I wrote this about my dear friend Doug Shaw last year. He died this week, which doesn’t seem possible. In case you want to know more about him—
https://t.co/IdHFNXMQUj
Duke of Devonshire's exclusive Mayfair bookshop occupied as fury grows over his decision to raise rents to Irish farmers from £500 to £5,000
His ancestors stole this land in 1753; this mad rent rise will force farmers off land that they have cultivated for hundreds of years
AVAILABLE TO ORDER!
Extensive archival material & never before published texts, ‘Letters To A Future Republic’ is the first collected volume of the writing of Ed Emery, an incredibly important link in the transnational diffusion of autonomist Marxism.
https://t.co/6GDbxmaGBE
Some very specific questions for @stellacreasy following her defence of the Pal Action proscription yesterday & subsequent exchange with @owenjonesjourno 🧵
(We’ll keep adding to this thread as further questions arise)
A very exciting post day - proofs for Ed Emery’s ‘Letters to a Future Republic’ have arrived!
They’ll be available to order very soon, and with a limited print run. Watch this space
The Confidence of mediocre, middle class white Politicians & TV Presenters, telling the first Black woman & most racially abused MP elected to parliament, that she doesn't understand Racism as well as they do.
The bread seller was martyred, the flower seller was martyred, the book seller was martyred everyone was martyred.
Life itself was martyred, and the small details that once filled our souls with warmth have fallen away.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators who briefly occupied a building at Stanford are going to face more serious criminal charges than any of the Iraq War fraudsters or Wall Street derivatives hucksters.
A Black man with a Palestinian flag, with Gaza and Sudan written on it, being tackled by frantic security guards during the year’s biggest night of Americana pageantry mixed with the commodification of Black culture.
Lol. The US in a nutshell. The imagery is profound.
What sort of democracy ransacks bookshops? The Israeli police just pillaged my brilliant friend Mahmoud Muna's wonderful bookshop opposite the American Colony, the best in Jerusalem. Apparently Muna and his nephew Ahmed have both been arrested & marched into court...
https://t.co/Bh9L6atnyu
@MagickLoge @pykelets don't suppose I could put in a polite request for a PDF of this article, if you've got one to hand? Been searching high and low for access to it online, and via colleagues, so thought I might try at source! If this is ok I can send my email address via DM.
more courage and compassion than the whole of Israeli army. An unarmed Palestinian doctor who refused to abandon his patients against an Israeli tank. one of the defining images of genocide in the 21st century
Ah, the late 1950s, when Hallmark could hire Salvador Dalí to design a line of Christmas cards with the highest of expectations. I wrote about the result in 2019 for @OpenCulture: https://t.co/tUWie9DS0z