Andreas Bieler

Stop the steal: protect workers’ and renters’ rights! Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. Sign this petition to stop the steal.

Have you seen this? Reform UK has just pledged to rip up legal protections for workers and renters. I'm really worried about it. I've signed a petition to stop the steal. Can you add your name too? www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...

Housing, pensions, and jobs — a win-win-win -Frank Hoffer Providing decent pensions in an ageing society, overcoming the affordability crisis driven by skyrocketing housing costs, and creating better-paid jobs for workers without university …

Housing, pensions, and jobs — a win-win-win, see globallabourcolumn.org/2026/02/26/h...

In an unprecedented move, one reflective of the deeply unprecedented times at our university, UoN branches of three different unions (@UCU.org.uk, @unisonorg.uk, and Unite) have all successfully passed motions of no confidence in the Vice Chancellor and the entire executive board.

For free access, see www.tandfonline.com/eprint/4JPBV... or email Andreas.Bieler@nottingham.ac.uk

Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual Terrain of Enquiry Polycrisis has become a widely used concept. Politicians, public intellectuals and academics alike are drawing on it when describing our cur...

Trade unions and global restructuring: Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual... andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/02/diss...

Booklaunch: Organizing Amazon Amazon workers in Coventry, England have won breakthrough wage gains through years of strikes and organizing at the global giant. Now, a new book documents these achievements, and the militant, grassr...

Booklaunch: Organizing Amazon, see socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed...

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Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual Terrain of Enquiry Polycrisis has become a widely used concept. Politicians, public intellectuals and academics alike are drawing on it when describing our cur...

Dissecting the Polycrisis, Charting the Conceptual Terrain of Enquiry, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2026/02/diss... @morton.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social @jokubassalyga.bsky.social

Jo Grady’s first election manifesto where she says she wants the GS to be more accountable to members

Staff aren’t allowed to say they’re on strike.

UCU members aren’t allowed to mention it to strike-breaking staff.

Regional committees can’t talk about it.

The NEC can’t talk about it.

Congress can talk about it but motions are declared out of order.

Is this the accountability Jo was meaning?

Very sad to read Susan George passed away

Fond memories of an inspiring leader especially around the work we did on trade and arguing for more just trade. Also her proposal for a People's Constitution for Europe [EU] worthwhile recalling

Condolences and sympathies to you all

@epsu.bsky.social

Never again fascism - Flemish unions, anti-fascist organisations remembering the resistance fighters

This year the focus on women in the resistance
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@epsu.bsky.social
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@left.eu
@greens-efa.eu

#StrongerTogether

Save Essex: Stop the Cuts, Save Southend, Protect Education These proposed cuts mean people losing their livelihoods in a higher education sector already facing a jobs crisis, where alternative employment is scarce and careers built over many years can be dest...

The University of Essex plans to close their Southend campus and cut up to 400 jobs — around one in five staff! But the staff and students are fighting back. Sign their petition to stop the cuts, save Southend, and protect education www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...

Somalia, Yemen, Ethiopia: The Wounds of Underdevelopment, Colonialism/Imperialism, and the Cold War Until the astonishing imperialist assault by the United States on Venezuela and the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, news related to Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, Saudi Arabia’s attack...

Somalia, Yemen, Ethiopia: The Wounds of Underdevelopment, Colonialism/Imperialism, and the Cold War, see socialistproject.ca/2026/02/soma...

Fantastic to see @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social in paperback in the @manchesterup.bsky.social PPE Series. Accompany blog post here:

www.ppesydney.net/capitalism-i...
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With Court agendas missing, minutes published late and papers non-existent, it’s our view that the important governance meetings at the University of Dundee should be live streamed and recorded, for openness and transparency.

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

US unions face a fight for survival under Trump -Jana Silverman and Stanley Gacek About two years ago, the US union movement appeared to be in a moment of revitalisation. The ‘Hot Labor Summer’ of 2023, characterised by an unpreceden…

US unions face a fight for survival under Trump, see globallabourcolumn.org/2026/02/11/u...

Defend Greenland Against US Aggression The Donald Trump regime is still engaged in a fierce offensive for an imperialist US takeover of Greenland. All means have been used: political, economic, and even military threats. In this situation,...

Defend Greenland Against US Aggression: No Illusions about Denmark and the EU, see socialistproject.ca/2026/02/defe...

Wie viele Todesfälle gibt es auf den Fluchtrouten in die EU? Die Fluchtrouten nach Europa bleiben gefährlich. Vor allem im Mittelmeer sterben zahlreiche Flüchtlinge bei der Überfahrt. Die tatsächliche Zahl der Todesfälle ist unbekannt.

Viele tote und vermisste #Flüchtlinge nach #Bootsunglücken vor lybischer und vor griechischer Küste. 2025 gab es laut Schätzungen der IOM 1.756 Todesfälle im Mittelmeer, darunter 97 Kinder. Die Dunkelziffer dürfte viel höher liegen: mediendienst-integration.de/fluechtlinge...

Organizing Amazon Milla Vodello is the pseudonym of an organizer with the Amazon Worker Solidarity (AWS) group in Toronto.[note]AWS is also the acronym of Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing platform owned and ope...

Organizing Amazon: An Interview with Amazon Worker Solidarity, see socialistproject.ca/2026/02/orga...

Heide Gerstenberger, Market and Violence - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) From the shores of present-day Namibia via Heide Gerstenberger, Slavoj Žižek and Byung-Chul Han, what can a real picture postcard reveal about the specificity of past and present forms of market and v...

What are the specificities of past and present forms of market and violence in Heide Gerstenberger’s *Market and Violence*? @alexcallinicos.bsky.social @abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social @drmeljohnston.bsky.social

Next week there will be the online launch of the volume 'Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis', which I co-edited with @abieler.bsky.social

Join us on February 9 at 6 pm London Time/ 7 pm UK time!

Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

‪Join us Feb 9, 7pm CET for the launch of "Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis" (@abieler.bsky.social / @bigmacca.bsky.social)

I'll present my chapter on #migration, #borders & #racism in the #EU - www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

Also, maybe don't use this as an excuse to cut courses and programs that are currently profitable? And make faculty who bring in research funds redundant?

Seems, I don't know, obvious?

#stopthecuts #savehe #UCU #UoNUCU #UON #UniversityOfNottingham

And I'm also not in charge of the university, but I also feel like maybe the people who are in charge of making financial choices for the university should be the ones who face the consequences of these horrible decisions. Not staff, not students, not faculty, not the community.

Screenshot of a THE story with the headline "Nottingham posts £85 million deficit as value of campus plummets"

Screenshot of a NottinghamshireLive news story with the headline "University of Nottingham's disastrous 'vanity project' campus could be sold for just £14."

Now I'm not an economist, but I feel like this is not great economic news.

Make sure your MP knows how the Railways Bill can delivers for passengers - email your MP Invite your MP to learn more about how they can fight to make sure the Railways Bill delivers for passengers.

The Railways Bill is making its way through Parliament. But it’s missing 4 vital ingredients that would make it truly work for passengers, not private profiteers:

1 Bring Rolling Stock into public ownership
2 Lower fares
3 Re-opening closed lines
4 Listen to passengers and give them a voice.
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New Global Labour Journal issue Vol. 17 No. 1 (2026): January is out at mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour...

Venezuela: It’s Much More Than Oil As the US openly discussed schemes to add Greenland to its list of conquered territories, it became abundantly clear that “Alternative Energy” (AltE, solar, wind, hydro power) joined fossil fuels at c...

Venezuela: It’s Much More Than Oil, see socialistproject.ca/2026/01/vene...