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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"A much-needed antidote to prevailing misconceptions about the Frankfurt School’s relationship to the New Left and its place in political history. A must-read for anyone interested in this tradition of Marxist thought." --A.J.A. Woods (@ajawoods.bsky.social) Available for pre-order now!

Critical Theory in Revolt:
How Angela Davis and the New Left Remade the Frankfurt School
by Cecilia Sebastian

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 03/09/2026

#OtD 3 Sep 1940 Uruguayan radical author and journalist Eduardo Hughes Galeano was born in Montevideo. The dictatorship imprisoned and exiled him, three countries banned his books, and Argentinian death squads tried to kill him, but he survived stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1025...

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Nesrine Malik @nesrinemalik.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

And also, think of why we talk about blowback against black people like it’s the weather, a natural outcome, rather than the fact that it inherently exposes a default assumption that they are wrong ‘uns/stealing a living. Nothing troubling there, just think of the decent ones.

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mseviechops.bsky.social @mseviechops.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I see Ann Widdecombe has died. When she was Home Secretary I showed her round Drake Hall womens’s prison. There was a pregnant woman on a bed in the early stages of Labour and she asked the prison officers why she wasn’t handcuffed to the bed. That’s the kind of woman she was.

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

"Is it not that the prison, since its inception, has been in a constant state of crisis? Or, rather, it is not simply that the prison is in crisis, but that the prison is always in crisis." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The Guardian view on prisons: the public deserves better than this litany of failure | Editorial

Editorial: Drugs and violence continue at disturbing levels. But a minority of jails show that progress is possible

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Tom Phillips @tom-phillips.com · 06/07/2026

Every lifelong football fan I've ever met is like "I think players are supposed to serve their suspension" and every adult convert is like "the Archon of Constantinople's epistle on the Pentacostine rites of the eucharist clearly states handballs are mandatory."

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/07/2026

‘If there is two-tier policing in the UK, it’s the opposite of the situation the far right imagines: Baroness Casey’s review of the Met found that “Black Londoners are underprotected ... and overpoliced.”’ Nic Murray on the far right and the police, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...

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Nic Murray | ‘Release the tapes’

The Met Police chief, Mark Rowley, recently announced that his force would be releasing more bodycam footage as standard...

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wariotifo @wariotifo.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

that's yer Tom Tugendhat on there, one of the credulous @iandunt.bsky.social's endless parade of 'good tories'

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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Again, “Marxist Bolshevik intellectuals are conspiring with the lesser races to undermine the Reich and abuse Our White Women” has been the narrative *for fifteen years* on TV, radio and news stands. The difference now is it’s a) undisguised, and b) targeted at Sensible Moderates, not the pig people

we are absolutely fucked unless this process is somehow pushed into reverse, because otherwise the only hope is 'the left (as very broadly defined) wins elections forever', which is a bit of an ask
• Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsk... • 16m
The right in this country have totally lost it, a complete and utter collapse of any kind of cordon sanitaire with the far right in favour of gutter racism.
It's been slow, but the grinding move from "anti-white racism is real" from far right agitprop to Times leader is complete.
debate on wieter o police are anu-wate

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 03/06/2026

This is not "legitimate grievances", this is not about "anti-white racism" or "two-tier policing", this is not about "protesting" This is fascists having been emboldened by decades of mainstreaming We can keep pretending it's not and encourage them or we can do something about it

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The only data centre I will ever respect is the damn library

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Ende Gelände @endegelaende.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

🔥Disarm fossil Capitalism! ✊ Aktuell blockiert Regenbogen den Schichtwechsel des Stahlwerkes! Das große deutsch-französische Rüstungsunternehmen KNDS produziert dort den Panzerstahl für zahlreiche Panzer wie den Leopard 2 und den Puma! Ationsticker: eg.aktionsticker.org

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

A moment that really radicalized me was going to the Aljube Museum of Resistance in Lisbon which documents the Salazar dictatorship and reading about how the CIA trained PIDE torturers, as well as learning about the Portuguese colonialism in Angola and Mozambique

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Quarks @quarks.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

An agent at Delaney Hall attempted to kick a demonstrator into the tires of a moving semi. This cannot be reformed. Video via @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

This is confirming what I think has been clear. Neoliberal governments are using police power to combat protest, rather than addressing societal problems. The question is why and what can we do about it Climate justice means abolition

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New breed of political prisoner arises in Britain as anti-protest sentences rise

More people are being jailed in England and Wales as a result of acting to prevent climate breakdown and the war in Gaza, research reveals

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Harrietmbergman @harrietmbergman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Diplomatieke crisis, maar niet met Nederland hoor!!

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Harrietmbergman @harrietmbergman.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Waarom nemen ze dan geen contact met ons op 🤡 Wél al het gore lef gehad te informeren of familie het vliegticket gaat betalen want ho maar dat Tom dat gaat doen

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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Yeah just imagine being subjected to intrusive checks every time you want to do something

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Maartje Luif @zezunja.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

Ik blijf erbij: dit is geen polarisatie, dit is radicalisering van één kant.

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Joe Cozens @joecozens.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

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Witnessing the Weavers’ Rising of 1826

A digital mapping project created by The National Archives and The Open University

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 16/05/2026

The emboldening of the extreme right is terrifying The fact it is happening as the left is demonised, vilified and criminalised is not coincidental and it should terrify us even more as it is where resistance only exists The liberal bulwark was always a fantasy

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SaschaJanssen 🎸 @saschajanssen.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Dit is gewoon fascisme. Er is geen enkele juridische grond om bijvoorbeeld de 250.000 rode lijn demonstranten op te pakken. Dat hij dit duidt als “Hamasdemonstratie” is regelrechte Israël propaganda. Zorgwekkend dat zo iemand in ons parlement zit en zo weinig tegengas krijgt.

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This is absolutely part of the wider intensification of protest that has also been targeting eco-protesters as part of a moral panic following years long economic decline. Criminalisation over resolution is the order of the day in late neoliberalism

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👻 🎃 🦇 Bela Lughosti's Dad 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @belalugosisdad.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

If you're a juror on a trial where you even *suspect* the defendants are guilty of an offence carried out as an act of protest (because they've also been banning recent defendants from talking about Palestine), you absolutely *have* to acquit them, because you now don't know what the Judge will do.

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Abolish Europe! A plea, a provocation, a demand, an inquiry See you at SPUI25 June 4th

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Gregk Foley @gregk.co.uk · 08/05/2026

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David Graeber
@davidgraeber
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the Labour Party under Starmer will abandon its core idealism & principles and it won't even gain tactical advantage. It will be a party which gives no one a reason to vote for it, and no one will, in fact, vote for it.
18:07 • 02/04/2020

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solomonhughes.bsky.social @solomonhughes.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Really telling that London Labour have gone for a retro "Special Branch" style for these smear "dossiers" they are putting out - like they saw the Spycops inquiry revealing Special Branch spying on the left for decades and thought 'that looks fun'.

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Im giving a talk on Friday at one of my favourite book shops about policing, climate crisis and fascism 1700-1900 fort van sjakoo See you there!

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100 years ago news @100yearsagonews.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

May 4, 1926: The business life of Britain comes to a standstill on the first full day of a general strike. More than 3 million workers in the country’s most vital industries stay home, but much-feared civil unrest fails to develop as many Britons take the disruption phlegmatically. 1/8

With no bus service, trucks carry workers in the City, the financial district of London

Volunteers to help the government break the strike line up in London

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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

For those who are reading Black Reconstruction by W.E.B. Du Bois for the first time or again, here are some sources I recommend to read along with it, if you haven’t read them.

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Andy Burnham Earnestness Enjoyer @jorisbinned.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

It's disgusting and shameful people have to live like this in the UK in 2026 and banning protesting is so far away from how to begin to solve it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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'I bought a baseball cap to hide my kippah': Jews observe first Shabbat after Golders Green attack

British Jews tell the BBC they are agonising over whether to stick to their usual routine this Sabbath.

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

The imperial boomerang (burning down the royal docks in the raid of the Medway) has returned to the metropole (burning down massive parts of the dutch landscape)

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

This is the third fire this week caused by the Dutch military. They are currently struggling to contain the previous ones. 5% of national spending literally going up in smoke

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Instrument of surrender @dasgoat.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I fucking knew it lmfao

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

What is being called a ‘natural fire’ was actually started by the Dutch military firing artillery near a nature reserve. The military industrial complex is a disaster for our planet and there is no climate justice while it exists.

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Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives @darrencullen.bsky.social · 11/01/2024

"Violence is never the answer..."

A watercolour painting of a bomb falling towards a devastated and bombed out city in Gaza, smoke rises in the distance. At the top of the poster the words "Violence is never the answer" are painted in chrome reflective text (reflecting a desert) below that, written on the bomb is the word EXCEPT...

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Levi @levi98k.eurosky.social · 25/04/2026

Ik lees straks vast dat bezorgde burgers de A12 blokkeren, de T. vindt dat de politiek moet luisteren en dat de fossiele subsidies worden verminderd omdat de zorgen terecht zijn, toch?

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

My article ‘Policing the Environmental Crisis’ is out now in Constellations. I argue that 2022 was a pivotal moment where policing was used to try to resolve climate crisis in UK as part of a moral panic around protest. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Policing the Environmental Crisis: Climate Protest, the State, and Law and Order

Click on the article title to read more.

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Thomas Hogeling @hogeling.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

In 2022 had ik een online discussie met Özcan Akyol en dat eindigde met vier man politie in mijn woning. Voor mij is dat een aanwijzing dat we de politie niet nog meer bevoegdheden moeten geven om mensen te volgen op sociale media.

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Opinie | Een grapje over een wapen en de politie staat voor de deur

Thomas Hogeling beschouwt wekelijks de publieke opinie. Wat wordt er gezegd en vooral niet gezegd? Deze keer: het risico van meer middelen naar politie.

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 01/04/2026

#OtD 1 April 1990 the Strangeways Prison uprising began. Lasting for 25 days, it was the longest prison riot in British history stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8040...

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Covering Climate Now @coveringclimatenow.org · 21/03/2026

“Every missile strike is another downpayment on a hotter, more unstable planet, and none of it makes anyone safer,” said Patrick Bigger of the Climate and Community Institute and co-author of new analysis about the climate impacts of the war on Iran, in @theguardian.com:

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5m tonnes of CO2 emitted in just 14 days of US war on Iran, analysis finds

Exclusive: War in the Middle East is draining the global carbon budget faster than 84 countries combined

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Existential Comics @existentialcomics.com · 14/03/2026

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

Straight of Hormuz, with Buddha imposed, text: The realization that the lack of oil isn't causing your suffering, but the desire for oil itself, on your path to enlightenment.

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Oscar Talbot @talboto.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Guys, hes only a former human rights lawyer, how was he supposed to know this would be a bad idea?

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