In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal” on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...

new lows in blogging! new heights in self-indulgence! what a time to be alive (so I'm told) buttondown.com/nateholdren/...

Comrades, we are inviting applications for the Law and Marxism Spring School 2026: Race, Resources and Redistribution, 8-10 April 2026, at the @gvagrad.bsky.social Please take a look at our Call for Abstracts and share with your networks 📣 📝 To apply, click here: tinyurl.com/LawMarx26

Our Law & Marxism Spring School Call for Applications is out! 😻

excited to be chairing this upcoming free event on critical theory and psychoanlysis: www.eventbrite.com/e/melanie-kl...

Join us in London on 23 January for the inaugural event of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society @qmul.bsky.social. With stellar speakers we reflect on the state of (legal) critique as we confront a world of "death and destruction without alibi". 👇👇👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-state-...

**LAUNCH OF THE NEW CENTRE FOR THE CRITIQUE OF LAW AND SOCIETY** Join us to celebrate our new research centre (CCLAS) and hear from thinkers in law and the humanities, examining both (legal) critique and the Critic. Full program and registration here: tinyurl.com/stateofcritique

Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It might be that Birmingham have been uniquely foolish in their handling of this situation, but it's worth noting that management failing to take overwork, stress and burnout seriously is a sector-wide problem, and only getting worse as universities slash staff costs.

In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).

Chapter 1 of myself @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & Cher Weixia Chen Research Handbook on Global Governance is available open access 👇 doi.org/10.4337/9781... We set out how we created an alternative & critical take on global governance - on topics sometimes forgotten, lots of different voices & more

TURN THE VOLUME UP! Online registration for the HM London has ended, but you can still attend by registering on the door. Low income, unemployed and student (school and university) comrades are welcome to attend by offering to pay whatever you can afford. Three important things...

Public Lecture co-organised by me and @parvathimenon.bsky.social @cceilsoas.bsky.social ( & by Luke McDonagh Gerry Simpson & @mariepetersmann.bsky.social @lselaw.bsky.social ): "Recognition of the State of Palestine: Contested Interpretations" 6pm on Thurs November 13 at LSE. Registration 👇🏾

“Marx and the Critique of Humanism”, coming Feb 2026, edited by @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marx-and-...

The week in review: it was a Labor Day special, with @mikewishnie.bsky.social on faculty unions, and Eamon Coburn on the long-eroded social norms against union busting. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web in the 🧵 👇

If you’re in Copenhagen on 23 September, come out for this stellar event ✨

Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion. @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social

Guys

the weaponization of course evaluations in the Brown University deal takes the consumerist model of higher education to new heights. not only is your job contingent on it, but make any of your students uncomfortable and you’ll be investigated by the government

Recognition of Palestine now is more about attempting to (re-)normalise the Israel's place in the regional order than anything else.

It's utterly mad. These people are the opposite of terrorists. THEY WANT PEACE. The police know they're not terrorists. The government knows they're not terrorists. Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

*me and my book project

Order your copies now (one for yourself and another for a friend who needs it badly)! The brilliant combination of Knox, Ziadah and Hanieh

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

look at what was just delivered it’s the @pashukanist.bsky.social & co. masterpiece that everyone should read & it looks even more 🔥🔥🔥 than online & IT HAS THAT FRESH BOOK SMELL (in case you needed another reason to ordered it right this moment)

The revolution Will come the day they add lunch breaks to the HM programme.

CfP!!! The @anzsil.org Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group will be holding a workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism' on 31 October at Melbourne Law School: drive.google.com/file/d/10YPs...

Why are people always excited and thrilled and banal on LinkedIn? It’s a parallel universe where no Palestinians are being brutally killed daily.

📢 Want to work with me at SOAS Law School? There are 2 permanent positions (SL/L) and 4+ two-year full-time fixed term positions (Associate Lecturerships) including one in International Law! Come check out these roles: 👇🏾 vacancies.soas.ac.uk/job/123535 (Not advertised on jobsacuk)

Shillan Shebly, Natalie Ironfield and Elizabeth Strakosch write about the policing of Palestine solidarity and the intensifying climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne, all “operating in the name of ‘antiracism’.”

"It's so unfair for you to deny the global economy oil when all we're doing is bombing you. Stop the violence"

@pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials: legalform.blog/2025/06/17/s...

hey bluesky, I wrote this on some stuff I was trying to think through - the heart is my trying to take @pashukanist.bsky.social's analysis of the limits of opposition to the Iraq War and to the Tories in the UK and apply it to the US rn. I'd appreciate if you read it. bsky.app/profile/jour...

This week! Register for in-person in London or online attendance via email to me hyo-yoon.kang[at]warwick.ac.uk

I had a great time at the gender, history and international law workshop at Warwick University. So many wonderful people, papers & discussions! Here is a pic of @parvathimenon.bsky.social delivering one of the keynotes (which was excellent). Thanks to Paola Zichi & Aisel Omarova for organising!

Behind the moderation guy is the resit guy somewhere

It's out and available open access! www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pathology...

PSA: if you haven’t watched this documentary already, please do it NOW! On the 1984 miners’ strike in Britain.

Incisive review by @sorenmau.bsky.social of @brunoleipold.com's book. The conclusion is exciting, but also confusing. The critique of capitalism should go beyond indicting inequality and unfairness (exploitation) and toward domination and unfreedom. Yet... spectrejournal.com/marxs-republ...

not at all intended in a main character way but it's fucking weird to be going on as normal during a genocide. doing rewarding gardening tasks then remember Gazans are deliberately being starved to death. walking to work appreciating in lovely weather then remember Israel's military's intentionally

Celebrating a book that claims female genital mutilation is an indigenous rite, and therefore anti-colonial, is everything that is wrong with “decolonial approaches”. It’s a “be a Marxist day” today…again, I guess.

Because we all need a second second chance, we have decided to extend the deadline to apply to this year's Historical Materialism London conference to 30 May. No excuses this time! After this, there will be *no* more extensions!

this just kicking off with a ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥 panel we have @pashukanist.bsky.social starting & trying to figure out how critical he can be in his critique of critique Megan Donaldson Rose Parfitt & @vidyakumar.bsky.social

This has the air of "I was just obeying orders" now that the tide is turning. Worth remembering that during the height of the genocide nearly 100% of reservists reported for service.

So I wrote about why I declined my Fulbright grant and canceled my research stay at NYU. Free Khalil, free all political prisoners, free Palestine 🇵🇸 politiken.dk/del/mN-u9dAE...

In this lecture Ghassan Abu Sitta argues that Israel has created a "biosphere of genocide" in Gaza, with the aim of perpetuating genocidal erasure well beyond any cessation of military action. @soasuni.bsky.social youtu.be/q_AYE_ADqfQ?...

Just try to process this.

How does the phrase go again: Tardiness is next to godliness? Comrades, we have extended the deadline for abstracts for the Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism Conference until the 27 May. Stop dawdling and send us your proposals!