First post in a new forum on Rowan Lubbock's book *Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty*, with the engagement started by @chrishesketh.bsky.social -- more to follow in subsequent weeks!!

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

Great to see this out. Fantastic contributions and very happy to be part of this collective endeavour

Revisiting, this week, this piece in Socialist Register 2024, written with @abieler.bsky.social, following various conversations on the geopolitics of war (and peace) and global capitalism @therealelliotde.bsky.social @shaharhameiri.bsky.social @tomchodor.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Looking forward to dialoguing today with @iliasalami.bsky.social on raced finance in IPE. Here’s a contribution to the debate on the “dialectical tensions” that exist in raced finance; or with @abieler.bsky.social what we call the dialectical matrix of class, gender, race—beyond a “trinity formula”

My new piece for Alternautas considers the revival of dependency theory - building on recent contributions by @ingridhk.bsky.social and Felipe Antunes de Oliveira (among others) journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/al... thanks to @morton.bsky.social for comments on earlier draft

And one from me. On how modes of exploitation distinctive to colonial capitalism help to explain the uneven development of climate vulnerability: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Meanwhile The Spectator is condoning the bombing of Brighton and Glastonbury I'm sure it will be a proscribed organisation any minute now...

New open access article co-authored with @davidaviles.bsky.social in Environment and Planning A, refocuses attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" mixed economy + state capitalism debates @llchristyll.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

Counter view: not only is the market efficiency view of AI erroneous in the long term, it is also totally flawed from the view of social efficiency. People, and especially young people, need more, not less contact with human beings. This is adding to isolation and the mental health crisis IMO

Since when was the response to the unilateral bombing of a sovereign country to insist that ‘all sides now show restraint’?

I will look forward to reading this article but it does seem strange (and problematic) to me that Global South scholars - esp from Latin America - who pioneered this very thesis are completed erased. A case of academic unequal exchange?

Are we at the moment of the Ghorman rebellion in Trump Season 2?

An excellent overview of Mario Tronti’s ‘Workers and Capital’ www.ppesydney.net/mario-tronti... by Laisrian Flynn. This was read as part of the Past and Present reading group. Not always the easiest text to engage with, but glad I stuck with it

Mario Tronti’s *Workers and Capital* gets added to the reviews from the Past & Present Reading Group. Check out the repository on all 33 classic books 👇🏽

@annajurkevics.bsky.social, Contested Territory: A Theory of Land and Democracy beyond Sovereign Bounds - Oxford University Press, April 2025 academic.oup.com/book/59797

End unnecessary redundancies at Newcastle University. Please sign, share and circulate this @newcastleucu.bsky.social petition amongst your colleagues and networks. chng.it/BXNkGMFNJS

🚨 New Publication in International Political Sociology: #Sociability, #Emotions, and Encounters with the Uncommon Other: World-Making at the Rokumeikan Find the paper here (open-access): academic.oup.com/ips/article/...

Great overview from @elifuzgoren.bsky.social on her new book *Political Economy of Turkey’s Integration with Europe, Uneven Development and Hegemony* with @manchesterup.bsky.social - the latest in the @ppesydney.bsky.social Book Series! @abieler.bsky.social

There is a false dichotomy drawn between "the ivory tower" and "the real world," and I'm here to report that in a post-industrial society, your real-world economy absolutely hinges on the university. University towns are factory towns. Universities drive economic activity, not the other way around.

Almost half of UK universities surveyed have shut down courses in response to growing financial pressures, new research shows. @helenpacker.bsky.social reports #AcademicSky #EduSky

What is the political economy of fascism and the labour process in *Andor*? @therealelliotde.bsky.social delivers the insights! @chrishesketh.bsky.social

And great student slides engaging with the work of @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Great to take part in our annual MA fieldtrip to Brussels with our International Relations students from @sussex.ac.uk - highlights included visits to NATO HQ, the European Commission, the European Parliament and the External Action Services

Great and informative visit to NATO today with @sussex.ac.uk International Relations MA students today during our Brussels field trip.

The Contemporary Indigeneity in the Americas series brings together high-quality papers that explore socialism and indigeneity in the Americas. Read the first paper in this series in Radical Americas: What’s at stake in the plurinational state debate? bit.ly/44MZv4e

Happy to share my latest article in Radical Americas exploring the contested understandings of plurinationalism in Bolivia - journals.uclpress.co.uk/ra/article/p... @morton.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

'Professor Gina Neff of Queen Mary University London told the BBC ChatGPT is "burning through energy" and the data centres used to power it consume more electricity in a year than 117 countries.' Tech bros are sociopathic exintinction events aided by demented power-needy govs bbc.com/news/article...

At this stage does the WTO even exist anymore?

"Free speech and the University of Sussex", by Naimat Zafary - a PhD researcher with us, and a former Afghan Chevening Scholar. www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/04/03/f...

Join us on 11 April at SOAS for the workshop, "Globalizing Political Economy." Details and registration here: www.eventbrite.com/e/globalizin...

Our latest issue is still free to access until the end of the month, so be sure to check out fantastic articles from @chrishesketh.bsky.social‬, @shabnamholliday.bsky.social, & more. buff.ly/KJ3teXT

This Thursday (3 April), CAIT welcomes Jaakko Heiskanen (QMUL) to talk about his book "Ethnos of the Earth. International Order and the Emergence of Ethnicity", currently shortlisted for the @mybisa.bsky.social L.H.M. Ling Outstanding First Book Award. Join us in C333 (2-4pm) if you are in Brighton.

Very glad our VC is taking a robust stance. Don't imagine that what is happening to US higher education can't happen here as well. Either the whole sector takes a united stand now or the right-wing culture warriors will try to pick us off individually.

Use The Atlantic's search engine to see if your written work was used to train AI www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Stopping all plans for the next day to read this straight away!

Very happy to see this piece of mine now in a formal volume and issue with some amazing contributors

To describe Keir Starmer as ‘Blairite’ now seems too left-wing a description

Reading Ernst Bloch this week and thinking about how he identified utopian yearning/hope for a better future, even within Fascism. Such hope he argued could be captured for a progressive politics. This has strong resonances with Gramsci and his notion of finding ‘good sense’ within common sense.

Student: but I am not really using any type of theory in my work Me (doing my best impression of Morpheus): what if I told you this is precisely as you have internalised liberal theories of the world?

Very proud of this. If you’re interested in some lectures on slavery, empire & legacies do come along on 21 June: onlineshop.sussex.ac.uk/product-cata...

Great to receive my copy of Latin American Geographies edited by @samhalvorsen.bsky.social Happy to have contributed a chapter on dependency theory to such a brilliant volume. For anyone teaching Latin American UG or PG courses, please do consider asking your institutions to order a copy

When Donald Trump threatens student protests, consider why: throughout modern history, student movements have repeatedly been the catalyst that toppled dictatorships. Authoritarian leaders fear campus activism precisely because it works. Below is a list of 36 student-led pro-democracy movements.🧵

What was the Lukács Question? Sometimes referred to as a “debate” or an “affair”, it was a resurfacing of attacks on Georg Lukács that attracted the attention of Henri Lefebvre, as @stuartelden.bsky.social and I reveal in this latest open access article in Historical Materialism

Trump celebrating an illegal detention by name tells us a great deal. 1. This wasn’t overreach; it’s the plan. 2. Fact that Khalil is legal resident w/ no evident Hamas sympathies isn’t a glitch; it’s the point. 3. Gaza protesters are means to an end; real target is higher ed.

Ah, world book day imminent at kid’s school. That special time of the year when instead of celebrating literature, parents stress for days about how to craft a costume and rich parents desperately overspend on Amazon to buy one that will only be worn once

This is depraved. The US government has just announced they will be punishing anyone involved in Cuba’s famous overseas medical missions, including government officials in foreign countries whose people have benefited from Cuban medical assistance.