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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 of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 13h
Also, maybe don't use this as an excuse to cut courses and programs that are currently profitable? And make faculty who bring in research funds redundant?

Seems, I don't know, obvious?

#stopthecuts #savehe #UCU #UoNUCU #UON #UniversityOfNottingham

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uonucu.bsky.social
University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 13h
And I'm also not in charge of the university, but I also feel like maybe the people who are in charge of making financial choices for the university should be the ones who face the consequences of these horrible decisions. Not staff, not students, not faculty, not the community.

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University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 13h
Now I'm not an economist, but I feel like this is not great economic news.
Screenshot of a THE story with the headline "Nottingham posts £85 million deficit as value of campus plummets" Screenshot of a NottinghamshireLive news story with the headline "University of Nottingham's disastrous 'vanity project' campus could be sold for just £14."

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Nikolai Huke @nihuke.bsky.social · 17h
‪Join us Feb 9, 7pm CET for the launch of "Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis" (@abieler.bsky.social / @bigmacca.bsky.social)

I'll present my chapter on #migration, #borders & #racism in the #EU - www.elgaronline.com/edcollchap/b...

Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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Vincenzo Maccarrone @bigmacca.bsky.social · 17h
Next week there will be the online launch of the volume 'Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis', which I co-edited with @abieler.bsky.social

Join us on February 9 at 6 pm London Time/ 7 pm UK time!

Registration: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launc...

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · 1d
The Railways Bill is making its way through Parliament. But it’s missing 4 vital ingredients that would make it truly work for passengers, not private profiteers:

1 Bring Rolling Stock into public ownership
2 Lower fares
3 Re-opening closed lines
4 Listen to passengers and give them a voice.
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Make sure your MP knows how the Railways Bill can delivers for passengers - email your MP
Invite your MP to learn more about how they can fight to make sure the Railways Bill delivers for passengers.
weownit.org.uk

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 2d
New Global Labour Journal issue Vol. 17 No. 1 (2026): January is out at mulpress.mcmaster.ca/globallabour...
Vol. 17 No. 1 (2026): January | Global Labour Journal
The Global Labour Journal is a proudly open-access venue for research on global labour studies. The Journal needs support to continue its work and to preserve its open-access status. Your support will help keep important research and debates freely available to academics and labour activists throughout the world regardless of finances or institutional affiliation. Thank you!
mulpress.mcmaster.ca

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 2d
Venezuela: It’s Much More Than Oil, see socialistproject.ca/2026/01/vene...
Venezuela: It’s Much More Than Oil
As the US openly discussed schemes to add Greenland to its list of conquered territories, it became abundantly clear that “Alternative Energy” (AltE, solar, wind, hydro power) joined fossil fuels at c...
socialistproject.ca

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 2d
The UK government has agreed a deal with Donald Trump to hike NHS drugs prices. The government is refusing to say how much this will cost or how it will be paid for. Tell Wes Streeting to come clean: act.globaljustice.org.uk/tell-wes-str...
Tell Wes Streeting: come clean on cost of Trump’s NHS deal
The UK government has agreed a deal with Donald Trump that will see the NHS pay pharma companies much higher drugs prices. But they won’t come clean on how much this agreement will cost the NHS. Estim...
act.globaljustice.org.uk

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 4d
Care workers are essential to a “just transition”, see globallabourcolumn.org/2026/01/29/c...
Care workers are essential to a “just transition”
-Just Transition and Care (JTC) At the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil, a new proposal sought to address the fragmented state of global Just Transition effort…
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 4d
A Global Wave of Resistance to the US Empire Must Begin with Ending Israel’s Genocide, see socialistproject.ca/2026/01/glob...
A Global Wave of Resistance to the US Empire Must Begin with Ending Israel’s Genocide
“Palestine is really the center of the world.” — Angela Davis The US administration has unilaterally announced a so-called “Board of Peace” for Gaza led by US President Trump in a statement that compl...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 6d
Scotland & England fans: the 2026 World Cup is set to be hosted in Trump’s USA. We can’t stay silent. Sign the petition to move it and protect players & fans! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/bo...
Boycott Trump's World Cup: Sign the petition to move the games now!
I am unbelievably chuffed that the Scottish Men's team, alongside England are qualifiers for the 2026 World Cup. Since childhood I have always loved a World Cup. My childish excitement however is bein...
you.38degrees.org.uk

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 9d
The Promise That Canada Broke, see socialistproject.ca/2026/01/the-...
The Promise That Canada Broke
It’s been a month since Prime Minister Mark Carney cancelled the caregiver permanent residency program, at least for 2026. He did it on December 19th – the Friday before Christmas, one day after Inter...
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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 10d
Rather than getting mixed-up in mixed economy arguments, a focus on a class-relational account of development banks in the mid-twentieth century can better assist understanding the hothousing for development
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Hothousing for Development: sorting out the mixed economy and state capitalism - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Our new article in Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space seeks to refocus attention on development banks in Mexico and Chile as a way of "sorting out" contemporary debates on the mixed economy...
www.ppesydney.net

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 11d
Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism, see socialistproject.ca/2026/01/soci...
Social Strikes: Confronting ICE and Resisting Authoritarianism
As authoritarian politics harden in the United States, familiar channels of resistance are proving dangerously inadequate. Elections are constrained, courts are under siege, and dissent is increasingl...
socialistproject.ca

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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 11d
General #strike starting in Minnesota - No work, no school, no shopping

Workers and people making demanding ICE leave the state

Not a blanket of doom but organising in #solidarity, for caring and for something better than what Trump/ MAGA are offering

Strength to all unions in @mnaflcio.org
Minnesotans strike to protest ICE surge in state: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’
Organizers demand ICE leave state and agency be investigated for constitutional violations
www.theguardian.com

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LabourStart @labourstart.bsky.social · 11d
Our volunteers are starting to post this morning's news re. the Minnesota general strike. Everything they collect will appear on our USA/Minnesota news page: www.labourstart.org/2013/state.p...
LabourStart - USA
www.labourstart.org

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Blue Community .net @blue-community.net · 11d
Water Defenders Celebrate Ruling Against U.S. Gold Company’s Claim.
A major victory against an exploitative corporate lawsuit in Guatemala.
blue-community.net/2...
Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 11d
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stop the water stitch-up!. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
Stop the water stitch-up!
Stop the stitch-up! The Government wants to push through water legislation, locking in a failed privatised system for decades without giving the public a say. I’ve signed the petition to stop this wa...
actionnetwork.org

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Jan Willem Goudriaan @jwgoudriaan.bsky.social · 11d
An agenda for corporations, fat-cat CEOs and shareholders, not for workers and people in EU
Alas @ec.europa.eu has completely bought into this with its omnibus proposals.

For on how corporate Europe attacks workers' rights, our environment and communities @corporateeurope.org

@epsu.bsky.social
Deregulation Watch | Corporate Europe Observatory
Check out our new posts on Deregulation Watch which helps civil society monitor new developments in the deregulation agenda, assess what’s at stake, and organise in defence of strong social, environme...
corporateeurope.org

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uonucu.bsky.social
University of Nottingham UCU branch @uonucu.bsky.social · 11d
To all trade unions in the Twin Cities and Minnesota more broadly,

We want to express, from across the Atlantic Ocean, our deeply felt solidarity and support for the general strike planned for Friday 23rd January.
A photo of Anti-ICE protests happening in Minneapolis

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Kayhan Valadbaygi @kayhanvaladbaygi.bsky.social · 12d
The article draws on my book "Capitalism in Contemporary Iran", now available in paperback from @manchesterup.bsky.social and included in its January Sale through its website (40% off automatically applied at checkout until January 31; use JAN40 in North America).
Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 12d
Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis, see socialistproject.ca/2026/01/cybe...
Cybernetic Circulation Complex
This is a lightly-edited extract from Cybernetic Circulation Complex: Big Tech and Planetary Crisis by Nick-Dyer Witheford and Alessandra Mularoni, published by Verso Books. The book’s Preface – “A Sp...
socialistproject.ca

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 13d
I just signed this petition calling on Prince William to end the rent on Dartmoor Prison while it remains empty and unsafe and save millions in public money. It only takes a few seconds - please add your name. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
Prince William: Stop charging taxpayers for an empty prison
Dartmoor Prison has been empty for over 18 months after toxic gas made it unsafe. Yet, with no prisoners inside, taxpayers are still forking out around £4 million every year in rent to Prince William’...
you.38degrees.org.uk

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Minnesota AFL-CIO @mnaflcio.org · 14d
:..union members will join with our fellow Minnesotans to reject fear and speak with one voice as we call for ICE to leave our state, no additional funding for ICE, legal accountability for ICE and for large corporations to stop cooperating with ICE.” aflcio.mn/4sMMp0A
Minnesota’s Labor Movement endorses 1/23 Day of Truth & Freedom
The Executive Board of the Minnesota AFL-CIO, the state’s federation of more than 1,000 affiliated local unions, voted to endorse Friday’s Day of Truth and Freedom as Minnesotans stand together…
aflcio.mn

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Adam David Morton @morton.bsky.social · 15d
Drawing on his recent @risjnl.bsky.social article, Oliver Dodd explains why framing Colombia’s civil war as a narco problem fundamentally misunderstands how and why the conflict escalated
@abieler.bsky.social @chrishesketh.bsky.social
Narco-Myths and Neoliberal War: Why Colombia’s Conflict Escalated - Progress in Political Economy (PPE)
Rather than a deviation from capitalist modernisation, how has political violence in Colombia been a constitutive outcome of a project of "passive revolution" through which capitalist modernisation wa...
www.ppesydney.net

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 18d
Derbyshire Council is planning to close 8 publicly owned care homes. Hundreds of staff and residents are affected.

I’ve just signed a petition to the council leader to save our care homes. Please add your name and share. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Derbyshire Care Homes
Derbyshire Council is planning to close 8 publicly owned care homes. Hundreds of staff and residents are affected. I’ve just signed a petition to the council leader to save our care homes. Please add...
www.megaphone.org.uk

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CSSGJ @cssgj.bsky.social · 19d
CSSGJ is pleased to host Prof. Mary Davis on 19th January at 6pm UK time. The title of her talk is 'Women and Class: Why Identity Politics Fails Women'. For a free ticket please register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-and-... @abieler.bsky.social @oliverdodd.bsky.social @sinembal.bsky.social
Women and Class: Why Identity Politics Fails Women
The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) is delighted to welcome Prof Mary Davis for a critical talk on Women and Class
www.eventbrite.co.uk

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CSSGJ @cssgj.bsky.social · 19d
We are pleased to announce CSSGJ Spring seminar series and Marx's Capital Vol 3 Lecture Series with Andy Higginbottom. For a free ticket, please register at www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/centre-for... @abieler.bsky.social @sinembal.bsky.social @oliverdodd.bsky.social @elifuzgoren.bsky.social
Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 19d
The UK govt quietly agreed a deal with Trump to hand Big Pharma billions more, at the expense of the NHS. @globaljusticenow and @justtreatment are organising an event for MPs to expose this deal. Take action and invite your MP

act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4676
Trump’s NHS heist: invite your MP to our briefing
In December, the UK government agreed a deal with the Trump administration which will see the UK pay pharmaceutical companies billions more for new medicines.  While big pharma executives are celebrat...
act.globaljustice.org.uk