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Jeffery R Webber

@jefferyrwebber.bsky.social

Professor of Politics, York University, Toronto Editor, Historical Materialism

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A new short piece, "Latin Amerrica's destituent impasse," in Capital and Class. Open access.
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24.07.2025 17:01 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

11.07.2025 15:22 — 👍 65    🔁 30    💬 3    📌 3
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Just landed in London bookshops: Resisting Erasure. A radical critique of Israel's settler-colonial capitalism and empire. by @AdamHanieh @pashukanist.bsky.social and myself. Preorder link live too www.versobooks.com/products/341...

12.07.2025 11:34 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and I have a piece out in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Trump.

spectrejournal.com/water-on-the...

24.06.2025 17:09 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

#Trump and #fascism.
spectrejournal.com/water-on-the...

24.06.2025 19:30 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Here’s Jeff Webber’s and my intervention on the nature of the Trump regime and fascism for @journalspectre.bsky.social

24.06.2025 18:11 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and I have a piece out in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Trump.

spectrejournal.com/water-on-the...

24.06.2025 17:09 — 👍 6    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Hands Off! – Spectre Journal Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.

Important piece by @nhold.bsky.social at @journalspectre.bsky.social
spectrejournal.com/hands-off/

14.06.2025 13:36 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Catch @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social talking with David Camfield about capitalism and the far right on Victor's Children ( @harbingermedia.bsky.social )

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29.05.2025 13:24 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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#53: Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Trump w/ Gordon & Webber -- and a few words about Mark Carney Play #53: Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Trump w/ Gordon & Webber -- and a few words about Mark Carney by Victor's Children on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

Todd Gordon and I talk with David Camfield on David's podcast, Victor's Children. We cover Trump, liberalism, fascism and much else besides.

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20.05.2025 02:58 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Daniel Noboa was just re-elected in Ecuador on a platform emulating the Bukele model in El Salvador. The second half of my HM piece is the long historical backdrop to Noboa's rise.

23.04.2025 15:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Self-Saboteur: The Experience of Latin American Populism This editorial perspective develops a theoretical critique of populism in Latin America, which it takes to be the predominant form that reformist politics has assumed in the region since the 1930s. It...

New piece in Historical Materialism on Latin American populism.

www.academia.edu/128965234/Se...

23.04.2025 15:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have a new piece on Latin American populism in Historical Materialism. Open access at the moment.

brill.com/view/journal...

23.04.2025 15:02 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Artist, comrade, and long-time visual contributor to the Historical Materialism project, David Mabb, has produced another great conference poster.

04.04.2025 10:27 — 👍 14    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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Crude capitalism, new centres of capital accumulation and the Middle East’s place in global imperialism: An interview with Adam Hanieh Adam Hanieh explores the need to foreground value transfers in understanding imperialism, Israel’s role in global fossil capitalism and the rising influence of the Gulf states.

Adam Hanieh on imperialism, global capitalism and the unstable world order.

links.org.au/crude-capita...

01.04.2025 13:18 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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I have a new piece, “Democracy, Left-Populism and Participatory Budgets in Latin America," on Gabriel Hetland's book on Venezuela, in Critical Sociology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

20.03.2025 16:47 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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<i>Anschluss, Schulterschluss</i> or Concrete Internationalism? In these turbulent and rapidly shifting times, we often search for quick answers. “How to respond to Trump 2.0?” is a question that calls for an immediate response here in Canada. This question harbor...

An important intervention by Stefan Kipfer for a robustly internationalist politics on the Canadian left. Another antidote to the rising tide of dead-end 'left nationalism' in this country socialistproject.ca/2025/03/ansc...

19.03.2025 16:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Openings and Closures: Socialist Strategy at a Crossroads: The Socialist Register 2025 Socialists are at a crossroads, pressed by the urgent need to find new directions amid mounting crises. Is the “new socialist” left starting over or moving on?

I offer a critical appraisal of twenty first century populism in Latin America, with special attention to Bolivia, in the latest Socialist Register. fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/opening...

You can access my piece here www.academia.edu/127278968/TH...

12.03.2025 19:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We Need Workers’ Solidarity, Not “National Unity,” in Response to Trump’s Tariffs Todd Gordon on why Canadian nationalism is a dead end, and on the need for a strategy centred around mass struggle and workers’ solidarity across borders.

Todd Gordon with an antidote to the flag waving of the last few weeks www.midnightsunmag.ca/we-need-work...

04.03.2025 01:49 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Alan Sears and I talk about Alan's new book Eros and Alienation yorku.zoom.us/rec/play/hiV...

04.03.2025 01:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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