Vincent Guermond

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Financing the border: racial capitalism, migration, and the practices of the Canadian state Canada is often recognised as one of the most progressive nations in the world when it comes to the acceptance of refugees and multiculturalism as national policy. However, the longer history of bo...

New article out with Rachel Phillips in @ripejournal.bsky.social: 'Financing the Border', Part of a special issue on Raced Finance guest edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social, @vincentguermond.bsky.social and me

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Really good itw of Zarah Sultana.

"What I want – and I struggle to see how a successful left party could be set up in any other way – is a campaigning, social-movement orientation combined with a robust parliamentary presence."

newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

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David Lammy, you can't hide!

Hundreds of people currently heading to his constituency office to call his complicity in genocide out!

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I heard you're now at QM? We should go for a coffee soon.

Excellent piece on the housing crisis in Europe!

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Very excited to give this talk in Sydney in early August, presenting new research (conducted with @vincentguermond.bsky.social and @alibhagat.bsky.social) on race and finance.

Freedom as Autonomy: platform workers’ struggles and the future of work in Argentina — CLaSP Blog Sofia Negri asks how we can build a future of work that transforms the salaried relationship to reconcile autonomy with social protection.

An excellent piece by Sofia Negri in the @clasp-qmul.bsky.social blog on platform workers' search for autonomy.

www.claspblog.org/blogposts/ac...

Straight from a Chaplin film from 1918.

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TOMORROW in-person @qmul.ac.uk 2.30pm - @aargatsbmatqmul.bsky.social hosts an event on the Multiple Crises of Higher Education, exploring the various financial, governance, accountability crises rocking the sector.

A few tickets left. Register free:

www.tickettailor.com/events/queen...

Although it kinda makes you rethink your life choices when you're reading this while carrying your 10-weeks-old baby in a sling...

A very powerful book on love and how we all somehow fail at it.

It's a deeply political and personal critique of what it means to love (and be loved) in our patriarchal, transphobic and consumerist society.

The History of Revolutionary Ideas: Marx and the Paris Commune Past Present Future · Episode

A brilliant short episode on the Paris Commune and why Marx thought it was so important for a future communist society.

open.spotify.com/episode/0syU...

April is the Cruelest Month | The Polycrisis Diversification and dedollarization in the world economy

“In international relations, trade, security and markets, the themes are the same: the rest of the world is seeking to diversify, decarbonize, defend, and dedollarize.”

NEW by @katemac.bsky.social + @70sbachchan.bsky.social on the month since Liberation Day www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/apr...

It is tomorrow - come along if you're in London!

www.claspblog.org/events/spect...

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mine and Alex's second book, 'Fascism and the Women's Cause' is out TODAY, published by @ebb.bsky.social

please buy it, read it, share it, order it from your local library. and please help us to spread the word about it as we're too exhausted to do it ourselves lol.

📣 28-29 May at QMUL @clasp-qmul.bsky.social End of Year Event on 'The Materialities of AI', feat. @katecrawford.bsky.social @anavaldi.bsky.social @jamesmuldoon.bsky.social @milamiceli.bsky.social @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social

Register free: www.tickettailor.com/events/centr...

‘The Spectre of State Capitalism’ — CLaSP Blog The Spectre of State Capitalism

Join us on Thursday 1st May for a talk by @iliasalami.bsky.social on 'The Spectre of State Capitalism'.

More info here: www.claspblog.org/events/spect...

@clasp-qmul.bsky.social

Attacking the world's poor: The effects of US tariffs on least developed economies — CLaSP Blog How will US tariffs affect the least developed countries? Daniel Gay considers possible impacts, highlighting how they might inflict greater pain on already struggling populations.

📣📣New on the CLaSP blog

How US tariffs will impact poorer countries such as Cambodia, Bangladesh and Lesotho.

www.claspblog.org/blogposts/at...

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🚨Event alert: "Materialities of AI: Labour, Ecology and Inequalities at the Technological Frontier", May 28-29 @qmul.ac.uk. Info + registration here: www.claspblog.org/events/mater...