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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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December 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).
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What are the roots of the rift between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana?
Oliver Eagleton discusses the future of socialist politics in Britain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kITZ...
Oliver Eagleton discusses the future of socialist politics in Britain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kITZ...
December 3, 2025 at 1:02 PM
What are the roots of the rift between Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana?
Oliver Eagleton discusses the future of socialist politics in Britain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kITZ...
Oliver Eagleton discusses the future of socialist politics in Britain.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kITZ...
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‘England doesn’t know how to say: “No Kings.” Instead, it says: “Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his son.” But it isn’t the monarchs who are the British problem. It’s monarchism: the archaic top-down power structure of the Anglo-British state.’
Neal Ascherson: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Neal Ascherson: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Neal Ascherson | No Kings
England doesn’t know how to say: ‘No Kings.’ Instead, it says: ‘Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his son...
www.lrb.co.uk
December 3, 2025 at 5:14 PM
‘England doesn’t know how to say: “No Kings.” Instead, it says: “Not this one, but perhaps his brother or his son.” But it isn’t the monarchs who are the British problem. It’s monarchism: the archaic top-down power structure of the Anglo-British state.’
Neal Ascherson: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
Neal Ascherson: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
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Slavoj Žižek: “David Harvey unites the impossible: a broad global theoretical approach to capitalism with detailed economic analyses. As every good dialectician, he knows how to recognize a general tendency in what appears as marginal accidents of economic daily life. [1/3]
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Slavoj Žižek: “David Harvey unites the impossible: a broad global theoretical approach to capitalism with detailed economic analyses. As every good dialectician, he knows how to recognize a general tendency in what appears as marginal accidents of economic daily life. [1/3]
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Israel's insidious war crimes have not subsided just because Trump succeeded in convincing Western public opinion that the genocide in Gaza has paused. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Israel has ‘de facto state policy’ of organised torture, says UN report
Committee highlights allegations including dog attacks and sexual violence, raising concern about impunity for war crimes
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Israel's insidious war crimes have not subsided just because Trump succeeded in convincing Western public opinion that the genocide in Gaza has paused. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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A very good interview with Oliver Eagleton by @versobooks.bsky.social on his recent book and the potential futures of @thisisyourparty.bsky.social
Your Party: Beyond the factionalism | Oliver Eagleton
YouTube video by Verso Books
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November 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
A very good interview with Oliver Eagleton by @versobooks.bsky.social on his recent book and the potential futures of @thisisyourparty.bsky.social
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The rich keep getting richer. The poor keep getting poorer.
Nothing will change until we bring about a fundamental redistribution of wealth, ownership and power.
Nothing will change until we bring about a fundamental redistribution of wealth, ownership and power.
November 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The rich keep getting richer. The poor keep getting poorer.
Nothing will change until we bring about a fundamental redistribution of wealth, ownership and power.
Nothing will change until we bring about a fundamental redistribution of wealth, ownership and power.
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Ah, Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay MP, BBC critic and (checks notes) a pro-Nazi who the wartime Churchill coalition interned.
February 1937 Tory campaign against BBC "bias". To be fair, if Captain Maule Ramsay was leading the charge, "left-wing" probably covered everything up to and including Mussolini...
November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Ah, Captain Archibald Maule Ramsay MP, BBC critic and (checks notes) a pro-Nazi who the wartime Churchill coalition interned.
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Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
November 11, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Boris Johnson says the idea that criticism of the BBC is being organised by the right is ‘complete and utter bollocks’, which makes me think there might be something in it.
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How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?
October 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
How has the government got itself into the position of standing up for Israeli football hooligans, while criminalising peaceful supporters of Palestine Action?
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On the podcast: in ‘On Politics’ this week, James is joined by political theorist Alan Finlayson to try to understand the ways in which different styles of online rhetoric, on both the left and right, are shaping our political discourse. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
On Politics: The Online Right (and Left)
Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 15/10/2025 · 1h 15m
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October 15, 2025 at 4:09 PM
On the podcast: in ‘On Politics’ this week, James is joined by political theorist Alan Finlayson to try to understand the ways in which different styles of online rhetoric, on both the left and right, are shaping our political discourse. Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
As the world leaders descend, a line from TS Eliot’s Gerontion hangs over Sharm el-Sheikh: “After such knowledge, what forgiveness?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
While the perpetrators of Gaza’s genocide pose as its saviours, survivors return home – to a wasteland | Nesrine Malik
Western leaders attending the Sharm el-Sheikh summit have enabled and sponsored this slaughter. They are in no position to build a Palestinian future, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik
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October 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
As the world leaders descend, a line from TS Eliot’s Gerontion hangs over Sharm el-Sheikh: “After such knowledge, what forgiveness?” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through.
No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.
But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.
Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.
No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.
But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.
Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.
October 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Israeli leaders screamed their genocidal intent at the top of their lungs all the way through.
No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.
But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.
Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.
No crime in history has been so confessed to as it actually happened.
But almost all Western media outlets suppressed this.
Kudos to @scotnational.bsky.social for not being one of them.
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No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
October 7, 2025 at 7:43 AM
No sudden rupture is now required for the far right to take power in this country. For what we're seeing is a steady normalisation of extremists by the Conservative and Labour Parties, BBC, Telegraph, Mail and others. A shift once considered unthinkable beings to look acceptable, even inevitable.🧵
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‘Speculation like this is bound to have some humans wondering why we need to do this to ourselves, and considering the efficacy of sledgehammers. Perhaps AI will get to that point on its own.’
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the search for Artificial General Intelligence: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the search for Artificial General Intelligence: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek · Computers that want things
For all the fluency and synthetic friendliness of public-facing AI chatbots like ChatGPT, it seems important to remember...
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October 7, 2025 at 2:28 PM
‘Speculation like this is bound to have some humans wondering why we need to do this to ourselves, and considering the efficacy of sledgehammers. Perhaps AI will get to that point on its own.’
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the search for Artificial General Intelligence: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
@jamesmeek.bsky.social on the search for Artificial General Intelligence: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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David Adler reporting, in audio, on the brutal treatment of Israel's abductees - on the actual conditions inside Israel's prisons - on the display of inhumanity by Israeli officials, including genocidal Ben-Gvir and his minions. Listen now! soundcloud.com/yanisv/david...
David Adler on his abduction by Israeli forces and the conditions he was held at
Listen to David Adler on his abduction by Israeli forces and the conditions he was held at by yanisv #np on #SoundCloud
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October 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
David Adler reporting, in audio, on the brutal treatment of Israel's abductees - on the actual conditions inside Israel's prisons - on the display of inhumanity by Israeli officials, including genocidal Ben-Gvir and his minions. Listen now! soundcloud.com/yanisv/david...
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One of the impacts of social media on news and comment has been to push meme logics into conventionally broadcast media, such that they come to see their role in terms of recycling, rehashing, and repeating what 'a lot of people are saying'
September 22, 2025 at 7:25 AM
One of the impacts of social media on news and comment has been to push meme logics into conventionally broadcast media, such that they come to see their role in terms of recycling, rehashing, and repeating what 'a lot of people are saying'
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Every genocide is a process, not a singular event.
Every genocide is committed according to what is seen as feasible and possible at any given time.
Israel wants all Palestinians gone from historic Palestine, and it works backwards from that point.
Every genocide is committed according to what is seen as feasible and possible at any given time.
Israel wants all Palestinians gone from historic Palestine, and it works backwards from that point.
September 22, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Every genocide is a process, not a singular event.
Every genocide is committed according to what is seen as feasible and possible at any given time.
Israel wants all Palestinians gone from historic Palestine, and it works backwards from that point.
Every genocide is committed according to what is seen as feasible and possible at any given time.
Israel wants all Palestinians gone from historic Palestine, and it works backwards from that point.
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The US-UK 'Tech Prosperity Deal' exemplifies how not to structure tech investment. £31bn from US firms like OpenAI, Microsoft and Nvidia comes with public sector AI outsourcing and potential scrapping of the Digital Services Tax.
Latest piece in @guardian ➡️ buff.ly/jXuANv5
Latest piece in @guardian ➡️ buff.ly/jXuANv5
September 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The US-UK 'Tech Prosperity Deal' exemplifies how not to structure tech investment. £31bn from US firms like OpenAI, Microsoft and Nvidia comes with public sector AI outsourcing and potential scrapping of the Digital Services Tax.
Latest piece in @guardian ➡️ buff.ly/jXuANv5
Latest piece in @guardian ➡️ buff.ly/jXuANv5
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My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
The Story of Capital
For decades, David Harvey has been teaching Marx's work, particularly Capital, to great acclaim. He has analysed chapter by chapter - sometimes line-by-line - Marx's three volumes and the Grundrisse. ...
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September 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My next book, The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works, will be published on 24 February 2026 by @versobooks.bsky.social
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
www.versobooks.com/products/337...
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Yes it's the Far Right organising marches like the one in London, but it also seems to bear a striking resemblance to the football hooliganism that was a constant feature of British society for a good 30 years, regardless of ideology, memes, manosphere etc.
September 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Yes it's the Far Right organising marches like the one in London, but it also seems to bear a striking resemblance to the football hooliganism that was a constant feature of British society for a good 30 years, regardless of ideology, memes, manosphere etc.
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Thinking about that time in November 1963 when it seemed obvious the far right had killed JFK.
And that time in April 1995 when it seemed clear that the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City had been blown up by Islamists.
And that time in April 1995 when it seemed clear that the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City had been blown up by Islamists.
September 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Thinking about that time in November 1963 when it seemed obvious the far right had killed JFK.
And that time in April 1995 when it seemed clear that the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City had been blown up by Islamists.
And that time in April 1995 when it seemed clear that the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City had been blown up by Islamists.
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When a liberal is murdered, we shouldn’t speculate about the political motives of the killer. When a conservative is murdered, it’s important that we immediately blame the left.
September 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
When a liberal is murdered, we shouldn’t speculate about the political motives of the killer. When a conservative is murdered, it’s important that we immediately blame the left.
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‘In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier.’
Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October
The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
‘In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier.’
Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz on the world since 7 October: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...