@helenmackreath.bsky.social
Writer // Critical researcher on cities, racism, borders // PhD from LSE Sociology Istanbul / London / Berlin https://helenmackreath.tumblr.com/
The 2025 protests in Turkey offer us a glimpse of the shape that the coming movements against autocracy might take, and the limits that similar unrest will need to overcome, including protests against Trump closer to home.
illwill.com/crossing-the...
‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy
Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman now available online, w/renewed thanks to everyone who made this possible:
vimeo.com/1058614428
Haaretz’s Yaniv Kubovich reports that Israel plans to seize 75% of Gaza and relocate more than 1,3 million Palestinians in the upcoming offensive, ultimately forcing the entire population into three military zones with food supplies strictly controlled by GHF/Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Last September, the activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah completed a five-year prison sentence. But the Egyptian authorities announced that his pretrial detention didn’t count, and that he would be held until 2027. In response, his mother began a hunger strike.
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Brian Eno ❤️🇵🇸
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‘At 27, my peer group is dividing like a cell in meiosis. We’re all at different stages of the life cycle, our circumstances non-identical. Some people are moving back in with their parents. Others are buying their first homes.’
Rose Dodd on London’s rental crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Join us for a vigil today at 6pm in support of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his mother Laila Soueif, both currently on hunger strike.
Writers & activists will read from Alaa’s work as we call on the UK government to take urgent action to secure his release. #FreeAlaa
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Refugee rights defender Taha Elgazi and his wife have reportedly been deported from Turkey to Syria after he was taken from his home by plainclothes security officers under the pretext of "address confirmation". @ihdgenelmerkez.bsky.social called the decision illegal & demanded it be reversed.
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"The question of how labour internationalism could work to challenge an imperialism that carries fascism in its genetic code remains on the agenda."
communispress.com/on-fronts-an...
OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue
A Special Section in issue 73.2 of The Sociological Review journal, featuring powerful contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social, @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun and Rafeef Ziadah.
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#palestine #gaza
A Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein detailing the sensitive Palestine documents destroyed by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.
On Nakba Day let's recall British complicity in covering up the horrors of 1948 and the years preceding it. Below, a Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein reveals the destruction of key documents related to Palestine by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.
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On Monday in Turin I will discuss the launch of an important documentary.
It tells the story of the CALP - a collective of dock workers in Genoa - who, for many years, have been refusing to load ships carrying weapons. True anti-militarist praxis.
Check for 'Portuali' online in the future.
New online, from our spring issue: @daralind.bsky.social and @omarjadwat.bsky.social in conversation about immigration policy in the second Trump administration.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/trum...
“Like the devil, vampires, and the more timid varieties of ghost, fascism must be invited in.” My latest for @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/poli...
In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s drive to acquire territory as property—starkly exemplified by Trump's egregious “Gaza development plan.”
proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
"We need to stop this plunder, weariness and vulgarity"
Sırrı Süreyya Önder, May 2013
kaosgl.org/haber/sirri-...
Portrait of Heiny Srour, director of The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974) and Leila and the Wolves (1984)
“Wrestling with violence under colonial subjugation ... she is interested in what happens when a people suffer together, even as they are pulled apart”
www.bidoun.org/articles/hei...
"Attempts to legally 'harmonize' the competing goals of protecting and punishing undocumented workers since the mid-1980s have gradually warped the employment relationship."
@michael-macher.bsky.social
Registration for our Reading the Crisis online conversation series is now open.
The series advances Stuart Hall's thinking by asking: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture?
Registration is free - sign up now via our website:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/
University students are again at the forefront of resisting the police, who banned access to Taksim square for 1 May in Istanbul - "Squares cannot be closed to the people, the youth, and the workers for the sake of a government!"
(screengrabs from Zeynep Kuray)
Pertinent to share on 1 May the latest beautiful paper from Mai Taha on The Home, the Barricade and Women’s Work in the 1936 Palestinian Revolution journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Garrett Felber, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre - AK Books, May 2025
burningbooks.com/products/a-c...
Graffiti in purple spray paint that reads NO GOD, NO BOSS, NO HUSBAND. The word BOSS is partially obscured by the remains of a yellow flier.
NO GOD, NO BOSS, NO HUSBAND. Athens, 2020.
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Image of a beautiful Black woman with black glasses and long grey locs head titled towards the camera and smiling, wearing cowry shell earrings. In yellow against black background the poster reads Workshops4Sudan The Soviets and Abolition, Monday, May 5th, 12-2 pm EDT. Virtual (via Zoom) Ruth Wilson Gilmore. Ruth Wilson Gilmore is a Writer, Abolitionist and Scholar from New Haven, Connecticut. Workshops4Sudan.
We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts.
chuffed.org/project/work...
Issue one of CriticalProductive. The cover is a black-and-white photograph of protesters marching on a street. The issue's subject, "Sovereignty/Populism" is noted under the title.
Located at the critical confluence of culture, arts, architecture, and urbanism, our new journal @criticalproductive.bsky.social is dedicated to interrogating the ways in which politics is entangled with spatial and aesthetic production: direct.mit.edu/cpro/issue/n...
30.04.2025 12:16 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Being accused of not having “a valid immigration visa” has quite literally become a death sentence.
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“It is insufficient to speak of a crisis of social reproduction ..The crisis is followed by a war against social reproduction, which lays the foundations for its fascistisation” @veronicagago.bsky.social in the latest issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...
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