Promotional graphic for the 2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture with Bhaskar Sunkara, taking place Wednesday, April 22 from 6pm - 8pm at Toronto Metropolitan University (245 Church St, Toronto, ON). A green button indicates that early bird tickets are available until march 31, below an image of a man sitting and smiling in front of red brick wall. Below the button appears the logos for the Broadbent Institute, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung New York Office, and Toronto Metropolitan University's Faculty of Arts.

The 2026 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture delivered by @sunraysunray.bsky.social is April 22 at @arts-tmu.bsky.social.

Sponsored by @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social, it will give organizers, workers, and thinkers the blueprint for how socialist public policy works in the real world.

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Just announced here in Ottawa: The recipient of this year’s Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture price by the @broadbent.bsky.social is @sunraysunray.bsky.social. We at @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social are a proud supporter of this year’s awarding ceremony.

Can Substack Recover the Blogosphere We Lost? When I started Jacobin in 2010, my first milestone of the magazine...

I miss blogs.

As @sunraysunray.bsky.social writes, when independent blogging narrowed and news websites closed their comment sections, the debates didn’t vanish, they migrated into private channels or morphed into “quote-tweet pile-ons, where the incentive is attention through denunciation.”

What does Donald Trump think free speech means?

Latest Politics Weekly America is on the Trump movement's confusing attitude to free speech - I speak to @sunraysunray.bsky.social, president of The Nation magazine, which was denounced this week by JD Vance open.spotify.com/episode/4RRu...

At the top, repeating thumbnail images of the cover of Nordic Socialism, set at an angle. Then photos of Pelle Dragsted, Bhaskar Sunkara, and Eric Blanc. And then text reading "Pelle Dragsted in conversation with Bhaskar Sunkara and Eric Blanc, August 5, 2025, 7-8:30 PM, SCANDINAVIA HOUSE, 58 Park Ave, NYC." And then the logos for Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung NY office and University of Wisconsin Press

New York: Scandinavia House will host @pelledragsted.bsky.social in conversation with @sunraysunray.bsky.social and @ericblanc.bsky.social on 8/5, as part of Pelle's book tour. Details and (free) registration: tinyurl.com/yuefrb2x

Many thanks to @rosaluxnyc.bsky.social for supporting Pelle's tour.

Zohran Mamdani offered New Yorkers a political revolution – and won | Bhaskar Sunkara Now the New York mayoral candidate he needs to ensure an electoral win that translates into tangible improvements in people’s lives

Good piece by @sunraysunray.bsky.social in @theguardian.com on last night's victory for common sense justice. Hits the right tone of cautious optimism and is clear eyed about the road forward.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Photos of people listening to a talk about the German election results.

Photos of people listening to a talk about the German election results.

Photos of people listening to a talk about the German election results.

The success of @die-linke.de also gives hope in the US! Sofia Leonidakes from @dielinkebremen.bsky.social talked to @sunraysunray.bsky.social at our joint RLS NYC and @jacobinmag.bsky.social event about the strategy behind it.

The Age of Class Dealignment Over the course of decades, social democracy abandoned workers. Then workers abandoned social democracy.

“After attempting and failing to borrow its way out of the crisis, social democracy eventually responded to the charge that social democracy itself was at the root of the economic crisis by wholeheartedly agreeing.”

Great work from @sunraysunray.bsky.social jacobin.com/2024/11/deal...

The essay explicitly talks about the working class becoming more credentialed due to economic shifts. And discusses in incredibly orthodox terms the recomposition of the working class (and the role of the means of production shaping it).

Any academic knows that income/education are common proxies we're forced to deal with.

But they still tell us a lot. It's worth noting that CWCP operationalized Wright's class schemas in studies and we found very similar results to using education (which will likely become less effective over time)

And you had no response to what I said at length about your distortion of both that essay as a whole and this particular point:

1. This was a quick use of exit polls with education as a proxy for class, since CNN doesn't ask people their relationship to the means of production.

Glad to hear it, I'm grateful!

I'm not sure where in the world you would get this idea from, but I've organized with teachers before and worked on an entire activist teachers' guide with the CTU's CORE. What a bizarre reference.

Born too late for the Windies glory days. Born too early for the US cricket glory days :-(

Who says it does? bsky.app/profile/sunr...

Social Democracy After Class? Oct. 17, 2024

Here's the full essay on class dealignment and what it's meant for both social democracy and its stunted New Deal cousin: theideasletter.substack.com/p/social-dem...

2. The essay explicitly talks about the working class becoming more credentialed due to economic shifts.

The OP was before the election, but the results should make it even harder to be a dealignment denier. There's no doubt that Harris also lost ground among the college-educated working class.

Fwiw, Center for Working-Class Politics literally operationalized E.O. Wright's class schemas in studies and we found very similar results to using education (which will likely become less effective over time).

Any academic knows that income and education are the common proxies we're forced to use

Very silly, since I've written extensively on the Marxist understanding of class & this essay is about 150 years of shifts in working-class parties 🧵

1. This is a quick use of exit polls with education as a proxy for class, since CNN doesn't ask people their relationship to the means of production.