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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

This event tomorrow evening will be good. Book launch for POINTS OF DEPARTURE: REFUSAL OF WORK AND THE CRISIS OF CAPITALISM, a new collection of writings of autonomist Marxist Harry Cleaver. (With the book's co-editor, Robert Ovetz.) maydayrooms.org/event/points...

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Migration Mobilities Bristol @mmbuob.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

'Mobility, maladaption and the market for carbon' - on the MMB blog, @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social, @matildaf.bsky.social and @davidharvie.bsky.social explore the ways in which refugees are becoming entangled in the global carbon credit market. Read the full post here 👉👉 bit.ly/4wwa32A

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

On the off-chance anyone is travelling between Cornwall and Leeds on Sun 12 July I have a train ticket that’s not being used anymore owing to a change of plans. It’s non-refundable, so at this point would be glad for someone else to get the use of it

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Given ongoing attacks on university staff and research (at @exeter.ac.uk and many other institutions) with arts and humanities, critical social sciences, environmental science and sustainability particular targets, it’s worth resharing ‘Universities Degraded’.

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Universities Degraded: Staff Experiences & Employer Practices of Redundancies in UK Higher Education

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Conducted between August and October 2024 and publicised mainly by members of the University and College Union (UCU), the ‘Survey for UCU Members on HE Redundancies’ invited response...

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

My review of a new collection of Harry Cleaver's writings on the refusal of work, the crisis of capitalism, and Marxist theory, edited by Robert Ovetz and Kevin Van Meter, just published in the Morning Star.

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How refusing to work will always beat capital

Points of Departure: Refusal of Work and the Crisis of Capitalism: The Collected Writings of Harry Cleaver

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"A bid to reassure the ... fossil fuel industry." (Both stories from @theguardian.com.)

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

How anyone, let alone the CEO of Universities UK, can discuss young people’s disillusionment without addressing her peers culling 1000s upon 1000s of university staff is beyond me. They may not have oversight of loans but they are responsible for devaluing degrees www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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Shrinking graduate premium sours views on value of a university education, UK poll shows

Worries over AI and loan debt mean 34% of people think degrees are usually not worth the time and money

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Institute of Race Relations @irrnews.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

NEW ARTICLE❗ The mobilisation of refugee labour for carbon credits as maladaptive practice by Nicholas Beuret (@nicholasbeuret.bsky.social), Matilda Fitzmaurice (@matildaf.bsky.social) and David Harvie (@davidharvie.bsky.social). 🗣 Gholam Khiabany 📕 Read here: irr.org.uk/article/the-...

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I'm really proud of this article, co-authored with @nicholasbeuret.bsky.social & @matildaf.bsky.social, just published in @irrnews.bsky.social's journal Race & Class.

"The mobilisation of refugee labour for carbon credits as maladaptive
practice", by Nicholas Beuret , Matilda Fitzmaurice and David Harvie

Abstract: The Refugee Environmental Protection (REP) Fund is a programme designed to turn refugees and their labour into a source of carbon credits for global carbon markets. Established by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Fund invests in clean cookstove and reforestation projects in and around refugee camps, with the resulting (imputed) reduction in CO2 (and CO2 equivalent) emissions and sequestration of CO2 converted into saleable carbon credits, which, in turn, make the camps more financially sustainable. We take issue with the REP Fund. First, we argue that there are multiple and very fundamental problems with carbon credits, offsets and carbon accounting. Second, the REP Fund is reliant upon and complicit in producing refugees as hyper-exploitable and precarious labour. Third, as an instrument of so-called social finance, the REP Fund has the potential to integrate into the web of planetary financial discipline the several million people confined to UN refugee camps. Fourth, the REP Fund, whose advocates claim as an additional benefit a reduction in gender-based violence, risks reproducing assumptions that naturalise the primary threat of such violence as coming from outside the home, rather than inside it. In conclusion, we argue that we can understand the REP Fund as part of a maladaptive labour cycle, which works both directly and indirectly to use the labour of those displaced to maintain their own displacement while worsening environmental and climate outcomes.

Keywords: carbon markets, clean cooking programmes, climate adaption, gender-based violence, Refugee Environmental Protection Fund, refugee labour, social impact bonds

Image of human beings as financial data, with text: RACE & CLASS (journal title) and "Mobilising Refugee Labour for Carbon Credits"

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

15 minutes; no questions; tells you enough about how staff is valued at universities in the UK.

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UCU Essex @ucuessex.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

In yet more shocking news: the University forgot to give us our pay uplift for this year (which they had already unilaterally deferred to February). Hundreds of staff have applied for voluntary redundancy, and had their redundancy pay confirmed based on their salary. What does this mean for them?

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

"When we ask what is at stake if academic freedom is not protected, the answer is not only vital knowledge and democracy itself. The untruthful language marking universities as we know them, might be a precursor to the demise of academia itself." Distressing but important piece by Susanne Taüber.

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Shaping for Mediocrity reviewed in the Morning Star. It's particularly timely since workers at University of Leicester are right now in the midst of yet another struggle against restructuring and redundancies. @ucu.org.uk morningstaronline.co.uk/article/orga...

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Organising resistance in the university

Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our UniversitiesGibson Burrell, Ronald Hartz, David Harvie, Geoff Lightfoot, Simon Lilley and friends, Zer0 Books, £7.99THIS criti...

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

This is tonight! ⬇️⬇️⬇️

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The Oasis reunion wasn't the only newsworthy event happening in Manchester the past two weekends, not that you'd know it from the mainstream media – & even most of the alternatives. Here's a report from the July 12 @defendourjuries.bsky.social action opposing genocide in Gaza.

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Opposing genocide in Manchester: The reality of protest under Starmer’s government – In the global war between rich and poor,

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Clapton CFC @claptoncfc.co.uk · 18/07/2025

Clapton CFC has donated the full profit of £7,944.34 from sales of our limited edition trans solidarity keeper shirt to the Trans Legal Clinic. Here's the breakdown >> www.claptoncfc.co.uk/2025/07/18/c...

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CCFC donates nearly £8000 from trans solidarity keeper shirt sales - Clapton Community FC

In late May, the call for pre-orders for Clapton CFC’s limited edition trans solidarity goalkeeper shirt attracted huge interest.

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

This happened in Leeds earlier. One person was arrested for sitting on some steps holding a placard saying I OPPOSE GENOCIDE I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION Police searched his house and, I believe, he's still being held in custody. @defendourjuries.bsky.social @palaction.bsky.social

Person sitting on steps and holding a placard saying "I OPPOSE GENOCIDE, I SUPPORT PALESTINE ACTION"

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Solidarity with the people from @defendourjuries.bsky.social, risking their liberty in Manchester, Cardiff and London today – in opposition to genocide in Palestine and the UK government's complicity in that and in support of @palaction.bsky.social – taking direct action to stop genocide. 🇵🇸 🍉

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

*This* was the spirit of Gleneagles – 20 years ago this weekend – embodied in the millions of people across the planet who believed another world was (is) possible. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

If we're to restore our rights to the land, & to the commons more generally, it's vital we remember the stories of how we lost these rights in the first place – the stories of enclosure. At the July 24 screening, the amazing @beccaeharrison.bsky.social will discuss the film & its revelance today.

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Cinespotlights: Harvest (18) + intro | National Science and Media Museum

Dr Rebecca Harrison explores the environmental implications of this spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece.

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

SCREENING: “To Kill A War Machine”, a documentary about @palaction.bsky.social by ‪@rainbow-collective.bsky.social‬ ⏰2 July, 18;30-21:00, 📍BLOC Cinema, ArtsOne 🎟 free, but register for access: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-kill-a-... 🤝 @cclas1.bsky.social

poster for To Kill A War Machine: a screening of a documentary about Palestine Action

BLOC Cinema (ArtsOne), Mile End Road, London E1 4PA
1 July, 18:30-21:00
FREE registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/to-kill-a-war-machine-tickets-1437236636469?aff=oddtdtcreator

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Durham UCU @ducu.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Really unfair question to ask, tbh. No reason at all it can't be both.

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21 Group @21group.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

If you've been fucked around by one of the malicious, ignorant, corrupt, greedy, vindictive, arrogant, grasping, spiteful, self-important, smug, censorious & deceitful bullies who run UK universities ... ... check out the demolition of ex-Vice Chancellor Gillespie at Holyrood Enjoy

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Corner @dangerouscorner.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

I'm pleased that even though the 'grown ups' are ignoring the massive ecological and financial scandal that is the ongoing subsidies to Drax, these kids aren't. Good on them.

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Liz Morrish @lizmorrish.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Imagine the banality of a university where the only ratified areas of study are ‘complex analysis’ and ‘critical thinking’. Thinking about what? We have already seen what happens when we unleash a cadre of overrated, narrowly-educated adolescents whose only thought is of their own exceptionalism.

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QM_UCU @qmucu.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

"Your micro-credentials in ‘leadership’, decision-making and ‘commercial awareness’ are not going to impinge on the threats from climate change or global health hazards." oh man, this is SO spot on about #UKHE, its value, and and why we have to defend it from blandness.

transcript of a paragraph from a blogpost: In any case, it is hard to envision the banality of a university where the only ratified areas of study are ‘complex analysis’ and ‘critical thinking’. Thinking about what ? In 2025 we already have a taste of what happens when we unleash a cadre of overrated, narrowly-educated adolescents whose only thought is of their own exceptionalism.

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Now published! Universities Degraded, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, reveals the scale of job losses in UK universities, exposes employer practices & shares testimonies of those made redundant & their colleagues. Warning: some of the content is distressing. zenodo.org/records/1563...

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

How does it feel to be made redundant? How does it feel when your colleagues go through this process? This major new report, by @beccaeharrison.bsky.social & me, centres the experiences of people on the frontline of UK university job cuts – and exposes employers' behaviour. Out next week.

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Tomorrow, June 4, at 3.30pm, at Lancaster University (and online), Simon Lilley and I will be discussing our struggle against redundancies at the University of Leicester in 2021 – our struggle FOR the university. More details here: www.lancaster.ac.uk/lums/researc...

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Keir Starmer is a climate-change denier.

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Accounting and Accountability Research Group @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

📣 Join us for an event on the multiple crises that are currently affecting UK Higher Education,at QMUL hosted by AARG and the Mile End Institute (MEI). More info here: www.tickettailor.com/events/queen... @mileendinstitute.bsky.social

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Shame on UCU managers for this brazen attempt to cover up bad employment practices. Whatever you call them - non-disparagement clauses, confidentiality agreements - these are NDAs. We all know conditions are stacked in the employer’s favour. Enforced silence is *always* violence.

A screenshot from a Times Higher Education article in which a UCU management spokesperson claims that making staff sign confidentiality clauses is not the same as using non-disclosure agreements.

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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Hands up who thinks trade unions should be model employers? ✋🏽 ✋🏾 ✋🏻 ✋🏿 ✋🏼 #ThriveNotSurvive

Question....

Which employer has lost the following number of days to work-related stress and mental ill-health absences:
• 2022: 123.5
• 2023: 468
• 2024: 912.5 ?

Clue 1: They were sanctioned by the HSE for a failure to address stress in 2023.

Clue 2: They still can't demonstrate compliance with statutory minimum safety legislation in 2025.

.. Asking for a friend

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

I'm ashamed of and embarrassed by UCU – specifically its leadership, by which I mean the general secretary and her senior management team.

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

A key question for universities is whether they are spaces of curiosity, creativity, and learning that enables people to think and act in new ways… or whether they only exist to serve job markets by churning out compliant workers.

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Becca Harrison @beccaeharrison.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Over the past year there have been whispers about 'protected conversations' being used to make job cuts by the backdoor in HE (it's closed to submissions but the our branch survey included them: shorturl.at/leLpn). Looking at interim survey results, it seems like we should all know about them.

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Survey for UCU members on HE Redundancies

Across the sector there are mass job losses taking place. At some institutions facing compulsory redundancies - and at others where CR is apparently not a concern - we're also experiencing protected c...

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Next Wednesday afternoon, I'll be discussing Shaping for Mediocrity: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities – and its many lesson for today's university struggles – in central London.

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

This is what @ronaldhartz.bsky.social, Simon Lilley and I had to say about Shaping for Mediority: The Cancellation of Critical Thinking at Our Universities (as part of a COVER research seminar on March 7). Thanks to @minorcompositions.bsky.social.

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Shaping for Mediocrity

YouTube video by COVER Research Centre

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Ronald Hartz @ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Wed 5 Mar, 12.00–1.30 pm, Online Hosted by the Centre for Commons Organising Values Equalities and Resilience, @davidharvie.bsky.social, Simon Lilley and I will discuss our book about the purge of Critical Management Studies at Leicester. #CriticalManagementStudies www.essex.ac.uk/events/2025/...

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Shaping for Mediocrity | University of Essex

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David Harvie @davidharvie.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

I have resigned as honorary treasurer of UCU. I have spent the past 21 months trying to make UCU more transparent, its senior officers and officials more accountable, its practices more ethical and imaginative; I have tried to democratise its financial decision-making. [1/2]

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