"AI is operating at a PhD level" oh, so it's replying 'sorry for the late response' to every email and complaining about its labor conditions?

If anyone in government has a few minutes to run the country in between plotting leadership challenges, could they please cast their eye over the devastation of Higher Education in the UK. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Thousands of University of Nottingham staff told they are at risk of redundancy

Institution says it could run out of money by 2031 and wants to cut more than 600 academic and support posts

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Remember to submit your abstracts for the inaugural Dutch Marxism Conference by 29th May!!

My new paper is out in @antipodeonline.bsky.social! It contributes to ongoing debates on the current conjuncture and conjunctural analysis by placing the destruction of Gaza at the center. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Theorising the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

This paper deploys a Gramscian theorisation of the conjuncture to argue that the contemporary global political economy is becoming constituted through the destruction of Gaza. It contends that Gaza's...

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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Fantastic new paper by Aleksandra Piletic

Theorising the Conjuncture Through Gaza: Urban Destruction and the Intensification of Authoritarian Neoliberalism

This paper deploys a Gramscian theorisation of the conjuncture to argue that the contemporary global political economy is becoming constituted through the destruction of Gaza. It contends that Gaza's...

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Kerala in India, which gave the world its first democratically elected communist government, has voted the left out.

India loses its last left-wing government after five decades

Kerala in India, which gave the world its first democratically elected communist government, has voted the left out.

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The state of British academia: my partner was made redundant from one uni after 14 (14)yrs on fixed-term contracts, & has now begun a short-term fixed contract at another that is threatening to put all (all) its academic staff at risk of redundancy in a “fire & rehire” www.ucu.org.uk/article/1445...

LSBU blocks access to pension & threatens academics with the sack if they don't accept new terms with increased workloads

London South Bank University (LSBU) has threatened to put all its academic staff at risk of redundancy in a restructure that would divide the workforce into teaching or research streams, worsening ter...

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🚩🚩🚩 The call for papers for Marxism NL's 1st Conference is now live! CFP deadline 29.05.26 Conference 08-09.10.26 conference.marxism-nl.org/mxnl26/cfp

The CfP for this year's Historical Materialism annual conference in London, under the title 'Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times', is now online! Mark it in your calendars, prepare your abstracts, book your travel!

Twenty-third Annual Conference - Historical Materialism

Call for Paper is Online and submission form open! Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Fr...

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Warwick Law School is hiring two Assistant Professors in Law. These are permanent research active posts (which feels increasingly like gold dust). Do share amongst your networks! warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

Reminds me of this classic, wherein Michael Hardt sought to persude George W Bush not to invade Iraq because ... his book Empire had a more rational vision for how global power should work? (If your analysis doesn't fit reality - persuade reality). www.theguardian.com/comment/stor...

Rob Knox@pashukanist.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Anti-imperialism is when you ring up Trump and tell him that he's not doing it very rationally.

🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM. The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026. Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌 marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...

Call for Abstracts: 11th annual conference

Freedom Eleventh annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Copenhagen Business School, Denmark2-3 October 2026 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme…

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In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal” on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...

Deportation Is State Violence w/ Nate Holdren (Unlocked)

This episode was originally released December 1st for Death Panel patrons and is being unlocked today for the first time. To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a pa

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new lows in blogging! new heights in self-indulgence! what a time to be alive (so I'm told) buttondown.com/nateholdren/...

Liberal Egalitarianism and Object Permanence (Tooze v Anderson)

Hey there gang, I hope you’re maintaining despite the hellscape. I’m back with an offcut (even by my standards!)I don’t really follow Adam Tooze and haven’t...

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Comrades, we are inviting applications for the Law and Marxism Spring School 2026: Race, Resources and Redistribution, 8-10 April 2026, at the @gvagrad.bsky.social Please take a look at our Call for Abstracts and share with your networks 📣 📝 To apply, click here: tinyurl.com/LawMarx26

Our Law & Marxism Spring School Call for Applications is out! 😻

Centre for Law & Social Change@lawsocialchange.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Comrades, we are inviting applications for the Law and Marxism Spring School 2026: Race, Resources and Redistribution, 8-10 April 2026, at the @gvagrad.bsky.social Please take a look at our Call for Abstracts and share with your networks 📣 📝 To apply, click here: tinyurl.com/LawMarx26

excited to be chairing this upcoming free event on critical theory and psychoanlysis: www.eventbrite.com/e/melanie-kl...

Join us in London on 23 January for the inaugural event of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society @qmul.bsky.social. With stellar speakers we reflect on the state of (legal) critique as we confront a world of "death and destruction without alibi". 👇👇👇 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-state-...

The State of Critique: CCLAS Launch

Join us to celebrate the launch of the Centre for the Critique of Law and Society (formerly Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context)

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**LAUNCH OF THE NEW CENTRE FOR THE CRITIQUE OF LAW AND SOCIETY** Join us to celebrate our new research centre (CCLAS) and hear from thinkers in law and the humanities, examining both (legal) critique and the Critic. Full program and registration here: tinyurl.com/stateofcritique

Me and Mary Robertson in @ripejournal.bsky.social articulating a Marxist perspective on race, racialisation and subprime in a special issue on Raced Finance expertly co-edited by @iliasalami.bsky.social @alibhagat.bsky.social @vincentguermond.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime

Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...

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It might be that Birmingham have been uniquely foolish in their handling of this situation, but it's worth noting that management failing to take overwork, stress and burnout seriously is a sector-wide problem, and only getting worse as universities slash staff costs.

Dr Vanessa@hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Oh hey it finally made the media, only a week after the letter was actually sent. FWIW despite being legally obliged to share with all staff, he so far hasn't. www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birming...

In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).

In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987-2025) - Historical Materialism

‘Our subjective horizon is the optimism of the intellect; our objective, structuring condition is pessimism of the will. Without optimism of the intellect, we have the party without the people. Withou...

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Chapter 1 of myself @ruthhoughton.bsky.social & Cher Weixia Chen Research Handbook on Global Governance is available open access 👇 doi.org/10.4337/9781... We set out how we created an alternative & critical take on global governance - on topics sometimes forgotten, lots of different voices & more

TURN THE VOLUME UP! Online registration for the HM London has ended, but you can still attend by registering on the door. Low income, unemployed and student (school and university) comrades are welcome to attend by offering to pay whatever you can afford. Three important things...

Public Lecture co-organised by me and @parvathimenon.bsky.social @cceilsoas.bsky.social ( & by Luke McDonagh Gerry Simpson & @mariepetersmann.bsky.social @lselaw.bsky.social ): "Recognition of the State of Palestine: Contested Interpretations" 6pm on Thurs November 13 at LSE. Registration 👇🏾

Recognition of the State of Palestine - Contested Interpretations - LSE Law School Events

What is the meaning and significance of the legal recognition of the state of Palestine in international law?   Speakers: Prof Vasuki Nesiah, Dr. Shahd Hammouri, Dr Mazen Masri & Dr Nora Jaber

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“Marx and the Critique of Humanism”, coming Feb 2026, edited by @asaenzdesicilia.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/marx-and-...

The week in review: it was a Labor Day special, with @mikewishnie.bsky.social on faculty unions, and Eamon Coburn on the long-eroded social norms against union busting. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web in the 🧵 👇

Weekly Roundup: September 5

A Labor Day special: Michael Wishnie on the possibility of faculty unions, and Eamon Coburn on reviving long-eroded social norms against union busting. Plus, upcoming deadlines for the ALPE conference...

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If you’re in Copenhagen on 23 September, come out for this stellar event ✨

Mikkel Krause Frantzen@mikkelkfrantzen.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Now it is time for the Cph book launch, a double whammy if you will! "Finance Aesthetics" (@goldsmithspress.bsky.social) and "The Birth of the Financial Thriller" (@edinburghup.bsky.social) Sep 23, at Uni of Cph, 3-6 pm. Readings, conversations, wine! Please come, no registration needed.

Friends in NYC: Vasuki Nesiah, Tony Alessandrini, Gary Wilder and I will be holding a public conversation at CUNY Graduate Center on "The Question of Internationalism Today" on Sept 18, at 5 pm. Please join the discussion. @lsehumanrights.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social