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Miriam Matthiessen
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Amsterdam, NL. PhD candidate studying automation, labour, and political ecology in the waters of the Rhine
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My first ever @histmat.bsky.social has been incredible so far - thank you comrades!!
November 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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BADA BOOM! The HM London Conference programme is now online!

Online registrations close Tuesday 4 November at midnight GMT!
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Deadline extended to 27 May! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025
www.historicalmaterialism.org
October 24, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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We're having another party 🎉

Join us at The Lamb on 7 Nov to celebrate ISSUE #2, with readings from contributors and special guests followed by drinks!

Come join us 🎈👇
www.eventbrite.com/e/the-breakd...
October 15, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Aftonbladet's interview with Greta Thunberg is now available in English - it raises many serious questions, not least about the Swedish govt. effectively abandoning its citizens to torture because it doesn't agree with their politics. A thundering disgrace.
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/25...
Greta Thunberg: “They kicked me every time the flag touched my face”
– Greta Thunberg on her days in Israeli captivity Beating, kicking, and threats of being gassed in cages. Greta Thunberg and several others from the flotilla ar
www.aftonbladet.se
October 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Mycket stark granskning av nederländska Volkskrant. 114 fall där barn under 15 år i Gaza skjutits i huvudet eller bröstet av IDF, enligt sammanställning med hjälp av 15 internationella läkare som jobbat där.
www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...
Gunshot wounds in Palestinian children indicate targeted fire
Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted. This emerges from research by de Volkskrant, ...
www.volkskrant.nl
September 14, 2025 at 12:01 AM
www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/0V...

An extensive account of the horrors Greta went through in Israel, and the violent neglect and gaslighting she was met with by the Swedish gov and consular services on the ground. Hope this tarnishes whatever is left of Sweden’s intl reputation once and for all
”De sparkade på mig varje gång flaggan nuddade mitt ansikte”
Greta Thunberg om skräckdygnen i israeliskt fängelse Slag, sparkar och hot om att gasas i burar. Greta Thunberg och flera andra ur flottiljen berättar nu detalj
www.aftonbladet.se
October 15, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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I am very happy with this episode about a total lunatic who just might be right
new episode out now! we talk about Alfred Sohn-Rethel's work on real abstraction and his theory of commodity exchange as the origin of transcendental subjectivity. we love a big swing and this is truly a big swing, folks www.patreon.com/posts/122-re...
122 | Real Abstraction and the Origin of Consciousness with Alfred Sohn-Rethel | What's Left of Philosophy
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October 14, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Again, got to be one of the best dig episodes I’ve ever listened to and the bar is *sky* high
October 13, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Antifascism är självförsvar. Minns Björn Söderberg.
October 12, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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There is no single way to resist; only the courage to invent one. 👍
October 9, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Can I also say I am so angry today. It's the lives lost, the cities wiped out, the time taken from us. We have been consumed with this level of unspeakable violence for 2 years. To think of all the potential futures taken away... it's unfathomable
October 8, 2025 at 2:09 AM
This episode is soooooo good
October 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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She called out world leaders for sitting by and watching a live-streamed genocide without taking action.
October 6, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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Working on fresh approaches to infrastructures? If you can imagine editing a special issue with us, send us a proposal!

Deadline for proposals: 15 November 2025

Send proposals to our editors-in-chief:

Agnieszka Joniak-Lüthi
agnieszka.joniak@unifr.ch

Tina Harris
C.H.Harris@uva.nl
Guide for Editors | Roadsides
Dear Editors, Thank you for considering editing a guest collection in Roadsides. The following Guide for Editors will help you understand the application and publication process. The Editorial Board t...
roadsides.net
October 6, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Ongoing CFP:

Heliotrope is seeking submissions on a rolling basis. This a space for short think-&-feel pieces... www.heliotropejournal.net/editors-notes
Editors' notes — HELIOTROPE
www.heliotropejournal.net
October 6, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)
October 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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Hard to undersell how huge this palestine demo in amsterdam was today.
October 5, 2025 at 3:49 PM
there were over a quarter million of us in the streets of Amsterdam today. Free Palestine, solidarity forever
October 5, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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For no particular reason, here's the Best UK Politics Meme Ever
January 29, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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You can follow the Global Sumud Flotilla live here: globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
Flotilla Tracker - Global Movement to Gaza
globalsumudflotilla.org
September 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
You can follow the Global Sumud Flotilla live here: globalsumudflotilla.org/tracker/
Flotilla Tracker - Global Movement to Gaza
globalsumudflotilla.org
September 6, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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"There aren’t separate words for famine and starvation in Irish: an gorta covers both. To the English-speakers shaping colonial policy, it was important to have one word implying intent and another evading it."

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/au...
August 23, 2025 at 6:13 AM
The OBA library in Amsterdam has two DVD box sets spanning Theo Angelopoulos’ entire filmography..just saying!!
My 80-year-old aunt told me she "got tired of streaming" and is borrowing DVDs from her library again.

So I checked it out and they have an amazing selection. Blu-rays too, from Criterion, Kino Lorber and other boutique labels.
#PhysicalMedia #FilmSky
August 21, 2025 at 7:16 AM