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David Bailey
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politicalworldview.bsky.social
New episode out now! "Two Left Parties". Host @adamjamesquinn.bsky.social talks British politics on the Left with @djbailey231.bsky.social. 🎙️ After a rocky launch, what are the prospects for 'Your Party'? Who is it for, and is it pitching for the same voters as the Greens?

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October 15, 2025 at 8:54 AM
djbailey231.bsky.social
against Labour's plan to ban repeat protests

theconversation.com/labour-wants...
Labour wants to restrict repeat protests – but that’s what makes campaigns successful
Since entering office, the Labour government has further tightened restrictions on the right to protest.
theconversation.com
October 7, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Reposted by David Bailey
brisunipress.bsky.social
@djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while #AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger resistance: buff.ly/nVBFBQj
In the age of AI realism, where do we stand – willing enablers, passive observers or active resisters? - Transforming Society
David Bailey and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri argue that while AI’s rapid rise offers immense promise, its grave risks may outpace weak safeguards like the EU’s AI Act unless met with far stronger…
www.transformingsociety.co.uk
August 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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gpejournal.bsky.social
"The degree to which AI is able to harm our society and environment will depend on how best we can organise in opposition to those harms."
New blog from @djbailey231.bsky.social and Masoumeh Iran Mansouri on why we need to #ResistAI
August 18, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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solgamsu.bsky.social
Yesterday @ducu.bsky.social passed this motion in solidarity with @uniteucu.bsky.social.

I didn't write this lightly, but at this point I wasn't sure what else to do.

@ucu.org.uk staff are essential to letting the union run. They back us so we back them.

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Motion to ban General Secretary from DUCU pickets and other events until UNITE UCU dispute resolved
Motion to ban General Secretary from DUCU pickets and other events until UNITE UCU dispute resolved Motion passed: 55% in favour, 24% against, 21% abstained. This branch notes: The consistent suppor...
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May 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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uniteucu.bsky.social
When, some months ago,  we first posted our members’ testimonies - lived experiences of working for UCU - our employer’s only response was a demand they be removed. No contrition, shame or concern for their staff: just an anger we’d shared them.

#UniteVoices

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“I feel more and more disheartened, depressed and stressed by working for UCU. I am trying to just get on and do my job in as professional a manner as I can. However, this is increasingly difficult... The current working ‘atmosphere’ is dire and makes me feel huge doubt and uncertainty. This has severely negatively impacted my motivation and my job satisfaction in addition to my levels of stress.” “Whilst off work sick for a protracted period, dosed up with pain medications and immobile I was sent an email advising that my white colleague (also off sick) was to be sent flowers and well wishes in a card from our team. Nothing was sent to me from the team and it felt like as a black colleague you weren't seen, your pain wasn't seen and you weren’t cared for.” “[I’m] Ashamed I work for an employer who has such double standards in the way they have treated employees compared to what they say to members… UCU has been very vocal about Trans and Non-Binary issues that affect UCU members and many UCU staff have worked really hard on policy and training – so why should UCU management be stalling over this for employees?”
April 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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uniteucu.bsky.social
#UniteVoices
“I get up each day knowing that no manager within UCU will care if I do any work on that day. On some days, in fact, I strongly suspect that it would be preferred that I do not do the majority of the tasks that are outlined in my job description, or attempt to implement the democratic decisions of UCU members through my work." “As an ex-union activist, I naively thought that working for a union would mean I could concentrate on a union's mission to defend members rights and use all my time supporting members in their fights. Instead, I'm witnessing the same callous behaviour from my employer as the ones this very union is calling out. I am so furious at the hypocrisy."
April 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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cerasellachis.bsky.social
Early-Career Marxism Roundtable
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CSE/Capital & Class Early Career & Independent Researchers (ECIR) Network Launch

Organised by Elio di Muccio & David Bailey @djbailey231.bsky.social

Are you a doctoral/EC scholar working w Marxism? Join this roundtable in Birmingham
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Early Career Marxism Roundtable - Expression of Interest
Organised by the Conference of Socialist Economists / Capital & Class Are you a PhD student or an early-career researcher working within Marxism or critical approaches inspired by Marxist and sociali...
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April 2, 2025 at 3:56 PM
djbailey231.bsky.social
Anti-AI - nice to see this new piece - How we might be Anti-AI, co-authored with Iran Mansouri just out in
@gpejournal.bsky.social

Trying to think different ways to imagine alternatives to a life reduced to objects of capitalist quantification

bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...
April 2, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Reposted by David Bailey
gpejournal.bsky.social
Is #AI adoption really inevitable? Masoumeh Iran Mansouri & David J. Bailey challenge this narrative and set out five ways to be ‘anti-AI’.
doi.org/10.1332/2635...
#AIresistance
How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century: overcoming the inevitability narrative
The general consensus appears to be that AI has the potential to provide solutions to most of society’s major problems, but not without introducing its own downsides, which need to be addressed in ord...
doi.org
March 31, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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cpern.bsky.social
Reminder: Join our Online Workshop on 27 February to discuss 'Regional pathologies of late-stage neoliberalization: The case of Japan in East Asia'

With authors Saori Shibata & David Bailey

Discussants:
@ndeiana.bsky.social
& Max Nagel

Link: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

See you there!
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly meeting - Feb 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Regional pathologies of late-stage neoliberalization: The case of Japan in East Asia Saori Shibata (University of Sheffield) David Bailey (University of Birmingham) discussants: Nicolò Deiana, PhD...
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us
February 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM