Michael Lazarus' 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx Book discussion organised by the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (CCLAS)

After a very successful launch of @cclas2025.bsky.social, join us for our first event discussing Michael Lazarus' 'Absolute Ethical Life: Aristotle, Hegel and Marx' with @michaellazarus.bsky.social and our very own Fernando Quintana : www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/michael-la...

Jo Grady’s UCU election win challenged over ‘unfair advantage’ Candidates who stood in 2024 poll seek rerun of campaign after claiming incumbent broke rules by using union resources

The @timeshighered.bsky.social has reported that @ewanmg.bsky.social and I have applied to the Certification Officer regarding concerns over the 2024 UCU general secretary election. UCU has characterised this as “smearing”, via a spokesperson.

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Friendship, Labour, Attention: Thinking with Simone Weil In his beautiful and powerful book, The Redress of Law: Globalisation, Constitutionalism and Market Capture (2021), our friend, Emilios

Following the death of the much beloved Emilios Christodoulidis, we want to go back to the beautiful series that Scott Vetch and Maksymilian Del Mar put together in response to Emilios' magnum opus, the Redress of Law.
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Thrilled to have received the updated paperback edition of *Human Shields*, including a new Preface and Epilogue about the use of human shields during the genocide in Gaza.

An amazing afternoon and evening, many thanks to all our speakers!

Imprisoned hunger striker linked to Palestine Action tells friend: ‘I’m dying’ Francesca Nadin visited Heba Muraisi, 31, in a Wakefield prison at the weekend and says ‘her body is shutting down’

The government sits and watches as Heba dies. It's heartbreaking, horrible, almost impossible to compute. Didn't people vote in the hope (however forlorn) of ending the Tories' psychopathic mode of government? Yet on it goes, under Keir Starmer. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Solidarity to our partners (and all staff/students) @birzeit.bsky.social as Israeli forces storm their campus

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The State of Critique: CCLAS Launch Join us to celebrate the launch of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (formerly Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context)

Join us in London on 23 January for the inaugural event of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society @qmul.bsky.social.

With stellar speakers we reflect on the state of (legal) critique as we confront a world of "death and destruction without alibi".

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‘protesters refusing food’

if only there was a phrase that captured this

I've written a short piece on international law, fetishism, and ideology - now out on Legal Form. I suggest that international law is an ideological fetishism of international relations.

This looks great, congrats!

Thanks for writing for us, a great post!

International Law as Ideology: A Commodity Form Approach — Marie Thøgersen ‘Doctrinal international legal scholars contribute to the reproduction of [a] fantasy: They reproduce and give legitimacy to particular ideas as autonomous forces, reifying the dynamics of so…

In our latest post @mariethogersen.bsky.social meticulously unpacks what *exactly* is ideological about international law. Against those who locate this merely in international law's content, she directs us to international law's fetishistic character.

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Podcast (from @palfest.bsky.social) featuring @lalehkhalili.bsky.social interviewing Adam Hanieh, @rafeefz.bsky.social and me ou our @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet Resisting Erasure.

Some fantastic interviewing from Laleh, and I think(/hope?) a good conversation.

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Many thanks to @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social and @andywoodhouse.bsky.social for putting together the Marxism and EU Law symposium. Good stuff, and long overdue.

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It's 100 pages and around 60,000 words of Marxist analysis of the EU. We hope that it signals a break from the past, by introducing ideas and authors that offer a challenge to the very precepts of EU law.

Read the full symposium here 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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The centrepiece of the symposium is a 24,000 word programmatice article laying the groundwork for future approaches to EU law by me, @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social

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Our introduction reflects on why Marxism has largely been absent from EU law:

🔹 EU law is often framed as technocratic & consensual, not as a site of class struggle
🔹 The field is unusually supportive of the European project, with limited critical approaches

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New symposium out now🎉

Edited by @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social + me in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social seeks to introduce Marxist approaches to EU law scholarship.

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🧵 (1/9) A thread on the symposium (please share!)

This was a great chat I think. Alex on his usual excellent form and @rafeefz.bsky.social and Adam both brilliant as ever.

This is our first pod about the @versobooks.bsky.social pamphlet and it's good to start out with some of the best.

Chunky but hopefully helpful, Marxism has been noticeably absent from analyses of EU law.

If you're concerned about these anticipated cuts and want to follow United Academics of the University of Oregon (AAUP-AFT 3209), they're here at @uauoregon.bsky.social - their newsletter and most recent update on this situation is at newsletter.uauoregon.org/after-accept...

*YOU* might be here to talk about A-Levels, but you shoved a mic and a camera in his face and this sound lad can and will say what he likes

Happy birthday, hope to see you soon in Edi!

Abby Cartus (@abbraxas.bsky.social) mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.

From Public Data to Private Knowledge: Capital, Surveillance, and Power — Abby Cartus ‘Defending the institutions and “standing up for science” is really clinging to a bygone illusion. The stakes of institutional engagement are changing as institutions are…being de…

Abby Cartus mapping out the deeper contours of the Trump administration's approach to data' and the emergent contours of contemporary capital accumulation.

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This is an absolutely indispensable read that provides a sharp, comprehensive materialist analysis of Palestinian oppression. Get it, read it, discuss it with comrades, use it to inform your movement’s means and ends. @pashukanist.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social

I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone

Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...

5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...