Having read all volumes of Capital and Grundrisse together, now it’s time for the highest of the ‘luminous summits’

Social and Environmental Upgrading through Global Value Chains? A review of the book by Selwyn and Bernhold, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/04/soci... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social

Un “pincelazo” de Maurice Dobb para entender la economía mixta y el capitalismo de Estado con @davidaviles.bsky.social en @economyandspace.bsky.social sobre Mexico y Chile @iliasalami.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @llchristyll.bsky.social @mazzucatom.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social

New article out: What's the point of conjunctural analysis? doi.org/10.1177/2754...

The absolute state of those people cry-wanking over whether Churchill is on a banknote

Disgusting factionalism by the Green Party in Gorton and Denton by…’checks notes’ ….actually appealing to the electorate

Essential reading on how to conceptualise the current state of the world from a historical materialist perspective

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

What are the specificities of past and present forms of market and violence in Heide Gerstenberger’s *Market and Violence*? @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @drmeljohnston.bsky.social

Drawing on his recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, Oliver Dodd explains why framing Colombia’s civil war as a narco problem fundamentally misunderstands how and why the conflict escalated @abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social

People who fancy quoting the Melian Dialogue ("the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must") ignore the fact that Thucydides was clearly portraying this as the kind of hubris that squandered Athens' primacy and paved the way for a devastating peer war that it ultimately lost.

There are plenty of conspiracy theories going round regarding why the US has taken the actions it has in Venezuela. In my view the explanation is rather more simple and has much more to do with the politics of Latin America itself.

Trump gives the country an economics lesson on tariffs. The textbook story comes through loud and clear deanbaker22.substack.com/p/trump-give...

Your Party continue to be more satirical than the People’s Front of Judea

All the blog posts on @bolshierowbot.bsky.social book forum *Cultivating Socialism* - a diverse set of engagements and a wonderful rejoinder from Rowan Lubbock himself www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...

'Real household disposable income is going to grow about 0.4% annually this parliament. That is the second worst growth in living standards we've had since the late 1970s.' @ckfarquharson.bsky.social discusses living standards in our #Budget2025 podcast. 🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/aut...

Out now! New edited book “New Directions in Vernacular Security” with Palgrave. Great working with @leejarvis.bsky.social & @akinoyawale.bsky.social to bring it together. Great contributions-from Rohingya refugee camps, to military self help books & more in between link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Great to be able to use @alkejenss.bsky.social fantastic book ‘Selective Security in the War on Drugs’ for MA teaching yesterday - sparked some important ongoing debates

Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social @versobooks.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @ingridhk.bsky.social

I'll bite. What is the benefit we gain from politicians being able to 'thoughtfully' say in private 'blacks, British Bangladeshis, British Pakistanis, British Indians, mulattos....all the same, and clearly from the look of them not-integrated?'

So excited to share this symposium on my book, Cultivating Socialism, at the @ppesydney.bsky.social . Check out our first two posts from @chrishesketh.bsky.social and Kyla Sankey. More to come each Tuesday! www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...

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