The call for papers deadline has been extended until the of October. So you now have several weeks to plan a good panel with your colleagues and submit

Budget Motel Abyss@budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social · 6d ago

Urging everyone doing interesting work to present and attend the HMNY conference. It will be good and you should do your best to be there: radicalassembly.org.

Thank you 💕 With the final panels now underway it’s time to say a big thank you from the organisers for helping us turn the 11th conference into two unforgettable days of great papers, productive discussions, and wonderful conversations 🫶 See you again next year!

Had loads of fun (as every year) at @dkmarxsoc.bsky.social

The plenaries for this year's Historical Materialism annual conference in London are now announced – see the below poster designed by the wonderful @davidmabb.bsky.social. The programme for the conference will be circulated shortly, we are just making the final tweaks and adjustments.

Day 2 and the second keynote is underway: The brilliant @pashukanist.bsky.social on “Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law”

Farage’s legacy is that he made “being a cunt” not just a legitimate political position, but the default one. Every party is now judged on seriousness based on how cruel and violent they’re willing to be.

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Whatever happens to Farage (not holding my breath for anything concrete), we're all living in his political reality now: hard Brexit, immigration the only topic of concern, every party now chasing hard right voters. If he has 'served his purpose' - it was to make the UK harder right than ever

Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/

ICYMI - Hamza Hamouchene on situating Palestinian resistance within the broader history of decolonisation, and the relationship between the Algerian, Vietnamese, and Palestinian liberation movements:

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Although it's increasingly common to describe the Palestinian struggle for liberation in terms of a conflict with settler colonialism, it's

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I would say a profession that proudly announces *Rod Liddle* is among the best of them, and then digs its heels in on their inalienable right to hound minor public figures to death just for fun - really, because they want to do it and they like it - is not bothering to hide what it is.

I have to say: “it is the sacred duty of the British press to expose liars and bullshitters defrauding the public” is one of the best and most insulting gambits yet.

Using the Emergency Alert system for general public service announcements and scaring the bejesus out of people will just cause people to turn off the emergency alert feature. Very, very shortsighted and stupid from a UK government desperate to be seen to be doing something while doing nothing.

This is an absolutely wild time to engage in even a tiny bit of ‘the right had a point.’

It’s disastrous to argue on your opponents’ terms.

BIG NEWS 💥 We are excited and proud to announce the first keynote for our upcoming 11th conference: ROBERT KNOX (@pashukanist.bsky.social). Rob will be delivering a keynote talk titled 'Palestinian Liberation, Racialisation and the Limits of International Law'.

A toast to British ingenuity. Who else can build houses that retain no heat in winter, and retain ALL THE HEAT in summer?

I'm just so glad that FINALLY someone is brave enough to say that we have to stop the small boat crossings.

The UK/Rwanda asylum agreement & the judicial review that found it unlawful relied on a deep racialisation of Rwanda, while leaving open the potential for regressive safe third country agreements. My paper is out with the LRIL @bordercrim.bsky.social @pashukanist.bsky.social @uctlaw.bsky.social

Distributing mobility: regressive asylum agreements and racialised difference

Abstract. In AAA (Syria) and others, the United Kingdom Supreme Court found the migration agreement, under which the UK could forcibly transfer asylum-seek

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an issue that, only 2 or 3 years ago, was 'Environment' is now 'News'

‘Lawyers for families stranded in life-threatening conditions in Gaza say Home Office appears to be taking a harsher line with Palestinian families than with refugees from other countries hoping to reunite with loved ones’ inc labelling children a security risk www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Home Office blocking evacuation of dozens of women and children from Gaza

Refugee family reunions in limbo, despite Foreign Office saying it is ready to get people out of war-torn territory

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Currently listening to @annleckie.com 's Radiant Star, latest of the Radch series, superbly read by Adjoa Andoh. I love this series so much. It's one of the absolute best for "a setting deep enough to tell lots of stories in". Whilst the first sequence (Ancillary Justice et al) told a fairly...

Now live!: Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market with Adam Hanieh.

Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market (with Adam Hanieh)

YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory

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This essay reads US history through a Marxist lens: 1776 establishes bourgeois rule, while the Constitution blocks a fuller democratic revolution and leaves capital's authoritarian power intact. On this view, Trump is less an aberration. By August H. Nimtz in @histmat.bsky.social buff.ly/LknJVyL

The Capitalist Chicken That’s ‘Come Home to Roost’: What Two Hundred Fifty Years Hath Bequeathed - Historical Materialism

The commercialisation of the bicentennial a half-century ago pales in comparison to what’s already underway for the Trump administration’s semiquincentennial celebration. Self-interest on steroids,…

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I'm so disillusioned, I almost don't even care who gets the FIFA Peace Prize next year

turns out being deliberately antagonistic towards the people who elected you in order to court people who would under no circumstances ever vote for you is not smart

claim i disagree with: dogmatic claim i agree with: nuanced

Andrew Woodhouse: Power Failure – Electricity Nationalisation and The Erosion of the Public Corporation’s “Three Freedoms” (1947-1967) ukconstitutionallaw.org/2026/06/18/a...

Andrew Woodhouse: Power Failure – Electricity Nationalisation and The Erosion of the Public Corporation’s “Three Freedoms” (1947-1967)

This post is part of a series on ‘Economic Aspects of the Constitution’. The other posts in the series will be available here. In 1966, as England won their last men’s football World Cup, the …

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