@saramarzagora.bsky.social #colonialism #racism #invasion #solidarity #MiddleEast
The conversation draws on themes from Resisting Erasure: Capital Imperialism and Race in Palestine. Have a look, and hope to see you on Monday! 2/2
www.versobooks.com/en-ca/produc...
4 of the hunger strikers are still going. And unless we up the pressure the state is going to get away with killing them. Please read this and use our toolkit to take action.
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
Reading Rooms at the British Library are closed *all week* because so many of its workers refuse to work for pitiful wages in a contemptuously authoritarian and obliviously managed environment.
We need leaders who get it and are big enough to sort it out!
It’s a mess and a disgrace.
Lift it up!!
A quote from the below thread
1/6 Across 2025 we have posted highlights to celebrate our approaching 10th anniversary. For our final one we spoke to @saramarzagora.bsky.social (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social), author of "Refashioning the Ethiopian Monarchy in the Twentieth Century" (2022; online 2020). Here are her thoughts:
🚨ANNOUNCEMENT! We've notified KCL that we are balloting members over LOCAL DISPUTE on protection of staff and academic freedom; divestment from companies profiting from genocide; King’s Council reform; and meaningful workplace consultation! #WeAreTheUniversity #WeAreKCL
There is no trade-off between pay and jobs. Don't let the employers fool you otherwise. This dispute is on three things:
1.Pay uplift = at least RPI+3.5% or £2,500, on all pay points
2.Protection of national agreements on T&C's
3.A national agreement to protect jobs & subjects
#WeAreTheUniversity
5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.
Physical copies of this, written by Adam Hanieh l, myself and @rafeefz.bsky.social seem to be appearing on the shelves.
If you can't find a copy it's still available for preorder from Verso - www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...
Hey fellow historians. If you feel, as I do, that the American Historical Association needs serious change, I would consider voting for this slate in the current election.
A MASSIVE WIN AT NEWCASTLE UNI ICU
Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (January 1938 – 28 May 2025), one of the most important African novelists, who preferred to write in his native language Gikuyu, has passed away. R.I.P.
OUT TODAY 🎧
we spoke with acclaimed author kristen ghodsee about the family and parenting under capitalism and the alternative arrangements for arranging social reproduction that have been experimented with in the past—and ways that we can imagine the future of the family
🚨MASSIVE VICTORY: King’s College Cambridge to divest from all arms and the occupation of Palestine
Today Kings College Cambridge has committed to divest the millions it holds in the arms industry, and in companies complicit in the occupation of Palestine, by the end of the year
KCL UCU sends its solidarity to the students who have, since Monday evening, re-occupied King’s Strand campus quad to protest our university’s continued complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and oppression of the Palestinian people. Our full statement ➡️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Glasgow put 80 staff members in the Social and Public Health Sciences Unit in at risk of redundancy in November 2024 as a result of funding withdrawal by MRC and the Scottish Government’s Chief Scientist Office. After a brief dispute in March 2025, the university improved its VS offer for the unit, guaranteed it for all staff at risk of redundancy, and instead is now developing a trial with the branch to move some research staff onto open-ended contracts.
Oh! We so seldom get to share good news!
But Glasgow managed to stave off compulsory redundancies and is developing a trial with the ucu branch to move some research staff onto open-ended contracts. 🥳
It IS possible!
qmucu.org/qmul-transfo... #UKHE
Our students @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social have reestablished their encampment to demand divestment in Israel’s settler colonialism & genocide
🎉 The Global Cultures Institute is delighted to announce two Fellows for 2025-26 – Dr @saramarzagora.bsky.social (@kingsdllc.bsky.social) and Dr @rezaziaebrahimi.bsky.social (@kingshistory.bsky.social).
🔗 Find out more about their research ⤵️
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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.
The comrades at Workers in Palestine and We Smell Gas have organised a fantastic day school in London for activists and organisers to strategise for energy justice and Palestinian liberation. Events like this are essential for all of us to learn, organise and fight back -- make sure you register 👇
📢 Energy, Extractivism & Empire — Day School
🗓️ 18 May 2025 | 📍London
Join @WorkersInPal + @WeSmellGas for a day of workshops + strategy against energy imperialism from Palestine to public housing.
Register & Share : www.outsavvy.com/event/26792/... #FreePalestine #ClimateJustice
‘Even in a TV show about the way the people you meet at university might just save your life, no one really knows what university is for.’
Zara Dinnen on what ‘Big Boys’ can tell us about the UK’s crisis in higher education, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ap...
*Branch anti-casualisation workshop*
Join us on Friday 2nd of May for a workshop on anti-casualisation (2-4pm)
❔Open to all members on a precarious contract or an open ended contract who want to support the campaign.
📝 Register here: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
UK Artists, cultural workers, and creative organisers: you are invited to a special workshop designed to strengthen our collective power in support of Palestine
Register tinyurl.com/2v5zfex6
Hosted by White Kite Collective and Workers In Palestine
Facilitated by @rafeefz.bsky.social
📸 Dr @saramarzagora.bsky.social from @kingsdllc.bsky.social challenged her students to take photographs around London to show different perspectives on the British nation and its colonial past.
Explore their work 👇
OUT NOW: Oral Literary Worlds: Location, Transmission and Circulation, edited by Sara Marzagora & Francesca Orsini! Discover world literature through orature, exploring oral traditions from the Maghreb, East Africa, & South Asia. Uncover untold stories & vibrant performances: https://buff.ly/40vyfol
CLR James denouncing the invasion of Ethiopia, from aeon.co/essays/c-l-r...