Now online: 'An Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber on the Life and Work of Felix Weil: Argentine, Millionaire, Marxist, and Founder of the Frankfurt School' by Jacob Blumenfeld and Santiago M. Roggerone.

An Interview with Hans-Peter Gruber on the Life and Work of Felix Weil: Argentine, Millionaire, Marxist, and Founder of the Frankfurt School - Historical Materialism

Felix Weil’s most lasting contribution to the culture of the 20th century was certainly the Institute for Social Research. An institute for Marxist research and teaching was a new and innovative insti...

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A great obituary, the eulogies for him from the media class condemn themselves.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW | A corrective to the gushing tributes… LIDDLE TO BE CELEBRATED An honest obituary for Rod Liddle, dead at 66, dead inside for many years before that. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/liddle-to-...

"WHAT THE COURT HID FROM THE JURY" Palestine Action Co-Founder Huda Ammori Reveals Shocking Legal Ambush

"WHAT THE COURT HID FROM THE JURY": Palestine Action Co-Founder Reveals Shocking Legal Ambush

UNBELIEVABLE

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Lobby the Home Office to ensure that the Spycops Inqury is not prematurely closed down before its work has been completed - ucpi.uk/consultation...

NEW | Let’s be serious… FARAGE BELIEVES IN FREE SPEECH UNTIL HE’S AT THE SHARP END OF A CUTTING JOKE Pretending that the guillotine t-shirt photo clumsily shared by Zack Polanski is a genuine threat is laughable and we should say so... brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/farage-bel...

Farage believes in free speech until he's at the sharp end of a cutting joke

Pretending that the guillotine t-shirt photo clumsily shared by Zack Polanski is a genuine threat is laughable and we should say so...

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With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/with-karim...

With Karim Khan's dismissal, the elimination of the war crimes court is near-complete

Millions of people around the world will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan's accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court

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"Power is the ability to shape the world to your advantage. This should not be confused with constantly declaring how powerful you are." Me on why Trump's potency on the world stage is vanishing. as.ft.com/r/d4b0f81f-b...

Trump’s waning sway over the world

The habitual trolling that serves him at home is sapping his potency on the global stage

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NEW | I had to write this one. THE DAILY TELEGRAPH’S TRUE CRIME EXPLOITATION OF A WOMAN’S HORRIFIC MURDER When will we stop accepting evil being served up as entertainment? brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-daily-...

The Daily Telegraph's true crime exploitation of a woman's horrific murder

When will we stop accepting evil being served up as entertainment?

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signing off for the summer, enjoy your holiday! Looking forward to the beach

"To do such organizing work, however, we must first actually see these workers." Ashley Dawson reviews Kohei Saito’s "Capital From Zero" and Marx’s development as an ecosocialist thinker: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/kohei-saito-capital-from-zero/

Many thanks to Matthew Rutherford for such a generous and thought-provoking review of Marx and the Politics of Need. A pleasure to read, and it leaves me with some excellent questions to think through! marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/2275...

‘Marx and the Politics of Need’ by George Boss reviewed by Matthew Rutherford

Needs occupy a central place in political debates; we need access to healthcare, we need public transport, we need economic growth, etc. But despite the prevalence of needs in our politics, needs them...

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"That China is now trusted more than the US in a large majority of countries surveyed by Pew should ring alarms. Yet America still acts as if it were the most admired place on earth." My column. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Why the world trusts China more than America

Countries suspicious of the US are to be found on every continent, not just in its own back yard

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Martin Wolf: "We are living in a mercantilist era. This threatens both the stability of the world economy and relations among great powers." 3-4 years ago this would've been considered an outrageous statement. It shows how much the global trading system is under pressure. www.ft.com/content/a5e9...

Who will win the war of neo-mercantilists?

China’s high degree of self-sufficiency also reduces its vulnerability to coercion by others

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Palantir’s Deepest Darkest Secret Exposed

Palantir’s Deepest DARKEST Secret EXPOSED

SHOCKING

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What Marco Rubio Just Did is SHOCKING & soon no one will be able to talk about it

What Marco Rubio Just Did is SHOCKING & soon no one will be able to talk about it

TERRIFYING

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Every single paragraph of this peace is deeply lacerating, and incredibly insightful. An extraordinary essay by Abdaljawad Omar about the structure of feeling of Palestinianness: www.equator.org/articles/mor...

More on the disputes at the top of Your Party - theleftlane.media/revolt-at-th...

Revolt at the top: Your Party’s governance crisis deepens - The Left Lane

In an exclusive investigation, Alan Story reveals how a no confidence revolt inside Your Party’s top body has left chair Jenn Forbes isolated, Jeremy Corbyn’s authority in tatters, and the party’s gov...

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A near-unanimous no-confidence vote has rocked Your Party. But Corbyn and Jenn Forbes insist it was never valid — a lust for control has consumed YP. @skwawkbox.org has more.

Leaked documents show Corbyn rejected YP exec's unanimous no-confidence vote

A near-unanimous CEC no-confidence vote has rocked Your Party. But Corbyn and Jenn Forbes say it was never valid

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The Dacre dynasty: how the Daily Mail’s fearsome former editor still shapes the British press Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciplesIn 1986, 131 years after the Daily Telegraph was founded, its editor,...

The Dacre dynasty: how the Daily Mail’s fearsome former editor still shapes the British press

The long read: Paul Dacre broke new ground in selling readers an angry rightwing perspective. Today, most of Fleet Street is run by his disciples

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Defence is the one public budget we dare not question – will Andy Burnham break this cycle? | Andy Beckett Any boost for the military will be paid for by cuts elsewhere. Britain’s new PM should be careful he is not being sold a pup For many British voters, politicians and journalists, public...

Defence is the one public budget we dare not question – will Andy Burnham break this cycle? | Andy Beckett

Any boost for the military will be paid for by cuts elsewhere. Britain’s new PM should be careful he is not being sold a pup, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

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1). In every public statement Starmer since his resignation he has misleadingly repeated the Labour Party under his leadership has recovered from its worst defeat in history (ignoring the voting not MP statistics) and that he has changed it by rooting out a supposed anti-semitism problem.

Mic Wright@brokenbottleboy.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW | Rounding up coverage of Starmer’s final PMQs and needlessly dragging Paddington into it: KEIR TODAY… The press response to Starmer's final PMQs shows British politics at its most false. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/keir-today

Too often a crucial question goes unasked: is Palantir value for money for Britain? Me in the @theguardian.com on latest investigation from @lucasamin.bsky.social and I on the problems with Palantir in the UK www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I investigated Palantir’s foothold in the British state – and what I found should worry us all | Peter Geoghegan

Paid-for political access and threadbare regulations have helped to embed the US tech firm in the NHS – and beyond. But there is a way to free ourselves, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale

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Keir Starmer Wants to DESTROY YouTube

Keir Starmer Wants to DESTROY YouTube

The Government Wants To Control Your Feed

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For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel's illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace. Read my latest here: jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-west-w...

The West won't punish the settlements. Its two-state solution was always a sham

For decades, the EU has devised ever more convoluted ways to avoid penalising Israel's illegal settlements, even as they devour a two-state solution it claims is the only path to regional peace

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THE IDF ARE LITERAL NAZIS This is the end. I don’t see myself surviving. They brought me here to kill me.” These were the words of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya to his lawyer earlier this month. Abu Safiya was the director of the Kamal Adwan hospital in northern Gaza www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In Israel’s prisons, torture and death have become a norm that it barely tries to hide | Nesrine Malik

The suffering of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is no isolated case. The abuse of Palestinian detainees is happening in plain sight, yet nothing changes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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I feel moved and grateful beyond words by this beautiful, precise, generous, and politically generative review of my book by comrades Flora Arnold and Lauren Hough for @proteanmag.com. proteanmag.com/2026/07/08/s...

Solidarity in the Age of Service Work • Protean Magazine

Flora Arnold and Lauren Hough review Annie McClanahan's “Beneath the Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work.” Often assumed to be contemporary features of labor, McClanahan argues, mod...

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Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision. Enter the Nature Relationship Index. An Essay by Yadvinder Malhi

It doesn’t have to be us versus nature | Aeon Essays

Human prosperity depends on nature, but no global metric has captured this with precision. Enter the Nature Relationship Index

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NEW | On politics’ most execrable influencer… THE SOUND OF ONE MAN CARPING Nigel Farage's by-election stunt looks like it's falling flat but, at the same time, the media is still falling for the fundamental deception at the heart of the Farage Show. brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-sound-...

The sound of one man carping...

Nigel Farage's by-election stunt looks like it's falling flat but, at the same time, the media is still falling for the fundamental deception at the heart of the Farage Show.

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In one chapter of his book entitled 'The Art of the Bribe', Nigel Farage donor and convicted fraudster George Cottrell describes how politicians can be bought www.ft.com/content/7a0f...

“Call it the anti-Midas touch. Donald Trump loves gold. Yet so much of what he handles, from reflecting pools to US alliances, seems to turn into something else.” My column. as.ft.com/r/21964f65-a...

Trump and the Fifa debacle

The US president is the first leader since Benito Mussolini in 1934 to intervene publicly in his team’s favour

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