Anthony Ballas
@tonyjballas.bsky.social
@DukeU Literature | @3ammagazine, @monthly_review, @NatCounterPunch, @scalawagmag, @proteanmag & more | Internationalism, Haitian Revolution, Melville | Host: De Facto Podcast, Co-Host Cold War Cinema Podcast
New from Portolan:
"Property as Warfare: Building on Genocide in Gaza" by Brenna Bhandar & Alberto Toscano
Link 🔗 below
"Property as Warfare: Building on Genocide in Gaza" by Brenna Bhandar & Alberto Toscano
Link 🔗 below
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
New from Portolan:
"Property as Warfare: Building on Genocide in Gaza" by Brenna Bhandar & Alberto Toscano
Link 🔗 below
"Property as Warfare: Building on Genocide in Gaza" by Brenna Bhandar & Alberto Toscano
Link 🔗 below
Very exciting new volume: CHINA CHANGES EVERYTHING with contributions by @Jacqueline Luqman, @pawel.bsky.social, @margaretkimberley.bsky.social, Danny Haiphong, and Gerald Horne w/ @AspenBallas, @webduboisclub, & myself, as well as many others.
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Very exciting new volume: CHINA CHANGES EVERYTHING with contributions by @Jacqueline Luqman, @pawel.bsky.social, @margaretkimberley.bsky.social, Danny Haiphong, and Gerald Horne w/ @AspenBallas, @webduboisclub, & myself, as well as many others.
Happy to launch Portolan, an internationalist journal associated with Duke UP's South Atlantic Quarterly, edited by Michael Hardt, Sandro Mezzadra, Niccolò Cuppini, & myself
"Capital & the Global War Regime" by Michael & Sandro is now available on the site.
Please spread the word!
(Link below)
"Capital & the Global War Regime" by Michael & Sandro is now available on the site.
Please spread the word!
(Link below)
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Happy to launch Portolan, an internationalist journal associated with Duke UP's South Atlantic Quarterly, edited by Michael Hardt, Sandro Mezzadra, Niccolò Cuppini, & myself
"Capital & the Global War Regime" by Michael & Sandro is now available on the site.
Please spread the word!
(Link below)
"Capital & the Global War Regime" by Michael & Sandro is now available on the site.
Please spread the word!
(Link below)
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Honored to have a poem in the latest issue of Peace, Land, and Bread. My cemetery poem, just in time for Halloween week.
Download a free copy of the stunningly designed issue here:
www.iskrabooks.org/plb6
Download a free copy of the stunningly designed issue here:
www.iskrabooks.org/plb6
October 28, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Honored to have a poem in the latest issue of Peace, Land, and Bread. My cemetery poem, just in time for Halloween week.
Download a free copy of the stunningly designed issue here:
www.iskrabooks.org/plb6
Download a free copy of the stunningly designed issue here:
www.iskrabooks.org/plb6
CFP: Frederic Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Please circulate far and wide.
Submission info linked below.
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Please circulate far and wide.
Submission info linked below.
October 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
CFP: Frederic Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Please circulate far and wide.
Submission info linked below.
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Please circulate far and wide.
Submission info linked below.
Paul Robeson on Toussaint Louverture & Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh on Toussaint, Haiti & the Haitian Revolution.
October 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Paul Robeson on Toussaint Louverture & Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh on Toussaint, Haiti & the Haitian Revolution.
For the issue #6 of Peace, Land, & Bread, Gerald Horne and I wrote about "Ho Chi Minh and Black Liberation." We discuss Garveyism, Malcolm X, Robert F. Williams & more.
Check it out!
Thank you Ben, Taylor, Talia, and everyone @iskrabooks.bsky.social for their work on these beautiful editions.
Check it out!
Thank you Ben, Taylor, Talia, and everyone @iskrabooks.bsky.social for their work on these beautiful editions.
October 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
For the issue #6 of Peace, Land, & Bread, Gerald Horne and I wrote about "Ho Chi Minh and Black Liberation." We discuss Garveyism, Malcolm X, Robert F. Williams & more.
Check it out!
Thank you Ben, Taylor, Talia, and everyone @iskrabooks.bsky.social for their work on these beautiful editions.
Check it out!
Thank you Ben, Taylor, Talia, and everyone @iskrabooks.bsky.social for their work on these beautiful editions.
As a result of our organizing efforts through NFEE #4935, Northern New Mexico College has finally acknowledged that it underpaid adjuncts in 2024-25 in a major and direct breach of our CBA, resulting in over $31,000 in backpay owed to adjuncts teaching in-person classes... 1/2
October 12, 2025 at 1:53 PM
As a result of our organizing efforts through NFEE #4935, Northern New Mexico College has finally acknowledged that it underpaid adjuncts in 2024-25 in a major and direct breach of our CBA, resulting in over $31,000 in backpay owed to adjuncts teaching in-person classes... 1/2
Alright, fun's over. They caught on.
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Alright, fun's over. They caught on.
I don't normally do this, but since Peter Kolchin's classic book "Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom" is currently 95% off. I HIGHLY recommend you snag a copy right now
October 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I don't normally do this, but since Peter Kolchin's classic book "Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom" is currently 95% off. I HIGHLY recommend you snag a copy right now
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@KamranBaradaran and I interviewed Indian philosopher Divya Dwivedi about caste, Brahmanism, the threats against her life, and more for @proteanmag
Link below 🙏
Link below 🙏
September 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
@KamranBaradaran and I interviewed Indian philosopher Divya Dwivedi about caste, Brahmanism, the threats against her life, and more for @proteanmag
Link below 🙏
Link below 🙏
@KamranBaradaran and I interviewed Indian philosopher Divya Dwivedi about caste, Brahmanism, the threats against her life, and more for @proteanmag
Link below 🙏
Link below 🙏
September 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
@KamranBaradaran and I interviewed Indian philosopher Divya Dwivedi about caste, Brahmanism, the threats against her life, and more for @proteanmag
Link below 🙏
Link below 🙏
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❤️🔥FREE EBOOK AVAILABLE NOW!❤️🔥
As we promised, the free ebook for Part 2: Historical Materialism is now available!
You can have it at BanyanHouse.org/shop right now!
As we promised, the free ebook for Part 2: Historical Materialism is now available!
You can have it at BanyanHouse.org/shop right now!
September 22, 2025 at 5:17 PM
❤️🔥FREE EBOOK AVAILABLE NOW!❤️🔥
As we promised, the free ebook for Part 2: Historical Materialism is now available!
You can have it at BanyanHouse.org/shop right now!
As we promised, the free ebook for Part 2: Historical Materialism is now available!
You can have it at BanyanHouse.org/shop right now!
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🔥 FREE EBOOK of Historical now available at BanyanHouse.org/shop 🥰
September 23, 2025 at 9:58 AM
🔥 FREE EBOOK of Historical now available at BanyanHouse.org/shop 🥰
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Northern New Mexico College faculty defy two-tier system. Actions are part of their revitalization of their union
#news #education
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
#news #education
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
Northern New Mexico College faculty defy two-tier system
ESPAÑOLA, New Mexico—With a unanimous vote of their membership, faculty members of the Northern Federation of Educational Employees - AFT Local 4935 at Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) ratified a ne...
peoplesworld.org
September 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Northern New Mexico College faculty defy two-tier system. Actions are part of their revitalization of their union
#news #education
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
#news #education
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
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Returning for a moment just to post @peoplesworld1924.bsky.social's coverage of our latest adjunct union victory at Northern New Mexico College.
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
Northern New Mexico College faculty defy two-tier system
ESPAÑOLA, New Mexico—With a unanimous vote of their membership, faculty members of the Northern Federation of Educational Employees - AFT Local 4935 at Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) ratified a ne...
peoplesworld.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Returning for a moment just to post @peoplesworld1924.bsky.social's coverage of our latest adjunct union victory at Northern New Mexico College.
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
Returning for a moment just to post @peoplesworld1924.bsky.social's coverage of our latest adjunct union victory at Northern New Mexico College.
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
Northern New Mexico College faculty defy two-tier system
ESPAÑOLA, New Mexico—With a unanimous vote of their membership, faculty members of the Northern Federation of Educational Employees - AFT Local 4935 at Northern New Mexico College (NNMC) ratified a ne...
peoplesworld.org
September 16, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Returning for a moment just to post @peoplesworld1924.bsky.social's coverage of our latest adjunct union victory at Northern New Mexico College.
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
peoplesworld.org/article/nort...
I am going to be extremely busy from now until late November and therefore largely absent from all social media. If you need to get in touch, please don't DM me here because I will likely not see it. Please email instead.
If you need my email, better get it quick!
If you need my email, better get it quick!
September 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I am going to be extremely busy from now until late November and therefore largely absent from all social media. If you need to get in touch, please don't DM me here because I will likely not see it. Please email instead.
If you need my email, better get it quick!
If you need my email, better get it quick!
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De Facto Podcast with Anthony( @tonyjballas.bsky.social )Ballas "Ep18: Gerald Horne: African Americans & A New History of the US, Imperialism in Crisis, Exile & more" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CWB...
Ep18: Gerald Horne: African Americans & A New History of the US, Imperialism in Crisis, Exile & more
YouTube video by De Facto Podcast with Anthony Ballas
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September 4, 2025 at 1:38 AM
De Facto Podcast with Anthony( @tonyjballas.bsky.social )Ballas "Ep18: Gerald Horne: African Americans & A New History of the US, Imperialism in Crisis, Exile & more" www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CWB...
📣Mark your calendars! Set your clocks!🚨
Gerald Horne to appear on a very special episode of @blackpowermedia.bsky.social, "Rupturing the Aesthetic" w/ Khadija Haynes.
Gerald Horne to appear on a very special episode of @blackpowermedia.bsky.social, "Rupturing the Aesthetic" w/ Khadija Haynes.
August 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
📣Mark your calendars! Set your clocks!🚨
Gerald Horne to appear on a very special episode of @blackpowermedia.bsky.social, "Rupturing the Aesthetic" w/ Khadija Haynes.
Gerald Horne to appear on a very special episode of @blackpowermedia.bsky.social, "Rupturing the Aesthetic" w/ Khadija Haynes.
Icymi! My latest interview with Gerald Horne on his new book, The Capital of Slavery, Washington, D.C. 1800-1865.
Link below
Link below
August 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Icymi! My latest interview with Gerald Horne on his new book, The Capital of Slavery, Washington, D.C. 1800-1865.
Link below
Link below
📣De Facto Ep22 is now live!🚨
Gerald Horne on The Capital of Slavery, Canada, Russia, Alaska Summit, BRICS & China's Rise
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Gerald Horne on The Capital of Slavery, Canada, Russia, Alaska Summit, BRICS & China's Rise
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August 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
📣De Facto Ep22 is now live!🚨
Gerald Horne on The Capital of Slavery, Canada, Russia, Alaska Summit, BRICS & China's Rise
Link in comment below 👇
Gerald Horne on The Capital of Slavery, Canada, Russia, Alaska Summit, BRICS & China's Rise
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Check out what I received in the mail...
August 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Check out what I received in the mail...
Say I had a 10,000 word essay on Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, poetry and politics of reception and criticism... where would I look to submit? Recommendations?
August 12, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Say I had a 10,000 word essay on Billie Holiday, Langston Hughes, poetry and politics of reception and criticism... where would I look to submit? Recommendations?
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📣De Facto ep21 is LIVE!🚨
Alana Lentin on her new book THE NEW RACIAL REGIME: Topics include:
-left anti-wokeness, CRT, 1619, Catherine Liu
-Cedric Robinson
-Fanon contra postcolonial theory
-Palestinian resistance
-Z*onism & academia
-March for Humanity & Palestinian statehood
Alana Lentin on her new book THE NEW RACIAL REGIME: Topics include:
-left anti-wokeness, CRT, 1619, Catherine Liu
-Cedric Robinson
-Fanon contra postcolonial theory
-Palestinian resistance
-Z*onism & academia
-March for Humanity & Palestinian statehood
August 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📣De Facto ep21 is LIVE!🚨
Alana Lentin on her new book THE NEW RACIAL REGIME: Topics include:
-left anti-wokeness, CRT, 1619, Catherine Liu
-Cedric Robinson
-Fanon contra postcolonial theory
-Palestinian resistance
-Z*onism & academia
-March for Humanity & Palestinian statehood
Alana Lentin on her new book THE NEW RACIAL REGIME: Topics include:
-left anti-wokeness, CRT, 1619, Catherine Liu
-Cedric Robinson
-Fanon contra postcolonial theory
-Palestinian resistance
-Z*onism & academia
-March for Humanity & Palestinian statehood