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@eliaskoenig.bsky.social
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enschede/berlin | philosophy, climate justice, socialism, numtot, political journalism | 📘 Klimagerechtigkeit (@unrastverlag)

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WIRED @wired.com · 27/09/2026
Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere. www.wired.com/story/data-c...
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The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet
Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.
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Clara Classenkampf @czhuyi.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Die soziale Wende soll gestoppt werden, aber die derzeitige Antisimitismus-Kampagne lässt sich nicht nur damit erklären. Der fanatische Anti-Antisemitismus der "Mitte" spielt auch eine zentrale Rolle. (dieser dient dazu die Staatsräson zu rechtfertigen) www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1202...
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Antisemitismus-Kampagne gegen Linke soll soziale Wende stoppen
Wer eine von den Sozialisten geführte Koalition unter Verweis auf vermeintlichen Judenhass absagt, stellt sich in den Dienst der Großaktionäre.
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I’m so angry I wrote an article: In Germany, fascist majorities are a real possibility again, but the centrist merger of a revived Red Scare with open racism shows that mainstream media & politics are unable or unwilling to comprehend the seriousness of the crisis tribunemag.co.uk/2026/09/germ...
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Warning from Germany: It’s Socialism or Barbarism
Fascism is at the door, and liberals are ushering it in. Only the left offers hope.
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Rosa Luxemburg Foundation @rosaluxglobal.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With 25.7%, Die Linke just won its best-ever result in Berlin on a platform of rent caps and housing expropriation, even as the AfD hit record highs in Saxony-Anhalt and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. What lessons can the left learn from last Sunday's elections? www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
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Die Linke Takes Berlin as the AfD Sweeps East Germany - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
The party’s historic win in Berlin state election offers lessons in confronting the far-right
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Elias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our piece (together with Immanuel Nikelski) on the latest round of regional elections in Germany www.rosalux.de/en/news/id/5...
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Die Linke Takes Berlin as the AfD Sweeps East Germany - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung
The party’s historic win in Berlin state elections offers lessons in confronting the far-right
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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Schon lustig, dass derzeit tatsächlich ernstzunehmende Ermittlungen wegen Korruption gegen den Spitzenkandidaten der SPD Berlin laufen, aber niemand es wagt, das zu skandalisieren, weil alle anderen Parteien ihn für eine Regierungsbildung brauchen. Aber lass uns weiter über Wahlpartys sprechen...
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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Excellent stuff
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Lukas Hermsmeier @lukashermsmeier.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Während die meisten Politiker*innen nach ihrer Wahl an Beliebtheit verlieren, zeigen Umfragen bei Mamdani das Gegenteil: Seine Popularität wächst. Eine kurze Einordnung zu Mamdanis ersten acht Monaten im Amt für @analysekritik.bsky.social:
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Mamdanis New York
Viele haben sich auf ein baldiges Scheitern des linken Bürgermeisters eingestellt – bislang sieht es nicht danach aus
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨New Paper🚨 From Socialization to Social Research: Felix Weil, Karl Korsch, and the Political Origins of the Frankfurt School Jacob Blumenfeld In: Contemporary Critical Theory and Latin America: A South–North Dialogue on the Crises of the Present (2026) PDF: philpapers.org/rec/BLUFST
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Overshoot:
How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown
by Wim Carton and Andreas Malm
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Elias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Great read
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
“Human beings make their own history, but they do not make it as they please,”Marx wrote. But do human beings still make their own history, and if so, under what circumstances? That is the question of this episode. Take a listen! @ktbberlin.bsky.social criticaltheoryinberlin.de/podcast/podc...
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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 22/08/2026
Rechenzentren verbrauchen viel Strom und Wasser. Wie viel genau, soll jetzt erstmals im Nationalen Rechenzentrumsregister nachvollziehbar sein. Julian Bothe von @algorithmwatch.org warnt: Die Daten sind unvollständig und Transparenz soll wieder eingeschränkt werden. netzpolitik.org/2026/intrans...
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„Ein Armutszeugnis für die Bundesregierung“
Rechenzentren verbrauchen viel Strom und Wasser. Wie viel genau, soll im Einzelnen jetzt erstmals im Nationalen Rechenzentrumsregister nachvollziehbar sein. Doch Julian Bothe von AlgorithmWatch warnt:...
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Adom Getachew visited the Verso offices to talk about our Southern Questions series, which features first-hand accounts – memoirs, novels, pamphlets – written by participants in the drama of decolonization and its aftermath. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/s...
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Watch: Adom Getachew presents Verso's Southern Questions series
The Southern Questions series features first-hand accounts – memoirs, novels, pamphlets – written by participants in the drama of decolonization and its aftermath. This week we welcome Ruth First's Th...
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Elias @eliaskoenig.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Last winter I was able to visit some of the peace villages in southern Thailand, where former guerrilla fighters from the Communist Party of Malaya found a home following the 1989 peace agreement. I wrote about 2 recently published books that deal w this history: chajournal.com/2026/08/18/a...
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal @asiancha.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
𝐍𝐄𝐖 @asiancha.bsky.social 𝐄𝐒𝐒𝐀𝐘 | Elias König discusses Hai Fan’s 𝐷𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝐻𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 (trans. Jeremy Tiang) & Tiang’s own 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐸𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑦. Examining revolution, memory, political silence, & colonial violence, König shows how both works challenge official narratives. chajournal.com/2026/08/18/a...
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Timothy Mitchell, acclaimed author of Carbon Democracy, visited our offices to talk about his latest book, The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzKi...
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Timothy Mitchell presents The Alibi of Capital
YouTube video by Verso Books
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Hanno Hauenstein @hahauenstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
crazy what is happening in German journalism. Georg Restle shared a Nation article suggesting Israeli & US pressure on Spain may have played a role in Ceuta. Right-wing journalists & mainstream outlets turned it into a 'scandal'. A broadcasting council member filed a formal complaint –against Restle
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 31/07/2026
‘Narendra Modi has had his hand forced by a group of meme-making students and members of the Indian working class. It began with an insult.’ Skye Arundhati Thomas on protest in India, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
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Skye Arundhati Thomas | Modi and the Cockroaches
Narendra Modi has had his hand forced by a group of meme-making students and members of the Indian working class. It...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Ukrainians, Houthis and Iranians have been the armed wing of the Green new deal as I like to quip @jwdwerner.bsky.social Polycrisis: Era of Energy security @katemac.bsky.social Dawn of the Electric world order, essay phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw... Podcast open.spotify.com/show/78cVf8D...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The silence on Washington's looting of Venezuela from other Western capitals is really deafening. Imagine what that stolen $13 billion could do for Venezuelans after the earthquake destroyed their country.
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Solidarity with Indian youth & students protesting despite brutal repression! Here’s a statement from the Democratic Teachers’ Initiative in support of the protest against the government’s ‘diversionary weaponizing of religion & nationalism & its criminal disregard for the futures of the youth’
"We will take, we will occupy. We have to learn not to tip toe through a space which ought by right to belong to everyone"
picture of street protests in DelhiStatement
The march to Parliament on 20th July saw a historic turnout, with lakhs of young people coming out on the streets and sending a clear message to the NDA government. People travelled from across the country to reject the BJP-RSS combine's diversionary weaponizing of religion and nationalism, and its criminal disregard for the futures of the young. Not surprisingly, the Delhi Police and riot personnel - under orders from the Home Ministry - responded with brutal violence, teargassing and lath-charging the peacefully protesting masses. Many students and innocent citizens have been grievously injured, left bleeding and waiting for hours before they could be taken to hospitals for treatment.
The current upsurge, as we all understand, is not just about NTA's repeated paper leaks or the colossal mismanagement of India's education sector under Dharmendra Pradhan. Instead, it is an expression of the utter frustration and angst of India's Gen Z - about an economy which neither guarantees jobs proportionate to their qualifications nor the basic dignity of rights-bearing citizens.
Our Gen Z is either parked in courses under the NEP 2020 which do not add up to skills required for dignified employment, or they are fighting for minimum wages in the industrial sector from Noida to Panipat. As a permanently swelling informal workforce, labouring under extractive contracts on delivery-on-demand mobile apps or continuing to be stripped of the most basic worker rights under the newly notified Labour Codes, Indian Gen Z has had enough. And over the past month, they have come out of their homes and factories and colleges and universities to say exactly this.
Given the convergence of struggles over education and employment, DTI holds that the current movement's primary demand for the resignation of India's Education Minister is only the first step towards a complete structural overhaul. In this regard, the disbanding of National Testing Agency (NTA) and repeal of the National Ed…
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daniel loick @danielloick.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Powerful as always: Arundhati Roy on Cockroach Democracy
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
In Germany, the theater of a high-security trial is being used to paint Palestine solidarity activists as terrorists and criminals. The Ulm Five case shows how the German state and media are demonizing opponents of Israel’s crimes.
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No Regrets for Being on the Right Side of History
Daniel Tatlow-Devally is one of five activists on trial in Germany over a direct action targeting Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems. In an interview from jail, he explains why he doesn’t regret it, and how the case has highlighted complicity with Israel.
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Daniel Denvir @danieldenvir.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
We just completed Nusantara, @thedigradio.bsky.social's 8-part series on the history of Indonesia. The fourth largest country is barely understood in the West and yet has decisively shaped the world: from Dutch colonialism to third world revolution to US-backed mass anti-communist genocide. 1/
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Mihir Sharma @mihiress.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Necropolitics: Social Death and Remaking the Social - Four Authors in Conversation 29. July 2026, 12-14, Rotunde Cartesium and Online (for Zoom: please send an e-mail to mihir@uni-bremen.de). www.uni-bremen.de/en/kultur/pr...
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The Zetkin Collective @zetkincollective.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...
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Critical Theory in Berlin @ktbberlin.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Tomorrow! 7-9 PM Aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6, 10999 Berlin More about this event: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/workin...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Must read NLR interview of @triofrancos.bsky.social Why did Biden's green capitalism not stick? What kind of world building projects should the left seek power to do? Or should it just fight against data centres? What opportunities open up -in North & South- with China's green industrial policies?
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Thea Riofrancos, The New World Climate Order, NLR 159, May–June 2026
An interview about the new parameters of climate politics, with the breakdown of global consensus. As the EU re-opens coal-fired plants and the US shuts down wind farms, China gouges the earth to chur...
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Matt Huber @matthuber.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
It’s not the fossil petro state vs the green electro-state, but a rivalry between two fossil states (the US predominantly oil-gas, China predominantly coal).
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
These cowards are so scared of Blackrock investors leaving Berlin that they will BAN any possible federal implementation of a constitutional article for socialization of housing, even when passed by popular referendum. Welcome to the capitalist state. www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wir-...
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„Wir wollen bauen, nicht enteignen“: Bund untersagt Ländern Verstaatlichungen von Wohnraum
Union und SPD haben sich in der Nacht auf ein Reformpaket verständigt. Die Passage zur Wohnungsbaupolitik enthält einen für Berlin wichtigen Passus.
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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Next week! WORKING NATURE: A HISTORY OF THE ENERGY ECONOMY by Daniela Russ July 9, 2026, 19:00 Aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6, Berlin criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/wor...
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Yossi Bartal @yossibartal.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Bin beeindruckt, wie viele Lügen und Beschimpfungen Jonathan Guggenberger in einen einzelnen NZZ-Beitrag reinpacken kann. Vielleicht ist das aber die beste Werbung für die ausgezeichnete Untersuchung von @goldi.bsky.social über das Fehlen journalistischer Standards in der Nahost-Berichterstattung!
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30 Falschbehauptungen in einem Text: Wie die NZZ versuchte mich und mein Buch Staatsräsonfunk zu diskreditieren - Schantall und Scharia
Mit einem Text voller Verleumdungen, erfundenen Zitaten, Falschbehauptungen und sogar Lügen über mein Privatleben versucht die NZZ mich und mein Buch Staatsräsonfunk zu diskreditieren. Damit zeigt sie...
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Adrienne Buller @adriennebuller.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Welcome back to the heatwave. heatwave 2.0. 2Heat2Wave. Didn't realise this episode would have a second life so soon, stay safe out there.
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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
This is an important new paper. When we allocate responsibility for emissions, it's normally in terms of consumption. We tally up direct household emissions (eg, from household energy use) plus the emissions embodied in all the stuff that a household consumes.
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Geoff Aung @rgnhardliner.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Comrades: I have a new piece up for Historical Materialism in which I argue quite directly, thinking with Malm, that the destruction of Palestine is the destruction of Myanmar. Please read, share, etc. www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/the-...
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The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of Myanmar - Historical Materialism
The question of Palestine in Myanmar is overdetermined by religious affiliation and communal ties. But it doesn’t have to be. There is another way of plotting the links, connections, parallels, and, i...
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Özden Terli @terliwetter.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Ok, El Niño ist da. www.br.de/nachrichten/...
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El Niño ist da – und wird laut Experten wohl schlimmer denn je
Seit Monaten wird vor Super-El-Niño gewarnt – nun ist das Wetterphänomen laut US-Behörde für Ozeanographie da. Experten zufolge dürfte es in diesem Jahr besonders stark ausfallen. Welche Regionen es h...
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Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Trump has embraced "state capitalism." Critical minerals are the laboratory. @iliasalami.bsky.social and I analyze its contours & contradictions--and implications for Global South sovereignty & development, and progressive politics @phenomenalworld.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
statement der organisator:innen www.instagram.com/reel/DZaP1PG...
Die AfD versucht, unseren Jugendkongress an der TU Berlin zu verhindern.
Dieses Wochenende kommen beim Take Back The Future Kongress über 1.500 junge Menschen aus dem ganzen Bundesgebiet zusammen, um über Antifaschismus, soziale Gerechtigkeit, Krieg und Frieden, Klima und linke Organisierung zu diskutieren.
Wenige Tage vor Beginn setzt die AfD die TU Berlin unter Druck und versucht, Einfluss darauf zu nehmen, welche politischen Debatten an Hochschulen stattfinden dürfen.
Wenn rechte Kräfte heute bestimmen können, welche Veranstaltungen an Universitäten stattfinden dürfen, dann betrifft das morgen weit mehr als unseren Kongress.
Prof. Rahel Jaeggi und Prof. Robin Celikates
solidarisieren sich mit uns gegen diesen Angriff von Rechts.
JETZT ERST RECHT NACH BERLIN. Holt euch euer
Ticket über den Link in der Bio von @takebackthefuture.kongress
Lasst uns gemeinsam zeigen, dass wir uns unsere Universitäten, unsere Debatten und unsere Zukunft nicht nehmen lassen.
#TakeBackTheFuture #Jugendkongress
#Wissenschaftsfreiheit #sds Antifaschismus Berlin SDS
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Benjamin Braun @benbraun.social · 10/06/2026
It’s been brought to my attention that the Economist cover story is blaming Gen-Z socialism on “an influential group of socialist academics” led by @isabellamweber.bsky.social. Turns out Gen-Z got radicalized by … our analysis of corporate earnings calls. Huge if true!
Quote from the article: “An influential group of socialist academics provides the intellectual ballast for these views. The work of Isabella Weber of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, suggests that businesses' pricing power means that the modern economy serves executives and shareholders better than it does ordinary people. In a paper last year Ms Weber and her colleagues analysed companies' earnings calls, finding that many firms took advantage of inflation to
"protect or even increase profits".”
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Kohei Saito @koheisaito.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Gerade erschienen!!
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The Economist @economist.com · 04/06/2026
The next generation of illiberal leftism is gaining ground. It is time to fight back econ.st/3RPYFPV
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Eli Friedman @elifriedman.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
The demise of hukou has been repeatedly predicted since the 1990s. Is this time different?
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Eli Friedman, For Those Who Meet the Conditions - positions politics
Is China abolishing the hukou? Since the PRC’s State Council announced a new guideline on public services on May 18, 2026 this question has led to an outpouring of commentary. For decades, analysts fr...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
SLOW CLAP "AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China" Congratulations to US AI Tech Oligarchs www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...
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Surplus | Das Wirtschaftsmagazin @surplusmagazin.de · 03/06/2026
Die Rechten gewinnen nicht trotz ihrer Grausamkeit – sondern ihretwegen. Was das bedeutet und wie die Linke darauf antworten muss, erklärt Richard Seymour im Interview.
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»Brot und Butter« allein schlägt noch keinen Faschismus
Die Rechten gewinnen nicht trotz ihrer Grausamkeit – sondern ihretwegen. Was das bedeutet und wie die Linke darauf antworten muss, erklärt Richard Seymour im Interview.
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Oliver Nachtwey @onachtwey.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
This article appeared in the Financial Times, not in @Jacobin, although it could have appeared there as well. (Which is a paradoxical proof of the FT’s analytical realism)
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Why young America is trending socialist
Democrats need to show they can deliver for a disaffected Gen Z
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Go, go, go, go. Final hours remaining!
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Michael Pettis @michaelpettis.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Good China Books Review article on the growing genre of migrant workers' literature. About one-third of China's working population, and nearly two-thirds of migrant workers, work in the gig economy. chinabooksreview.com/2026/05/21/w...
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China’s Workers’ Literature Revival | China Books Review
Once a socialist genre beloved of Mao, laborers’ or “battler” literature has seen a revival in the era of the gig economy. Two new books in translation illustrate the mass appeal.
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der Freitag @freitag.de · 22/05/2026
Agnieszka Jastrzebska ist Küchenhilfe bei einem Subunternehmen der Charité. Bekannt wurde sie zuletzt wegen eines Auftritts auf der @re-publica.com mit @mareicares.bsky.social und Hanno Sauer. Ein Bericht über ihre Erfahrung als Mitarbeiterin zweiter Klasse und ihr Streikjahr 2025 (F+)
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Charité-Mitarbeiterin Agnieszka Jastrzębska: Warum es sich zu streiken lohnt
Agnieszka Jastrzebska ist Küchenhilfe bei der CFM Charité. Nach ihrem Auftritt bei der Republica ist sie einem größeren Publikum bekannt. Hier berichtet sie über ihre Erfahrungen und ihr Engagement…
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Sabrina Fernandes @sabrinafernandes.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I had the pleasure of guest featuring on the @macrodosepod.bsky.social newsletter this week, discussing the need to look at the polycrisis from the margins and to reframe our claims to sovereignty to deal with the major crises of our time. You can check it out here:
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How to fight Godzilla
This year’s El Niño is worsening the global affordability crisis. An immediate break with the radical centre is the only rational response
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