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Cominsitu @cominsitu.bsky.social · Sep 6

“Marx and the Critique of Humanism”, coming Feb 2026, edited by @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marx-and-...

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LPE Blog @lpeblog.bsky.social · Sep 5

The week in review: it was a Labor Day special, with @mikewishnie.bsky.social on faculty unions, and Eamon Coburn on the long-eroded social norms against union busting.

Plus, the best of LPE from around the web in the 🧵 👇

Weekly Roundup: September 5

A Labor Day special: Michael Wishnie on the possibility of faculty unions, and Eamon Coburn on reviving long-eroded social norms against union busting. Plus, upcoming deadlines for the ALPE conference...

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Danish Society for Marxist Studies @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social · Sep 5

If you’re in Copenhagen on 23 September, come out for this stellar event ✨

Mikkel Krause Frantzen @mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social · Sep 5

Now it is time for the Cph book launch, a double whammy if you will!

"Finance Aesthetics" (@goldsmithspress.bsky.social) and "The Birth of the Financial Thriller" (@edinburghup.bsky.social)

Sep 23, at Uni of Cph, 3-6 pm.

Readings, conversations, wine!

Please come, no registration needed.

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Ayça Çubukçu @aycacu.bsky.social · Sep 5

Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion.

@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
@lsesociology.bsky.social

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · Aug 1

Guys

Screenshot of Neil renic’s post from last year Twitter.
Text: finally time to start my summer writing
Photo: tsunami wave approaching a woman on the beach looking at it. The Center of image says: August 1

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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · Jul 30

the weaponization of course evaluations in the Brown University deal takes the consumerist model of higher education to new heights. not only is your job contingent on it, but make any of your students uncomfortable and you’ll be investigated by the government

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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · Jul 29

Recognition of Palestine now is more about attempting to (re-)normalise the Israel's place in the regional order than anything else.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · Jul 20

It's utterly mad.
These people are the opposite of terrorists.
THEY WANT PEACE.
The police know they're not terrorists.
The government knows they're not terrorists.
Yet, on the Home Secretary's orders, they're being arrested under the Terrorism Act.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

More than 100 arrested across UK at protests related to Palestine Action

Police in London detain scores of people and confiscate placards under section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000

www.theguardian.com

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Tobias Wilson-Bates @phdhurtbrain.bsky.social · Jul 19

*me and my book project

Sigourney Weaver standing happily with the Alien queen

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Parvathi Menon @parvathimenon.bsky.social · Jul 12

Order your copies now (one for yourself and another for a friend who needs it badly)! The brilliant combination of Knox, Ziadah and Hanieh

Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · Jul 11

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

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Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · Jul 11

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

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Marina Veličković @marinavelickovic.bsky.social · Jul 11

look at what was just delivered

it’s the

@pashukanist.bsky.social & co. masterpiece that everyone should read

& it looks even more 🔥🔥🔥 than online & IT HAS THAT FRESH BOOK SMELL (in case you needed another reason to ordered it right this moment)

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Parvathi Menon @parvathimenon.bsky.social · Jul 10

Ah ok, I had a feeling that would’ve been the angle

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Parvathi Menon @parvathimenon.bsky.social · Jul 10

I found it pretty surprising that Nehru (India's first Prime Minister) was included on this list. I don't know anyone who would characterise him as a Marxist. I should probably read this book and find out why...

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Parvathi Menon @parvathimenon.bsky.social · Jul 9

And when panels don’t end at 9PM!

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Magnus Møller Ziegler @magnusz.bsky.social · Jul 9

The revolution Will come the day they add lunch breaks to the HM programme.

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ANZSIL Gender, Sexuality & International Law Interest Group @anzsilgsil.bsky.social · Jun 30

CfP!!! The @anzsil.org Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group will be holding a workshop on 'Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism' on 31 October at Melbourne Law School: drive.google.com/file/d/10YPs...

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Parvathi Menon @parvathimenon.bsky.social · Jul 1

Why are people always excited and thrilled and banal on LinkedIn? It’s a parallel universe where no Palestinians are being brutally killed daily.

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Overland Journal @overlandjournal.bsky.social · Jun 23

Shillan Shebly, Natalie Ironfield and Elizabeth Strakosch write about the policing of Palestine solidarity and the intensifying climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne, all “operating in the name of ‘antiracism’.”

Rebranding repression: the University of Melbourne’s elite capture of antiracism - Overland literary journal

Our current climate of political repression at the University of Melbourne reinforces why it is imperative that we continue to build autonomous intellectual homes that are grounded in Indigenous sover...

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Nathan Tankus @nathantankus.bsky.social · Jun 22

"It's so unfair for you to deny the global economy oil when all we're doing is bombing you. Stop the violence"

Reuters @reuters.com · Jun 22

US urges China to dissuade Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz reut.rs/3HTg5WN

US urges China to dissuade Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Sunday called on China to encourage Iran to not shut down the Strait of Hormuz after Washington carried out strikes on Iranian nuclear sites.

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Legal Form @legalform.bsky.social · Jun 17

@pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social on the 'smart' sanctions against Israeli officials:
legalform.blog/2025/06/17/s...

Sanctions Against Israeli Officials: Smart or Spectacular? — Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos

Robert Knox and Eva Nanopoulos on the ‘spectacular pseudo-sanctions’ against Israel that were recently announced by the UK government, and their role in normalising the settler-colonial…

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Nate Holdren @nhold.bsky.social · Jun 13

hey bluesky, I wrote this on some stuff I was trying to think through - the heart is my trying to take @pashukanist.bsky.social's analysis of the limits of opposition to the Iraq War and to the Tories in the UK and apply it to the US rn. I'd appreciate if you read it.

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · Jun 13

spectrejournal.com/hands-off/

Hey y'all! We've got a special Friday post.

@nhold.bsky.social takes on the law-and-order consensus uniting Trump and his official "opposition."

Hands Off! – Spectre Journal

Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.

spectrejournal.com

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Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · Jun 16

This week!

Register for in-person in London or online attendance via email to me hyo-yoon.kang[at]warwick.ac.uk

Hyo Yoon Kang 강효윤 @hyoyoonkang.bsky.social · Jun 4

ROUNDTABLE on Intellectual Property and Industrial Property (in the Era of Trump)

Wellcome Collection, London | 19 June | 3:30-5pm GMT

In-person and online & open to public

With @mbarber.bsky.social @kathybowrey.bsky.social @70sbachchan.bsky.social Vitor Ido, Svitlana Lebendeko, Caoimhe Ring, me

A flyer for the roundtable with a picture of multiple Trumps holding an executive order where only his signature is visible. For the full text (it is long), please message me or leave a reply.

Biography of the speakers. It is a long text and doesn't fit the space here. For the full text, please message me or leave a reply.

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Parvathi Menon @parvathimenon.bsky.social · Jun 14

Thank you so much, Claerwen! Was wonderful to meet you and here’s hoping to meet again, soon.

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