Helen Mackreath
@helenmackreath.bsky.social
Writer // Critical researcher on cities, racism, borders // PhD from LSE Sociology
Istanbul / London / Berlin
https://helenmackreath.tumblr.com/
Istanbul / London / Berlin
https://helenmackreath.tumblr.com/
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The 2025 protests in Turkey offer us a glimpse of the shape that the coming movements against autocracy might take, and the limits that similar unrest will need to overcome, including protests against Trump closer to home.
illwill.com/crossing-the...
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July 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The 2025 protests in Turkey offer us a glimpse of the shape that the coming movements against autocracy might take, and the limits that similar unrest will need to overcome, including protests against Trump closer to home.
illwill.com/crossing-the...
illwill.com/crossing-the...
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‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey · Short Cuts: Who’s afraid of Palestine Action?
I believe there is a moral case for disarming the machinery of war that is killing innocent civilians in Gaza with the...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
‘I believe that damaging and destroying weapons of war is one way of waging peace: I can only conclude that for the British government, the waging of peace is terrorism.’
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Huw Lemmey on Palestine Action.
Online early from our next issue.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy
Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman now available online, w/renewed thanks to everyone who made this possible:
vimeo.com/1058614428
Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman now available online, w/renewed thanks to everyone who made this possible:
vimeo.com/1058614428
Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman @bUm - Raum für soldarisches Miteinander
Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy Legal and Forensic Perspectives on the Ongoing Gaza Genocide Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese United Nations…
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February 20, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Conditions of Life Calculated to Destroy
Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman now available online, w/renewed thanks to everyone who made this possible:
vimeo.com/1058614428
Lecture and Discussion with Francesca Albanese & Eyal Weizman now available online, w/renewed thanks to everyone who made this possible:
vimeo.com/1058614428
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Haaretz’s Yaniv Kubovich reports that Israel plans to seize 75% of Gaza and relocate more than 1,3 million Palestinians in the upcoming offensive, ultimately forcing the entire population into three military zones with food supplies strictly controlled by GHF/Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
May 26, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Haaretz’s Yaniv Kubovich reports that Israel plans to seize 75% of Gaza and relocate more than 1,3 million Palestinians in the upcoming offensive, ultimately forcing the entire population into three military zones with food supplies strictly controlled by GHF/Israel. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
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Last September, the activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah completed a five-year prison sentence. But the Egyptian authorities announced that his pretrial detention didn’t count, and that he would be held until 2027. In response, his mother began a hunger strike.
A Mother’s Hunger Strike Challenges Two Nations
Laila Soueif’s effort to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a British citizen, from an Egyptian prison is a study in personal protest.
www.newyorker.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Last September, the activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah completed a five-year prison sentence. But the Egyptian authorities announced that his pretrial detention didn’t count, and that he would be held until 2027. In response, his mother began a hunger strike.
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‘At 27, my peer group is dividing like a cell in meiosis. We’re all at different stages of the life cycle, our circumstances non-identical. Some people are moving back in with their parents. Others are buying their first homes.’
Rose Dodd on London’s rental crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Rose Dodd on London’s rental crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Rose Dodd | Sofa Hopping
‘Home,’ Mark Fisher wrote in Ghosts of My Life, ‘is where the haunt is.’ And ‘the house always wins.’ My...
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May 22, 2025 at 11:50 AM
‘At 27, my peer group is dividing like a cell in meiosis. We’re all at different stages of the life cycle, our circumstances non-identical. Some people are moving back in with their parents. Others are buying their first homes.’
Rose Dodd on London’s rental crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
Rose Dodd on London’s rental crisis: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...
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Join us for a vigil today at 6pm in support of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his mother Laila Soueif, both currently on hunger strike.
Writers & activists will read from Alaa’s work as we call on the UK government to take urgent action to secure his release. #FreeAlaa
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Writers & activists will read from Alaa’s work as we call on the UK government to take urgent action to secure his release. #FreeAlaa
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
May 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Join us for a vigil today at 6pm in support of Alaa Abd el-Fattah and his mother Laila Soueif, both currently on hunger strike.
Writers & activists will read from Alaa’s work as we call on the UK government to take urgent action to secure his release. #FreeAlaa
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
Writers & activists will read from Alaa’s work as we call on the UK government to take urgent action to secure his release. #FreeAlaa
www.englishpen.org/posts/campai...
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Refugee rights defender Taha Elgazi and his wife have reportedly been deported from Turkey to Syria after he was taken from his home by plainclothes security officers under the pretext of "address confirmation". @ihdgenelmerkez.bsky.social called the decision illegal & demanded it be reversed.
🔴'Adres teyidi' denilerek gözaltına alınan mülteci hakları savunucusu Taha Elgazi ve eşi sınır dışı edildi
🗣 İHD: Hukuka aykırı sınır dışı kararı iptal edilsin
bianet.org/haber/adres-...
🗣 İHD: Hukuka aykırı sınır dışı kararı iptal edilsin
bianet.org/haber/adres-...
May 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Refugee rights defender Taha Elgazi and his wife have reportedly been deported from Turkey to Syria after he was taken from his home by plainclothes security officers under the pretext of "address confirmation". @ihdgenelmerkez.bsky.social called the decision illegal & demanded it be reversed.
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"The question of how labour internationalism could work to challenge an imperialism that carries fascism in its genetic code remains on the agenda."
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On Fronts and Fissures
On the centrality of ‘worker-to-worker solidarity’ in an international Palestine solidarity movement. - ALBERTO TOSCANO
communispress.com
May 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"The question of how labour internationalism could work to challenge an imperialism that carries fascism in its genetic code remains on the agenda."
communispress.com/on-fronts-an...
communispress.com/on-fronts-an...
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OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue
A Special Section in issue 73.2 of The Sociological Review journal, featuring powerful contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social, @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun and Rafeef Ziadah.
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#palestine #gaza
A Special Section in issue 73.2 of The Sociological Review journal, featuring powerful contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social, @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun and Rafeef Ziadah.
buff.ly/RwjIdlS
#palestine #gaza
May 15, 2025 at 7:01 AM
OUT NOW: Palestine: A Sociological Issue
A Special Section in issue 73.2 of The Sociological Review journal, featuring powerful contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social, @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun and Rafeef Ziadah.
buff.ly/RwjIdlS
#palestine #gaza
A Special Section in issue 73.2 of The Sociological Review journal, featuring powerful contributions from Michael Burawoy, @cairsti.bsky.social, @kirsteen-paton.bsky.social, Aseel Baidoun and Rafeef Ziadah.
buff.ly/RwjIdlS
#palestine #gaza
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On Nakba Day let's recall British complicity in covering up the horrors of 1948 and the years preceding it. Below, a Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein reveals the destruction of key documents related to Palestine by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.
May 15, 2025 at 1:36 PM
On Nakba Day let's recall British complicity in covering up the horrors of 1948 and the years preceding it. Below, a Guardian article from 1977 by the Historian Bernard Wasserstein reveals the destruction of key documents related to Palestine by the British State in the decade after the Nakba.
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On Monday in Turin I will discuss the launch of an important documentary.
It tells the story of the CALP - a collective of dock workers in Genoa - who, for many years, have been refusing to load ships carrying weapons. True anti-militarist praxis.
Check for 'Portuali' online in the future.
It tells the story of the CALP - a collective of dock workers in Genoa - who, for many years, have been refusing to load ships carrying weapons. True anti-militarist praxis.
Check for 'Portuali' online in the future.
May 10, 2025 at 7:46 AM
On Monday in Turin I will discuss the launch of an important documentary.
It tells the story of the CALP - a collective of dock workers in Genoa - who, for many years, have been refusing to load ships carrying weapons. True anti-militarist praxis.
Check for 'Portuali' online in the future.
It tells the story of the CALP - a collective of dock workers in Genoa - who, for many years, have been refusing to load ships carrying weapons. True anti-militarist praxis.
Check for 'Portuali' online in the future.
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New online, from our spring issue: @daralind.bsky.social and @omarjadwat.bsky.social in conversation about immigration policy in the second Trump administration.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/trum...
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/trum...
The Deportation Machine - Dissent Magazine
An interview with Dara Lind and Omar Jadwat on immigration policy in the second Trump administration.
www.dissentmagazine.org
May 5, 2025 at 5:28 PM
New online, from our spring issue: @daralind.bsky.social and @omarjadwat.bsky.social in conversation about immigration policy in the second Trump administration.
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/trum...
www.dissentmagazine.org/article/trum...
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In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s drive to acquire territory as property—starkly exemplified by Trump's egregious “Gaza development plan.”
proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
Slumlord Empire • Protean Magazine
In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bahndar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s crass drive to acquire territory as “property”—a tu...
proteanmag.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:02 PM
In this essay, Alberto Toscano and Brenna Bhandar explore how the ideology of real estate has come to find direct geopolitical expression in Trump’s drive to acquire territory as property—starkly exemplified by Trump's egregious “Gaza development plan.”
proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
proteanmag.com/2025/02/27/s...
"We need to stop this plunder, weariness and vulgarity"
Sırrı Süreyya Önder, May 2013
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Sırrı Süreyya Önder, May 2013
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Sırrı Süreyya Önder: Ben Ağaçların da Vekiliyim
Taksim Gezi Parkı’nda yıkıma karşı duran İstanbul Milletvekili Önder: Bu neoliberal sistemin dini, kitabı, Allah’ı para. Bu talana, bezginliğe, hoyratlığa dur dememiz lazım.
kaosgl.org
May 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
"We need to stop this plunder, weariness and vulgarity"
Sırrı Süreyya Önder, May 2013
kaosgl.org/haber/sirri-...
Sırrı Süreyya Önder, May 2013
kaosgl.org/haber/sirri-...
Portrait of Heiny Srour, director of The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974) and Leila and the Wolves (1984)
“Wrestling with violence under colonial subjugation ... she is interested in what happens when a people suffer together, even as they are pulled apart”
www.bidoun.org/articles/hei...
“Wrestling with violence under colonial subjugation ... she is interested in what happens when a people suffer together, even as they are pulled apart”
www.bidoun.org/articles/hei...
May 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Portrait of Heiny Srour, director of The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived (1974) and Leila and the Wolves (1984)
“Wrestling with violence under colonial subjugation ... she is interested in what happens when a people suffer together, even as they are pulled apart”
www.bidoun.org/articles/hei...
“Wrestling with violence under colonial subjugation ... she is interested in what happens when a people suffer together, even as they are pulled apart”
www.bidoun.org/articles/hei...
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"Attempts to legally 'harmonize' the competing goals of protecting and punishing undocumented workers since the mid-1980s have gradually warped the employment relationship."
@michael-macher.bsky.social
@michael-macher.bsky.social
Wages of Citizenship | Michael Macher
US immigration enforcement and the cannibalization of labor law
www.phenomenalworld.org
April 23, 2025 at 8:57 PM
"Attempts to legally 'harmonize' the competing goals of protecting and punishing undocumented workers since the mid-1980s have gradually warped the employment relationship."
@michael-macher.bsky.social
@michael-macher.bsky.social
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Registration for our Reading the Crisis online conversation series is now open.
The series advances Stuart Hall's thinking by asking: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture?
Registration is free - sign up now via our website:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/
The series advances Stuart Hall's thinking by asking: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture?
Registration is free - sign up now via our website:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/
May 1, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Registration for our Reading the Crisis online conversation series is now open.
The series advances Stuart Hall's thinking by asking: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture?
Registration is free - sign up now via our website:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/
The series advances Stuart Hall's thinking by asking: what kinds of tools and strategies are needed to address this conjuncture?
Registration is free - sign up now via our website:
www.stuarthallfoundation.org/events/
University students are again at the forefront of resisting the police, who banned access to Taksim square for 1 May in Istanbul - "Squares cannot be closed to the people, the youth, and the workers for the sake of a government!"
(screengrabs from Zeynep Kuray)
(screengrabs from Zeynep Kuray)
May 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
University students are again at the forefront of resisting the police, who banned access to Taksim square for 1 May in Istanbul - "Squares cannot be closed to the people, the youth, and the workers for the sake of a government!"
(screengrabs from Zeynep Kuray)
(screengrabs from Zeynep Kuray)
Pertinent to share on 1 May the latest beautiful paper from Mai Taha on The Home, the Barricade and Women’s Work in the 1936 Palestinian Revolution journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
May 1, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Pertinent to share on 1 May the latest beautiful paper from Mai Taha on The Home, the Barricade and Women’s Work in the 1936 Palestinian Revolution journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Garrett Felber, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre - AK Books, May 2025
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A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre - PREORDER
by Garrett Felber AK Press 5/6/2025, hardcover SKU: 9781849355902 We're really excited to be working with AK Press on the preorder campaign for this new book on Buffalo legend, Martin Sostre! For ea...
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May 1, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Garrett Felber, A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre - AK Books, May 2025
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NO GOD, NO BOSS, NO HUSBAND. Athens, 2020.
April 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
NO GOD, NO BOSS, NO HUSBAND. Athens, 2020.