Neil Warner

now published:
The Socialization Debate
Revolutionary Confusion after the German Revolution of 1918
Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal
Volume 46, Issue 1, 2025, Pages 93-122
doi.org/10.5840/gfpj...

Awdah Hathaleen Archives - +972 Magazine Awdah Hathaleen is an activist and collective member of Umm al-Khair in the South Hebron Hills. He is an English teacher in his village, having studied English teaching at Hebron University.

A series of more recent articles by Awdah can be found here
www.972mag.com/writer/awdah...

In Umm al-Khair, the occupation is damning us to multigenerational trauma I saw the first bulldozers arrive in my village 17 years ago. Now, after the most brutal weeks in our history, my son will carry similarly painful memories.

Awdah Hathaleen, a young Palestinian activist, was murdered by Israeli settlers yesterday in his village in the West Bank. This is an article that he wrote 8 years ago

yeap, the mighty trade block can only bully Global South countries into unfavourable trade deals.

The funny thing about this take is that if they'd let them, Corbyn, McDonnell and Abbott all would have remained in the Labour Party, arguing for everyone else to stay in the party, until the day they died.

The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states Energy systems can shape political institutions and make some nations more vulnerable to trade wars than others

My new op-ed essay in the @financialtimes.com.

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The growing Brics divide between carbon and electro-states

A Palestinian girl cries out for food with her hands held out at a charity kitchen amid the famine in Gaza. She is surrounded by other young, anguished children. This photo was taken on Thurs July 11, 2025 after at least 10 children were killed by an Israeli strike as they queued outside a medical point. More Palestinians have now been killed just waiting for food than the number of victims killed in the Hamas terrorist attack of October 7. Photograph credit is to Ebrahim Hajjaj of Reuters

Gaza is now officially in IPC Phase 5, the final stage of hunger. Designated as 'catastrophe'.

A further 67 of the starving were killed by IDF soldiers yesterday trying to access food. Witnesses say the victims had their hands held in the air.

One day, everyone will have always been against this.

EU-Israel: Refusal to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement is a ‘cruel and unlawful betrayal’ European leaders had the opportunity to take a principled stand against Israel’s crimes, but instead gave it a greenlight to continue its genocide in Gaza, its unlawful occupation of the whole Occupie...

Amnesty International: Refusal to suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement is a ‘cruel and unlawful betrayal’ www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

It's a global far-right antidemocratic coalition

Universal Suffrage? The problem of low and unequal turnout and the case for compulsory voting  - The Constitution Society An authoritative new report from Dr David Klemperer advocates for the introduction of compulsory voting at UK general elections.

My new Constitution Society report on compulsory voting has now been published.

I argue that low turnout has left the UK with an unrepresentative electorate. This is creating warped incentives for politicians, and contributing to low growth, high inequality, and rising democratic discontent.

‘Race against time, death, and darkness’ as Gaza hospitals run out of fuel Israel intensifies air raids across the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of people, including aid seekers.

Israel killed 74 people in Gaza today alone, and Nasser Hospital is running out of fuel. The WHO says that Israel has attacked medical facilities over 600 times in nearly 2 years.
That's roughly an attack every two days for nearly 2 years.

www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

Our book is out! A critical interrogation of interdisciplinarity as a transformative practice to confront power in a time of crisis. My chapter: "The climate crisis and interdisciplinary pedagogy". Buy it, request it for your library, and message me for my chapter! www.routledge.com/Interdiscipl...

Dutch pension funds set to sell €125bn of government bonds Overhaul of Eurozone’s largest retirement sector is expected to put pressure on continent’s debt markets

Pension funds 💔 gilts For whom the bell tolls

It makes sense to expect a new age of inducements for institutional capital pools to hold sovereign debt (aka financial repression), as @martinsandbu.ft.com argued last week. Alas, it appears state managers are too macrofinancially incompetent to pull that off and instead are self-sabotaging bigly.

The revenge of Labour’s soft left Keir Starmer has provoked the mass of his party into organising – against his leadership.

What happens when you antagonise much of the middle of the party into getting organised? What then, left-libs?

www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...

Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates show that, unless the a...

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030.

Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

'One year on, Labour still hasn't reckoned with collapsing trust in politics' - LabourList I spent the general election campaign travelling the country for LabourList, visiting marginal seats, talking to candidates and knocking…

I wrote about my often fairly miserable time on the doorstep last summer hearing just how much the public hates politicians, and how Labour hasn't – and maybe can't – deal with the anti-politics that feeds Reform:

labourlist.org/2025/07/labo...

Since the great financial crisis, much has been written in CPE on the fate of South European economies. Have they really morphed into export-led growth models? With what outcomes? Are their trajectories convergent? In this new DP, we use granular data to put claims from the literature to the test 🧵

Majority of PIP claimants with heart disease, arthritis and Crohn's at risk of cuts DWP data obtained by Big Issue shows that the majority of people with heart failure, HIV and arthritis are at risk of losing their benefits.

NEW: Labour's planned disability benefit cuts could affect the majority of current working-age claimants with ischaemic heart disease, inflammatory arthritis, hip and knee disorders and Crohn’s disease, according to analysis of new DWP data

By me, for the Big Issue:
www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Zohran looking out on a victory night crowd.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

108 Labour backbenchers - that is 27% of the PLP of 403, and about 48% of the backbench (which is around 227 Labour MPs, with about 176 having a frontbench role of some kind).

I'd love to think Brian Wilson was trolling the interviewer here but somehow I'm not sure he was.

‘The Hunger Games’: Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone.

"25 Palestinians were killed that morning waiting for aid trucks. Hamza brought Hatem’s body back to Gaza City & buried him beside their mother, who was killed by an Israeli sniper in Aug 2024. Their brother, Khalid, 21, died in a Jan airstrike while evacuating wounded civilians on his horse cart."

Orwell hacked UvdL and posted a poem

Zohran Mamdani is standing up to the oligarchy and fighting to make one of America’s most expensive cities affordable for the working class.

If you’re a New York City voter, I urge you to rank him #1 on your ballot by next Tuesday.

@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

gosh, FT nearly got Freya Beamish to say 'it's monetarist ideology' at the Bank of England, cause let;s be serious, virtue signalling is not a serious explanation

Abstract for 'Prudence from the left: Economic restraint and UK social democracy since 1945', authored by Colm Murphy and Patrick Diamond. The abstract is too long to put here, but click on the link in the second skeet to find a machine-readable version.

Very pleased to see my co-authored piece with Patrick Diamond for @bjpir.bsky.social published!

We use the case of the UK since 1945 to show that fiscal orthodoxy, macroeconomic prudence, and even 'austerity' can, in certain conditions, be pursued by the left as well as right.

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NEW PAPER

Oil, shipping, tariffs: We are back in a world of cost shocks.

Our AI/LLM analysis of 138,962 corporate earnings calls shows how economy-wide cost shocks let large firms raise prices & increase profits—triggering sellers' inflation. 🧵

Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sad to report that China Labor Bulletin is no more. Ostensibly due to "financial problems", six members have been detained. CLB had promoted workers' rights and news in China since 1994.

Our recent podcast would have been impossible without their work: patreon.com/posts/e106-r...

Poster reads: Call for participants Feminist Music Collectives in Ireland Are you now, or have you ever been, a founder or member of a feminist music collective, space or initiative in Ireland? Have you organised or attended a feminist workshop, camp or line-up? Do you want to share your expereinces as part of an island-wide research project? What's involved? An interview of approx. one hour, scheduled at a time that suits you, in person or online. A discussion of your experiences as part of feminist collective music-making in Ireland. Your participation will be anonymous. Sound good? For more info please email andrea.cleary2@tudublin.ie

I am looking to speak with founders/members of feminist music collectives in Ireland (past or present) for my PhD research. If you are building feminist music spaces, workshops, forums, campaigns, festivals, gigs, parties etc. please get in touch for more info (email in photo). Shares appreciated! 🎶