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nafis @cannafis.bsky.social · 8d

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and Health Communism have been essential in shaping my understanding of sickness under capitalism. An honor to be able to talk about my book on this podcast!

Death Panel @deathpanel.bsky.social · 9d

In our latest, we speak with Nafis Hasan @cannafis.bsky.social about how cancer research priorities were shifted from environmental and industrial exposures to theories about individual genetic susceptibility, and his book Metastasis

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Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care w/ Nafis Hasan (09/29/25) | The Death Panel

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Esmat Elhalaby @esmat.bsky.social · 8d

out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 10d

Kindly consider donating. Almost at our goal (with @jamhoor.org and @whbutt.bsky.social)

Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · 20d

The floods in Pakistan have devastated many parts of the country. But as always, the peripheries have fared worst, and faced patchy, inconsistent relief.

With some folks in Toronto, we're fundraising for aid in neglected areas like Buner & Jalalpur Pirwala:

gofund.me/e4af94dc5

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 14d

Marxism's circulation has necessarily involved translation.

Join us at UofT for a workshop on Marxism in/as Translation, with @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social + many others not on here.

www.translatingmarxism.com

Supported by @jhievents.bsky.social, @oiseuoft.bsky.social + others.

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Jackman Humanities Institute @jhievents.bsky.social · 14d

Marxist theory has always moved through translation - across languages, registers, and cultural settings. This 3 day workshop asks: Is Marxism still a living theory with strategies for liberation across time and space?

October 16-18
Thursday's event is open to all
Info https://uoft.me/bRg

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 14d

Marxism's circulation has necessarily involved translation.

Join us at UofT for a workshop on Marxism in/as Translation, with @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social + many others not on here.

www.translatingmarxism.com

Supported by @jhievents.bsky.social, @oiseuoft.bsky.social + others.

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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · 20d

The floods in Pakistan have devastated many parts of the country. But as always, the peripheries have fared worst, and faced patchy, inconsistent relief.

With some folks in Toronto, we're fundraising for aid in neglected areas like Buner & Jalalpur Pirwala:

gofund.me/e4af94dc5

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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · 20d

We’re partnering with @noornetwork.bsky.social to mentor journalists from the global South in reporting on authoritarianism and other issues affecting the region.

If you’re eligible, do apply!

NOOR @noornetwork.bsky.social · 21d

🚨 Applications Open!

We are seeking 3 journalists from the #GlobalSouth to report on fascist & fundamentalist movements.

💡 Pitch your story & bring it to life.
📌 Apply: wearenoor.org/feminist-jou...

#JournalismAsResistance

@globalvoices.org @untoldmag.org @jamhoor.org @designaction.bsky.social

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · 23d

@jamhoor.org's latest: a primer on Nepal's so-called Gen Z movement — its varied tendencies, unsettled future, and uncertain relation to the Left.

Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · 23d

📣 NEW BLOG: A Left perspective on Nepal's Gen Z movement

Shambhu Prasad Katel, from the Alliance for Marxist Movements (Nepal), reports from the country.

www.jamhoor.org/blog/nepalsg...

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Durba Mitra @durba.bsky.social · Aug 30

so looking forward thinking with the extraordinary @esmat.bsky.social at the launch of his new book, Parting Gifts of Empire, from @ucpress.bsky.social @makdisi.bsky.social at the University of Toronto November 6, 2025

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · Aug 29

With the Baloch-led Mehrgarh Research Institute, we @jamhoor.org are hosting a workshop on public writing for Baloch youth.

Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · Aug 27

Together with the Mehrgarh Research Institute, we're hosting a Public Writing Workshop for Baloch youth.

Learn to write on politics & literature — and share Balochistan’s stories with the world.

Pitch-Write-Publish

Register Now
Google form link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · Aug 27

📣 NEW RELEASE📣

Once revolutionary, Bangladesh’s student-led party now courts dubious allies. What does this say about “post-ideological” politics?

An excerpt from Nijjor Manush’s new book Inquilab Zindabad?: www.jamhoor.org/read/militan...

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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · Aug 5

Today @versobooks.bsky.social republishes P. Sainath's classic Everybody Loves a Good Drought:

www.versobooks.com/en-ca/produc...

For a preview into his thinking and politics, check out our extensive interview with him:

www.jamhoor.org/read/peoples...

People’s Media Against Monopoly Capital: A Conversation with P. Sainath — Jamhoor

On fighting corporate media with journalism from below.

www.jamhoor.org

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · Jul 22

"'Even within the broader landscape around Palestine in the university, it’s unprecedented,' said Chandni Desai, a professor at the University of Toronto and author of one of the scrapped articles.'"

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication

As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom

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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · Jun 27

📢ANNOUNCEMENT📢: Jamhoor is launching a new blog space!

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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · Jun 25

📣 NEW RELEASE 📣 :

Sri Lanka condemns Israel’s military actions in Palestine while maintaining its own military control and settlement programs in Tamil territories -- Thiruni Kelegama

www.jamhoor.org/read/sri-lan...

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · Jun 17

"Not a deviation from standard policy, but the logical culmination of a decades-long consensus in Washington and Tel Aviv: that no independent power in the Middle East should be able to escape the architecture of subordination."

New Left Review @newleftreview.bsky.social · Jun 17

'The Israeli garrison state has made clear that it is not satisfied with overwhelming regional military superiority; it also seeks the permanent incapacity of its neighbours.'

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi on Israel's regime-change agenda:

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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Culmination — Sidecar

Israel attacks Iran.

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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · Jun 10

With brutal torture and disappearances, the Pakistani state continues colonial strategies of collective punishment in Balochistan

Our latest from Hazaran Rahim Dad

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · Jun 9

"Only a popular programme of national consciousness, based on Pakistan’s diverse working masses, will have the strength to manoeuvre in the changing world-system...It is only such a socially- and geographically-attuned national consciousness that can form the basis of a concrete internationalism."

Antipode @antipodeonline.bsky.social · May 29

Intervention — "Concrete Anti-Imperialism vs Geopolitical Binaries in the India–Pakistan War" by Antipode's very own Ayyaz Mallick antipodeonline.org/2025/05/29/c...

Intervention — “Concrete Anti-Imperialism vs Geopolitical Binaries in the India–Pakistan War” - Antipode Online

Ayyaz Mallick (University of Liverpool) On 22 April 2025, armed militants killed over 20 tourists in the Indian-occupied part of Kashmir. In response, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in De...

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · May 21

New from @jamhoor.org: A joint statement by over 50 organizations condemning the Indian state's escalating violence against Indigenous Adivasi communities in Bastar.

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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · May 21

As the Indian state escalates its violent campaign against Indigenous Adivasi communities in Bastar, we are publishing this joint statement of condemnation, issued by over 50 organizations:

jamhoor.org/read/interna...

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International Statement Condemning Escalating State Violence on India’s Indigenous Adivasi Communities in Bastar, Chhattisgarh, India — Jamhoor

Statement by International Solidarity for Academic Freedom in India (InSAF India) against the Indian state’s escalating violence against the Indigenous Adivasi communities in the Bastar Division of th...

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Jamhoor @jamhoor.org · May 19

Jamhoor is co-sponsoring a series of online events on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Bastar, where the Indian state has intensified military operations against Indigenous (Adivasi) communities in pursuit of a “Maoist-free” India.

London Mining Network @ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social · May 19

#Bastar Understanding the Current Level of State Violence in the Lead Up to the ‘Deadline’
May 22, Thurs, 2:30pm UTC
Register here: londonminingnetwork-org.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
#HumanRightsViolations #ClimateJustice
#ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #LandGrabs

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Understanding the Current Level of State Violence in the Lead Up to the ‘Deadline’ . After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining ...

Thursday 22 May 2025, 2:30pm UTC (8pm Delhi / 3:30pm London / 10:30am New York) This session will provide a grounded overview of the rapidly deteriorating situation in Bastar, where the state has in...

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · May 10

University of Toronto faculty and librarians have passed a historic divestment motion, calling on the University Pension Plan (UPP) to divest from companies profiting from war crimes in Palestine, Sudan, and beyond.

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · Apr 7

The challenge is to critique Trumpian neofascism without defaulting to a celebratory embrace of Canadian (or other) liberalisms and their institutions, which have their own coercive logics.

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · Apr 7

The very Munk School some now tout as a beacon of academic freedom also actively suppressed criticism of Munk and Barrick Gold on campus:

In 2008, as undergrads, we merely put up posters criticizing Munk’s Barrick Gold -- posters the university admin swiftly removed: thevarsity.ca/2008/02/14/u...

Canadian Dimension @canadiandimension.bsky.social · Apr 7

NEW: The “fascism experts” ditching Yale for Toronto's Munk School appear blissfully unaware that the academic centre was founded by one of Canada’s most infamous oligarchs, whose company Barrick Gold has been linked to massive human rights violations around the world.

Yale professors ‘flee’ US for Toronto school linked to massive human rights abuses

The idea that the Munk School promotes democracy, liberty, and freedom is laughable. The school was bankrolled by a right-wing oligarch whose fortune was drawn from global plunder, and who actively qu...

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Shozab Raza @shozabraza.bsky.social · Mar 30

Clarifies well the distinction between neofascism and fascism.

Though, like fascism, neofascism appears to be generating its own paramilitaries (ICE etc).

And whereas fascism rejected Enlightenment values, neofascism seems to stage a paradoxical embrace of it against so-called “woke” critiques.