Shozab Raza
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Shozab Raza
@shozabraza.bsky.social
prof. at University of Toronto | editor at jamhoor.org | politics, critical theory, worldly marxism | www.shozabraza.com
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What concepts and strategies does Marxism offer for liberation and decolonization today?

Join us for a workshop on global Marxism starting tomorrow, featuring @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social and others (including several @dukepress.bsky.social authors).

www.translatingmarxism.com
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The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.

Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .

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Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
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October 11, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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What concepts and strategies does Marxism offer for liberation and decolonization today?

Join us for a workshop on global Marxism starting tomorrow, featuring @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social and others (including several @dukepress.bsky.social authors).

www.translatingmarxism.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
What concepts and strategies does Marxism offer for liberation and decolonization today?

Join us for a workshop on global Marxism starting tomorrow, featuring @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social and others (including several @dukepress.bsky.social authors).

www.translatingmarxism.com
October 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Marxist theory has always moved through translation - across languages, registers, and cultural settings. This 3 day workshop asks: Is Marxism still a living theory with strategies for liberation across time and space?

October 16-18
Thursday's event is open to all
Info https://uoft.me/bRg
October 9, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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@deathpanel.bsky.social
and Health Communism have been essential in shaping my understanding of sickness under capitalism. An honor to be able to talk about my book on this podcast!
In our latest, we speak with Nafis Hasan @cannafis.bsky.social about how cancer research priorities were shifted from environmental and industrial exposures to theories about individual genetic susceptibility, and his book Metastasis

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Metastasis: The Rise of the Cancer-Industrial Complex and the Horizons of Care w/ Nafis Hasan (09/29/25) | The Death Panel
Get more from The Death Panel on Patreon
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October 1, 2025 at 1:51 AM
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out today from @ucpress.bsky.social comes with words and a map. can be displayed and/or read.
September 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Kindly consider donating. Almost at our goal (with @jamhoor.org and @whbutt.bsky.social)
The floods in Pakistan have devastated many parts of the country. But as always, the peripheries have fared worst, and faced patchy, inconsistent relief.

With some folks in Toronto, we're fundraising for aid in neglected areas like Buner & Jalalpur Pirwala:

gofund.me/e4af94dc5
September 28, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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Marxism's circulation has necessarily involved translation.

Join us at UofT for a workshop on Marxism in/as Translation, with @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social + many others not on here.

www.translatingmarxism.com

Supported by @jhievents.bsky.social, @oiseuoft.bsky.social + others.
September 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Marxist theory has always moved through translation - across languages, registers, and cultural settings. This 3 day workshop asks: Is Marxism still a living theory with strategies for liberation across time and space?

October 16-18
Thursday's event is open to all
Info https://uoft.me/bRg
September 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Marxism's circulation has necessarily involved translation.

Join us at UofT for a workshop on Marxism in/as Translation, with @gscoulthard.bsky.social, @esmat.bsky.social + many others not on here.

www.translatingmarxism.com

Supported by @jhievents.bsky.social, @oiseuoft.bsky.social + others.
September 24, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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The floods in Pakistan have devastated many parts of the country. But as always, the peripheries have fared worst, and faced patchy, inconsistent relief.

With some folks in Toronto, we're fundraising for aid in neglected areas like Buner & Jalalpur Pirwala:

gofund.me/e4af94dc5
September 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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We’re partnering with @noornetwork.bsky.social to mentor journalists from the global South in reporting on authoritarianism and other issues affecting the region.

If you’re eligible, do apply!
🚨 Applications Open!

We are seeking 3 journalists from the #GlobalSouth to report on fascist & fundamentalist movements.

💡 Pitch your story & bring it to life.
📌 Apply: wearenoor.org/feminist-jou...

#JournalismAsResistance

@globalvoices.org @untoldmag.org @jamhoor.org @designaction.bsky.social
September 18, 2025 at 1:07 PM
@jamhoor.org's latest: a primer on Nepal's so-called Gen Z movement — its varied tendencies, unsettled future, and uncertain relation to the Left.
📣 NEW BLOG: A Left perspective on Nepal's Gen Z movement

Shambhu Prasad Katel, from the Alliance for Marxist Movements (Nepal), reports from the country.

www.jamhoor.org/blog/nepalsg...
September 15, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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so looking forward thinking with the extraordinary @esmat.bsky.social at the launch of his new book, Parting Gifts of Empire, from @ucpress.bsky.social @makdisi.bsky.social at the University of Toronto November 6, 2025
August 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
With the Baloch-led Mehrgarh Research Institute, we @jamhoor.org are hosting a workshop on public writing for Baloch youth.
Together with the Mehrgarh Research Institute, we're hosting a Public Writing Workshop for Baloch youth.

Learn to write on politics & literature — and share Balochistan’s stories with the world.

Pitch-Write-Publish

Register Now
Google form link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
August 29, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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📣 NEW RELEASE📣

Once revolutionary, Bangladesh’s student-led party now courts dubious allies. What does this say about “post-ideological” politics?

An excerpt from Nijjor Manush’s new book Inquilab Zindabad?: www.jamhoor.org/read/militan...
August 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Today @versobooks.bsky.social republishes P. Sainath's classic Everybody Loves a Good Drought:

www.versobooks.com/en-ca/produc...

For a preview into his thinking and politics, check out our extensive interview with him:

www.jamhoor.org/read/peoples...
People’s Media Against Monopoly Capital: A Conversation with P. Sainath — Jamhoor
On fighting corporate media with journalism from below.
www.jamhoor.org
August 5, 2025 at 6:52 PM
"'Even within the broader landscape around Palestine in the university, it’s unprecedented,' said Chandni Desai, a professor at the University of Toronto and author of one of the scrapped articles.'"

www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Revealed: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication
As Harvard’s feud with Trump escalated, so did tensions over an ‘education and Palestine’ issue of a prestigious journal. Scholars blame the ‘Palestine exception’ to academic freedom
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July 22, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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📢ANNOUNCEMENT📢: Jamhoor is launching a new blog space!
June 27, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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📣 NEW RELEASE 📣 :

Sri Lanka condemns Israel’s military actions in Palestine while maintaining its own military control and settlement programs in Tamil territories -- Thiruni Kelegama

www.jamhoor.org/read/sri-lan...
June 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Not a deviation from standard policy, but the logical culmination of a decades-long consensus in Washington and Tel Aviv: that no independent power in the Middle East should be able to escape the architecture of subordination."
'The Israeli garrison state has made clear that it is not satisfied with overwhelming regional military superiority; it also seeks the permanent incapacity of its neighbours.'

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi on Israel's regime-change agenda:

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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Culmination — Sidecar
Israel attacks Iran.
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June 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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With brutal torture and disappearances, the Pakistani state continues colonial strategies of collective punishment in Balochistan

Our latest from Hazaran Rahim Dad
June 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
"Only a popular programme of national consciousness, based on Pakistan’s diverse working masses, will have the strength to manoeuvre in the changing world-system...It is only such a socially- and geographically-attuned national consciousness that can form the basis of a concrete internationalism."
June 9, 2025 at 4:39 PM
New from @jamhoor.org: A joint statement by over 50 organizations condemning the Indian state's escalating violence against Indigenous Adivasi communities in Bastar.

@indinsaf.bsky.social
@indlabsol.bsky.social
@ldnminingnetwork.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Jamhoor is co-sponsoring a series of online events on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Bastar, where the Indian state has intensified military operations against Indigenous (Adivasi) communities in pursuit of a “Maoist-free” India.
May 19, 2025 at 3:38 PM