Conor Francis Macis

Right. My students working two part time jobs and/or having an hour and a half commute to uni because they have to live at home due to the cost of student accommodation lack drive and vigour. Sure thing, Peter. The UK Govt still haven't a clue about the realities of universities today.

19.09.2025 08:54 — 👍 703    🔁 212    💬 52    📌 56

Why is our trade union emulating the worst behaviour of our employers towards UCU staff? How many of our letters, motions, attempts to bring motions from lay members pressing for resolution have been ignored now? Solidarity with all @uniteucu.bsky.social #UnionStrong #ReclaimUCU

04.09.2025 15:23 — 👍 37    🔁 27    💬 1    📌 2

Radio City Tower, Liverpool

Nelson Mandela mural at Kuumba Imani Millennium Centre

Gala Dinner in St George's Hall

Law and Political Economy: Health, human rights and law & political economy panel description

This week, I'm reflecting on all I learnt at the @slsauk.bsky.social conference in Liverpool.

Lots of interesting questions and useful feedback to incorporate into my paper, The Political Economy of the Normative Foundation of Global Health Law: A Critical Analysis for "Global Health with Justice"

23.04.2025 07:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"On the important issue of discrimination, Clause 9 makes it clear that a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act as a person of the acquired sex or gender. Once recognition has been granted, they will be able to claim the rights appropriate to that gender."

The Minister who introduced the Gender Recognition Bill in the House of Lords in 2003 made it clear that "a transsexual person would have protection under the Sex Discrimination Act [the predecessor to the Equality Act] as a person of the acquired sex or gender." /1

19.04.2025 06:13 — 👍 1162    🔁 394    💬 33    📌 15

taken together, are not the owners of the globe. They are only its possessors, its usufructuaries, and, like boni patres familias, they must hand it down to succeeding generations in an improved condition"
Marx, Capital vol 3.
One of my favourite passages in Marx's writings.

19.02.2025 10:19 — 👍 46    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

“From the standpoint of a higher economic form of society, private ownership of the globe by single individuals will appear quite as absurd as private ownership of one man by another. Even a whole society, a nation, or even all simultaneously existing societies...

19.02.2025 10:19 — 👍 94    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 0

Legal texts don’t do things.

04.02.2025 03:15 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Every educational, academic, and cultural institution in Gaza where I studied, worked, or attended a conference or event—every theater, every archive, every historic landmark and site—has been completely destroyed. They no longer exist.

07.01.2025 03:04 — 👍 1217    🔁 730    💬 18    📌 28

Hi all, another new person here. Any good starter packs for Marxist international legal theory, international law and political economy, global health law, social determinants of health, and all stuff around those areas? Ty 🤗

29.11.2024 08:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Solidarity! ✊

27.11.2024 21:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0