‘They went for wealth, not health. They chose to tolerate inequality. They opted for more of the same as we’ve had since 2010. That choice says much about Westminster’s priorities. People in power don’t look at life expectancy because [...] we’ve all got used to expecting less from our lives’👇🏼
It's encouraging to see @gerrymccartney1.bsky.social and David Walsh's crucial work being referenced in this article on declining life-expectancy in the UK.
This appalling fat cat wants to shut the door on all my mature students, many of whom left school after GCSE and give up a lot to go to university. I can tell him that they’re the hungriest for education and far from being unable to graduate, they regularly get the highest grades. Hateful man.
After an investigation following Friedmann's initial arrest, Hall said: "It was discovered that Mr. Friedmann over many months had developed and implemented an extremely deliberate and, in my opinion, evil plan. Understand, this plan went far beyond vandalism. Ultimately, it included planting various tools, weapons and security equipment throughout this facility — all designed to assist in a massive escape plan." Hall went on to say that Friedmann had "planted loaded guns with additional ammunition" inside the detention center. Police say they are trying to identify three men who can be seen interacting with Friedmann on surveillance video. "The unprecedented nature of these crimes has created the need to delay the opening of this building even further," Hall said, going on to explain that the detention center would not open until his office was confident that it was safe and secure. Asked whether it was possible that part or all of the detention center might need to be torn down to ensure that safety, DCSO spokesperson Karla West tells the Scene, "That is not something we anticipate at this time."
Somehow I missed the story about the anti-prison activist who just got arrested for planting LOADED GUNS (and other equipment) throughout Nashville's new jail while it was under construction.
www.nashvillescene.com/news/the-sho...
Just under a year ago, I provocatively asked in a title whether Starmer's Labour could be considered far right
Recent events, between Mahmood's appalling asylum seeker policy and Starmer's own appalling comments against Mothin Ali make it sound ever less provocative...
reacpol.net/starmer-far-...
NEW MAGAZINE ALERT
"When you are in Palestine, you see things exactly as they are." -Sara Yasin @palfest.bsky.social www.thekeymagazine.com/p/western-jo...
📊 Gorton and Denton by-election: the instrumentalisation of anti-extermism.
🖇 Full editorial here preview.mailerlite.com/r9g9m8g8q0
ISRF Newsletter – March 2026
Check out the latest edition of the ISRF newsletter featuring a Director's Note on the politics of climate financing. Also included is details on our Flexible Grant competition, news from our Fellows & blog posts.
'Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care' - video recording available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSyF...
#PirateCare #Anticapitalism
Before Labour took office, the highest monthly sanctions had been 57,276 in Jan 2024.
In October 2024 there were 61,601 adverse sanction decisions, in January 2025 there were 64,866 and in October 2025 there were 63,025.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/uc-sanc...
I've just made a lil' bit of progress on the book manuscript today 🫣
In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal”
on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...
The legal arguments and architecture for what's happening in Iran now, and were deployed in relation to Gaza, really did not come out of nowhere.
The pre-emption and targetted assassination arguments might appear spectacular, but they were the workaday archiecture of the war on terror.
Advance notice of this seminar - Islamophobia and anti-racism: ongoing lessons for the ‘British left - taking place next Friday 13th with @scarletharris.bsky.social. Scarlet's book has just been published by MUP (below). 11-1 in Room 416 in the Gilbert Scott building, East Quadrangle. All welcome.
📣Teaching & Praxis award - the #Marxist Sociology section of the ASA📣 - only a few days left to submit a nomination before the 6 March deadline!
This award recognizes outstanding integration of theory and practice in teaching and/or in the achievement of social change www.asanet.org/communities-...
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Theorizing Our Times
We’re launching a new blog and would love to feature your work! We welcome book and article summaries, reviews, reflections on current events, interviews, curated reading lists, and works in progress. Posts should be 500–3,000 words.
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“The Anthem Press Companion to Henri Lefebvre" a new edited book by our own Tilman Schwarze and Matt Dawson explores the sociology of Lefebvre including rural sociology, everyday life, the urban, utopia, space and its continuing relevance for the discipline today.
anthempress.com/books/the-an...
Many thanks to everyone who attended the Pirate Care event today! The video recording will be shared soon.
Make sure to register for our next event which is due to take place on the 26th March from 5pm GMT - Racial Capitalism in Post(Imperial) Europe: A Roundtable
www.britsoc.co.uk/events/key-b...
Thanks to everyone who joined us today! Once the recording becomes available, we'll share it here
Our next event will take place on 24 March from 6:30pm GMT with Annelies Scheers & Patrizia Zanoni – The machinistic production of the ‘defective worker’
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/2026/02/16/m...
TODAY at 7-8:15pm GMT, online! We're co-hosting this public event on Pirate Care. Join us if interested in care provision systems, austerity, cuts, disposability, and how people organise in the context of a care-less system of nation-states, criminalised solidarity, and capitalism. More info👇👇
We are very pleased to let you know that the latest entry in the Sociological & Cultural Studies blog series has just been published. In 'Away From the Faeries' @fergusmcneill.bsky.social asks what an old Scottish folktale might have to tell us about the meaning of rehabilitation. Please share.
Free online seminar this summer with John Clarke, one of the original authors of Policing the Crisis, on his brilliant recent book, The Battle for Britain: Crises, Conflicts and the Conjuncture. Co-hosted with The Autonomy Institute.
culturepowerpolitics.org/the-battle-f...
Now online: 'A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979)' trans. Roberto Mozzachiodi.
HM Newsletter Number 5 has just gone out. If you want to be a subscriber, sign up here: www.historicalmaterialism.org/newsletter/.
N.B. We will be gradually decommissioning the old email list.
The book review symposium publication (with 10 reviews and the book authors' response) is available here: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Poster for the event featuring a tarot card with pieate carers, the invitation to join the event and the logos of the collectivee supporting the event - bsa, mdn, cas, rival, alternatives to capitalism research network, and the vagabonds book series of pluto books
This [online] event will take place tomorrow from 7pm GMT!
Hope and refusal in an era of criminalized care: Responses to Pirate Care
For more info & to register, visit this page: vagabonds.xyz/hope-and-ref...
#PirateCare #Anticapitalism @plutopress.bsky.social
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no war no borders no cops no prisons no to all of this shit
Eighty elementary schoolchildren died a violent death today, killed by the United States. Eighty little girls. There is no justification for that
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Approximately 20 volleyball players have lost their lives as a result of an attack on a sports hall located in the city of Lamerd in southern Iran. Modern.az reports that SNN television channel disseminated this information, citing local authorities.
The US and Israel reportedly slaughtered twenty volleyball players at a sports hall today in southern Iran.
Self-defense, they call it.
modern.az/en/dunya/575...
