Parvathi Menon

“Marx and the Critique of Humanism”, coming Feb 2026, edited by @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marx-and-...

Weekly Roundup: September 5 A Labor Day special: Michael Wishnie on the possibility of faculty unions, and Eamon Coburn on reviving long-eroded social norms against union busting. Plus, upcoming deadlines for the ALPE conference...

The week in review: it was a Labor Day special, with @mikewishnie.bsky.social on faculty unions, and Eamon Coburn on the long-eroded social norms against union busting.

Plus, the best of LPE from around the web in the 🧵 👇

If you’re in Copenhagen on 23 September, come out for this stellar event ✨

Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion.

@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
@lsesociology.bsky.social

Screenshot of Neil renic’s post from last year Twitter. Text: finally time to start my summer writing Photo: tsunami wave approaching a woman on the beach looking at it. The Center of image says: August 1

Guys

the weaponization of course evaluations in the Brown University deal takes the consumerist model of higher education to new heights. not only is your job contingent on it, but make any of your students uncomfortable and you’ll be investigated by the government

Recognition of Palestine now is more about attempting to (re-)normalise the Israel's place in the regional order than anything else.

More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

It's utterly mad.
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Sigourney Weaver standing happily with the Alien queen

*me and my book project

Order your copies now (one for yourself and another for a friend who needs it badly)! The brilliant combination of Knox, Ziadah and Hanieh

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...

look at what was just delivered

it’s the

@pashukanist.bsky.social & co. masterpiece that everyone should read

& it looks even more 🔥🔥🔥 than online & IT HAS THAT FRESH BOOK SMELL (in case you needed another reason to ordered it right this moment)

Ah ok, I had a feeling that would’ve been the angle

I found it pretty surprising that Nehru (India's first Prime Minister) was included on this list. I don't know anyone who would characterise him as a Marxist. I should probably read this book and find out why...

And when panels don’t end at 9PM!

The revolution Will come the day they add lunch breaks to the HM programme.

CfP!!! The @anzsil.org Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group will be holding a workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism' on 31 October at Melbourne Law School: drive.google.com/file/d/10YPs...

Why are people always excited and thrilled and banal on LinkedIn? It’s a parallel universe where no Palestinians are being brutally killed daily.

Rebranding repression: the University of Melbourne’s elite capture of antiracism - Overland literary journal Our current climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne reinforces why it is imperative that we continue to build autonomous intellectual homes that are grounded in Indigenous sover...

Shillan Shebly, Natalie Ironfield and Elizabeth Strakosch write about the policing of Palestine solidarity and the intensifying climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne, all “operating in the name of ‘antiracism’.”

"It's so unfair for you to deny the global economy oil when all we're doing is bombing you. Stop the violence"

Sanctions Against Israeli Officials: Smart or Spectacular? — Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos on the ‘spectacular pseudo-sanctions’ against Israel that were recently announced by the UK government, and their role in normalising the settler-colonial…

@pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials:
legalform.blog/2025/06/17/s...

hey bluesky, I wrote this on some stuff I was trying to think through - the heart is my trying to take @pashukanist.bsky.social's analysis of the limits of opposition to the Iraq War and to the Tories in the UK and apply it to the US rn. I'd appreciate if you read it.

bsky.app/profile/jour...

This week!

Register for in-person in London or online attendance via email to me hyo-yoon.kang[at]warwick.ac.uk

Thank you so much, Claerwen! Was wonderful to meet you and here’s hoping to meet again, soon.

I had a great time at the gender, history and international law workshop at Warwick University. So many wonderful people, papers & discussions! Here is a pic of @parvathimenon.bsky.social delivering one of the keynotes (which was excellent). Thanks to Paola Zichi & Aisel Omarova for organising!

Behind the moderation guy is the resit guy somewhere

It's out and available open access!
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pathology...

PSA: if you haven’t watched this documentary already, please do it NOW! On the 1984 miners’ strike in Britain.

Marx's Republican Communism – Spectre Journal Søren Mau argues that Bruno Leipold's masterful contextualization of Marx in republicanism tradition could be enriched by an engagement with the labor theory of value.

Incisive review by @sorenmau.bsky.social of @brunoleipold.com's book. The conclusion is exciting, but also confusing. The critique of capitalism should go beyond indicting inequality and unfairness (exploitation) and toward domination and unfreedom. Yet...
spectrejournal.com/marxs-republ...