Mamdani needs to learn from what happened to Corbyn. He conceded an inch on the first story about his wife, as soon as you show that weakness theyll go after that relentlessly.

Better to send children to prison for no reason, i guess.

Why public power campaigns win Electricity affordability is an urgent, widely felt problem that public power can solve. Anger alone isn't enough to win. Sarahana Shrestha talks to me about the organizing model in Fabian Holt's book...

Anxious and angry about forever wars over energy? Want to do something to make a better world happen sooner? i have good news.

Electricity is the backbone for everything in our future, and you can do something now. Instead of feeling hopeless, you can join in with others to change everything.

This has been a known problem for the best part of a decade, but even a major world energy crisis was not enough for the government to take action because the answer probably means some form of public ownership/funding.

Electro-Capitalism Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.

✍️New essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social which attempts an analysis of the energy transition as one between two competing fractions of capital - fossil and electric - and the conflicts and struggles which will lead towards an 'electro-capitalism' (or not!)

www.break-down.org/electro-capi...

A brilliant and provocative essay by Gareth Fearn, on the emerging conflict between fossil and electric capital

A provocative piece of analysis from @gfearn.bsky.social on the likely shape of the energy transition and the conflicts that really define it for @the-breakdown.bsky.social

recommended read!

Electro-Capitalism Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.

NEW: Gareth Fearn lays out the stakes of "electro-capitalism".

"The economic basis of this transition is not simply between technologies of energy production. Rather, it is between two different fractions of capital."

www.break-down.org/electro-capi...

Many thanks to @adriennebuller.bsky.social & @johnmerrick.bsky.social for their excellent editing!

Electro-Capitalism Ours is the age of transition: from fossil capital to electricity capital. The future that emerges will be determined by the fierce struggles of the present.

✍️New essay for @the-breakdown.bsky.social which attempts an analysis of the energy transition as one between two competing fractions of capital - fossil and electric - and the conflicts and struggles which will lead towards an 'electro-capitalism' (or not!)

www.break-down.org/electro-capi...

this feels like a Roger Bannister four minute mile moment for "reactionary centrism". a level of reactionary centrism doctors (of political science) assured us was impossible but that training, dedication, ingenuity, and the Indomitable human spirit were determined to overcome

"As AI trans­forms academic labor, much more is at stake than the terms & conditions of our employment. At stake is the very integrity of the teaching & learning process & the notion that all humanity—not just a few individuals—should benefit from the production of knowledge at our universities."

Beneath The Wage: Tips, Tasks, and Gigs in the Age of Service Work - Zone Books Zone Books

My book is now available for pre-order!

The Whale Pod | Patreon The Moby Dick podcast

The first episode of The Whale Pod is delivered ashore tomorrow.

A chapter-by-chapter analysis of Herman Melville's 'Moby-Dick' with @leighsus.bsky.social and @pdkmitchell.bsky.social.

Follow for free on Patreon or wherever you get your podcasts...
🐳 patreon.com/thewhalepod

The reset was in 2015. Labour blew their chance to change, got lucky in 2024, and now the decline is back on track.

Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) - Güldem Özatağan, Gareth Fearn, Ayda Eraydin, 2025 This Special Issue presents ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’ as an empirical marker and a concept that signposts the ascendence of a new constellation in whi...

You can read more about these issues in our special issue:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

103 – Beyond Neoliberal Urbanism? Are we seeing the emergence of a new conjuncture for urbanism? The final part of our mini series asks whether authoritarian neoliberalism has created the conditions for a more illiberal and distinct t...

🎧Final episode for @urbanpolitical.bsky.social in our series on authoritarian urbanism w/ @jluger.bsky.social, Miklós Dürr, Ayşegül Can & Oksana Zaporozhets

We discuss whether contemporary urbanism continues to be 'neoliberal', and how the leading tendency is towards something more autocratic:

Your Party Can Realign the British Left Britain’s new left-wing force Your Party has got off to a troubled start. But faced with the historic decline of working-class organization, it’s vital that it makes good on its promise to rebuild gra...

📰Read Chris Saltmarsh for @jacobinmag.bsky.social on how Your Party remains an important opportunity for the left, amidst a Labour collapse and a Green surge...

jacobin.com/2026/02/uk-l...

I think there will be about 30 guys in West Bridgeford excitedly sharing this, but theyre probably all in the same two whatsapp groups.

He constantly makes the mistake of thinking that people who want to see less immigration (which is alot of people) are also into all the other right wing stuff on e.g trans people, anti-socialism etc, which they arent at all.

Genuinely think selecting
Goodwin will make it alot harder for Reform to win. He is far too deep into the online, far right ecosystem to not say multiple weird and offputting things that will limit Reforms appeal to the more comitted.

#14 Eco-socialism w/ Chris Saltmash

🎧Listen to Chris Saltmarsh on @newpartypod.bsky.social, speaking with Tom Williams about why we need Your Party to become the party of eco-socialism, what distinguishes us from the Greens, and more!

open.spotify.com/episode/3Z3M...

Chris Saltmarsh: Why I’m Standing for Your Party’s CEC The British Left urgently needs a mass socialist party if it is to make anything close to a significant impact in the coming years and decades. Socialists have long been weaker for our distribution…

🗳️Endorsements are now open for the Your Party CEC elections!

Our own Chris Saltmarsh explains why he is standing (in Yorkshire and Humber), and why we need to elect the
Grassroots Left slate to lead Your Party to fight for an eco-socialist future:

theecosocialist.co.uk/2026/01/21/c...

102 - Authoritarian Practices in Urban Government

🔊🔊 Episode 2 of our mini-series on authoritarian urbanism is out with @urbanpolitical.bsky.social. I discuss emergent and intensifying authoritarian practices w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social @alkejenss.bsky.social @sdwolfe.bsky.social @ebrukurtozman.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/show/5PaTdRP...

Urban Political Podcast The **Urban Political** delves into contemporary urban issues with activists, scholars and policy-makers from around the world. Providing informed views, state-of-the-art knowledge, and unusual insig...

You can also find episode 1 (and other excellent podcasts!) here:

urbanpolitical.podigee.io

Neoliberal crises and the city: Wrestling with authoritarian neoliberal urbanism(s) - Güldem Özatağan, Gareth Fearn, Ayda Eraydin, 2025 This Special Issue presents ‘authoritarian neoliberal urbanism’ as an empirical marker and a concept that signposts the ascendence of a new constellation in whi...

The series builds on a special issue for
@urbanstudiesjournal.com which you can read here:

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

102 - Authoritarian Practices in Urban Government

🔊🔊 Episode 2 of our mini-series on authoritarian urbanism is out with @urbanpolitical.bsky.social. I discuss emergent and intensifying authoritarian practices w/ @nitin-bathla.bsky.social @alkejenss.bsky.social @sdwolfe.bsky.social @ebrukurtozman.bsky.social

open.spotify.com/show/5PaTdRP...

Commenting on the news that day-ahead wholesale gas prices have reached a six-month high in the UK, @jessralston.bsky.social, @eciu.net said:

"The North Sea is continuing to run out of gas and won't help to lower bills or provide security of supply."
eciu.net/media/press...

Probably have to start reckoning with the reality that most social science disciplines int he UK wont fuctionally exist in 10-20 years. No such thing as a permanent job (not thay they exist!) if your departments in terminal decline!

European gas price surging. Evidence for Labour's view that we need to reduce gas reliance, but could also kill their govt before that happens as they have failed to get on top of energy bills. If this carries on the '£150 bill cut' isnt going to happen.