Paul Kellogg
mpkellogg.bsky.social
Paul Kellogg
@mpkellogg.bsky.social
Professor at Athabasca University. Author of "Escape from the Staple Trap: Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism" (2015) and "'Truth Behind Bars:' Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution" (2021).
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I absolutely love this painting.
It breathes with calmness.

Yes, it is Ukrainian art.
Ivan Pylypenko,
The River of Time, 2020
August 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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It's worth reflecting today on what it took to end legal chattel slavery in the US.

And it's worth remembering that the work stoppages of enslaved workers in the south crippled the Confederacy and were the largest and most effective labor action in US history.
June 19, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Hands off Madison, Wisconsin
April 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.
April 5, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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WOW!!! 120 miles north in Pocatello, Idaho, we had well over 1000 people. Largest protest this area has ever seen. Video shows just the beginning….. #handsoff
April 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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April 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Little is known of Iulii Martov today – but in his time, he was a towering political figure. Steve Downs treats Iulii Martov very fairly in this book review published in Against the Current. againstthecurrent.org/atc235/marto...
Martov and the October Revolution
World Bolshevism By Julius Martov Introduction by Paul Kellogg Translated by Paul Kellogg and Mariya Melentenyeva  AU Press, 2019, U.S. Distribution by University of Chicago Press, 192 pages, …
againstthecurrent.org
March 7, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Steve Downs has written a very comprehensive review of "Truth Behind Bars." Much appreciated. againstthecurrent.org/atc235/a-rev...
A Revolution’s Fateful Passages
Truth Behind Bars Reflections on the Fate of the Russian Revolution By Paul Kellogg AU Press, 2021, 440 pages, $37.99. “THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION brought tremendous exaltation to vast sections o…
againstthecurrent.org
March 6, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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Polish Nobel Peace Prize winner Lech Wałęsa and 38 other former political prisoners of Poland's communist regime have condemned Donald Trump's treatment of Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday, which they said reminded them of communist interrogation techniques
Wałęsa condemns Trump treatment of Zelensky, likening it to communist interrogation
notesfrompoland.com
March 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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👀🇺🇸🇺🇦 After yesterday's meeting with Zelensky collapsed, J.D. Vance fled on vacation to Vermont, where hundreds of angry protesters were waiting for him.
March 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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30% of California’s firefighters are incarcerated, and many make as little as $6 a day.
California introduces new bill to pay incarcerated firefighters the same wage as non-incarcerated firefighters
30% of California’s firefighters are incarcerated, and many make as little as $6 a day.
therealnews.com
February 21, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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I somehow missed this incredible piece by @daveadenison.bsky.social when it came out in 2020. thebaffler.com/salvos/the-m...
The Money Printers | Dave Denison
Ordinary Americans live in a world of limits. They assume the government will eventually have to balance its budget just like they do.
thebaffler.com
February 14, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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With essays by the amazing Priscilla Settee, Melanee Thomas, Tracy Summerville and Jason Lacharite, Murray Knuttila, Clark Banack, Nelson Wiseman and Benjamin Isitt, Dennis Pilon, Paul Kellogg, @proftomuofr.bsky.social, and Kathy Walker. Oh, and me!
February 13, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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An interview with @stephaniekelton.bsky.social about DOGE, Trump, crypto, tariffs, inflation, the collapse of the rule of law, and more.

"We don't have two years" to wait for Democrats to rally, she says. "You won't be able to pick up the pieces."

www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stephanie-...
Stephanie Kelton on the Disastrous Republican Economic Agenda
"We don't have two years. You won't be able to pick up the pieces."
www.hamiltonnolan.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Athabasca University is hiring a new professor of Labour Relations!

Please share widely, and let me know if you have any questions about the university.
athabascau.acquiretm.com/job_details_...
Assistant Professor, Labour Relations
Athabasca University's Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is recruiting for an Assistant Professor, Labour Relations The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences is the largest Faculty in Ath...
athabascau.acquiretm.com
January 15, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Available as open access in this issue of #SlavicReview, Alexander McConnell writes, "“Tragic Presentiments”: Maksim Gor΄kii and the Invention of Soviet Humanism."
Latest issue | Slavic Review | Cambridge Core
Slavic Review
buff.ly
February 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Marianne Faithfull - Working Class Hero [1995] (Live)
YouTube video by Marianne Faithfull
www.youtube.com
February 1, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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Don’t let anyone tell you this guy is popular or that the country is trending his way. Just isn’t true. Never was.
This chart shows how much of an outlier Trump is historically. Even Biden, who had the next highest disapproval when he took office, still had a plus-20 differential. news.gallup.com/poll/655955/...
January 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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BREAKING: ICE just announced it is pausing the hotline where people can call to report undocumented immigrants because 90% of the calls are from people reporting Elon Musk.
January 28, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Donald Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs, Timothy Snyder writes.
What Does It Mean That Donald Trump Is a Fascist?
Trump takes the tools of dictators and adapts them for the Internet. We should expect him to try to cling to power until death, and create a cult of January 6th martyrs.
www.newyorker.com
January 26, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯
January 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM