@zoegarbett.bsky.social Can more be done to provide a *free* alternative while construction takes place? Suspend fees in the park? Seems unfair to take away such a valued community space from young people in the area. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

‘I don’t know where the kids will go’: beloved football cage in east London to be demolished

Hackney council will close Keith Miller sports pitch at end of year to build urgently needed social homes

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sometimes a long wait makes an article more timely!

Carla Ibled@cibled.bsky.social · 3w ago

My new article with @mihjournal.bsky.social is at long last in orbit. It explores how the neoliberal fantasy machine has used space colonisation to wish away the problem of environmental limits and revive the legitimation of private property.

‘It’s like home’: Brixton market traders fight to stop site being sold to big business

‘It’s like home’: Brixton market traders fight to stop site being sold to big business

Campaign hopes to buy site for community, fearing it could go same route of corporate gentrification as Camden and Old Spitalfields Traders at Brixton market say they are in a battle of “people over profit” after submitting a last-minute plan to stop the site being bought by a private equity firm which they fear could price out longstanding independent businesses. Those behind the Buy Back Brixton campaign said they are through to the second stage of a bidding process, competing against multinational companies to buy Brixton Village and Market Row for community ownership. Continue reading...

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shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term

Reuters@reuters.com · 3w ago

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

Sharon Graham is up for re-election as Unite General Secretary this July, she has been campaigning against Ed Miliband because she believes net zero is damaging. And she is lobbying for more drilling in the North Sea. Tell her we need more action on climate not less!.

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

July 4th from below! How rebellious sailors, enslaved people, and the motley crew propelled the American Revolution, a condensed chapter of *The Many-Headed Hydra*, written by Peter Linebaugh and me, now published in *Economic and Political Weekly*, based in Mumbai. www.epw.in/journal/2026...

Summer's coming....

Anna Duensing presents a small cohort of Black Americans who fought against fascism in the Spanish Civil War and World War II in LaborOnline's second essay about the Black anti-fascist tradition. lawcha.org/2026/04/23/a...

A Fighting Anti-Fascist Army | LAWCHA

Like many Black soldiers conscripted in the segregated armed forces during World War II, Burt Jackson did not need did need battlefield instruction to

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In Beneath the Wage, @anniemcc.bsky.social retheorizes capitalism from the perspective of the service economy, challenging conventional assumptions about how work is waged, regulated, managed, and automated. Now available worldwide! Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Sociology

Yep, pretty much newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

Lorna Finlayson, Irreversible — Sidecar

On Britain’s universities.

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#Peoples250: In this archival recording, Zoila Reyes recalls SEIU's Justice for Janitors campaign in Washington, DC. #america250 #americanhistory #dchistory #seiu youtube.com/shorts/u5eQU...

#Peoples250: Zoila Reyes on Justice for Janitors

YouTube video by Labor and Working-Class History Association

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Dave Pozen at Columbia and Dan Hemel at NYU make the case for democratization of university governance in the US and away from the liberal autocracies of trustees and administrators, as better for higher education and the country as a whole. Read it. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

My latest for Truthout. Black job loss due to structural racism in Trump 2.0 truthout.org/articles/bla...

Black Workers Are the Canaries in the Coal Mine During Trump 2.0

In 2016, Trump asked Black voters what they had to lose if he was president. In 2026, the answer is clear.

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#skystorians Please sign and share. Petition to save the Humanities at University of Hertfordshire c.org/kK5v9MTdNr

Sign the Petition

Save the Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire

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📣 Registration is open for our symposium, “UK American Studies Against the Genocide!” 🍉 We have an incredible program of students, scholars, and activists. ✊ Come join us! www.ticketsource.com/uk-am-studie...

In a Ghana-led resolution, UN declared transatlantic slave trade “the gravest crime against humanity,” passing 123-3. The U.S., Argentina, & Israel voted no. theconversation.com/the-transatl... Read our reparations lesson & teach why they matter. #TeachTruth www.zinnedproject.org/materials/le...

How to Make Amends: A Lesson on Reparations

In this mixer role play, students learn about more than a dozen different examples of reparations — ranging from cash payments to land settlements to state apologies — from a variety of historical mom...

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Congratulations to former #SHAFR President Andrew Preston (UVA) whose book, Total Defense, won the @smh-historians.bsky.social 2026 Distinguished Book Award!! www.smh-hq.org/awards/books... cc: @harvardpress.bsky.social

@drashleydfarmer.bsky.social's 2018 piece engages with the problem of sources for Black women's history: Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

@katherineturk.bsky.social's article tracks the fate of caring labor in the 1970s when Americans debated how to value feminized work as women's social roles shifted. Read the full article here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Emma Day at @uclamericas.bsky.social looks at how, in the late 20th c., the American prison system expanded in ways that denied women—esp. working-class & women of color—adequate medical care for HIV-AIDS and reproductive, chronic, and other illnesses. Read here: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Ministers are reportedly exploring how to cancel dangerous spy-tech firm Palantir's contract to handle NHS data after over 150k people joined me in calling on them to break the contract. Join us - together we can kick out Palantir out of our NHS: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

This is no time for half-measures. Protect families from the energy price hike. Paid for by: A tighter oil & gas windfall tax. Taxing income from wealth the same as from work. And double down on renewables and energy efficiency to protect us from future shocks.

The National@scotnational.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Keir Starmer is set to convene an emergency Cobra meeting after a call with Donald Trump on the Iran war

28th March in Trafalgar Square #LoveHouseMusicHateRacism

Around International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating the powerful women’s movements leading the struggle for justice around the world. Share our video highlighting the inspiring women and movements standing up for change. 🧡 #IWD26 #InternationalWomensDay #IWD

'Stories of personal and collective action demonstrate that positive change is possible, in ways that scientific facts and data often fail.' Barbara Brayshay and saskia papadakis introduce the OHEM archive which is now available British Library

The Archive as Activism

How can we use oral history to capture the diverse history of the UK environmental movement?

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My book has a cover! IN LATIN AMERICA YOU COULD BE FREE: AN AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY tells the story of the place and promise of Latin America in the political imagination of African Americans and of their movements to the region in the antebellum period. Out on Basic Books, November 11, 2026! 🥳

« The historians’ brief — authored by Professor Martha S. Jones and Professor Kate Masur — centers on the pre–Civil War advocacy of free Black Americans for a broad and inclusive principle of birthright citizenship. » www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Historians’ Amicus Brief in Trump v. Barbara

Two historians and professors of legal history represented by Kendall Brill & Kelly LLP have filed a brief supporting a challenge to President Trump’s executive order purporting to end birthright citi...

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So the Obama administration oral history project went live today. An extraordinary resource for historians and teachers, and a great credit to the team of folks who compiled them all, including Evan McCormick, @pastpunditry.bsky.social and many others.

Obama Presidency Oral History

The Obama Presidency as told by 450+ officials, activists, organizers, and extraordinary people from all walks of life.

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Most of the roses for sale in the US are raised in hideous labor and environmental conditions in Colombia and Ecuador before they're loaded onto 747s to fly here. I know because I visited one of the rose plantations/sweatshops for my book Orwell's Roses. Give your love a book or something.

‘Workers get the thorns’: the moral ugliness of rose factories | Rebecca Solnit

A rose is beautiful but a greenhouse with thousands upon thousands of roses, a place producing millions a year, is not

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