not to reify ultimately harmful brands, but if the Russell Group is going to exist, should it do something useful and say that if you want to belong you need a basic complement of things that universities do?

"You cannot peg humans to a particular piece of territory over centuries and millennia. You can’t. They’ve moved. This fiction that every tribe had a homeland was extended so that every homeland had a customary authority."

For a long while; the humanities have been fundamentally eroded in this country (except in oxbridge) which is part of the apathy towards to serious issues faced by the British library. But our attention should also be turned to British Library staff on strike who are literally grappling w this!

This is so on the nose you can scarcely believe it even though it's the most believable thing in India. The regime essentially celebrating 10 years of normalising lynching & saffron nazism in India by dismissing the first lynching case under the current government.

@florianurban.bsky.social found for our book Form Follows Fuel that it's v hard to get #embodiedenergy figures for buildings today. #embodiedcarbon is widespread, yet it's much less clear, and more vulnerable to distortion. Here's our argument: www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/is-embo...

Friends how are you’ll going through the emails???? I am impressed, I barely have time for my own let alone trawling through that 😭

Would you like a free up and coming urban history book for Christmas? Would you like to write a review for us at @urbanhistory.bsky.social? We have the books and you have the words! Browse the below list and get in touch if you want to write us a review:

Excited to be soft-launching a new online essay series for @the-breakdown.bsky.social - (re)reading radical thinkers for the climate crisis. First up is Casey A. Williams on Stuart Hall and his analytical power for climate strategy today. www.break-down.org/reading-stua...

This really struck me. If Uber were legally acknowledged as an employer, then it would be the biggest employer in the world, with over 9,000,000 employees globally. Think about how many taxes, wages, and protections are being lost b/c of their intransigence.

I wrote about this last year: hitting all the markers of adulthood (and middle age!) while still being precariously employed. It’s not good for anyone. williamcarruthers.wordpress.com/2024/04/17/p...

Since the U.S.’s inception as a nation in the 18th century, white people have deployed monuments to territorialize their power through representations of famous men, writes Mabel O. Wilson in her essay for Issue No. 8 hammerandhope.org/article/uva-...

Do share this fully funded PhD (with stipend) in Architectures of the Global South as broadly conceived with people who maybe interested. It has Amit Srivastava, Peter Sciriver and Katherine Bartsch as supervisors in Adelaide University adelaideuni.edu.au/research/res...

#OtD 5 Nov 1975 300 youths fought police in protest at racist harassment in Leeds, UK. Police had used cars to circle groups of young Black people. After the battle, a plainclothes officers' car was destroyed while two other officers were hospitalised stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1056...

For those that missed this truly excellent review of my book.

a mental health crisis among British students whilst universities are pushing faculty to accept or even encourage students using generative AI is a catastrophe waiting to happen

Y'all remember when they said Mamdani tried to pretend to be Black to get into Columbia? And newspapers rushed to mention this without discussing the hack of applicants' data or the politically motivated reasons behind publicizing anything about his college app to a college that rejected him.

BL & GDP in FT

Obviously the Mamdani victory has nothing to teach Labour because he came out of the grass roots populist DSA and the Labour right deliberately killed any community based organising of that type and would move any and all institutional levers in their control to stop a Mamdani emerging

CfP for the new journal: Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital. Please see below for the full call and to submit abstracts before the (extended) deadline of 16th of November 2025: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org

My book Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy is out with @hurstpublishers.bsky.social. It has been shaped by the support of a great community of scholars - grateful for generous endorsements from @rahulraothariel.bsky.social @katesde.bsky.social @kalramnath.bsky.social Order here - shorturl.at/55NjW

*New Review Article*: After Coasts: Cartography,Desiccation, and Dwelling in Amphibious Worlds #openaccess 1/6 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

“For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. As primary and secondary schools prepare to push AI on students, higher-education funding is basically being eliminated. thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...

Thanks to @reaktionbooks.bsky.social for making my history of protest in England's public spaces into a beautiful, well produced book with a fab cover. Buy it here reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/contest...

Excited to see the first issue of @equatormag.bsky.social now here www.equator.org

Made by Holborn Trades Council, the leaflet survived as part of the Trades Union Congress archives Author Peter Abrahams, future organiser of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester, spoke at the protest meeting advertised on the leaflet's other side cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

India's denial of entry to Prof Francesca Orsini is another marker in the grave threats to academic freedom globally.

Please tell me how I can have so much shit going on at any given moment in academia - like when will I live and do things other than this😭

this is going to be GREAT and all the cool kids will be there

It’s over for my bank account 😭

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

Apropos of nothing, I really do think UK journalists and politicians need some reminding that mass deportation of LEGAL immigrants, particularly those with permanent status, is far more extreme than even Trump's America and would basically place Britain completely on its own among democracies.

"The University of Chicago’s architecture once paid homage to the medieval trivium and quadrivium—the bedrock of the liberal arts. Now it pays homage only to money."

‘An unseen side of Black Britain’: memories of 1980s Bradford – in pictures

So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

So much for another relic from my childhood: cordcuttersnews.com/mtv-is-shutt...

Lmao

then I left the facility and drove home a free man. I guess what I'm saying is it would be interesting to put the discourses about "performative woke" and "virtue signalling" next to the discourse about what counts as a "luxury belief"

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

*FIFTEEN THOUSAND JOBS LOST*. If this were in a sector in which the PM could go and do a photoshoot looking like One Of The People, we’d have had a government intervention by now.

Reading this by m'learned colleague, and the nostalgia for 50s Britain is a crock. Much of the country was an exhausted dump. The Potteries were described as 'seven miles of concentrated ugliness and dirt'. Stoke was full of 'old clay working, old coal dumps, canal and industrial waste'. (1/2)

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

I’m a tenured professor with an endowed chair. Looking back, I don’t think the freshly minted PhD version of me could land a job in today’s market. I was smart, I was driven — but mostly, I was lucky. More of us in academia need to admit that.

Diacritics author and board member Grant Farred writes about nostalgia for late industrial capitalism in his most recent publication "The Prettiest Woman," forthcoming with @uminnpress.bsky.social For more information, see here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791832...

#OtD 9 Oct 1972 3000 council tenants in Kirkby, England launched a rent strike against the Housing Finances Act which increased rents. It lasted 14 months stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1094...