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Johnnie Kallas @johnniekallas.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Excited about this new article with @hodderandy.bsky.social documenting the role of different types of protests, including labor strikes, by workers in the Twin Cities organizing against ICE militarization earlier this year. It’s the rare timely academic read!
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Activists in NYC projected a message on the side of Jeff Bezos’ $120 million penthouse ahead of the Met Gala. “Shame on you, Jeff Bezos.”
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Birmingham UCU @birminghamucu.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Birmingham is now a high‑profile example of HSE enforcement on mental health and stress – a warning shot to the wider sector that policies without action will not pass muster. www.footanstey.com/o... #UoBStressBreach
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HSE cracks down on mental health failures: policies without action are not enough | Foot Anstey
In summary The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has set its sights on tackling work-related ill health, with mental health and stress at the heart of its mission. Its 2025–2026 business plan makes stress reduction a top priority. HSE is now turning those words into action. Its recent Notice of Contravention against the University of […]
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CPERN @cpern.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
New CPERN online workshop: Finance and the Far Right (29 Jan) Join us to discuss how asset-manager capitalism has shaped financial-nationalist politics With author @ingarade.bsky.social and discussants Owen Worth and @alentop.bsky.social On zoom: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly workshop - January. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Inga Rademacher (City) presents her working paper: 'Finance and the far right: financial-nationalist politics in an asset-manager world' Discussants: Owen Worth (University of Limerick) and Alen Topl...
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David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
TODAY
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
University of Sheffield staff are now officially locked out! Please consider a small donation to help us continue our fight to save the university from the greed of corporate power! Please also share the link! @ucu.org.uk @sheffielducu.bsky.social www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...
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Donate to Support University of Sheffield striking staff!, organized by Mark Pendleton
I'm the branch treasurer for the University of Sheffield University and… Mark Pendleton needs your support for Support University of Sheffield striking staff!
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Please don't forget the University of Sheffield strikers, working hard to save their institution from the greed of corporate power. Please, sign and share. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk #UCUstrike #notoculturalvandalism #saveHigherEducation www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...
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No lockout for University of Sheffield staff
UCU members have been standing up against the continual cutting and restructuring of the last several years which has significantly damaged the University’s international standing, the quality of educ...
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Umberto Albarella STOP THE GENOCIDE! @umbertoalbarella.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
We'll only start dealing properly with the university crisis when we understand that redundancies do not occur because of a financial deficit, but rather a financial deficit is fabricated so that redundancies can be made. @sheffielducu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk @ucuhallam.bsky.social
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David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
*new Contesting AI talk* - The AI Matrix: Profits, Politics, and the Struggle Over Our Tech Future 21 Jan, 3pm GMT Register: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Introducing new book by Regine Paul, @dmugge.bsky.social, and Vali Stan: www.agendapub.com/page/detail/... Hosted by: contestingai.uk
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The AI Matrix
Artificial intelligence counts as today's great transformational force reshaping our societies and economies. A perspective that is as common as it is wrong. Corporate profit-seeking and competitive p...
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conference of socialist economists @csocialistecons.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
CSE is pleased to present the newest issue of C&C, in collaboration with Critical Labour Studies. To encourage visibility it is open access. journals.sagepub.com/toc/cnca/49/4
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Capital & Class - Volume 49, Number 4
Table of contents for Capital & Class, 49, 4
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Joseph Ward @jward232.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
On strike again to fight back against the relentless pursuit of damaging cuts and restructures by the appalling management at @sheffielduni.bsky.social We won't stand idly by while they continue to drive this institution into the ground! @sheffielducu.bsky.social
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Political Worldview Podcast @politicalworldview.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
New episode out now! "Two Left Parties". Host @adamjamesquinn.bsky.social talks British politics on the Left with @djbailey231.bsky.social. 🎙️ After a rocky launch, what are the prospects for 'Your Party'? Who is it for, and is it pitching for the same voters as the Greens? 👇Audio links in thread👇
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David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
against Labour's plan to ban repeat protests theconversation.com/labour-wants...
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Labour wants to restrict repeat protests – but that’s what makes campaigns successful
Since entering office, the Labour government has further tightened restrictions on the right to protest.
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Bristol University Press @brisunipress.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while #AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger resistance: buff.ly/nVBFBQj
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In the age of AI realism, where do we stand – willing enablers, passive observers or active resisters? - Transforming Society
David Bailey and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger…
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
"The degree to which AI is able to harm our society and environment will depend on how best we can organise in opposition to those harms." New blog from @djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri on why we need to #ResistAI
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Sol Gamsu @solgamsu.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Yesterday @ducu.bsky.social passed this motion in solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social. I didn't write this lightly, but at this point I wasn't sure what else to do. @ucu.org.uk staff are essential to letting the union run. They back us so we back them. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Motion to ban General Secretary from DUCU pickets and other events until UNITE UCU dispute resolved
Motion to ban General Secretary from DUCU pickets and other events until UNITE UCU dispute resolved Motion passed: 55% in favour, 24% against, 21% abstained. This branch notes: The consistent suppor...
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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
When, some months ago,  we first posted our members’ testimonies - lived experiences of working for UCU - our employer’s only response was a demand they be removed. No contrition, shame or concern for their staff: just an anger we’d shared them. #UniteVoices uniteucu.wordpress.com/campaign-cam...
“I feel more and more disheartened, depressed and stressed by working for UCU. I am trying to just get on and do my job in as professional a manner as I can. However, this is increasingly difficult... The current working ‘atmosphere’ is dire and makes me feel huge doubt and uncertainty. This has severely negatively impacted my motivation and my job satisfaction in addition to my levels of stress.”“Whilst off work sick for a protracted period, dosed up with pain medications and immobile I was sent an email advising that my white colleague (also off sick) was to be sent flowers and well wishes in a card from our team. 
Nothing was sent to me from the team and it felt like as a black colleague you weren't seen, your pain wasn't seen and you weren’t cared for.”“[I’m] Ashamed I work for an employer who has such double standards in the way they have treated employees compared to what they say to members… UCU has been very vocal about Trans and Non-Binary issues that affect UCU members and many UCU staff have worked really hard on policy and training – so why should UCU management be stalling over this for employees?”
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Unite UCU @uniteucu.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
#UniteVoices
“I get up each day knowing that no manager within UCU will care if I do any work on that day.
On some days, in fact, I strongly suspect that it would be preferred that I do not do the majority of the tasks that are outlined in my job description, or attempt to implement the democratic decisions of UCU members through my work."“As an ex-union activist, I naively thought that working for a union would mean I could concentrate on a union's mission to defend members rights and use all my time supporting members in their fights. Instead, I'm witnessing the same callous behaviour from my employer as the ones this very union is calling out. I am so furious at the hypocrisy."
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Ioana Cerasella Chis @cerasellachis.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Early-Career Marxism Roundtable + CSE/Capital & Class Early Career & Independent Researchers (ECIR) Network Launch Organised by Elio di Muccio & David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social Are you a doctoral/EC scholar working w Marxism? Join this roundtable in Birmingham docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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Early Career Marxism Roundtable - Expression of Interest
Organised by the Conference of Socialist Economists / Capital & Class Are you a PhD student or an early-career researcher working within Marxism or critical approaches inspired by Marxist and sociali...
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David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Anti-AI - nice to see this new piece - How we might be Anti-AI, co-authored with Iran Mansouri just out in @gpejournal.bsky.social Trying to think different ways to imagine alternatives to a life reduced to objects of capitalist quantification bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
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Global Political Economy Journal @gpejournal.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Is #AI adoption really inevitable? Masoumeh Iran Mansouri & David J. Bailey challenge this narrative and set out five ways to be ‘anti-AI’. doi.org/10.1332/2635... #AIresistance
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How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century: overcoming the inevitability narrative
The general consensus appears to be that AI has the potential to provide solutions to most of society’s major problems, but not without introducing its own downsides, which need to be addressed in ord...
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CPERN @cpern.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Reminder: Join our Online Workshop on 27 February to discuss 'Regional pathologies of late-stage neoliberalization: The case of Japan in East Asia' With authors Saori Shibata & David Bailey Discussants: @ndeiana.bsky.social & Max Nagel Link: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi... See you there!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly meeting - Feb 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Regional pathologies of late-stage neoliberalization: The case of Japan in East Asia Saori Shibata (University of Sheffield) David Bailey (University of Birmingham) discussants: Nicolò Deiana, PhD...
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