Grateful to @devcomms.bsky.social for the opportunity to present my work on the NGO crisis’ impact on civil society adaptations in autocracies ( #Egypt and #Syria), and to hear from #Gaza scholars about best practices and challenges in academic solidarity against scholasticide at #DSA2026 🇮🇪🇵🇸

Why do movements leverage “nationalist discourse” to reclaim popular sovereignty, and what can it tell us about global modernity regimes shaped by neoliberalism and imperialism? 👉 Out now in Social Movement Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tandfresearch.bsky.social #Iraq #Tishreen

Wholeheartedly grateful to @ipsarc14.bsky.social @ipsa.org @euracminorities.bsky.social @autonomyexperience.bsky.social for the inspiring exchange of research ideas, directions, and dilemmas at #ipsarc14bz! Love to know there are such great people doing research on politics in our troubled times.

Looking forward to next week’s @ipsarc14.bsky.social Colloquium “Minorities under siege? Plural societies facing plural challenges” organised by @ipsa.org @euracminorities.bsky.social. Will present a forthcoming article on movements’ mobilisation of “nationalism” in the 21st century 👇 #ipsarc14bz

The #Italian government opposes the suspension of the EU-Israel #AssociationAgreement, proving that the suspension of the renewal of the 🇮🇹-🇮🇱 defense memorandum which came earlier this month was no more than a symbolic move to placate discontent with #Meloni’s leadership. Genocidal fascists

elia ayoub@ayoub.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Germany and Italy blocked a potential suspension of EU-Israel trade agreement after Spain, Ireland and Slovenia called for it alongside over 75 human rights organisations www.instagram.com/reel/DXcf6GA...

Just published in the new ESA Special Issue, my amazing colleague A.Gileva on the 2024 student protests in #Serbia and the legacy of anticapitalist movements europeansociology.org/european-soc...

'Pick up the torch': The revival of Algerian feminist media - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/the-revival-of-algerian-feminist-media

'Pick up the torch': The revival of Algerian feminist media

A new generation of female journalists is using social media and magazines to give voice to Algerian women and denounce gender violence

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What is happening in Darfur is utterly devastating, made more painful by how we all saw it coming. You can’t really say you didn’t know, but if you didn’t, read this: An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter www.thenewhumanitarian.org/analysis/202...

An atrocity foretold: How the RSF siege of El Fasher turned into genocidal slaughter

Communication networks are down but a deluge of shocking videos point to mass killings on a devastating scale.

thenewhumanitarian.org

#Brazil: Illegal cattle ranching has devastated territories in the #Amazon, right where #COP30 will be held Some of that beef may have come into the EU - and keep coming if EU Deforestation Law #EUDR is delayed New @hrw.org report: hrw.org/news/2025/10... @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu

Horrifying images coming out of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, this morning after a massive Russian drone and missile attack overnight. As Syrians, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian nation, which is under terrorist attack. Targeting residential neighborhoods is a war crime.

“This revelation highlights the continued presence of Western technology in Moscow's weapons, despite years of sanctions”

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 11mo ago

⚡️ Russian missile that hit government headquarters contained over 30 foreign-made parts, Ukraine says. "Compared to missiles from previous years, there are fewer components from Europe and the U.S., and more from Russia and Belarus," presidential sanctions commissioner Vladyslav Vlasiuk said.

ISA RC 47 “Social classes and social movements” invites: 🎙️ Lectio Magistralis by Geoffrey Pleyers, ISA President “Social change is never linear. Social movements in polarized times” 🗓️ 9 September 2025 📍 University Guglielmo Marconi, Via Plinio 44, Rome & online 🔗 usgm.link/socialchange

Social change is never lineal. Social movements in polarized times

Lezione del Prof. Ceoff rey Pleyers Social change is never lineal. Social movements in polarized times - Sito internet: https://www.unimarconi.it Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unimarconi/ Instagr...

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“[the] National Transitional Justice Authority […] is set to only investigate crimes committed by the Assad regime, excluding abuses by other parties. This undermines victims’ rights and any prospect for real accountability” #Syria timep.org/2025/08/28/o...

Only a Whole Truth and a Comprehensive Justice Can Heal a Divided Syria

Syria’s National Transitional Justice Authority is set to only investigate crimes committed by the Assad regime and not other violations committed by other parties. This undermines victims’ rights and...

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#ReArmEurope will impact European public spending, but what are the effects on the EU normative frameworks on #arms production and transfers? An analysis of the new Common Position 2008/944/CFSP for IRIAD. 📌 www.archiviodisarmo.it/analisi-se-i... #disarmament #armscontrol #europe

Se il riarmo determina la normativa europea in materia di armamenti

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APPELLO della RUP al Presidente della Repubblica perché intervenga con assoluta urgenza e con ogni mezzo a disposizione per interrompere lo sterminio della popolazione di Gaza portato avanti da Israele. 📝 Testo della lettera e link per aderire: cloud.reterup.it/apps/forms/s...

Mabruk to #SFHR on their report documenting hundreds of enforced disappearances in #Sinai and exposing Sisi’s “security campaign” for what it is: a ruthless exercise of power consolidation through state terror 🇪🇬 sinaifhr.org//upload//2gz... 🇬🇧 sinaifhr.org//upload//1lx...

🚨 #Syria is on the brink of civil war. Join us in urging the UN to act immediately before it’s too late. ✍️Sign the petition and share widely: act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/prevent...

Call for action to prevent civil war in Syria: Sign this petition

The hope for a peaceful Syria rooted in justice hangs in the balance.

act.thesyriacampaign.org

In solidarity with the people of Suwayda and everywhere else where civilians live in fear for their lives, loved ones and homes. Stop the killing. We want to build a Syria for all.

all eyes on #Suwayda 👇

aljumhuriya.net@aljumhuriya.bsky.social · last yr.

Defense and Interior Ministry forces entered Suwayda at dawn today, after two days of fighting. Defense Minister Murhaf Abu Qasra announced a ceasefire after reaching an agreement with local elders.

NEW – Experts: Which climate tipping point is the most concerning? | @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org Read here: buff.ly/LkitgK7

This is the only thing that matters. Nothing European politicians claim to believe in matters. The only thing that matters is what they’re doing.

Greenpeace EU@greenpeace.eu · last yr.

UK: banning Palestine Action France: tried to ban Soulèvements de la Terre Hungary: banned Budapest Pride EU: pulling funds from NGOs Take your pick of fossil fuel companies: suing Greenpeace The powerful don't like criticism, and will do whatever they can to silence protest It's #TimeToResist

Family and friends of Syrian activist Ali Mustafa, forcibly disappeared by Assad since 2013, gathered in Damascus to commemorate the first anniversary of his arrest since the fall of the tyrant, and to demand truth and justice for Ali and all of Syria’s disappeared. 📸 Ali Haj Sulieman

Still very relevant and insightful today, especially the considerations about campism and centring the agency of ordinary citizens and movements👇 🇸🇾

Simon Hannah@simonhannah.bsky.social · 2y ago

An interview with Joseph Daher on the revolution in Syria looking at the forces on the ground Joseph Daher is a Swiss-Syrian academic and activist. He is the author of Syria After the Uprising: The Political Economy of State Resilience (Pluto, 2019) anticapitalistresistance.org/understandin...

Shame on #EU

Claudio Francavilla@claudiofrancavilla.bsky.social · last yr.

The full leaked EU report is now public - and it’s damning Despite cowardly phrasing, the conclusion is clear: Israel is in breach of art. 2 of the Association Agreement EU ministers meeting Monday must act accordingly, demand a suspension of the deal: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-w...

A precious reading on #ecocide and #oil, the “state within the state” in #Iraq by Azhar al Rubaie, Sara Manisera and Daniela Sala @irpimedia.eu 🔗 irpimedia.irpi.eu/iraq-ecocidi...