Reposted by Charles des PortesCharles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I am putting together a roundtable on race and global capitalism with @tilley101.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social and John Narayan. Let me know in you are around Leeds in May and interested in attending. 53315
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 11/03/2025I am putting together a roundtable on race and global capitalism with @tilley101.bsky.social @iliasalami.bsky.social and John Narayan. Let me know in you are around Leeds in May and interested in attending. 53315
Reposted by Charles des PortesLisa Tilley @tilley101.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Time for the ISA to take a stand against colonial genocide & scholasticide in Palestine 🍉 #BDSatISA 0166
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Who’s going to the @histmat.bsky.social conference in Athens? 120
Reposted by Charles des PortesLukas Slothuus @lslothuus.bsky.social · 06/02/2025📝 My new article “Facing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseouts” is out in Energy Research & Social Science! Read and share: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.comFacing a fossil free future through the past: The importance of history for understanding fossil fuel phaseoutsThe study of policies limiting the production of fossil fuels must be appropriately historicised. Contextualising these policies within a longer-term … 55416
Reposted by Charles des PortesCentre for Contemporary Political Theory @ccptleeds.bsky.social · 03/02/2025We're excited to share the programme of CCPT events this semester and hope to see you there! 023
Reposted by Charles des PortesBenjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 01/02/2025The government’s overall Oh well that’s how it is now attitude when one of the main pillars of your economy crumbles right there for everyone to see is quite difficult to comprehend.theguardian.comQuarter of leading UK universities cutting staff due to budget shortfallsUp to 10,000 redundancies or job losses feared as institutes undergo restructuring 35022
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 29/01/2025“The guarantee of liberty, equality, and property implies that the visible fist of the State must complete the work of the invisible hand of the market” - Samir Amin in Eurocentrism 001
Reposted by Charles des PortesCharles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I’ve just created a starter pack for those working on racial capitalism, imperialism, ‘third-world’ Marxism. Let me know if you’d like to be added/removed go.bsky.app/6hwHCnh 126528
Reposted by Charles des PortesBruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 10/01/2025Frankfurt Uni cancels a conference on "Talking about (the Silencing of) Palestine“. Can't make it up. 59137
Reposted by Charles des PortesMarine Guéguin @marinegueguin.bsky.social · 10/01/2025Excited to share that my latest research has been published in the Critical Studies on Terrorism Journal! www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....tandfonline.comFrench normalisation of exceptional powers as a response to terrorism post-Paris attacksYou have to enable JavaScript in your browser's settings in order to use the eReader. 263
Reposted by Charles des PortesHistorical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 20/12/2024The CfP for Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26–28 June 2025) 'Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe' is now online. Please send in your abstracts by 15 February. Further details, in both French and English, below.historicalmaterialism.orgHistorical Materialism Paris 2025 (26-28 Juin 2025) : Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe - Historical MaterialismLe dernier « Congrès Marx International » a eu lieu à Paris en 2010. Depuis lors, dans l’espace francophone, aucune conférence internationale s’inscrivant explicitement dans le cadre du marxisme, dura... 02811
Reposted by Charles des PortesSandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 04/12/2024Excellent opportunity for Black UK students to enrol in a PhD in any research area. 12 scholarships available at the University of Glasgow. 083
Reposted by Charles des PortesSandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 26/11/2024Great many people show support to our colleague in Anglophone Studies, Dr Maboula Soumahoro, whose specialism in critical race analyses in France & US is well known. EU Parliament cancelled her intervention follwing sustained pressure from the far-right. Collective✊🏾 www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb...liberation.frMadame la présidente du Parlement européen, reprogrammez la conférence de Maboula Soumahoro sur l’antiracisme !Dans une lettre ouverte à Roberta Metsola, plusieurs centaines d’intellectuels et de personnalités dénoncent le report, sous la pression d’élus d’extrême droite, d’une intervention de la chercheuse Ma... 0179
Reposted by Charles des PortesDr Ruby (she/her) @paperwhispers.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Leeds has a fully funded scholarship program for undergraduate and Masters study for Gaza students. **Tell Everyone** www.leeds.ac.uk/masters-scho...leeds.ac.ukGazan Humanitarian ScholarshipWe offer scholarships for citizens of Gaza who have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict in the region and are living in a different country (outside of the UK). 1812991403
Reposted by Charles des PortesJairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 22/11/2024Umm Saeed, a mother of six, is living in the Deir al Balah refugee camp in central Gaza—one of the many families struggling to survive. Their home was bombed, their belongings destroyed, and their world turned upside down. Please donate and share. chuffed.org/project/1167...chuffed.orgHelp Umm Saeed and her family survive in GazaUmm Saeed, a mother of six, is living in the Deir al Balah refugee camp in central Gaza—one of the many families struggling to survive amidst the ongoing conflict and devastation. Her family, once ful... 04827
Reposted by Charles des PortesThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 21/11/2024ICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahudlvr.itICC issues arrest warrant for Israeli PM Benjamin NetanyahuMove by international criminal court puts Netanyahu at risk of detention if he travels to certain other countries The international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, the county’s former defence… 12730281109
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline 190
Reposted by Charles des PortesSandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 19/11/2024Not a starter pack but peeps to follow: @jairofunez.bsky.social @farhanasultana.com @chdesportes.bsky.social @ikabir.bsky.social @themrise.bsky.social @profsunnysingh.bsky.social @profdanhicks.bsky.social @sandyosullivan.bsky.social @drblackdeer.bsky.social @pashamkhan.bsky.social More soon 63310
Reposted by Charles des PortesHeba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Have not seen much on here on Sudan, so I'm amplifying this horrific report that shows the number who are killed is higher than previously estimated. Adding here other writing to read to understand this war that has displaced over 11 million people; the highest displacement crisis globally. 🧵 6597502
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I’ve just created a starter pack for those working on racial capitalism, imperialism, ‘third-world’ Marxism. Let me know if you’d like to be added/removed go.bsky.app/6hwHCnh 126528
Reposted by Charles des PortesWilliam Paris @williammparis.bsky.social · 18/11/2024open.spotify.com/episode/0vu6... For all you Adorno fans out there come learn about your free time under capitalism, Adornian autonomy, and why you shouldn’t have “hobbies” (I guess 🤷🏾)open.spotify.com101 | Free Time Under CapitalismWhat's Left of Philosophy · Episode 35214
Reposted by Charles des PortesHistorical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Now announced: Historical Materialism Athens 2025, 'Organizing in the Capitalocene: Labor and the Struggle Against Disaster and Genocide'. The full CfP and details can be found here: hmathens.org 06423
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Anyone working on racial capitalism, capitalism and imperialism (from a theoretical perspective) in the UK? 311
Reposted by Charles des PortesCamila Vergara @camilavergara.bsky.social · 18/11/2024I was invited to deliver this year's Kogon Lecture at TU Darmstadt but I was canceled and called antisemitic due to my statements on the genocide in Gaza. Please consider signing this letter of support. Thank you for your solidarity. 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 1814377
Reposted by Charles des PortesJoshua @blanqui.bsky.social · 17/11/2024Hey friends can I ask you all to follow @workshops4gaza.bsky.social , an excellent project that facilitates artists, scholars, & others leading workshops where all receipts provide desperately needed support to Gazans? 01812
Reposted by Charles des PortesPeter Lamb @peterlamb1.bsky.social · 17/11/2024I've just been looking in the Marxists Internet Archive at www.marxists.org for the fist time for quite a while. It really is an excellent resource for anyone interested in Marxism and also the broader left.marxists.orgMarxists Internet ArchiveThe most complete library of Marxism with content in 80 languages and the works of over 720 authors readily accessible by archive, sujbect, or history as well as hundreds of periodicals. 0184
Reposted by Charles des PortesWagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.bsky.social · 14/11/2024Palestinian starter pack 521400998
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 16/11/2024Can someone explain to me the Danish Marxism metaverse? 140
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Settler-Colonialism in the Late Neocolonial Period - journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...journals.sagepub.comSettler-colonialism in the Late Neocolonial Period - Max Ajl, 2024This essay discusses settler-colonialism in Palestine and the world system during late neocolonialism. It offers a materialist methodology for interpreting sett... 030
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024And this also applies to scholars keen on giving many social justice moral injunctions while being really quiet about Palestine. 143
Reposted by Charles des PortesSandeep Bakshi @sandeepbak.bsky.social · 15/11/2024All scholars who’ve even once used the term ‘decolonisation’ for the advancement of their careers, please note that now is the time to show solidarity with Palestine. Stand with Palestine. End all occupations✊🏽 PS: Wrote this on 7 Oct 2023. Still valid, sadly. 12110
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Racial capitalism and the critique of political economy 051
Reposted by Charles des Portesلاوان @lauan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2177... there's a good critical review of the book in Marx & Philosophy Reviewmarxandphilosophy.org.uk‘Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics’ by Simin Fadaee reviewed by Sanja PetkovskaPrepared by Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester Simin Fadaee, Global Marxism: Decolonisation and Revolutionary Politics challenges the actual understanding held by most postco... 031
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 19/10/2023Please share and sign the petition in support of Cornell Professor Russel Rickford who is attacked for affirming the basic human rights of Palestinians! chng.it/TtSnVNZfchng.itSign the PetitionWe, the undersigned, are deeply concerned about the recent media attacks and allegations targeting Professor Russell Rickford, a respected human rights activist and esteemed faculty member at Cornell ... 010
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 18/10/2023The e-book ‘Ten Myths About Israel’ by Ilan Pappe is still free on Verso’s website. www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...versobooks.comTen Myths About IsraelIn this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins an... 010
Reposted by Charles des PortesJairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 14/10/2023Dear Decolonial, Critical, & Feminist Academics, We see that you care more about publishing articles to advance your careers rather than showing solidarity with Palestine. Some of you even support settler colonialism & genocide. We will never forget your complicity. 1315
Charles des Portes @chdesportes.bsky.social · 08/10/2023And this also applies to scholars keen on giving many social justice moral injunctions who have been really quiet about Palestine. 063
Reposted by Charles des PortesJairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 07/10/2023Academia loves to decolonize everything besides occupied land. Its silence on Palestine is enough to know how decolonization has become a metaphor signifying everything besides material change and collective resistance. 115442
