Anytime students break out of the 'customer' role that financialized universities expect them to passively inhabit, they have to be policed - indeed, violently - back into what administrators consider their proper place.

“They’ll say we’re disturbing the peace, but there is no peace. What really bothers them is that we are disturbing the war.” Howard Zinn 1971

The whole free world must condemn the American regime in its last days as its ageing leaders (organised into two state 'parties') crack down on peaceful protest across the nation: sanctions now!

Big up to the fantastic team at Wilson Solicitors for this.Yesterday's legal aid crisis meeting ended in such a high note when they announced that they would be taking on referrals. Everyone's faces literally just lit up

wilsonllp.co.uk/news/represent…

I am so sick of the moral panic about everything but killing people.

Today marks 11 years since the Rana Plaza collapsed in Bangladesh, killing 1134 garment workers.

The day before, workers reported cracks in the walls to managers, but their concerns were ignored. They were told they'd be fired if they didn’t carry on working.

long overdue reporting which complicates the simple 'good news' story of redemption we are often told about county lines

In 2019, Glodi Wabuela became the first ‘county lines’ drug dealer to be tried & convicted for human trafficking. It was a shock to realise I’d gone to primary school with him. I’ve spent the last year putting together his story for The Guardian Long Read

theguardian.com/law/ng-interac…

RIP Faith Ringgold (1930-2024), who leaves an incredible legacy after a life dedicated to art &activism. In story quilts such as the French Collection, she used textile art to intervene in narratives of art history & modernism, rewriting the canon to centre the Black female gaze

I stand corrected - it’s not every week that Germany does a “hold my beer” on its own commitment to violate basic freedom of expression in order to support genocide.

It is every DAY.

The full interview between Stuart Hall and CLR James is here and it contains lots of gems: youtu.be/_Gf0KUxgZfI?si…

📢So happy to share the publication of my book ‘Judging Refugees: Narrative and Oral Testimony in Refugee Status Determination’. Hard copies are still en route but it's officially released. Pls share w yr networks & msg me for the discount code if interested!…

Theresa May’s attempt at a legacy project won’t save anybody from ‘modern slavery’. But since it’s here, we have a few suggestions ⤵️

opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-traf…

I co-signed this statement against the withdrawal of Nancy Fraser's Albertus Magnus Professorship at Universität zu Köln. This withdrawal exemplifies how critical debate and scholarship are currently being suppressed in Germany.

Feminist philosopher and scholar Nancy Fraser from The New School is uninvited by the University of Cologne #Germany as Albertus Magnus Professor and all planned May 2024 events are cancelled because she expressed solidarity with #Palestine STRIKE GERMANY
amp.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/professorinnen…

The 7 aid workers killed by an Israeli strike in Gaza, which included three Britons, were hit by a Hermes 450 drone strike manufactured by Elbit Systems.

The Hermes 450 is powered by a UK-made R902(W) Wankel engine, produced by Elbit subsidiary UAV Engines Limited in the UK.

NEWS - Following a judicial review brought by some of the families seeking international protection on the remote island of Diego Garcia, the Supreme Court of the British Indian Ocean Territory has today determined that ss17 and 47 of the Children Act 1989 apply on the territory.

How many times have I told you racists, that knife crime isn’t anything new and can be explained by using social indicators. Of course you guys are lazy and think colour, can explain knife crime. I hope Akala can triumph where I have failed.