HAPPY MAY DAY✊🟥 For Radical May, 'Friends in Common' is half price! Treat yourself! It's a book about friendship & radical struggle, historically & today. It argues that friendship has revolutionary potential in the face of a profoundly anti-social capitalist system (1/8)

'...a lively, scholarly account, full of bold personalities and surprising connections' Thanks to Neal Ascherson for this generous review of 'The Paris Commune in Britain' in the @lrb.co.uk today Particularly pleased to read that the book took Neal to the Newman Arms in search of the Communards 🍻

Some end of year thoughts on friendship & Friends in Common! 💕 friendsincommon.substack.com/p/end-of-yea...

In the midst of political pessimism, this episode on friendship as transformative power gave me some hope.

I've got a new article out @historyworkshop.org.uk. It argues for history as a form of intergenerational friendship. History, like friendship, can be a politically powerful way of talking and thinking across time, and can connect past, present, and future struggle ✊ academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Joel & I talking to Chris Browne about friendship, reimagining the world, & fighting the far right Radicals in Conversation 📻 open.spotify.com/episode/1gNi...

Explore the revolutionary potential resting in our relationships. Friends in Common: Radical Friendships and Everyday Solidarities is OUT NOW! www.plutobooks.com/978074535058...

“Friendship’s political power is made evident by the way in which capitalism attempts to co-opt it” @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak with @theskinnymag.bsky.social about Friends in Common: www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur...

The Paris Commune in Britain reviewed in the TLS by the wonderful @mauricejcasey.com

“A thoughtful, collaborative mediation on the often-thorny ways that friendship intersects with the political” @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak with @theskinnymag.bsky.social about Friends in Common: www.theskinny.co.uk/books/featur...

⚡️TODAY⚡️ @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social speak at Lighthouse for @edfringe.bsky.social 2025! 🗓️Wed, Aug 13 ⏰1 pm 📍@Lighthousebks lighthousebookshop.com/events/frien...

⚡️READING ROOM EVENT⚡️ Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social, authors of Friend in Common, for an evening of discussion, workshops and food with @leftbookclub.bsky.social 🗓️ Thurs, July 31 ⏰ 6 pm 📍The New Bridge Project thenewbridgeproject.com/events/frien...

substack.com/home/post/p-... Friends in Common on tour! Thanks so much to the Lubberfiend, @thebookishtype.bsky.social, the CCA, @housmansbookshop.bsky.social, @1in12club.bsky.social, Nan Moor's, @junobooks.bsky.social & East Bristol Books for having us!

Thanks for having us @housmansbookshop.bsky.social 💕✊

📚TODAY📚 Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Leeds launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities 🗓️Thurs, June 26 ⏰7 pm 📍The Bookish Type thebookishtype.co.uk/collections/...

📚TOMORROW📚 Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Leeds launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities 🗓️Thurs, June 26 ⏰7 pm 📍The Bookish Type thebookishtype.co.uk/collections/...

TONIGHT!

Bristol mates! Come and see us on Monday 30th June 🫂 *date in original Pluto post is wrong - it's the 30th!*

💥BOOK EVENT💥 East Bristol Books will host @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social, presenting and discussing their new book Friends in Common 🗓️Fri, June 20 ⏰7 pm 📍East Bristol Books www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/whats-on/eas...

Todmorden friends! Come and see us on Wednesday 25th June at Nan Moor's! Expect a bit of reading, chat, and pints - followed by the regular folk club 🤘 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/friends-in... @plutopress.bsky.social

We're going to Leeds!

📚BOOK EVENT📚 Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Leeds launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities 🗓️Thurs, June 26 ⏰7 pm 📍The Bookish Type thebookishtype.co.uk/collections/...

Sheffield mates - come and see us on the 24th @junobooks.bsky.social!

⚡️BOOK EVENT⚡️ Friendship is full of revolutionary potential in the face of a profoundly anti-social capitalist system. Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for this book event! 🗓️Tues, June 24 ⏰6:30 pm 📍Juno Books

💥BOOK EVENT💥 Join @lauracforster.bsky.social and @joeljoel.bsky.social for the Glasgow Launch of their new book Friends in Common: Radical Friendship and Everyday Solidarities 🗓️Fri, June 20 ⏰7 pm 📍Aye Aye Books www.cca-glasgow.com/programme/fr...

New Friends in Common post is up! I'm in conversation with my friend Evelina Gambino - talking about friendship, solidarity, and the Baku–Tbilisi–Kars railway. Have a look! We've also finalised all the dates & details for our upcoming book tour 🤘

New blog post is up! Laura talks to the brilliant Evelina Gambino about Georgia, trains, and 'infrastructures of friendship' 🚂✊ friendsincommon.substack.com/p/infrastruc...

You wait 10 years and then 2 come along at once 🚌

New blog post! On Strangers: Bradford, archives, & Starmer's Powellist turn.

📣The Paris Commune in Britain: radicals, refugees, and revolutionaries after 1871 is out now! (well, digitally at least - real life books coming at the end of the month) academic.oup.com/book/59963

In 1925, Berta Lask wrote a play to mark the 400th anniversary of the German Peasants’ War. In it, she imagines Thomas Müntzer waking up every hundred years to address the contemporary political situation. Sam Dolbear has translated it - happy May Day 🌈🌈🌈 www.rabrab.net/titles/muntzer

The UK Supreme Court’s transphobic ruling on the definition of woman last week is a defeat for all women—even, ultimately, the self-described feminists celebrating it, and the women who will gain in the short term from their alliance with the carceral state. my latest for @thenation.com

"It's not just about doing political work with people that we're not friends with, it's also about doing political work for or in solidarity with people that we're not actually that keen on." The brilliant @graciemaybe.bsky.social interviewed in our latest blog post: substack.com/home/post/p-...

glasgow, i'll be in conversation at @thecommonguild.bsky.social on 24th April with Hannah Proctor, thinking in response to Steve McQueen's 'Grenfell' on the role art can play in memorialisation: thecommonguild.org.uk/programme/li...

In case you missed it, our inaugral Friends in Common Blog friendsincommon.substack.com/p/welcome-fr... included a call out for questions & testomines about 'The Friendlord': Have you rented off a friend? Perhaps even one you lived with too? How did it affect your relationship?

Welcome, friends! Come learn about our book and sign up for some exerpts, interviews and fun extras in the run up to its release: friendsincommon.substack.com/p/welcome-fr...