“The effort to generate a concept of “neo-feudalism” or “techno-feudalism” out of these developments, while admirably adventurous, has failed so far to persuade most of the Marxist community” - Gabe Winant in @lpeblog.bsky.social lpeproject.org/blog/marxism...

The affordability crisis is an inequality crisis. When prices spike in key sectors, it's not just inflation—it's a massive redistribution shock that hits poor households hardest. In our **new working paper**, we identify the sectors that matter most. A thread 🧵 scholarworks.umass.edu/entities/pub...

i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.

The post-colonial settlement has left Africa vulnerable to conflict, external pressure, and intellectual dependency. What comes next? africasacountry.com/2025/12/beyo...

BROKE: "Please ask permission before citing or circulating this paper" WOKE: "DO NO REPEAT THIS INSIGHT"

According to @policyalternatives.ca, federal gov't expenditures expected to drop significantly include almost $7.5 billion at Department of Crown-Indigenous relations, $2.58 billion at Public Works & Gov't Services, and $1.59 billion at Enviro & Climate Change Canada. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

men are not lonely enough

"From Kuala Lumpur, a message resounds across the Global South: the age of Western impunity is ending." The 38th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.

5/5 | Towards equality and equity Join Dr Kate Hoskins, @glorianovovic.bsky.social, and fellow researchers if your work challenges inequality and discrimination, and advances fairer and more inclusive societies ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/events/solid...

“...[W]e can expect wider employment gaps, wider pay gaps and the erosion of access to critical employment benefits,” explain @policyalternatives.ca senior economist @davidmaccdn.bsky.social and senior researcher @kjscott.bsky.social #cdnpoli ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

We've done it before, we can do it again !!! #NonPasaran ✊️

🔊 "we are actually headed to to four degrees warming... it's that wake up call that actually positions this debate around redesigning global governance" 🎧 In episode 6 of the School for Government podcast @glorianovovic.bsky.social discusses planetary governance to address the climate emergency ⬇️

Another Call for Papers for #BISA2026 (3rd-5th June, Brighton), this time for a panel I'm organising with @tom-cb.bsky.social. Deadline 24th Oct. Gender and resistance in environmental politics: This panel will explore how gender relates to resistance against env harm AND resistance to transition.

History won’t be kind to us. We’ve forfeited our humanity. Two years on and the tweet below remains valid. ‘Shame’ is a meagre consolation.

i love to write "aforementioned" like, yep, i mentioned that afore

I've never heard a better political speech than that just delivered by @zackpolanski.bsky.social at #gpconf 👏 Truthfulness, decency & kindness in politics, imagine that! #GreenParty

Trying again, as the original article has now vanished. ‪ I don't know who wrote this anonymous memo: archive.ph/5imGV But its themes and language overlap strongly with some of the things the "Labour" peer Maurice Glasman said in this discussion: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/l...

“Global debt hit a record high of $337.7 trillion at the end of the second quarter, driven by easing global financial conditions, a softer U.S. dollar and a more accommodative stance from major central banks" (Reuters) #GoodLuckWithThat #collapse

"Even if the diagnosis is dire, the window of cure is still open. Failure is not inevitable; failure is a choice. A choice that must and can be avoided.”" ~Johan Rockström, The Potsdam Institute.

Hounded out of the United States for his pro-Palestine activism, Momodou Taal insists that the struggle is global, drawing strength from Malcolm X, faith, and solidarity across borders. africasacountry.com/2025/09/from...

In Denmark, if you’re pregnant and the government thinks you will be a bad parent because you were abused as a child, they can give you a test asking “what’s glass made of?” and “what’s the big staircase in Rome called?”If you fail they take your baby after birth. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

#polqc 👉 Mettre tous les problèmes du #Québec sur le dos de l’immigration comme le font le #PQ et la #CAQ, ça donne ça : un sentiment se rejet même chez ceux et celles qui se sont le plus intégrés comme notre Kim Thuy nationale. À regarder : youtu.be/fxX3knt24sE

"Colonial structures and systems continue to devise tactics to remove Indigenous Peoples from their lands. In this case, it is a divide-and-conquer narrative – one that Indigenous Peoples have seen played out again and again." Politics of Recognition, by Melanie Dene and Jessica Christmas

I've been involved with the book project "Young and female: international perspectives on the future of farming" since before the pandemic. I'm pleased to say it's out, and it's open access: practicalactionpublishing.com/book/3054/yo...

These extractivist projects across Australia and Canada backed by “leftist” governments show that we cannot vote our way out of settler colonial politics…maddening

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

Academic freedom includes extramural speech. And you dont have a university if the president can decide on alleged violations unilaterally - there needs to be a faculty led process. Does American academia ever recover from this? Probably not

Lesson 18 from #OnTyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social "Be calm when the unthinkable arrives."

Just got asked to review a paper based on “AI-assisted thematic analysis” of policy documents for a journal focused on sustainability 🙄 Can y’all get it together, for the love of the planet?

The takeaway: 👉 Accommodating the radical right on immigration doesn’t win back voters. 👉 It alienates the progressive base. 👉 And it raises the salience of the very issue the radical right owns. In short: it’s electoral self-harm.

A solid political agenda

come on man lol

[email protected] researcher @kjscott.bsky.social fears that the situation...marks a return to the Harper years, when Status of Women Canada (the forerunner to WAGE) was reduced to its bare essentials. #canfem pressprogress.ca/federal-fund... @policyalternatives.ca

"Framing defence spending as a path to prosperity ignores its poor economic returns, limited job creation, and the opportunity costs of not making alternative public investments." www.rusi.org/explore-our-...

Oh look, more than half of the 378 evaluated species of turtles and tortoises are either threatened or already extinct, according to a global assessment published in Nature Communications. #collapse

Petition for British Academy grant apps to let us have a “background” section - colleagues please, for the love of science let us explaaaaaaain 😭

"Councils in London have issued "do not sit under trees" warnings because of the dangers of dying branches suddenly falling." (BBC News) #collapse

It is inherently absurd to proscribe a group as terrorists based on acts the public doesn't know about. Terrorism *by definition* involves violence intended to intimidate a civilian population. How can the target population be terrorised by acts they know nothing about? www.bbc.com/news/article...

A 2023 study by @policyalternatives.ca estimated that it would require more than $5-billion a year to raise government support for university students in #Ontario to the Canadian average. #onpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Getting into this by @nickbernards.bsky.social ...Interesting stuff! www.plutobooks.com/978074534889...

"Radioactive water from the base that holds the UK’s nuclear bombs was allowed to leak into the sea after old pipes repeatedly burst, official files have revealed." (The Guardian) #collapse

"In aggregate, the scale of the violence imposed by imperialism on humanity is so great that it amounts to a “structural genocide” — a continuous wasting of human lives and nature." The 28th PI Briefing of 2025 is online now.

Channeling my anger at how colonialism & imperialism in understood in Economics (exemplified by Nievas and Piketty's recent paper) into a 4500 word long essay 🤓 (Thanks @ineteconomics.bsky.social!)

And here I was thinking the way to solve hunger was food.

Forget marxology for a minute and start doing césaireology where you discuss how he never wrote colonial/imperial "boomerang" in french, he wrote "blow back" or "back lash", which has different implications.

The deadline has been extended to 1 August! Submit here: www.eadi.org/news-2/globa...