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Malcolm MacLean
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UK-based settler scholar grappling with colonialism, sport, culture & activism; irredeemable Tsundoku; penchant for sardonic détournement https://labourbehindthelabel.org/; https://malcolmkmaclean.net/

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Mark Anthony Neal (@NewBlackMan on X) @markanthonyneal.bsky.social · 1d
"Vice signals are not just cultural messages or aesthetic poses. They also come with a body count."

Empire of Vice | @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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Empire of Vice
In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.
www.bostonreview.net

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 3d
Kind of wild there has been almost no coverage of the fact that the federal government unleashed chemical weapons against literal kids *at school*.

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Only a few hours after ICE agent Jonathan Ross shot and killed Minneapolis resident and mother Renee Good on January 7, federal immigration enforcement agents descended onto Roosevelt High School property during school dismissal as students were exiting the building. MFE members say that ICE agents tackled and detained a school staff member and union member who was working at the time. The MFE member was since released, according to a union spokesperson. The agents also deployed a chemical irritant against students and staff on school grounds, MFE says. A school official, speaking to MPR News on condition of anonymity, said many students sheltered in a nearby library.

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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 4d
UK sports studies types; there's an intriguing looking London-based exhibition looking at new fabrics in sports wear and opening later his month - admittedly quite industry oriented, but may be of interest to some (and not far from Kings Cross station to boot) #sustainabililty #sportswear
Performance with purpose at The Mills Fabrica
Performance with purpose at The Mills Fabrica
www.innovationintextiles.com

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 5d
🔴British Woman Left ‘Stranded’ in Hungary After Home Office Refuse to Let Her Bring Niece to the UK

The 13-year-old girl, who she was given responsibility over after being abandoned by her parents, could be sent into state care because of the Home Office’s decision
bylinetimes.com/2026/01/08/b...
British Woman Left 'Stranded' in Hungary After Home Office Refuse to Let Her Bring Niece to the UK
The 13-year-old girl, who she was given parental responsibility over after being abandoned by her parents, could be sent into state care because of the Home Office's decision
bylinetimes.com

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Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes.bsky.social · 5d
Bump for my CFP for Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present www.northampton.ac.uk/research-blo... Deadline 14 February! Have had a few abstracts already and it's shaping up to be great. 🗃️
Call For Papers: Nostalgia and Radical Politics, Past and Present | UON
Centre for Historical Studies, University of Northampton, UK Monday 15 – Tuesday 16 June 2026 Nostalgia, defined most simply as a wistful or...
www.northampton.ac.uk

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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 5d
Join us on Tuesday 10 February for the 2026 Global History Lecture, hosted in partnership with @ghilondon.bsky.social

Professor Vinita Damodaran will speak on 'Decolonising the Natural History Collections of Empire' bit.ly/4qLCaYB

Booking for in-person & online attendance is now open #Skystorians
2026 Global History Lecture, with the German Historical Institute, London - RHS
On Tuesday 10 February, the Society hosts its annual Global History Lecture, in partnership with the German Historical Institute, London. This year we are delighted to welcome Professor Vinita Damodar...
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Academy of Social Sciences @acadsocsciences.bsky.social · 6d
The contemporary relevance of the social sciences is a joint publication with @sagepub.com and demonstrates how the social sciences are contributing to the wellbeing of the UK through 8 broad principles supported with evidence & case studies. Download the report📖 ➡️ acss.org.uk/publications...
The contemporary relevance of the social sciences – Academy of Social Sciences
November 2025
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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 7d
There's proposals arond meaning that the EU could adopt Trump-style rules that would allow home raids and deporting people to countries they’ve never set foot in. If we don’t speak up now, this could become the new normal. Please sign the petition! action.wemove.eu/sign/2025-12...
Say No to Mass Deportations in Europe
The EU could adopt Trump-style rules that would allow home raids and deporting people to countries they’ve never set foot in. If we don’t speak up now, this could become the new normal. Sign the petit...
action.wemove.eu

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Nandita Sharma @nsharma101.bsky.social · 8d
We are witnessing a sea-change in the form of state power. Trump is ushering in a dissolution of the postcolonial world order of nation-states.

But it isn't a simple resurrection of imperial states. It is new: the anti-migrant politics of nation-states + "indirect" colonization. Seatbelts required

Reposted by Richard Hall, Malcolm MacLean, Ramiro D. Crego

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 8d
The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking.

It exposes that much of the world has been cowed.

Most notable exception: the Latin American left.

That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 8d
On the day we see the US regime reviving the Monroe Doctrine, it's worth remembering also it'd be CLR James 125 birthday; it's also worth revisiting his 1986 discussion with Stuart Hall. How the world as changed that this was on broadcast TV #anti-imperialism
In Conversation with Stuart Hall
YouTube video by susie2010ism
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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 12d
Aye, Jules, I was struck by their dialogue as a pathway to a humane and more-than-humanistic future grounded in practices of co-resistance: an invigorating book to inspire

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Workshops4Gaza @workshops4gaza.bsky.social · 16d
4 of the hunger strikers are still going. And unless we up the pressure the state is going to get away with killing them. Please read this and use our toolkit to take action.

www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Hunger striker loses ability to stand as the strike hits day 55
As hunger strikes reach day 55, the message from strikers is clear: 'Don't forget Palestine,' urging the British government to meet with them
www.thecanary.co

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Mondoweiss @mondoweiss.net · 17d
The U.S. appears ready to reassess its tactics in carrying out Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. The news vindicates the strategy Palestinians have used during the ceasefire to avoid the surrender Israel has demanded in exchange for ending the genocide. mondoweiss.net/2025/12/pale...
Palestinian factions have come together to thwart Israeli plans in Gaza, for now
The U.S. appears ready to reassess its tactics in carrying out Donald Trump’s plan for Gaza. The news vindicates the strategy Palestinians have used during the ceasefire to avoid the surrender Israel…
mondoweiss.net

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Truthout @truthout.org · 17d
UK authorities have refused to meet with the activists, some of whom have been on hunger strike for over 50 days.
UN Experts Express Alarm Over UK Neglect of Pro-Palestine Hunger Strikers
UK authorities have refused to meet with the activists, some of whom have been on hunger strike for over 50 days.
truthout.org

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Burn It All Down, the podcast @burnitalldownpod.com · 21d
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Malcolm MacLean @malcomaxx.bsky.social · 21d
Tough call - there's been some fabulous one, but they're Leanne Betasamosake Simpson Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead (thanks Knopf) and Ariella Aïsha Azoulay The Jewelers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World (thanks Verso) www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
The Jewelers of the Ummah
Can we return to worlds destroyed by colonial violence? In a series of letters to her father, her great-grandmothers, and her children—and to thinkers such as Frantz Fanon and Hannah Arendt—Ariella Aï...
www.versobooks.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21d
Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy
Some protesters are now seriously ill after weeks without food as justice secretary is urged to show some humanity * Who are the Palestine Action hunger strikers and what are the health risks? Families and supporters of Palestine Action-affiliated hunger strikers have pleaded with David Lammy to meet them in an attempt to end the impasse over the protest that has left some of them severely unwell. On Monday, as the protest reached a dangerous stage, lawyers for the hunger strikers sent a legal letter claiming that by refusing a meeting the justice secretary had failed to comply with the Ministry of Justice’s (MoJ’s) own policy on handling of hunger strikes. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 21d
Who are the Palestine Action hunger strikers and what are the health risks?
Who are the Palestine Action hunger strikers and what are the health risks?
Seven prisoners have been taken to hospital since starting their strikes, with some claiming a lack of medical attention * Families of Palestine Action hunger strikers seek urgent meeting with Lammy Eight prisoners have been on hunger strike while awaiting trial for alleged offences relating to Palestine Action before the group was banned under terrorism legislation. What do we know about the activists and their demands? Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 24d
There has been a relentless, cacophonous campaign to stigmatise pro-Palestinian activists. But the inconvenient truth is that these are just ordinary people of good conscience who see the horrors of Gaza and simply cannot bear to stand by and do nothing.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I’m on hunger strike in a British prison. This is why | Amu Gib
Our demands are simple – and they start with stopping the flow of arms to Israel, says activist Amu Gib
www.theguardian.com

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Julia Laite @julialaite.bsky.social · Dec 11
When will this crisis get any attention whatsoever!? A THOUSAND ACADEMIC STAFF AT ONE INSTITUTION SERVED REDUNDANCY RISK NOTICES! And that's not counting what's surely being visited on professional services staff too. This is an economic catastrophe, to say nothing of the intellectual catastrophe!
lucynoakes1.bsky.social lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · Dec 11
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

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lucynoakes1.bsky.social @lucynoakes1.bsky.social · Dec 11
Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252:

Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email.

Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

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Brandon Shimoda @brandonshimoda.bsky.social · Dec 10
My book The Afterlife Is Letting Go came out 1 year ago today.

Love to @citylightsbooks.bsky.social, and to everyone who made the first year of its life transcendent and beautiful.

The most important place to get it is @workshops4gaza.bsky.social. All proceeds fund direct aid to Gaza: t.ly/LGg3M

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Dave Zirin @edgeofsports.bsky.social · Dec 9
Yesterday my book on Howard Zinn, "The People's Historian", out 8/26, was made available for preorder from the publisher's website. Preorders often determine how much stores `get behind a book so if ya like my work, or dig on Zinn, please consider an early buy. penguinrandomhouse.com/books/724993...
The People's Historian by Dave Zirin: 9780593473658 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A biography of iconic radical historian Howard Zinn, examining his life and work as a progressive icon and thought leader through the story of the times that shaped him as well as the United States of...
penguinrandomhouse.com

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Labour Behind the Label @labourlabel.bsky.social · Dec 7
Judith generated £225 through her £100 donation. Thank you Judith!

If, like Judith, you agree that nobody should live in poverty for the price of a cheap t-shirt please donate to the Big Give.

Only two days left to DOUBLE your donation.

donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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Labour Behind the Label @labourlabel.bsky.social · Dec 6
If you agree with Louise that it's not fair that garment workers are paid poverty wages to work in dangerous factories please join us today for the Big Give fundraiser – anything you donate will be DOUBLED!

Your £20 donation = £40 + £5 giftaid = £45!!

donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...

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Jules Boykoff @julesboykoff.bsky.social · Dec 5
My latest, co-written w/ @edgeofsports.bsky.social: "FIFA Kisses Up to Trump With Absurd 'Peace Prize'."
FIFA President Gianni Infantino, toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed the confected "FIFA Peace Prize" to the increasingly violent US president @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...
FIFA Kisses Up to Trump With Absurd “Peace Prize”
With the world’s soccer fans watching, Gianni Infantino, the great toady to the globe’s oligarchs, handed a made-up peace prize to the increasingly violent US president.
www.thenation.com

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Labour Behind the Label @labourlabel.bsky.social · Dec 4
Christmas is a time of choices. Do you want to fuel fast fashion… or fight it?

Let's dismantle exploitation and build an industry where workers are respected and paid fairly.

Join @lakyncarlton.bsky.social for the BIG GIVE and DOUBLE your donation.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Dec 1
An essay for World AIDS Day and the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks's valiant act of resistance, an essay on quilts and solidarity, on stitching the fragments together.
Solidarity Stitches Us Together: Today, World AIDS Day, Is Also the 70th Anniversary of Rosa Park's Historic Protest
I saw two radically different versions of what a quilt could be yesterday and yet they spoke to the same issues. I caught the show Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in California ...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com

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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.bsky.social · Nov 29
This is why I bang on about the necessity to look beyond Farage's past if we are to turn the tide around

Far-right politics and moral panics are mainstream

Anything short of seriously looking at the role of the mainstream in mainstreaming is just pretending to care to make one feel better
alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social Alasdair Mackenzie @alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · Nov 28
So the Home Office, which is responsible for the welfare of asylum seekers & for determining their claims, has decided to call them “illegal migrants” & tell everyone it’s “furious” about them being here, but I’m sure this is fine and not a symptom of a culture of disbelief & gratuitous cruelty