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Ill Will @illwill.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The 2025 protests in Turkey offer us a glimpse of the shape that the coming movements against autocracy might take, and the limits that similar unrest will need to overcome, including protests against Trump closer to home. illwill.com/crossing-the...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11/07/2025

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action. Online early from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

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robin celikates @robin-c.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman now available online, w/renewed thanks to everyone who made this possible: vimeo.com/1058614428

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Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman @bUm - Raum für soldarisches Miteinander

Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese United Nations…

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Aron Lund @aronlund.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Haaretz’s Yaniv Kubovich reports that Israel plans to seize 75% of Gaza and relocate more than 1,3 million Palestinians in the upcoming offensive, ultimately forcing the entire population into three military zones with food supplies strictly controlled by GHF/Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 23/05/2025

Last September, the activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah completed a five-year prison sentence. But the Egyptian authorities announced that his pretrial detention didn’t count, and that he would be held until 2027. In response, his mother began a hunger strike.

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A Mother’s Hunger Strike Challenges Two Nations

Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in personal protest.

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Peter Albrechtsen @lydrummet.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Brian Eno ❤️🇵🇸

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 22/05/2025

‘At 27, my peer group is dividing like a cell in meiosis. We’re all at different stages of the life cycle, our circumstances non-identical. Some people are moving back in with their parents. Others are buying their first homes.’ Rose Dodd on London’s rental crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

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Rose Dodd | Sofa Hopping

‘Home,’ Mark Fisher wrote in Ghosts of My Life, ‘is where the haunt is.’ And ‘the house always wins.’ My...

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English PEN @englishpen.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Join us for a vigil today at 6pm in support of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his mother Laila Soueif, both currently on hunger strike. Writers & activists will read from Alaa’s work as we call on the UK government to take urgent action to secure his release. #FreeAlaa www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

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Jennifer Hattam @jenhattam.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Refugee rights defender Taha Elgazi and his wife have reportedly been deported from Turkey to Syria after he was taken from his home by plainclothes security officers under the pretext of "address confirmation". @ihdgenelmerkez.bsky.social called the decision illegal & demanded it be reversed.

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Alberto Toscano @alfatau.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

"The question of how labour internationalism could work to challenge an imperialism that carries fascism in its genetic code remains on the agenda." communispress.com/on-fronts-an...

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On Fronts and Fissures

On the centrality of ‘worker-to-worker solidarity’ in an international Palestine solidarity movement. - ALBERTO TOSCANO

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The Sociological Review Foundation @thesociologicalreview.org · 15/05/2025

OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue A Special Section in issue 73.2 of The Sociological Review journal, featuring powerful contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social, @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun and Rafeef Ziadah. buff.ly/RwjIdlS #palestine #gaza

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Clive Gabay @clivesg.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

On Nakba Day let's recall British complicity in covering up the horrors of 1948 and the years preceding it. Below, a Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein reveals the destruction of key documents related to Palestine by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.

A Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein detailing the sensitive Palestine documents destroyed by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.

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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

On Monday in Turin I will discuss the launch of an important documentary. It tells the story of the CALP - a collective of dock workers in Genoa - who, for many years, have been refusing to load ships carrying weapons. True anti-militarist praxis. Check for 'Portuali' online in the future.

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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

New online, from our spring issue: @daralind.bsky.social and @omarjadwat.bsky.social in conversation about immigration policy in the second Trump administration. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/trum...

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The Deportation Machine - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration.

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Ben Ehrenreich @benehrenreich.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

“Like the devil, vampires, and the more timid varieties of ghost, fascism must be invited in.” My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

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You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza

Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.

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Protean Magazine @proteanmag.com · 27/02/2025

In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s drive to acquire territory as property—starkly exemplified by Trump's egregious “Gaza development plan.” proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

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Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine

In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...

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Helen Mackreath @helenmackreath.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Portrait of Heiny Srour, director of The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974) and Leila and the Wolves (1984) “Wrestling with violence under colonial subjugation ... she is interested in what happens when a people suffer together, even as they are pulled apart” www.bidoun.org/articles/hei...

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Phenomenal World @phenomenalworld.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

"Attempts to legally 'harmonize' the competing goals of protecting and punishing undocumented workers since the mid-1980s have gradually warped the employment relationship." @michael-macher.bsky.social

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Wages of Citizenship | Michael Macher

US immigration enforcement and the cannibalization of labor law

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Stuart Hall Foundation @stuarthallfdn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Registration for our Reading the Crisis online conversation series is now open. The series advances Stuart Hall's thinking by asking: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture? Registration is free - sign up now via our website: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/

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Helen Mackreath @helenmackreath.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

University students are again at the forefront of resisting the police, who banned access to Taksim square for 1 May in Istanbul - "Squares cannot be closed to the people, the youth, and the workers for the sake of a government!" (screengrabs from Zeynep Kuray)

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Helen Mackreath @helenmackreath.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Pertinent to share on 1 May the latest beautiful paper from Mai Taha on The Home, the Barricade and Women’s Work in the 1936 Palestinian Revolution journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

NO GOD, NO BOSS, NO HUSBAND. Athens, 2020.

Graffiti in purple spray paint that reads NO GOD, NO BOSS, NO HUSBAND. The word BOSS is partially obscured by the remains of a yellow flier.

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Nisrin Elamin @nisrinelamin.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts. chuffed.org/project/work...

Image of a beautiful Black woman with black glasses and long grey locs head titled towards the camera and smiling, wearing cowry shell earrings. In yellow against black background the poster reads Workshops4Sudan The Soviets and Abolition, Monday, May 5th, 12-2 pm EDT. Virtual (via Zoom) Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a Writer, Abolitionist and Scholar from New Haven, Connecticut. Workshops4Sudan.

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MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Located at the critical confluence of culture, arts, architecture, and urbanism, our new journal @criticalproductive.bsky.social is dedicated to interrogating the ways in which politics is entangled with spatial and aesthetic production: direct.mit.edu/cpro/issue/n...

Issue one of CriticalProductive. The cover is a black-and-white photograph of protesters marching on a street. The issue's subject, "Sovereignty/Populism" is noted under the title.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Being accused of not having “a valid immigration visa” has quite literally become a death sentence.

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Helen Mackreath @helenmackreath.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

“It is insufficient to speak of a crisis of social reproduction ..The crisis is followed by a war against social reproduction, which lays the foundations for its fascistisation” @veronicagago.bsky.social in the latest issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...

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Veronica Gago · The fascistisation of social reproduction (2025)

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Duke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

"Sound Carries: Coloniality, Race, and the Spatial Politics of Representation," a special issue of Social Text edited by Tariq Jazeel and Tom Western, is now available. View the full TOC: buff.ly/H08Sm55 Buy this issue: buff.ly/JbS0MnO

Cover of Social Text issue 162. The top half features the journal title “Social Text” in yellow and white against a black background. Below are two side-by-side, colorized, low-resolution video stills of a person with eyes closed, resting their face on clasped hands, suggesting deep thought or emotion. The left image is pink-toned; the right image has yellow and green hues. The bottom section has a black background with pink and white text: “Sound Carries: Coloniality, Race, and the Spatial Politics of Representation.” Edited by Tariq Jazeel and Tom Western.

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Helen Mackreath @helenmackreath.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

Many people set up tents in Gezi Park in Istanbul yesterday, as an earthquake gathering spot – which the police forcibly removed. Today they’re setting them up in Maçka Park instead

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Boston Review @bostonreview.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Fascism “doesn’t start with the first bombs that are dropped; it doesn’t start with the terror you can write about in every newspaper,” Ingeborg Bachmann wrote. “It starts in relationships between people.”

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Ingeborg Bachmann's "Dream of Language" - Boston Review

On the first English translation of the Austrian poet’s critical writings, composed in the shadow of fascism.

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

A year ago, the Columbia Palestine encampment sparked a movement that spread across the globe. As the Trump admin wages a fresh war against students, Francesco Anselmetti argues that campus remains a crucial site in the struggle for Palestinian liberation.

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Spring Again

There’s hardly been a moment to breathe — let alone sit, take stock, commemorate. If April 17th marked one year since the largest anti-war protests in a generation, the picture now looks almost imposs...

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