Joachim C. Häberlen
@jchaeberlen.bsky.social
Historian of beautiful actions. PhD from UChicago. Past at U Warwick, now teaching and writing in Berlin.
Personal Homepage: https://joachimhaeberlen.com/
My book on Protesting in Post-War Europe: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321011/beauty-is-in-the-
Personal Homepage: https://joachimhaeberlen.com/
My book on Protesting in Post-War Europe: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321011/beauty-is-in-the-
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Beauty is in the Street
'A rich and readable account of left-wing activism in the West and opposition to Soviet-style communism in the East' Katja Hoyer, The Spectator
'A dream, perhaps, but one that still sounds worth figh...
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As I have number of new followers, a few words about myself and what I'm posting about:
I'm a historian of Modern Europe. Most recently, I've published a book on protesting and countercultures in post-war Europe across the Iron Curtain (now out in Paperback).
www.penguin.co.uk/books/321011...
I'm a historian of Modern Europe. Most recently, I've published a book on protesting and countercultures in post-war Europe across the Iron Curtain (now out in Paperback).
www.penguin.co.uk/books/321011...
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#OtD 23 Aug 1966 200 Aboriginal workers at the Wave Hill pastoral station in Australia walked out on strike for equal pay with white workers. They remained out for an incredible nine years, and added return of the land to their demands, and succeeded stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9547...
August 23, 2025 at 6:40 AM
#OtD 23 Aug 1966 200 Aboriginal workers at the Wave Hill pastoral station in Australia walked out on strike for equal pay with white workers. They remained out for an incredible nine years, and added return of the land to their demands, and succeeded stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9547...
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Hey, you survived another week. Buy yourself a few books.
August 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Hey, you survived another week. Buy yourself a few books.
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An episode rendered invisible by the ‘Lest We Forget’ fixation on the Second World War in Britain. In that telling, veterans are quasi-mythical heroes, not real people with politics, nor is class really allowed to enter into it beyond a teleological narrative about the founding of the welfare state.
#OtD 13 Aug 1946 13 homeless families moved into an empty US military camp on Burton Road in Dudley, England. It was part of a mass wave of squatting, primarily by former service members and their families in the wake of World War II stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8455...
August 13, 2025 at 7:05 AM
An episode rendered invisible by the ‘Lest We Forget’ fixation on the Second World War in Britain. In that telling, veterans are quasi-mythical heroes, not real people with politics, nor is class really allowed to enter into it beyond a teleological narrative about the founding of the welfare state.
German FAZ about the US economy:
(...) around 50 percent of consumer spending is now accounted for by the top income decile. Whether the US economy avoids a recession depends heavily on these households with annual incomes of $250,000 or more. ... (1/2)
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(...) around 50 percent of consumer spending is now accounted for by the top income decile. Whether the US economy avoids a recession depends heavily on these households with annual incomes of $250,000 or more. ... (1/2)
www.faz.net/.../trumps-w....
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August 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
German FAZ about the US economy:
(...) around 50 percent of consumer spending is now accounted for by the top income decile. Whether the US economy avoids a recession depends heavily on these households with annual incomes of $250,000 or more. ... (1/2)
www.faz.net/.../trumps-w....
(...) around 50 percent of consumer spending is now accounted for by the top income decile. Whether the US economy avoids a recession depends heavily on these households with annual incomes of $250,000 or more. ... (1/2)
www.faz.net/.../trumps-w....
Spending the summer in Brittany, a place to simply forget about the madness of the world. And it fills me with nothing but bewilderment that it seems impossible for humanity to simply enjoy the immense beauty that this world has to offer.
July 31, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Spending the summer in Brittany, a place to simply forget about the madness of the world. And it fills me with nothing but bewilderment that it seems impossible for humanity to simply enjoy the immense beauty that this world has to offer.
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Happy Bastille Day! It's always important to remember the holiday's most important message: no matter how bleak things look, never stop standing up to Nazis.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
YouTube video by Andrew Barbin
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July 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Happy Bastille Day! It's always important to remember the holiday's most important message: no matter how bleak things look, never stop standing up to Nazis.
What is wrong with people. Poisoning trees with glyphosat so they have to be cut down.
www.faz.net/aktuell/rhei...
www.faz.net/aktuell/rhei...
Frankfurt: Mit Glyphosat vergiftete Bäume auf dem Merianplatz müssen gefällt werden
Ein zweites Baumgutachten bestätigt: Die 60 Jahre alten Bäume haben keine Chance zu überleben. Und wieder gibt es neue Bohrlöcher mit giftiger Flüssigkeit.
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July 13, 2025 at 6:39 PM
What is wrong with people. Poisoning trees with glyphosat so they have to be cut down.
www.faz.net/aktuell/rhei...
www.faz.net/aktuell/rhei...
Teaching somewhat spontaneously about Rock Against Racism today. A reminder amidst the current fuck-up that fighting for, and creating, something better is possible--and beautiful, joyful, exhilarating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGm...
How Eric Clapton's Bigotry Begat UK's Rock Against Racism Movement
YouTube video by lilmikesf
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July 7, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Teaching somewhat spontaneously about Rock Against Racism today. A reminder amidst the current fuck-up that fighting for, and creating, something better is possible--and beautiful, joyful, exhilarating.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGm...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGm...
I guess altering the climate it's ok if it's just by accident and not on purpose, or as a "negligible" side-effect of making profits...
Yep. Posted about it, too. You can't make this shit up
July 6, 2025 at 4:38 PM
I guess altering the climate it's ok if it's just by accident and not on purpose, or as a "negligible" side-effect of making profits...
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Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X.
Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the timeline of events as presented by local officials.
Here's a timeline of the catastrophic Texas floods
NPR has compiled a timeline of when local, state and federal officials posted warnings on social media as well as the timeline of events as presented by local officials.
n.pr
July 6, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Texas officials appeared to be almost entirely issuing vital emergency alerts about the deadly Kerr County flooding via Facebook and Twitter/X.
Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
Utter malpractice to restrict these alerts to social media platforms that huge numbers of people don’t use anymore.
A question for fellow historians on this platform: is there any place, any forum, you know of for sort of faster debate, a place to publish, without the long processes of peer reviewing, shorter thought piecess on more general issues of writing history (e.g., how history might speak to the present)?
July 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
A question for fellow historians on this platform: is there any place, any forum, you know of for sort of faster debate, a place to publish, without the long processes of peer reviewing, shorter thought piecess on more general issues of writing history (e.g., how history might speak to the present)?
Next heat wave in Berlin looks even worse. Maybe people will eventually take climate change seriously. Oh, and no rain whatsoever.
July 6, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Next heat wave in Berlin looks even worse. Maybe people will eventually take climate change seriously. Oh, and no rain whatsoever.
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Habt ihr euch gefragt, warum so viele indische Kurierfahrer unterwegs sind? Viele werden von teuren Privatunis hergelockt, verschulden sich, landen in einem Teufelskreislauf aus miesen Jobs und überfüllten, möblierten Apartments. Meine ganze Recherche gibt's bei der @taz.de
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June 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Habt ihr euch gefragt, warum so viele indische Kurierfahrer unterwegs sind? Viele werden von teuren Privatunis hergelockt, verschulden sich, landen in einem Teufelskreislauf aus miesen Jobs und überfüllten, möblierten Apartments. Meine ganze Recherche gibt's bei der @taz.de
taz.de/Das-Geschaef...
taz.de/Das-Geschaef...
Wenn Klimaschutz nicht mehr sexy sein soll, wie die FAZ meint (und die Regierung zum Handeln auffordert), ist dass die Klimakatastrophe sexy? (Kollabierende Geburtenraten sprechen nicht dafür.)
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Rekordhitze: Auch die Klimakrise duldet keinen Aufschub
Der Kampf gegen den Klimawandel ist in den Hintergrund gerückt. Dabei ist schon jetzt kaum noch Zeit – auch nicht für die Koalition, die bislang bei diesem Thema wenig Eifer zeigt. Es wäre fatal, wenn...
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July 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Wenn Klimaschutz nicht mehr sexy sein soll, wie die FAZ meint (und die Regierung zum Handeln auffordert), ist dass die Klimakatastrophe sexy? (Kollabierende Geburtenraten sprechen nicht dafür.)
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‘Welcome America’ headliner LL Cool J is CANCELLING his Friday performance in solidarity with the striking DC 33 workers’!
“There’s no way that I can perform, cross a picket line, and pick up money knowing that there’s people out there fighting for a living wage.” www.instagram.com/reel/DLqu8TU...
“There’s no way that I can perform, cross a picket line, and pick up money knowing that there’s people out there fighting for a living wage.” www.instagram.com/reel/DLqu8TU...
July 4, 2025 at 2:45 AM
‘Welcome America’ headliner LL Cool J is CANCELLING his Friday performance in solidarity with the striking DC 33 workers’!
“There’s no way that I can perform, cross a picket line, and pick up money knowing that there’s people out there fighting for a living wage.” www.instagram.com/reel/DLqu8TU...
“There’s no way that I can perform, cross a picket line, and pick up money knowing that there’s people out there fighting for a living wage.” www.instagram.com/reel/DLqu8TU...
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
July 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.
It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.
One of the many issues humanity should spend its resources on: how to deal with droughts, floods, and water supply. A huge task that will require billions. But instead, immense resources are spent on armament. (And to be clear, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 1/2)
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Hitzewelle: Deutschland trifft Vorbereitungen für den Wassernotstand
Bislang gibt es nicht einmal einen Gesamtüberblick über die Nutzung der Wasserressourcen. Sicher ist aber, dass ihr Schutz Milliardeninvestitionen erfordert.
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July 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
One of the many issues humanity should spend its resources on: how to deal with droughts, floods, and water supply. A huge task that will require billions. But instead, immense resources are spent on armament. (And to be clear, after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, 1/2)
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
www.faz.net/aktuell/wirt...
There are so many urgent probelms, like how to change our cities in the face of climate change, & so many great ideas attesting to humanity's creativity in dealing with such challenges. But humanity is, well, busy f**king up. Because all that matters is, sure, migration.
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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40 Grad in den Städten: Was hilft gegen extreme Hitze?
Die Städte kämpfen gegen dramatische Hitzewellen. Mehr Wasser könnte die Lösung sein: Planer fordern die „blaue Stadt“ – mit wieder an die Oberfläche geholten Bächen und neuen Bädern. Brauchen wir ein...
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July 2, 2025 at 5:15 AM
There are so many urgent probelms, like how to change our cities in the face of climate change, & so many great ideas attesting to humanity's creativity in dealing with such challenges. But humanity is, well, busy f**king up. Because all that matters is, sure, migration.
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...
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July 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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Heute Mittag haben etwa 100 Leute v.a. der Johanna-Tesch-Schule in Frankfurt Bockenheim demonstriert, um an die Abschiebung von Gunit und Angad zu erinnern, die vor 77 Tagen gegen ihren Willen in ein fremdes Land verbracht wurden.
Sie fehlen und wir wollen sie zurück!
Sie fehlen und wir wollen sie zurück!
July 1, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Heute Mittag haben etwa 100 Leute v.a. der Johanna-Tesch-Schule in Frankfurt Bockenheim demonstriert, um an die Abschiebung von Gunit und Angad zu erinnern, die vor 77 Tagen gegen ihren Willen in ein fremdes Land verbracht wurden.
Sie fehlen und wir wollen sie zurück!
Sie fehlen und wir wollen sie zurück!
on a day like this (heat wave in Berlin & across Europe; Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, and so on), it feels like humanity bascially decided to completely f**k itself, and that in a stunningly democratical fashion (Trump & Co got elected, after all), willfully ignoring just anything.
July 2, 2025 at 3:25 AM
on a day like this (heat wave in Berlin & across Europe; Trump's Big Beautiful Bill, and so on), it feels like humanity bascially decided to completely f**k itself, and that in a stunningly democratical fashion (Trump & Co got elected, after all), willfully ignoring just anything.
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⚡️UK to fund joint drone production with Ukraine.
Ukraine and the United Kingdom have reached an agreement to jointly produce drones, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced on June 24.
kyivindependent.com/uk-to-fund-j...
Ukraine and the United Kingdom have reached an agreement to jointly produce drones, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced on June 24.
kyivindependent.com/uk-to-fund-j...
UK to fund joint drone production with Ukraine
Britain will finance the procurement of Ukrainian-designed drones manufactured in the UK.
kyivindependent.com
June 24, 2025 at 3:14 PM
⚡️UK to fund joint drone production with Ukraine.
Ukraine and the United Kingdom have reached an agreement to jointly produce drones, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced on June 24.
kyivindependent.com/uk-to-fund-j...
Ukraine and the United Kingdom have reached an agreement to jointly produce drones, Defense Minister Rustem Umerov announced on June 24.
kyivindependent.com/uk-to-fund-j...
when did The Onion become a serious news outlet, reporting absolutely plausible stuff?
Trump Calls Shooting Victims To Rant About Tim Walz
Trump Calls Shooting Victims To Rant About Tim Walz
WASHINGTON—Reaching out to the surviving victims of Saturday’s shootings as they recovered from their numerous gunshot wounds, President Donald Trump reportedly called Minnesota state Sen. John Hoffma...
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June 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
when did The Onion become a serious news outlet, reporting absolutely plausible stuff?
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This man is my hero because he’s a member of the United States Air Force and is standing by his #Oath to the #Constitution! I’m hoping that since he has taken the lead others will follow because this is what a true American Soldier looks like! Remember your Oath to the Constitution
June 14, 2025 at 1:23 AM
This man is my hero because he’s a member of the United States Air Force and is standing by his #Oath to the #Constitution! I’m hoping that since he has taken the lead others will follow because this is what a true American Soldier looks like! Remember your Oath to the Constitution