Onni Ahvonen

Dispatches from Beirut Courage sticks in a way that enjoyment envies.

A beautiful piece by Nadia Bou Ali:

”Much ink is spent analyzing the psychical mechanisms of domination, of force and power and mastery, yet there is less patience with the obtuseness of staying with where pain refuses to soften.”

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South Atlantic Quarterly cover with colorful abstract painting Theorizing Racial Capitalism in Post Imperial Europe January 2026

We celebrate the publication of issue one of the 125th volume of SAQ! "Theorizing Racial Capitalism in (Post)Imperial Europe," edited by Sarah Bufkin and Ida Danewid, is now available. View the TOC: buff.ly/x1m3Ejx

Looking forward to spending the next three months here in Brighton working on my dissertation at the University of Sussex.

Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi | The dry and the wet burn together The war launched against Iran by the United States and Israel is a war of choice and of hubris. There is scarcely even...

‘If Trump’s intention was to remove Khamenei from the political landscape, he may instead have fixed him in it, recast in the eyes of his devotees as a figure of sacrifice rather than failure.’

@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social on the US war on Iran, new on the blog.

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Call for Abstracts: 11th annual conference Freedom Eleventh annual conference of the Danish Society for Marxist Studies Copenhagen Business School, Denmark2-3 October 2026 Open call While we particularly encourage engagements with the theme…

🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨

We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM.

The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026.

Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌

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Organizing in the Heart of Empire The situation in Iran poses a political challenge for anyone who cares about emancipation. Everyone knows that the single greatest threat to that goal on a global level is the United States and its im...

Salar Mohandesi on Iran and anti-imperial struggle in the present conjuncture:

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Franklin Research Center Announces the Opening of the Sylvia Wynter Papers, Exhibition, and Symposium - The Devil's Tale Post contributed by John B. Gartrell, director John Hope Franklin Research Center  The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvi...

"The John Hope Franklin Research Center is pleased to share that the archive of philosopher, scholar, and author Sylvia Wynter will be opened to the public beginning March 3." Alt text: photograph of Sylvia Wynter.

At least 63 girls killed in strike on school in southern Iran Eyewitness tells MEE girls aged between seven and 12 seen lying dead across their school

“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”

We're living in truly despicable times.

Beyond the Wage Relation – Spectre Journal Hugo de Camps Mora challenges Vivek Chibber's fetishized account of materialism in favor of the broader and more expansive conception Marx argued for.

Wrote this for @journalspectre.bsky.social in response to Vivek Chibber and the broader resurgence of economistic materialism. Drawing on the concept of fetishism, I suggest such approaches revive errors Marx had already sought to critique
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Opposing genocide in the twenty-first century: an interview with Momodou Taal - ROAPE Has opposing genocide become a threat to public safety? At a time when imperial offensives no longer bother to cloak themselves in justificatory rhetoric, doctoral student and activist Momodou Taal is...

In this interview with Florian Bobin & Amadou Kébé, Momodou Taal connects the Palestinian struggle to a longer history of Black, African & anti-imperial resistance. For him, the path is clear: “the future is Pan-Africanism & transnational solidarity.”

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Metsäteollisuus kietoutuu fossiilikapitalismiin – puupohjaiset ekotuotteet ovat riippuvaisia öljystä, maakaasusta ja kivihiilestä, muistuttaa tuore tutkimus Fossiilisten poltto- ja raaka-aineiden ”korvaaminen” puupohjaisilla tuotteilla on markkinointitemppu. Puinenkin kertakäyttöastia on yhä kertakäyttöastia.

Biomuovin tuotanto on prosentin luokkaa maailman muoveista, öljypohjaisten taas 99 prosenttia.

”Sellaisten raaka-ainemäärien korvaaminen [metsäbiotaloudella] on aivan mahdotonta. Pitäisi hakata koko maapallon metsät paljaaksi, eikä sekään riittäisi kuin hetkeksi.”
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Screenshot of title and abstract of an article entitled Temporal ruination: Scarcity, entrapment, and the affective intensities of time in Gaza by Khalid Dader, published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

@dader-khalid.bsky.social develops a conceptualization of temporal ruination to understand scarcity-making and entrapment in Gaza. Out online first in @societyandspace.bsky.social

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Western Sahara: the law of the strongest returns to the UN - ROAPE Yahia H. Zoubir and Abdelkader Abderrahmane argue that by yielding to Western pressure over Western Sahara, the United Nations has abandoned the principle of self-determination, subordinating…

Yahia H. Zoubir & Abdelkader Abderrahmane argue that Resolution 2797 (2025) grants Western Sahara limited self-rule under Moroccan sovereignty, sidelining the UN’s commitment to self-determination in favor of powerful Western states.

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What a depraved institution

New from Portolan:

"A Caribbean Crucifixion: The Odyssey of Rishi & Charpo" by @ryanceciljobson.bsky.social

Link below

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful – live Protest group’s co-founder wins legal challenge against decision to proscribe it under anti-terrorism laws

High court rules ban on Palestine Action is unlawful

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Revolution without illusion The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule.

The Marxist historian Mohammed Harbi spent a lifetime dismantling the myths of Algeria’s national movement and warning that anticolonial victories could harden into bureaucratic rule. africasacountry.com/2026/02/revo...

I Fled the US to Escape the Security State. Instead, It Followed Me. My recent detention at Heathrow shows that the architecture of state repression knows no borders.

more great work in @thenation.com, from Momodou Taal. the British security state is just as bad, arguably worse, than the U.S. one

Looking forward to this symposium which brings together Caribbean Studies scholars from Finnish and Canadian universities. I'll be giving a short presentation on my doctoral work as well.

You can register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I’m Not Done With You | Mary Turfah You cannot harm a corpse, though you can use it to harm others.

In October of 2025, Israel returned four hundred dead bodies to Gaza. But it denied entry to basic forensic materials that families would need to identify their loved ones—more proof of how Israel uses the dead to attack the living.

The hollowing out of Palestine’s most important university Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the Palestinian...

Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the Palestinian struggle.

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#Palestine #Israel

Thanks so much for these!

Cover of REIMAGINING Liberation HOW BLACK WOMEN TRANSFORMED CITIZENSHIP IN THE French Empire ANNETTE K. JOSEPH-GABRIEL

5. Aoua Kéita Rural Women and the Anticolonial Movement in Femme d'Afrique: La vie d'Aoua Kéita racontée par elle-même I have had it up to here with this colonial domination that I have been shaking with such difficulty and that l am nevertheless unable to rid myself of. —Aoua Kéita, Femme d'Afrique: La vie d'Aoua Kéita racontée par elle-même The orphanage for métis children, that "prison for children" that so traumatized a young Andrée Blouin, was, in contrast, a site of upward mobility for Aoua Kéita' As young girls, both were educated in "mixed race" orphanage

Black History Month recommendation:
Annette K. Joseph Gabriel,
Reimagining Liberation: How Black Women Transformed Citizenship in the French Empire (University of Illinois Press, 2020)

Comradely greetings from Budapest

People Think: On Asad Haider - Historical Materialism For Asad Haider, the fact that people think constitutes the condition of liberation. Yet thinking does not take place in a vacuum. It remains bound to the situations of which it is a part. And these s...

Now online: 'People Think: On Asad Haider' by Ivo Eichhorn and Morten Paul (whom you can follow here @ivoeichhorn.bsky.social and here @mortenpaul.bsky.social).

Robin D. G. Kelley - Department of African American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles Podcast Episode · The Black Studies Podcast · 02/04/2026 · 1h 10m

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Fascism doesn’t rise by accident: it’s organised through capitalism, fear, and targeted wars on migrants, drugs, and people in poverty.

Read our State of Power 2026 opening interview with @harshawalia.bsky.social and Alberto Toscano. www.tni.org/en/article/l...

There's lots of literature on formations of Indigenous & Black solidarity, but I'm looking for work that discusses examples of, or potentialities toward, solidarities between militant labour struggles & Indigenous claims to sovereignty. Any suggestions?

An Internationalist Front Against Border Imperialism A CONVERSATION WITH HARSHA WALIA In this conversation recorded for The Funambulist podcast in April 2021, Léopold talks with Harsha Walia about the research deployed in her book, Border and Rule…

"When a migrant or refugee or an undocumented person crosses the border, the struggle doesn’t end once they have entered within the nation state because the border follows them everywhere."

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