A plate of overcooked pasta did not defeat fascism, but it announced, publicly and collectively, that fascism could be defeated. Thanks to the Istituto Cervi in Reggio Emilia for keeping this tradition alive. jacobin.com/2026/07/past...
Marzia Maccaferri
@marzmac.bsky.social
Attempted Political and Intellectual Historian and James Bond expert. Gramsci and Brexit researcher @Queen Mary University of London. I love Martinis. In English e italiano.
What can Andy Burnham actually do? More charisma and better communication skills will be helpful, but what about the structural problems facing the Government? Colm Murphy @colmpm.bsky.social reflects on what's in Burnham's power to do as the new Prime Minister. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
What can Andy Burnham actually do? | LSE British Politics
Andy Burnham might be more charismatic than Keir Starmer but the problems he is inheriting go beyond personality. Can he really make a difference?
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Keir Starmer governs a country he no longer represents. My thoughts, in Italian. www.editorialedomani.it/politica/eur...
Farage trionfa alle amministrative, il Labour crolla. La doccia scozzese di Starmer
Il voto amministrativo britannico, soprattutto in Scozia e nel Galles, scatena un terremoto politico: Reform spazza via i conservatori e assurge a partito nazionale, i Verdi crescono meno del previsto...
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*Reminder: Deadline Approaching* Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field Deadline: 4 May 2026. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field
Call for papers.
bbk.ac.uk
Our final seminar in the #NewLeftHistories series, supported by the #RaphaelSamuelHistoryCentre, took place yesterday — and it was a great success. We concluded our first spring term with a fascinating paper by James Crossley. We are already working on the programme for the autumn term.
Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field. QMUL - Thursday 5th and Friday 6th November 2026 www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Call for Papers. New Left Histories and Historiographies: Mapping a Renewed Research Field
Call for papers.
bbk.ac.uk
Algunas reflexiones mías sobre el #eurocomunismo. sinpermiso.info/textos/la-te...
La "tercera vía" del eurocomunismo: un experimento fallido, un legado político central
La izquierda europea vuelve a enfrentarse a toda una serie de crisis interrelacionadas, configuradas por arraigados desafíos estructurales, turbulencias económicas y dinámicas políticas internas e int...
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Second seminar in the series #NewLeftHistories. 5 March 2026, 16:30 Birkbeck 43 Gordon Square - London Join us! Mike Braddick discusses Hill’s intellectual life, with particular reference to a central puzzle—his political and methodological commitments after 1956. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
'The Silences of Christopher Hill', Mike Braddick (University of Oxford)
Talk about Christopher Hill's work
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Il Labour crolla a Gorton and Denton; vincono i Verdi, con una candidata che fino a poco tempo fa sarebbe stata perfetta per il Labour. Le mie 10 righe su Gorton and Denton. www.editorialedomani.it/politica/eur...
Regno Unito, il trionfo “locale” dei Verdi è un colpo fatale per il governo Starmer
Il Labour crolla alle elezioni nel collegio di Gorton and Denton: si tratta di un voto nato da una manovra tattica interna al partito. È una crisi dalla quale trarrà vantaggio l’ultradestra di Farage....
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To be cited in The #Guardian alongside the pantheon of “#Gramsci scholars.” Done. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
‘The time of monsters’: everyone is quoting Gramsci – but what did he actually say?
Line handily sums up people’s bewilderment at state of world, but it isn’t quite what the Marxist thinker wrote
theguardian.com
I am thrilled to announce the first event in New Left Histories. Sophie Scott-Brown “Emotional Anarchists”? The anarchic turn in the first British New Left: scope, limits, and missed opportunities. 5 February 2026, 16:30–18:00 Birkbeck, 43 Gordon Square - London www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
'"Emotional Anarchists"? The anarchic turn in the first British New Left - scope, limits, and missed opportunities'.
Discussion about anarchy and the New Left
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Zohran Mamdani’s socialist municipalism in New York is part of a long tradition that runs through Bologna and London. And yes, it has something to do with Antonio Gramsci in English. In Italian. L’alternativa alla destra nasce nelle città open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
L’alternativa alla destra nasce nelle città
Il municipalismo socialista di Zohran Mamdani a New York è parte di una lunga tradizione che passa da Bologna e Londra
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The @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social Handbook of @modernitaly.bsky.social Conference #day1. A new approach to the long history of Italy through transnational and interdisciplinary perspective.
Not sure I’ll agree with this book or its thesis, but I’m definitely going to read it. And for the first time in my career as a historian, my narrow, nerdy interests are part of the public debate, and that feels great!
📝 Don't miss this article from the current issue of #BJPIR 'Carving up the territorial integrity of the United Kingdom and blaming the European Union for it: The United Kingdom’s narration of Northern Ireland’s post-Brexit trading status' by Paul Copeland & @marzmac.bsky.social 🔗 buff.ly/wkD4n6A
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Gramscian friends, help me out here: I can’t find the reference to an article on the German translation of the Prison Notebooks, probably published in the International Gramsci Journal. Do you remember it?
Jamaican-British cultural theorist Stuart Hall in his posthumous memoir recalled that while collaborating with the Universities and Left Review in the 1950s, ‘there was a notion of hegemony operating there already […] although none of us had yet read a word of Gramsci’. #Gramscianisation #new_paper
Some reflections on Starmer's crisis (in Italian). Thanks to Stefano Feltri and appunti.substack.com. Quel che resta di Starmer un anno dopo. open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
Quel che resta di Starmer un anno dopo
La vittoria del premier laburista in Gran Bretagna aveva riacceso le speranze delle sinistre socialdemocratiche in tutta Europa. Cosa è andato storto?
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Farage ha vinto con parole d’ordine di sinistra, sostenute però da una piattaforma di destra radicale (servizi ai soli britannici, nazionalizzazione in funzione militare). Ho provato a fare un po' di ordine nel caos post-elezioni open.substack.com/pub/appunti/...
Democrazia vs popolo
L’eterno ritorno di Nigel Farage e il successo di Reform certifica che in Gran Bretagna si sta sgretolando il rapporto tra istituzioni e meccanismi democratici con la legittimazione popolare
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Mentre capisco, e magari un po' condivido, quell'atteggiamento del "io-ve-lo-avevo-detto" nei confronti del partito laburista che ha subito una bella batosta alle elezioni locali,
After 100 Years, Britain’s Two-Party Political System May Be Crumbling (Gift Article)
Nigel Farage’s right-wing populist party, Reform U.K., is presenting a serious challenge to the governing Labour Party and to the opposition Conservatives.
nytimes.com
