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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Colleagues were interviewed on BBC Radio 4 about @qmul.bsky.social's sudden escalation in taking down posters & threatening disciplinary action. It is a great explanation of what's happening & its dangers. Listen from 22min in: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... or clipped: youtu.be/SJGnCrDaCf0?...

QMUL's poster removal:
Management threatens staff with disciplinary action over posters and stickers

No clarity is given about what is deemed antisemitic

Management reduces all Jewish colleagues to one position

Possible precedent of repression & censorship

.Management refuses to engage meaningfully

Management repeats the same statement they issued in February 2024 when they broke into the union office

Management claims this is an established policy though they escalate from previous practice

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Thrilled to be joining the @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Geopolitics Seminar series on 6th February. I'll be thinking through the contours of Trump's disaster (inter)nationalism, and how the invasion of Venezuela offers a glimpse into the rise of geopolitical revanchism.

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 17/12/2025

Clara Mattei founded the Forum for Real Economic Emancipation - FREE - just a few months ago. Already, it's a hub for praxis not just in Tulsa, but far beyond. Here's our conversation on the food system: youtu.be/BXZu39LWgm0

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More Food, More Hunger: How Capitalism Turned Food Against Us

Food is more abundant than ever – but between rising prices, food insecurity, and a crisis of food affordability, we’re getting sicker and hungrier at the same time. In this live FREE (Forum for…

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Giulia Carabelli @giuliacarabelli.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

I wrote an article reflecting on how i bring plants to the classroom for @sociologyjnl.bsky.social. “Teaching with Plants as Liberatory Practice: Posthuman Pedagogies and The Sociological Imagination” is now available free access journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 🌱

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Such a pleasure to have my book, Cultivating Socialism, reviewed with such care and depth by an amazing group of scholars and comrades. Read all about it at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site 👇

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

On December 1st 6-8pm the research centre I co-direct will be hosting @rafeefz.bsky.social, Adam Hanieh and Robert Knox for the launch of their brilliant new book, Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/resisting-....

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Peter Newell @peternewell.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

My new book is out States of Transition: From Governing the Environment to Transforming Society published by @universitypress.cambridge.org With thanks to @carolinelucas.bsky.social @profjohnbarry.bsky.social & Jennifer Clapp for generous endorsements

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Our final post in the Cultivating Socialism symposium comes from Aiko Ikemura Amaral. A very thoughtful reflection on food sovereignty that goes beyond upstream productivism, prompting us to consider the quotidian practices of food, consumption and everyday life. www.ppesydney.net/rethinking-e...

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Rethinking experiences and horizons of food sovereignty through Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

In Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty, Rowan Lubbock offers a compelling multiscalar analysis of the pursuit of food sovereignty. His account of the Boliviari...

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Another stunning addition to the Cultivating Socialism symposium at the @ppesydney.bsky.social site. Angus McNelly offers some sharp insights into the intricacies of Marxist theory in Latin American scholarship, and the necessary determinations of race and gender. www.ppesydney.net/regionalism-...

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Regionalism, the State and Class in Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

Whilst much ink has been spilt trying to grapple with where it all went wrong, Rowan Lubbock’s Cultivating Socialism: Venezuela, ALBA, and the Politics of Food Sovereignty offers a novel reading of th...

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

Where is the money? @qmul.bsky.social haven't paid many cleaners their overtime since August; unions haven’t had their Facilities Time paid since August; many Teaching Associates & Teaching Fellows have not had any pay in September. All since the new financial year.

Where is the money? Cleaners, teaching associates, and trade unions haven’t had any of the money that isn’t part of the regular payroll since the beginning of the new financial year

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

So excited to share this symposium on my book, Cultivating Socialism, at the @ppesydney.bsky.social . Check out our first two posts from @chrishesketh.bsky.social and Kyla Sankey. More to come each Tuesday! www.ppesydney.net/forums/culti...

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Cultivating Socialism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

A brilliant piece in the FT about the human and institutional cost of overreliance on international student fees. Managers are making our most vulnerable students pay the price of a failing funding model and are skewing the purposes of university in their pursuit of fees. www.ft.com/content/3f49...

Page argues franchising — where students are disproportionately from poorer backgrounds — has been oversold as a means for widening participation. In reality, he says, it often leaves students behind, with outcomes “taking down our overall metrics”.

Staff were never comfortable with the franchise-heavy model, he says. “Voices were raised about their concerns, the things they saw and practices that didn’t align with our values, but they weren’t listened to,” he adds. “Now we live or die by our own work. We’re not going to be reliant on other organisations. I would advise any other university with large franchise numbers to do the same.” Buckinghamshire cut ties earlier this year with five of its former private franchise partners.

Even so, other universities are continuing to explore franchise models. For Queen Mary’s new “International Year One” in business and management, for example, it will outsource the teaching and recruitment for the programme to Kaplan International College, a for-profit group offering pathway courses into higher education.

Taught at Kaplan’s centre in London Bridge, the one-year course will enable foreign students to move straight on to the second year of Queen Mary’s business management undergraduate degree. Kaplan’s tuition fee is about £9,000 cheaper and requires lower entry grades and English language qualifications.

Queen Mary academics fear the Kaplan pathway, billed as the only one of its kind leading to a London Russell Group university, will not improve the academic preparedness of students.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

QMUL cut 200 roles in the past two years: qmucu.org/2025/06/26/s... #SaveHE #UKHE

Qmul cuts 200 roles
60 lost to voluntary severance in 2024
80 professional service staff took VS in 2025
50 academics took VS in 2025
Strategic exits
Redundancies in restructures

Remaining staff with increasing workload

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 24/06/2025

A food system hooked on fossil fuels is especially vulnerable to disruption. In the Mid East, output's halted, and urea prices are up. Expect speculators and food price spikes to follow. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

So happy to finally see my review of "Now We Are In Power", by Angus McNelly, out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social. A truly exhilarating read, prompting new insights and many questions over one of Latin America's most enigmatic examples of popular power and its contradictory path.

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

I'll be speaking along side some great discussants on the intersections between food, identity and sustainability at the Social Science Festival at Birkbeck College this Thursday, 5th June, 6-7pm. Come down for a nourishing conversation! 🌱🌾🍄 www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...

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Social Sciences Festival 2025 - Food Politics: Belonging, Identity, and Sustainability

Social Sciences Festival 2025

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Great to see my article out in the new issue of @geopoliticsjournal.bsky.social How did the soil under our feet shape the infrastructures of global food governance? Find out here 👇 Open Access!

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Come join us this saturday, to fight for a more just and sustainable food system 🍏🥬🌿

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Food In Our Hands, April 26th 2025 - Landworkers Alliance

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

The stages in MAGA responding to a negative story: 1: It's all lies 2: Most of it is lies 3: Some of it's true, but it doesn't matter 4. It's all true, but it's fine when we do it 5. F**k you

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

"We've burned down buildings for no reasons, which is violating the international law, of course," he told CBS News. "…And we used human shields as protection." www.cbsnews.com/news/israeli...

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Israeli soldier tells CBS News he was ordered to use Palestinians as human shields in Gaza

An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian boy tell CBS News they have personal experience of the IDF forcing civilians to check buildings for explosives.

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Another energising march against Israel's genocide/apartheid regime. 🍉🕊️

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Cannot wait to get stuck into this!!

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Lasse Thomassen @lassethomassen.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

“'I sure miss George W. Bush:' Deconstruction, Post-Truth and Trump” inaugural professorial lecture @qmpoliticsir.bsky.social @qmul.ac.uk #trump #posttruth #deconstruction #derrida 📅 26 March, 18:00-19:30 📍 QMUL, Mile End 🎟️ Register at the link below www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/i-sure-mis...

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“I sure miss George W. Bush:” Deconstruction, Post-Truth and Trump

Professorial public lecture with Professor Lasse Thomassen

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

How might food self-provisioning communities form part of a wider movement for a degrowth society? Find out here!

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Raj Patel @rajpatel.org · 20/02/2025

Jennifer Clapp's latest uncovers the long history of corporate power in agriculture and shows why we’ll need to undo the sins of the nineteenth century if we are all to survive in the twenty-first. Titans of Industrial Agriculture is out now and well worth your time!

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Very happy to share this exploratory analysis on the role of Food Self-Provisioning networks as an emergent property of a degrowth mode of living. 🌱🌿🌳🌴 @jpoliticalecology.bsky.social

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Movement without a movement: Food self-provisioning in Eastern Europe and the Balkans as emergent transformation towards a degrowth mode of living

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Very happy to announce the inaugural Call for Papers for our new Regular Section for the upcoming EISA 2025 (Bologna), "Hungry for Change: Repairing a Broken Global Food System". If you'd like to submit an abstact for the Section, follow the link here: eisa-net.org/abstract-sub... Please circulate!

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Nina Turner @ninaturner.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25 Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

An important intervention from Aaron Kappeler: "Venezuelans had hope for the future, and the global Left rallied around a political process that allowed socialists to do everything they always believe they could, if only given the chance. All that has now come to an end."

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Tropical Leninism or The Eighteenth Brumaire of Nicolás Maduro? - Dialectical Anthropology

Dialectical Anthropology -

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Andreas Papamichail @apapamichail.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

This excellent (and angering all over again) piece debunks the arguments the pharma industry has “historically been very good at formulating… [to] justify its greed” newrepublic.com/article/1887...

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Big Pharma Is the Only Reason Anyone Still Dies From HIV

We have the means to eradicate AIDS as a threat to human life. Greed is keeping this from happening.

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

"From the river to the sea", except it's not antisemitic when a Zionist says it. And unlike the vision for one democratic state, this Zionist formulation is predicated on an already unfolding Palestinian genocide.

An article from the Times of Israel proclaiming the incoming Trump administration as enabling "one true Jewish state, unified from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea"

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Orisanmi Burton, author of the incredible Tip of the Spear on Black Radicalism & Prison Repression (shorturl.at/8PUNo), will be speaking @qmul.bsky.social 10th December, 5-6:30pm GMT. Details: shorturl.at/QduCT Incredibly the book was banned from prisons by several states: shorturl.at/Rv2cO

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Methods of Carceral War

RCE keynote lecture by Orisanmi Burton: “Methods of Carceral War: Black Radicalism and U.S. Prisons as Counterinsurgency”

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

It was such a pleasure reviewing Mariya Ivancheva's excellent recent book, The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela. Thanks to Alternautas for publishing the review. Open access!

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Book Review: Mariya P. Ivancheva, The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela, Stanford University Press, 2023, 216pp. | Alternautas

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Rowan Lubbock @bolshierowbot.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

There's already been a lot of commentary on the recent US election. But this conversation with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is refreshingly, brutally on point. This wasn't a Trump victory. This was a catastrophic implosion of the Democratic Party.

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Democratic Dealignment w/ Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

Featuring Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor on Trump’s decisive victory, Harris’s catastrophic loss, multi-racial working-class dealignment, and where the left might go from here.

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