Why are Harvard’s slavery researchers quitting or being fired? The school’s $100m project to examine its slave ownership in Antigua is mired in controversy as academics allege obstruction

www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

“…the hatred of theory threatens not only to reshape universities ideologically but to replace them with a data-driven “machine empiricism. “‘

The systemic intersecting oppressions experienced by Palestinian refugee women are “underpinned by [an] anti-Palestinianism, a settler-colonial framework that normalizes Palestinian displacement, erases their history, silences their narratives, and subjects them to structural violence”.

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Israel and the US Have Been Waging War on Iran’s Development From universities to medical research centers, Israel and the US have been systematically attacking Iran’s technical infrastructure. While claiming their only issue is with Iran’s rulers, they have ta...

My latest in @jacobinmag.bsky.social on the illegal US-Israeli war on #Iran: a war not only on a state, but on Iran’s sovereign development and the social achievements built by generations of Iranians.

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Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

Go Hungary! 👏🏽

And, now, for those other right-wing authoritarian rulers…

www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Cornershop - Brimful Of Asha, Norman Cook Mix (Tjinder Singh) Official Music Video YouTube video by Cornershop

Apposite for the moment to bid farewell to India's B'wood singer Asha Bhosle who passed today. This was a hit in the late 90s; a tribute to her by the diasporans who made home in Britain. It's so 90s.
Rest easy Asha Bhosle.

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Since Nuremberg in 1945, international law has established that the "wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity" is a punishable war crime.

No serious international lawyer would deny that this is what Israel is doing in South Lebanon.

A Bitter Education | Pankaj Mishra In its quiescence to the West’s war on Iran, India is squandering a precious legacy.

Jawaharlal Nehru wrote in The Discovery of India that “among the many people and races who have come in contact with Indians and influenced India’s life and culture, the oldest and most persistent have been the Iranians.”

www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

The Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ) and Critical Social Theory at McGill invite you to a conference on: Palestine and Global Justice: Revisiting the Terms of Political Theory April 24-25, McGill University Palestine and Global Justice: Revisiting the Terms of Political Theory examines how Israel’s genocide in Gaza has exposed both the political stakes of Palestine—self-determination, occupation, solidarity, and international law—and the limits of core political and legal categories such as global justice, human rights, war, colonialism, and resistance. The conference asks whether existing conceptual and normative frameworks remain adequate after Gaza and seeks to rethink the key terms of political theory in light of the ongoing crisis. Invited speakers include: Nasser Abourahme Esmat Elhalaby Samera Esmeir Murad Idris Nadim Khoury Darryl Li Nicola Perugini Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian Maya Wind Pre-registration required: https://forms.gle/PssC14EwgEGh9pf56 Co-sponsored by the Groupe de recherche en philosophie politique, the McGill Refugee Research Group, and the Critical Media Lab

The Lin Centre’s Research Group on Global Justice (RGGJ) and Critical Social Theory at McGill invite you to a conference on:

Palestine and Global Justice: Revisiting the Terms of Political Theory

April 24-25, McGill University

Pre-registration required: forms.gle/PssC14EwgEGh...

Border-Academic-Industrial Complex.

‘This report exposes how universities are embedded in the EU’s border regime, driving the militarisation, surveillance, and externalisation of migration control’.

London, you beauty!

❤️❤️Max Richter.

The UK unequivocally condemns the Taliban’s ban on girls' education in Afghanistan: UK statement at the UN Security Council Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki, UK Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN, at the UN Security Council meeting on Afghanistan.

Afghan women have now been banned from applying to study in British universities by the Labour government
www.gov.uk/government/s...

Every European country abstained from voting on the UN General Assembly resolution on slavery

Yes! They’re an undifferentiated lot too.

Everyone that Fraser turns to ‘after Habermas’ has a name except the ‘feminist theorists’. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ma...

No Israel prosecutions for killing Palestinian civilians in occupied West Bank since start of decade Dozens of former Israeli military, police and spy chiefs describe situation as ‘organised Jewish terrorism’

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert calls on the International Criminal Court to "take enforcement measures and issue arrest warrants” concerning settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Just had this flagged with me. This is disgusting.

If Kemi Badenoch had one ounce of leadership in her, she would condemn this.

I don’t want any faux sadness from her or Nick Timothy when one of us is hurt or worse.

This is how low the Conservative Party have sunk.

Eid Mubarak!

Spanish king reopens debate on conquest of Mexico by acknowledging 'abuse' King Felipe appears to have helped thaw frosty relations with Mexico while reviving a fierce debate over events 500 years ago.

The comment of the far right Vox party at the end of the report, though.

Not surprised in the least, but still.

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The Human Right to Epistemic Justice: A Proposal

The Mackay Lecture Series, Dalhousie University.

If you’re in Halifax in April.

www.dal.ca/faculty/arts...

New special issue out now, on Anti-Gender Politics and Resistance, guest edited by Clare Hemmings and Sumi Madhok.

To note: The UK government has awarded Palantir a £330m NHS England contract to deliver the Federated Data Platform.

Beggars belief.

The Human Right to Epistemic Justice: A Proposal

The Mackay Lecture Series, Dalhousie University.

If you’re in Halifax in April.

www.dal.ca/faculty/arts...

Declaring that no quarter will be given is straightforwardly prohibited under international humanitarian law.

When done to threaten an adversary, the declaration itself amounts to a war crime.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u...

UNICEF says that in just 12 days of war in the Middle East, more than 1,100 children have been reported injured or killed in the violence. “This includes 200 children reportedly killed in Iran, 91 in Lebanon, four in Israel and one in Kuwait.“

This lawless war has to stop.

To note: The UK government has awarded Palantir a £330m NHS England contract to deliver the Federated Data Platform.

Beggars belief.

Special themed section of @signsjournal.org on transnational anti-gender politics and resistance, edited by Clare Hemmings and @sumimadhok.bsky.social out now!

Read it here: www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/signs/cu...

“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic (women)—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters”

Explains why the right is decimating the humanities & the social sciences.