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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 1d

Trump’s America: Echoes of a Fascist Past, see socialistproject.ca/2025/10/trum...

Trump’s America: Echoes of a Fascist Past

“Historically, the most terrible things war, genocide, and slavery have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” — Howard Zinn The irony is unbearable. US President Donald Trump has satura...

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 1d

🚨Urgent: Thames Water want permission from Ofwat to ILLEGALLY pollute rivers and seas until 2040.

🤮They want your bills to fill their pockets with gold, while they fill your rivers with sewage.

✍️Sign now. Tell Ofwat to say NO to Thames Water before Tuesday 21st October.

Thames Water want to pollute illegally until 2040. Ofwat must say NO.

Thames water want to make at deal with Ofwat, to pollute illegally for 15 years

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 3d

Mobility as a Project for a Dignified Life, see socialistproject.ca/2025/10/mobi...

Mobility as a Project for a Dignified Life

“What best defines public transport today is exhaustion.” This is the opening quote of the documentary short film Tarifa Zero: cidade em disputa (Fare-Free Public Transport: An Urban Battle), summing ...

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 4d

AI and Education: The Kids are in Danger, see socialistproject.ca/2025/10/ai-a...

AI and Education: The Kids are in Danger

Big tech, ever on the hunt for new markets for their generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems, are pushing hard to get them into public schools as well as colleges and universities. Their inter...

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 7d

Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...

Save NHS dentistry now!

I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...

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CSSGJ @cssgj.bsky.social · 8d

CSSGJ is pleased to host Dr.Anne Engelhardt on 6th October at 6pm (UK time). The title of her talk is 'Social Reproduction Metabolism: The Labouring Body and Workers' Struggles in Brazil and Portugal. For a free ticket www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/social-rep... @abieler.bsky.social @oliverdodd.bsky.social

Social Reproduction Metabolism: Workers’ Struggles in Brazil and Portugal

Social Reproduction Metabolism: The Labouring Body and Workers’ Struggles for Time and Space at Chokepoints in Brazil and Portugal

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 8d

Why maritime labour standards fail to protect seafarers despite recent reforms, see globallabourcolumn.org/2025/09/30/w...

Why maritime labour standards fail to protect seafarers despite recent reforms

-Christoph Scherrer In the 2010s, after decades of widespread lawlessness on the world’s oceans, the International Labour Organization (ILO) established the Maritime Labour Convention (MLC, 2…

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 8d

Excellent, new Global Labour Journal issue is now available online at mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour... @labourrc44.bsky.social

Vol. 16 No. 3 (2025): September | Global Labour Journal

The Global Labour Journal is a proudly open-access venue for research on global labour studies. The Journal needs support to continue its work and to preserve its open-access status. Your support will help keep important research and debates freely available to academics and labour activists throughout the world regardless of finances or institutional affiliation. Thank you!

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CSSGJ @cssgj.bsky.social · 8d

Please see CSSGJ seminar programme for Autumn 2025 including our annual lecture with Tariq Ali. To sign up for a free ticket please go to www.eventbrite.co.uk/cc/cssgj-sem... @abieler.bsky.social @sinembal.bsky.social @oliverdodd.bsky.social @elifuzgoren.bsky.social

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 9d

The Government has revealed plans for a new mandatory digital ID. It’s invasive and could mean millions of people unable to go about their daily lives. Right now it's just an idea - we need to stop it becoming a reality. Join me and sign the petition now! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/re...

Reject plans for a mandatory BritCard (digital ID)

Sir Keir Starmer is considering a mandatory digital ID scheme called “BritCard” that would make us all reliant on a digital pass to go about our daily lives. Mandatory digital IDs give the state enor...

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 10d

How to Reduce the Hidden Environmental Costs of Supply Chains, see socialistproject.ca/2025/10/how-...

How to Reduce the Hidden Environmental Costs of Supply Chains

Global supply chains account for 70% of world trade. They are the arteries of global capitalism, moving goods and services across borders multiple times before reaching consumers. Since the early 1990...

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Sheffield UCU @sheffielducu.bsky.social · 11d

BREAKING: Our members at the University of Sheffield have voted overwhelmingly for strike action against the University Executive Board’s ongoing campaign of job cuts, and the threat to staff workload and wellbeing that they represent.

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 12d

Outsourced workers at Airedale Hospital are striking for equal pay, pensions, and conditions with their NHS colleagues.

Email the Airedale Trust Chief Executive and ask her to intervene. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/em...

Email the Airedale Hospital CEO: an NHS job deserves NHS pay

Outsourced workers at Airedale Hospital are striking for equal pay, pensions, and conditions with their NHS colleagues. Email the Airedale Trust Chief Executive and ask her to intervene.

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 15d

On the storm to come: Right-wing extremism moving centre-stage in British politics, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-s... @morton.bsky.social

On the storm to come: Right-wing extremism moving centre-stage in British politics.

‘We Want Our Country Back’ – On Saturday, 6 September, the third Saturday in a row, English nationalists draped in union jack and St George ...

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 15d

France’s ‘Block Everything’ Anti-Austerity Movement Could Point the Way for Europe, see socialistproject.ca/2025/09/fran...

France’s ‘Block Everything’ Anti-Austerity Movement Could Point the Way for Europe

“Due to social unrest, the Musée d'Orsay is closed,” a sign might have read on Wednesday (Sept. 10), when tourists were not able to admire the works of Courbet. The great revolutionary painter would h...

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 15d

Still buzzing from our pickets and rally this week. Our branch is ready to fight over the long haul as we stand up to the university.

There WILL be no compulsory redundancies and we WON'T stop until that's guaranteed.

#StopTheCuts #SaveHE

📸: Chris Tregenza

A photograph of rally attendees holding UCU signs

A photo of a speaker at a rally in a UCU hat in front of a UoN UCU Banner

A photograph of rally attendees holding UCU signs. The one in front says No Quality Without Staff.

A black and white photograph of rally attendees holding UCU signs. The one in front says Cuts Hurt Students Too

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 15d

I’ve just emailed my MP a powerful letter from over 250 Kenyan tea farmers and workers – the people behind the tea we drink. Join me in calling for fairer trade. It’s quick and easy. #BrewItFair #FairtradeFortnight
action.fairtrade.org.uk/page/178038/...

MPs – Let’s Brew It Fair

Use our quick and easy tool to send a powerful letter to your MP – written by Over 250 Kenyan tea farmers and workers. Help make trade fairer for the people behind your tea.

action.fairtrade.org.uk

adam searle @admsrl.bsky.social · 15d

at our @uonucu.bsky.social rally this Wednesday, where Sam had a clear message for our comrades down under

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 15d

In Hong Kong and Myanmar, labour resists authoritarian rule, see globallabourcolumn.org/2025/09/23/i...

In Hong Kong and Myanmar, labour resists authoritarian rule

-Benjamin Velasco Myanmar and Hong Kong offer a compelling comparative study of labour responses to authoritarianism during the COVID-19 pandemic. In both countries, extreme repression severely cur…

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 16d

The government wants to bring back private finance in our NHS. 🤬

This would harm patients by siphoning off hundreds of millions of pounds in profits from our NHS. 🤑

Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting, you can still drop these disastrous and unpopular plans. Share if you agree.

What they promised:
Change
"Under Labour, the NHS will always be publicly owned and publicly funded."
Labour Party Manifesto 2024
What they're doing:
"Ministers have handed firms £6m in contracts to help devise plans to build a network of new
NHS clinics using private capital, despite fears the move could turn into a PFI-style disaster."
The Guardian 24th September 2025
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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 16d

Our campaign in support of NEXT workers in Sri Lanka needs you! Please join the 2,138 people who have already sent off messages of protest. And note that the campaign has been translated into 14 languages. www.labourstartcampaigns.net/show_campaig...

Sri Lanka: NEXT shuts down its only unionised garment factory - by WhatsApp

Please support this LabourStart urgent action campaign and spread the word.

www.labourstartcampaigns.net

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 18d

Labour Leaders Must Advance BDS, or Step Aside, see socialistproject.ca/2025/09/labo...

Labour Leaders Must Advance BDS, or Step Aside

In his Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci invokes the “Fable of the Beaver” to critique the political failings of party leaders who compromise their obligation to represent the classes that raised them...

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Lis Cunha @liscunha.bsky.social · 18d

The EU's exports of illegal, highly toxic pesticides have INCREASED in past years. Brazil is one of the top buyers. The EU-Mercosur deal will make this dangerous trade even more profitable for the European chemical sector. #StopEUMercosur #StopToxicTrade

unearthed.greenpeace.org/2025/09/23/e...

EU banned pesticide trade expands despite promises to end it

The EU’s export trade in banned pesticides has expanded dramatically in recent years, despite promises to end the practice

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 20d

The Intertwined Food and Climate Emergency: Heeding Science, see socialistproject.ca/2025/09/inte...

The Intertwined Food and Climate Emergency: Heeding Science

This is an astonishing world. Blame for current disasters cannot be offloaded to ‘human nature’. All who take care of children know that children can learn to live within limits and that they can deve...

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 20d

Ghana shows promising results for labour movement education, see globallabourcolumn.org/2025/09/19/g...

Ghana shows promising results for labour movement education

-Dorcas Owusua In an era defined by globalization, automation, and shifting labour dynamics, workers face unprecedented challenges in securing fair treatment and decent work. Across the globe, unio…

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 20d

Pedagogies of Repression: Ford, Trump and the War on Education, see socialistproject.ca/2025/09/peda...

Pedagogies of Repression

Analyses of fascism too often fixate on its most spectacular expressions: staggering inequality, systemic racism, the militarization of daily life, unbridled corruption, monopolistic control of the me...

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 20d

Check out this from We Own It.

weownit.org.uk/act-now/new-...

Say no to new PFI in our NHS - take action

The government’s new 10-Year Plan for Health is proposing to bring disastrous private finance deals back into our NHS.

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 22d

We have made it clear from the beginning: our industrial action ends as soon as the university agrees to no compulsory redundancies.

This is a demand that the university takes on the responsibility and consequences of their poor financial decisions without putting it on us.

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 22d

Word is getting out that the UoN branch of @unison.org.uk is calling off their strike.

To be clear, our strike is still on.

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