βIf Trumpβs intention was to remove Khamenei from the political landscape, he may instead have fixed him in it, recast in the eyes of his devotees as a figure of sacrifice rather than failure.β
Thereβs a German expression for this: βetwas salonfΓ€hig machenβ (rendering something fit for the salon).
WTF - Yarvin is a fascist, celebrated by European fascists, and platforming him in this way does not merely risk but IS mainstreaming fascism and thus collaboration
In as few words as possible, tell me you're a liberal.
Objection, I had pink slides and a fast ramble π«
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...
Statement by the union of Iranian bus-drivers.
www.counterpunch.org/2026/01/12/s...
FΓΌr das @nd-aktuell.de haben Ivo Eichhorn & ich einen Nachruf auf den hier eher unbekannten marxistischen Theoretiker Asad Haider geschrieben, der im Dezember mit nur 38 Jahren verstorben ist. Danke an @alexstruwe.bsky.social fΓΌr die Chance & das genaue Redigat.
www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1196...
There isn't a single problem "solved" by edtech that couldn't be fixed with smaller classes led by well-paid teachers given real academic freedom
I have a new open access article out, co-authored with @alejopedregal.bsky.social and Nemanja LukiΔ, called 'For an Anti-Imperialist Ecological Modernity'. The article introduces a special issue we've edited on ecomodernism and imperialism. But it does much more than that. A thread. 1/13
BP's had a hell of a 20 yrs:
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2004 -"Greenwashing" rebrand w/ "Beyond Petroleum" campaign. Invent "carbon footprint" deflecting blame.
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2010-Spill 134 million gallons of oil into the sea.
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2020-Claim ambition to shift from oil/gas to clean energy.
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2025-Abandon such claims.
When higher ed is under attack by the twin forces of authoritarianism & austerity, institutions like the New School that have historically been bulwarks of critical education & anti-fascism should be strengthened rather than destroyed. What an utter failure of leadership & imagination
I reviewed two fantastic books by @reproutopia.bsky.social , @fullnommunism.bsky.social and Mijke Van Der Drift for @histmat.bsky.social - reflecting on tolerable levels of dissonance in comradely feminisms: www.historicalmaterialism.org/enemies-comr...
My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and SΓΈren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...
The deadline for next year's HM Istanbul has been extended!!!
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
Next week I'm moderating an @histmat.bsky.social event on the instantly-canonical 'Feminism Against Cisness' with @riislover667.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, and @weakanalogy.bsky.social.
Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online
To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...
Reminding ourselves of why exactly past struggles were successful is absolutely central to emancipatory efforts. Nostalgia is vague affect, what you quote is, Id argue, precise analysis
Free copies of the journal until we are out of stock!
Now live, the Deutscher Memorial Prize Winner Lecture by Matteo Pasquinelli.
Sure thing comrade
Template letter to advocate for second evacuation of Gaza students with UK university scholarships: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Research conducted by @transjournalists.org βidentified 43 outlets including the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic and The Daily Beast running with the disproven stories of a βtrans shooterβ and βtrans bullets.ββ
This is all mega interesting - is there a way to join online/ will there be livestreams?
Still beaming from teaching with this today - itβs incredible to witness the ease with which students make sense of complex theory when it comes to applying it to the most urgent contexts. Thanks for writing it @pashukanist.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam!
Comrades, registration for the twenty-second annual Historical Materialism Conference in London is now open. The plenaries and programme will be released soon.
Join us this year (and every year) in November!
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In case you missed it, you can now catch @kathunfeld.bsky.social and Andreas Malm discussing *Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature* with author Alyssa Battistoni on the Historical Materialism YouTube channel.
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Any day now, oil giant Equinor is expected to reapply to develop Rosebank: the biggest undeveloped oil field in the UK.
Now itβs up to this government to make the right call and reject Rosebank.
π Join the #StopRosebank Day of Action, Sat 6th Sep. Link in bio.
Stop rolling out the welcome mat for fascists by pretending that refusal is beyond human capacities. It isnβt.
Itβs just hard and costly so we would have to do it together
There is still time to sign up for what I am sure will be a fantastic event!
