@bekadiski.bsky.social
Thinking about the end of the world, and what might stop it. PhD researching climate, unions, work.
As part of the @transitionsec.bsky.social series on military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats, I wrote about how trade unions are responding to rearmament, genocide and ecological catastrophe. Do check out the other essays!
🚨NEW ESSAY🚨: Read Rebekah Diski on trade union politics in an era of rearmament, genocide and climate breakdown.
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Bread and Butter Is Not Enough
Trade unions are grappling with an era of rearmament and climate breakdown. Amid these crises, a renewed labour internationalism is needed.
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December 9, 2025 at 2:39 PM
As part of the @transitionsec.bsky.social series on military industrial complexes as economic, climate and geopolitical threats, I wrote about how trade unions are responding to rearmament, genocide and ecological catastrophe. Do check out the other essays!
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🚨 NEW: Read @tobitac.bsky.social “Cold War on a Warming World” for sharp analysis of China’s economic development, its clean energy dominance and why Washington’s foreign policy response is a threat to global decarbonisation.
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Cold War on a Warming World
The US foreign policy response to China's economic development is a threat to the global climate transition.
transitionsecurity.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM
🚨 NEW: Read @tobitac.bsky.social “Cold War on a Warming World” for sharp analysis of China’s economic development, its clean energy dominance and why Washington’s foreign policy response is a threat to global decarbonisation.
🔗👇
transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
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transitionsecurity.org/cold-war-war...
Excited to be a fellow @transitionsec.bsky.social with a bunch of brilliant people thinking about the intertwining of militarisation and climate breakdown. Launch event this eve and lots of great stuff to follow!
While the US & Europe ramp up military spending, millions live in poverty.
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Today, we launch Transition Security Project, investigating how militarisation makes us poorer and less safe amid climate crisis — and what genuine security could look like. 🧵
transitionsecurity.org
Transition Security Project
transitionsecurity.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Excited to be a fellow @transitionsec.bsky.social with a bunch of brilliant people thinking about the intertwining of militarisation and climate breakdown. Launch event this eve and lots of great stuff to follow!
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‘More than a hundred groups co-ordinated to try to shut DSEI down. There were banners from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, the Global Women’s Strike and Quakers for peace, among others.’
Rebekah Diski at the Stop the Arms Fair protests, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
Rebekah Diski at the Stop the Arms Fair protests, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
Rebekah Diski | At the Arms Fair
Every two years, the UK hosts one of the world’s largest arms fairs at the Excel centre in East London. The Defence...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
‘More than a hundred groups co-ordinated to try to shut DSEI down. There were banners from the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, the Global Women’s Strike and Quakers for peace, among others.’
Rebekah Diski at the Stop the Arms Fair protests, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
Rebekah Diski at the Stop the Arms Fair protests, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
For the @lrb.co.uk blog, I wrote about DSEI, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs, which the UK hosts every 2 years. This year, protests drew attention to the companies profiting from genocide in Gaza, while Starmer met Israeli president Herzog at Downing St. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
Rebekah Diski | At the Arms Fair
Every two years, the UK hosts one of the world’s largest arms fairs at the Excel centre in East London. The Defence...
www.lrb.co.uk
September 12, 2025 at 6:33 AM
For the @lrb.co.uk blog, I wrote about DSEI, one of the world’s biggest arms fairs, which the UK hosts every 2 years. This year, protests drew attention to the companies profiting from genocide in Gaza, while Starmer met Israeli president Herzog at Downing St. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/se...
I wrote about David Lammy's newfound outrage over Gaza. Hard to swallow for those of us in his own constituency, where he and Haringey council have consistently ignored our demands for action: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/too-...
Too Lammy, Too Late
As British establishment opinion begins to turn against Israel, the hypocrisy shown by government figures like Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who long defended Israeli brutality, is both ironic and in...
tribunemag.co.uk
May 30, 2025 at 7:49 AM
I wrote about David Lammy's newfound outrage over Gaza. Hard to swallow for those of us in his own constituency, where he and Haringey council have consistently ignored our demands for action: tribunemag.co.uk/2025/05/too-...
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Larry Fink's 2025 letter:
we will solve distributional crisis of capitalism if you give me your savings so I can privatise every public good under the sun.
We shall call this democratizing investment.
www.blackrock.com/corporate/in...
we will solve distributional crisis of capitalism if you give me your savings so I can privatise every public good under the sun.
We shall call this democratizing investment.
www.blackrock.com/corporate/in...
Larry Fink’s 2025 Chairman’s Letter to Investors | BlackRock
Larry Fink shares how thinking on retirement can be reshaped, and how expanding access to capital markets can help build a more prosperous future.
www.blackrock.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Larry Fink's 2025 letter:
we will solve distributional crisis of capitalism if you give me your savings so I can privatise every public good under the sun.
We shall call this democratizing investment.
www.blackrock.com/corporate/in...
we will solve distributional crisis of capitalism if you give me your savings so I can privatise every public good under the sun.
We shall call this democratizing investment.
www.blackrock.com/corporate/in...
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I always struggle a little to explain my students why Marxists are right about freedom in the capitalist state. Jeff Bezos does it so much better.
New: Jeff Bezos emailed staff at the Washington Post this morning announcing that the Post opinion pages going forward were largely going to focus on defending personal liberties and free markets. Current opinion section editor David Shipley is out.
February 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
I always struggle a little to explain my students why Marxists are right about freedom in the capitalist state. Jeff Bezos does it so much better.
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This is by one of the booksellers in East Jerusalem whose shop was raided by Israeli forces last night, and is currently in Israeli detention. (Written in November 2023) www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/no...
Mahmoud Muna | A Bookseller and Many Journalists
I was shelving some books when the American journalist walked in. Many international reporters have come to Jerusalem...
www.lrb.co.uk
February 10, 2025 at 9:53 AM
This is by one of the booksellers in East Jerusalem whose shop was raided by Israeli forces last night, and is currently in Israeli detention. (Written in November 2023) www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2023/no...
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Don't be evil*
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Google removes pledge to not use AI for weapons from website | TechCrunch
Google removed a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance from its website this week. The change was first spotted by Bloomberg. The company
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February 5, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Don't be evil*
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Of course they back a third runway at Heathrow. I wrote about Labour's obsession with growth and the madness of airport expansion on the LRB blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
Rebekah Diski | Number One Mission
The government’s support for Heathrow expansion is in keeping with the robotic incantations of economic growth that...
www.lrb.co.uk
January 30, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Of course they back a third runway at Heathrow. I wrote about Labour's obsession with growth and the madness of airport expansion on the LRB blog www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...
I wrote quite a long thing about Bidenomics, contradictions of green growth, and why we shouldn't be so excited by 'the return of industrial policy' for Strange Matters magazine: strangematters.coop/failure-of-b...
Biding Time
Bidenomics is catching on in Europe but cost the Democrats the election. A socialist view says: it failed by not going far enough.
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January 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
I wrote quite a long thing about Bidenomics, contradictions of green growth, and why we shouldn't be so excited by 'the return of industrial policy' for Strange Matters magazine: strangematters.coop/failure-of-b...