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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 3d

This argument from @aycacu.bsky.social becoming more important and relevant by the day unfortunately

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Notes on Campist Internationalism

This was a talk delivered at a panel on The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism at the Historical Materialism Conference in London that took place on 9 November 2025. You can w...

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 7d

This event was originally scheduled for January 15 but had to be postponed due to a snowstorm closing York University on that day. We have rescheduled for this Thursday (January 22, 4pm). Please make it if you can.

Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 11d

Postponed because of snow. York is closed today

Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 12d

Tomorrow at York

Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 12d

Adam Hanieh with a more sophisticated take on the question of oil and Venezuela than many others that have been circulating thus far.

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Venezuela’s Oil in the Grip of US Empire

The Trump administration’s kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro has refocused global attention on Venezuela and its enormous oil reserves. Yet to simply accept Trump’s bellicose language at face value – inclu...

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Tempest Collective @tempestcollective.bsky.social · 18d

Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since October 27, 2025. Chris Little and Jeffery R. Webber sat down with CUPE 1281 members, Nicole Leach and Manuel Marqués, to discuss the reasons behind the strike and the development of the dispute to date.

Being on strike when your employer is a union

Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since late October 2025. CUPE 1281 members discuss the reasons.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 18d

First public event of the Toronto Tempest Organizing Collective. On Socialism from Below at York University Thursday, January 15, 4pm.

Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · 19d

On the ongoing strike by the staff of the York University Faculty Association (YUFA) in Toronto. So, not a strike by YUFA, but by its staff.

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Being on strike when your employer is a union

Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since late October 2025. CUPE 1281 members discuss the reasons.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Dec 27

New material from @pashukanist.bsky.social and Mary Robertson. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime

Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...

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Anticapitalistas @anticapi.bsky.social · Dec 3

Ante las amenazas imperialistas de EEUU contra Venezuela.

Lee nuestro comunicado completo en www.anticapitalistas.org/comunicados/...

Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Nov 24

Important interview with Alan Sears on eros and alienation, by Sean K Isaacs and Isadora Seconi
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Alienation, Eroticism, and Utopia: An Interview with Alan Sears - Historical Materialism

At a time when the lives of trans people, migrant workers, and women, amongst others, are threatened by the far Right, it is important to engage with the demands and analyses of these groups, both on ...

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Nov 9

Honor to speak on a plenary at this year's @histmat.bsky.social conference in London. My intervention focused on Trump 2.0 and the fascism debate. Drawn from collaborative project with @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social on authoritarian disposition of capitalist rule.
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Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms

YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Jul 24

A new short piece, "Latin Amerrica's destituent impasse," in Capital and Class. Open access.
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rafeefz.bsky.social @rafeefz.bsky.social · Jul 12

Just landed in London bookshops: Resisting Erasure. A radical critique of Israel's settler-colonial capitalism and empire. by @AdamHanieh @pashukanist.bsky.social and myself. Preorder link live too www.versobooks.com/products/341...

Rob Knox @pashukanist.bsky.social · Jul 11

Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.

If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · Jun 24

#Trump and #fascism.
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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal

Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · Jun 24

Hey y'all! This Tuesday we've got @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social writing on Trumpism as a specific variety of authoritarianism and it's connection to a liberalism in crisis.

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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal

Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Jun 24

@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and I have a piece out in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Trump.

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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal

Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Jun 14

Important piece by @nhold.bsky.social at @journalspectre.bsky.social
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Hands Off! – Spectre Journal

Nate Holdren argues that both Trump and the legalistic opposition to his "lawlessness" are varieties of the same law-and-order politics.

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journalspectre.bsky.social @journalspectre.bsky.social · May 29

Catch @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social talking with David Camfield about capitalism and the far right on Victor's Children ( @harbingermedia.bsky.social )

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · May 20

Todd Gordon and I talk with David Camfield on David's podcast, Victor's Children. We cover Trump, liberalism, fascism and much else besides.

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#53: Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Trump w/ Gordon & Webber -- and a few words about Mark Carney

Play #53: Capitalism, Democracy, Fascism, Trump w/ Gordon & Webber -- and a few words about Mark Carney by Victor's Children on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Apr 23

Daniel Noboa was just re-elected in Ecuador on a platform emulating the Bukele model in El Salvador. The second half of my HM piece is the long historical backdrop to Noboa's rise.

Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Apr 23

New piece in Historical Materialism on Latin American populism.

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Self-Saboteur: The Experience of Latin American Populism

This editorial perspective develops a theoretical critique of populism in Latin America, which it takes to be the predominant form that reformist politics has assumed in the region since the 1930s. It...

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Apr 23

I have a new piece on Latin American populism in Historical Materialism. Open access at the moment.

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Historical Materialism Journal @histmat.bsky.social · Apr 4

Artist, comrade, and long-time visual contributor to the Historical Materialism project, David Mabb, has produced another great conference poster.

Historical Materialism 2025 Annual Conference poster, designed by David Mabb.

Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Apr 1

Adam Hanieh on imperialism, global capitalism and the unstable world order.

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Crude capitalism, new centres of capital accumulation and the Middle East’s place in global imperialism: An interview with Adam Hanieh

Adam Hanieh explores the need to foreground value transfers in understanding imperialism, Israel’s role in global fossil capitalism and the rising influence of the Gulf states.

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Mar 20

I have a new piece, “Democracy, Left-Populism and Participatory Budgets in Latin America," on Gabriel Hetland's book on Venezuela, in Critical Sociology journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Mar 19

An important intervention by Stefan Kipfer for a robustly internationalist politics on the Canadian left. Another antidote to the rising tide of dead-end 'left nationalism' in this country socialistproject.ca/2025/03/ansc...

<i>Anschluss, Schulterschluss</i> or Concrete Internationalism?

In these turbulent and rapidly shifting times, we often search for quick answers. “How to respond to Trump 2.0?” is a question that calls for an immediate response here in Canada. This question harbor...

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Jeffery R Webber @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social · Mar 12

I offer a critical appraisal of twenty first century populism in Latin America, with special attention to Bolivia, in the latest Socialist Register. fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/opening...

You can access my piece here www.academia.edu/127278968/TH...