Jim Brittain
jimbrittain.bsky.social
Jim Brittain
@jimbrittain.bsky.social
Professor, Department of Sociology, Acadia University
sociology.acadiau.ca/james-brittain.html

"The matter resolves itself in a question of the respective powers of the combatants" Marx [1865]
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Are you interested in presenting and discussing your ideas on a topic related to disability through a Marxist perspective?

This autumn, we will be putting out a call for papers for the 2026 MDN series of events. Please consider submitting an abstract in a few months' time!

#Disability #Marxism
July 9, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Only one more day to get your abstracts sent in!
May 29, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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Lise Vogel’s The Contested Domain is now available for preorder on the Pluto website! Out in November.
www.plutobooks.com/978074535139...
May 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Holly Lewis!!!

"Had Rees read so much as a sentence of Marxist-feminist writing ... he’d know ... capital uses our biological capacities for its own purposes ... it creates hardened social identities for us based on biological criteria useful only to it".

spectrejournal.com/against-bad-...
Against Bad Arguments for Terrible Things – Spectre Journal
Holly Lewis takes a sledgehammer to John Rees's attempt to Marx-wash antitrans bigotry.
spectrejournal.com
May 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
"Several of the workers taken into custody on Friday have been active in efforts to unionize year-round employees, including at least one who has spoken publicly in favor of joining the United Farm Workers of America"
May 6, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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TODAY @ 6.30pm BST!

Matt Rozsa – Neurosocialism: Why being neurodivergent necessitates socialist solutions

Bernardo Paci: “Past in the present” or “future in the present”? Temporality, cultural representations of autism and the social division of labour
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/events-list/
Online monthly events of The Marxism & Disability Network
Coming up in 2025: On Tuesdays (usually) at 6.30pm BST/GMT To receive the Zoom links for the events below, please subscribe to the MDN mailing list. May, Tuesday 6th, 6:30pm (BST) – panel eve…
marxismdisability.wordpress.com
May 5, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Pierre Poilievre’s plans for power are based on the blueprint of his lifelong guru, Milton Friedman.

Gutting social programs, selling publicly-owned assets, sabotaging labour unions, and removing any obstacle to profiteering—unchecked corporate rule.

Martin Lukacs explains.
The radical thinker behind Pierre Poilievre’s country-wrecking plans ⋆ The Breach
Martin Lukacs unpacks Milton Friedman’s influence on Poilievre’s pro-corporate playbook
breachmedia.ca
April 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Sound article from James Cairns:
“The primary question is not what crises do to people, but what people do with crises, which depends on manifold historical variables, not least the state of radical infrastructure ... when crises break out”.
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View of The Worse, The Better
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April 14, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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📣Our next event - Tue 6th May, 6:30pm BST

Matt Rosza – Neurosocialism: Why being neurodivergent necessitates socialist solutions

Bernardo Paci - “Past in the present” or “future in the present”? Temporality, cultural representations of autism & the social division of labour
Online monthly events of The Marxism & Disability Network
Coming up in 2025: On Tuesdays (usually) at 6.30pm BST/GMT To receive the Zoom links for the events below, please subscribe to the MDN mailing list. Call for papers on ‘Disability and Rights&…
marxismdisability.wordpress.com
April 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"An institution’s decisions about its money, its partnerships, and its treatment of people are inherently political statements".

nbmediacoop.org/2025/04/08/p...
Palestine and the moral bankruptcy of universities
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of justice.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
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April 9, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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Tomorrow!!

April, Tuesday 8th, 6:30pm (BST) – panel event

‘[I]n this society unity appears as accidental, separation as normal’ – Disablement, (Under)class, and Emancipatory Social Ecology

With Bob Williams-Findlay, Sandra Wyman, and Roddy Slorach
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/events-list/
Online monthly events of The Marxism & Disability Network
Coming up in 2025: On Tuesdays (usually) at 6.30pm BST/GMT To receive the Zoom links for the events below, please subscribe to the MDN mailing list. Call for papers on ‘Disability and Rights&…
marxismdisability.wordpress.com
April 7, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Now announced... CfP: Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism London Conference, 'Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order'.

This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London
Twenty-Second Annual Conference - Historical Materialism
Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025
www.historicalmaterialism.org
April 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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NEW: John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US.

www.midnightsunmag.ca/from-trade-w...
From Trade War to Class War
John Clarke on building a liberatory class politics in the face of the escalating trade war between Canada and the US.
www.midnightsunmag.ca
April 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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🎙️On today's show Allen Ruff speaks with David McNally about "grifter capitalists," Trump’s real estate plans for Gaza, the attacks on universities, Tesla Takedown, and the model organizing of Ella Baker.

Listen here: www.wortfm.org/david-mcnall...
David McNally Unpacks Two Months of the Trump Presidency - WORT-FM 89.9
Allen Ruff and David McNally talk about Trump’s real estate plans for Gaza, attacks on universities, Tesla Takedown, and Ella Baker.
www.wortfm.org
March 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Realized I should mention this here—the collection of Lise Vogel’s essays I’ve been working on for the past two years. Lots of hard to find & out of print stuff, it tells the story of 50 years of Marxism & Feminism. “The Contested Domain” out this November w/ Pluto!

www.amazon.com/Contested-Do...
March 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM