@profalexp.bsky.social
Prof of International Political Theory at the University of Exeter. Author of Anarchism. A Very Short Introduction (new ed), and lots more on anarchy, anarchism, and IR theory. Exeter UCU branch co-chair, UCU Commons, and #lfc.
New massive collection of Ed Emery’s writings from the comrades at Agit Press
Letters To A Future Republic: Selected Writings of Ed Emery.
agitpress.net/books/p/futu...
Thanks! It’s AA with a 100,000 word preamble! Or, put another way, it’s the academic version of AA.
07.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The core problem with #trust is not between the DNC & GOP, but between an elite-led Congress (represented in both parties) and a population whose policy priorities never seem to manifest in legislation. A #shutdown is just extreme anti-poor austerity led by those elites.
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
A former diplomat: how to get ahead in international relations (not your typical advice...) - youtu.be/xK27WfvmC5M
06.10.2025 14:13 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0It breaks my mind that two British political parties have seen scenes like this and decided to try and replicate it in Britain. Thuggary, lawlessness, state brutality. Farage and Badenoch decided they liked the look of it.
06.10.2025 11:19 — 👍 1604 🔁 524 💬 120 📌 16
“The world used to be run by serious people, love them or hate them, but now the Losers have taken over, desperately trying to exert control over everything instead of going to therapy.”
03.10.2025 19:52 — 👍 348 🔁 94 💬 14 📌 12
Newsom: "If any California university signs this radical agreement, they’ll lose billions in state funding – including Cal Grants – instantly. California will not bankroll schools that sell out their students, professors, researchers, and surrender academic freedom"
03.10.2025 01:43 — 👍 618 🔁 177 💬 9 📌 28Reminder that California is the largest economy in the United States, with a $4.048 trillion gross state product as of 2024. It is the largest sub-national economy in the world and ahead of Japan if it was an independent state.
03.10.2025 15:58 — 👍 18 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
As more of my valued colleagues face the threat of redundancy, here’s a quick reminder that it takes years and years of public investment to train an academic. Cutting someone with this wealth of experience loose isn’t “saving” anything. It is a massive waste of our collective resources.
03.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 177 🔁 56 💬 4 📌 13Everyone out against the fash in Bristol Coty Centre on Sunday yeah? Together we can all finally answer the question "can Rob Gould swim as well as the Colston statue?".
03.10.2025 15:23 — 👍 23 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0
A black-and-white photograph showing white National Guardsmen terrorizing Black residents of Newark, New Jersey on July 14, 1967. Waving rifles around, they are menacing a child who has his hands raised as he walks away from them.
Pete Hegseth demands to “untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country.”
Donald Trump demands to use US cities "as training grounds for our military,” claiming “We’re under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy.”
Fascism.
The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.
02.10.2025 12:06 — 👍 2837 🔁 1177 💬 39 📌 50
BREAKING: four humanitarian boats still sailing toward Gaza, one within an hour of coast
The Rachel Corrie, named after an American activist murdered by Israel in 2003, has just entered Gaza's territorial waters.
www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/20...
Ethnic cleansing
01.10.2025 16:52 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I have organised an amazing roster of *virtual* presentations for the Centre for Gulf Studies at Exeter. Check out these incredible superstars, and register for the events (Tuesdays 17-18.30 London time) here: www.exeter.ac.uk/research/cen...
01.10.2025 14:02 — 👍 29 🔁 15 💬 1 📌 2
October 2025's Antifa Action of the Month: Welcome Migrants. Welcome Refugees.
open.substack.com/pub/antifain...
#antifa , #refugeeswelcome , #NoOneIsIlegal , #KeinMenschIstIllegal , #YourBordersKill , #antifascist, #antifascism
No football on first Saturday of November so might do this!
www.newportrising.co.uk/events/torch...
had an amazing in-depth conversation w/ @jaredlholt.bsky.social & @michaelehayden.bsky.social about the history of the antifa bogeyman in America, what antifa is in the MAGA imagination, and what Trump's executive order declaring antifa "domestic terrorists" means
open.spotify.com/episode/7xlC...
How much Russian oil and gas is Europe still importing?
www.thetimes.com/article/dd9d...
Trump and Putin are threatening to carve up Europe between them. Suddenly, it all feels a bit 1939 | Simon Tisdall
28.09.2025 07:47 — 👍 294 🔁 136 💬 26 📌 15
Department of war on your own people.
America, you’re so fucked.
Trump orders deployment of troops to Portland and authorises 'full force' www.bbc.com/news/article...
A mini-conference today and tomorrow at Lund University brining together analytic political
philosophy and anarchism. A growing area of research.
A busy day lined up: listening in to the "Analytic Anarchism" conference this morning; then a quick trip to an archive to snap a photo of a fake passport of an Indian revolutionary, followed by a talk on "The Indian Legion of the Wehrmacht", and a talk on transnational Japanese anarchism tonight.
26.09.2025 05:52 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2More to the point, does anyone know what the government’s priorities are for HE?!?
26.09.2025 06:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Amazon workers' weekly wage = 1 pebble
Jeff Bezos net worth = THE ENTIRE BEACH
Professor Anthony King from the Strategy and Security Institute spoke about his research into the culture of the British Army on BBC Radio 2. Listen again here
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
