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Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!

Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!

Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common This paper critically examines the emerging discourse on technofeudalism. While mainstream narratives celebrate technological advancement driven by American tech giants, proponents of the technofeu...

My new article "Rentier capitalism, technofascism and the destruction of the common" now published in Area Development and Policy (open access)!!
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"Felix Klein will die Presse noch staatsräsontauglicher machen"

Ein lesenswerter Kommentar von @yossibartal.bsky.social

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International Coalition Joins Push for Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty: ‘We Cannot Protect Nature While Expanding Fossil Fuels’ - Inside Climate News An international coalition of more than 1,400 governmental and civil conservation organizations has called on its members to increase efforts to curb fossil fuel extraction and work toward a global fo...

“For the first time, the IUCN has recognised what science has been telling us for decades: we cannot protect nature while expanding fossil fuels.”

insideclimatenews.org/news/1710202...

All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.

“The interests of working-class communities lie in demonstrating that the insatiable demands of the military-industrial complex are a barrier to collective flourishing.”

Khem Rogaly & @pmbigger.bsky.social on the human costs of militarisation in @jacobinmag.bsky.social
jacobin.com/2025/10/mili...

»Wir können unabhängig von unseren Regierungen handeln« Judith Scheytt war Teil der Global Sumud Flotilla. Im Gespräch erklärt sie ihre Beweggründe, berichtet von den Bedingungen in israelischer Haft und teilt ihre Perspektive auf die Verfehlungen der Bund...

In ihrem ersten Interview seit ihrer Abschiebung aus einer israelischen Haftanstalt sprach die Medienkritikerin und jüngste Sumud-Aktivistin Judith Scheytt mit mir über ihre Beweggründe – und ihre Behandlung durch israelische Behörden. Online @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social
jacobin.de/artikel/sumu...

All Guns and No Butter on a Burning Planet The insatiable demands of the military industrial complex are a barrier to human flourishing on a livable planet.

Increasing military budgets as part of rising great-power competition is a disaster across multiple fronts: for the victims of wars, for an already burning planet, and for workers who don’t see real benefits from military conflict. New from me & @transitionsec.bsky.social co-director Khem Rogaly

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn"

tapping the 'bring back shame' sign
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

EXTRACT: The Long Heat An exclusive extract from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, The Long Heat, out 7 October from Verso Books.

*EXCLUSIVE*

This week, we have a preview from Wim Carton and Andreas Malm’s latest book, 'The Long Heat' – out next week from our friends at @versobooks.bsky.social 📚

Read now👇

www.break-down.org/extract-the-...

China's wind and solar capacity additions have cooled down as expected after the rush in March-May, driven by the change in pricing policy. 8 GW of solar and 4 GW of wind was added to the grid in August, and 2025 seems comfortably on track to a new annual record.
bsky.app/profile/laur...

Now: Activists are blocking the offices of Siemens in Berlin Neukölln, claiming the company is complicit in the genocide in Gaza. Several arrests already.

Makes me remember that time he wrote a reply to himself haha

New bill seeks 65,000 visas for migrant workers in US - Global Construction Review The Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) has joined a number of US national construction bodies throwing their weight behind a bipartisan bill that would give visas to migrant workers in se...

Well well well turns out capital needs labor after all

The Costs of the Cloud | Ashley Dawson Hours after his inauguration, Donald Trump declared a “national energy emergency.” The US, he warned in an executive order, suffered from “a precariously

"alarming impact of AI on the environment: forprofit utilities will have to make $720 B in grid upgrades by 2030 to meet spiraling demand, costs that they will pass on. locking in planetchoking carbon emissions right when we should be pivoting away from fossil fuels"

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

The one piece jolly roger made it to Berlin

Xi Jinping announced China's new climate targets personally, a positive gesture, but the targets brought little clarity on China’s future emission pathway. Targeting a 7-10% emission reduction by 2035 from an undefined "peak level" undersells China's current clean energy boom.

350.org Responds to China’s New Climate Target with Analysis: “Underwhelming Yet Transformative” New York/Beijing, 24 September 2025. Speaking at the UN Climate Summit, Chinese President Xi Jinping announced China’s updated national climate...

Our @350.org response and analysis to #Chinas new #NDC:

Underwhelming yet transformative.

350.org/press-releas...

From the energy community on Reddit: Big oil’s shadow network pumped millions into Charlie Kirk’s culture war machine Explore this post and more from the energy community

An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit

It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before

I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.

Sharepic mit den Veranstaltungsdaten (als Text auf der verlinkten Webseite).

📅 Berlin | 8.10.
Grüner #Wasserstoff aus Namibia: Koloniale Kontinuität? Die namibischen Aktivisten Paul Thomas und Tjipura Unaune Tjipura im Gespräch zum Mega-Wasserstoffprojekt «Hyphen» in Namibia. 👇
www.rosalux.de/veran...

EXTRACTIVISM, GREEN AND BROWN - DIAGRAMMES "When I talk about green capitalism, it is kind of a mix of productive forces that are already deployed to produce certain products that at least are justified because they have some role in greening ...

Great interview by @mbickhardt.bsky.social with @triofrancos.bsky.social about their new book on extraction and green capitalism, which is out today!

www.diagrammes.fr/en/folders/e...

This conversation for instance has some interesting passage where they talk about the various land and ecological conflicts the preceded the eruption of protests in late August, especially in the context of the National Development Plan

leftrenewal.org/interviews-e...

Colombia Announces 1st International Phase-Out Conference — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative Colombia has announced its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026. The landmark conference will provide a global platform for countries to coop...

Today's announcement by Colombia to host an international conference on phasing out fossil fuels could not be more timely. Following the #ICJAO, it's clear that international cooperation to transition away from fossil fuels is necessary.

fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-co...

As I understand the Indonesia uprising had a pretty large environmental/climate component to it as well - capital's heavenly mandate is melting away!

Sunday in Berlin! Cricket with comrades

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Over the past few months, BlackRock and other major investment firms have abandoned their commitments to green investments, saying explicitly that it's not profitable enough. Yes, renewables are cheap... but they are not nearly as profitable as fossil fuels.

Zu lang hedd die deidsche Klimabewegung zu den Verbrecha in Gaza koi eindeidig Schdellung bzoga. Die Ufarbeidung muss au die Rolle vom fossila Imberialismus einschließa:

Geklaud vo:

Durfte in der aktuellen Ausgabe der @analysekritik.bsky.social über Gaza und die Klimabewegung schreiben

The Coming Ecological Cold War Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.

Great term: "metabolic alignment". On the US-Russia-Saudi-alliance & the "Sino-European entente": "The central axis of this geopolitical struggle will not be between liberalism and authoritarianism but a clash over the metabolic basis of modern industrial society."
foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...