Reposted by Rob KnoxBudget Motel Abyss @budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The call for papers deadline has been extended until the of October. So you now have several weeks to plan a good panel with your colleagues and submit 033
Reposted by Rob KnoxDanish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Thank you 💕 With the final panels now underway it’s time to say a big thank you from the organisers for helping us turn the 11th conference into two unforgettable days of great papers, productive discussions, and wonderful conversations 🫶 See you again next year! 1286
Reposted by Rob KnoxBruno Leipold @brunoleipold.com · 03/10/2026Had loads of fun (as every year) at @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social 0174
Reposted by Rob KnoxHistorical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The plenaries for this year's Historical Materialism annual conference in London are now announced – see the below poster designed by the wonderful @davidmabb.bsky.social. The programme for the conference will be circulated shortly, we are just making the final tweaks and adjustments. 0224
Reposted by Rob KnoxDanish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Day 2 and the second keynote is underway: The brilliant @pashukanist.bsky.social on “Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law” 1268
Reposted by Rob KnoxHK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Farage’s legacy is that he made “being a cunt” not just a legitimate political position, but the default one. Every party is now judged on seriousness based on how cruel and violent they’re willing to be. 433273
Reposted by Rob KnoxOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/08/2026Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/ 5763112015
Reposted by Rob KnoxPolitics Theory Other @poltheoryother.bsky.social · 15/08/2026ICYMI - Hamza Hamouchene on situating Palestinian resistance within the broader history of decolonisation, and the relationship between the Algerian, Vietnamese, and Palestinian liberation movements:patreon.comPassing on the torch - Vietnam, Algeria, Palestine w/ Hamza Hamouchene | Politics Theory OtherAlthough it's increasingly common to describe the Palestinian struggle for liberation in terms of a conflict with settler colonialism, it's 076
Reposted by Rob Knoxflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I would say a profession that proudly announces *Rod Liddle* is among the best of them, and then digs its heels in on their inalienable right to hound minor public figures to death just for fun - really, because they want to do it and they like it - is not bothering to hide what it is. 413030
Reposted by Rob Knoxflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 15/08/2026I have to say: “it is the sacred duty of the British press to expose liars and bullshitters defrauding the public” is one of the best and most insulting gambits yet. 421644
Reposted by Rob KnoxPolly Pallister-Wilkins @pollypw.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Using the Emergency Alert system for general public service announcements and scaring the bejesus out of people will just cause people to turn off the emergency alert feature. Very, very shortsighted and stupid from a UK government desperate to be seen to be doing something while doing nothing. 7447
Reposted by Rob KnoxDavid Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 11/08/2026This is an absolutely wild time to engage in even a tiny bit of ‘the right had a point.’ 2375
Reposted by Rob KnoxDavid Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 11/08/2026It’s disastrous to argue on your opponents’ terms. 1236
Reposted by Rob KnoxDanish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · 06/08/2026BIG NEWS 💥 We are excited and proud to announce the first keynote for our upcoming 11th conference: ROBERT KNOX (@pashukanist.bsky.social). Rob will be delivering a keynote talk titled 'Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law'. 35315
Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 04/08/2026A toast to British ingenuity. Who else can build houses that retain no heat in winter, and retain ALL THE HEAT in summer? 140
Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026I'm just so glad that FINALLY someone is brave enough to say that we have to stop the small boat crossings. 020
Reposted by Rob KnoxNicola Palmer @nicolapalmer.bsky.social · 29/07/2026The UK/Rwanda asylum agreement & the judicial review that found it unlawful relied on a deep racialisation of Rwanda, while leaving open the potential for regressive safe third country agreements. My paper is out with the LRIL @bordercrim.bsky.social @pashukanist.bsky.social @uctlaw.bsky.socialdoi.orgDistributing mobility: regressive asylum agreements and racialised differenceAbstract. In AAA (Syria) and others, the United Kingdom Supreme Court found the migration agreement, under which the UK could forcibly transfer asylum-seek 075
Reposted by Rob KnoxWill Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 28/07/2026an issue that, only 2 or 3 years ago, was 'Environment' is now 'News' 1103
Reposted by Rob KnoxNatalie Sedacca @nataliesedacca.bsky.social · 28/07/2026‘Lawyers for families stranded in life-threatening conditions in Gaza say Home Office appears to be taking a harsher line with Palestinian families than with refugees from other countries hoping to reunite with loved ones’ inc labelling children a security risk www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comHome Office blocking evacuation of dozens of women and children from GazaRefugee family reunions in limbo, despite Foreign Office saying it is ready to get people out of war-torn territory 02227
Reposted by Rob KnoxAdrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Currently listening to @annleckie.com 's Radiant Star, latest of the Radch series, superbly read by Adjoa Andoh. I love this series so much. It's one of the absolute best for "a setting deep enough to tell lots of stories in". Whilst the first sequence (Ancillary Justice et al) told a fairly... 101657
Reposted by Rob KnoxHistorical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Now live!: Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market with Adam Hanieh.youtube.comCrude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (with Adam Hanieh)YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory 042
Reposted by Rob KnoxThe Syllabus @the-syllabus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026This essay reads US history through a Marxist lens: 1776 establishes bourgeois rule, while the Constitution blocks a fuller democratic revolution and leaves capital's authoritarian power intact. On this view, Trump is less an aberration. By August H. Nimtz in @histmat.bsky.social buff.ly/LknJVyLhistoricalmaterialism.orgThe Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed - Historical MaterialismThe commercialisation of the bicentennial a half-century ago pales in comparison to what’s already underway for the Trump administration’s semiquincentennial celebration. Self-interest on steroids,… 184
Reposted by Rob KnoxAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year 268240003247
Reposted by Rob KnoxPwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 22/06/2026turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart 2272581249
Reposted by Rob KnoxHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 19/06/2026claim i disagree with: dogmatic claim i agree with: nuanced 3517
Reposted by Rob KnoxUK Constitutional Law Association @ukcla.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Andrew Woodhouse: Power Failure – Electricity Nationalisation and The Erosion of the Public Corporation’s “Three Freedoms” (1947-1967) ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/18/a...ukconstitutionallaw.orgAndrew Woodhouse: Power Failure – Electricity Nationalisation and The Erosion of the Public Corporation’s “Three Freedoms” (1947-1967)This post is part of a series on ‘Economic Aspects of the Constitution’. The other posts in the series will be available here. In 1966, as England won their last men’s football World Cup, the … 066
Reposted by Rob KnoxAndy Woodhouse @andywoodhouse.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Andy Burnham has argued for public control of water and energy, but what kind of public ownership can meet the challenges of environment and climate breakdown? In a blog for the @ukcla.bsky.social, I explore a case study of Labour's post-war nationalisation of electricity. [1/3] 1108
Reposted by Rob KnoxHadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 16/06/2026editor: i believe the manuscript lies within your area of expertise me: *reads abstract* dammit 3815
Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Remember those days before EDI training when the police were beautiful gentle angels? 0122
Reposted by Rob KnoxDave @mediocredave.bsky.social · 03/06/2026It's hard to verify it, and it could just be my perception, but I truly feel like in the last five years I have seen the UK left get noticeably more reactionary; more carceral, more conspiracist, more essentialist, more opportunist, more moralistic, more superstitious. 4449
Reposted by Rob KnoxGeorge Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026If you say "I support Palestine Action", they might put you in jail. If you incite a racist riot, they put you on the news. 6743651524
Reposted by Rob KnoxAlan Greene @alangreene.bsky.social · 03/06/2026This week on Question Time, we ask Matt Goodwin to tell us more about how Britain is institutionally racist against white people, and a Southampton rioter about what everyday items make the best projectiles to throw at police. 032
Reposted by Rob KnoxRichard Parkin @richardparkin.bsky.social · 03/06/2026Let's be blunt: these people *want* two-tier policing, they want in their favour, and believe they are entitled to it; if there is to be any injustice, it should always fall upon the 'other'. 0123
Reposted by Rob KnoxDavid Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The normalisation of right wing discourse in both major political parties, let alone in much of the media, has been one of the most striking, and disturbing, changes in my lifetime. Things weren’t great in the 1960s (Smethwick) but this is off the scale. 633869
Reposted by Rob KnoxNate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · 29/05/2026I have a new article out in Labor, I'd appreciate if you'd read it. Thank you! read.dukeupress.edu/labor/articl...read.dukeupress.eduThe Work of Forgetting: Industrial Physicians, Medical Forms, and Industrial Violence in the Early Twentieth-Century United StatesAbstract. This article uses inquiry into the medical subfield of industrial medicine in the early twentieth-century United States to build on recent work in the history of occupational safety and heal... 610942
Reposted by Rob Knoxflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/05/2026What did we think the nastiest people in the Labour Party expelling the hated left for extremist racism, then immediately pivoting to giant union flag Enoch Powell Send Them Back stuff, was? We have been at “ethnic minority men are all scary sex criminals baying to molest Our Women” for 15 years! 2898
Reposted by Rob Knoxflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 24/05/2026This is why I just laugh when people talk about the threat of British Trumpism. Lads, our entire political/media class put their heads together seven years ago and the best idea they could come up with was “let’s just shitehouse Boris Johnson into power, and worry about the details later”. 112511
Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · 18/05/2026The thing is it actually is impossible to be any kind of social demoratic under capitalism. There aren't easy answers! You really are structuraly dependent on capitalism and capital accumulation in a wya that cuts against but the 'social' and 'democratic' things you want to achieve. 162
Reposted by Rob Knoxflyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/05/2026Seems to me that “Britain is ungovernable” really means “we, a bunch of smart insiders, can no longer inflict benefit-scything insider swine upon the public and have them tolerate it in resentful silence”. The latter is certainly true, and it’s not at all clear that the former is. 27420
Reposted by Rob KnoxLPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Today, Amna Akbar interviews @joesoss.bsky.social and @joshpage.bsky.social about their recent work on the predatory dimensions of criminal legal governance.lpeproject.orgLegal Plunder: An Interview with Joe Soss and Joshua PageAmna Akbar interviews Joe Soss and Joshua Page about how the criminal legal system extracts resources from the nation’s most oppressed communities and converts them into public and private revenues. 0134
Reposted by Rob KnoxIlias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Last but not least, @pashukanist.bsky.social and Mary Robertson argue that the relationship between racialization and finance is embedded within capitalism’s structural imperatives and laws of motion www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 13/ntandfonline.comLocating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprimeThrough a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of... 1101