@kasperbrasken.bsky.social
Academy Research Fellow, University of Helsinki. Transnational & global history, antifascism, resistance, solidarity, memory & urban history. Cape Town - NYC - Chicago - London – Berlin | https://researchportal.helsinki.fi/en/persons/kasper-brasken
Disgusting. Possibly even more cynical than my own institution which uses a subsidiary of all new staff to avoid paying a decent pension (I suspect they’ll try to do it to us all soon). The effect has been to deter all mid-career applicants but desperate young people and hourly-paid still come.
This is how our government has been corrupted:
1) Donors give huge sums to elect politicians
2) Elected officials rewrite rules in donors' favor
3) Donors make huge profit
4) Repeat
We must get big money out of politics. It’s the root of all evil in Washington.
“Pluralism is a lie”
That really captures the essence of MAGA: A movement at war with the reality of American life and a large portion of the population.
And it also points to one of the regime’s key weaknesses: They have fully bought into their own white nationalist propaganda.
Project news! We have secured a book contract with Brill's Historical Materialism book series for the "Imagining the Antifascist City" edited volume. Check out the announcement below👇 helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/03/02/f...
"the Haters" my books cartoon for this week's @theguardian.com
"According to aggregated data... the total number of reported civilian deaths has reached 1168 including 194 children, most of them under the age of 10.
An additional 336 reported deaths are currently under review for verification and classification."
www.en-hrana.org/day-six-of-t...
#Iran #News
Excited that my chapter on the history of anti-fascism in Croydon will be included in a new volume to be published by
@histmat.bsky.social / @degruyterbrill.bsky.social!
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American Techno-Oligarchy, the Far Right, and the Battle over Europe’s Future buff.ly/iSXkRDY US tech oligarchs like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk align with Europe’s far right to weaken EU regulations, fragment unity, and advance anti-democratic agendas - echoing Putin’s goals.
who made this
Figures like Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon, who has explicitly compared Canada to Ukraine, see Canada as a bastion of decadent liberalism in the West that must be broken and subdued, one way or another. trib.al/Hqq63Z2
Excellent thread on the US Department of Education
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Labour did this to itself and it desperately needs to figure out what political scientists already know, which is that trying to appeal to xenophobic voters who may have voted left decades ago is a fool's errand for today's social-democratic parties & destructive to maintaining a viable coalition
1/ @marthasjones.bsky.social and @katemasur.bsky.social have drafted a seminal brief: (a) that centers Black American beliefs on birthright citizenship and (b) uses a set of primary sources, such as speeches and Colored Conventions, fought for (and won) broad birthright citizenship for everyone.
The idea of making amends for slavery has a long genealogy in Britain.
Catherine Hall (@cslbs.bsky.social) examines this history alongside vital questions of race and repair for our present moment.
❗️Dozens of people wounded as a result of the Russian attack, including children: the enemy launched 39 missiles and 420 drones at Ukraine overnight, – Zelenskyy.
There is destruction in eight regions: many private houses and apartment buildings were damaged.
"The Promise and Tragedy of the Popular Front", via @jacobinmag.bsky.social. My essay on what the Popular Front can teach us, and how the strategy could be used to move the political centre towards the left: jacobin.com/2026/02/inte...
A Texas man is facing 40 YEARS in federal prison for moving a box of “antifa” pamphlets. Daniel "Des" Sanchez Estrada wasn't even at the July 4th protest outside the Prairieland ICE detention center in Alvarado, Texas. His wife was.
www.nlg.org/alarming-cri...
What the actual fuck?
As Tommy Robinson continues to tour America and meet up with prominent figures on the far-right, here's another example of just how intertwined the extremist movements on both sides of the Atlantic have become
(Jared Taylor heads up the white supremacist American Renaissance group)
"The Promise and Tragedy of the Popular Front", via @jacobinmag.bsky.social. My essay on what the Popular Front can teach us, and how the strategy could be used to move the political centre towards the left: jacobin.com/2026/02/inte...
What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses?
Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards
My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...
Tomorrow President Zelenskyy will address the world from Ukraine during the extraordinary @europarl.europa.eu Plenary Session marking 4 years since the start of the invasion.
We stand with the brave people of Ukraine. Together we will keep pushing for a just peace & sustained security for Ukraine.
Pontus Järvstad (University of Iceland) explores in this new essay the postwar evolution of antifascism in the Nordic countries: #Spain #Portugal #Greece helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/02/17/p...
You’re on social media, so this should concern you.
The U.S. government has been asking platforms like Meta for user data.
You don’t have to be paranoid to see the problem. You just have to be paying attention. If you’re online, this includes you.
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Check out this new publication on preventing online harm to researchers by C-REX affiliates @audreygagnon.bsky.social and @tamtagelashvili.bsky.social👇
Pontus Järvstad (University of Iceland) explores in this new essay the postwar evolution of antifascism in the Nordic countries: #Spain #Portugal #Greece helsinkinotebooks.com/2026/02/17/p...
What’s one way we can rein in ICE?
We can start by boycotting ICE’s corporate collaborators that are profiting from the agency’s cruelty.
Watch.
Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.
They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.
🙏 In Odesa, tens of thousands of people were left without heating and water supply after drone strikes.
Odesa and Dnipropetrovsk region…The damage included fires and the destruction of enterprises and residential buildings.
Read more 👀
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