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[Skin Deep @tweetskindeep]

The Skin Deep team is in the midst of a crisis of faith – in our politics, our culture and our movements. So what is to be done?

We reveal why we find ourselves repeatedly returning to the spiritual, the philosophical, the ethical and the divine.

https://t.co/BRgJFswn1r

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

“There’s one thing more powerful than a billionaire – and it’s a union.”

Hours before the 2026 Met Gala, which was sponsored by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, union organisers put on a ‘Ball Without Billionaires’ in New York, featuring Amazon delivery drivers, warehouse workers and campaigners.

“Working people are underpaid, undervalued and under-appreciated,” said co-host Gabriella Karefa-Johnson. “Let those billionaires uptown have their Met party – we’re going to have something way more fabulous down here!”

[The Funambulist @TheFunambulist_]

If you are based in Southern Africa and you wish to order a copy of our new issue "Fifty Years After Soweto" (May–June 2026), please note:

- Print copies have free shipping!
- Digital copies are free!

ORDER HERE: https://t.co/qmQg6ebn3F

[AJ+ @ajplus]

“It’s the only place where displaced people here in the tents can go to sit and read.”

This Palestinian pharmacist and his friend rescued thousands of books to create the first new library in Gaza since Israel’s genocide: the Phoenix Library.

[Institute of Contemporary Arts @ICALondon]

🌙 On 16 May, the Queer East Festival takes over the ICA for an all-day line-up of film, performance & practice-based workshops – ending in a club night.

Chasing the dizzying ecstasy of movement in all its eclectic potentials.

🎟️ Programme + tickets: https://t.co/LlYsXlpXVE

[In These Times @inthesetimesmag]

May Day is not a metaphor. It is the day the people who make the world run step into the street and remember each other.

@hamiltonnolan on the workers, the protests, the boycotts and the glorious team we are all already on.

https://t.co/enXpnMXDO6

[Progressive International @ProgIntl]

Today, we remember Karl Marx, born on 5 May 1818 in Trier, Germany.

A communist revolutionary, philosopher, and economist, Marx's teachings continue to guide struggles for liberation around the world.

[عاتيق 𓂆 @qudratiKath]

dear palestinian cinema admirers, i recently discovered a google spreadsheet compiling the list of palestinian cinema index on letterboxd. The spreadsheet has downloadable links to over 700 docs and films.

Kindly, retweet and spread the word!

https://t.co/mihqpeg7gQ

[south/south movement 🍉 @SouthSouthMvmt]

Against Despair | A Collective Reading Series for Collective Practice

Join us for a reading series on and with “Let this Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care” by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba.

1st session on 28 May!

🔗https://t.co/TB5wHevCS0

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

The UK is trying to throw Palestine Action activists in prison again and there’s a news blackout on the matter. Please spread far and wide.
افضحوهم

[Palestine Solidarity Campaign @PSCupdates]

🚨 Save the Date - Nakba 78: March for Palestine
⏰ 16 May, 12PM
📍 Central London

On 16 May, we will be marching again for Palestine in London to commemorate 78 years of the ongoing Nakba. Join us!

[𝐶ℎ𝑎𝑠𝑒 🕊️ @ayoBDB]

real, this one my favorite

[Novara Media @novaramedia]

Dylan Law is a 20-year-old from Hackney who’s pissed off with his local council – and now he’s running to change it.

On 7 May, Dylan is standing as a Green party candidate in the Hackney Downs ward. He's also struck a deal with Hackney mayoral candidate Zoë Garbett that if she’s elected, she’ll appoint him her deputy.

At the launch of the Greens’ local election campaign on Thursday, Dylan spoke to @RivkahBrown about the Labour party’s escalating attacks on the Greens.

[The Creator's Pen🖋️ @inioluwa_oni]

Submissions are OPEN at Wasafiri Magazine ✨

Send in your best fiction or non-fiction. They seek innovative writing that pushes boundaries in form, focus, or theme.

Deadline: 1st May 2026
Submit here: https://t.co/xMnp7M4qRb

[1964archives @1964archives]

collecting coronaria flowers in the West Bank village of Beit Dajan (2016)

[Iskra Books @iskrabooks]

Today is Ghassan Kanafani's birthday.

"The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinian's only."

Every day we our inspired by his life and writings, as are some of our books:

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

April 9th marks the birthdays of two revolutionary figures in Palestinian history: Ghassan Kanafani (1936–1972) and Leila Khaled (b. 1944).

One used the pen, the other took up arms, both shaped the story of Palestinian resistance.

[Skin Deep @tweetskindeep]

🔗 Read the full interview now on our website 🔗
https://t.co/BRgJFswn1r

[Skin Deep @tweetskindeep]

“I think people need to have hope. People need to be able to imagine things they cannot see, political structures and worlds and works of art.”

In our latest interview, strategic director Joëlle Packer-Hall speaks to Online Editor @micha_frazer on faith in practice.

[Skin Deep @tweetskindeep]

Read the full interview with her and other members of the Skin Deep team on our website now 🔗

https://t.co/BRgJFswn1r

[Skin Deep @tweetskindeep]

“The Marxist tradition in which I now locate myself is quite prophetic in the way that it frames revolution as inevitable - we’re given no choice but to believe in it.”

Skin Deep’s online editor @micha_frazer shares thoughts on the theme of this year’s editorial season: Faith.