✨🚨Looking to speak with UK based self-funded PhD students. Whether you are still completing your PhD or have finished we would like to hear from you. We are working on a project with Wellcome to explore how the sector can better support (&resource) self funded PhDs

Our member Alex Yates (he/him) reflects on the anti-populism of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer as an emergent form of reactionary politics in Jacobin. Check it out at the link below! jacobin.com/2024/10/keir-s…

Starmer talks about ignoring the anti-austerity "populist chorus of easy answers", whilst guaranteeing "safe streets" to those who have "fears" which "populism preys on". His anti-populism delegitimises the left and mainstreams the far right in one go. jacobin.com/2024/10/keir-s…

Join us for our webinar with C-REX (@crexuio.bsky.social) and CASEI Lancaster on 21st November at 2PM (GMT). Rae Jereza, Elsa Bengtsson Meuller, and Imo Kaufman will be discussing the importance of positionality, standpoint, and intersectionality in far-right studies. reacpol.net/webinar-3/

My new piece for The Conversation on why donations to Labour MPs - however trivial they seem - do matter. An MP from working class origins is not necessairly a workers' MP. How can you be one if you live in a parallel material reality? theconversation.com/class-identity…

me at my 9AMs

This from James Meadway rightly dampens the hype around the supposed radicality of the Reeves budget. Her approach fails to reckon with the huge problems around climate and demographic aging in times of polycrisis

I do think this line of thinking is sometimes too simplistic, but it is important to remember that how inflation is managed is a political choice. Biden adminstration could have handeled the cost of living crisis differently youtube.com/watch?v=o13VIs…

Look at the popular vote. America didn't get more right wing, it just gave up on the national Democratic party. Trump lost 3 million votes... and Harris (and Biden), lost 15 million votes. That's what happens when you run the "everything's fine the way it is" campaign

Given that Harris got 15 million fewer votes than Biden in 2020 and Trump also lost support, surely the main question is how many working class voters didn't turn out this time? Ignoring abstention just hypes the dubious narrative of a reactionary working class.

Solidarity with Camila. A brilliant academic and speaker, and her cancellation is a huge loss to staff and students at TU Darmstadt

Trump’s victory adds record $64bn to wealth of richest top 10 theguardian.com/business/2024/…

“You block people over politics?” I block people if they don’t like CM Punk

In the coming days, world leaders will flock to Baku, whitewashing the Aliyev regime. Meanwhile, Azerbaijan holds political prisoners like peace activist and Charles University student Bahruz Samadov (the Lack Observer). #COP29 should not normalise tyranny—it must be an opportunity to denounce it!

✨📕 | NEW ISSUE Alex Yates reviews Yannis Stavrakakis &Giorgos Katsambekis's 2024 Elgar Publishing book 'Research Handbook on Populism' 👉 Review: doi.org/10.1075/jlp.24… 👉 Book: bit.ly/3KgJZlU Alex Yates (he/him) Giorgos Katsambekis

I was invited to deliver this year's Kogon Lecture at TU Darmstadt but I was canceled and called antisemitic due to my statements on the genocide in Gaza. Please consider signing this letter of support. Thank you for your solidarity. 👇 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Pluralism is all about being nice to fascists and not at all about restructuring power relations.