Terry Eagleton at London historical materialism opening with cracking a few oxymoroi jokes: "business ethics" , "military intelligence" , "tragic novel" (prior to Thomas Hardy)

Our branch co-chair Dr Lyle Skains explains why #wearetheuniversity matters for students #bournemouthuni #bournemouth #ucu #ukhe #highered @ucu.org.uk youtu.be/QayUMOD9gF0?...

Well said - it’s time to fight back and demand better. Vote YES! #WeAreTheUniversity

@patrickneveling.bsky.social @bournemouthucu.bsky.social

Yesterday‘s Session on „Commoning Marxism“ with Don Kalb, Stefan Wellgraf, @patrickneveling.bsky.social and @jeremyrayner.bsky.social. Insights were shared on the assumed ‘end of history’, Marxism as theory and practice continues to thrive, taking on a multiplicity of shapes.

Opening of #dgska2025 with an important intervention from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities highlighting the inequalities in universities as obstacles to making sciences a common good

In a soon-to-be-published paper in the British Journal of Criminology – “Increases in disadvantage and instability are associated with rising violence” – we explore how neighbourhood changes shaped violence across England and Wales from 2011–2021. The takeaway:👇

Background on the work of truck drivers bringing aid into Gaza and the bureaucracy Israel has put up to limit the flow of aid (among other barriers, obviously) on.ft.com/3V7bWCa

www.change.org/p/stop-mass-... Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊

"Who do you call when the police murders? Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.

Thinking about the different ways in which the English and the French relate to roundabouts....

"Der türkische Staat arbeitet daran, HTS die Errichtung eines reaktionären Systems zu ermöglichen, das noch repressiver und ausgrenzender ist als der Baathismus. Gleichzeitig versucht Ankara,die Autonomen Verwaltung, die demokratische Systeme aufgebaut hat, durch Intrigen und Massaker zu beseitigen"

So a bookshelf in the Carnac museum made me realise that a main thesis in Graeber and Wengrow - that democratic consensus preceded the Greeks by a long time and that hunter-gatherers already had sedentary societies experimenting with all sorts of political organisation -

This is my ministry

Poignant intervention on the runaway crisis of personal debt among the UK's disenfranchised from @ryandavey284.bsky.social theconversation.com/why-people-i...

Another Friday afternoon looking at ugly fascists...

BANGLADESH: Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers? images.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/u...

Thrillingly promising: "Ofwat will be replaced by a regulator with supervisory powers, similar to oversight of banks after the financial crash." Why not nationalise and collect the bonuses, plus shareholder profits from past 10+ years? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Published a short human geography encyclopaedia entry on Special Economic Zones. With so many trade press publications on the zones in the past year, it will be important to return to a more rigorous, historical materialist critique of the zones. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

A visit to Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Good views of the city, impressive arts and architecture

Das ist ja fast schlimmer als sein Nick Land-Stunt

Solidarity to the comrades flying the large "More Marx" banner during the #Amyl&theSniffers set at #Glastonbury. And no solidarity to the BBC camera crew doing their utmost to not get the banner into their wide shots of the crowd...

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Solidarity with colleagues at Bournemouth UCU and their v well attended picket line💪 Universities are part of communities. An attack on jobs is an attack on the local community. #spreadTheResistance #Bournemouth

Bournemouth university staff on strike today to protect jobs and working conditions @bournemouthucu.bsky.social @patrickneveling.bsky.social

English summer picket #bournemouthuni #stopthecuts #saveourjobs #protectouruni @ucu.org.uk @bournemouthecho.bsky.social @bournemouthuni.bsky.social

The saddest thing is how long it took for one city to finally kick off about this #multistatesolution #endtheusa www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Butternut squash blossom - first time I have planted this. Surprisingly pretty

Those world historical moments when someone suggesting I might like Clifford Geertz seems like a really amazing option

Wow - shocking. Owen Jones seriously thinks that only populism can save the left (and that the Greens are the future of the UK left...). LOL!

www.stopreformuk.vote. Love this:

Absolutely thrilled to welcome US singer-songwriter George Mann to Tolpuddle 2025 georgemann.org A former union organizer & activist, George sings songs from the last century of the labor & social justice movements, alongside his own material. George will be headlining our Friday Acoustic Stage.

New design for Royal Mail letterboxes. Nothing beats the beauty of privatisation...

my attempt at being a "marxist anthropologist" just dropped in Dialectical Anthropology link.springer.com/article/10.1...

But not on fire. . .

Consultancy firms ruin the planet; as shown in my work on special economic zones & incompetent consultancies spreading super-exploitation Now they are coming for UK Higher Education; important book by @mazzucatom.bsky.social & @rosiecollington.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Ministers need to rethink their plans for social security reform. These changes will mean many disabled people and their families are pushed into poverty. Where there are pressures on the public finances those with the broadest shoulders must contribute more.

Private Eye this week

Timely and insightful historical overview of the development of the Panama Canal across the changing cycles of geopolitics and local and global capital accumulation. Glad to find many Spanish language references in the article. @phenomenalworld.bsky.social www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/can...

A bit late to this sharp discussion of the toxic waste that is AI from NLR Sidecar January 2025 newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

The Society for the Anthropology of Work is delighted to welcome Jasmine Folz, Letizia Bonnano, and Rachel Smith as the incoming editors of the Anthropology of Work Review, the Society’s peer-reviewed journal! Read more about our new editors here: saw.americananthro.org/pub/a-new-co...

horrendous attack against higher education in Dundee - those who bear the responsibility for the major financial mismanagement are not those who seem to be paying the bill! sharing solidarity call in next post.

Not surprised, very sadly: "the two factions responsible for the majority of the killings of civilians were the Abu Amsha and Hamzat divisions. Both are rebel groups previously affiliated with the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Wow, that is a very bold analysis of an election in which the bourgeois parties all ran on tickets endorsing far-right ideology. Why write this at all?

It’s an old point Samir Amin made that unequal development is part of the way capitalism operates on a global scale, but is driven and upheld by politics (decided in the imperial core); cf. also @prepaid-africa.bsky.social s thread on SAPs

Occasional reminder of the Nazi-CIA links in the global war on emancipatory movements... Tonight courtesy of the brilliant "rule of Experts" by Timothy Mitchell, p. 148