Miriam Matthiessen

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Today, Dec 6, 2025
NYC Hands Off Training
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No ICE in NYC!

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Spanish network RTVE withdrawing from Eurovision because of participation of Israel:

“The humanitarian situation in Gaza and the use of the competition for political objectives on the part of Israel make it harder and harder to keep Eurovision a neutral cultural event”

The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory

Here is the video of our roundtable on internationalism at @histmat.bsky.social- London conference in Nov 2025.

@leninology.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social

m.youtube.com/live/qdlUYhI...

The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.

I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University

www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

Beyond the Apocalypse • EQUATOR How visions of catastrophe shape the ‘climate solutions’ imposed by aid agencies

Beautiful piece by @amitav.bsky.social

“climate solutions that do not make adequate provision for the inherent uncertainties of modelling, or for the wishes, hopes and aspirations of people on the ground, will always run the risk of causing anticipatory ruination.”
www.equator.org/articles/bey...

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Seafarer abandonment has always been a form of organised state abandonment

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My first ever @histmat.bsky.social has been incredible so far - thank you comrades!!

Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!

Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!

We're having another party 🎉

Join us at The Lamb on 7 Nov to celebrate ISSUE #2, with readings from contributors and special guests followed by drinks!

Come join us 🎈👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-breakd...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face” – Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar

The translated version: www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...

Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...

Mycket stark granskning av nederländska Volkskrant. 114 fall där barn under 15 år i Gaza skjutits i huvudet eller bröstet av IDF, enligt sammanställning med hjälp av 15 internationella läkare som jobbat där.
www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

”De sparkade på mig varje gång flaggan nuddade mitt ansikte” Greta Thunberg om skräckdygnen i israeliskt fängelse Slag, sparkar och hot om att gasas i burar. Greta Thunberg och flera andra ur flottiljen berättar nu detalj

www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/0V...

An extensive account of the horrors Greta went through in Israel, and the violent neglect and gaslighting she was met with by the Swedish gov and consular services on the ground. Hope this tarnishes whatever is left of Sweden’s intl reputation once and for all

I am very happy with this episode about a total lunatic who just might be right

Again, got to be one of the best dig episodes I’ve ever listened to and the bar is *sky* high

Bild på Björn Söderberg, som mördades av nazister 12/10 1999.

Antifascism är självförsvar. Minns Björn Söderberg.

There is no single way to resist; only the courage to invent one. 👍

Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable

This episode is soooooo good

She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.

Working on fresh approaches to infrastructures? If you can imagine editing a special issue with us, send us a proposal!

Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025

Send proposals to our editors-in-chief:

Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi
agnieszka.joniak@unifr.ch

Tina Harris
C.H.Harris@uva.nl

Editors' notes — HELIOTROPE

Ongoing CFP:

Heliotrope is seeking submissions on a rolling basis. This a space for short think-&-feel pieces... www.heliotropejournal.net/editors-notes

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

Hard to undersell how huge this palestine demo in amsterdam was today.

there were over a quarter million of us in the streets of Amsterdam today. Free Palestine, solidarity forever