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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · 16d

nice!

can’t say i’d recommend indegno — but worth a try! will DM some other Bologna recs

jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · 16d

seem to be quite a few Italian chains opening in London. see Indegno on brick lane — 2 spots in Bologna and they’ve opened their third here, with the new additions of some local classics: paneer and chicken tikka cresentine (sound quite good imo)

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · 16d

yes italia uno near my uni’s library is now the go-to - lovely Napoli couple and a great lunch!

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · 16d

this week, opened in the same spot,‘all’antico vinaio’ - identical sandwiches but now double the price and matched with a 400ft queue.

2025 London!

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · 16d

last summer I Camisa shut its doors for good, after opening in 1929 on Old Compton St.

previously my go-to spot to buy obscure pasta shapes, stock up on mutti, practice a little Italian or get a £5 sandwich or £2 coffee

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Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸 @nickthoburn.bsky.social · Aug 8

Loads of wonderful writing in the new Variant magazine. Happy to have contributed a piece with Anthony Iles on experimental forms in communist publishing - ‘Form & Against’ variant.org.uk

variant

Variant is a magazine with the independence to be critical that addresses cultural issues in a social and political context.

variant.org.uk

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Aug 7

all things Bolognoisy in the current issue of The Wire.

Sonic Belligeranza & DJ Balli by @sethnotes.bsky.social and I

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pasttensehistories.bsky.social @pasttensehistories.bsky.social · Jul 8

A reminder that our next Radical History Faction outing is this Sunday:

A free radical history drift
Around Lincoln’s Inn Fields
Sunday 13th July 2025.
Meet outside John Soanes’ Museum
WC2A 3BP
2pm.
FEATURING
mantraps, mumpers, boghouses & pig’s meat!

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Society for the Study of Labour History @sslh.bsky.social · Jul 8

A bursary from the Society for the Study of Labour History helped Jamila Squire @jamsqu.bsky.social research international solidarity with Italian political prisoners from 1979-84 for her MA dissertation. You can read her report here...
sslh.org.uk/2025/07/08/j...

Jamila Squire (Westminster) on international solidarity with Italian political prisoners: 1979-84

My MA dissertation research focuses on a wave of state repression of Italian militants from the late 1970s to mid-1980s. Student mobilisation in Bologna. Year unknown. Marco Pezzi Archive. Click fo…

sslh.org.uk

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Jul 6

interesting! thanks so much, super helpful

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Jul 6

as i understand it ‘April’ refers to the events in Italy in ’77, named after Maria Macchiocchi’s book.

obviously very close to Emery’s later pamphlet ‘after Marx, jail’ — given the events of March that year, as well as April 1979 in Italy, the two terms are near-synonymous

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Jul 6

looking for some more info on the ‘after marx, april’ group who wrote ‘we want to riot, not to work’ and also put on conference with bifo, guattari etc. in camden in 81.

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Jun 20

i don’t know much about that other than that it’s true! perhaps @grafton9.net knows some comrades involved

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Jun 11

psychogeographic, obvs

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Jun 11

thank you comrade!

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Jun 11

A month in Bologna with @sethnotes.bsky.social: archives, Bifo, Sonic Belligeranza records ft AAA, psychographic walking tours with DJ Balli & The Mekons, and the excellent company of @grafton9.net

Monday I return to London for my dissertation write up - sad!

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Apr 29

compagni a bologna!!

cerchiamo un appartamento da maggio 19 - giugno 16 (ish)

possiamo pagare. dimmi se conosci qualche posto

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Apr 28

‘My wagers are these: that the riot can now be thought as a fundamental form of class struggle rather than an impolitical spasm… a sundial indicating where we are within the history of capitalist accumulation.’

viewpointmag.com/2016/09/06/p...

The Crisis and the Rift: A Symposium on Joshua Clover's Riot.Strike.Riot - Viewpoint Magazine

Alberto Toscano, Amanda Armstrong, and Delio Vasquez on periodization and proletarian self-activity in "the new era of uprisings."

viewpointmag.com

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Apr 28

‘If what you want is calm
to be restored you are still the enemy
you have not thought thru clearly
what that means’

RIP Joshua Clover.

poetrysociety.org/poems-essays...

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jamila squire @jamsqu.bsky.social · Apr 26

30 Years of Autonomous Space Exploration — AAA Returns!

For the rest of the day @ MayDay Rooms plus three-sided football at Victoria Park tomorrow (2pm at the bandstand) 🛸🥅