Ash Sharma

Mark Serwotka isn’t ONLY a transphobe, he’s literally married to the founder of Woman’s Place UK

“Your“ Party is doomed to repeat the same mistakes as the British Left over and over because the red carpet is continually rolled out for people who’s only job seems to be to wreck campaigns

Thanks. Looks great.

This is a brilliant easy on empire loyalism, multicultural drift and dispossessed whiteness in outer south London.

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Tragic Utopias 1970s Revolutionary Struggles, Third Cinema, Memories of Bandung

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Gaza has sealed the fate of the West, even if the repercussions are not felt for decades. The damage has been done. There is no way to undo what has been witnessed by billions of people, both in the West and in the Global South.

Bandung at 70 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference 2025

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URGENT: No more statements of condemnation. Sanction Israel NOW. The Israeli government has announced a complete invasion of the Gaza Strip, and last night the IDF murdered five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza including its most prominent reporter Anas Al Sharif. We are w

No more statements of condemnation. No more “keeping dialogue open” to allow trickles of aid deliveries. No more complicity in ethnic cleansing and genocide. We call on every government in the world to urgently suspend trade and sanction Israel NOW.

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Displacement of Gaza residents in 2025. Copyright Jaber Jehad Badwan. Image is not linked to the letter but is taken from a post about the famine in Gaza by one of the letter's authors https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/research/centres/health-humanitarian-crises-centre/news/465306/famine-and-genocide-gaza-personal-view

UK-based academics: sign & circulate this open letter pub'd by @bmj.com to Starmer & Lammy to act to stop genocide & famine in Gaza
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
The letter was initiated by UK medical experts but UK academics of all disciplines are asked to sign
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"Western powers are not only colluding in genocide, but ... language has been twisted beyond recognition: mercenaries slaughtering the starving call themselves the ​'Gaza Humanitarian Foundation'; wars of aggression become ​'self defense.'"

Israel is deliberately starving Palestinians, UN rights expert says Exclusive: UN special rapporteur on the right to food Michael Fakhri says denial of food is war crime and constitutes ‘a situation of genocide’

The deliberate starvation of Gaza was predicted 18 months ago by the top UN expert on the right to food. This is not unexpected, our political leaders knew this what they were backing
@michaelfakhri.bsky.social
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Now that U.S. officials have wrapped up their visit to Potemkin aid distribution sites in Gaza, the IDF can resume the regularly scheduled shooting of desperate people seeking food.

YouTube video by grodvin 1982 Open University Programme About Children's Television

You might be interested in Stuart Hall comparing the active urban risk-based play of Sesame Street quite favourably to its much more paternalistic, domestic and racialised middle-class British equivalents for the Open University.
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Palestine Action documentary makers fear being criminalised under anti-terror laws Exclusive: Directors of To Kill a War Machine take legal advice as Home Office plans to proscribe protest group

"We’ve had authorities in Bangladesh telling us we shouldn’t even be editing footage of garment workers and activists advocating for their rights, and we’ve been followed by the police in Cambodia, but we have never encountered anything like this" www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ju...

Palestine Action is part of Britain's proud history of protest. Proscribing it is an assault on democracy | Suresh Grover Through decades of anti-racist campaigning, I have seen that peaceful, direct action can be the only way to get results, says campaigner Suresh Grover

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Bandung’s 70th: Afro-Asia Moving Notes - a discussion with Kuan-Hsing Chen On the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, join eminent scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen on how we think through current conditions from Inter-Asian and Bandung perspectives.

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Bandung’s 70th: Afro-Asia Moving Notes - a discussion with Kuan-Hsing Chen On the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, join eminent scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen on how we think through current conditions from Inter-Asian and Bandung perspectives.

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

Bandung’s 70th: Afro-Asia Moving Notes - a discussion with Kuan-Hsing Chen On the 70th anniversary of the Bandung Conference, join eminent scholar Kuan-Hsing Chen on how we think through current conditions from Inter-Asian and Bandung perspectives.

www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

The Bandung Spirit In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of ...

Latest Tricontinental Dossier, The Bandung Spirit

In 1955, the leaders of former Global South colonies met in Bandung, Indonesia, brought together by a common spirit for national liberation and cooperation. Seventy years later, is there any trace of it left?

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Frantz Fanon once said “The colonized’s sector is a famished sector, hungry for bread,meat,shoes,coal,& light” In it “you are born anywhere, anyhow. You die anywhere, from anything"

I was on Return to Bandung podcast on how societies are being beat back into poverty
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How Can the Global South Fulfill the Promise of Bandung in the 21st Century? | Common Dreams To celebrate the spirit of Bandung is not simply to mark 70 years since the Asia-Africa Conference, but to affirm what being faithful to its principles and ideals means today.

Can we fulfill the aspirations of Bandung without bringing forth a post-capitalist system of economic, social, and political relations?
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So this looks good: a Bandung conference at LSE. Kuan-Hsing Chen, Noer Rachman, Hilmar Farid, Su Lin Lewis, John Munro, Jesook Song, Priyamvada Gopal, Ashwani Sharma ('independent scholar' -- way to go), Ling Zhang, Zhiguang Yin. #Bandung

International Symposium on 70 Years Since the Bandung Conference Event exploring the legacies of the 1995 Bandung Conference, third-world internationalism

www.lse.ac.uk/seac/events/... Might be of interest.

“Pools of Blood”: Israel Kills 100 Palestinians in Gaza, Incl. Attack on Restaurant and Marketplace Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 100 people over the past 24 hours, as bombs, missiles and drones fell on homes, businesses, apartment buildings, and tents housing displaced Pale...

Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip have killed at least 100 people over the past 24 hours, as bombs, missiles and drones fell on homes, businesses, apartment buildings, and tents housing displaced Palestinians.

www.democracynow.org/2025/5/8/hea...

Except that no credible biologist would support this definition of "biological sex."

Reason and facts have not triumphed. Only reaction, bigotry and gender conformism.

Illegally Female The UK's Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that trans women are not legally considered women.

What will happen to us un-women? My thoughts on today’s UK Supreme Court decision excluding trans women from the legal category of women. Over at Autostraddle: www.autostraddle.com/uk-supreme-c...

Whither the University After the love has gone

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Third Cinemas On Ritwik Ghatak and Payal Kapadia

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Screening Resistance Exploring the changing media in challenging racism and fascism.

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(and lots of online attendance left too of course!)