Mark Leier
@markleier.bsky.social
Historian at SFU. Anarchism, Wobblies, utopia.
Saving my pessimism for better times.
Saving my pessimism for better times.
SLOCOM members/fans, it has been a busy few months but look forward to more from non-Party non-headquarters!
August 24, 2025 at 6:57 PM
SLOCOM members/fans, it has been a busy few months but look forward to more from non-Party non-headquarters!
New book by SFU PhD Aaron Goings out now!https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295754000/red-harbor/
August 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
New book by SFU PhD Aaron Goings out now!https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295754000/red-harbor/
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#OtD 5 Jul 1777 the word 'scab', meaning 'strikebreaker', was used in print for the first time. One of the most important words in the working class vocabulary! stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052...
July 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
#OtD 5 Jul 1777 the word 'scab', meaning 'strikebreaker', was used in print for the first time. One of the most important words in the working class vocabulary! stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1052...
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We’d be stupid to turn down the generous gift of three $150-million catamaran ferrys from the Egyptian government.
May 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
We’d be stupid to turn down the generous gift of three $150-million catamaran ferrys from the Egyptian government.
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nothing spells faculty productivity like spending hours manually inputting pull-down-menu versions of information readily available on a CV into a proprietary Faculty Productivity™ software on which the university spent jillions
May 14, 2025 at 6:17 PM
nothing spells faculty productivity like spending hours manually inputting pull-down-menu versions of information readily available on a CV into a proprietary Faculty Productivity™ software on which the university spent jillions
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Warm weather is here! Anyone know of a Canadian maker of Clamsicles?
May 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Warm weather is here! Anyone know of a Canadian maker of Clamsicles?
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🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers.
When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤
When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤
May 1, 2025 at 6:37 PM
🖤 May Day means solidarity with ALL workers, including sex workers, incarcerated workers, undocumented workers, criminalized workers, and disabled workers.
When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤
When we say “an injury to one is an injury to all,” we’d better fucking mean it. 🖤
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cannot say enough how much i despise the leaders and the senior leadership of canada's three major political parties. whatever the result tonight we all lose.
April 28, 2025 at 11:23 PM
cannot say enough how much i despise the leaders and the senior leadership of canada's three major political parties. whatever the result tonight we all lose.
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I know you all think you've saved the country but in 4 years the status quo will be untenable and the next Poilievre will be far worse. Enjoy the reprieve
April 29, 2025 at 2:28 AM
I know you all think you've saved the country but in 4 years the status quo will be untenable and the next Poilievre will be far worse. Enjoy the reprieve
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Canadian politics 101: 158 years of Liberal/Conservative horse races. And both parties running on "change."
April 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Canadian politics 101: 158 years of Liberal/Conservative horse races. And both parties running on "change."
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The really messed up thing is, my heart is in my throat about this election but it's going to stay there because even if we keep PP out, we're going to have to fight Carney tooth and nail for 4 years.
April 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The really messed up thing is, my heart is in my throat about this election but it's going to stay there because even if we keep PP out, we're going to have to fight Carney tooth and nail for 4 years.
This election forces us to choose between the evil
of two lessers.
of two lessers.
April 28, 2025 at 5:58 PM
This election forces us to choose between the evil
of two lessers.
of two lessers.
This Canadian election is important, for whoever wins it shifts the "Overton Window"
further to the right, exposes the moral and political bankruptcy of all the parties, and reveals the illegitimacy of the colonial "nation-state" and capitalism in particularly sharp relief. So, a teachable moment.
further to the right, exposes the moral and political bankruptcy of all the parties, and reveals the illegitimacy of the colonial "nation-state" and capitalism in particularly sharp relief. So, a teachable moment.
April 28, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This Canadian election is important, for whoever wins it shifts the "Overton Window"
further to the right, exposes the moral and political bankruptcy of all the parties, and reveals the illegitimacy of the colonial "nation-state" and capitalism in particularly sharp relief. So, a teachable moment.
further to the right, exposes the moral and political bankruptcy of all the parties, and reveals the illegitimacy of the colonial "nation-state" and capitalism in particularly sharp relief. So, a teachable moment.
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An election where the climate was barely mentioned. As the water levels in the Rockies reach record lows, as the forest fire threats accelerate, as glaciers melt at record pace, as extreme weather accelerates...and yet, nothing.
April 28, 2025 at 2:27 PM
An election where the climate was barely mentioned. As the water levels in the Rockies reach record lows, as the forest fire threats accelerate, as glaciers melt at record pace, as extreme weather accelerates...and yet, nothing.
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Boat early, boat often
April 28, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Boat early, boat often
I fear that "the long march through the institutions" means we have become institutionalized.
April 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I fear that "the long march through the institutions" means we have become institutionalized.
Starting Dan McQuillan's "Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence," Bristol University Press, 2020, and there is much good stuff here, including a call for mutual aid and the commons.
April 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Starting Dan McQuillan's "Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence," Bristol University Press, 2020, and there is much good stuff here, including a call for mutual aid and the commons.
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As I wake to the 81st day of the Fall of the American Empire, the question I contemplate:
Which version of "Hurt" is more appropriate as a soundtrack to the decline? The Johnny Cash cover, or the Nine Inch Nails original? 🤔
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHC...
Which version of "Hurt" is more appropriate as a soundtrack to the decline? The Johnny Cash cover, or the Nine Inch Nails original? 🤔
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHC...
Johnny Cash - Hurt
YouTube video by JohnnyCashVEVO
www.youtube.com
April 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
As I wake to the 81st day of the Fall of the American Empire, the question I contemplate:
Which version of "Hurt" is more appropriate as a soundtrack to the decline? The Johnny Cash cover, or the Nine Inch Nails original? 🤔
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHC...
Which version of "Hurt" is more appropriate as a soundtrack to the decline? The Johnny Cash cover, or the Nine Inch Nails original? 🤔
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHC...
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dear journalists:
if you don't know how to do research, how to read critically & for context, or how to make claims that can be substantiated by your sources, HELP IS AVAILABLE AT A HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEAR YOU
if you don't know how to do research, how to read critically & for context, or how to make claims that can be substantiated by your sources, HELP IS AVAILABLE AT A HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEAR YOU
April 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
dear journalists:
if you don't know how to do research, how to read critically & for context, or how to make claims that can be substantiated by your sources, HELP IS AVAILABLE AT A HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEAR YOU
if you don't know how to do research, how to read critically & for context, or how to make claims that can be substantiated by your sources, HELP IS AVAILABLE AT A HISTORY DEPARTMENT NEAR YOU
One advantage to SLOCOM typed mail is security services no longer have the capacity or equipment to steam open letters! "Kettle? No, but there's a coffee pod machine in the kitchen. Why?"
April 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
One advantage to SLOCOM typed mail is security services no longer have the capacity or equipment to steam open letters! "Kettle? No, but there's a coffee pod machine in the kitchen. Why?"
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Join the SLOCOM Revolution!
March 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Join the SLOCOM Revolution!
There is much wisdom in the piece by Canadian Quakers on trade wars with the US and how to respond without the sabre rattling and call for increased defence spending
quakerservice.ca/wp-content/u...
quakerservice.ca/wp-content/u...
quakerservice.ca
April 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM
There is much wisdom in the piece by Canadian Quakers on trade wars with the US and how to respond without the sabre rattling and call for increased defence spending
quakerservice.ca/wp-content/u...
quakerservice.ca/wp-content/u...
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WE ARE NOT OVERTAXED WE ARE UNDERPAID
March 24, 2025 at 1:31 PM
WE ARE NOT OVERTAXED WE ARE UNDERPAID