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In My Room Nancy Sinatra · Boots · Song · 2021

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Primitive Accumulation: The Movie

Reposted for Paul Thomas Anderson’s birthday.

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It's quite simple: if we have the right to protest, but not the right for protest to be disruptive, we don't have the right to protest. We live in an anti-democratic, genocide perpetuating, police state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Duncan Campbell, celebrated Guardian crime reporter, dies aged 80 Tributes paid to ‘courageous’ journalist who covered police corruption, Rosemary West trial and Hatton Garden heist

Really sad to hear this. Duncan brought myself and others together to work on the Stuart Christie archive at the Mayday Rooms.

A true gent. Was never the loudest in the room but always the most interesting. Not many left in the building.
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He would fix me

I understand that the University is dying, and will eventually be replaced by some kind of new world of for profit online job training modules, but in the interregnum do we really have to endure the morbid symptoms of programs in "Leadership studies" and "Entrepreneurship"?

‘If what you want is calm
to be restored you are still the enemy
you have not thought thru clearly
what that means’

RIP Joshua Clover.

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this is probably super obvious but bears repeating loudly and often: if you’re a trans worker in the UK, you need to join a union STAT.

the workplace is where a lot of the pressure from the Supreme Court ruling is going to hit hardest and first.

On #25April we remember the power of resistance and hope.

Liberation Day in Italy and Portugal marks two uprisings, 29 years apart, united against fascism.

We honour the power of the ordinary people who rose up - and the workers who keep fighting to protect democracy today.

Contents | Labour History 126, 1 This article assesses the socialist colony of New Australia, founded in Paraguay in 1893, in its wider historical and environmental context. Drawing on archival research, the article contends that New Australia was founded as part of a broader settler ...

Our special issue of Labour History came out last year, dedicated to anti-colonialism/anti-racism and the labour movement in Australian history. Co-edited by me, @jonpiccini.bsky.social, @sophieloywilson.bsky.social and Padraic Gibson.

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YouTube video by Jimothy Lacoste Jimothy Lacoste - Magician

"Mood"

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"Historians and history students will be among those to suffer in an ongoing political culture of tough love and market solutions. Alongside its teachers and students, history—as a practice and discipline—will also suffer." 🗃️

An Introduction to Workers' Self-Management w/ Jess Thorne Red Medicine · Episode

Was great to chat with @medicinered.bsky.social about histories of worker self-management and the example of the Lucas Plan.

Trade unionists used to speak the language of workers' control. We need to learn that language again, and fast.

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Looking forward to reading and discussing it, Milburn.

An Introduction to Workers' Self-Management w/ Jess Thorne Red Medicine · Episode

Another great pod from @medicinered.bsky.social. @jlthorne.bsky.social discusses worker self management - the Lucas Plan, and reaches conclusions congruent with our forthcoming Radical Abundance book. We must move beyond defensive struggle to propositional politics.
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Fair pay for phlebotomists - UNISON South West For years, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been paying phlebotomists Band 2 wages for Band 3 work.

hey gang just a quick request for a strikefund- phlebotomists in gloucestershire have been fighting for fair pay, their fund could really use a boost, if anyone is able to spare a few £ please do & if not share so those who support striking workers will see southwest.unison.org.uk/campaigns/fa...

Big day in the office. 50+ Healthcare Assistants crash a board meeting. The Trust emailed all staff this morning. In it they tried to dupe members into accepting an inferior deal, which they are now trying to impose, with no consultation.

They should know by now that HCAs will put up a fight.

Counting up all the International Womens Day ‘woman holding a gun’ posts from men on the left and asking them how many times they have offered to run the childcare or cook the food at a political meeting

Silvia Federici on The Arcana of Reproduction [book-strip index="1" style="buy"] The Arcana of Reproduction is a unique book in the world of Marxist feminism. Generally, Marxist feminists have elaborated on the methodological significance of Marx...

Read Silvia Federici's foreword to The Arcana of Reproduction by Leopoldina Fortunati, which is part of our International Women's Day sale

Front page of CPUSA's 'Daily Worker' (New York edition) from 8 March, 1931, with headline 'Working Women! All Out! Demonstrate March 8'

In 1910, socialist women gathered in Copenhagen and first proposed an international working women's day be established. 8 March eventually became the annual day for this event.

In recognition of International Women's Day, here is a thread of articles from our journal dedicated to communist women.

Cambridge University loses bid to ban pro-Palestine protests on university sites The university sought an injunction to ban protesters from entering key university sites

Cambridge University loses bid to ban pro-Palestine protests on university sites - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-condemns-cambridge-university-seeking-ban-pro-palestine-protests

#OtD 1 Mar 1918 anarchist and anti-fascist Marie Louise Berneri was born. A central member of the @Freedom_Paper group, she went to Spain twice during the Spanish Civil War, and later helped Spanish orphans and refugees stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

February; month of love, Paris, and working like a demon.

I'm actually fuming you didn't tell me this was happening 😅 Seth!!

Omg amazing

What this Times article ignores is that this is already happenning with agricultural workers and care workers... and it is a human rights disaster.

As we reported workers live on farms in uninsulated, cramped, mouldy and unsafe housing.

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NEW REPORT 🚨"Shaping digital futures in work and society: the case of worker-led innovation" by Jessica Thorne

Commissioned & published by KIT Karlsruhe, the report offers a deeper dive into the Lucas Plan, including new interviews with former employees 👇

https://buff.ly/42J0phx

Shaping digital futures in work and society : the case of worker-led innovation Read our report exploring lessons to be learned from case studies of worker-led innovation from history.

There's been a big renewed interested in democratic, bottom up planning over the last few years as the problem of ecological transition presents itself. This excellent report by @jlthorne.bsky.social examines key antecedents including the the important Lucas Plan. Also includes incredible diagrams

Worker led innovation is key to ensuring AI at work is genuinely beneficial for all, equitable, sustainable and just. This timely and important report from @jlthorne.bsky.social KIT Karlsruhe @autonomy-institute.bsky.social sets out historical examples we can draw on to inform present challenges.