London: Nov 17 we launch CONFRONTING ZIONISM with Noura Erakat, John Reynolds & Rafeef Ziadah. This will be the *only* UK event. Don't miss this chance to hear from some of the most influential thinkers on Palestine working today and their new work. Tickets: www.palfest.org/full-schedul...

London, you don’t want to miss this one! In her only UK event this year, Noura Erakat is launching “Confronting Zionism” with co-author John Reynolds. They will be in conversation with Rafeef Ziadah, followed by a book signing. 📍 Friends House 🗓️ 17 Nov, 6:30 PM 🎟️ £13

What do you call it when secret police round up people of a certain ethnic background, concentrated in over-crowded camps, and mistreats them until many die?

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · 4w ago

A 56-year-old Mexican man held at a federal immigration facility in Laredo was found dead in his cell Saturday morning. His family says the center would not give him medicine for diabetes, high blood pressure and a heart condition. He is the 7th person to die in ICE custody in Texas this year.

Firing squads. Drone strikes. Shooting small boats. Alligators in the water. Stacking people. Kidnapping people. Bombing people. Starving people. Separating people. Disappearing Terrorizing. Assassinating. An incomplete inventory.

Ms Rachel from the top ropes

I know I'm writing from a biased & privileged viewpoint as a bookseller but SO many young people are telling me everyday they're getting back into reading. And they want to read the good stuff, the nuanced stuff, the beauty. And they want to talk about it with other readers. And take notes by hand.

If I hear another “is this *really* authoritarianism/fascism though?”….

‘Ships turn off their AIS transponders for a variety of reasons. Naval vessels of all nations mask their position far more often than they acknowledge.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on ghost fleets. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Laleh Khalili · Ghost Fleets

Unregistered and undetectable fleets cut into the profits of the big tanker companies. After the first Trump...

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Some thoughts I shared while in the UK, where Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband has acknowledged that anti-genocide protestors "were right" but activists are still serving long prison terms for stepping in where their government failed. @astra.bsky.social

nobody's doing it like Adrian

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last mo.

My latest discovery? You can eat the skin of a kiwifruit – and the benefits are myriad | Adrian Chiles

I didn't know his name before this but he's a real one: member of La France Insoumise (to the left of the Socialists), took down Macron's portrait in the mayor's office, said elected leaders belong in the streets with the people

Erica Ifill@wickdchiq.bsky.social · last mo.

The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence

"Grief is excessive; so is revolution. It is a defiant ‘yes’ when the rest of the world would say no. It is a refusal of the foreclosing of our time, an overflowing of humanity into the places that it is forbidden. We will not be machines anymore." - Sarah Jaffe -

Letterpress prints of "From the Ashes" by Sarah Jaffe — radical emprints

About the words: These two letterpress prints are excerpts from Sarah Jaffe's beautiful & timely new book From the Ashes: Grief & Revolution in a World on Fire. This is one of the most ...

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One night only: Noura Erakat and John Reynolds launch "Confronting Zionism" in London, in conversation with Rafeef Ziadah. Nov. 17, 6:30 p.m., Friends House.

Noura Erakat: Confronting Zionism - UK Book Launch — The Palestine Festival of Literature

Join us for Noura Erakat’s only UK event for 2026. She will present her new book, Confronting Zionism, alongside the book's co-author John Reynolds, followed by a conversation with Rafeef Ziadah.

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We're back, with some *good news*! Scottish arts charity Outer Spaces is partnering with our publisher Radge Media CIC to continue our two decades of independent cultural journalism – more details at the link... www.theskinny.co.uk/music/news/t...

The Skinny is back!

Scottish arts charity Outer Spaces is partnering with our publisher Radge Media CIC to continue our two decades of independent cultural journalism.

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💥 We are happy to share with you our new issue "Diasporic Introspections" (September–October 2026), where we reflect on the diaspora's pitfalls and phantasmagoria. Cover artwork by Kelly Sinnapah Mary. ORDER YOUR COPY NOW! WE SHIP WORLDWIDE. thefunambulist.net/shop/67-dias...

The US is a massive scam from top to bottom. They sell semiautomatics to do domestic mass murder, and then pay lawyers to fight the sites of mass murder, and then sell insurance so that those lawyers can be either paid or fended off. www.ft.com/content/5ad7...

The booming business of insuring against US gun violence

Companies, political campaigns and even schools are taking out policies to shield themselves from litigation that can follow attacks

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The BBC, like the NYT, supports the transphobes and fascists.

Stop calling people migrants. People, all people, have a right to move.

Really excited to be part of this @rethinkecon.bsky.social book discussion with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on her wonderful book The Corporeal Life of Seafaring. It will take place next Wednesday, September 30th, 4.30pm CET. You can register here: rethinkeconomics.org/events/book-...

still can't get over the notes app 'I'm not complicit'

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... You don't receive life-prolonging care in a concentration camp.

Revealed: ICE lost count of miscarriages, while detaining a record number of pregnant women

ICE says it has no updated information on the number of miscarriages after 3 October 2025. Lawmakers, advocates and immigration attorneys have raised alarms that pregnant detainees are not receiving b...

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Transcript of the conversation between @keirangoddard.bsky.social and me at the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk earlier this summer. Listen here: www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-vid... And/or read here: www.patreon.com/reproutopia/...

And then there were four! Alchemy Lecture books that is!

What are you reading this weekend?

From Anna Naupa in @thefunambulist.bsky.social : "Decolonization is not merely a question of political status; it is a spatial practice of reclaiming land, ocean, and atmosphere from those who weaponize them."

Behrooz Ghamari wrote a crucial alternative letter, read it! x.com/niki888/stat...

Niki نیکی (@niki888) on X

Dr. Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, himself a former political prisoner, models what a letter of solidarity written to Iranian political prisoners might look like.

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Such an exciting series and a very good first entry...

Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Adom Getachew visited the Verso offices to talk about our Southern Questions series, which features first-hand accounts – memoirs, novels, pamphlets – written by participants in the drama of decolonization and its aftermath. www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/s...

Reminded me to look at what events are happening at ours in Manchester this fall. Excited for this one with Jackie Stacey and @slamble1.bsky.social on 27 October about Lamble's book UNSAFE: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash. www.manchestercityofliterature.com/event/unsafe...

UNSAFE: S. Lamble in conversation with Jackie Stacey - Manchester City of Literature

We are excited to welcome professor and community organiser Lamble to Blackwell’s in partnership with University of Manchester’s Centre for the Study of Sexuality and Culture to discuss UNSAFE: The Ca...

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Ronald Hartz@ronaldhartz.bsky.social · 3mo ago

A preliminary list of closures of campus bookshops at universities in the UK: Leeds (2010) Northampton (2012) Leicester (2016) De Montfort (2017) Stirling (2019) Essex, Bradford, Hull, Leeds, St. Andrews (2020) LSE (2021) Sheffield, SOAS (2023) I'd be grateful for tips regarding missing entries!

John Washington’s How to Close a Camp explores the contemporary growth of immigrant detainment facilities under the Trump administration but argues that entrenched political failures are what makes them possible and what must be addressed.

Stopping the Detention Machine (SSIR)

John Washington’s How to Close a Camp explores the contemporary growth of immigrant detainment facilities under the Trump administration but argues that entrenched political failures are what makes…

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