Nick Thoburn 🇵🇸
@nickthoburn.bsky.social
Professor of Sociology at University of Manchester, author of Anti-Book, Brutalism as Found, and Deleuze, Marx and Politics. www.brutalismasfound.co.uk / https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/anti-book
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Resending the free PDF of my book ‘Brutalism as Found: Housing, Form and Crisis at Robin Hood Gardens’, now with a link that works (scroll to ‘Access this doc’) research.manchester.ac.uk/en/publicati... @glenkerrycoop.bsky.social
Huge props to the students at University of Manchester voting to demand UoM cut ties with Tel Aviv University, with an amazing 94% majority - and winning ‘cops out’ motion too 🔥✊🏼 manchesterstudentsunion.com/news/article...
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October 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Huge props to the students at University of Manchester voting to demand UoM cut ties with Tel Aviv University, with an amazing 94% majority - and winning ‘cops out’ motion too 🔥✊🏼 manchesterstudentsunion.com/news/article...
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Some British government ministers don't want anyone to talk about genocide in Gaza or Britain's complicity in it www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
October 14, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Some British government ministers don't want anyone to talk about genocide in Gaza or Britain's complicity in it www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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For the benefit of the cops and the Telegraph, "Intifada 87" is clearly a reference to the First Intifada, where Palestinian mass protests, civil disobedience and strikes were brutally crushed by Israel.
Read a book, FFS...
Read a book, FFS...
October 9, 2025 at 8:41 AM
For the benefit of the cops and the Telegraph, "Intifada 87" is clearly a reference to the First Intifada, where Palestinian mass protests, civil disobedience and strikes were brutally crushed by Israel.
Read a book, FFS...
Read a book, FFS...
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On Tuesday we warned that the Home Secretary could "ban more groups as rebranded versions of Palestine Action. Legislation already makes this possible".
Now it's happening
Now it's happening
October 9, 2025 at 6:50 AM
On Tuesday we warned that the Home Secretary could "ban more groups as rebranded versions of Palestine Action. Legislation already makes this possible".
Now it's happening
Now it's happening
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Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
October 8, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Yesterday's narrative of 7 October as ‘another 9/11’ – "yet another day torn free from any history or context" with only two sides – seeks to demonise all Palestine solidarity as "pro-terrorist." It is critical to understanding Britain's current crackdown on protest rights netpol.org/2025/10/06/a...
Desperate to do anything and everything to keep the apartheid colony’s genocide on the road, the Labour government now appeal the granted right to an appeal. Keep digging you absurd ghouls
Today the Labour government is challenging the High Court ruling allowing Palestine Action's co-founder Huda Ammori to seek a judicial review of the group's ban as a 'terror organisation'.
Don't believe for a second that a new Home Secretary means a change of direction www.itv.com/watch/news/g...
Don't believe for a second that a new Home Secretary means a change of direction www.itv.com/watch/news/g...
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September 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Desperate to do anything and everything to keep the apartheid colony’s genocide on the road, the Labour government now appeal the granted right to an appeal. Keep digging you absurd ghouls
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Another uprising! This time in Philippines, with parallels to Nepal (corruption, nepotism, youth) but also a new component: rage at climate (mal)adaptation.
time.com/7319164/phil...
time.com/7319164/phil...
Why Floods Are Bringing Filipino Protesters to the Streets
Corruption in flood-control projects has enraged many Filipinos, who protested in the capital and in other regions on Sunday.
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September 22, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Another uprising! This time in Philippines, with parallels to Nepal (corruption, nepotism, youth) but also a new component: rage at climate (mal)adaptation.
time.com/7319164/phil...
time.com/7319164/phil...
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We’re a collective of sociologists in Britain calling on sociologists and sociological professional bodies to use their platforms to stand with Palestinians.
We run events, calls to action and share teaching resources, see our website socispal.wordpress.com/teaching-res... and follow us for more
We run events, calls to action and share teaching resources, see our website socispal.wordpress.com/teaching-res... and follow us for more
Teaching Resources
Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians – Syllabus Version 2, October 2024 The Sociologists in Solidarity with Palestinians (SISP) collective has curated a wide-ranging Palestine reading…
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September 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We’re a collective of sociologists in Britain calling on sociologists and sociological professional bodies to use their platforms to stand with Palestinians.
We run events, calls to action and share teaching resources, see our website socispal.wordpress.com/teaching-res... and follow us for more
We run events, calls to action and share teaching resources, see our website socispal.wordpress.com/teaching-res... and follow us for more
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Today is the offical @versobooks.bsky.social release date of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine, by Adam Hanieh, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social.
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Resisting Erasure
Why has Palestine become a defining fault line of contemporary politics?Challenging mainstream narratives that reduce Palestine to ancient hatreds, humanitarian tragedy, or legal abstractions, Resisti...
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August 26, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Today is the offical @versobooks.bsky.social release date of Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine, by Adam Hanieh, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social.
www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
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Coming soon in paperback!
The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...
The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...
August 26, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Coming soon in paperback!
The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...
The Poetry of Class:
Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Invention of the Proletariat
by Patrick Eiden-Offe
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2803-t...
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Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide.
This obscene deal must be stopped.
They have Palestinian blood on their hands.
This obscene deal must be stopped.
They have Palestinian blood on their hands.
August 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Starmer’s Labour government says there’s no money to scrap the two-child benefit cap and lift 500,000 children out of poverty — but there is £2,000,000,000 for Elbit, Israel’s partner in genocide.
This obscene deal must be stopped.
They have Palestinian blood on their hands.
This obscene deal must be stopped.
They have Palestinian blood on their hands.
The obscenity that is UK imperialism and its Labour Party - close to giving a £2bn contract to Elbit, Israel’s main weapons supplier for the Gaza genocide (while proscribing those who seek to shut it down). You couldn’t make this shit up.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...
UK close to giving Israel's Elbit £2bn contract to train British soldiers
Elbit, which was the primary target of Palestine Action's activism, is close to winning a contract that would allow it to train 60,000 troops per year, according to Private Eye
www.middleeasteye.net
August 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
The obscenity that is UK imperialism and its Labour Party - close to giving a £2bn contract to Elbit, Israel’s main weapons supplier for the Gaza genocide (while proscribing those who seek to shut it down). You couldn’t make this shit up.
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...
www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-clos...
Another scumbag Labour council high on its anti-Palestinian racism
Southend council's Labour leader Dan Cowan wants Essex Police to use rarely implemented powers to impose an outright ban on a Palestine solidarity march. This would require the approval of the Home Secretary. Cowan is a member of Labour's Zionist affiliate JLM www.essexlive.news/news/essex-n...
Demands for police to block local pro-Palestine protest 'designed to harass'
To block a protest completely would require the Home Secretary's authority and approval
www.essexlive.news
August 21, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Another scumbag Labour council high on its anti-Palestinian racism
Happy to have a chapter in this wonderful collection of essays “Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture and the Marxist Tradition”, thanks to Luisa Lorenza Corna and Mark Crinson
August 20, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Happy to have a chapter in this wonderful collection of essays “Struggles in the Concrete: Architecture and the Marxist Tradition”, thanks to Luisa Lorenza Corna and Mark Crinson
Yvette Cooper’s determination to protect the Israeli killing machine is something to behold. Resigning is too good for her - may she never have a day’s peace for the rest of her life.
The number of people arrested yesterday under section 13 of the Terrorism Act for protesting against the ban on Palestine Action, has now risen to 532
August 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Yvette Cooper’s determination to protect the Israeli killing machine is something to behold. Resigning is too good for her - may she never have a day’s peace for the rest of her life.
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Scholars’ letter: We support Palestine Action in their campaign against proscription’
6 August 2025 As scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics we believe that Yvette Cooper’s recent proscription of Palestine Action represents an attack both on the entire pro-Palestine …
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August 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Loads of wonderful writing in the new Variant magazine. Happy to have contributed a piece with Anthony Iles on experimental forms in communist publishing - ‘Form & Against’ variant.org.uk
variant
Variant is a magazine with the independence to be critical that addresses cultural issues in a social and political context.
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August 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Loads of wonderful writing in the new Variant magazine. Happy to have contributed a piece with Anthony Iles on experimental forms in communist publishing - ‘Form & Against’ variant.org.uk
The Guardian’s shameless attempt to rehabilitate Lammy would be laughable if it wasn’t so disgusting. The man is a war criminal drenched in Palestinian blood. It won’t wash off. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Shared prayers and tears: how Lammy wooed JD Vance and the White House
Analysts say foreign secretary’s empathy and pragmatism make relationship-forming easy despite political divides
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August 8, 2025 at 9:14 AM
The Guardian’s shameless attempt to rehabilitate Lammy would be laughable if it wasn’t so disgusting. The man is a war criminal drenched in Palestinian blood. It won’t wash off. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Made my day 😁
UK homelessness minister resigns after tenant eviction claims
Tower Hamlets MP Rushanara Ali was accused of hypocrisy after claims she evicted tenants from east London property before putting up rent by almost £700 a month
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Tower Hamlets MP Rushanara Ali was accused of hypocrisy after claims she evicted tenants from east London property before putting up rent by almost £700 a month
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK homelessness minister resigns after tenant eviction claims
Rushanara Ali was accused of hypocrisy after claims she removed tenants before rent rise of almost £700 a month
www.theguardian.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Made my day 😁
Fellow academics, sign this: protestisnotterrorism.wordpress.com/scholarslett...
Scholars’ letter: We support Palestine Action in their campaign against proscription’
6 August 2025 As scholars dedicated to questions of justice and ethics we believe that Yvette Cooper’s recent proscription of Palestine Action represents an attack both on the entire pro-Palestine …
protestisnotterrorism.wordpress.com
August 7, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Fellow academics, sign this: protestisnotterrorism.wordpress.com/scholarslett...
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This is 100% world-class bullshit
Yvette Cooper is asked about her decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation and she claims she received detailed security assessments & advice & is in receipt of disturbing information that the rest of us don't know about
August 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
This is 100% world-class bullshit
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[1/5] Please take a look at our most recent statement on the successful BDS mobilization at the 5th International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology in Rabat earlier this month:
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July 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM
[1/5] Please take a look at our most recent statement on the successful BDS mobilization at the 5th International Sociological Association (ISA) Forum of Sociology in Rabat earlier this month:
drive.proton.me/urls/AEVX3HF...
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