Eddie Webster 48 years ago. Year long Suppression of Communism Act trial, centred around a campaign for the release of political prisoners and other student and trade union activities. He never stopped working for those on the margins.

Obituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders – The Mail & Guardian mg.co.za/thought-leader…

Watch our event with Jostein Hauge on his book “The Future of the Factory”. Learn more about the need for a new green industrial policy & "ecological policy space" for the Global South with Cecilia Rikap Pritish Behuria Lorenza Monaco. Find it here ➡️ youtu.be/u2PPh5rfb7o?si…

My first project w/ this amazing woman Mariana Mazzucato. In less than a year UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, she invited & trusted me to work with her on what I love: promoting new economic thinking focused on marginalised voices. Thank you, Mariana! Join us on June 12 to learn more about our project.

Israel told the world that displaced Palestinians in Rafah would be safe. Israel lied. Tonight, Israel is burning entire families alive—among them babies. It is an unspeakable massacre. Sanctions and arms embargoes on Israel now. No more hollow statements and condemnations.

Call for Applications for Session 2024–25: Advanced Certificate Programme on Research in Political Economy Applications to be accepted until June 10, 2024, 23.59 UTC networkideas.org/announcements/…

BREAKING NEWS: Massive pro-Palestine demonstration following the massacre in Rafah has begun in Paris now.

Looking forward to our panel at UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose #RethinkingTheState I’ll be joined by a brilliant all-women panel of Bogolo Kenewendo, Prof Erika K-M, Leslie Anne Johnston and IIPP’s Dr Carolina Alves to launch the Strategic Economics Alliance. Hybrid | 12 June | 18:00 | Join us ⬇️

We (Adam Aboobaker and I) are organising a conference on #StructuralTransformation and Late #Development to mark 70th Anniversary of #ArthurLewis' (1954) paper. Supported by Global Development Institute, EADI. Call for papers: blog.gdi.manchester.ac.uk/call-for-paper…. Submit by 15 Sept. Funding available.

Un messaggio ai giovani: andatevene. L’Italia è tra i paesi europei con la più bassa percentuale di laureati e il più alto precariato. L’università è sempre meno finanziata e incapace di investire in competenze e talento. Da leggere ⁦il manifesto⁩ ilmanifesto.it/un-messaggio-a…

About to start! 😊

Solidarité avec tous les travailleurs d’Audi BE et des sous-traitants!

We've got a stellar line-up of speakers this term for our Cambridge Centre of Development Studies seminar in Development Studies, including Nikita Sud, Camelia Dewan, PhD @cameliadewan.bsky.social, Amir Lebdioui amirleb.bsky.social, Susan Newman, Tom Scott-Smith, and Josh Platzky Miller. Can't wait!

BREAKING🇪🇺: In an open letter released today, more than 100 world-leading economists, including Isabella M. Weber, Thomas Piketty and Ann Pettifor, support essential workers’ call for EU public procurement rules which improve pay and conditions. uni-europa.org/news/we-suppor…