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@againstborders.bsky.social
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A political education collective engaging with decolonial, abolitionist and socialist texts, both classic and contemporary. Education is a communal practice!

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Myles Howard @myleshoward.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
this is in a couple of days! would love to have folks involved in this conversation - come along on thursday eve if you can 💛
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
LONDON! We'll be discussing the rise of the far-right and how we build an alternative next week with Daniel Trilling @trillingual.bsky.social and David Renton @davidrenton.bsky.social at Reference Point with @haymarketbooks.org - free tickets here! events.haymarketbooks.org/events/hayma...
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Select tickets – Resisting the Road to Fascism With Daniel Trilling and D.K. Renton – Reference Point
Resisting the Road to Fascism With Daniel Trilling and D.K. Renton – Reference Point, Thu Jul 2, 2026 - Join D.K. Renton and Daniel Trilling at Reference Point on the 2nd of July to discuss the danger...
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
And the fact that his petty-ass bitch talked about the party he inherited as morally bankrupt when he fucking supported a genocide is just something else. Not only that, but the only tears this fucking tool has shed was over having to give up the office.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
We're looking forward to screening #EverybodytoKenmureStreet this Thursday evening at the Kiln Theatre in Kilburn, London with a workshop on resisting immigration raids as a part of #RefugeeWeek Find out more and get your tickets here kilntheatre.com/whats-on/eve...
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Everybody to Kenmure Street + workshop | Kiln Theatre
World class theatre from the heart of Kilburn. Your stories live here.
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social's popular history of the Jewish movement that fought European anti-Semitism and refused Zionism’s call to colonize and subjugate, insisting that Here Where We Live Is Our Country. We sat down with Molly and you can listen on Radio Al Hara tomorrow at noon Palestine time
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Myles Howard @myleshoward.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Abolish the home office
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
📣This Radical May, get 50% off all books from Pluto Press📣 Shop the sale now until May 14th: www.plutobooks.com/product-cate...
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
📣📣RESIST BORDERS EVERYWHERE! 📣📣 Join us on the 20-21st June at actions across Britain and Ireland as we resist racist borders!! Just as people have always migrated, our communities have always resisted the systems of control, exclusion and violence that we see in border policies today.
BREAK UP THE BORDER 
BELFAST
BRISTOL
BRIGHTON
LONDON
MANCHESTER
OXFORD
SHEFFIELD
& MORE! 
20-21 June
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Rob Delaney @robdelaney.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Hahaha yes. Also, genuinely, who reads the Telegraph? Like I get that the Mail is cheap & sold everywhere so ppl read it but who *makes the effort* to procure news from the Telegraph? (genuine Q)
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Such a rich conversation - from a sharp analysis of the historical and internationalist context of the border regime to practical lessons about ongoing resistance movements.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
🌹LOVE AND REVOLUTION🌹 40% off books on love, intimacy, care and more! www.plutobooks.com/love-and-rev...
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Craig Gilmore @craiggilmore.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
"a community convinced that its financial survival depends on locking people up. It’s not a new phenomenon. In this iteration of the classic prison town... "Trump needs these towns, and he needs local officials who are willing—and sometimes eager—to sign deals...."
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
We don't want to become our own surveillance state, where we're all basically the walking ring cams of social justice. Also, the infrastructure is just impractical. Batteries, mounts, storage cards, secure off-loading, data management. Industries exist to make this kind of thing make sense for cops.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
This makes more sense, but it still isn't a good idea. It's important that a thoughtful, conscientious person on the ground decides when to film and when not to. Sometimes, protesters break the law. If everyone's continuously filming everything, there's a lot to subpoena.
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Emiliano Mellino @mellino.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
While it has been getting better over the last decade, large part of the UK labour movement suffers from the same problem that @sarahljaffe.bsky.social talks about here. I recently wrote this on the barriers to organising migrant farm workers: www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
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Why major unions refuse to organise seasonal farm workers
Farm workers go on unofficial strikes as their temporary visas create barriers to union membership
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/01/2026
As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Masked federal agents killing people in the streets to enact violent, racist policies ripping people from communities, into detention or for deportation. Border enforcement breeds, requires, enacts fascism.
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I am trying not to post on these events in this state of mind but: I hope people understand what the observers are doing is brave and dangerous.
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
I’m sorry to say it’s only a matter of time before we can no longer count the daily murders on one hand. We’ve already crossed so many lines but there’s a harder one coming up that we can’t afford to pass, perhaps the last one it’s still possible to avoid. The urgency of this moment is absolute.
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
⚡️We are hiring! ⚡️ We're looking for a part-time Customer Service Operative to handle queries from readers around the world. Full job description here: www.plutobooks.com/jobs/
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Jobs - Pluto Press
Jobs Open Positions Customer Service Operative (Freelance) Hours: 7 hrs/week (Mon–Fri)Pay: £16.50 per hourLocation: Remote, London office, or hybridStart date: 5 January 2026 Download the full job description. Pluto Press is looking for a Customer Service Operative to handle email queries from readers around the world. You’ll help customers with orders, account access and eBooks, […]
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Jen Calleja @jencalleja.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Support indie bookshops !!!
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 14/11/2025
Here in Broadview, outside Chicago, a large group of faith leaders & protesters have gathered this morning outside of ICE’s detention center. This looks like one of the largest protests on Beach St. in weeks, where the city of Broadview is still enforcing a small “free speech” zone. It’s packed.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
It's publication day for Read This When Things Fall Apart! So grateful to our contributors and to @akpress.org for making this book a reality. This is a strange time to be promoting a book, but I believe it's a text that has the potential to help us right now. Please get yourself a copy. ❤️
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Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Letters to Activists in Crisis
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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Also genuine recognition that there are different types of voters/constituencies who have a valuable voice in elections. UK politics speaks only to perceived voters and ignores everyone else. Large part of why we are in the position we are in today.
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Hend Amry @libyaliberty.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Don’t listen to anyone who minimizes the threat of a government that “only” wants to tighten the authoritarian surveillance noose for “some” people. THATS ALWAYS HOW IT BEGINS YOU FASCISM ENABLERS.
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
One dangerously normalised thing (alongside all the other things) is this idea that if there are lots of people supporting something, it's not fascism, it's democracy. Masses of people supported slavery, segregation, apartheid, the british empire... Hitler was elected!
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
This is the 2nd anniversary of the start of a genocide that made Gaza the most dangerous place on earth for children— that has raised a mirror to the rot at the core of our world. Never has it been clearer that none of us are free until Palestine is free. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
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On Parenthood and Genocide
A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 06/10/2025
In celebration of Black History Month in Britain and Ireland, we're offering readers 40% off a range of titles on Black radical lineages, legacies, and futures. Check out the full list here ⬇️ www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/532-bl...
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Black History Month 2025 in Britain and Ireland!
In recognition of Black History Month in Britain and Ireland this October, and celebrating the 80th anniversary of the Pan-African Congress in Manchester in 1945, we are offering 40% off books on the ...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
*elite capture intensifies*
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
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SN Désirée Cha @sndesireecha.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
"Sophie Lewis argues that feminism is capacious and fascist forms of feminism have long existed. And she calls attention to many international anti-fascist feminist formations that can inspire activists today." youtu.be/CcV35lcBWGE?...
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Sophie Lewis on Enemy Feminisms
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Anna Stavrianakis @annastavrianakis.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Excellent taster of their new book - thank you Rafeef, Adam and Robert! podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/p...
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Resisting Erasure w/ Adam Hanieh, Rafeef Ziadah and Robert Knox
Podcast Episode · Politics Theory Other · 20/08/2025 · 1h 19m
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 19/08/2025
LIVE NOW! When Silence Starves Join us for an evening of poetry and readings to raise money for vital mutual aid efforts in Gaza. In collaboration with @againstborders.bsky.social and White Kite Collective. Stream here:
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When Silence Starves: An Evening of Literary Solidarity with Gaza
Join us for an evening of poetry and readings to raise money for vital mutual aid efforts in Gaza. As the zionist occupation - backed by the US, Britain and their allies - announces plans to openly…
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Tonight! There's still time to sign up to our online fundraiser, When Silence Starves, bringing together poets, writers & artists around the world to raise money for mutual aid projects in Gaza, in collaboration with White Kite Collective & @haymarketbooks.org www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-silen...
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When Silence Starves: An Evening of Literary Solidarity with Gaza
Join poets, authors, and activists for an online fundraiser to raise money for mutual aid efforts in Gaza
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Even if you cannot make it on the night, we encourage you to please donate if you can and help us in these vital efforts to support folks on the ground in Gaza facing starvation and genocide. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-silen...
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When Silence Starves: An Evening of Literary Solidarity with Gaza
Join poets, authors, and activists for an online fundraiser to raise money for mutual aid efforts in Gaza
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Half of all ticket sales will go to Bridge of Solidarity, an anti-capitalist mutual aid organisation set up by young Gazan poet Yazan. Donate and find our more info about their work here: chuffed.org/project/brid...
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Bridge of Solidarity
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Join us alongside @haymarketbooks.org, White Kite Collective, @kshams.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and many others on the 19th August for an (online) evening of poetry and readings to raise money for life-saving mutual aid efforts in Gaza. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-silen...
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When Silence Starves: An Evening of Literary Solidarity with Gaza
Join poets, authors, and activists for an online fundraiser to raise money for mutual aid efforts in Gaza
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/08/2025
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social and @prisonculture.bsky.social's practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1922-l...
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“When state actors refer to “peace,” they are really talking about order. And when they refer to “peaceful protest,” they are talking about cooperative protest that obediently stays within the lines drawn by the state.”
- Kelly Hayes & Mariame Kaba
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 15/08/2025
Abolish the (Met) Police! With mass arrests of pro-Palestine protesters in Britain & the increasing criminalisation of dissent worldwide, we've put together this reading list on police abolition & its connection to liberation struggles everywhere: www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/527-ab...
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Abolish the Police: In Britain and Beyond!
"From the United States to the UK and beyond, the suppression. of dissent is being ramped up, not to "keep the peace" but to preserve a status quo so violent that it is incompatible with most life on ...
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Share widely and consider submitting a proposal! www.decolonialconference.org/call-for-pro...
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Conference Theme & Call for Proposals | Submit Your Proposals Now — Decolonial Conference
Explore the Decolonial Conference theme and submission guidelines. Engage in discussions on liberation amid global challenges.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
"The state of the country is dismal. The decline of the United States into a more open form of authoritarianism continues...But cracks in the right-wing offensive are also starting to emerge." the newest issue of @hammerandhope.bsky.social is out now hammerandhope.org/article/trum...
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It Feels Like Hell on Earth, but Another World Is Possible
A magazine of Black politics and culture
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Reminder about our online fundraiser event on Tuesday - new names have been added! Please continue to share and boost 💛 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-silen...
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When Silence Starves: An Evening of Literary Solidarity with Gaza
Join poets, authors, and activists for an online fundraiser to raise money for mutual aid efforts in Gaza
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Myles Howard @myleshoward.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
author/performer friends! please get in touch to be involved in future iterations xxx
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Books Against Borders @againstborders.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Join us alongside @haymarketbooks.org, White Kite Collective, @kshams.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan and many others on the 19th August for an (online) evening of poetry and readings to raise money for life-saving mutual aid efforts in Gaza. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/when-silen...
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When Silence Starves: An Evening of Literary Solidarity with Gaza
Join poets, authors, and activists for an online fundraiser to raise money for mutual aid efforts in Gaza
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Palestine Festival of Literature @palfest.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Poppy Liu reads “A poem joins the resistance” from the new anthology of Palestinian poetry, Heaven Looks Like Us - the book on the PalFest Bookshelf. Get your copy, along with the healthcare issue of the New York War Crimes newspaper, by subscribing at palfest.org/bookshelf before the end of July.
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