BREAKING: Palestine Action Ban Ruled Unlawful

Sakhave! To keep Kerala’s people’s government in power, vote LDF. Lal Salam ✊🏾

It is the pause after the question that kills me.

Calling a fight over Greenland a “world war” is idiotic. It would be a squabble over ice between dead empires and a rotting one. No brown or black bodies to use as cannon fodder this time. The only real outcome is the collapse of the Atlantic pact that’s defined the last 80 years.

US withdraws all military forces from Iraq’s federal territory after 23 years.

Went on LBC Topics covered: Tens of thousands without drinking water for nearly a week. Bills exploding. Public health emergencies. Renationalising water polls at 90%. The Greens are right. Starmer remains loyal to a failed privatised model and the companies that profit from it Renationalise water!

1/10 🧵 Worth engaging with the full Politics Theory Other episode. Richard Seymour offers a familiar critique of corruption, repression, and the exhaustion of Chavismo. These are real issues the left should not ignore.

It's imperialism, stupid! Natural resources are not the reason the US wants control over Greenland. I explain why in my new @theconversation.com article on Greenland's critical raw materials and fossil fuels in US expansionist ambition. Read the article here: theconversation.com/why-greenlan...

Spoke to The Independent on Trump’s threat of 25% tariffs on any country trading with Iran. It is economic warfare. This kind of erratic trade coercion raises the risk of doing business with the US, accelerates its isolation, and fuels global de-dollarisation www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...

One year of Trump’s tariffs. Higher prices, global disruption, and political theatre. I unpack what happened to the US and world economy on Al Jazeera:

Why Venezuela? Oil isn’t the whole story. Talking to L’Humanité about what’s actually at stake.

Primitive accumulation, plunder, slavery, colonial extraction and exploitation are all part of the same capitalist mechanisms that built Britain. The state-backed companies that led this are the same that continue to steal workers’ share of the products of their labour today.

"Genuine question..."

Just went on the BBC. The other guest was former adviser to disgraced opposition figure Juan Guaidó, brought on to launder Washington’s fallacious justifications for outright thuggery in Venezuela.

What if the urgency surrounding Trump’s attack on Venezuela is not just about oil, but about the end of US oil? What if this is a desperate attempt to hold onto US oil dominance after loosing the fight to dominate green capitalism? 1/6

As @brosef-stalin.bsky.social set out nicely in @the-breakdown.bsky.social , oil majors are consolidating as the price of exploration and extraction is increasing - consolidation a sure way to retain market share and profitability after the oil boom is over tinyurl.com/5xy5scv8 5/6

Unlike what we’re told to believe in Britain, class isn’t an identity. It’s a relation.

Who are the working class in Britain?

It’s simple: the US has waged a decades-long economic war on the Venezuelan people since Hugo Chávez nationalised the oil, because Venezuela insists its natural resources belong to its people, not Chevron.

She started malfunctioning 🤔

the state of british media my god

Yemen’s blockade of the Red Sea against Israel’s genocide was the first successful naval blockade in history carried out by a force with no navy. Here’s how it happened. It’s open access: doi.org/10.1111/anti...

Julia Hartley-Brewer: Why is colonialism bad? Me: “When Britain arrived in 1700s, India had 27% of global GDP. After 200 years of theft and millions starved to death, by 1947 India had 3% of global GDP, 90% living below the poverty line, a literacy rate of 17% and life expectancy of 27”

Just got the new issue of BreakDown. I’ve got an essay in it on the strategic vulnerabilities and liabilities of fossil capital. Read it and the rest of the issue here: www.break-down.org/merging-to-s...

Britain doesn’t need a cookie cutter of Zohran Mamdani. It needs politicians who serve the people, not the machine. Who’d rather lose power than lose conviction. We had that with Jeremy in 2017. We have it again with Zack Polanski. Me on LBC:

I’m presenting some new work on factory machinery, gender, and social reproduction, how the rhythms of the machine rewire the rhythms of life. Historical Materialism, London Thurs Nov 6, 4:30 – 6:15.

My article in @the-breakdown.bsky.social is now free to read online! While far-right parties have traditionally ignored climate, I explore how the Sweden Democrats embrace it as a wedge issue, creating redistributive conflicts around class & urban-rural divides: www.break-down.org/petrol-for-t...

"The more disruption occurs, the more financial models adapt to expect it. This means that every disruption is effective, whether or not it stops a project outright. Even when it looks like we’re losing, we’re shifting the risk landscape"

My dad on South Indian TV, tore into the criminal Zionist state, shredding the US empire’s lies, and hailing Iran and Yemen as the last ones with a spine for Palestine. Watch: youtu.be/jI30B0-t3Zc?...

Great talk, great moves, 10/10, Danish marxism recommend @brosef-stalin.bsky.social

Had an incredible time in Aarhus. Huge thanks to the Danish Society for Marxist Studies (@dkmarxsoc.bsky.social) organizing committee for the kind invitation

Our second keynote is underway! @brosef-stalin.bsky.social is speaking on changing trends of factory capital, fossil capital, war capital, and maritime capital - and possibilities for disruption 👊💥

My first @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social conference in the books. Today’s keynote by @brosef-stalin.bsky.social was definitely one of the highlights of the weekend. Learned a lot & got to meet so many great people. I’ll definitely be back!

A wonderful and wild ride of a keynote by @brosef-stalin.bsky.social at this year’s conference by @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social, it’s 10th anniversary!

@brosef-stalin.bsky.social implicating Denmark at @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social . Great talk.

A superb essay by Ashok Kumar from the latest issue of the BREAK–DOWN – a brilliant tour of the political economic terrain of fossil capital, from which springs essential strategic advice for activists. A must read!

I wrote an extended essay on the transformation of the fossil fuel industry and the key vulnerabilities it exposes. These weaknesses are baked into the industry’s own logic of risk. In essence, every disruption matters. Here: t.co/tQvg4qDeJe

“The consolidation of fossil fuel firms is creating an ever more fragile and exposed system.” ASHOK KUMAR (@brosef-stalin.bsky.social) finds new points of leverage in a more concentrated fossil fuel industry for ISSUE #2 FRONTIERS. Read the full essay👇

Brilliant.

People broke out of their concentration camp. It’s extremely easy for people who are not living under occupation to throw stones.🤷‍♀️ I think of my ancestors. Britain hung and labelled the likes of Bhagat Singh as “terrorists.” A bit of a colonial speciality to do that to the resistance.

Just a reminder: the Additional Protocols of the Geneva Conventions make it clear: occupied peoples have the right to resist, even with arms. An occupier has no right to defend their occupation:

I’m running a workshop on the arms industry at the day school this weekend. If you’re in Bristol, register and come along! Here: t.co/AAT6IYyjMd

I go on this atrocious show purely for catharsis. It’s therapeutic to yell at a genocide apologist:

Julia Hartley-Brewer and Benjamin Butterworth discuss me post interview “Ashok and I were at London School of Economics together and he was always talking about Palestine and hating Israel then” Yes, because it didn’t start on October 7

Six months ago, I was invited to serve as an expert witness at the public hearing on Karnataka’s landmark gig workers bill, which has now passed. The law extends protections to over two million gig workers in the state. An important step, though it doesn’t go far enough

Pre-orders are now up for the newest issue of The Break-Down. I have an essay in there on fossil fuel infrastructure and disruption www.break-down.org

🚨COMRADES!🚨 It's finally time to register for the 10th Danish conference for marxist studies on oct.10th-11th through link below! This year the theme is on "Abolition" and we are so 🎉HYPED🎉 for this year's line-up which includes our great keynotes @genderhorizon.com and @brosef-stalin.bsky.social 🔥

The people of Gaza live and chant “If they uproot one tree, we will plant ten in its place” as the zombie death cult approaches