Columbia University’s agreement with the Trump administration is a disaster for academic freedom, freedom of speech, & the independence of American higher education. Never in the history of our nation has an educational institution so thoroughly bent to the will of an autocrat. 1/

Hundreds of higher ed workers have gathered together at Morehouse & Spelman for the @aaup.org & @aft.org Summer Institute. Right now we are learning organizing skills to protect ourselves our campuses and our students!

Pleased to share my new essay on Antonio Gramsci entitled, "The Southern Question and Subaltern Groups and Classes," just published in @rethinkingmarxism.bsky.social, part of a symposium with Kate Crehan, Massimo Modonesi, & Marcus Green (DM for copy): www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrmx20/3...

"Trump tariffs and US Imperialism". Gillian Hart unpacks the various camps struggling to define the meaning and objective of these tariffs within the Trump regime. africasacountry.com/2025/05/trum...

“Let me insist that ‘the academic’ and ‘the intellectual’ are not interchangeable terms: they are not the same thing: they may even be at the opposite ends of the scale.” Stuart Hall, in a recently discovered 1974 speech, introduced by @jordantcamp.bsky.social:

We just rolled out a new website for our 50th anniversary! We hope you’ll check it out today and browse around to explore the new look and features—all designed to showcase the bold writing and thinking we’ve published for five decades. www.bostonreview.net

"Today the legacies of both Hall and Rodney demonstrate the imperative of organic intellectuals to confront authoritarian nationalism and forge global solidarity." www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

“If it is a “political” act to do certain kinds of intellectual work..it is considered even more so to break the boundaries of Academia & to..work alongside the masses in their struggle.” www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

Walter Rodney: “I do not believe that it is remotely possible in this country that the enemies of the people can extinguish and put out the humanity which resides in us. PEOPLES POWER, NO DICTATOR!!"

"Los Angeles is a city of immigrants. It is also a city of unions. And in California, those two constituencies have essentially melded into one." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/b...

This Saturday, AFT members & our allies across the country are taking to the streets in peaceful, nonviolent rallies. We’re standing up for what our communities need. We’re standing together to defend democracy, expand opportunity and build a better future for all. Join us: go.aft.org/nokings

@isanet.bsky.social Has released a really great statement "Grave Concern Regarding Attacks on Academic Freedom and Institutional Autonomy in the US, and in Support of Members at Risk" @aaup.bsky.social www.isanet.org/News/ID/6602...

“I salute Walter Rodney. If what he has tried to do is the act of ‘an enemy,’ then we are all enemies. When the lines of struggle are drawn in this way, men cannot stand aside, hesitating between one value-neutral hypothesis and another—especially not intellectuals.” -Stuart Hall

A recently discovered 1974 speech by Stuart Hall on Walter Rodney—and why fascists fear ideas. www.bostonreview.net/articles/whe...

On June 13, 1980 radical historian & political theorist Walter Rodney was assassinated. To honor his life & legacy I worked w/ @bostonreview.bsky.social to publish Stuart Hall's previously unpublished 1974 speech in support of Rodney. Rodney and Hall speak to our conjuncture w/ remarkable clarity.

Really great piece @nytimes.com Magazine about the firing of Maura Finkelstein. Especially helpful in clarifying the very really differences between AAUP and FIRE (AF as collective vs. individual right). You know what side I'm on!! @aaup.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/m...

A top coronavirus vaccine adviser at the CDC has resigned, citing concerns that she could no longer help vulnerable people after officials rescinded recommendations to immunize children and pregnant women.

Check out the newest episode of Conjuncture in which I speak with critical geographer @camillahawth.bsky.social about racism and xenophobic nationalism in the US and Italy. This season is co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: trinitysocialjustice.com/italy-the-us...

Look to Italy for a foreshadowing of the damaging consequences a rollback of birthright citizenship would have on American society as a whole, explains CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social in this coauthored piece lavocedinewyork.com/en/news/2025...

CASBS fellow @camillahawth.bsky.social explains the importance of employing a relational theorization to gain insights into American & Italian common histories & 'common disasters' in this absorbing episode of the podcast Conjuncture www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_X...

"We see the same thing happening in the U.S., Italy, and everywhere fascism is rearing its head," geographer @camillahawth.bsky.social tells me in the new episode of Conjuncture. Produced with @cheatherton.bsky.social + co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: youtu.be/jG_X1wOqVdY. 1/2

Great piece by Anna Feder overviewing the legal, digital security, and dox defense resources now curated at the @aaup.bsky.social Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom's website. Post previously published at Academe Blog. Check it out. academicfreedomontheline.substack.com/p/informatio...

The AAUP has two new editorial opportunities for members who want to get more involved with our publications. Stipends are available, and the application deadline is June 1. Read more about each position below: 🧵

did you miss this 🔥 CT-State AAUP conference last month? catch up with the videos of panels and keynotes from Hamilton Nolan, Bethany Letiecq, Rotua Lumbantobing, Russell Newman, Isaac Kamola, & Jason Wozniak! ctsc-aaup.org/sp-2025-meet... @aaup.bsky.social

Folks from the @ct-aaup.bsky.social at our conference last month, proudly displaying the new edition of the Redbook! @jefferslennox.bsky.social @margotweiss.bsky.social @isaackamola.bsky.social @wesleyanaaup.bsky.social

It was powerful to gather with @ct-aaup.bsky.social @aaup.bsky.social chapters from across Connecticut last night for our end of the year social. All power to the AAUP! If you or your colleagues would be interested, please join: www.aaup.org/membership/j...

Coming soon. Pleased to share stills from forthcoming interview with @camillahawth.bsky.social for new episode of Conjuncture. We discuss resurgent racisms and neo-fascism in Italy, the U.S., & the politics of theory. Co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social. More soon...

With Christina Heatherton and Peter Linebaugh in the concluding panel of the conference, "The Many-Headed Hydra after Twenty-Five Years," which ended Saturday in Pittsburgh. A good time was had by all.

With Jordan Camp, Michael West, David Johnson, Lewanne Jones, and Peter Linebaugh at the Hydrafest in Pittsburgh. (Thanks to Christina Heatherton for the photo.)

Apply for the @urpe1968.bsky.social dissertation fellowship in radical political economics!

Incredibly proud of this conversation with Hashem Abushama. We discuss Fanon, Stuart Hall, and Palestine as the barricade against rising fascism in the current conjuncture. Watch or listen to Conjuncture: YouTube: youtu.be/QEpCKNUzWHc Podcast: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/tri... Happy May Day!

Our dear friend and colleague Diana Paulin needs our solidarity. She is looking for transplant. Please see the poster below for details. If you can't donate pleas share this poster with friends and colleagues.

Listen to the newest episode of conjuncture in which geographer Hashem Abushama discusses Stuart Hall, Palestinian geographies, and conjunctural analysis with @cheatherton.bsky.social. This season is co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: trinitysocialjustice.com/palestine-is...

Happy May Day! I'm pleased to share @cheatherton.bsky.social's interview with Hashem Abu Shama (Oxford) for the new episode of Conjuncture. This season co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: youtu.be/QEpCKNUzWHc. 1/2

How to respond to Trump North of the border? Here is my attempt at an internationalist take on national questions in these lands often called Canada. socialistproject.ca/2025/03/ansc...

Please join us for a lecture by Ben Stumpf (Ph.D. Candidate, Political Theory, UConn), "Policing the Climate: Cop Cities and Resistance in the Age of Ecological Crisis," next Tues., April 8 at 4.15 pm. It is free and open to the public. If you'll be in Hartford, hope to see you there!

If you haven't already, check out our new conversation with @skipfer.bsky.social for Conjuncture. He provides a timely Gramscian analysis of racism, neo-colonialism, and the fascism of our times. Episode co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: trinitysocialjustice.com/gramsci-anti...

In the new episode of Conjuncture, I speak with @skipfer.bsky.social about Gramsci, anti-fascism, and the right. We release in anticipation of Gramscian Studies panels at the @geographers.bsky.social meetings next week. Season co-sponsored by @antipodeonline.bsky.social: youtu.be/7CcRqnplfJU. 1/2

Pleased to share this conversation between Dansowaa Adu (M.A. student, Trinity College) and Arun Kundnani about his book, *What is Antiracism? And Why It Means Anticapitalism* @versobooks.bsky.social for new episode of Curating Conversations: trinitysocialjustice.com/the-ideal-en...

Antipode Foundation "Right to the Discipline" grants, Call for Proposals, due date 31 March 2025 antipodeonline.org/a-right-to-t...

"The Ecological Face of the Commune Form," public lecture by Professor Kristin Ross (NYU) at the London School of Economics on March 12, 6:30 pm. In person and online--all invited! @lsesociology.bsky.social @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social Register: lse.ac.uk/sociology/even

Updated blog post on 'What is this thing called passive revolution?' with a link to my article in Latin American Perspectives (2024) on that theme, which seems to be getting some traction.

Tomorrow! Don't miss @julietneb.bsky.social's salon with J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Jodi Kim, and Momo Djebli, moderated by @cheatherton.bsky.social. Free and open to public. A reception will follow. If you'll be in Hartford, hope to see you there.

Today! Don't miss @julietneb.bsky.social's @workshops4gaza.bsky.social.

I loved chatting with @ourobororoboruo.bsky.social for @theemancipator.org about ‘Fight to Win,’ my upcoming labor history book for young readers! Kids deserve to know the truth about our history—and to learn just how powerful we are when we work together theemancipator.org/2025/02/26/t...

I wrote more about rural mail carriers' roles as care workers and what rural communities stand to lose with USPS privatization for @jacobinmag.bsky.social jacobin.com/2025/02/usps...

Please join us for a book salon featuring @julietneb.bsky.social with J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Jodi Kim, and Momo Djebli, moderated by @cheatherton.bsky.social, at Trinity College next Tues. 3/4 at 4.15pm. Register at: www.eventbrite.com/e/settler-mi...

join us, and don't forget to get your copy of Settler Militarism here: open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com/collections/...

A few years ago I did an occupational folklife project for the Library of Congress, interviewing 25 rural mail carriers in Appalachia. What I learned is that their work goes way beyond delivering mail—they are care workers for the communities they serve. This is going to hit rural places the hardest