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Cis, he/him, London (UK), politically unaffiliated. I like socialism, arts/culture, and hate cars.

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Any views on the GDR's approach to land?

29.10.2025 09:04 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Prison authorities in 2023 were duped into freeing a conman after a fake email from the Royal Courts of Justice said he should be released on bail.

Prison authorities in 2023 were duped into freeing a conman after a fake email from the Royal Courts of Justice said he should be released on bail.

legend alert

26.10.2025 19:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 100    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Went along this week to Morocco Bound bookshop off Bermondsey St SE1, good selection of books (and drinks), lots of events including jazz, folk and poetry nights. Picked up new Emma Warren book 'up the youth club' which I am enjoying and reflecting on my own teenage Friday nights

24.10.2025 06:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Should be Bluesky's tagline.

12.10.2025 12:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 59    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

07.10.2025 02:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3418    ๐Ÿ” 1066    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 21
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#OtD 11 Oct 1884 one of the longest-burning fires in the world began when striking miners set fire to the New Straitsville mine in Ohio. Miners walked out in Jun and were replaced by scabs, so strikers set mines on fire. It is still burning today stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1107...

11.10.2025 09:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 63    ๐Ÿ” 29    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

In what way is it dead?

12.10.2025 08:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Hegelโ€™s โ€œBrown Rivulet of Coffeeโ€: Colonies, Commodities, and Context by Marie Louise Krogh This think piece is part of the forum โ€œThe Return of Political Economy in Intellectual Historyโ€

As part of the JHI Blog forum on political economy, Marie Louise Krogh examines Hegel's rare reflections on the 19th century international coffee industry as an entry point into the theoretical stakes of political economy in the midst of Europeanย imperialism.

22.09.2025 13:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
Image of four copies of the book Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future.

Image of four copies of the book Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future.

BREAKING NEWS ๐Ÿ“•๐Ÿšจ

We are happy and proud to announce the publication of an edited anthology titled Danish Marxism: Past, Present, Future (Problema, 2025).

The book celebrates 10 years of organising by bringing 6 reflective pieces together with CfPs and abstracts from all our conferences.

10.10.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 92    ๐Ÿ” 28    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Watch | A man was arrested in London for holding up The New World magazine, featuring the "sign of the times" with the words:

"I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action"

08.10.2025 00:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 44    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 8    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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wizard frog is insane

04.10.2025 22:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13636    ๐Ÿ” 3770    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 248    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1260
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Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

08.10.2025 03:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21966    ๐Ÿ” 5250    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 782    ๐Ÿ“Œ 934

Are you planning to do a write up on this subject?

07.10.2025 07:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It should be.

07.10.2025 07:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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(solemnly) You've had mail.

30.09.2025 19:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6926    ๐Ÿ” 2887    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 114    ๐Ÿ“Œ 403
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hereโ€™s korean protesters throwing their shoes at a likeness of netanyahu

28.09.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4340    ๐Ÿ” 1167    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 83    ๐Ÿ“Œ 70
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If this is you, check out my shop.

28.09.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Canโ€™t tell if porn title or newspaper article:

28.09.2025 09:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm more of a "No life crisis" kinda guy, as in I have no life.

27.09.2025 14:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Cover of ยซMarx's Capital. Hegelian Sourcesยป, showing an image of Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky playing Cards, ยซcreated using MidJourney AIยป, as it says in inside the book. Published by Brill

Cover of ยซMarx's Capital. Hegelian Sourcesยป, showing an image of Hegel, Marx and Vygotsky playing Cards, ยซcreated using MidJourney AIยป, as it says in inside the book. Published by Brill

If you need another reason to oppose corporate academic publishing, AI slop cover art might be one. Wonder what Marx would have said (or Hegel, for that matter) โ€ฆ

27.09.2025 11:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 179    ๐Ÿ” 35    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9    ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse but also Endnotes, and Beyond Capital by Meszaros, Mike Davis' Old Gods, New Enigmas, and some indie anarchist sci-fi mag.

26.09.2025 21:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Assata Shakur, political activist and ex-Black Liberation Army member, has died Assata Shakur โ€œdied in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age,โ€ according to Cubaโ€™s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age."

She was 78.

26.09.2025 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4596    ๐Ÿ” 2049    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 98    ๐Ÿ“Œ 507
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Mind is blown. World-renowned cake artist, Sugarking Zhou Yi, wows us with this incredible creative mastery!

Post found via Art Post Unity

#beautifulbizarre #contemporaryart #surrealart #cakeartist #foodsculpture #artcollectors #artmagazine #artinspo #art

20.09.2025 10:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 39    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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The Sacralisation of History: The Holocaust as State Legitimation - Historical Materialism There is a cruel historical irony in Israelโ€™s ferocious genocidal war on the besieged Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank: the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Ghetto by the Nazi Wehrmacht in 1943 ...

Now online: 'The Sacralisation of History: The Holocaust as State Legitimation' by Roger D. Markwick.

21.09.2025 08:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And when you move to China you will become Sรธren Mao.

21.09.2025 00:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Time to rest my withered millennial knees after the London Anarchist Bookfair afterparty.

21.09.2025 00:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's called Your Party because there's one for each member

18.09.2025 16:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
View of ziggurat block and central open space

View of ziggurat block and central open space

View of ziggurat block and landscaping

View of ziggurat block and landscaping

Walkway uphill to entrance

Walkway uphill to entrance

View from block

View from block

Kate Macintosh designed Dawsonโ€™s Heights for Southwark Council in 1964 aged just 28. (She's alive and well and still fighting for high quality social housing.) English Heritage described it as โ€˜an example of the almost-lost art of romantic townscapeโ€™
municipaldreams.substack.com/p/dawsons-he...

20.09.2025 08:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 90    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Do a review of Jasper Bernes latest book.

19.09.2025 06:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Kirk was hated by a faction of the Right, specifically around Fuentes. MO matches right-wing stochastic terrorism.

According to BBC Verify, this is the image on the shooterโ€™s attire: patriotic slogans.

11.09.2025 18:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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