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Onni Ahvonen

@ahvonenonni.bsky.social
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Doctoral researcher at the University of Helsinki | Working on Caribbean Marxism, utopia, temporality, and political imagination

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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨 ALERT 🚨: All of Stuart Hall's notebooks have been digitized and are freely available to browse and read??? stuarthalldigital.bham.ac.uk/archival_mat...
Stuart Hall notebook: NOTES ON THE REPRODUCTION OF IDEOLOGIES AND THE MEDIA (Orange notebook, "Summit Students Pad")Stuart Hall notebook page with headline: "Problems for a Marxist Theory of the Media" and a series of bulletpoints. Lined notebook paper with black handwriting.
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Looking forward to HM next month!
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Nasser Abourahme in @parapraxismag.bsky.social "What anti-Zionism ultimately amounts to...is a liberation of land and people that is indifferent to Zionism’s self-image. As such, it does not demand a relational ethics; it demands a liberatory praxis.” www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/sto...
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Stones Are the First Words We Speak — Parapraxis
Anti-Zionism as Praxis nasser abourahme
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Now online: 'What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations' by Patrick Eiden-Offe (translated by Adam Baltner).
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What is Fascisation? Some Theoretical and Historical Considerations - Historical Materialism
Fascisation as a concept concept is threatening to become so broad that it will hardly still be able to describe anything with precision. Time and again, the connections must be conceptually unfolded,...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism
Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.
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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
First of two turbulence podcast episodes with @shaabiranks.bsky.social. prepare yourselves and listen up turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-42...
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Episode 42: Dollar Imperialism w/ Nathan Tankus
With Nathan Tankus
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Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“Operations designed to insist that everything is fine inevitably betray the fact that this is not the case. And indeed, everything is not fine.” newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...
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Frédéric Lordon, Warning Signs — Sidecar
On the economics of AI.
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Tribune @tribunemagazine.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
To reignite the climate movement, organisers must respond to the most pressing issues today: imperialism, the cost of living, and the genocide in Gaza.
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What’s Left of the Climate Movement?
To reignite the climate movement, organisers must respond to the most pressing issues today: imperialism, the cost of living, and the genocide in Gaza.
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The Baffler @thebaffler.com · 25/08/2026
“Kalshi and the entire prediction market model are positioned not only to win the right to exist but to become as much a part of the background of our daily lives as the insurance products they claim to be.” thebaffler.com/salvos/infin...
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The Polymarketification of American Life
Prediction markets have been trying to skirt regulators by selling themselves not as sportsbooks but as insurance.
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
What are some interesting engagements with, or reviews of, Kathi Weeks’s book ”The Problem With Work”?
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
From "Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion," Benjamin Balthaser's review of Seymour's Disaster Nationalism: the left’s answer to the crisis of capitalism cannot be mere economism; it will need to offer a vision of real freedom and desire... spectrejournal.com/spectacles-o...
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Spectacles of Fascism in an Age of Exhaustion – Spectre Journal
In a reading of Richard Seymour's Disaster Nationalism, Benjamin Balthasar argues that today's far right channels popular disillusionment into apocalyptic fantasies of destruction. The left, he insist...
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
What an extraordinarily wide-ranging conversation between Barnaby Raine and @adamtooze.bsky.social! I strongly recommend opening a bottle of wine and just enjoying the ride. open.spotify.com/show/033MAse... @tribunemagazine.bsky.social
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postscript
Podcast · Tribune Magazine · Barnaby Raine hosts postscript, a podcast from Tribune magazine. In a series of reflective conversations, postscript explores the meaning of the left amid the slow death o...
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
What are some of the most interesting engagements/critiques/overviews of Italian autonomist Marxism, (post-)operaismo & workerism?
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
“American structural power had endured not despite, but because of the doomsayers.” Tim Barker reads Samuel Huntington on US “declinism” from the Cold War to the present. phenomenalworld.org/analysis/his...
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Histories of Decline | Tim Barker
Politics and economics in American “declinism”
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Got to spend three wonderful months in Brighton at the University of Sussex. Really grateful for all of the amazing people I got to know during my stay. Next up: Kingston, Jamaica 🇯🇲
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
I have a new piece out Reflecting on 20 years of migrant struggles, it goes into what abolish ICE does - and doesn't - mean; merging of immigration enforcement with policing & military power; and how fascism is made through bordering. Despite resisting it for so long, I also now define the border.
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How Not to Abolish ICE
What have we learned from the past two decades of struggle?
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Are there any researches working on anti-/post-colonial theory, Caribbean studies, and/or Marxist theory in Copenhagen? Thinking about applying for this Nordic travel grant our uni is offering, and would love to do some collaborative work or attend workshops in Denmark in August.
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NACLA Report @nacla-report.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
A 185-year-old territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana reveals the enduring contradictions of U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean, with the “Donroe Doctrine” introducing new risks. Read Logan McMillen's (@southerngradient.bsky.social) latest for NACLA 👇 nacla.org/the-essequib...
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The Essequibo Illusion
A 185-year-old territorial dispute between Venezuela and Guyana reveals the enduring contradictions of U.S. foreign policy in the Caribbean.
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Can anyone recommend me texts that conceptualise the distinct yet overlapping notions of "freedom" and "liberation"? Especially interested in the discussion as it relates to decolonization, Third World socialism & Black liberation movements.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
On May 1, 1974, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Establishment of a New International Economic Order (NIEO), with proposals to end neocolonialism and dependency, advance South-South cooperation, and guarantee economic sovereignty for all nations.
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Marxism-NL @marxism-nl.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
🚩🚩🚩 The call for papers for Marxism NL's 1st Conference is now live! CFP deadline 29.05.26 Conference 08-09.10.26 conference.marxism-nl.org/mxnl26/cfp
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Pulling the Emergency Break: MarxismNL Conference 2026
Schedule, talks and talk submissions for Pulling the Emergency Break: MarxismNL Conference 2026
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Small Axe focuses on publishing critical work that examines the ideas that guided the formation of Caribbean modernities. Issue 79 is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/HqmmeUG
A white silhouette of a woman in heels and a feathered hat stands against a black background. Red text reads SX 79.
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
It is commonplace to claim that Fanon was taught by Aimé Césaire at Lycée Schœlcher in Martinique. Yet in his new bio on Fanon, Adam Shatz writes that this was not the case (without providing an accurate reference). Does anyone know what to make of these competing claims?
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/04/2026
‘The scale of the earthworks was so great that Israel’s two hundred bulldozers were not nearly enough – many were damaged by the Palestinian resistance – and Israel urgently needed two hundred more.’ In the next issue: Eyal Weizman on the demolition of Gaza, online now www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Eyal Weizman · All they will find is sand: Gaza’s Yellow Line
Most of the Gaza Strip – cities, refugee camps, schools, universities, mosques, the health infrastructure, agriculture...
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This essay by Emily Callaci on the complex history of the Wages for Housework Campaign in @nplusonemag.com is one of the most engaging texts I've read in a long while. Billions must-read. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-52/ess...
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In the Wages for Housework Archives | Emily Callaci
The feminists got headaches and worked so relentlessly that they forgot to eat. They smoked too much and made half-hearted attempts to quit. They sent each other presents — articles of clothing, a cop...
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Reactionary Politics Research Network @reacpolrn.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Not sure what to read over the weekend? @imrobwalker.bsky.social and other brilliant RPRN members have you covered with this provocative anthology about Louis Theroux's Inside the Manosphere documentary It also includes the first ever poem published by Red Lines! reacpol.net/theroux-docu...
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Red Lines: Working ‘Theroux’ What Louis Missed: a Multi-Lens Structural Analysis of the Manosphere - Reactionary Politics Research Network
This anthology on Theroux's Inside the Manosphere documentary was curated by Rob Walker
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Sumi Madhok @sumimadhok.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Border-Academic-Industrial Complex. ‘This report exposes how universities are embedded in the EU’s border regime, driving the militarisation, surveillance, and externalisation of migration control’.
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n+1 @nplusonemag.com · 27/03/2026
“In mainstream media outlets, Democratic senators, congressmembers, and experts condemn Trump’s ‘recklessness,’ the ‘lack of clarity’ about the war’s ‘objectives.’ In fact, the objectives are perfectly clear.” www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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Night of the Two Suns | Iman Ganji and Bahar Noorizadeh
As the tragedy of murder and destruction unfolds in Iran—and Lebanon, and Palestine—an unbearable farce is simultaneously being staged in the imperial center.
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Robyn Maynard @policingblack.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Black abolitionists saw their project as a rejection of the idea of Black transportability, insisting that freedom of movement is a human inheritance that belongs to all. Ending anti-Black policing necessitates the abolition of border regimes www.bostonreview.net/articles/hun...
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Hunted and Banned
Efforts to control Black mobility—from early passports to the Fugitive Slave Act—laid much of the groundwork for today’s border regimes.
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
I reviewed Shona N. Jackson's important new book "Beyond Constraint: Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition" for @antipodeonline.bsky.social. Check it out: antipodeonline.org/2026/03/27/b...
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Beyond Constraint: Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition - Antipode Online
Onni Ahvonen (University of Helsinki) on Shona N. Jackson’s Beyond Constraint: Middle/Passages of Blackness and Indigeneity in the Radical Tradition Read Review
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Weekend reading
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Mikkel Flohr @mflohr.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
On this day in 1871, revolutionary Parisians seized the cannons at Montmartre and control over Paris, establishing the #ParisCommune a radical but short-lived experiment in workers’ self-government #OTD
A sepia-toned long-exposure photograph of a barricade with cannons and weapons stacked behind and people in front forming part of the defense of the Paris Commune
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James Crane @jamescrane.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
In his last political act, Habermas tied the survival of the public sphere & the democratic ethos of the Federal Republic of Germany to genocide denial & the state repression of its critics. He died in principled solidarity with the barbarism of 21st century liberalism
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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
“The more the Trump administration tries to remake the Iranian power structure, the more cohesive it becomes. It’s regime-protective architecture designed to deflect this kind of threat.” @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social on regime change fantasies in Iran www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
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The Venezuela Illusion | Kayhan Valadbaygi
Iran’s security structure ensures that the US will struggle to contain the dynamic of military escalation or determine its political outcomes.
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Howard French @hofrench.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Deeply gratified to see this rich and surpassingly engaging essay/review of my The Second Emancipation, by the estmable Adom Getachew. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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The Global Politics of Kwame Nkrumah
Through Nkrumah’s story, Howard French charts the history of African decolonization and the American civil rights movement.
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Has anyone come across reviews of Timothy Mitchell's new book?
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Laleh Khalili @lalehkhalili.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog: truethings.naghmehs.com
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These Are the True Things | Naghmeh Sohrabi | Substack
I'm an historian who writes about politics, history, and culture of Iran and the Middle East. Also about television, books, and whatever catches my fancy. Click to read These Are the True Things, by N...
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
What I’m reading this week. ”My goal is a world that values caring labor.” – Andaiye
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The Funambulist @thefunambulist.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
"Identity is not enough in a world shaped by capitalism to offset what will be repeated every time we tell ourselves that our motivations won’t produce the same results that those with colonial underpinnings always do." thefunambulist.net/magazine/the...
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The Lingering Threat of Black Zionism
In this text, William C. Anderson critiques the idea that Black liberation can be achieved through nation-states. Tracing the history of Marcus Garvey’s “Back to Africa” campaign and prior projects of...
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A beautiful piece by Nadia Bou Ali: ”Much ink is spent analyzing the psychical mechanisms of domination, of force and power and mastery, yet there is less patience with the obtuseness of staying with where pain refuses to soften.” communispress.com/dispatches-f...
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Dispatches from Beirut
Courage sticks in a way that enjoyment envies.
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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
We celebrate the publication of issue one of the 125th volume of SAQ! "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe," edited by Sarah Bufkin and Ida Danewid, is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/x1m3Ejx
South Atlantic Quarterly cover with colorful abstract painting Theorizing Racial Capitalism in Post Imperial Europe January 2026
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Looking forward to spending the next three months here in Brighton working on my dissertation at the University of Sussex.
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 04/03/2026
‘If Trump’s 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.’ @eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on the US war on Iran, new on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together
The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...
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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM. The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026. Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌 marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...
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Call for Abstracts: 11th annual conference
Freedom Eleventh annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Copenhagen Business School, Denmark2-3 October 2026 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme…
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Salar Mohandesi on Iran and anti-imperial struggle in the present conjuncture: www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/o...
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Organizing in the Heart of Empire
The situation in Iran poses a political challenge for anyone who cares about emancipation. Everyone knows that the single greatest threat to that goal on a global level is the United States and its im...
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Heather Martin @biblioheather.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
"The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3." Alt text: photograph of Sylvia Wynter.
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Franklin Research Center Announces the Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium - The Devil's Tale
Post contributed by John B. Gartrell, director John Hope Franklin Research Center  The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvi...
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Nicole Bedera @nbedera.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”
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At least 63 girls killed in strike on school in southern Iran
Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school
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Onni Ahvonen @ahvonenonni.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
We're living in truly despicable times.
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Hugo de Camps Mora @hcampsm.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Wrote this for @journalspectre.bsky.social in response to Vivek Chibber and the broader resurgence of economistic materialism. Drawing on the concept of fetishism, I suggest such approaches revive errors Marx had already sought to critique spectrejournal.com/beyond-the-w...
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Beyond the Wage Relation – Spectre Journal
Hugo de Camps Mora challenges Vivek Chibber's fetishized account of materialism in favor of the broader and more expansive conception Marx argued for.
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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
In this interview with Florian Bobin & Amadou Kébé, Momodou Taal connects the Palestinian struggle to a longer history of Black, African & anti-imperial resistance. For him, the path is clear: “the future is Pan-Africanism & transnational solidarity.” roape.net/2026/02/25/o...
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Opposing genocide in the twenty-first century: an interview with Momodou Taal - ROAPE
Has opposing genocide become a threat to public safety? At a time when imperial offensives no longer bother to cloak themselves in justificatory rhetoric, doctoral student and activist Momodou Taal is...
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