Ruth Fletcher

An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

State Capitalist Mutations under Trump 2.0 - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Economic historians may thus remember Trump 2.0 as the great accelerator of 21st-century state capitalism, a historically specific form of capitalism whereby the fusion of private and state capital re...

Handing over the hosting of @iliasalami.bsky.social from USyd - thanks to @garethbryant.bsky.social - to UQ - thanks to @shaharhameiri.bsky.social and @drmeljohnston.bsky.social with this piece of his on state capitalism as your catch up reading.

Beyond intersectional political economy - Progress in Political Economy (PPE) Is gender oppression a structurally necessary feature in the constitution and reproduction of capitalism, and is discrimination based on race also an in-built necessary element in the making and remak...

Looking forward to dialoguing today with @iliasalami.bsky.social on raced finance in IPE. Here’s a contribution to the debate on the “dialectical tensions” that exist in raced finance; or with @abieler.bsky.social what we call the dialectical matrix of class, gender, race—beyond a “trinity formula”

Flora Renz · Law’s searching for biological truth: For Women Scotland and the UK Supreme Court (2025)

Apropos of today’s news I just had a piece published in Radical Philosophy about the turn towards biological essentialism in law and policy. I’m arguing the SC decision in FWS and attempts to restrict disability welfare fundamentally come from the same place of wanting to limit state protections

Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal

It is once again not nothing - and not dismissible as convenience or bad faith - that this fascist seizure of grant infrastructure narrates itself as a contribution to the reproducibility crisis. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

Showcasing the Transfeminine Nominees for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards (CW #13) Eleven books by transfeminine authors have been nominated for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards! Winners announced on October 4th.

Eleven books by transfeminine authors have been nominated for the 2025 Lambda Literary Awards!

In this article, I've compiled them all into an easy-access reading list for anyone who wants to check them out before the October 4th ceremony 🩷

Shoutout to @lambdaliterary.org for recognizing our work!

We have 3 jobs going @qmschooloflaw.bsky.social where I have the best colleagues committed to critical & contextual study of law in a great HSS faculty

2 senior lecturers, 1 x Obligations/Tort, 1 x Property Law, apply by 15 August

1 lecturer in property law www.qmul.ac.uk/jobs/vacanci... by 22 Aug

'That must be hard' Laura Goodman on raising children with allergies. Illustration by Sing Yun Lee.

Kudos + thanks @vittles.bsky.social for carrying this powerful and accurate essay about the reality of parenting and feeding children with allergies.

Do I wish I could just shove an omelette in front of them? Sure. It’s not the bit that leaves me strung out.

www.vittlesmagazine.com/p/that-must-...

vital links between food production and fascism in britain made in @vittles.bsky.social this morning — including labour's renewal of the seasonal worker scheme which could be in violation of intl. human rights law. food sovereignty and land justice now!

Diary of a Popcorn Seller A week in the life of a popcorn seller in a multiplex cinema. Words by Lucy Fitzgerald. Illustration by Liam Cobb.

Beautifully observed "you see a lot of teenagers figuring out how to act in real time and you feel sharp pangs over their ... ...Working out how to be in the world for the first time is a long, hostile process" via Lucy Fitzgerald in @vittles.bsky.social

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South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water **With Famine on the rise, we will significantly lower tent purchases and focus on food (rice and bread) and water over the next couple of weeks**

South Gaza: Tents, Food & Water

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Hey everyone! Queers for Palestine, Trans Kids Deserve Better, The Dyke Project, London Trans Pride, Fag Revolt and RS21 Are calling the entire queer and trans community to join us outside the vile Wes Streeting's constituency office. We are responding to the Palestinian Youth Movement's call for a 'Siege on Labour' on Monday: When: Monday 4th August at 6 PM Where: 12a Highview Parade, Ilford, IG4 5EP (15 minute walk from Gants Hill central line station) ? Why: Wes Streeting and the vicious 'Labour Party' are accomplices in the zionist-made famine in Gaza. Streeting is also responsible for the deaths of many trans kids past and future. We are taking unified action across the country on Monday with these demands: 1. A full two-way arms embargo on Israel 2. An end to British RAF surveillance flights over Gaza 3. For the British government to use all UN and sanctions levers to force Israel to allow aid into Gaza 4. For David Lammy to resign as foreign minister after lying to the public about arms sales to Israel This government is dripping in the blood of our trans siblings and of the Palestinian people. We must act together to force Labour to meet these demands.

Protest outside Wes Streeting's office on Monday

Must-Reads and Why Everything Feels Harder Right Now "Don't lose your heart,” says Sarah Kendzior.

My latest must-reads list and some thoughts on why everything feels harder right now. “We're dealing with a series of horrors that are vicious, and they're spiritually exhausting and difficult to combat in law," says @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. "Authoritarianism is here ... and it's sadistic.”

A Timeline of Loss and Capture for Chicago’s Black Collections and Artworks — Loss/Capture A Timeline of Loss and Capture for Chicago’s Black Collections and Artworks Published as a companion piece to the essay Don’t It Always Seem To Go:...

"Published as a companion piece to the essay Don’t It Always Seem To Go: On the Loss and Capture of Black (re)Collections, this is a list of cultural collections, papers, and artworks that speak to the history and heritage of Black Chicago." losscaptureproject.cargo.site/A-Timeline-o...

Open letter from UK university staff: Request for biometric deferral and safe evacuation of incoming Palestinian students and scholars from Gaza to UK Universities More than 40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study. We, the academic community hoping to welcome these scholars, ca...

>40 students currently trapped in Gaza with full scholarships to UK Universities are asking for a safe route to come and study

Petition for UK academics asking govt to facilitate a biometric visa deferral and open a route of safe passage

Sign & share ⏬️

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@pashukanist.bsky.social & co. masterpiece that everyone should read

& it looks even more 🔥🔥🔥 than online & IT HAS THAT FRESH BOOK SMELL (in case you needed another reason to ordered it right this moment)

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...

A note from me on the significance of the recent move partially to decriminalise #abortion in England and Wales

Against a backdrop of rising prosecutions for ‘later’ pregnancy endings, #decrim in Northern Ireland through human rights mechanisms, and uneven commitment to decriminalisation as a whole

‚How does Germany expect to achieve N end to the tragedy if it refuses to adopt any sanctions against Israel?‘
Josep Borrell

"There is no excuse for what’s happening in Gaza. This tragedy must end now, immediately and decisively. Every political hesitation, every attempt at justification of the horrors being committed under international watch, will forever be judged as a collective failure to preserve humanity in war.”

Gaza | The scale of human suffering and the stripping of human dignity have long exceeded every acceptable standard, both legal and moral.

This tragedy must end now.

Mirjana Spoljaric, ICRC President: ms.spr.ly/63327sGyPt

I thought that most of the institutions would go along with authoritarianism because they support some fascism. But I didn't think it would be so fast.

Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die - AFP, July 21, 2025 AFP has been working with one freelance writer, three photographers, and six freelance videographers in the Gaza Strip since the departure of its staff journalists in 2024. Along with a few others, they are now the only ones reporting what is happening in the Gaza Strip. The international press has been banned from entering the territory for nearly two years. We refuse to see them die. One of them, Bashar, has worked for AFP since 2010, first as a fixer, then as a freelance photographer, and since 2024 as the main photographer. On Saturday, July 19, he managed to post a message on Facebook: "I no longer have the strength to work for the media. My body is thin and I can no longer work."

Bashar, 30, works and lives in conditions equal to those of all Gazans, moving from one refugee camp to another as Israeli bombardments dictate. For over a year, he has lived in absolute destitution and works at enormous risk to his life. Hygiene is a major problem for him, with periods of severe intestinal illness. Bashar has been living in the ruins of his Gaza City home since February with his mother, his four siblings, and the family of one of his brothers. Their house is devoid of any amenities or comforts, except for a few cushions. On Sunday morning, he reported that his older brother had "fallen from hunger." Even though these journalists receive a monthly salary from AFP, there is nothing to buy, or only at exorbitant prices. The banking system has disappeared, and those who exchange money between online bank accounts and cash charge a commission of nearly 40%.

AFP no longer has the means to have a vehicle, let alone the fuel to allow its journalists to travel for their reports. Traveling by car is tantamount to running the risk of being a target for the Israeli air force. AFP reporters therefore travel on foot or by donkey cart. Ahlam, for her part, survives in the south of the enclave. And she is determined to "bear witness" for as long as possible. "Every time I leave the tent to cover an event, conduct an interview, or document a story, I don't know if I'll come back alive." The biggest problem, she confirms, is the lack of food and water. We see their situation worsening. They are young, and their strength is failing them. Most no longer have the physical ability to travel the enclave to do their job. Their heartbreaking pleas for help are now daily.

Over the past few days, we have understood from their brief messages that their lives no longer depend on much and that their courage, devoted for many months to informing the whole world, will not help them survive. We risk learning of their deaths at any moment, and it's unbearable. This Sunday, Bashar wrote: "For the first time, I feel defeated." Later that day, he told one of us that he thanked him "for explaining what we live daily between death and hunger." "I wish Mr. Macron could help me get out of this hell." Ahlam is still standing. "I try to continue practicing my profession, to carry the voice of the people, to document the truth in the face of all attempts to silence it. Here, resistance is not a choice: it's a necessity." Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing a colleagues die of starvation.

“Since AFP was founded in August 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, we have had wounded and prisoners in our ranks, but none of us remembers seeing our colleagues die of starvation.”

The AFP news release has been released in French. Below is an English translation via Google translate.

Sans intervention immédiate, les derniers reporters de Gaza vont mourir 21 juillet 2025 L'AFP travaille avec une pigiste texte, trois photographes et six pigistes vidéo dans la Bande de Gaza depuis le départ de ses journalistes staff courant 2024. Avec quelques autres, ils sont aujourd'hui les seuls à rapporter ce qu'il se passe dans la Bande de Gaza. La presse internationale est interdite d'entrer dans ce territoire depuis près de deux ans. Nous refusons de les voir mourir. L'un deux, Bashar, collabore pour l'AFP depuis 2010, d'abord comme fixeur, ensuite comme photographe pigiste, et depuis 2024 comme principal photographe. Samedi 19 juillet, il est parvenu à poster un message sur Facebook: « Je n'ai plus la force de travailler pour les médias. Mon corps est maigre et je ne peux plus travailler ». Bashar, 30 ans, travaille et vit dans des conditions égales à celles de tous les Gazaouis, allant d'un camp de réfugiés à un autre camp au gré des bombardements israéliens. Depuis plus d'un an il vit dans le dénuement le plus total et travaille en prenant d'énormes risques pour sa vie. L'hygiène est pour lui un problème majeur, avec des périodes de maladies intestinales sévères. Bashar vit depuis février dans les ruines de sa maison de Gaza City avec sa mère, ses quatre frères et sœurs et la famille d'un de ses frères. Leur maison est vide de tout aménagement et confort, à part quelques coussins. Dimanche matin, il a rapporté que son frère aîné était « tombé, à cause de la faim ». Même si ces journalistes reçoivent un salaire mensuel de l'AFP, il n'y a rien à acheter ou alors à des prix totalement exorbitants. Le système bancaire a disparu, et ceux qui pratiquent le change entre les comptes bancaires en ligne et l'argent liquide prennent une commission de près de 40%. L'AFP n'a plus la possibilité d'avoir un véhicule et encore moins de l'essence pour permettre à ses journalistes de se déplacer pour leurs reportages. Circuler en voiture équivaut de toutes les façons à pre…

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency.

They are out of energy and they are starving to death.

I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it.

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partial screenshot of a donation receipt for $100 USD to the Workshops for Gaza matching campaign for the Sameer Project

There's a new matching campaign for the Sameer Project, helping their South Campaign providing vital emergency aid in Gaza up on @workshops4gaza.bsky.social - the Refaat Alareer mobile library is matching up to $6k totally. Donating the equivalent of the profits from this week's photo & poster sales

This is a screenshot of the front cover of the book. The top half contains the title, "Workable Accents: How International Teaching Assistants Vocally Fashion and Contest Academic Labor," and my full name, Vijay A. Ramjattan. The bottom half contains a multi-coloured speech bubble with multiracial hands reaching out to it from four corners.

My book is now officially available to order!

Workable Accents critically explores how international teaching assistants in Canadian universities vocally fashion and contest various aspects of their academic labour.

Please ask your university or local library to order a copy:

shorturl.at/MfGLQ

QMUCU submission to EHRC consultation QMUCU submitted a response to the Equality and Human Rights Commission about the Supreme Court’s ruling on trans lives.

As a union branch, we are committed to defending the rights & dignity of all our members. Our submission to the EHRC consultation affirms our stance: trans rights are workers’ rights, and we will continue to organise against discrimination in all its forms. Read the submission here:

TODAY!

There is, undoubtedly, much to say about the ICJ’s landmark advisory opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change. In this post, Julian and I begin by unpacking the Court’s treatment of the sources of international law governing climate change and how those sources interact.

YouTube video by BBC News Former US Green Beret says Israel committed war crimes at Gaza food distribution site | BBC News

"Without question I witnessed war crimes by the Israel Defence Forces, without a doubt.

"Using artillery rounds, mortar rounds, firing tank rounds into unarmed civilians is a war crime.”

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@isafei.bsky.social und ich stellen diesen Freitag unsere Bücher (Bodenschätze/At the End of Property) beim @sfb294.bsky.social vor, was ich an dieser Stelle als willkommene Gelegenheit für Werbung nehme:

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