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Johan Alfonsson

@alfonsson.bsky.social

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Sociologist. Postdoc. Precarious work, class, alienation, marxist theory. University of Halmstad and University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Author of "Vad hände med arbetarklassen: om svek, makt och ojämlikhet i Sverige"

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Johan Alfonsson @alfonsson.bsky.social · Nov 15

How should we define the working and middle classes, and has the latter undergone proletarianisation?

This is the question I address in my article in Capital & Class.

In it, I present a class concept based on value-domination and labour market power. 1/3

doi.org/10.1177/0309...

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Eric Rosén

@detljuvalivet.bsky.social

Efter stora framgångar i Irak, Libyen och Afghanistan sprider USA friheten till ännu ett land

January 3, 2026 at 6:35 PM

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Eliot Higgins

@eliothiggins.bsky.social

Trump just announces the US will be running Venezuela now, until the can do a "safe, proper, and judicious" transfer of power. Announcing an occupation before you've occupied a country is a new one.

January 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM

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Cas Mudde

@casmudde.bsky.social

From my favorite U.S. cartoonist @mluckovich.bsky.social (already weeks ago).

January 3, 2026 at 3:39 PM

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Tobias

@toebias.bsky.social

Det här lilla aset drog in biståndet som medfört att 2,5 miljoner människor blivit av med sina bromsmediciner mot HIV. Nu har han själv blivit 187 miljarder dollar rikare.

omni.se/a/pBL5jj

500 mest förmögna blev 20 300 miljarder rikare

Världens 500 rikaste ökade sin förmögenhet med 2 200 milliarder dollar under 2025, motsvarande 20 300 miljarder kronor. Det visar Bloombergs miljardärsindex, rapporterar E24. Deras totala nettoförmöge...

omni.se

January 3, 2026 at 9:48 AM

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Rune Møller Stahl

@runestahl.bsky.social

This is the end of any notion of international law. The US government (and it's proxies) have claimed the right to invade any country and kill or capture any individual without pretext

January 3, 2026 at 12:18 PM

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Twlldun

@twlldun.bsky.social

Don’t worry everyone, I’m sure President Trump has a thought through plan for what happens to Venezuela after they abduct Maduro and it won’t descend into chaos

January 3, 2026 at 10:19 AM

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Johannes Klenell

@johannesklenell.bsky.social

2026 inleds alltså med att Trump kidnappar ett annat lands president. Vi är nu helt i händerna på galna jättar.

January 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM

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Ali Esbati

@aliesbati.bsky.social

Samarbete mellan Fifas och Nobels fredspristagare. www.nrk.no/urix/eksplos...

Eksplosjoner hørt i Venezuelas hovedstad Caracas

Venezuelas regjering sier at USA har gjennomført angrep flere steder i landet.

www.nrk.no

January 3, 2026 at 8:47 AM

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Jonas Algers

@jonasalgers.bsky.social

Man ska dock komma ihåg att han fick FIFAs fredspris

Oliver Alexander @oalexanderdk.bsky.social · 12h

Trump starting a war in order to show people that he deserved the Noble Peace Prize instead of María Corina Machado is very on brand.

January 3, 2026 at 8:48 AM

Johan Alfonsson

@alfonsson.bsky.social

Presidenterna kommer och går men USAs imperialistiska krig består

MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 12h

BREAKING: The United States appears to have begun bombing Venezuela. Massive airstrikes are underway. War is here.

January 3, 2026 at 7:53 AM

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Ola Spännar

@olaspannar.bsky.social

Israel har dödat minst 100 000 palestinier i Gaza på två år, varav 80% civila. Flera hundra har dödats även under ”vapenvilan”. Nu kämpar hundratusentals för överlevnad i provisoriska tältläger. Då förbjuder Israel 37 hjälporganisationer, däribland Läkare utan gränser 💔

www.dw.com/en/israel-mo...

Israel moves to suspend major aid groups in Gaza – DW – 12/31/2025

Israel has been tightening oversight of humanitarian groups in Gaza, warning that dozens of organizations face suspension for failing to submit lists of their Palestinian employees.

www.dw.com

January 3, 2026 at 7:15 AM

Johan Alfonsson

@alfonsson.bsky.social

Elon Musk's fortune is now 100 billion USD larger than the Swedish GDP.

January 2, 2026 at 10:37 AM

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Tobias

@toebias.bsky.social

En otroligt oväntad effekt av högerpolitik

Villaägarna är de stora vinnarna medan människor med sjuk- och aktivitetsersättning är de ekonomiska förlorarna 2026.

January 2, 2026 at 9:49 AM

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Shayan Sardarizadeh

@shayan86.bsky.social

THREAD: Verified videos of anti-establishment protests currently unfolding in Iran

Protesters push back police and security forces on Tehran's Jomhouri Street.

Location: maps.app.goo.gl/LKZH6YbnT2WE...

@geoconfirmed.org

December 31, 2025 at 9:51 PM

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Alexander Luckmann

@aluckmann.bsky.social

Has anyone done this yet

Wanderer above the sea of Breezewood Pennsylvania

January 1, 2026 at 3:51 PM

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tyler supreme

@tylerhuckabee.bsky.social

day one in mamdani’s new york

a guy wearing a “i ❤️ ny” cap reading the qur’an in one hand and the communist manifesto in the other

January 1, 2026 at 5:10 PM

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Albert Pinto

@70sbachchan.bsky.social

wow. i thought Trump Tariffs were reindustrializing america and that the over $500 billion dollars invested in the AI data center boom in 2025 were creating jobs....
www.reuters.com/business/wor...

December 4, 2025 at 9:45 PM

Johan Alfonsson

@alfonsson.bsky.social

”May I wish you in advance every happiness for the New Year. If it's anything like the old one, I, for my part, would sooner consign it to the devil.” Marx to Engels 1861

January 1, 2026 at 11:15 AM

Johan Alfonsson

@alfonsson.bsky.social

en dag ska jorden bliva vår

Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 3d

"What a year for the ultra wealthy. The world’s 500 richest people added a record $2.2 trillion to their collective fortunes in 2025’s… booming markets, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. And about a quarter of this year’s gains went to just eight billionaires.” — Bloomberg Morning Brief

December 31, 2025 at 8:27 PM

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Jacobin

@jacobinmag.bsky.social

Woody Guthrie’s New Year's resolutions for 1943.

“Wake up and fight.”

December 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM

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Cédric Durand

@cedricdurand.bsky.social

Tribute to Michel Aglietta in @newleftreview.bsky.social: "a tireless thinker, committed to the proposition that we should aim to comprehend our changing historical times in their totality, which meant grasping the inter-relationships of their many moving parts." newleftreview.org/issues/ii156...

Cédric Durand, Michel Aglietta, NLR 156, November–December 2025

A tribute to the founder of the Parisian Regulation School of heterodox economics, with its striking combination of elite statistical training, rich conceptualizations and long-range economic history....

newleftreview.org

December 30, 2025 at 9:39 AM

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Gränsfallet

@brosen67.bsky.social

December 30, 2025 at 8:01 AM

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kalle

@kalle.bsky.social

Studenten Kevin stoppas från att bli idé- och lärdomshistoriker: ”Chockartat”

Kevin från Robersfors blev underkänd på 7,5hp "Kantiansk formlära" med motiveringen att han hade fel på provet. Något han själv beskriver som en ovärdig upplevelse.

~Kevin heter egentligen något annat.~

December 28, 2025 at 9:07 PM

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Johanna Sjödin

@johannasjodin.substack.com

"Ränteavdrag, rutavdrag, rotavdrag... Det saknas inte direkt stöd för medelklassen. Nyligen lanserade Kristdemokraterna förslaget att avskaffa reavinstskatten, ett sätt att gynna de som fått pengar genom ägande ännu mer. Och när regeringen sänkte matmomsen i höstas [...]." www.dn.se/ledare/max-h...