Fearghus Roulston

When you listen to too many DIY post punk cassette tapes from the early eighties it all starts to sound like this

My biography of Eugene Debs is now available for preorder!! It's called American Socialist: The Life and Legacy of Eugene V. Debs. simonandschuster.com/books/American…

Listening to the Rest is History: “Nathan Bedford Forrest: grand wizard of the KKK; former plantation owner; former slave trader; former confederate raider… although there is a dark side to this guy…”

💥Glasgow Trades Union Council presents #GlasgowMayDay 2026! 🚩 The Fight of Our Lives! Join us for the March and Rally 🗓️Sunday 3rd May 2026 📍 Barrowland Park Glasgow ⏰ Assemble 10.30am| March 11.00am 📍Rally- Glasgow University Union ⏰ 12.30pm 📣🚩🌍✊🏾🌹🥖🪧☮️🌱💥🎶

Management consultants are ruining UK universities ft.trib.al/S5iIRyY | opinion

An FOI that shows Goldsmiths spent more than £14 million on private consultants since 2019 lands conveniently in the same week as the College announces £22m of “savings” - cuts in programmes and jobs that will be resisted by @GoldsmithsUCU @GoldsmithsSU & others

Applications for the Lyra McKee Bursary Scheme 2026 close on April 6. It has the aim to "train and mentor people from underrepresented backgrounds" (UK and Ireland residents). tcij.org/initiative/lyr…

“Writings about work by the people who do it.” Another day, another set of pamphlets to read. Stan Weir—autoworker, longshore rank-and-file activist, keen observer of informal work groups, and author—published Singlejack “Little Books” as a series to fit into shirt pockets.

Soviet peasants listen to the radio for the first time, 1928.

@ironhandslil Very beautiful book

I had the great pleasure of writing the foreword to this important new report from the Transnational Institute on the relationships between Universities and the EU #border regime. The report is a must-read. Download it: tni.org/en/publication…

The answer, @moveincircles, is that a writer — a *real* writer — isn't driven by money. They're driven by the higher motives — paranoid narcissism, a pathological need for validation, burning spite et cetera.

At this press conference in Cuba alongside Jeremy Corbyn, Kneecap were asked if they’d be doing a gig while they’re there. They said, “No, Cuba has suffered enough.” 😂

Minor Compositions – Fugitive Study, Autonomous Media: now on the Internet Archive. 70 books, free. Not content: tools for study, struggle, and experimentation. Download, share, remix. Keep them moving. 🔗 minorcompositions.info/?p=1863 🔗 @minor_compositions" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">archive.org/details/@minor…

Academic staff at Coventry University are being TUPed into a subsidiary, People’s Futures Ltd, listed on Companies House as an “employment agency”. This move onto inferior terms & conditions, raises serious questions about job security and the future of academic employment in HE.

The Music is Black: A British Story. A landmark exhibition. Opens Saturday 18 Apr. The Music is Black: A British Story at V&A East Museum is our first exhibition exploring 125 years of music, style and community that changed the UK. 📸: Nathan Shadrach, featuring @bxksintokyo

When I was in my 20s I wished to deepen my understanding of the Israel-Palestine situation. So I purchased at least a dozen books - mostly semi-obscure, academic, many by dissenting Israeli historians. A day came when I closed a book halfway through, resolved to read no further, even to try to forget all I had learned, and then I donated all the books. It was clear, painfully and miserably clear, that I would be wasting my life trying to understand it more when it was nothing more than this.

😡 @UniStrathclyde can no longer hide from their cloak and dagger proposals to slash jobs. The university is in an overall healthy financial position, there's absolutely no need to attack workers. Our members have been left with no option but to fight for their #JobsPayConditions. news.stv.tv/west-central/h…

Teaching-only staff at Sheffield Hallam University are set to be moved into a subsidiary firm, leaving research-intensive scholars the only academics still being employed directly by the institution, reports @JulietteRowsell timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffield…

beast mode