Elias
@eliaskoenig.bsky.social
Philosophy, climate justice, strikes, socialism Utrecht, Berlin, Taipei
‘Narendra Modi has had his hand forced by a group of meme-making students and members of the Indian working class. It began with an insult.’ Skye Arundhati Thomas on protest in India, from the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
Skye Arundhati Thomas | Modi and the Cockroaches
Narendra Modi has had his hand forced by a group of meme-making students and members of the Indian working class. It...
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Ukrainians, Houthis and Iranians have been the armed wing of the Green new deal as I like to quip @jwdwerner.bsky.social Polycrisis: Era of Energy security @katemac.bsky.social Dawn of the Electric world order, essay phenomenalworld.org/analysis/daw... Podcast open.spotify.com/show/78cVf8D...
Josh Fruhlinger@jfruh.bsky.social · last wk.ukranian special forces have been the most effective environmental activists of the 21st century
The silence on Washington's looting of Venezuela from other Western capitals is really deafening. Imagine what that stolen $13 billion could do for Venezuelans after the earthquake destroyed their country.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · last mo.To every New Yorker with family in Venezuela: we are holding you close. The devastating earthquakes this week have claimed hundreds of lives and left thousands more searching for loved ones. If you're able, here's how you can support relief efforts:
Solidarity with Indian youth & students protesting despite brutal repression! Here’s a statement from the Democratic Teachers’ Initiative in support of the protest against the government’s ‘diversionary weaponizing of religion & nationalism & its criminal disregard for the futures of the youth’
Powerful as always: Arundhati Roy on Cockroach Democracy
robin celikates@robin-c.bsky.social · 2w agoArundhati Roy’s gripping dispatch from Delhi: ‘Perhaps the rest of us can take lessons from our farmers and our cockroaches on how to become a little dangerous. The young have given us a gift. It is up to us all, every one of us to make what they have done matter.’ m.thewire.in/article/righ...
In Germany, the theater of a high-security trial is being used to paint Palestine solidarity activists as terrorists and criminals. The Ulm Five case shows how the German state and media are demonizing opponents of Israel’s crimes.
No Regrets for Being on the Right Side of History
Daniel Tatlow-Devally is one of five activists on trial in Germany over a direct action targeting Israeli arms firm Elbit Systems. In an interview from jail, he explains why he doesn’t regret it, and how the case has highlighted complicity with Israel.
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We just completed Nusantara, @thedigradio.bsky.social's 8-part series on the history of Indonesia. The fourth largest country is barely understood in the West and yet has decisively shaped the world: from Dutch colonialism to third world revolution to US-backed mass anti-communist genocide. 1/
Necropolitics: Social Death and Remaking the Social - Four Authors in Conversation 29. July 2026, 12-14, Rotunde Cartesium and Online (for Zoom: please send an e-mail to mihir@uni-bremen.de). www.uni-bremen.de/en/kultur/pr...
We're excited to announce our next book! The Great Driving Right Show: Cars, Crisis and the Rise of Fossil Fascism will be published by @versobooks.bsky.social exactly one month from today. Here it is, in the flesh. If you're interested, please do pre-order now: www.versobooks.com/products/340...
Tomorrow! 7-9 PM Aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6, 10999 Berlin More about this event: criticaltheoryinberlin.de/event/workin...
Must read NLR interview of @triofrancos.bsky.social Why did Biden's green capitalism not stick? What kind of world building projects should the left seek power to do? Or should it just fight against data centres? What opportunities open up -in North & South- with China's green industrial policies?
Thea Riofrancos, The New World Climate Order, NLR 159, May–June 2026
An interview about the new parameters of climate politics, with the breakdown of global consensus. As the EU re-opens coal-fired plants and the US shuts down wind farms, China gouges the earth to chur...
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It’s not the fossil petro state vs the green electro-state, but a rivalry between two fossil states (the US predominantly oil-gas, China predominantly coal).
These cowards are so scared of Blackrock investors leaving Berlin that they will BAN any possible federal implementation of a constitutional article for socialization of housing, even when passed by popular referendum. Welcome to the capitalist state. www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/wir-...
„Wir wollen bauen, nicht enteignen“: Bund untersagt Ländern Verstaatlichungen von Wohnraum
Union und SPD haben sich in der Nacht auf ein Reformpaket verständigt. Die Passage zur Wohnungsbaupolitik enthält einen für Berlin wichtigen Passus.
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Next week! WORKING NATURE: A HISTORY OF THE ENERGY ECONOMY by Daniela Russ July 9, 2026, 19:00 Aquarium, Skalitzer Str. 6, Berlin criticaltheoryinberlin.de/en/event/wor...
Bin beeindruckt, wie viele Lügen und Beschimpfungen Jonathan Guggenberger in einen einzelnen NZZ-Beitrag reinpacken kann. Vielleicht ist das aber die beste Werbung für die ausgezeichnete Untersuchung von @goldi.bsky.social über das Fehlen journalistischer Standards in der Nahost-Berichterstattung!
30 Falschbehauptungen in einem Text: Wie die NZZ versuchte mich und mein Buch Staatsräsonfunk zu diskreditieren - Schantall und Scharia
Mit einem Text voller Verleumdungen, erfundenen Zitaten, Falschbehauptungen und sogar Lügen über mein Privatleben versucht die NZZ mich und mein Buch Staatsräsonfunk zu diskreditieren. Damit zeigt sie...
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Welcome back to the heatwave. heatwave 2.0. 2Heat2Wave. Didn't realise this episode would have a second life so soon, stay safe out there.
Adrienne Buller@adriennebuller.bsky.social · 2mo agoI spoke to @poltheoryother.bsky.social last week for some reflections on heatwaves, ocean currents, a dose of geoengineering and the state of climate politics. Give it a listen! (then don't tell me if you do because I'm always too scared to listen back) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
This is an important new paper. When we allocate responsibility for emissions, it's normally in terms of consumption. We tally up direct household emissions (eg, from household energy use) plus the emissions embodied in all the stuff that a household consumes.
Comrades: I have a new piece up for Historical Materialism in which I argue quite directly, thinking with Malm, that the destruction of Palestine is the destruction of Myanmar. Please read, share, etc. www.historicalmaterialism.org/article/the-...
The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of Myanmar - Historical Materialism
The question of Palestine in Myanmar is overdetermined by religious affiliation and communal ties. But it doesn’t have to be. There is another way of plotting the links, connections, parallels, and, i...
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Ok, El Niño ist da. www.br.de/nachrichten/...
El Niño ist da – und wird laut Experten wohl schlimmer denn je
Seit Monaten wird vor Super-El-Niño gewarnt – nun ist das Wetterphänomen laut US-Behörde für Ozeanographie da. Experten zufolge dürfte es in diesem Jahr besonders stark ausfallen. Welche Regionen es h...
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Özden Terli@terliwetter.bsky.social · 2mo agoWMO: Prepare for El Niño - gestern im Wetter nach dem heute journal. Dieser El Niño #GlobaleErhitzung findet in einer Welt statt, die beinahe die 1,5 Grad Marke überschritten hat. Die globale Mitteltemperatur steigt weiter - mit diesem Wetter und Klimaphänomen gibt es noch Energie oben drauf!
Trump has embraced "state capitalism." Critical minerals are the laboratory. @iliasalami.bsky.social and I analyze its contours & contradictions--and implications for Global South sovereignty & development, and progressive politics @phenomenalworld.bsky.social phenomenalworld.org/analysis/tru...
It’s been brought to my attention that the Economist cover story is blaming Gen-Z socialism on “an influential group of socialist academics” led by @isabellamweber.bsky.social. Turns out Gen-Z got radicalized by … our analysis of corporate earnings calls. Huge if true!
The next generation of illiberal leftism is gaining ground. It is time to fight back econ.st/3RPYFPV
The demise of hukou has been repeatedly predicted since the 1990s. Is this time different?
Eli Friedman, For Those Who Meet the Conditions - positions politics
Is China abolishing the hukou? Since the PRC’s State Council announced a new guideline on public services on May 18, 2026 this question has led to an outpouring of commentary. For decades, analysts fr...
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SLOW CLAP "AI boom means US is now ‘investing more’ in fossil-fuel power than China" Congratulations to US AI Tech Oligarchs www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...
Die Rechten gewinnen nicht trotz ihrer Grausamkeit – sondern ihretwegen. Was das bedeutet und wie die Linke darauf antworten muss, erklärt Richard Seymour im Interview.
»Brot und Butter« allein schlägt noch keinen Faschismus
Die Rechten gewinnen nicht trotz ihrer Grausamkeit – sondern ihretwegen. Was das bedeutet und wie die Linke darauf antworten muss, erklärt Richard Seymour im Interview.
surplusmagazin.de
This article appeared in the Financial Times, not in @Jacobin, although it could have appeared there as well. (Which is a paradoxical proof of the FT’s analytical realism)
Why young America is trending socialist
Democrats need to show they can deliver for a disaffected Gen Z
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Good China Books Review article on the growing genre of migrant workers' literature. About one-third of China's working population, and nearly two-thirds of migrant workers, work in the gig economy. chinabooksreview.com/2026/05/21/w...
China’s Workers’ Literature Revival | China Books Review
Once a socialist genre beloved of Mao, laborers’ or “battler” literature has seen a revival in the era of the gig economy. Two new books in translation illustrate the mass appeal.
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