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Forrest Fleischman @forrestf.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I haven't had time to read the original article, but the coverage here focuses on the "hidden curriculum" as a barrier to lower class advancement in academia. What about the availability of extra resources to sustain periods of low income needed to succeed? www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/b...

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The Working Class Face a ‘Class Ceiling’ in Elite Occupations

Being female or a person of color has long been seen as a disadvantage in hiring and promotion. A new study of college professors shows that class may loom as large.

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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Really excited to be relaunching Progressive Review, @ippr.org's journal of politics, ideas and public policy, with a new editorial team + advisory board:

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Yuan Yang @yuanfenyang.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I’m honoured to be giving this year’s Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, discussing what the “end of neoliberalism” means and the opportunities Andy Burnham’s premiership brings for fresh economic ideas. (1/2)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/09/2026

worth tying this into the political economy of the slave south as well. from roughly the 1820s onwards, slavery became enormously lucrative in ways that had never been seen before. slave traders became millionaires. large planters had tremendous purchasing power. just huge amounts of wealth.

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Mike Konczal @mtkonczal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

BLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."

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Isabella M. Weber @isabellamweber.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

We are witnessing a shock redistribution from the many to the rich: The profit share is at its highest level since WWII. The first bump was sellers’ inflation which ushered in Trump. The second bump is Trump’s chaos casino designed to push up profits.

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

In the main place Marx lived, the century following the publication of the Communist Manifesto saw capitalism develop in such a way that the proletariat became a numerical majority, developed class consciousness, formed itself into a political party, took power, and socialised much of the economy.

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Federica Genovese @fgenovese.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

The fact that “climate change” is at 1% the same week wildfires, heatwaves and drought are together at 50% says all you need to know.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

“AI adoption raises homework scores by 18% and reduces completion time by 30%, but lowers monthly exam scores by 20% within six months”

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Beginning my research seminar, as always, with Lynn Hunt's essay How Writing Leads to Thinking (and Not the Other Way Around). Should be mandatory reading in light of the impact of AI. www.historians.org/perspectives...

Writing is stressful. Sitting in my computer chair my neck and shoulder muscles almost immediately tense up as I dig around in my brain for the best phrase or even any coherent string of words, whether I am writing an essay like this one, a book chapter, a letter of recommendation, or an email message to a friend. Writing is time-consuming. It’s a great way to pass the time on a long airplane flight because you lose track of the passage of time altogether. It’s even better, from that point of view exclusively, than watching an episode of Mad Men on your laptop. Writing means many different things to me but one thing it is not: writing is not the transcription of thoughts already consciously present in my mind. Writing is a magical and mysterious process that makes it possible to think differently.

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Cecilia Rikap @ceciliarikap.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Our letter demanding the Eau's Irish presidency to recuse itself from digital and fiscal (tax) files is now out at the @financialtimes.com Check it out and help us disseminate it! giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

NEW ISSUE: Renewal 34.2 Ft. @kirstymcneill.bsky.social, @daimoon.bsky.social, @demofuturist.bsky.social, @bjoernbremer.bsky.social, @sellottie.bsky.social @anaopp.bsky.social, @dmk1793.bsky.social, Sean McDaniel, John Chowcat, Carla Rocavert, and Hannah McHugh renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

political compass but it's whether you think Manchester is a success / failure and whether that's because of neoliberalism / leftism

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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Absolutely huge crowds in Belfast to reject the far-right, paramilitarism, racism and border violence. A loud message to the politicians who pandered to violent paramilitary groups this week

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Philipp Golka @pgolka.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Just saw that the first piece from our special issue is already out: Factions of asset-based capitalism: a historical typology, by @melindacooper.bsky.social See here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Will write a thread on the SI and each of the papers once they're all out!

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elia ayoub @ayoub.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

This has happened at least a dozen times on my count: whenever a 'ceasefire' is announced Israel follows it up with 'we will continue bombing and prevent civilians from returning home' I don't know how many more times this needs to happen for everyone to understand that Israel does not care

Israel to continue ground operation in southern Lebanon despite agreed ceasefire

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David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Re-sharing this essay by @neilwarner.bsky.social that we published in @renewaljournal.bsky.social in January, because it's one of the sharpest things I've read about how the left should respond to the current form of far-right politics, and its analysis has really shaped my thinking:

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Anti-oligarchy as anti-fascism

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Power to Change @powertochange.org.uk · 01/06/2026

Communities have the ideas to transform high streets but need access to the spaces. Through our Community Led High Street Innovators project, Make CIC explored High Street Rental Auctions with Wirral Council + built this interactive tool to help others unlock buildings 👇 buff.ly/lLorPxJ

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Which Legal Power Could Save My Local Building? (Quiz) — Platform Places

Explore routes like High Street Rental Auctions, Community Right to Buy, Compulsory Purchase Orders, Community Asset Transfers and Meanwhile Use, for unlocking community assets.

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

NEW ISSUE: In this special extra edition of Renewal, @louisehaighmp.bsky.social, @yuanfenyang.bsky.social, and other members of the Tribune Group of Labour MPs set out paths to repairing Britain's broken economic settlement. renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

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Ciarán Casey @ciaranmcasey.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I'm writing a book on material wellbeing since independence and quite chuffed with these two epigraphs from Cumann na nGaedheal for the opening chapter

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Without minimising the dire results for Labour, it’s extraordinary how chipper the Tories are. They’ve lost 500 seats from a low watermark, lost historic major councils to Lib Dems and Reform, show no signs of recovery in the esp LD areas they need to win. But MPs seem to think it’s going well.

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Rachel Deering @racheldeering.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

The Worker’s May-Pole, Walter Crane, 1894.

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The New Arab @thenewarab.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Israeli forces storm the funeral of Aws al-Na’san, 14, and Jihad Abu Naim, 32, in Al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah. The two were killed a day earlier when Israeli settlers, backed by an Israeli reservist, opened fire near a school in the village during an attack that also wounded others

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Benjamin Thomas @benjthomas.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

I have a new piece out in the new issue of @renewaljournal.bsky.social, identifying the history of industrial and economic democracy in Thatcherism and identifying lessons for social democrats. renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

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Michael Caley @michaelcaley.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

here's one of those insane, horrible connections of the contemporary era the primary liaison between the UAE and the genocidaires in the RSF over this time has been Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan the owner of Manchester City football club

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

NEW ISSUE ALERT: Renewal 34:1 The Employment Rights Act and the Politics of Work Guest edited by Renewal contributing editors @stevenklein.bsky.social and @fhpitts.bsky.social along with co-editor @lisebutler.bsky.social renewal.org.uk/journal/volu...

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Volume 34, Issue 1

A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

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Palma Polyak @palmapolyak.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Here. We. Go. 🇭🇺💪 It’s a beautiful day for regime change in Hungary! Over the past weeks I wrote a few pieces making sense of what’s going on, how we got here & what’s at stake. I thread them here. 1/x brettoninthewoods.substack.com/p/can-hungar...

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Can Hungary Vote Out Its Autocrat?

Musings on the politics & political economy of Orbánism ahead of the April 12 election

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Remain In Hell Without Despair @daphnelawless.com · 09/04/2026

Karl Marx just took Adam Smith to his logical conclusion. Adam Smith is in "our tradition" too, like Jesus of Nazareth is a prophet of Islam

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Sacha Hilhorst @sachahilhorst.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Something exceedingly British about being evicted by your landlord, a veterans’ charity called ‘the Poppy Factory’, which somehow has a property portfolio and is kicking out tenants in order to jack up rents before the new renters’ rights come into force

A screenshot of an FT article, which reads “Her landlord, the Poppy Factory veterans’ charity, told the FT it was evicting “a small number” of tenants to bring properties up to market rate before the new rules on rental increases came into effect.”

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Niklas Blomqvist @blmqvst.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"... economic democracy should be better seen not as a “third step” in democracy but as more like a third pillar. Without the implementation of economic democracy, the foundations of social democracy and political democracy are likely to remain unsteady and may ultimately be undermined. "

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LSE Business Review @lsebr.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Fifty years ago this year, one of the most powerful labour movements in the world adopted an audacious plan to transform the ownership structure of a capitalist economy in an electoral democracy. blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessrevi...

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What will it take to revive economic democracy 50 years after the Meidner plan? - LSE Business Review

Ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Meidner plan, Neil Warner looks at the prospects for reviving the “third pillar” of democratisation.

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LSE Sociology @lsesociology.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

What should plans for economic democracy look like today? And what is the best way to pursue projects for economic democracy in practice? Join Dr Robin Archer and @neilwarner.bsky.social on Monday to mark fifty years of the Meidner plan.

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Is a democratic economy possible? Lessons from history, horizons for the future

6.30pm Mon 30 March | Professor Isabelle Ferreras, Matthew Lawrence, Neil Warner, Dr Robin Archer | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE

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Daniela Gabor @danielagabor.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Larry Fink waxing lyrical about the magic 1950s, when American capitalism was oh so dynamic, but leaves out the bit about the heavy repression of finance within and across borders that underpinned it.

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

In person and online format. 'Is a democratic economy possible?' @neilwarner.bsky.social

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Neil Warner @neilwarner.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

Is a democratic economy possible? What could it look like and how might we achieve it? Come to LSE on March 30th to discuss these questions and more with @isabelleferreras.bsky.social, @mathewlawrence.bsky.social and me. www.lse.ac.uk/events/democ...

Description of March 30th economic democracy event at LSE

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Nick Garland @npjgarland.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There have always been obvious flaws with pointing to Denmark as a model for different parties, operating under different electoral systems, but this seems quite pertinent.

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Neil Warner @neilwarner.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The public sphere is this tweet now coming with dozens of replies from blue tick accounts offering their thanks and congratulations

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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

NSF Update through March 13, 2026 1/2

A line graph of the number of NSF awards in fiscal 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025. The fiscal year 2026 is well below the other curves and increasing only very slowly.

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Mathew Lawrence @mathewlawrence.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Wrote about the Iran crisis, electricity costs, and why clean power is the right strategy - but not enough. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice. Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

There was a far-right protest against mayor Zohran Mamdani in New York yesterday and well, that's quite the sign

A far right protestor holds up a sign reading "we are Jeffrey Epstein"

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Katie Martin @katie0martin.ft.com · 08/03/2026

I'm out of words here

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John McTernan @johnmct.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

This is a social democrat.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

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Common Wealth @cmmonwealth.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Andy Burnham’s “Manchesterism” rightly argues that the loss of public control of essential services worsens the cost of living crisis. This is the “Privatisation Premium”. Our new briefing explains this premium & how to fix it. 🧵 www.common-wealth.org/publications...

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The Privatisation Premium and the Case for Public Provision

The privatisation premium — compulsory, elevated costs to consumers for essentials — worsens the affordability crisis. Public ownership is the best way to overcome the drivers of the privatisation pre...

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