Excellent.

What if we combined an ingenious agricultural system with a mass employment initiative modeled on the Civilian Conservation Corps?

The blue words in my biography will take you to the essay

Incredible experience attending the MST’s celebration and commemoration of the International Day of Peasant Struggles last night. Including my first experience of a mística.

Here's a quick thread about how global heating is experienced by the world's working classes as an assault on their capacity to reproduce themselves within capital's circuits of accumulation and what this could mean for the shape of class struggles to come. 1/12 🧵

Happy International Day of Peasant Struggles! La Via Campesina (Official EN) has some great resources to celebrate including Jim Goodman’s classic In Praise of Peasants commondreams.org/views/2009/04/…

La Librairie Présence Africaine à Paris rend hommage à la grande Maryse Condé - 'Le combat va durer bien plus longtemps que ma vie' PRESENCE AFRICAINE #MaryseCondé #hommage #présenceafricaine

What the present moment reveals, once again, is that Western aggression during the 'Cold War' was never about destroying socialism, as such. It was about destroying movements and governments in the periphery that sought economic sovereignty. Why? Because economic sovereignty in…

This is rapidly becoming a live political and economic issue, one that (I suspect )will come to dominate much other discussion. It is ridiculous to think fiddling with interest rates will deal with climate-induced inflation.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

The Brazilian Landless Workers Movement just seized a ~500 acre farm owned by a real estate developer. 200 families are occupying the land & converting it to agroecological production

Their slogan is “Occupy to feed Brazil.” This is the way forward for humanity

Fredric Jameson 'made an appearance at a University of Michigan literary conference several years ago conditional on the university also arranging for him to give a public address on Palestine, where he defended the right of self-determination with force and clarity.'

🚨 Fidel speaking in English: 'The most free man you can find in all the Americas is the Cuban man.'

In June 1961, just months after the U.S. sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion was defeated, a BBC journalist interviews Fidel Castro, who responds to his questions in English.

In…

Today, German authorities raided the Palestine Conference (Palästina Kongress), an event co-sponsored by a broad coalition of organizations including PI member DiEM25.

Some 2,000 Berlin police officers mobilized to block access to the building, disable the livestream, cut power to

Climate change.

The world’s biggest exporter of olive oil, Spain, has halved its production due to drought and extreme heat, increasing its price (at origin!) 112% since 2022.

It’s happening to other food crops too. Olive oil today, everything else soon.

Interview: fossil imperialism and green capital in the Middle East and North Africa • International Socialism isj.org.uk/interview-foss…

So many amazing folks will be here for this! Cornell ILR School

Great paper by Ericka Beckman on Rulfo, modernism and agrarian transition. V. interesting reading of temporal stasis/ analepsis/ living death in the short stories and Pedro Páramo.

Great paper by Thomas Waller on art, exception and subsumption

New book from ASN
GENDER IN AGRARIAN TRANSITIONS: LIBERATION PERSPECTIVES FROM THE SOUTH
- edited by Dzodzi Tsikata, Archana Prasad & Paris Yeros
- published by Tulika Books (New Delhi)
tulikabooks.in/catalog/produc…

I am co-organising this event in Maynooth on April 27th as part of the annual Maynooth Geography Festival of Food Sovereignty.

How can the Irish food sovereignty movement respond to the recent farmer protests and rise of reactionary farmer-rural orgs? 1/4

maynoothuniversity.ie/geography/even…

Hegemony as a process, method and ongoing experiment of 'de-subalternization'. Peter Thomas' Gramscian dialogue with radical political praxis today. Essential reading.