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Marxist journal that understands anti-oppression struggles as constitutive of class struggle. Pro-Black, pro-queer, and resolutely internationalist. linktr.ee/spectrejournal

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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"In Israel the concern was that not enough was done against Iran during the war... Destroying critical infrastructure, bombing healthcare, bombing power plants, those are all proudly touted achievements that would bat no eyes inside of Israel." - Seamus Malekafzali
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Iran and Yemen - uniting the straits w/ Séamus Malekafzali | Politics Theory Other
Séamus Malekafzali returns to PTO to talk about the possibility of further escalation in the US war on Iran and about the prospects for a di
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Politics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The UAE keeps having to leave reality and then come back to reality..." - @seamus-malekafzali.com on the UAE's oscillating attitudes towards Iran:
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ICYMI: Kyle Barrett's look at the political strategy behind the Maritime Union of New Zealand's dual affiliation is still live on our website.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
spectrejournal.com/bad-energy/ Read Dan Boscov-Ellen ( @emcee-m-prime.bsky.social ) interview Joshua Frank ( @joshuafrank.bsky.social ) about his new book Bad Energy ( @haymarketbooks.org ), ecosocialism, and the overlooked costs of the transition to renewable energy.
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Bad Energy – Spectre Journal
Dan Boscov-Ellen interviews Joshua Frank about ecosocialism and the often overlooked costs of the transition to renewable energy.
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Shane Burley (Blue Sky Edition) @shaneburley.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New from me at @journalspectre.bsky.social: I write about this summer's racist riots in Belfast and where their origins actually are, in British loyalism. The only option is an Irish Republicanism that sees a place for everyone who lives on the island. spectrejournal.com/the-loyalism...
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The Loyalism of the Belfast Riots – Spectre Journal
Shane Burley tracks the Loyalist history fueling the anti-immigrant pogroms in Belfast.
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Heatwave Magazine @htwvmag.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
As the AI boom promises data center investment and increased energy demand, proponents of nuclear power see an opportunity for growth. But what does the nuclear supply chain actually look like for those most affected by it?
Title page for Nuclear Revanchism by Jean Everard. A black and white photo of a small building in a dry, dusty area. The building has a covered outdoor area, above which is a sign reading "protect the sacred"
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Two comrades look to Iran’s Women, Life, Freedom movement as an alternative to the statecentric matrix of oppression posed by imperialism and domestic repression. spectrejournal.com/feminist-str...
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Feminist Struggles for Life – Spectre Journal
Two comrades look to Iran's Women, Life, Freedom movement as an alternative to the statecentric matrix of oppression posed by imperialism and domestic repression.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek and others join more than 1,250 academics in joint letter against repression of LGBTI+ people in Turkey
A joint call from more than 1,250 academics, including Judith Butler, Noura Erakat, Slavoj Žižek, Susan Stryker, Jasbir Puar, Elizabeth Anderson, Etienne Balibar and Peter Hallward.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
spectrejournal.com/friends-ever... ICYMI: Anthony Lioi's response to Jonathan Brown's "Fighting the Empire" is still live on our website.
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Friends Everywhere – Spectre Journal
Through an analysis of Star Wars, Anthony Lioi considers corporate permeability, fan agency, droid rebellion, revolutionary ecologies, and the movement of hope from art to audience.
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Christopher Hudson @chrishudsonjr.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
“The resistance by pundits and politicians like Fuentes, Owens, Marjorie Taylor Green and others to U.S. support for Israel is transparently rooted in antisemitism first and foremost.”
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Joseph Daher writing for Syria Untold. syriauntold.com/2026/09/11/i...
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IMF, World Bank and Syria: Doing the same thing and expecting different results? | SyriaUntold | حكاية ما انحكت
International Monetary Fund (IMF) experts’ visit to Syria in mid-July 2026 and its subsequent report published a few weeks later in August has been celebrated by various Syrian authorities and officia...
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Waging Nonviolence @wagingnonviolence.org · 27/08/2026
In a case with sweeping implications for the freedom to protest, supporters are fighting hard on behalf of the 15 Minneapolis organizers singled out for resisting ICE.
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The movement to defend the Minneapolis 15
In a case with sweeping implications, supporters are fighting hard to defend the Minneapolis organizers singled out for resisting ICE.
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Kai Bosworth @kaibosworth.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
I went on the Turbulence Pod with Dylan Saba. We're talking about what we can learn from data center populism, my incessant attempts to periodize climate politics in the 2010s, and my favorite Lefebvre quote. turbulencepod.substack.com/p/episode-40...
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Episode 40: Counter-Space and the Data Center Revolt w/ Kai Bosworth
With Kai Bosworth
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Read Matt Seriff-Cullick ( Matt ) argue that the MAGA "civil war" over Israel is in fact a staged antagonism, one that turns anti-imperialist anger into fuel for fascist imperialism. spectrejournal.com/the-far-righ...
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The Far Right’s So-Called Civil War over Israel – Spectre Journal
Matt Seriff-Cullick argues that the MAGA "civil war" over Israel is in fact a staged antagonism, one that turns anti-imperialist anger into fuel for fascist imperialism.
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Sophie Lewis @reproutopia.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Eight Theses on Gloria Steinem, Because Goddamn - Notes - e-flux
Sophie Lewis reflects on the legacy of influential US feminist Gloria Steinem, who died recently.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Thanks to all our authors from August: @rafkhach.bsky.social , Michael Gorup, Jin Haritaworn, @riislover667.bsky.social , @abbieboggs.bsky.social , and Aminah Sheikh . Links to all these pieces in the thread 👇🏽
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
"The Labour Party today functions as a stabilizer of the New Zealand state.... This is the historical role of social democracy in the imperialist core: a safety valve that converts working class anger into safe electoral expression..." -Kyle Barrett for Spectre spectrejournal.com/beyond-the-l...
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Beyond the Labour Machine – Spectre Journal
A New Zealand dock workers' union just did something no major union has done in a century: voted to affiliate with a socialist party alongside Labour.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Some universities will doubtless follow the New School’s slash-and-burn lead, abetted and accompanied by unprecedented assaults on free speech and independence. Like so much else these days, the stakes are democracy itself.
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What’s Left of The New School? - Dissent Magazine
Leadership at the iconic progressive university has declared war on its own workforce, fired tenured professors, and shuttered whole departments. But what’s happening to the school is an increasingly common story across all of higher education.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our ecosocialist editor Dan Boscov-Ellen on the structural constraints fueling capitalism's destruction of our future. www.academia.edu/172470788/Ap...
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AGF 🎧 poemproducer @poemproducer.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
this looks good too
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
@davidkr.bsky.social writing for @overlandjournal.bsky.social
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
ICYMI: Jin Haritaworn's critique of the racist response to the assault on Berlin Pride is still live on our website.
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Dissent Magazine @dissentmag.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Few public health interventions have been as effective at protecting people from extreme heat as air conditioning. Yet the growing need for it is evidence of how badly the world has failed to decarbonize.
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The Right to Cooling - Dissent Magazine
Few public health interventions have been as effective at protecting people from extreme heat as air conditioning. Yet the growing need for it is evidence of how badly the world has failed to decarbonize.
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Los Angeles Review of Books @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Lori Marso explores the ideas behind Sophie Lewis’ "Femmephilia" and Eileen G’Sell’s "Lipstick": "To be femme is to embody a distinctly artificial, alluring, and potentially radical performance of 'womanhood.'" lareviewofbooks.org/article/femme-f…
the covers of Femmephilia and Lipstick
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
@edgeofsports.bsky.social writing for @thenation.com .
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
In "The Minneapolis Uprising and After," Co-Chair of @DemSocialists-Twin Cities Aminah Sheikh talks Operation Metro Surge, and tactics and strategies to build working class power in its aftermath. spectrejournal.com/the-minneapo...
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The Minneapolis Uprising and After – Spectre Journal
Aminah Sheik gives a powerful account of the roots and radicalism of Twin Cities’ victorious resistance and ongoing struggle against Trump’s ICE gestapo.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Alex Stoffel ( @stoffelalex.bsky.social ) writing for @histmat.bsky.social
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Abbie Boggs @abbieboggs.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Many thanks to the editorial team at @journalspectre.bsky.social for getting this work on universities, labor, and immigration policy into the world!
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The University’s Deportable Workers – Spectre Journal
Abigail Boggs details how US universities have become instruments of mass immigration enforcement and what it would mean to transform them into sites of abolitionist sanctuary.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
youtu.be/k26flkJfCnI?... Aminah Sheikh talking anti-ICE organizing in Minnesota with the folks at RevLeftRadio.
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The Twin Cities Fight Back: ICE, the New Red Scare, and Socialist Organizing
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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Where is the U.S. climate movement? @kaibosworth.bsky.social on the U.S. climate movement's retreat and future prospects. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/w...
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Where is the U.S. climate movement?
In the United States, there is a pervasive sense that the once-ascendent climate movement is in disarray or has even disappeared. The prior decade saw the actions and ambitions of climate activism bec...
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
In "The University’s Deportable Workers," Abigail Boggs discusses the nexus of immigration enforcement x university labor, and how academic workers like Mahmoud Khalil are "rendered deportable, disposable, or undeserving of protection." spectrejournal.com/the-universi...
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The University’s Deportable Workers – Spectre Journal
Abigail Boggs details how US universities have become instruments of mass immigration enforcement and what it would mean to transform them into sites of abolitionist sanctuary.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
New Open Acess volume edited by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr and Sean Jacobs. With contributions from Geo Maher, Spectre editor Zachary Levenson ( @grundrza.bsky.social ), and lots more. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
newpol.org/review/the-b... Peter Drucker reviewing @mollycrabapple.bsky.social 's Here Where We Live Is Our Country for New Politics.
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The Bund: A Committed History - New Politics
The rave reception for Molly Crabapple’s Here Where We Live Is Our Country is a breakthrough for Jewish radicals. After decades of Zionist hegemony within U.S. Jewish communities, including on the lef...
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
uglyducklingpresse.org/product/ant-... Our very own Camila Valle just translated Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas's Ant Days. Available for preorder from Ugly Duckling Presse ( @uglyducklingpresse.bsky.social )
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Elisabeth Lund Engebretsen 殷莉 @elengebretsen.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Recommended reading:
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"On Pride Sunday, I woke up to messages... The first was by my straight neighbor: 'Just checking in as we heard the news about Berlin.' Half asleep, I google 'Berlin.' Top results: Attack on Pride with a van, one dead, many injured." Read more: spectrejournal.com/what-are-we-...
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What Are We Mourning Now? – Spectre Journal
Jin Haritaworn challenges the racialized moral panic fueling the carceral and authoritarian responses to attack on Berlin's Pride.
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Lit Hub @literaryhub.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
“The universe—including the human corners of it—is enigmatic, queer, surprising, and endlessly fascinating. But we physicists are just people, no more, no less.” Steven W. Thrasher considers new books by Alfredo Carpineti and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein. buff.ly/V299u8q
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“We Live Inside the Sun.” Who Studies the Universe Changes How We See the Universe
On Wednesday, the small slice of humanity which is scattered across rural Russia, northern Spain, eastern Portugal, Iceland and Greenland will experience (and, if we’re lucky, actually see) a total…
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University Press of Kansas @univpressofkansas.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
In "The Counterrevolutionary Shadow," Michael Gorup explores race and power in the United States. Gorup joined @journalspectre.bsky.social for an interview. Explore "The Counterrevolutionary Shadow": kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700639748 Read more at spectrejournal.com #UPKansas
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Spectre editor Zachary Levenson ( @grundrza.bsky.social ) on a panel this Friday (8/14, 12:30–2pm EDT) talking about Areej Sabbagh-Khoury's Colonizing Palestine ( @stanfordpress.bsky.social ) with Julian Go ( @juliango.bsky.social ) and Fatma Müge Göçek. uic.zoom.us/j/8450775543...
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
ICYMI: Rafael Khachaturian 's interview with Michael Gorup on race, democracy, and US counterrevolution is still live on our website.
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Alex Stoffel @stoffelalex.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
screaming, crying, throwing up
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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Now online: 'Why Trans Liberation is Class Struggle' by Fraser Amos.
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Why trans liberation is class struggle - Historical Materialism
The policing of trans life is central to the oppression of the bodies, expression and relationships of the class as a whole
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
spectrejournal.com/the-lovers-i... Read Emma Heaney ( @riislover667.bsky.social ) review Alex Stoffel's ( @stoffelalex.bsky.social ) Eros and Empire ( @stanfordpress.bsky.social ).
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The Lovers’ International – Spectre Journal
Emma Heaney reviews Alex Stoffel's Eros and Empire.
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Jewish Currents @jewishcurrents.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In her review of GIANT, Jessica Goldschmidt writes that audiences and critics alike were determined to see complexity and nuance in the blockbuster play, which told them precisely what they wanted to hear: Scratch an anti-Zionist and an antisemite bleeds. jewishcurrents.org/giant-gave-t...
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Africa Is a Country @africasacountry.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
When thousands of young Moroccans stormed Ceuta last week, it was not an invasion, but the latest in a five-year pattern of coercive migration diplomacy on a border with five centuries of colonial history behind it. africasacountry.com/2026/08/ceut...
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A border spectacle
When thousands of young Moroccans stormed Ceuta last week, it was not an invasion, but the latest in a five-year pattern of coercive migration diplomacy on a border with five centuries of colonial his...
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
newpol.org/review-debat... Andy Sernatinger reviewing the User's Guide to the DSA for New Politics.
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Review: Debates in the DSA - New Politics
The book sets out to familiarize uninitiated DSA members with the terms of political debates that are in play nearly ten years after the organization’s resurgence in 2016.
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Cihan Tugal @cihantugal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I propose to refine the concept "passive revolution" by discussing brilliant analyses by Zophia Edwards, Kevan Harris, @grundrza.bsky.social, Simeon Newman, and Marcel Paret. Passive revolutions, as we can tell from their case studies, are distinct from ++ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Passive revolution: A contested concept and a research agenda - Cihan Tuğal, 2026
The articles in this volume show that “passive revolution” is a type of social transformation distinct from other paths. In countries ranging from Mexico and So...
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
bit.ly/4wSoiPW @cihantugal.bsky.social writing for Red Threads.
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The World Cup revealed the hypocrisy of our "politically correct" culture
World Cup discourse reproduced a colonial binary of rational Europe versus emotional non-West. Rejecting teams as political proxies, Cihan Tuğal urges dismantling the hierarchy in actual struggles.
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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
m.youtube.com/watch?v=ovgO... @histmat.bsky.social 's Alex Stoeffel talking to Adam Hanieh and Nivi Manchanda about Adam's Crude Capitalism ( @versobooks.bsky.social ).
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Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (with Adam Hanieh)
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