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Alex Callinicos

@alexcallinicos.bsky.social
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Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.

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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 4h
@alexcallinicos.bsky.social for @socialistworker.bsky.social @zackpolanski.bsky.social must not fold over " #Zionism is racism" motion: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Zack Polanski must hold not fold over Zionism is racism motion
Zack Polanski should take it as a compliment that he and the Green Party are getting the Jeremy Corbyn treatment.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 6h
My latest column, on why Zack Polanski must hold firm. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Zack Polanski must hold not fold over Zionism is racism motion
Zack Polanski should take it as a compliment that he and the Green Party are getting the Jeremy Corbyn treatment.
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The Deutscher Prize @deutscherprize.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The Deutscher Memorial Prize jury is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Chris Wickham, winner of the prize in 2006 for Framing the Early Middle Ages and subsequently both a member of the jury and its chair until 2025. (1/3)
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Great analysis of the Holborn & St Pancras by-election by @tomashtengely.bsky.social socialistworker.co.uk/labour/labou...
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Labour holds back Greens in Holborn & St Pancras—but no landslide
The mainstream media has used the by-election result as an opportunity to hammer the Greens over their support for Palestine
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
In Memory of Anwar Shaikh: An Updated Version, with an anecdote about Ernest Mandel. alexcallinicos.substack.com/p/in-memory-...
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Read: Full Spectrum Resistance 🏴🍉🌹 @phil-kapitan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Aww man...I didn't realize he died. That fucking sucks, he was one of the best to do it 😞
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 07/10/2026
Mouvement lycéen : les blocages d’universités se maintiennent à la veille d’une nouvelle journée de mobilisation
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Mouvement lycéen : les blocages d’universités se maintiennent à la veille d’une nouvelle journée de mobilisation
Des blocages d’établissements de l’enseignement supérieur ont eu lieu dans plusieurs villes mercredi 7 octobre. A Paris, des étudiants de Sciences Po et de l’Ecole normale supérieure revendiquent un soutien aux lycéens et demandent « une répartition plus équitable des moyens » entre les établissements.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
In tribute to Anwar Shaikh, some hitherto unpublished comments on his most important book. alexcallinicos.substack.com/p/in-memory-...
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 07/10/2026
Ecrits antisémites : Marine Le Pen dit « maintenir sa confiance en Jordan Bardella » et s’en prend à « Mediapart »
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Ecrits antisémites : Marine Le Pen dit « maintenir sa confiance en Jordan Bardella » et s’en prend à « Mediapart »
La candidate du Rassemblement national a qualifié de « manœuvre infâme » la divulgation d’écrits antisémites, dont le président du parti nie être l’auteur.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My latest column, on what Burnham does and doesn’t represent. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Alex Callinicos: The Burnham formula—dramatic change in tone, minimal change in reality
What he's seeking has nothing to do with genuine socialist politics
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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
@alexcallinicos.bsky.social for @socialistworker.bsky.social : #Iran war continues to expose @realDonaldTrump limit: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Alex Callinicos: Iran war continues to expose Trump’s limit
Trump may escalate the war against Iran. But decades of US attempts to dominate the Middle East are running up against the growing power of its rivals.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My latest column, on why, war or no war, the US is losing the Middle East. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Alex Callinicos: Iran war continues to expose Trump’s limit
Trump may escalate the war against Iran. But decades of US attempts to dominate the Middle East are running up against the growing power of its rivals.
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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@alexcallinicos.bsky.social for @socialistworker.bsky.social Dark times as four horsemen ride out socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Alex Callinicos: Dark times as four horsemen ride out
“The four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for the global economy.” says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My latest column, on economic gloom and doom. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Alex Callinicos: Dark times as four horsemen ride out
“The four horsemen of the apocalypse are coming for the global economy.” says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Nancy Mitford updated.
Sign with arrow in one direction saying Non EU and the other EU.
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Short overview with @chrishesketh.bsky.social on our article in Progress in Human Geography on why the Marxist notion of totality must be defended @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @davidharvey.org
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From Locality to Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist ...
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Gillian Tett argues argues ‘Warsh now has more political leverage — and skill — than many earlier feared.’ www.ft.com/content/98bf... Why Warsh is starting to bite back
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Why Warsh is starting to bite back
The Fed chair has more political leverage — and skill — than many feared
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
@edwardluce.bsky.social on the two money-obsessed buffoons Trump used to negotiate war vs peace www.ft.com/content/bc02... Kushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurism
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Kushner and Witkoff’s blind amateurism
The misguided belief that dangling potential postwar profits can lead to peace has hampered US diplomacy from Ukraine to Gaza and Iran
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Sasha Simic @sashasimic.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
@alexcallinicos.bsky.social for @socialistworker.bsky.social : The far right remains a dynamic force: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Alex Callinicos: The far right remains a dynamic force
If Andy Burnham dashes the hopes he raised to get into 10 Downing Street, Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson will rush to capitalise
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
My latest column, on Farage’s difficulties, amid the broader advance of the far right. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Alex Callinicos: The far right remains a dynamic force
If Andy Burnham dashes the hopes he raised to get into 10 Downing Street, Nigel Farage, Rupert Lowe and Tommy Robinson will rush to capitalise
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Michael Roberts, Bond bust thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/09/04/b...
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Bond bust
The financial media and mainstream economists are in a huge tizz.  Government bond yields have risen sharply since the end of the pandemic slump to return to levels not seen since the glo…
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
My latest column, on the new outburst of violence in the Gulf and Trump and Putin’s shared problem. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Alex Callinicos: Trump fears losing face over Iran war
There is much speculation about what John Ratcliffe, the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), was up to when he visited Moscow last week to meet his Russian counterparts. Without doub...
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
@tomashtengely.bsky.social on the Arday affair socialistworker.co.uk/anti-racism/...
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The racist witch-hunt of Jason Arday
The right are celebrating the fall of Cambridge professor Jason Arday with the glee of a colonial hunting party that has just blasted a lone creature into oblivion. Guns had been out for him as soon a...
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Πανελλαδική μέρα δράσης ενάντια στη συνεχιζόμενη γενοκτονια και εθνοκάθαρση στην Παλεστινη. Ελάτε στην Πλατεία, Βαθύ, 19:00
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Join the national day of protests for Palestine on Sunday 9 August in Ithaki at the Plateia, Vathy, 1900hrs.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
And here’s what I hope is a link that works to the podcast I refer to www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...
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Podcast: Emily Wilson and Thomas Jones · Among the Ancients: The 'Odyssey'
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
More from me about the Odyssey, with some words in defence of @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/alexcall...
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Further Thoughts on The Odyssey, with a defence of Emily Wilson.
Christopher Nolan’s adaptation of The Odyssey has already made a huge amount of money, attracted tremendous controversy, and encouraged many people to buy one of the translations of the poem (I’ve bee...
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EMILY WILSON @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.ft.com/content/3441... Trump’s waning sway over the world
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Trump’s waning sway over the world
The habitual trolling that serves him at home is sapping his potency on the global stage
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@edwardluce.bsky.social very good on the significance of Trump’s rewriting the Saudi nuclear deal after it was signed.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
@gideonrachman.bsky.social how the two big Eurasian wars are starting to get connected. www.ft.com/content/51ea... Ukraine, Iran and how regional wars go global
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Ukraine, Iran and how regional wars go global
Conflicts in Europe and Asia are overlapping and two rival blocs may be forming
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
My latest column, on the roots of US failure against Iran. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Credibility of the US empire is shrinking fast
The US and Israel were unlikely to defeat Iran by air power alone. But as hostilities re-ignited in the past couple weeks, it's been Iran escalating
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Branko Milanovic @brankomilan.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A nice exchange btw @alexcallinicos.bsky.social and myself on Trotsky and view of Trotsky by Leszek Kolakowski. I started with this piece I wrote several years ago. Trotsky after Kolakowski branko2f7.substack.com/p/trotsky-af...
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Trotsky after Kolakowski
Why is Kolakowski so dismissive of Trotsky?
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
A reply to Branko Milanovic on Trotsky open.substack.com/pub/alexcall...
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A Reply to Branko Milanovic on Trotsky
Branko Milanovic, whose writings I enjoy and whom I greatly respect, has written a scathing attack on Trotsky and Trotskyism .
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Naturally I’ve written my own take on the Nolan Odyssey, as another great war brews in West Asia. open.substack.com/pub/alexcall...
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My take on the Nolan Odyssey
Well, as part of the celebration of my 76th birthday, I went to see Christopher Nolan's film The Odyssey today.
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K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
very good piece. Burnham likely to fail a reality test of promising change in the context of imperial crisis. What happens from below can make a difference to how that plays out of course
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
My latest column, on what Burnham promises. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Burnham will need more than words
Addressing the crises of the system will require a critical analysis and a radical politics that far exceed his rhetoric
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
My latest column, on Trump’s clumsy efforts to turn defeat into victory. socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...
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Trump's manoeuvres risk restarting war
He's ramping up his rhetoric again, calling the Iranian leadership 'scum,' threatening devastation and withdrawing economic concessions
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Cascadia(PNW) @cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Really great read 💯💯💯
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Nuff said.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Yes, an excellent book.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I’ve been preparing for the 90th anniversary of the military coup that sparked off the Spanish Revolution by reading Héctor PSierra’s superb book on that revolution and the counter-revolutions, Stalinist and Francoist, that destroyed it.
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
www.ft.com/content/b775... Wall Street banks are AI stocks now
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Wall Street banks are AI stocks now
Plus a nice cool CPI report
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
‘ It is AI that has markets churning and drives capital-raising. The banks are another example of the false “broadening” of the stock market that has also driven up industrial and utility stocks in the past few years. All these sectors have lived, and could die, with AI.’
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
‘… alternative routes to Hormuz. That will take months, however, if not years.’ www.ft.com/content/0f45... Iran is seeing through Trump’s bluff
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Iran is seeing through Trump’s bluff
The US president finds himself stuck in a cul-de-sac of his own making
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
‘If not war, then what? The likely answer is a long spell of unsatisfactory stop-go talks, occasional skirmishes and Iran periodically yanking Trump’s chain to remind him who controls events. In the medium term, Iran will lose much of its leverage as oil shippers build pipelines and find … 1/
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
www.ft.com/content/5817... Europe’s ‘China shock’ panic is ill-informed
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Europe’s ‘China shock’ panic is ill-informed
EU industry is largely weathering the competition well
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Interesting …
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