Very useful insight into the broader impacts of US and Israeli military adventurism in Iran, from Adam Hanieh in this weekend’s FT.

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Diary of a Vandalized Car Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Dominique Routhier (Roskilde University). His talk traces the “decline and fall” of American civilization through the decomposition of its most emblematic f...

And we’re back. Join us for our first seminar of summer term:

Diary of a Vandalized Car
Dominique Routhier (@routhier.bsky.social)
Friday 24 April, 5.30pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social
Common Ground G11, South wing, UCL, Gower St, WC1E 6BT

All welcome. No booking required.

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Beatriz González at the Barbican - catch it while you can!

Tony Wood · At MoMA: Wifredo Lam Reconsidered Lam referred to a ‘desire to include in my painting all the transculturation that had occurred in Cuba’ – using a...

Enjoyed this review of what seems (problems around imperialist 'decolonial' cosplay notwithstanding) a fascinating exhibition.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Alboroya, Valencia

Espai Verd, Valencia. Improbable and wondrous 1990s housing complex by Antonio Cortés Ferrando and CSPT.

“The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”

Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

Open University U-Turns on ‘Ancient Palestine’ Ban In December, the Open University told UK Lawyers for Israel it would stop using the term ‘ancient Palestine’ in teaching materials. Following a public outcry, the university now says the term isn't ac...

Important, detailed coverage of commitments made by the OU to UKLFI regarding the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’ in learning materials. Still lots of ambiguities & no public retraction, defence of the term or internal investigation, but some softening perhaps.🤔

novaramedia.com/2026/03/03/o...

Worried about freedom of speech? Then what’s happening at the Open University should terrify you | Owen Jones The OU has capitulated to a pro-Israel lobby group about the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’. The wider context is impossible to ignore, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

'This is the real crisis of free speech in the west. The target is not just protest, but a people. Israel seeks to erase Palestinians as a society. First they are destroyed in the present. Then they are deleted from the past'

Strong from @owenjones.bsky.social

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Academics slam Open University for caving to pro-Israel lobby on Ancient Palestine term The British Society for Middle Eastern Studies demands OU reverse its decision, linking the incident to a wider pattern of censorship of pro-Palestine voices

Academics slam Open University for caving to pro-Israel lobby on 'Ancient Palestine' term

www.newarab.com/news/academi...

The image shows page 1 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine

The image shows page 2 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine

The image shows page 3 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine

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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to The @openuniversity.bsky.social to express our profound concern about the university’s response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term ‘#ancientPalestine’.
Read our letter: bit.ly/4r0j68L 1/3

Book presentation on Rose-Anne Gush’s monograph "Artistic Labour of the Body" Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Rose Anne-Gush, Alexander Stoffel, and Jenny Nachtigall. They will examine the use of the body and psyche as artistic material to explore Adorno’s concept o...

"Artistic Labour of the Body" Book presentation on Rose-Anne Gush’s monograph, with @rsenne.bsky.social Alexander Stoffel and Jenny Nachtigall.

Fri 20 March 2026, 5:30–7:30pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground, G11 Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT

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And OUr very own here: docs.google.com/document/u/3...

Israel is trying to rewrite history – and British institutions risk helping them do it Israel is trying to rewrite ancient history. In Palestine, Israel has systematically destroyed ancient heritage and made colonial land grabs of archaeological sites like the ancient Palestinian tow…

The term ‘ancient Palestine’, as many ancient historians…have agreed, conveys the true multiculturalism of ancient Palestine. It is the best way to reject the weaponizing of ancient heritage for ethnonationalist and genocidal purposes’
👏🏼 @luxmea.bsky.social

www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-isr...

Lee Miller at Tate: from surrealist suave, (via Vogue and Buchenwald), to Hitler’s burning house and the execution of Lászlo Bárdossy.

The British establishment ever ready to prop up the ailing Zionist project. This latest speculative gambit by UKLF* needs to be challenged head on.

archive.ph/kBMjS

Today (and all days)

Ystrdy, the OU Palestine Solidarity Group launched a call on our Vice-Chancellor to retract commitments to caveat & proscribe future use of term ‘Ancient Palestine’ in learning materials. We have >200 signatures from colleagues & international scholars. Add yours:

docs.google.com/document/u/3...

OU PALESTINE SOLIDARITY GROUP

The OUPSG (#OpenUniversity #Palestine Solidarity Group oupalestinesolidarity.org) has launched an Open Letter to its VC requesting a full retraction of commitments made to an Israeli lobby group (aka foreign pressure on #AcademicFreedom).
Please read, sign & share 🇵🇸
docs.google.com/document/u/3...

Lambeth Unison and Lambeth 4 Divestment from Israel state their disappointment with Lambeth Council Lambeth Unison and Lambeth 4 Divestment from Israel have made a joint statement in response to Lambeth’s claim that they have no exposure to funds complicit with Israel’s breaches of in…

www.brixtonbuzz.com/2026/02/lamb...

Who runs Lambeth? The council reject hearing petition of 5,000 local residents and workers calling for divestment from Israel More than 5000 people signed a petition asking Lambeth Council to divest from all funds complicit with Israel and its genocide, occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people. The campaign was…

Lambeth refuse to hear call of 5000 local residents and workers, claiming the council have “no control” over their pension fund. 🧐

www.brixtonbuzz.com/2026/01/who-...

This should be great

A Rare John Biggers Study Comes to Light Before the Mural At BAIA Fine Art Print Fair, Houston A Rare John Biggers Study Comes to LightBefore the Mural — The Contribution of the Negro Woman to American Life A Rare John Biggers Study Comes to LightBefore the Mural — The Contribution of the Ne...

At Houston's BAIA Fine Art Print Fair, Black Art in America presents the first public exhibition of an early study by John Biggers, created in the early 1950s and foundational to his iconic mural 'The Contribution of the Negro Woman to American Life.' www.blackartinamerica.com/blogs/news/b...

Loved Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy: full of life, incident, wit and visual ingenuity. Renews hope in painting’s capacities.

Radioactive Marxisms & Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany An Ultra-Violet Art History of Afterlives. Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Sara James (Manchester School of Art, MMU)

Our Next Seminar: 📢☢️

Radioactive Marxisms & Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany, with Sarah James

Friday 28th November 2025, 5.30-7.30pm

@ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT

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Jeremy Corbyn returns to South London for Your Party rally at Peckham Levels, Sunday 2nd November 2025 Your Party continues its South London expansion with a Regional Assembly and rally in Peckham on Saturday 2 November, headlined by Jeremy Corbyn alongside trade unionists and local campaigners.

📣Not 1 but 2 South London Your Party events @peckhamlevels tomorrow

💥Kicking off with a Regional Assembly for members from 2pm

🎉And concluding with a rally of local trade unionists and campaigners joined by @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social from 6.30pm

Hasta mañana ✊🚩

www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/11/jere...

How the Tube became London’s biggest art gallery Eleanor Pinfield, director of Art on the Underground, talks to Apollo about the challenges of commissioning art for a subterranean audience

The London Underground has, over the past 25 years, hosted works by some of Britain’s leading contemporary artists. Eleanor Pinfield, director of Art on the Underground, talks to Apollo about why preserving public art is becoming an ever more urgent task

Relieved to see the Edward Burra at Tate Britain before it closed. Fascinating show packed full of great paintings, from 1920s Paris to 1970s Cornwall (via Harlem, Rye and 1930s Spain).

Rethinking Revolutionary Memory: The Production and Afterlives of Yugoslav Socialist Monuments Join this 'Marxism in Culture' seminar with Sanja Horvatinčić and Beti Žerovc.

⚡️First seminar of new academic year

Rethinking Revolutionary Memory: The Production and Afterlives of Yugoslav Socialist Monuments with Sanja Horvatinčić & Beti Žerovc

31st Oct 🎃, 5.30-7.30pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social
IAS Common Ground
G11, South Wing, UCL,WC1E 6BT

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Happy 40th Anniversary to the Hackney Peace Carnival Mural!
Great to be part of yesterday’s celebrations.
👏🏼🎉🕊️☮️🚩❤️