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Professor of Political Economy, Labour and resistance to exploitation. Blogs at http://andreasbieler.blogspot.co.uk Views my own!

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University and College Union (UCU) @ucu.org.uk · 7h
“We were absolutely gobsmacked.”

48 courses axed, music, languages, mental health care, childcare.
No consultation. No vision.

This is why we’re voting YES, to stop the destruction of our universities.
#WeAreTheUniversity #VoteYES
@uonucu.bsky.social
Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 2d
Political Sovereignty and Elbows Up: How is it going so far? See socialistproject.ca/2025/11/poli...
Political Sovereignty and Elbows Up
How lucky were the Liberals when the last federal election season began? Very. Twin perceived threats came to their assistance. Like all parties in trouble, they dumped their leader, Justin Trudeau, a...
socialistproject.ca

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Nessa Ní Chasaide @nessanichasaide.bsky.social · 6d
Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis ed @abieler.bsky.social

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Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis
‘Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis is a clear-eyed and incisive account of how the multiple overlapping crises facing European capitalism are exacerbating the inherent contradictio...
www.e-elgar.com

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Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) @corporateeurope.org · 7d
‪This morning, EU environment ministers meet to agree a way forward for the Climate Law🌍 ...but leaked drafts show plans to weaken the 2040 target of slashing emissions by 90% if it is hurting industry "competitiveness" 🏭

Read more on 🔍 Deregulation Watch 🔎
corporateeurope.org/en/deregulation-watch
Photo of cardboard placards saying "There is No Planet B", "Our House is on FIRE", and "System Change Not Climate Change"

Reposted by Andreas Bieler, Ian Bruff, Alf Gunvald Nilsen

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 7d
Brilliant piece by @alfnilsen.bsky.social on Stuart Hall as a master dialectician from and for the Global South @dukepress.bsky.social
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Stuart Hall and Us in the Global South - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
How does reading and rereading Stuart Hall’s work bring out his stunning intellectual agility and the “this-worldliness” of his thinking for the Global South as a master dialectician?
www.ppesydney.net

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 7d
A World Transformed 2025: Britain’s Left-Wing and Experiments in Democracy, see socialistproject.ca/2025/11/a-wo...
A World Transformed 2025
The biggest left-wing event in Great Britain – The World Transformed – was held regularly under the patronage of the Labour Party from 2016 onward. Since the party under the leadership of Keir Starmer...
socialistproject.ca

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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 7d
Murky Water. Debate in London, UK
Join us for a lively debate about what needs to happen to England’s privatised water and sewerage industry and how do we get there? The session will be chaired by Lord Sikka, and there will be opportunity for questions.
blue-community.net/2...
Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 8d
The Sharm el-Sheikh Farce: Trump’s Gaza “Peace Plan”, see socialistproject.ca/2025/11/shar...
The Sharm el-Sheikh Farce: Trump’s Gaza “Peace Plan”
Right after two years of massacre, genocide, and destruction of Gaza’s cities, villages, farmlands, industries, and infrastructure by Israel – in retaliation for Hamas’s strategically misguided and co...
socialistproject.ca

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CSSGJ @cssgj.bsky.social · 9d
CSSGJ is pleased to host Süheyla Doğan on 3rd November at 6 p.m. (UK time). The title of her talk is 'Defending the Right to Life Against Systemic Environmental Onslaughts'. For a free ticket, please register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/defending-... @abieler.bsky.social @oliverdodd.bsky.social
Defending the Right to Life against Systemic Environmental Onslaughts
Defending the Right to Life against Systemic Environmental Onslaughts: The Ecological Struggle in Mount Ida - a public talk by Süheyla Doğan
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 11d
Great to see this collective volume edited with @abieler.bsky.social published! It critically engages with the concept of polycrisis, while building on the illustrious tradition of critical political economy of European integration
The book is available here: www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/cri...
Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 11d
I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services
Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...
you.38degrees.org.uk

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 11d
Europe’s dockworkers face a return to precarious work, see globallabourcolumn.org/2025/10/24/e...
Europe’s dockworkers face a return to precarious work
-Ismail Doga Karatepe Casual employment has long been the norm in ports due to the irregular arrival of ships and the resulting fluctuations in demand for dockworkers (van Hooydonk, 2013). Even bef…
globallabourcolumn.org

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 11d
“Don’t believe. Don’t fear. Don’t beg.” A Belarusian trade union leader on repression, prison, and the survival of dignity, see globallabourcolumn.org/2025/10/23/d...
“Don’t believe. Don’t fear. Don’t beg.” A Belarusian trade union leader on repression, prison, and the survival of dignity
-Aliaksandr Yarashuk I am writing these words one month after my release from Belarusian prison. Only now, with fresh air in my lungs and the sky no longer divided by bars, can I retrace the road t…
globallabourcolumn.org

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 11d
CBC Blurs Out Fascist Link, socialistproject.ca/2025/10/cbc-...
CBC Blurs Out Fascist Link
Graham Platner’s problem is that he lives just a tad too far south. If the Democratic Senate candidate from Maine wanted to make all the hubbub about his Nazi tattoo go away, all he’d have to do is mo...
socialistproject.ca

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 11d
Our NHS is being held to ransom by Donald Trump and Big Pharma. The government must not give in. act.globaljustice.org.uk/our-nhs-bein...
Our NHS is being held to ransom by Donald Trump and Big Pharma. The government must not give in.
Big Pharma and Donald Trump are holding the NHS to ransom. Under the threat of tariffs and withdrawal of investment, they are trying to force the NHS to pay more for our medicines. This risks our abil...
act.globaljustice.org.uk

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Tony Padilla #JFT97 Don’t buy the S*n @proftonypadilla.bsky.social · 11d
We’re gonna be running the wollaton park run next week in memory of our wonderful friend and legendary pres, Agnes, taken from us far too soon. We’re raising funds to support her beloved trade union campaigns. Please sponsor us. @uonucu.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

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Help raise £750 to support the Agnes Parkrun Fundraiser – JustGiving Crowdfunding
Iʼm raising money to support the Agnes Parkrun Fundraiser. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 12d
UK Govt to capitulate to Big Pharma

Ministers have drawn up proposals to pay companies 25% more for NHS medicines.

Too many corporations holding govts/peopie to ransom - give us what we want or else
Energy
Water
Banks
Internet
Tax abuses

Who governs - Corporations or elected govts?
‘Patients will suffer’: tales from the frontline of the UK pharma crisis
The pricing standoff between government and industry has stalled research and put thousands of jobs at risk
www.theguardian.com

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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 12d
From the Canadian Blue Community ‘Water Watchers’:
They’re taking away our victory… but we’re not backing down!
blue-community.net/2...

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Review of International Political Economy @ripejournal.bsky.social · 12d
Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories, by Miguel A. Rivera-Quiñones
Racism, colonialism, and tax havens: tracing the offshore world’s hidden histories
This article advances a decolonial intervention in International Political Economy (IPE) by examining the centrality of racism in the formation of offshore zones under British and American colonial...
www.tandfonline.com

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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13d
These people wrecked the country. Why do they think they can lecture anyone?

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stopcetamercosur.bsky.social @stopcetamercosur.bsky.social · 13d
[Accord UE-Mercosur : Lettre ouverte à E. Macron]

E. Macron désormais favorable à la conclusion de l'accord UE-Mercosur ?
46 organisations de la société civile lui écrivent pour lui dire « Non, l’accord UE-Mercosur n’est pas acceptable »

www.collectifstoptafta.org/accord-ue-me...
#StopUEMercosur
46 organisations de la société civile écrivent à E. Macron pour lui dire « Non, l’accord UE-Mercosur n’est pas acceptable » et lui demander de construire une minorité de blocage pour bloquer sa ratification

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 13d
UK banking industry opposes tax rises, says it pays tax at the rate of 46.4%, and last year paid £43.3bn.

Absolute lie.

At best banks paid £23.1bn, corporation tax was only £8.8bn.

Banks silent on public subsidies they get.

Tax banks. End their subsidies
Why the banking industry is not a paragon of free markets, efficiency, or honesty
Despite making record profits and paying record returns to shareholders it resents paying taxes.
leftfootforward.org

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 13d
The Illusion of a Ceasefire: Gaza Still Under Continuous Genocide socialistproject.ca/2025/10/illu...
The Illusion of a Ceasefire: Gaza Still Under Continuous Genocide
Despite the announcement of a deal between the Palestinian resistance movement and the Israeli regime, the latter continues to violate the ceasefire provisions. The world treats the ceasefire as if th...
socialistproject.ca

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 18d
Beyond the ‘Elbows Up’ Response to the Tariff War: Debating a National Industrial Policy, see socialistproject.ca/2025/10/beyo...
Beyond the ‘Elbows Up’ Response to the Tariff War
Canada’s long codependent economic relationship with the United States has abruptly and involuntarily ended. The election of a tariff-obsessed, unpredictable, incompetent, crony capitalist autocratic ...
socialistproject.ca

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 18d
Politicising Commodification: book review of Erne et al, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/07/poli...
Politicising Commodification: book review of Erne et al
In their major monograph Politicising Commodification: European Governance and Labour Politics from the Financial Crisis to the Covid Emerg...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 18d
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Review of Kevin B. Anderson’s latest book, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-... @morton.bsky.social
The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Review of Kevin B. Anderson’s latest book.
In his recent book The Late Marx’s Revo-lutionary Roads (Verso, 2025), Kevin B. Anderson reveals Marx as a flexible, inquisitive thinker, w...
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Jennifer C @thejenniwren.teamlh.social · 18d
Today, the people of Little Village showed the nation what courage looks like: standing unarmed, united, and unafraid in the face of ICE’s tear gas and violence.

They protected their neighbors, not with weapons, but with solidarity. Chicago’s heart beats strongest when its people rise together. 💙

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20d
No major bank has yet committed to stop funding new oil and gas fields or coal capacity.

They are appeasing Trump, stock markets and shareholders. Exec pay rockets as the environment harmed.

Claims of social responsibility are a PR hype.
No major banks have yet committed to stop funding new oil, gas and coal, research finds
‘The objectives of the Paris agreement are slipping further out of reach,’ say researchers from LSE
www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Markus Heße, Andreas Bieler, Joshua L. Conver

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Ilias Alami @iliasalami.bsky.social · 20d
New book forum published in the @geographers.bsky.social Review of Books,
with great contributions by Rachel Bok, @jeromeroos.bsky.social, Juvaria Jafri together with Nassar Alnassar, Henry Wai-chung Yeung, Angus McNelly, and @proufos.bsky.social

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Link below👇:

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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 22d
The UK is being sued for stopping a coal mine. Ask your MP to help stop the fossil fuel industry’s secret weapon: act.globaljustice.org.uk/stop-fossil-...
Ask your MP to help stop companies suing over climate action
A fossil fuel firm is suing the UK for halting a controversial coal mine, using a secretive corporate court. We’ve been calling on the government to scrap these Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS...
act.globaljustice.org.uk