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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · Jul 1

Swim 🐀

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · Jun 28

❤️‍🔥

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In My Room

Nancy Sinatra · Boots · Song · 2021

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Jun 26

Reposted for Paul Thomas Anderson’s birthday.

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Primitive Accumulation: The Movie

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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · May 10

It's quite simple: if we have the right to protest, but not the right for protest to be disruptive, we don't have the right to protest. We live in an anti-democratic, genocide perpetuating, police state. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · May 17

Really sad to hear this. Duncan brought myself and others together to work on the Stuart Christie archive at the Mayday Rooms.

A true gent. Was never the loudest in the room but always the most interesting. Not many left in the building.
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

Duncan Campbell, celebrated Guardian crime reporter, dies aged 80

Tributes paid to ‘courageous’ journalist who covered police corruption, Rosemary West trial and Hatton Garden heist

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · May 5

He would fix me

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Jason Read @jasonread.bsky.social · Apr 29

I understand that the University is dying, and will eventually be replaced by some kind of new world of for profit online job training modules, but in the interregnum do we really have to endure the morbid symptoms of programs in "Leadership studies" and "Entrepreneurship"?

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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.

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tafka bunnyrabble @sigbodomy.bsky.social · Apr 27

this is probably super obvious but bears repeating loudly and often: if you’re a trans worker in the UK, you need to join a union STAT.

the workplace is where a lot of the pressure from the Supreme Court ruling is going to hit hardest and first.

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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · Apr 25

On #25April we remember the power of resistance and hope.

Liberation Day in Italy and Portugal marks two uprisings, 29 years apart, united against fascism.

We honour the power of the ordinary people who rose up - and the workers who keep fighting to protect democracy today.

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Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Apr 25

Our special issue of Labour History came out last year, dedicated to anti-colonialism/anti-racism and the labour movement in Australian history. Co-edited by me, @jonpiccini.bsky.social, @sophieloywilson.bsky.social and Padraic Gibson.

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Contents | Labour History 126, 1

This article assesses the socialist colony of New Australia, founded in Paraguay in 1893, in its wider historical and environmental context. Drawing on archival research, the article contends that New Australia was founded as part of a broader settler ...

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · Apr 24

"Mood"

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Jimothy Lacoste - Magician

YouTube video by Jimothy Lacoste

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique @asheeshksi.bsky.social · Apr 17

"Historians and history students will be among those to suffer in an ongoing political culture of tough love and market solutions. Alongside its teachers and students, history—as a practice and discipline—will also suffer." 🗃️

History Workshop @historyworkshop.org.uk · Apr 15

How is the crisis in higher education impacting history and historians in the UK?

Lucy Noakes on the scale of cuts and closures, and how the Royal Historical Society (@royalhistsoc.org) can advocate for our discipline.
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Making the Case for History: A View from the Royal Historical Society

Lucy Noakes on how the crisis in UK higher education is impacting history and historians, and how the Royal Historical Society can advocate for our discipline.

www.historyworkshop.org.uk

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · Apr 24

Was great to chat with @medicinered.bsky.social about histories of worker self-management and the example of the Lucas Plan.

Trade unionists used to speak the language of workers' control. We need to learn that language again, and fast.

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An Introduction to Workers' Self-Management w/ Jess Thorne

Red Medicine · Episode

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · Apr 24

Looking forward to reading and discussing it, Milburn.

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Keir Milburn @kmilb.bsky.social · Apr 22

Another great pod from @medicinered.bsky.social. @jlthorne.bsky.social discusses worker self management - the Lucas Plan, and reaches conclusions congruent with our forthcoming Radical Abundance book. We must move beyond defensive struggle to propositional politics.
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An Introduction to Workers' Self-Management w/ Jess Thorne

Red Medicine · Episode

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Beans, Frightening Bleeble 🫀🎃 @flawlessangel.bsky.social · Apr 15

hey gang just a quick request for a strikefund- phlebotomists in gloucestershire have been fighting for fair pay, their fund could really use a boost, if anyone is able to spare a few £ please do & if not share so those who support striking workers will see southwest.unison.org.uk/campaigns/fa...

Fair pay for phlebotomists - UNISON South West

For years, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been paying phlebotomists Band 2 wages for Band 3 work.

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · Mar 19

Big day in the office. 50+ Healthcare Assistants crash a board meeting. The Trust emailed all staff this morning. In it they tried to dupe members into accepting an inferior deal, which they are now trying to impose, with no consultation.

They should know by now that HCAs will put up a fight.

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Charlotte @charlottor.bsky.social · Mar 9

Counting up all the International Womens Day ‘woman holding a gun’ posts from men on the left and asking them how many times they have offered to run the childcare or cook the food at a political meeting

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Verso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · Mar 7

Read Silvia Federici's foreword to The Arcana of Reproduction by Leopoldina Fortunati, which is part of our International Women's Day sale

Silvia Federici on The Arcana of Reproduction

[book-strip index="1" style="buy"] The Arcana of Reproduction is a unique book in the world of Marxist feminism. Generally, Marxist feminists have elaborated on the methodological significance of Marx...

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Twentieth Century Communism journal @20thccommunism.bsky.social · Mar 8

In 1910, socialist women gathered in Copenhagen and first proposed an international working women's day be established. 8 March eventually became the annual day for this event.

In recognition of International Women's Day, here is a thread of articles from our journal dedicated to communist women.

Front page of CPUSA's 'Daily Worker' (New York edition) from 8 March, 1931, with headline 'Working Women! All Out! Demonstrate March 8'

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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · Feb 28

Cambridge University loses bid to ban pro-Palestine protests on university sites - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/un-condemns-cambridge-university-seeking-ban-pro-palestine-protests

Cambridge University loses bid to ban pro-Palestine protests on university sites

The university sought an injunction to ban protesters from entering key university sites

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · Mar 1

#OtD 1 Mar 1918 anarchist and anti-fascist Marie Louise Berneri was born. A central member of the @Freedom_Paper group, she went to Spain twice during the Spanish Civil War, and later helped Spanish orphans and refugees stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8...

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · Mar 2

February; month of love, Paris, and working like a demon.

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Th0rnenotes @jlthorne.bsky.social · Mar 1

I'm actually fuming you didn't tell me this was happening 😅 Seth!!