The 2025 protests in Turkey offer us a glimpse of the shape that the coming movements against autocracy might take, and the limits that similar unrest will need to overcome, including protests against Trump closer to home. illwill.com/crossing-the...

‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’ Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action. Online early from our next issue. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?

I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...

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Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman now available online, w/renewed thanks to everyone who made this possible: vimeo.com/1058614428

Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman @bUm - Raum für soldarisches Miteinander

Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese United Nations…

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Haaretz’s Yaniv Kubovich reports that Israel plans to seize 75% of Gaza and relocate more than 1,3 million Palestinians in the upcoming offensive, ultimately forcing the entire population into three military zones with food supplies strictly controlled by GHF/Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Last September, the activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah completed a five-year prison sentence. But the Egyptian authorities announced that his pretrial detention didn’t count, and that he would be held until 2027. In response, his mother began a hunger strike.

A Mother’s Hunger Strike Challenges Two Nations

Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in personal protest.

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Brian Eno ❤️🇵🇸

‘At 27, my peer group is dividing like a cell in meiosis. We’re all at different stages of the life cycle, our circumstances non-identical. Some people are moving back in with their parents. Others are buying their first homes.’ Rose Dodd on London’s rental crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Rose Dodd | Sofa Hopping

‘Home,’ Mark Fisher wrote in Ghosts of My Life, ‘is where the haunt is.’ And ‘the house always wins.’ My...

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Join us for a vigil today at 6pm in support of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his mother Laila Soueif, both currently on hunger strike. Writers & activists will read from Alaa’s work as we call on the UK government to take urgent action to secure his release. #FreeAlaa www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...

Refugee rights defender Taha Elgazi and his wife have reportedly been deported from Turkey to Syria after he was taken from his home by plainclothes security officers under the pretext of "address confirmation". @ihdgenelmerkez.bsky.social called the decision illegal & demanded it be reversed.

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🔴'Adres teyidi' denilerek gözaltına alınan mülteci hakları savunucusu Taha Elgazi ve eşi sınır dışı edildi 🗣 İHD: Hukuka aykırı sınır dışı kararı iptal edilsin bianet.org/haber/adres-...

"The question of how labour internationalism could work to challenge an imperialism that carries fascism in its genetic code remains on the agenda." communispress.com/on-fronts-an...

On Fronts and Fissures

On the centrality of ‘worker-to-worker solidarity’ in an international Palestine solidarity movement. - ALBERTO TOSCANO

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OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue A Special Section in issue 73.2 of The Sociological Review journal, featuring powerful contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social, @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun and Rafeef Ziadah. buff.ly/RwjIdlS #palestine #gaza

On Nakba Day let's recall British complicity in covering up the horrors of 1948 and the years preceding it. Below, a Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein reveals the destruction of key documents related to Palestine by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.

On Monday in Turin I will discuss the launch of an important documentary. It tells the story of the CALP - a collective of dock workers in Genoa - who, for many years, have been refusing to load ships carrying weapons. True anti-militarist praxis. Check for 'Portuali' online in the future.

New online, from our spring issue: @daralind.bsky.social and @omarjadwat.bsky.social in conversation about immigration policy in the second Trump administration. www.dissentmagazine.org/article/trum...

The Deportation Machine - Dissent Magazine

An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration.

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“Like the devil, vampires, and the more timid varieties of ghost, fascism must be invited in.” My latest for @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

You Don’t Get Trump Without Gaza

Fascism doesn’t just appear. It must be invited in—and the bipartisan repression of the anti-genocide movement did just that.

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In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s drive to acquire territory as property—starkly exemplified by Trump's egregious “Gaza development plan.” proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...

Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine

In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...

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"We need to stop this plunder, weariness and vulgarity" Sırrı Süreyya Önder, May 2013 kaosgl.org/haber/sirri-...

Sırrı Süreyya Önder: Ben Ağaçların da Vekiliyim

Taksim Gezi Parkı’nda yıkıma karşı duran İstanbul Milletvekili Önder: Bu neoliberal sistemin dini, kitabı, Allah’ı para. Bu talana, bezginliğe, hoyratlığa dur dememiz lazım.

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Portrait of Heiny Srour, director of The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974) and Leila and the Wolves (1984) “Wrestling with violence under colonial subjugation ... she is interested in what happens when a people suffer together, even as they are pulled apart” www.bidoun.org/articles/hei...

"Attempts to legally 'harmonize' the competing goals of protecting and punishing undocumented workers since the mid-1980s have gradually warped the employment relationship." @michael-macher.bsky.social

Wages of Citizenship | Michael Macher

US immigration enforcement and the cannibalization of labor law

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Registration for our Reading the Crisis online conversation series is now open. The series advances Stuart Hall's thinking by asking: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture? Registration is free - sign up now via our website: www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/

University students are again at the forefront of resisting the police, who banned access to Taksim square for 1 May in Istanbul - "Squares cannot be closed to the people, the youth, and the workers for the sake of a government!" (screengrabs from Zeynep Kuray)

Pertinent to share on 1 May the latest beautiful paper from Mai Taha on The Home, the Barricade and Women’s Work in the 1936 Palestinian Revolution journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Garrett Felber, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre - AK Books, May 2025 burningbooks.com/products/a-c...

A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre - PREORDER

by Garrett Felber AK Press 5/6/2025, hardcover SKU: 9781849355902   We're really excited to be working with AK Press on the preorder campaign for this new book on Buffalo legend, Martin Sostre! For ea...

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NO GOD, NO BOSS, NO HUSBAND. Athens, 2020.

We are proud to introduce our next Workshop4Sudan w/ Ruth Wilson Gilmore on May 5 at 12 pm (EDT). This wkshp will among other things allow 4 reflections on what internationalism frm below might look like, given abolition requires it + how we apply it to diff. contexts. chuffed.org/project/work...

Located at the critical confluence of culture, arts, architecture, and urbanism, our new journal @criticalproductive.bsky.social is dedicated to interrogating the ways in which politics is entangled with spatial and aesthetic production: direct.mit.edu/cpro/issue/n...

Being accused of not having “a valid immigration visa” has quite literally become a death sentence.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb@nkalamb.bsky.social · 2y ago

A Haitian woman has just died at ICE’s heinous Krome prison. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

“It is insufficient to speak of a crisis of social reproduction ..The crisis is followed by a war against social reproduction, which lays the foundations for its fascistisation” @veronicagago.bsky.social in the latest issue of @radical-philosophy.bsky.social www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/the-...

Veronica Gago · The fascistisation of social reproduction (2025)

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You protest for Palestine. You speak out. Next thing you know, you’re in a for-profit ICE prison in rural Louisiana — isolated, disappeared, silenced. This isn’t history. It’s happening now.

Why Pro-Palestine protesters are being sent to a for-profit ICE prison in rural Louisiana

Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, and Alireza Doroudi are all being held in ICE detention in Jena, Louisiana. Jena represents the nexus of white supremacy, prison profiteering, and state repression.…

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