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Bottling the World Economy | Adam Hanieh Amid the destruction of the US–Israeli war against Iran, much of the world’s attention has fixed on the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow passage through which

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If oil price shocks weren’t bad enough, Trump’s war could have other unintended consequences | Adam Hanieh China consumes around 90% of Iran’s oil exports, so could be forced to rely on alternative suppliers – particularly Russia, says Adam Hanieh of the Soas Middle East Institute

Highlights the important element of blockages in fertilizer shipments and attendant rising costs (eventually translated into food prices), which alongside energy cost spikes will hit unevenly and make inequality worse in all realms.
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Important new article by Sean K Isaacs

Alienation and Abstract Labor-Time: Marx and the Romantic Critique

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Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism - Historical Materialism Let’s start from the premise that capitalist rule confronts an endemic problem of order. That problem of order is traceable ultimately to the primary social division that characterises capitalist soci...

A piece by @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and me, up on @histmat.bsky.social site

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Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism - Historical Materialism Let’s start from the premise that capitalist rule confronts an endemic problem of order. That problem of order is traceable ultimately to the primary social division that characterises capitalist soci...

Now online: 'Trump 2.0, Fascism, and the Problem of Order under Capitalism' by Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber (@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and @jefferyrwebber.bsky.social).

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Alienation, Eroticism, and Utopia: An Interview with Alan Sears - Historical Materialism At a time when the lives of trans people, migrant workers, and women, amongst others, are threatened by the far Right, it is important to engage with the demands and analyses of these groups, both on…

“Those two things, queer politics and Marxism, were together in my mind but not always reconciled. So, I began having to puzzle the connections together myself”

@alansearslefty.bsky.social interviewed in @histmat.bsky.social about Eros and Alienation:
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How should the Left respond to Trump’s threats against Canada? Tempest member David Camfield argues for a socialist strategy in response to Trump’s bullying of Canada.

From hysteria about imminent US invasion to left defenses of nationalism that mirror most of the talking points of the Canadian mainstream press, there is widespread disorientation in this country vis-a-vis Trump. David Camfield offers a useful antidote.

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This is very good from several different angles on the Venezuela scenario.

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Notes on Campist Internationalism This was a talk delivered at a panel on The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism at the Historical Materialism Conference in London that took place on 9 November 2025. You can w...

This argument from @aycacu.bsky.social becoming more important and relevant by the day unfortunately

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This event was originally scheduled for January 15 but had to be postponed due to a snowstorm closing York University on that day. We have rescheduled for this Thursday (January 22, 4pm). Please make it if you can.

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Postponed because of snow. York is closed today

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Tomorrow at York

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Being on strike when your employer is a union Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since late October 2025. CUPE 1281 members discuss the reasons.

Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since October 27, 2025. Chris Little and Jeffery R. Webber sat down with CUPE 1281 members, Nicole Leach and Manuel Marqués, to discuss the reasons behind the strike and the development of the dispute to date.

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Venezuela’s Oil in the Grip of US Empire The Trump administration’s kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro has refocused global attention on Venezuela and its enormous oil reserves. Yet to simply accept Trump’s bellicose language at face value – inclu...

Adam Hanieh with a more sophisticated take on the question of oil and Venezuela than many others that have been circulating thus far.

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First public event of the Toronto Tempest Organizing Collective. On Socialism from Below at York University Thursday, January 15, 4pm.

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First public event of the Toronto Tempest Organizing Collective. On Socialism from Below at York University Thursday, January 15, 4pm.

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Being on strike when your employer is a union Staff at the York University Faculty Association have been on strike since late October 2025. CUPE 1281 members discuss the reasons.

On the ongoing strike by the staff of the York University Faculty Association (YUFA) in Toronto. So, not a strike by YUFA, but by its staff.

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Locating race in capitalism’s laws of motion: the case of subprime Through a critical engagement with the racial capitalism literature, this article problematizes interpretations of the subprime crisis that foreground expropriation and the historical continuity of...

New material from @pashukanist.bsky.social and Mary Robertson. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Ante las amenazas imperialistas de EEUU contra Venezuela.

Lee nuestro comunicado completo en www.anticapitalistas.org/comunicados/...

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Alienation, Eroticism, and Utopia: An Interview with Alan Sears - Historical Materialism At a time when the lives of trans people, migrant workers, and women, amongst others, are threatened by the far Right, it is important to engage with the demands and analyses of these groups, both on ...

Important interview with Alan Sears on eros and alienation, by Sean K Isaacs and Isadora Seconi
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Resurgent Reaction and the Rise of New Authoritarianisms YouTube video by Historical Materialism: Critical Marxist Theory

Honor to speak on a plenary at this year's @histmat.bsky.social conference in London. My intervention focused on Trump 2.0 and the fascism debate. Drawn from collaborative project with @toddgordontoronto.bsky.social on authoritarian disposition of capitalist rule.
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A new short piece, "Latin Amerrica's destituent impasse," in Capital and Class. Open access.
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5 copies of the book Resisting Erasure: Capital, Imperialism and Race in Palestine.

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...

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Just landed in London bookshops: Resisting Erasure. A radical critique of Israel's settler-colonial capitalism and empire. by @AdamHanieh @pashukanist.bsky.social and myself. Preorder link live too www.versobooks.com/products/341...

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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and I have a piece out in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Trump.

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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

#Trump and #fascism.
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Here’s Jeff Webber’s and my intervention on the nature of the Trump regime and fascism for @journalspectre.bsky.social

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Water on the Brain – Spectre Journal Gordon and Webber argue that Trumpism exemplifies the antidemocratic authoritarianism characteristic of the liberal tradition, rather than interwar fascism.

@toddgordontoronto.bsky.social and I have a piece out in @journalspectre.bsky.social on Trump.

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