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Jeffery R Webber

@jefferyrwebber.bsky.social
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Professor of Politics, York University, Toronto Editor, Historical Materialism

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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An open letter to Iran’s political prisoners, trapped ‘between two blades of a scissors’
On one side, you face the domination of the Islamic Republic; on the other, the imperialist forces that republic claims to stand against
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Important new article from Sean K. Isaacs. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
www.democracynow.org/2026/3/26/ha...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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Bottling the World Economy | Adam Hanieh
Amid the destruction of the US–Israeli war against Iran, much of the world’s attention has fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage through which
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Highlights the important element of blockages in fertilizer shipments and attendant rising costs (eventually translated into food prices), which alongside energy cost spikes will hit unevenly and make inequality worse in all realms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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If oil price shocks weren’t bad enough, Trump’s war could have other unintended consequences | Adam Hanieh
China consumes around 90% of Iran’s oil exports, so could be forced to rely on alternative suppliers – particularly Russia, says Adam Hanieh of the Soas Middle East Institute
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Important new article by Sean K Isaacs Alienation and Abstract Labor-Time: Marx and the Romantic Critique journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
A piece by @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and me, up on @histmat.bsky.social site www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/trum...
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Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism - Historical Materialism
Let’s start from the premise that capitalist rule confronts an endemic problem of order. That problem of order is traceable ultimately to the primary social division that characterises capitalist soci...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Now online: 'Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism' by Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber (@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social).
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Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism - Historical Materialism
Let’s start from the premise that capitalist rule confronts an endemic problem of order. That problem of order is traceable ultimately to the primary social division that characterises capitalist soci...
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Pluto Press @plutopress.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
“Those two things, queer politics and Marxism, were together in my mind but not always reconciled. So, I began having to puzzle the connections together myself” @alansearslefty.bsky.social interviewed in @histmat.bsky.social about Eros and Alienation: www.historicalmaterialism.org/alienation-e...
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Alienation, Eroticism, and Utopia: An Interview with Alan Sears - Historical Materialism
At a time when the lives of trans people, migrant workers, and women, amongst others, are threatened by the far Right, it is important to engage with the demands and analyses of these groups, both on…
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
From hysteria about imminent US invasion to left defenses of nationalism that mirror most of the talking points of the Canadian mainstream press, there is widespread disorientation in this country vis-a-vis Trump. David Camfield offers a useful antidote. tempestmag.org/2026/02/how-...
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How should the Left respond to Trump’s threats against Canada?
Tempest member David Camfield argues for a socialist strategy in response to Trump’s bullying of Canada.
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
This is very good from several different angles on the Venezuela scenario. links.org.au/us-imperiali...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
This argument from @aycacu.bsky.social becoming more important and relevant by the day unfortunately www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/...
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Notes on Campist Internationalism
This was a talk delivered at a panel on The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism at the Historical Materialism Conference in London that took place on 9 November 2025. You can w...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
This event was originally scheduled for January 15 but had to be postponed due to a snowstorm closing York University on that day. We have rescheduled for this Thursday (January 22, 4pm). Please make it if you can.
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Tomorrow at York
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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since October 27, 2025. Chris Little and Jeffery R. Webber sat down with CUPE 1281 members, Nicole Leach and Manuel Marqués, to discuss the reasons behind the strike and the development of the dispute to date.
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Being on strike when your employer is a union
Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since late October 2025. CUPE 1281 members discuss the reasons.
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
Adam Hanieh with a more sophisticated take on the question of oil and Venezuela than many others that have been circulating thus far. www.versobooks.com/en-ca/blogs/...
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Venezuela’s Oil in the Grip of US Empire
The Trump administration’s kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro has refocused global attention on Venezuela and its enormous oil reserves. Yet to simply accept Trump’s bellicose language at face value – inclu...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
First public event of the Toronto Tempest Organizing Collective. On Socialism from Below at York University Thursday, January 15, 4pm.
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
First public event of the Toronto Tempest Organizing Collective. On Socialism from Below at York University Thursday, January 15, 4pm.
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
On the ongoing strike by the staff of the York University Faculty Association (YUFA) in Toronto. So, not a strike by YUFA, but by its staff. tempestmag.org/2026/01/bein...
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Being on strike when your employer is a union
Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since late October 2025. CUPE 1281 members discuss the reasons.
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
New material from @pashukanist.bsky.social and Mary Robertson. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime
Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...
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Anticapitalistas @anticapi.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Ante las amenazas imperialistas de EEUU contra Venezuela. Lee nuestro comunicado completo en www.anticapitalistas.org/comunicados/...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Important interview with Alan Sears on eros and alienation, by Sean K Isaacs and Isadora Seconi @histmat.bsky.social www.historicalmaterialism.org/alienation-e...
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Alienation, Eroticism, and Utopia: An Interview with Alan Sears - Historical Materialism
At a time when the lives of trans people, migrant workers, and women, amongst others, are threatened by the far Right, it is important to engage with the demands and analyses of these groups, both on ...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Honor to speak on a plenary at this year's @histmat.bsky.social conference in London. My intervention focused on Trump 2.0 and the fascism debate. Drawn from collaborative project with @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social on authoritarian disposition of capitalist rule. www.youtube.com/live/4KS8jYX...
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Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms
YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
A new short piece, "Latin Amerrica's destituent impasse," in Capital and Class. Open access. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves. If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.
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rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Just landed in London bookshops: Resisting Erasure. A radical critique of Israel's settler-colonial capitalism and empire. by @AdamHanieh @pashukanist.bsky.social and myself. Preorder link live too www.versobooks.com/products/341...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and I have a piece out in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Trump. spectrejournal.com/water-on-the...
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal
Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
#Trump and #fascism. spectrejournal.com/water-on-the...
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal
Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.
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Todd Gordon @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Here’s Jeff Webber’s and my intervention on the nature of the Trump regime and fascism for @journalspectre.bsky.social
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and I have a piece out in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Trump. spectrejournal.com/water-on-the...
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal
Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Important piece by @nhold.bsky.social at @journalspectre.bsky.social spectrejournal.com/hands-off/
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Hands Off! – Spectre Journal
Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Catch @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social talking with David Camfield about capitalism and the far right on Victor's Children ( @harbingermedia.bsky.social ) open.spotify.com/episode/6bhgMk…
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Todd Gordon and I talk with David Camfield on David's podcast, Victor's Children. We cover Trump, liberalism, fascism and much else besides. m.soundcloud.com/user-7372679...
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#53: Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Trump w/ Gordon & Webber -- and a few words about Mark Carney
Play #53: Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Trump w/ Gordon & Webber -- and a few words about Mark Carney by Victor's Children on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
New piece in Historical Materialism on Latin American populism. www.academia.edu/128965234/Se...
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Self-Saboteur: The Experience of Latin American Populism
This editorial perspective develops a theoretical critique of populism in Latin America, which it takes to be the predominant form that reformist politics has assumed in the region since the 1930s. It...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
I have a new piece on Latin American populism in Historical Materialism. Open access at the moment. brill.com/view/journal...
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Artist, comrade, and long-time visual contributor to the Historical Materialism project, David Mabb, has produced another great conference poster.
Historical Materialism 2025 Annual Conference poster, designed by David Mabb.
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Adam Hanieh on imperialism, global capitalism and the unstable world order. links.org.au/crude-capita...
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Crude capitalism, new centres of capital accumulation and the Middle East’s place in global imperialism: An interview with Adam Hanieh
Adam Hanieh explores the need to foreground value transfers in understanding imperialism, Israel’s role in global fossil capitalism and the rising influence of the Gulf states.
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
I have a new piece, “Democracy, Left-Populism and Participatory Budgets in Latin America," on Gabriel Hetland's book on Venezuela, in Critical Sociology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
An important intervention by Stefan Kipfer for a robustly internationalist politics on the Canadian left. Another antidote to the rising tide of dead-end 'left nationalism' in this country socialistproject.ca/2025/03/ansc...
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<i>Anschluss, Schulterschluss</i> or Concrete Internationalism?
In these turbulent and rapidly shifting times, we often search for quick answers. “How to respond to Trump 2.0?” is a question that calls for an immediate response here in Canada. This question harbor...
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
I offer a critical appraisal of twenty first century populism in Latin America, with special attention to Bolivia, in the latest Socialist Register. fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/opening... You can access my piece here www.academia.edu/127278968/TH...
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Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads: The Socialist Register 2025
Socialists are at a crossroads, pressed by the urgent need to find new directions amid mounting crises. Is the “new socialist” left starting over or moving on?
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Todd Gordon with an antidote to the flag waving of the last few weeks www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-work...
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We Need Workers’ Solidarity, Not “National Unity,” in Response to Trump’s Tariffs
Todd Gordon on why Canadian nationalism is a dead end, and on the need for a strategy centred around mass struggle and workers’ solidarity across borders.
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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Alan Sears and I talk about Alan's new book Eros and Alienation yorku.zoom.us/rec/play/hiV...
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