Liberty Chee

The Price of Clean Streets: How the Netherlands Deports Homeless Eastern Europeans Deportations of unsheltered EU migrants, mainly from Poland and Romania, are on the rise in the Netherlands. Some experts and NGOs regard the policy as barely legal; others argue it gives the often-ad...

balkaninsight.com/2025/10/06/t... Excellent reporting in the Balkan insight, on how the structural role of employment agencies' control of EU migrant workers housing in their deportability.

Cautiously side-eyeing election-related violence in Germany the past few years...

THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on the Right to Strike – Mauritius; Mexico; Norway; Panama; United Kingdom; Egypt The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion concerning the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87 on 7 October 2025.

webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g... Day 2

THE HAGUE – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings in the advisory proceedings on the Right to Strike – International Labour Office; International Trade Union Confederation; In... The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion concerning the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87 on 6 October 2025.

webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g... Day 1 hearing

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) holds public hearings on the request for an advisory opinion on the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87. Livestream here: www.icj-cij.org/multimedia-l...

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... New piece from Santi Regilme #eusky #polisky

YouTube video by Brit in Germany Germany's work life balance myth: What they don't show you

youtu.be/QMzGBhleKQw?... An incredibly perceptive description of the German labour market from some rando on YouTube. Pretty similar to the NL.

www.volkskrant.nl/columns-opin... OK kids! Today we discuss the pros and cons of universal suffrage. Why should women get to vote?

#RodeLijn #Amsterdam #Museumplein #GazaGenocide‌ 🍉

February 2024. It was small groups like this, protesting at the train stations (here in AMS). Lonely voices. Commuters were curious but just went walking past. It took a while, but we got to the #rodelijn

WIJ ZIJN MET MEER❗

#RodeLijn

Bursaries The Society for the Study of Labour History offers financial support to PhD students, post-graduate researchers and independent scholars engaged in postgraduate-level research, as well as to BA and…

We offer #bursaries up to £500 for final-year undergraduates or taught Masters students to support archival and library research that will contribute to a dissertation on a labour history. Find out more sslh.org.uk/bursaries-gr...

Dreamy and counterproductive got us the weekend and an 8-hour workday 🤷‍♀️

I know everyone says being an academic is just a job. It is in that we sell our labour for remuneration. But it's really not just a job. In the same way being a nurse or a doctor is not just a job. And to lose that part of your identity is painful

link.springer.com/book/10.1007... New book.

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

From the “free speech warriors”: Trump’s “compact” includes “a condition that schools take steps that might include ‘abolishing institutional units that purposefully punish, belittle, and even spark violence against conservative ideas’.”

Schiedam enforces security measures ahead of pro- and anti-asylum center demonstrations The municipality of Schiedam is implementing security measures ahead of two planned demonstrations Saturday concerning the opening of a new asylum seekers center. According to AD, authorities will iss...

nltimes.nl/2025/10/04/s... To paraphrase Bonnie Honig, what we do with foreigners, and their foreigness, refounds (or not) our democracy.

Twice, workers in Italy went on strike against the genocide. Twice, our department suspended its lectures. Not because professors joined the strike — most didn’t — but because the administrative staff did. A reminder: neither power nor morality are the prerogative of the elites. Quite the contrary.

#eusky

Revealed: EU Farm Subsidy ‘Bankrolls’ Widespread Labour Abuse This investigation was developed with the support of Journalismfund Europe. Farm owners convicted of exploiting migrant workers continue to claim millions in taxpayer-funded subsidies, DeSmog can reve...

www.desmog.com/2025/09/29/r... "With an overall budget of €378.5 billion, the Common Agricultural Policy makes up a quarter of the bloc’s expenditure. But critics say the subsidy is failing the EUs over nine million agricultural workers, of which at least one in four are estimated to be migrants."

Measurement Across the Sciences

Hmmm

Bulging Biceps Don’t Win Modern Wars Hegseth’s speech was vile. It was also stupid.

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

Well this makes things easier.

The European Commission is pleased to launch this new Science, Research & Innovation account. We look forward to connecting with the community on Bluesky! 🧪

Here you will find:
- EU scientific news
- Horizon Europe funding opportunities
- Innovative EU-supported projects
- Events, tools & resources

link.springer.com/book/10.1007... New book.

It's easy to see this speech as just weirdly performative, but there's a lot more—and a lot worse—going on here.

The meeting & speeches are part of a larger project aimed at promoting the military leadership’s partisan alignment with the administration.

How? 1/

The Rising Threat of Antisemitism Investigations In the fall of 2023, the Department of Education launched more antisemitism investigations into colleges and universities than in all previous years combined. This record was surpassed in 2024 and is…

Today, Darryl Li examines the alarming rise in campus antisemitism investigations—inquests that are often sparked by outside complaints, lack concrete evidence, and lay the groundwork for future crackdowns and grievances.

The Vietcong's secret weapon. Over a million soldiers, spies, medics, etc. Americans couldn't "see".

Closing my 12th month of formal unemployment today. This immigrant's PhD/Marie Curie fellow brain isn't just getting drained. It's getting wasted 🤷‍♀️