Hugging my kid more and more. #RAFAH

On our website, materialjounrnal.net, you can access previous issues either as full, downloadable PDFs, or by text or image, as well as also reader responses to published articles. Read Ajith's response to Devin Shaw 's critique of Dimitrov here: ==>materialjournal.net/category/uncat…

Psyched to see a bunch of comrades this weekend and to make some new ones

El Salvador is on my mind. Remembering Ali Primera’s love letter to the Salvadoran masses making history: “Dále que la marcha es lenta. Pero sigue siendo marcha.” Dale mi gente, dale! Alto al fascismo.

At 11 AM ET this morning - some initial reflections from the Archives Unbound Conference. And a brief interview with Steven Osuna and Arun Kundnani that we recorded at the conference. youtube.com/live/ywuMxVh8I…

As the ICJ orders Israel to immediately halt its military offensive in Rafah, & as police break up student protests in Amsterdam, Berlin, Oxford & beyond, Race & Class foregrounds the European-wide assault on freedom of expression in relation to Palestine journals.sagepub.com/share/N49VQQY2…

Thursday at 9:30 AM ET - We'll be live with J. Moufawad-Paul to talk about his recent piece, "The Immanent Garrison: Settlerism as Institutionalized Ideology" in the latest issue of Material youtube.com/live/osyt7xYdh…

An important text.

The ruling classes consistently find, “their Aristotles, that is, intelligentsias, seduced into or compelled to invent forgeries of memory and meaning” (Robinson, 2007).

The people in Kenya and Bolivia showing the world how it's done

Does anyone have any examples of films that cover the backlash to Reconstruction and films that cover European imperialism in Africa? I want to pair film analysis to Du Bois’s Black Reconstruction and The African Roots of War. Thanks!

Join political theorist and award-winning filmmaker H.L.T. Quan, author of BECOME UNGOVERNABLE, in conversation with Steven Osuna at North Figueroa Bookshop! 📍 6040 N Figueroa St, Los Angeles 🗓️ Friday, August 2nd ⏰ 7:00 pm northfigbookshop.com/event/#calenda…

Black Agenda Report has been covering Kamala Harris for years. No worries about catching up. We made you a list. You're very welcome! blackagendareport.com/black-left-cri…

However, the CSU-5 is being accused of violating the old 2023-2024 TPM in what they believe is apparent retaliation for their piece on Cal State Long Beach’s ties to Boeing. counterpunch.org/2024/09/10/cal…

I hope one day if my son is debating somebody they say: “he’s a Marxist, his dad is a Marxist professor. He taught him well.” 🤣

CALL TO ACTION: In the latest instantiation of repression of pro-🇵🇸 voices, 5 faculty have been cited by Cal State Long Beach for protesting against genocide including sociologists Jake & Sabrina Alimahomed-Wilson & Steven Osuna. Please share & sign in their defense! change.org/p/defend-acade…

Thrilled to share that my first publication has been accepted and will be out soon with one of my favorite academic journals of all time ROAPE journal (review of African political economy). Will let folks know when it’s live.

New book chapter on the music of the Psycho Realm and Mike Davis’s “fortress L.A..” Check it out. academia.edu/128010913/El_m…