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Kai Koddenbrock
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Political economist and attempts at internationalism. Prof of International Relations and Political Economy at University of Bielefeld
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Jetzt LIVE: Philosophin Lea Ypi bei Jung & Naiv youtu.be/5xT5udzn3c4

Bringt euch ein mit euren naiven Fragen im Livechat!
Philosophin Lea Ypi - Jung & Naiv: Episode 794
YouTube video by Jung & Naiv
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November 25, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Dietz-Bücher schenken, Tipp 6 🧡 „Walter Rodney, Aktivist und Marxist aus Guyana, war eine zentrale Figur in der Geschichte des Schwarzen Protests, ein Vordenker der Black-Power-Bewegung“ @bafikush.bsky.social. Rodney lesen – ab jetzt zu reduziertem Preis (24 €): dietzberlin.de/dekol...
November 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
The archive of silence, listing people silenced because they spoke up for Palestine in Germany, now with a handy website with dates, links and more. archiveofsilence.org
Archive of Silence | home
archiveofsilence.org
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Cas Mudde spells out what has become largely the consensus among researchers: moving right on immigration will not weaken the far right nor strengthen social democracy. If your reaction is "but in Denmark" please at least familiarize yourself with Danish politics

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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The people who say "why this obsession with Palestine? why don't you post about Sudan?" never post about Sudan themselves.
What they mean is "it's fine you don't care about Sudan. You should be similarly indifferent to Palestine"

(of course, many people do post about both and other crises)
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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I feel that we need to acknowledge that Marx was possibly the only funny German
November 21, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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„Diese Absage ist nicht nur ein Rückschlag für den akademischen Diskurs über palästinensische Wissenschaft im Kontext schwerster Völkerrechtsverletzungen, sie wirft zugleich fundamentale Fragen nach Wissenschaftsfreiheit, institutionellem Rassismus & universitärem Selbstverständnis auf.“
Here is the joint statement by @krisolwissenschaft.bsky.social, the German Middle Eastern Associations (DAVO) Committee on Academic Freedom and the Association of Palestinian and Jewish Academics on the cancellation of the event: "The Targeting of the Palestinian Academia" @lmumuenchen.bsky.social
November 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
That’s a timely initiative!
A new network of scholars, activists and organizers influenced by Marxism in the Netherlands @marxism-nl.bsky.social wil be launched on Dec 3 at an event at Pakhuis de Zwijger.

This is the website of the network
marxism-nl.org/en

This is the event on Dec 3
dezwijger.nl/programma/ma...
Special Marxists in the Netherlands Unite!
Back to class. Marxism in the Netherlands today.
dezwijger.nl
November 14, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Please join us in Berlin for this workshop on Anti-Palestinianism in four weeks:
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Time to start devising new strategies of selective degrowth, selective delinking and regional complementarities with the many not the few as horizon
German capitalism as we know it is coming to an end.
November 13, 2025 at 6:37 AM
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Join Us at SASE 2026 in Bordeaux!

The upcoming SASE conference will feature a mini-conference on International Financial Subordination (IFS). How does IFS evolve in the current context of climate crisis and geopolitical tensions?

More info here 👉 sase.org/events/2026-...
November 12, 2025 at 8:42 AM
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... our piece on Germany and the question of imperialism is out. An attempt at wrapping our heads around the political economy of Germany in times of genocide.
Walking a fine line: Germany and the question of imperialism
In a world of increased warfare and unstable accumulation regimes, German investments into large-scale weapons production and its support to the Gaza genocide have brought the question of imperiali...
www.tandfonline.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Orwellian levels of political interference in academic affairs: Under pressure from right-wing press and the Minister of Education the prestigious Collège de France cancels the conference ‘Palestine and Europe’ - in the name of academic freedom and neutrality … read this statement by the organizers:
"En cédant à la pression du ministre, Philippe Baptiste, l’administrateur du Collège de France compromet l’indépendance d’une institution fondée il y a plus de quatre siècles, qui a accueilli les plus grands noms de la pensée française, de Foucault à Bourdieu.
Communiqué de presse : le Collège de France cède aux pressions et annule le colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe »
Le Collège de France annule le colloque « La Palestine et l’Europe » sous pression politique. Des universitaires dénoncent l’ingérence ministérielle et un article diffamatoire de Le Point, alertant su...
carep-paris.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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my beloved Basma al-Sharif won the Grand Prize of the International competition at Winterthur Kurzfilmtage yesterday for her stunning film "Morgenkreis" which is set in Berlin and about life in Berlin - and no one has asked to screen it in Germany so far
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Coming up this weekend - Nov 9th - on YouTube, Spotify and wherever you get podcasts.
November 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
At my new working group on International Relations and Political Economy @Universität Bielefeld, I have a full postdoc position for 3 years (plus x) to offer. Do apply and ask if you have any questions: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459... in German here: uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org/job/view/459...
Research Position in the working group “Internat...
<div style="text-align: justify;">We are looking for an engaged and socially aware social scientist with a PhD or very close to comple...
uni-bielefeld.hr4you.org
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Meint ihr, die DSA & die Mamdani-Kampagne haben einen Plan, eine Strategie, wie die Versprechen, die zurecht so viel Hoffnung machen & Erwartungen wecken, auch gegen Widerstand & ein feindliches Umfeld (allein das NYPD ist so groß wie die Armeen anderer Nationalstaaten) durchgesetzt werden können?
November 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Es ist kein Wunder, dass offenbar vor allem FDP-Abgeordnete das Projekt vorantrieben, dass von Wissenschaftler*innen als "nicht förderungswürdig" bewertet wurde: Mansour half der FDP u.a. 2023 im Wahlkampf und trat in mehreren FDP-Werbeformaten auf.
Das #Forschungsministerium fördert seit Juli 2025 ein Projekt gegen #Antisemitismus an Schulen – geleitet vom #Islamismus-Experten Ahmad Mansour. CORRECTIV liegen Unterlagen vor, die auf die Verletzung von wissenschaftlichen Standards hindeuten.
October 31, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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Eine der bizarrsten Interviewführungen, die ich als Medienkritikerin seit langem in einem journalistischen Medium gesehen habe.

Die Fragetechnik der ZEIT untergräbt durchgängig journalistische Mindeststandards und lässt sich von Fakten nicht beeindrucken.
“ZEIT: Was sagt das über die TU aus, dass Sie einen ganzen Stab an Diskriminierungsbeauftragten benötigen? Eigentlich sollte die Universität doch ein Ort sein, wo Herabsetzungen tabu sind und man zivil miteinander umgeht.” Diese Frage ist - wie das ganze Interview - so dermaßen polemisch
November 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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Today, David Abraham examines how various fractions of capital—both in our time and during Weimar Germany—chose to abandon democracy in favor of an uncertain future.
Capitalism and Democracy: Always, Weimar, and Now
In the current moment, it is not a crisis of capitalism that challenges democracy, but its triumph. For this reason, our political-economic situation is quite different from that of Weimar Germany…
lpeproject.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/
PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
October 27, 2025 at 10:38 AM
"Israel has long thwarted the viable development of the Gaza Strip, with the primary goal of precluding the establishment of a Palestinian state by weakening if not eliminating the economic foundation on which it could be built." www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
October 27, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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🆕 Wir starten heute mit unserem Blogsymposium „Politik-wissenschaftliche Selbstreflexionen in Zeiten des Krieges“. Den Auftakt geben Beiträge v. @hendrikpsimon.bsky.social, Alexander Libman, Claudia Brunner & Sabine Jaberg.
#PoWiundKrieg #Blogsymposium25 #polisky

Hier geht's zur Übersichtseite 👇.
Politikwissenschaftliche Selbstreflexionen in Zeiten des Krieges
Blog-Symposium
www.pw-portal.de
October 27, 2025 at 7:59 AM