Dr Paul Parry

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Play Matters introduces The Play Creatures 🌟

Spark. Root. Wobble.
Three stories about curiosity, belonging and bravery, written for children, rooted in play.

📚 Coming Soon

#PlayMatters #ThePlayCreatures #ChildrensBooks #ProtectPlay

The reaction from our volunteers in Manchester! 💚

It is time to join our movement of hope 👉 join.greenparty.org.uk/

Selma Dabbagh | They call it peace The destruction of Palestinian lives is now a base line in a holding pattern. The ferocious white heat of the past two...

‘The destruction of Palestinian lives is now a base line in a holding pattern. The ferocious white heat of the past two years of unrelenting attacks has receded from view, but the genocide continues.’

@selmadabbagh.bsky.social on the situation on the ground in Gaza.

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ja...

When you educate an entire generation to believe that "anything is possible with hard work", and then build an economic system that is rigged against most hard-working people ever achieving any notable wealth or 'success', how can widespread anxiety not be an inevitable result?

Coming this January… a webinar celebrating the book, The Power of Froebel, edited by Lynn J. McNair and Luke J. Addison! 🎉

📅 Thursday 15th January 2026
🕖 7pm
💻 Zoom

Terry Eagleton · Pregnant with Monsters: Schopenhauer makes a stir Schopenhauer has long held the title of gloomiest philosopher in history. He sees human existence not as grand tragedy...

‘There are thinkers like Hegel for whom history is essentially over, and others like Schopenhauer for whom it doesn’t matter much whether it is or not, given the immutable nature of human wretchedness.’

Terry Eagleton on Schopenhauer’s gloom:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

great bedtime story!

The Story of Capital For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...

My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social

www.versobooks.com/products/337...

In less than a week in Turin, presentation of the 1972-73 Lectures on Marx's Theories of Surplus Value by Claudio Napoleoni, previously unpublished, edited and introduced by me.

#Marx
#Smith
#Ricardo
#Bailey
#Physiocrats
#valuetheory
#money
#abstractlabour
#dialectic
#Hegel
#Colletti
#absolutevalue

I don't know if the left needs a Joe Rogan exactly but I do know that an hour from now me and the @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social crew are gonna record an episode about Hanna Pitkin's classic study on the concept of representation. that will probably cinch the 2028 election so you're welcome

YouTube video by Commoners Choir The Santa Claus Army

Is it xmas yet?

#Santa
#RobinHood
#ActsOfRadicalGood

youtu.be/2-XH_X40CbM?...

Congratulations Dr Welsh !

1/5 A groundbreaking Amnesty report published today concludes Israeli authorities are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. www.amnesty.org.uk/genocide-rep...

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys Yes, it's a genocide

"And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent."

Location: Parliament Square, London (sound on)

youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as

Poster design for the Historical Materialism Athens conference, 'Organizing in the Capitalocene: Labor and the Struggle Against Disaster and Genocide', to be held between 24–27 April 2025 at Panteion University.

Now announced: Historical Materialism Athens 2025, 'Organizing in the Capitalocene: Labor and the Struggle Against Disaster and Genocide'.

The full CfP and details can be found here: hmathens.org

That’s great, thanks Andrew.

Hi Andrew, think your work’s great. Are these available to buy in New Mills, in one of the galleries or elsewhere?

Thanks Nuzhat, that’s great. Best wishes.

A copy of the 50th anniversary edition of The Dispossessed sits on top of the original edition of The Dispossessed.

Out today: the 50th anniversary edition of The Dispossessed, with foreword by Karen Joy Fowler!

This edition is available in hardcover and paperback from Harper Perennial. Cover art by Muhammad Fatchurofi.

📢Online Event:

Wednesday 20th of November (12.30-2pm), @sallywelsh2003.bsky.social will be talking about recognising mature students’ unpaid care work as a form of work-based learning, as part of the our seminar series for 2025.

For details and registration:
www.lancaster.ac.uk/educational-...

all right, with bsky blowing up and twitter breaking down, the time seems right to start an account here. hi! we are What's Left of Philosophy, a podcast about contemporary critical theory and the history of political thought from a Marxist perspective. find us on all major streaming platforms!

Ten Questions on Negative Totality - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) The Past & Present Reading Group recently held a workshop on ‘negative totality,’ read through the work of Chris O’Kane, who has developed and defended that concept within contemporary critical theory...

I made it to 1000 followers. I said when I did I would introduce everyone to my great work. That was obviously a joke. But here are two general audienish overviews of my works in progress in relation to Marxism and Critical Theory:

www.ppesydney.net/ten-question...

Nothing beats spending the evening in a room full of passionate, knowledgable early years practitioners who want to share the power of play with the world . Thanks to @aaronearlyyears.bsky.social for pulling it all together.

I'm just learning that the wealth of societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails appears as an immense collection of commodities... is this true??