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Jonathan Neale

@jonathanneale.bsky.social
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Writer, socialist, climate activist. Blogs at annebonnypirate.org w/ Nancy Lindisfarne. Author of "Why Men? A Human History of Violence and Inequality" & "Fight the Fire: Green New Deals and Global Climate Jobs". Historian, anthropologist.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 05/05/2025
ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers theonion.com/ice-ope...
ICE Opens New Supermax Detention Center For Most Hardened Toddlers
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Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff
Full of people down 5th avenue, view from 39th Street.
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Erin Maye Quade @erinmayequade.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff
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Anton Gerashchenko @antongerashchenko.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Istanbul. Over 2 million people joined the demonstration.
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I have written a 121 page memoir of my mother called CAPE CARE. You can read it on our website, or more easily download it as a pdf there. I hope you like it. It's dear to my heart. annebonnypirate.org/2025/03/24/c...
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CAPE CARE
A memoir of my mother by Jonathan Neale This short book is 121 pages long. You can read it here on Anne Bonny Pirate, but it’s probably easier for you to download a PDF here. Dedication: for …
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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The Sexual Politics of Capitalism | The New Press
The Sexual Politics of Capitalism offers a groundbreaking examination of how the global elite has used gender, sexuality, and violence to perpetuate inequality and maintain control. Since the 1980s, c...
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
In November The New Press will publish The Sexual Politics of Capitalism: A Global History, 1980-2025, by Nancy Lindisfarne and me, in hardback and as e-book. (Link to the publisher in the comments.)
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Here is a new article by Nancy Lindisfarne and me. It begins: "Let’s clear up some confusions. Trump and Putin are not negotiating with each other. They are on the same side. They are two of the most important leaders of a global alliance of far-right racists." annebonnypirate.org/2025/03/03/t...
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Trump and Putin are on the Same Side
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale, a 6 minute read Let’s clear up some confusions. Trump and Putin are not negotiating with each other. They are on the same side. So Putin is not manipulating Tr…
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Gandamak, Maiwan, and now Afghaninstan defeat England in Lahore by eight runs in the last over. www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...
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England crash out of Champions Trophy after nail-biting defeat by Afghanistan
A brave innings from Joe Root failed to save England from crashing out of the Champions Trophy following a nail-biting defeat against Afghanistan
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
The article ends: "The containment of HIV is the one great global victory of social movements over the last fifty years. It is the arena where, after much grief, humanity came together to care for each other. Trump’s cruelty, his racism and his homophobia must not stand."
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
A new article by me: "Trump is Cutting HIV Drugs for 20 Million People, but he can be Stopped." annebonnypirate.org/2025/01/29/t...
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Trump is cutting HIV drugs for 20 million people. He can be stopped.
9 minute read by Jonathan Neale.  Since 2003, a US government program (PEPFAR) has provided free drugs that are presently keeping 20.5 million people with HIV alive. All these people are in poorer …
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
this is so true
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Here's a new short read by Nancy Lindisfarne and me, called "Jimmy Savile, Boris Johnson and the Slow Burial of the Commission Inquiry into Sexual Abuse." It's a timely article, since Musk has been calling for a public inquiry into gang abuse in Britain. annebonnypirate.org/2025/01/15/j...
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Jimmy Savile, Boris Johnson and the Slow Burial of the Commission of Inquiry into Sexual Abuse
An 8 minute read by Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale. We have recently published two posts about the wall of silence that has long protected sexual abuse in Britain. The first was about the Arc…
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Nancy and I have just published a short article on "Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Savile and the Wall of Silence". annebonnypirate.org/2025/01/15/m...
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Margaret Thatcher, Jimmy Saville and the Wall of Silence
A 6 minute read by Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale. This is our second post about the wall of silence that has long protected sexual abusers in Britain. Our first post was about how the Archbi…
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Over the weekend Nancy and I published a post on "The Archbishop of Canterbury, Elon Musk and Sexual Abuse in Britain." There we argued that cover-ups of child abuse are not exceptional events in Britain. annebonnypirate.org/2025/01/11/t...
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Elon Musk and Sexual Abuse in Britain
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: This is a post about the connections between two recent news stories. One is Elon Musk’s assault on X demanding a new election in Britain because, he say…
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Nancy Lindisfarne and I have written a new article on The Archbishop of Canterbury, Elon Musk and Sexual Abuse in Britain. We argue that what connects the two stories is a wall of silence about all abuse in Britain, enforced from the top down. annebonnypirate.org/2025/01/11/t...
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Elon Musk and Sexual Abuse in Britain
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: This is a post about the connections between two recent news stories. One is Elon Musk’s assault on X demanding a new election in Britain because, he say…
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Heart breaking. Clear, and I think entirely right. spectrejournal.com/the-enemy-of...
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The Enemy of My Enemy is My Enemy – Spectre Journal
Shireen Akram-Boshar interviews Rima Majed about the Israeli-Lebananese ceasefire and the future of popular resistance in Lebanon.
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Brilliant short punchy piece by Taiwo. He says join the people who do something to fight in the real world, not the people who encourage you to be your identity.
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Israel fears Assad's fall could embolden protesters in Egypt and Jordan - www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-f…
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Israel fears Assad's fall could embolden protesters in Egypt and Jordan
Palestinian activists accuse Israel of preferring dictatorships on its doorstep as security chiefs meet Egyptian officials in Cairo
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
excellent piece, carefully researched, uses the example of one valley in Nuristan to explain why the Americans lost and the Taliban won
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The easy way to understand gender theory, "Sing Along Gender Theory: Sometimes it Takes Balls to Be a Woman," an article by Nancy Lindisfarne and me. annebonnypirate.org/2015/03/30/s...
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Sing-Along Gender Theory: Sometimes it Takes Balls to be a Woman
Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale write: There are three keys to thinking critically and clearly about class and gender. The first is to avoid thinking that there are essential ‘men’…
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
I had my first date with Nancy 29 years ago. As I left she gave me the manuscript of her book ofstories about Damascus. When I got to the story about the prisoner being released from Saidnaya prison and taking a taxi home to his family, I cried and I knew she was the one. 29 years ago.
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
it's over www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/w...
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Iran Begins to Evacuate Military Officials and Personnel From Syria
The withdrawals by one of President Bashar al-Assad’s key backers come amid a resurgent rebel offensive.
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Agence France-Press, the French news agency, reports that Assad's troops have left Homs. The Syrian Human Rights Observatory confirms it. I think that's it. If true, and I think it's true, it's all over for Assad
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
useful thread
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Hama in Syria has just fallen. It is the fourth largest city in Syria. More important, it is the city where Assad's father in 1982 bombed a popular revolt, killing about 40,000. This is of enormous symbolic importance and it opens the road from Aleppo to Damascus.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is how it’s done.
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Big big congratulations.
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Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Barricades in the South Korean National Assembly set up to block the military from entering so that lawmakers could vote to end President Yoon Suk Yeol's declaration of martial law.
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
useful background on the unfolding coup in South Korea
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Brilliant, detailed, up to the minute, eloquent, by someone who knows what is happening in Syria. Hope is dawning. qunfuz.com/2024/12/01/h...
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History Made on the Ground
You know the multiverse theory, that there are many parallel universes, and that they may contain alternate versions of ourselves and our conditions in this universe…. Well, the last couple of days…
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
I watch Syria, I read all the people who reject religion in politics, and I know that the two great political leaders of my American youth were a Baptist preacher, Dr. King, and an imam, Malcolm X. And I know that the great killings of the 20th century were done by secularists.
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Revoltinghippie @revoltinghippie.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Great news to hear that 16 political prisoners, including my friends @rogerhallam.com & @larchmaxey.bsky.social have been granted the right of appeal. Just Stop Oil supporters & Defend our Juries will be there in support
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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Women and men detainees in the Tarek Bin Ziad the formerly Assad-held prison in Aleppo are being released by rebels. #Syria
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
an article from Anne Bonny Pirate by our Nancy on Conversations about Gaza on the bus. annebonnypirate.org/2024/03/18/c....
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Conversations about Gaza on the Bus
NANCY LINDISFARNE writes: There were two huge Gaza demonstrations in London in October, and after the enormous one in early November, 2023, I started wearing my Palestinian kefiya scarf or my big F…
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
an article by me on Working Class Ecosocialism annebonnypirate.org/2023/12/01/w....
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Working Class Ecosocialism
Stopping Climate Change and Building Another World Jonathan Neale This article is about stopping climate change and about fighting for a world based on love and sharing. My argument is that both th…
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
thank you
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
A long read by me on Euripides, Women and Slavery: Gender Transgression in Ancient Greece. Classicists seem to like it. annebonnypirate.org/2022/01/20/e....
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EURIPIDES, WOMEN AND SLAVERY: GENDER TRANSGRESSION IN ANCIENT GREECE
The Trojan Women at the Flea Theatre, New York, in 2016 Jonathan Neale writes: We start with a theatre, and two moments of astonishing gender transgression. One happened in a theatre on a hillside …
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
In a survey by the Israeli government, two thirds of American teens said they sympathized with the Palestinian people, four out of ten said that Israel was committing genocide in Gaza, one third said they sympathized with Hamas, and 84% said that Israel has a right to exist.
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
wise and succinct
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Colin Wilson @colinwlondon.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
A statement by trans rs21 members on Trans Day of Remembrance 2024: This Transgender Day of Remembrance, we hold the Palestinian liberation struggle in our hearts and minds alongside the thousands of trans siblings who have been killed around the world.
Every Palestinian is our sibling
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
good luck
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Big congratulations. And quite right too.
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
This is fantastic news
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I would add, from many years ago, but still brilliant, Erik Klinenberg, Heatwave, on the Chicago heatwave of 1995.
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
very important point
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
A long read by Nancy Lindisfarne and me from two years about a struggle against sexual harassment in the anthropology department at Harvard, Raya Sarkar's list of sexual predators in Indian universities, and the strike over sexual harassment at Columbia. annebonnypirate.org/2022/02/13/h...
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Harvard, Sexual Politics, Class and Resistance
A long read by Nancy Lindisfarne and Jonathan Neale As we write, the case of alleged sexual harassment by John Comaroff, a professor of anthropology at Harvard, is exploding. The Harvard case is pa…
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
where does she say this? can't find it.
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Jonathan Neale @jonathanneale.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
thank you. looks fascinating. will read
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Robin Yassin-Kassab @qunfuz.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
is this correct?
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