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DGSKA @dgska.bsky.social · 6d

Yesterday‘s Session on „Commoning Marxism“ with Don Kalb, Stefan Wellgraf, @patrickneveling.bsky.social and @jeremyrayner.bsky.social.

Insights were shared on the assumed ‘end of history’, Marxism as theory and practice continues to thrive, taking on a multiplicity of shapes.

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Patrick Neveling @patrickneveling.bsky.social · 9d

Opening of #dgska2025 with an important intervention from the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities highlighting the inequalities in universities as obstacles to making sciences a common good

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Ferhat Tura @ferhattura19.bsky.social · 25d

In a soon-to-be-published paper in the British Journal of Criminology – “Increases in disadvantage and instability are associated with rising violence” – we explore how neighbourhood changes shaped violence across England and Wales from 2011–2021. The takeaway:👇

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Patrick Neveling @patrickneveling.bsky.social · 28d

Background on the work of truck drivers bringing aid into Gaza and the bureaucracy Israel has put up to limit the flow of aid (among other barriers, obviously)
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A day in the dangerous life of Gaza’s truck drivers

Aid convoy truckers witness first-hand how Israeli bombing and blockades have pushed the enclave into famine

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Lancaster UCU @lancasterucu.bsky.social · Sep 4

www.change.org/p/stop-mass-...

Over 3500 signatures on petition! Thanks to those who have already signed. Please keep circulating and sign if you have not signed it yet. ✊

Sign the Petition

Stop Mass Redundancies at Lancaster University – Hold Senior Management Accountable

www.change.org

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Radical Graffiti @radicalgraffiti.bsky.social · Sep 2

"Who do you call when the police murders?
Graffiti seen in Makassar, Indonesia during the ongoing uprising following the police murder of 21-year-old delivery driver Affan Kurniawan during an anti-government protest.

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Patrick Neveling @patrickneveling.bsky.social · Aug 29

Thinking about the different ways in which the English and the French relate to roundabouts....

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Ismail Küpeli @ismail-kuepeli.de · Aug 27

"Der türkische Staat arbeitet daran, HTS die Errichtung eines reaktionären Systems zu ermöglichen, das noch repressiver und ausgrenzender ist als der Baathismus. Gleichzeitig versucht Ankara,die Autonomen Verwaltung, die demokratische Systeme aufgebaut hat, durch Intrigen und Massaker zu beseitigen"

Die Türkei untergräbt die demokratische Option in Syrien

Der türkische Staat arbeitet daran, „Hayat Tahrir al-Sham“ (HTS) die Errichtung eines reaktionären Systems zu ermöglichen, das noch repressiver und ausgrenzender ist als der Baathismus, und bedroht...

deutsch.anf-news.com

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Patrick Neveling @patrickneveling.bsky.social · Aug 25

If I had one, I'd join the housewives on LSD at the supermarket

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · Aug 7

So a bookshelf in the Carnac museum made me realise that a main thesis in Graeber and Wengrow - that democratic consensus preceded the Greeks by a long time and that hunter-gatherers already had sedentary societies experimenting with all sorts of political organisation -

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Aug 7

This is my ministry

scott topics™️ @scottpb.bsky.social · Aug 7

a message; a word.

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Patrick Neveling @patrickneveling.bsky.social · Aug 5

Poignant intervention on the runaway crisis of personal debt among the UK's disenfranchised from @ryandavey284.bsky.social
theconversation.com/why-people-i...

Why people ignore debt letters – and what it says about inequality today

A researcher spent 18 months living in a community where debt problems were commonplace.

theconversation.com

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Patrick Neveling @patrickneveling.bsky.social · Aug 1

Another Friday afternoon looking at ugly fascists...

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · Jul 26

BANGLADESH: Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers? images.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/u...

Why not a new Bangladesh for labourers?

The Daily Star (TDS): What is the current status of the Labour Reform Commission and its activities?

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Patrick Neveling @patrickneveling.bsky.social · Jul 20

Thrillingly promising: "Ofwat will be replaced by a regulator with supervisory powers, similar to oversight of banks after the financial crash."
Why not nationalise and collect the bonuses, plus shareholder profits from past 10+ years?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Water ombudsman to be created amid sweeping changes in England and Wales

Environment secretary to make announcement on Monday as part of review that is expected to abolish Ofwat

www.theguardian.com

Patrick Neveling @patrickneveling.bsky.social · Jul 20

Published a short human geography encyclopaedia entry on Special Economic Zones. With so many trade press publications on the zones in the past year, it will be important to return to a more rigorous, historical materialist critique of the zones. link.springer.com/rwe/10.1007/...

Special Economic Zones

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Patrick Neveling @patrickneveling.bsky.social · Jul 16

A visit to Museum Ludwig in Cologne. Good views of the city, impressive arts and architecture

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Robert Heinze @rheinze.bsky.social · Jun 30

Das ist ja fast schlimmer als sein Nick Land-Stunt

Dark Passenger @kurvenlukacs.bsky.social · Jun 30

2019 hätte das Commie Twitter flachgelegt

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Patrick Neveling @patrickneveling.bsky.social · Jun 28

Solidarity to the comrades flying the large "More Marx" banner during the #Amyl&theSniffers set at #Glastonbury. And no solidarity to the BBC camera crew doing their utmost to not get the banner into their wide shots of the crowd...

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EASA @easainfo.bsky.social · Jun 25

🏛️ Help us keep the Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale journal #OpenAccess by supporting institutional subscriptions
📚 Recommend the journal to your library by contacting your librarian 📨
🔗 Find out more: easaonline.org/social-anthr...

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Joss @josstified.bsky.social · Jun 11

Solidarity with colleagues at Bournemouth UCU and their v well attended picket line💪

Universities are part of communities. An attack on jobs is an attack on the local community.

#spreadTheResistance
#Bournemouth

Bournemouth University UCU @bournemouthucu.bsky.social · Jun 10

“If the VC and her team succeed in [these] attacks, it will not only ruin the livelihoods of more than 100 of our academic colleagues but render the university unrecognisable, irreparably harming students’ education" #bournemouth #bournemouthuni #highered www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/2522297...