If you're in Newcastle, go check out this new radical bookstore - Books from Below - and cafe that was just launched by @emilywebz.bsky.social , @drrobertchapman.bsky.social , and @benbowsher.bsky.social.

Emily Webster, PhD, MSc@emilywebz.bsky.social · 2w ago

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Tell Coventry City Council to Drop Palantir. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...

Tell Coventry City Council to Drop Palantir

Coventry City Council should end its contract with Palantir and bring data and AI services back under public control. We are calling for transparency, meaningful consultation with residents and trade ...

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Firma la petizione

Stop redundancies at the University of Birmingham

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A thread on the dispute at Exeter Uni. #ucu #defendexeteruni @ucu.org.uk On 15 June HR called Exeter UCU into a confidential meeting and informed us they would be putting over 500 colleagues at risk of redundancy and expected to loose around 200 staff. The number of c.150 you’ll have seen is FTE.

Want to know more about skateboarding in Palestine? About cycling and empire? Join Dani Abulhawa and @ncardon.bsky.social on September 3rd for a fascinating conversation about Colonial Mobilities!

Select tickets – Colonial Mobilities in the US, UK, and Palestine – BRIG Cafe @ The Warehouse, 54-57 Allison St, Birmingham

Colonial Mobilities in the US, UK, and Palestine – BRIG Cafe @ The Warehouse, 54-57 Allison St, Birmingham, Thu 3 Sep 2026 - Colonial structures shape how we move, who gets to move and whose movement ...

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Books From Below, Newcastle’s upcoming radical bookstore just found itself a home. Give me a message if you are able to help in any of the ways listed below! If you can’t help, no worries just give this post a like and repost it, thank you!

Join me and @mykaabramson.bsky.social on 20 August for a conversation about the connections between climate justice and Palestine solidarity. All welcome to come along!

Help Us Save The Warehouse! Our home @inthewarehouse.bsky.social & Digbeth Community Garden are threatened with demolition in 2030, losing a vital community hub and rare spot of biodiversity in the city centre. Follow the link, respond to the consultation. birminghamfoe.org.uk/help-us-save...

This series by @johnmunro.bsky.social is officially a must read: "Snake Pass might be located in the countryside, but the mobility politics of commons and enclosure playing out there also speak to municipal, national, and transnational scales in an urbanizing world."

John Munro@johnmunro.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Why are car-centric transport systems so difficult to undo? Because automobiles represent the dominance of private property over public space. In this @urbancyclinginstitute.org essay, I look to history to uncover how we got here. #StealingCars

Looking forward to this workshop on Climate Justice and Palestine Solidarity with @mykaabramson.bsky.social, chaired by Faisel Farooq. 3 PM, 11 July, Old Print Works, Birmingham. Come along!

Climate Justice and Palestine Solidarity: Deepening the Connections. 3-4.30pm, Lower Gallery, OPW

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We just had a meeting with over 700 (!!) of our members and OVERWHELMINGLY voted in favour of a motion to calling for a strike ballot! 🩷 We're doing this together. We are the University! #DefendExeterUni.

I finished my book amid a culture of genuine support and friendship at Exeter. Now management at @exeter.ac.uk have made a wrongheaded decision to cut 25% of jobs in the faculty by Christmas. Please sign the petition: c.org/kF9WQMfzY4

A statement from Exeter UCU branch @ucu.org.uk - please share far and wide.

Found out yesterday that my job is at risk. Feels terrible: multiple video-only "consultations" without even a q and a... Humanities and social sciences overwhelmingly targeted... Whole thing feels deeply ideological and also like payback aimed at the departments with high union density...

University of Exeter in talks to cut about 150 members of staff

The university says it is consulting with colleagues over "limited and specific potential changes".

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Summer's coming....

The cuts at Sheffield are disastrous - damaging or losing so many internationally renowned departments. With Hallam also in crisis, and the unis being two major local employers, it's worrying to think about what will happen to the city if this carries on, as it seems like it will.

Mark Pendleton@markpendleton.bsky.social · 5mo ago

East Asian Studies is being gutted at Sheffield - all staff at risk with 8.6 FTE proposed to go (a third of us). Biggest cuts in Chinese and Japanese Studies. We’ll be taking a few days to process. Solidarity to Materials and Chemistry colleagues who are also dealing with similarly bad news.

New book alert: My book, _Agrarian Questions: The Latin American Novel on the Road to Capitalism_, will be out with Verso in July. Available for preorder.

Agrarian Questions

Between 1910 and 1970, Latin America experienced a rapid and radical transformation. Rural societies became urban, and peasants found themselves forced into precarious wage labor. The Latin American n...

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Labour-run Coventry City Council has just handed £750,000 to Palantir - a company that profits from hunting immigrants for ICE and produces "kill lists" for the Israeli military. A company lobbied for by Mandelson himself. Shame on them. Last Friday we came together to fight back. #DropPalantir

As the crowdfunder for the first radical bookshop icon Newcastle for 40 years gets closer to the end I’m making the bold move of calling on all the academics I sort of vaguely know and also those I don’t to share the link for our crowdfunder: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/booksfromb...

The UK American Studies Against the Genocide Network is pleased to announce the programme for our symposium on the 9th May 2026 at KCL. We gather as academics, culture workers, students and activists to address Palestine in American Studies, centring it as a longstanding site of US imperial violence

📣 Registration is open for our symposium, “UK American Studies Against the Genocide!” 🍉 We have an incredible program of students, scholars, and activists. ✊ Come join us! www.ticketsource.com/uk-am-studie...

Solidarity with Aria Fani, an excellent scholar of Persian and comparative literature.

Common Dreams@commondreams.org · 6mo ago

"There’s a chilling effect on not just my academic freedom, but that of my colleagues; anyone who dares to speak out against the war and against aggression,"​ said UW professor Aria Fani.

In light of recent media pieces arguing that public funds are wasted when they come to our publishing company, we have decided to write a short article about why we remain committed to putting our political commitments over profit-making. fernwoodpublishing.ca/news/view/wh...

What does it mean to prioritize politics over profit?

Fernwood has been profiled in a few media pieces that attempt to discredit the public funding of arts and culture. These folks think it’s a waste for public money to be spent on a publisher that is po...

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There's still time to respond to the consultation on the awful proposed changes to settlement rules

Natalia Cecire @ncecire.bsky.social · 9mo ago

The UK government is proposing radical and punitive changes to settlement rules. This is settlement, not citizenship. The consultation is open until 12 February; please respond to it and oppose these evil proposals. Amnesty have a good guide: www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/gu...

Last week to apply to "UK American Studies against the Genocide." Get your submissions in! ⌛6th February 2026 📬 americanstudiesagainstgenocide@gmail.com 🍉CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

UK American Studies Against the Genocide!@uk-usstudies4pal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🔊 Dear Colleagues & Comrades! We are pleased to announce a network dedicated to addressing the omission of Palestine and the ongoing genocide within UK-based American Studies. We are hosting a symposium in Central London on the 9th May 2026. Abstracts are due on 6th February 2026. Please circulate!

Had a great time chatting with @drdomdavies.bsky.social about literature, automobiles, infrastructure, and US empire. @ttinfranetwork.bsky.social is a really cool project - well worth checking out.

Thinking Through Infrastructure Network@ttinfranetwork.bsky.social · 9mo ago

What makes an American road novel? What does this genre tell us about the imperial ambitions of infrastructure? And all the hopes and broken promises of individualised Automobility? @drdomdavies.bsky.social sat down with @mykaabramson.bsky.social to find out more open.spotify.com/episode/41YZ...

Detailed report on the case of Usama Ghanem, indefinitely suspended by @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social for taking part in pro-Palestine protests and now facing deportation back to the Egyptian dictatorship. www.cnn.com/2026/01/23/e...

A student at a UK university lost his visa after pro-Palestinian activism. Some academics urge a reversal | CNN

Egyptian student Usama Ghanem took part in pro-Palestinian campus protests, prompting disciplinary action which could see him deported from Britain within days.

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Birmingham, UK, is answering this call. Saturday, 1 PM, Victoria Square. We ride in memory of Alex Pretti and against fascism. All welcome. Will you join us?

Moth@walkingminnesota.com · 9mo ago

On Saturday we ride for Alex Pretti 1:00pm at Washburn Fair Oaks Park From Angry Catfish: “We're asking folks to host rides and come together. Bike shops and non-profits, cycling orgs and alt cycling collectives, city and rural. We are many but we stand together as one.”

The deadline to submit an abstract to "UK American Studies against the Genocide" is fast approaching. Get your submissions in! ⌛6th February 2026 📬 americanstudiesagainstgenocide@gmail.com 🍉CFP here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

UK American Studies Against the Genocide!@uk-usstudies4pal.bsky.social · 11mo ago

🔊 Dear Colleagues & Comrades! We are pleased to announce a network dedicated to addressing the omission of Palestine and the ongoing genocide within UK-based American Studies. We are hosting a symposium in Central London on the 9th May 2026. Abstracts are due on 6th February 2026. Please circulate!

Well that’s me locked out. No pay for the foreseeable future, all because I refuse to reschedule lost teaching, for which I have already lost pay as part of the strike. Please donate to support @sheffielducu.bsky.social members like me at www.gofundme.com/f/heubvb-sup...