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Writings: https://linktr.ee/jimmywintermute
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A year ago, my article with @jimmywintermute.bsky.social was published OA in Irish Studies Review

‘“Once it was Ireland, Now it is Kenya”: anti-colonialism and internationalism in the pages of the Connolly Association’s Irish Democrat in the 1950s–60s’

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Once it was Ireland, Now it is Kenya”: anti-colonialism and internationalism in the pages of the Connolly Association’s Irish Democrat in the 1950s–60s
Irish Democrat was the paper of the Connolly Association, a diaspora organisation established to build support for Irish republicanism within the British labour movement. The Connolly Association a...
www.tandfonline.com
June 27, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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“You can build all the dick rockets you want to go to Mars while you try to leave the rest of us on the burning Earth. We’re gonna take control. This is our world, and it’s our government, and it’s our money.”

— Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president
February 20, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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January 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Powerful front page from L'Humanité on Jean Marie Le Pen: 'His Profession Was Hatred'. The dagger pictured was recovered at the scene of the brutal torture and murder of Ahmed Moulay in Algiers in 1957. One of multiple pieces of evidence showing Le Pen was a torturer.
January 8, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Happening now: Amazon Labor Union workers and supporters are rallying outside JFK8 on Staten Island ahead of a midnight strike due to Amazon refusing to come to the bargaining table following a Dec. 15 deadline.

#STRIKEMAS
December 21, 2024 at 3:44 AM
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On the day of Hīkoi mō te Tiriti, here's an encore presentation of Toyah Webb's wonderful article from last April on the guerrilla redaction of the English text of the Treaty of Waitangi in New Zealand's national museum. overland.org.au/2024/04/rati...
“Ration the Queen’s veges”: Te Tiriti o Waitangi and the poetics of erasure - Overland literary journal
In Te Waka Hourua’s intervention, I read a refusal of this binary. By using black spray paint to erase all but a few words and phrases, the activists transform the figuratively white “backdrop” into t...
overland.org.au
November 19, 2024 at 4:48 AM
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Toitū Te Tiriti 🖤🤍❤️
November 19, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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1/5 I’ve decided* to create a new 3rd year elective for the 2025-26 academic year at UoE on “Fascism, Sexuality & Resistance since the Nineteenth Century” (working title), combining intellectual, political, queer & global history.
November 11, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Richard Seymour: economic issues like the cost of living matter. But they are mediated through other emotional currents - lone wolf shootings or conspiracy theories about the Great Replacement and paedophile elites. The left must deliver on the economy, but we also need a new social vision.
Far-right leaders are winning across the globe. Blaming ‘the economy’ or ‘the left-behinds’ won’t cut it | Richard Seymour
The economy matters, but the likes of Trump succeed by offering voters revenge for problems both real and imagined, says author and Salvage founder Richard Seymour
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2024 at 10:26 PM
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I continue to update!

go.bsky.app/SNvMPk3
November 11, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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Starter pack for Queer & Trans History (modern & contemporary)! This is a very incomplete work in progress - suggested additions welcome :)
go.bsky.app/DF3FYCh
November 11, 2024 at 8:36 AM
New blog post - on flight attendant drifting, via Debord, Lefebvre and social reproduction theory.
#4: On passing through
Fatigue, arrhythmia and the psychogeography of drifting
dispatchesfromanonplace.substack.com
September 7, 2024 at 9:50 AM
A new blog post on the two recent reactionary moral panics
#3: On Gender Panic and Fascist Barbarism
More notes from this uneven present.
dispatchesfromanonplace.substack.com
August 16, 2024 at 4:31 AM
A new Substack post on fossil capital, the climate crisis and aviation
dispatchesfromanonplace.substack.com/p/dispatch-2...
Dispatch #2: On Ecocide
Some incomplete reflections and possible openings
dispatchesfromanonplace.substack.com
August 7, 2024 at 9:44 AM
After some thought, I've decided to give Substack a go. I'll be writing intermittently on my days off as a flight attendant. Sign-up for free to my newsletter for musings on capitalism, wage labour, subjectivity and whatever else interests me.
dispatchesfromanonplace.substack.com/p/dispatch-f...
Dispatch #1: Some Initial Perambulations
On writing about capitalism from the (non-)place of flight attendant labour.
dispatchesfromanonplace.substack.com
July 29, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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Our special issue of Irish Studies Review, co-edited by me, Sharon Crozier-DeRosa and Jimmy Wintermute, is out now. It has 5 articles on transnational activism, solidarity and Ireland and a 'snapshots' piece on the current field of transnational Irish studies.

tandfonline.com/toc/cisr20/3...
Irish Studies Review
All journal articles featured in Irish Studies Review vol 32 issue 3
tandfonline.com
July 27, 2024 at 6:11 AM
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Very excited to see this new open access article by myself and @jimmywintermute.bsky.social for our special issue of Irish Studies Review (co-edited with Sharon Crozier-De Rosa) on the Connolly Association's Irish Democrat and anti-colonialism in the 1950s-60s

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
“Once it was Ireland, Now it is Kenya”: anti-colonialism and internationalism in the pages of the Connolly Association’s Irish Democrat in the 1950s–60s
Irish Democrat was the paper of the Connolly Association, a diaspora organisation established to build support for Irish republicanism within the British labour movement. The Connolly Association a...
www.tandfonline.com
July 4, 2024 at 9:09 AM
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With news of my upcoming book out, I have lifted the embargo on my PhD - it's a few years old now but it stands up, I reckon.

A history of Irish women and international communism in the 1920s and 1930s: ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid...
October 18, 2023 at 10:52 AM
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A reading list of 15 articles, made open access by Journal of Palestine Studies. Articles provide historical context and analysis of the 17-year Israeli blockade of Gaza.

#Polisky

www.tandfonline.com/journals/rpa...
Gaza: Nearly Two Decades of Israeli Incursions, Siege, and Blockade
Browse articles from the collection: Gaza: Nearly Two Decades of Israeli Incursions, Siege, and Blockade
www.tandfonline.com
October 17, 2023 at 9:12 AM
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The United Automobile Workers union expanded its strike against Ford Motor on Wednesday, calling on 8,700 workers to walk off the job at a critical plant in Kentucky.
U.A.W. Expands Strike to Ford Plant in Kentucky
The factory employs 8,700 and makes some of Ford’s most profitable products, including pickups and sport utility vehicles.
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2023 at 11:28 PM