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In 1976 Stuart Hall interviewed CLR James for the BBC. The tape, made by Mike Dibb, was sadly wiped unaired. This is the full transcript of their conversation, with intro by me, a glorious illustration by @mollycrabapple, and 🔥 editing by @elusivecorporal nybooks.com/online/2024/12…

"Susan George exerted a rare form of intellectual influence. She was an independent scholar-activist whose work exposed the horrors of the global system and who relentlessly campaigned for progressive and just alternatives." Rest in Power Susan George. tni.org/en/article/sus…

@AnnieisUndead what does it say? –– dear annie, thank you for squirrel size cream? – it was very important and precious to me.

I was at a bookstore omw home and found this Paul Klee book. Opened it up to see there was a note inscribed on February 1988 to someone NAMED ANNIE It was so sweet, I had to take it home 💖

Deeply saddened to hear about the sudden loss of Asad Haider – a vital and humane thinker. Rest in power

@matthiasellis i'm not sure I follow the thrust of Anderson's critique and wonder if you can clarify - he's saying that Berman's use of Marx is too loose? and that to read Marx properly is to see that modernism/isation is not really a rupture, since it continues unfolding rupturally on and on?

I saw zohran mamdani at a grocery store in brooklyn yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen Milky Ways in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bars and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electrical infetterence,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each bar and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

I was delighted to be joined by @ProfAFinlayson for the @LRB's On Politics. Talking digital right (and online left), the champions of I egalitarianism, print and social democracy, Farage as influencer and... whether the internet is just right-wing.

This is beyond horrifying. New data shows Israel has killed over 680,000 Palestinians in Gaza. Among them: • 380,000 infants under 5 • 99,000 children over 5 That’s 479,000 children murdered by Israel. Israel isn’t “defending itself.” It is wiping out Palestinian life.

Size of the far-right march today in London is worrying — ought to be a wake-up call re the urgent need for anti-racist and anti-fascist organising. But this is driven in large part by *official* bipartisan racism, pandering to hotel riots, state incitements over small boats etc.

the most romantic minds of our time are being subjected to situationships

Racial terrorism works in the UK. Case in point: summer '25 proved that the racist riot of summer '24 achieved their political aims. They have been rewarded to the point that overt and even violent bigotry has now been re-mainstreamed. And the Labour PM doesn't condemn it.

MA in Black British History has been suspended at Goldsmiths UnivLondon. The Programme Convenor was neither informed of the impending suspension of the programme in September prior to the decision being communicated to offer holders, nor included in the decision-making process.

I can’t in good conscience continue to work for Reuters given their betrayal of journalists in Gaza and culpability in the assassination of 245 our colleagues.

8 years. 2,922 days since our loved ones were taken from us. Still no justice. Now they're demolishing the Tower. Trying to erase history. But we will never forget. Walk with us tonight at the Silent Walk to show those responsible we won't stop until justice is served.

Multiple Waymo vehicles set ablaze here in LA

ATTENTION HACKNEY RESIDENTS🚨🇵🇸 THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION *Hackney’s Labour Council has refused to listen to you and end its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza. *So it’s time to replace them with people who will. #HackneyVotesPalestine2026 Short thread follows...

Today is a terrible day. Today my heart is bleeding more than ever before. Six families were erased in a few hours. I cannot believe how a journalist can sit on their seat in a TV studio and not talk about these families. I do not know why they should be called journalists. Tag them here. Demand they dedicate their whole show today and tomorrow to talk about these six families from Khan Younis.

Mahmoud Khalil’s wife, Dr. Noor Abdalla, gave birth to their first child today, a baby boy. From her statement: “My son and I should not be navigating his first days on earth without Mahmoud. ICE and the Trump administration have stolen these precious moments from our family…”

The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth.

In an unprecedented move mimicking Trump's crackdowns in the U.S., Germany is moving to deport four foreign residents for alleged participation in pro-Palestine protests. @hahauenstein reports with @theintercept. 972mag.com/germany-deport…

Please donate to legal fees and other expenses for Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts grad student abducted by ICE because of an op-ed in a student newspaper. I've heard confirmation her legal team is aware of and supports this effort: chuffed.org/project/justic…