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Writing isn’t just about what you say, it’s about what you refuse to lose in the process.

Read my conversation with Cas Mudde on writing, voice, and resisting conformity in academia, in the media, and on the page.

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Today, we rejoice in the sight of children celebrating in Gaza, but we mourn for the children whose laughter we will never hear.

My statement on the announcement of a ceasefire.

Who on 'the left' could have predicted the catastrophe that is Starmer's Labour Party and the rise of the far right? Almost anyone outside the cult of centrism.

Counterrevolution w/ Melinda Cooper Featuring Melinda Cooper on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. Neoliberalism remade the American economy into an engine for the appreciation of assets stretching from the...

New @thedigradio.bsky.social: first of two w @melindacooper.bsky.social on Counterrevolution: Extravagance and Austerity in Public Finance. How neoliberalism remade US capitalism into an engine for endless asset appreciation, and the attendant reactionary politics www.thedigradio.com/podcast/coun...

One path to a successful career as a columnist is to be repeatedly wrong. Not to have unique takes on matters of opinion, but confident declarations proven wrong by events. If you can condescend to people proven right no matter how often you are wrong, the most prominent media would like to pay you.

Labour Party conference: Will Palestinians get a mention in Starmer’s speech? The legacy of Keir Starmer's government will be its complicity in one of the greatest crimes against humanity of our times

This government’s legacy will be its complicity in the greatest crime of our time.

My piece for @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social.

www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/labo...

I’m a member of Your Party - and if you haven’t joined yet, you should too.

I’ll remain a fierce advocate for the grassroots – and will continue to fight hard for maximum member democracy.

Now published: issue 33.1 of the Historical Materialism journal. Featuring articles on Black radicalism in Detroit, Marx as a dialectical writer, translations of Julius Dickmann and Fabiola Escárzaga, the question of 'alien powers', Marxist epistemology, Safdie Brothers’ Heaven Knows What, ...

In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green?

New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g

This government could have taken on the super-rich to tackle inequality.

They chose to fan the flames of racism and embolden the far-right instead.

Our country needs a change in direction, now.

It’s time for a real alternative that redistributes wealth, ownership and power.

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

Just a reminder that this is next Monday (9/15) y'all.
www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

I really enjoyed this conversation on INDIGNITY with David for @ppfideas.bsky.social - it is even better if you listen to the whole series (previous two episodes were on philosophical and then legal/political interpretations of dignity)!

Francis FitzGibbon · Short Cuts: Why Juries Matter In this country, trial by jury is constitutive of a fair, credible, legitimate system of criminal justice. It is what...

‘While the judiciary does not represent the diversity of the population at large, juries are the opposite.’

Francis FitzGibbon (@ffkc.bsky.social) on the Leveson report’s proposals to reduce the number of trials decided by juries: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!

Today’s episode is the first in a 3-part conversation with philosopher & writer @leaypi.bsky.social about the idea of dignity and its role in the history of ideas and in the story of our lives. What is the difference between dignity and dignitas?

Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com

Full marks to the Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly to curating this great Special Issue on academic writing, with personal ‘Reflections on Writing’ from Nikki Lacey, Emily Jackson, Conor Gearty @tamarahervey.bsky.social & many more. Well done NILQ!

All open access: nilq.qub.ac.uk/index.php/ni...

Lea Ypi on parallels between the 1930s and today Why the ‘unmixing of peoples’ is a dangerous idea

Lea Ypi also talks very eloquently in this podcast with @gideonrachman.bsky.social on the left, philosophy and the parallels between the 1930s and today www.ft.com/content/b952...

Podcast: Richard Seymour and Thomas Jones · The Debt to David Graeber

In the latest episode of the podcast, @leninology.bsky.social joins @moonjets.bsky.social to discuss the life and work of anthropologist David Graeber.

Listen here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

excited to see this essay out in the RRPE Special Issue on Climate and Change I am co-editing with some other great scholars. This essay in particular, on the calculation debate and climate change, is super interesting. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

It's remarkable how ~2017-2019 was an all-hands existential struggle to eradicate the unacceptable scourge of bigotry and racism from British politics forever, and now it's this, all day, every day, and not a single one of our commentariat has noticed nor has anything to say about it.

The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector - Feminist Legal Studies Feminist Legal Studies -

In this piece entitled “The Unbearable Arabness of Being: Anti-Arab Racisms in the Human Rights Sector,” Fatima Ahdash reflects on the orientalism and racism underpinning Western human rights organisations, arguing that a complete overhaul of the sector is urgently necessary. Read (for free) here:

NLR 154, July–August 2025 NLR 154, July–August 2025. Includes articles by Julian Stallabrass, Martti Koskenniemi, Susan Watkins, Julia Hertäg, Carolyn Lesjak, Aaron Benanav, Kevin Gray and Jonathan Ree

NLR 154 now online

Featuring Susan Watkins on Israel, Aaron Benanav on a world beyond capitalism, Martti Koskenniemi on international law, Kevin Gray on the Korean right, Julia Hertäg on cinema of the German working class, and much more...

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newleftreview.org/issues/ii154

If you missed it, the discussion was recorded and now available on our YouTube channel.

Instead of criminalising peaceful demonstrators, the Government should be focusing on taking immediate and unequivocal action to put a stop to Israel’s genocide and ending any risk of UK complicity in it.

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Also, no one starts off knowing how to draw well.
YOU HAVE TO DRAW BADLY FIRST TO GET BETTER.
You have to draw daily, badly, before you ever get better.
And its fun, sometimes, and painful, sometimes.
Why are we teaching our students that none of this matters because "the machine will do it"

Why was this accepted 3.5 years ago and only published now? Our crack team @lastpositivist.bsky.social @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @nathan-gabriel.bsky.social never turned in the final MS! For your viewing pleasure: On the Stability of Racial Capitalism!
journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...

ITV were interviewing a guy who was holding a white flag in the street in early 2024. As soon as the cameraman switched off his camera and they started to walk away, an IDF sniper shot the white guy flag through the heart. The problem here has not been a failure of understanding.

British Jewish leaders call for rapid increase in Gaza aid UK’s largest Jewish body adds to pressure on Israel, saying recent move to allow in limited aid was ‘long overdue’

It’s too late now to start worrying about whether the genocide makes you look bad, lads. Everyone saw.

The blue cover of the book Hope Without Hope by Matt Broomfield is shown in front of a blue textured background and a yellow rectangle. Foreground text says "OUT TODAY!" in bold colorful text, with an arrow pointing to the book.

Matt Broomfield's 𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘦 𝘞𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘦: 𝘙𝘰𝘫𝘢𝘷𝘢 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 is now available wherever you buy or borrow books. And of course you can get it directly from the source (us! that's us!): www.akpress.org/hope-without...

No it does not.