Goooood times!

New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really good itw of Zarah Sultana. "What I want – and I struggle to see how a successful left party could be set up in any other way – is a campaigning, social-movement orientation combined with a robust parliamentary presence." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

David Lammy, you can't hide! Hundreds of people currently heading to his constituency office to call his complicity in genocide out!

Excellent piece on the housing crisis in Europe!

Very excited to give this talk in Sydney in early August, presenting new research (conducted with @vincentguermond.bsky.social and @alibhagat.bsky.social) on race and finance.

An excellent piece by Sofia Negri in the @clasp-qmul.bsky.social blog on platform workers' search for autonomy. www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ac...

Straight from a Chaplin film from 1918.

TOMORROW in-person @qmul.ac.uk 2.30pm - @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social hosts an event on the Multiple Crises of Higher Education, exploring the various financial, governance, accountability crises rocking the sector. A few tickets left. Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

A very powerful book on love and how we all somehow fail at it. It's a deeply political and personal critique of what it means to love (and be loved) in our patriarchal, transphobic and consumerist society.

A brilliant short episode on the Paris Commune and why Marx thought it was so important for a future communist society. open.spotify.com/episode/0syU...

“In international relations, trade, security and markets, the themes are the same: the rest of the world is seeking to diversify, decarbonize, defend, and dedollarize.” NEW by @katemac.bsky.social + @70sbachchan.bsky.social on the month since Liberation Day www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...

It is tomorrow - come along if you're in London! www.claspblog.org/events/spect...

mine and Alex's second book, 'Fascism and the Women's Cause' is out TODAY, published by @ebb.bsky.social please buy it, read it, share it, order it from your local library. and please help us to spread the word about it as we're too exhausted to do it ourselves lol.

📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

Join us on Thursday 1st May for a talk by @iliasalami.bsky.social on 'The Spectre of State Capitalism'. More info here: www.claspblog.org/events/spect... @clasp-qmul.bsky.social

📣📣New on the CLaSP blog How US tariffs will impact poorer countries such as Cambodia, Bangladesh and Lesotho. www.claspblog.org/blogposts/at...

🚨Event alert: "Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier", May 28-29 @qmul.ac.uk. Info + registration here: www.claspblog.org/events/mater...

Probably the most important book we will read this year! www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

New on the CLaSP blog: 'Race, Profit, and Algorithms', @wonyoungso.bsky.social details his research on iBuyers, a new class of real estate actors generating profits in racialized housing markets www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ra...

wonderful piece by Melinda Cooper www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

That was such a great conversation! Episode 1 is out

Wooww - that is such a fantastic episode on Stuart Hall's marxism and method to investigate historically specific and antagonistic social relations that produce capitalist social formations. Amazing work by @thedigradio.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/5ODA...

Just seeing the RCT 'scandal' brewing among econs again. This is not a question about some bad apples or some instances of malpractice. The RCT industry has been completely distorted from its inception in Econ and this is closely tied to the incentive structure of the discipline.

If, like me, you're really into bouldering, this short film is absolutely incredible. The breakdown of the crux (ie the most difficult move of a climb) between 2:30 and 5:00 is pure poetry. m.youtube.com/watch?v=EzhK...

Interesting piece on the socialisation of nature (versus legalising or moralising nature) as a way to resolve the ecological and climate crisis. www.break-down.org/post/sociali...

"(...) we are witnessing something new: the convergence of three strains of politics that have never simultaneously been this proximate to power. 1/2 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

This piece by Prabhat Patnaik from 2021 is great: "But even if neofascism loses in the short term, it will remain a strong contender for returning to power so long as successor govs revert to neoliberal business as usual." www.bostonreview.net/articles/why...

Just look at her 🥹

This is an excellent paper, must read for people interested in the shortcomings of private finance for development/climate. rgs-ibg.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Just read Chapter 5 of Marx's Capital Vol.3 on the Economy in the Use of Constant Capital as part of a reading group, and it is actually very useful to understand the whole Deepseek/Open AI stuff and how this relates to (lack of) innovation. And that last sentence of the chapter is ever so topical!

Normal conversation between two real people.

The pace of global heating has been significantly underestimated, according to renowned climate scientist Prof James Hansen, who said the international 2C target is “dead”. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Doge as IMF structural adjustment imperial boomerang 🤯

📚 Book round-up: browse some of the recent book publications from CLaSP members. Topics from supply chains, agricultural labour, artistic production & activism and more www.claspblog.org/blogposts/g9...

NEW open access article evidencing how interventions to reduce the household debt crisis in Cambodia are urgently needed to improve health Published in Social Science & Medicine, the data comes from 'Depleted by Debt?' study which I led, funded by @ukri.org www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Good piece on the whole deepseek thing! www.dropsitenews.com/p/deepseek-o...

This is very tough to take from an institution that has spent much of the last decade building its property portfolio, including a £100 million business school which is so ill-conceived that it is too small to house all staff and students.

📣📣 New paper out 📣📣 We explore why many rural Cambodians are borrowing money to bolster their health, and how these loans are in turn impacting their physical, psychological, emotional and social health. In short, the rural poor in Cambodia are sick of debt! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The headline here is that Shell is by far the world’s largest user of carbon offsets, but it’s also worth underlining how much of the market rests on ‘nature restoration’ and ‘avoided deforestation’. The scale of land grabs represented here is incredible. www.ft.com/content/b604...

Thanks for sharing The proposed plans include a 20% cut to Geography and Planning academic staff (10-15 FTE) We are all a bit shell-shocked But we will organise and strategise as a School tomorrow

Children in Gaza have made up the MAJORITY of casualties. Most of them being between 6 and 9yo. Most of them killed in their homes. These statistics must become tragedies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

just spent 30min searching how we actually define the beginning of Spring and I can confidently say that I'm team meteorologists (1st March). Forget what astronomists say(20th).

📣 New on the CLaSP blog! Tracing exploitation in the gaming industry, Jamie Woodcock highlights the organising by workers in the industry and the model it provides for organising in non-union work sectors. www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ga...

Been wanting to read this for a long while. Exciting stuff!

The sun is out and Jean Marie Le Pen is dead. 🔥🔥🔥

Nice to see this review of my book by Mohamed Abdiaziz Muse in the Journal of Development Studies. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The politics of the nuclear family in an age of overlaping crises. Socialist communizing or barbarism.

#FreeDrHussamAbuSafiya #FreePalestine

A depressing (but illuminating) read on why Netflix movies are so shit, and why the platform couldn't care less. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-49/ess...