Keith Lewis

'Racism, transphobia and the mainstreaming of far-right politics in Britain'

New on the #IdentitiesBlog, by Maddy Clark and @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social

Read the blog post ⬇️
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#farright #racism @nasarmeer.bsky.social @aaronwinter.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

Mystical Counter-Conducts and Post-Anarchism Today My argument, in this article, is for the role that mysticism can play in the elaboration of contemporary forms of counter-conduct that might contribute to the production of anarchistic alternatives...

I've got a new article out in Political Theology. There are 50 free e-copies if anyone wants to read about Mystical Counter-Conducts and Post-anarchism Today: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/UKBN2...

Trump’s desire to label ‘antifa’ as a ‘terrorist organization’ is not only important in the US: it has already inspired the same designation in the Netherlands and Hungary. Unfortunately more countries are likely to follow. #NoPasarán

Superb…

Thug convicted of bid to murder child is part of far right ‘save our children’ vigilante group in east Belfast A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is part of a far-right vigilante ‘save our children’ group patrolling Belfast’s streets.

EXCLUSIVE | A man convicted of the attempted murder of a 14-year-old child is now part of a group of vigilantes, who have been ‘patrolling’ Belfast's streets and claim to be protecting women and children from migrants

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican'

Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping.

Here, he tells us his story.

"But what happens to our economy when growth itself is increasingly hard to come by? What happens to our politics when we have no policies for a post-growth world? ... And what happens to our science when such questions are deemed to be outside the remit of inquiry?" - @timjackson.org.uk

Thank you to everyone in Illinois who stood up to ICE mercenaries today. This is what it will take—to put our own bodies and freedom on the line in order to make every action they take as difficult as possible.

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It is, in fact, our own freedom on the line.

On Proscribing Palestine Action In criminalising Palestine Action, the government is not only suppressing a political message but also protecting the economic and industrial interests tied to its defence strategy.

“By designating the group as terrorists, the government has sent a clear message to investors and industry partners: we are open for business!”

This article on how the proscription of PA fits in with the government's wider economic plans is very good.

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The police (wrongly) inform a peaceful protestor that holding a Palestinian flag and signs deploring genocide is an offence under the Terrorism Act. This is the deranged policing environment the government has created.

New Publication!🎉

Carlos & I have published our new editorial introduction: Towards a pluriverse of transitions!

Check it out, free access:
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@pollenetwork.bsky.social @exaltresearch.bsky.social @eadi.bsky.social @r-degrowth.bsky.social #Energy #Climate

You’d think this in Haaretz would be top of the BBC homepage but no. The chant by Bob Vylan at Glastonbury however is.

Iran: Precarious Work Means Precarious Life The Rajaee Port disaster reveals how economic and political pressure on ethnic minorities plays a fundamental role in capitalism.

Iran: Precarious Work Means Precarious Life : How the Rajaee Port Disaster Exemplifies the Assault on Baluch Ethnic Minorities crimethinc.com/2025/05/19/i... — @crimethinc.com

PKK dissolution: The long goodbye to vanguardism

PKK dissolution: The long goodbye to vanguardism

The Method in the Far Right’s Madness Today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ. Historian Quinn Slobodian explains how these ideas can be fitted togethe...

'Today’s far right manages to combine the call for economic freedom with pseudoscience about natural hierarchies of race and IQ. Historian Quinn Slobodian explains how these ideas can be fitted together.'
jacobin.com/2025/04/race...

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Graffiti on bus shelter reading, "Fuck LAPD, FUCK ICE, FUCK Trump"

For the fifth straight day - hundreds of students - joined in solidarity with teachers and community members - walked out of at least seven different high schools in Los Angeles, while other schools across the US, also continue to see student strike actions against ICE raids and beyond.

Post-growth: the science of wellbeing within planetary boundaries There are increasing concerns that continued economic growth in high-income countries might not be environmentally sustainable, socially beneficial, o…

A (or the!) new article on post-growth by leading academics in this field, e.g. @jasonhickel.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @proftimjackson.bsky.social.

To understand what post-growth is about or to get the latest state of research.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Roads in the west bank blocked, Palestinians from Jerusalem receiving text messages telling them to go back to Jerusalem, mass arrests, and almost 900 checkpoints set up across the territory.
Whats going to happen to the west bank?

Don’t Doom Scroll, Organize: How to Get Active in the Current Terrain No one knows what is going to happen with the election on November 5th in the US, but what we do know is that both candidates are deeply unpopular with vast amounts of the population. Republican Donal...

Steve Bannon worked at Goldman Sachs and got arrested on a Chinese billionaire's yacht after stealing donations from MAGA moms.

These people don't live where you do, talk to your co-workers, or go to school with your friends. You do. Let's get to work. itsgoingdown.org/dont-doom-sc...

Why Kurds face an uncertain future in Ahmed Al-Shara’s rebel-led Syria While Ahmed al-Shara consolidates his authority in Damascus, armed conflict is escalating in northern Syria.

Why Kurds face an uncertain future in Ahmed Al-Shara’s rebel-led Syria
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Mysticism and the Postanarchist Symbolic Abstract. This article engages with Meister Eckhart's mystical theology and Lacanian psychoanalysis to explore the role that mysticism can play in the production of an alternative symbolic order that ...

Article out in Cultural Politics if anyone wants to read
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