With a great Progress in Political Economy (PPE) blog post on the contours of the argument here 👇🏽👇🏽

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New article out analysing the counter-insurgency project of Colombia’s National Front (1958-1964) and the role it played in producing dynamics of revolutionary violence 👇

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The warped but codified logic of freedom of speech under capitalism. If it goes against company policy, you don’t have the freedom to speak.

A free speech clown 🤡 is somebody who purports to defend free speech the loudest (i.e. Elon Musk, Richard Tice 🇬🇧 or Piers Morgan), but isn’t actually committed to defending free speech.

Welcome to the land of the free and the home of the brave

The “free speech” crowd is really into arresting protesters

Probably so they can focus more on killing Colombian campesinos growing coca

Biden Administration: ‘We have to stand up to Russia🇷🇺 and China🇨🇳 to prevent the spread of authoritarianism and tyranny…’

Meanwhile in the land of the free, state troopers occupy university campuses in preparations to brutally crack down on student protesters…

Insightful read on the dynamics and intersection of “passive revolution” and armed struggle in Colombia by my trusted colleague Oliver Dodd – important class analysis here, often looked over!

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Great new addition to the literature on passive revolution in Latin America from Oliver Dodd published in Small Wars & Insurgencies
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#Gramsci

If these were scenes from Venezuela, Iran, or another enemy country, media would be demanding regime change right now.

The Geopolitics of Global Capitalism and Ukraine, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-ge… 𝙰𝚍𝚊𝚖 𝙳𝚊𝚟𝚒𝚍 𝙼𝚘𝚛𝚝𝚘𝚗

This counts only if you conclude that the United States is/functions as a democracy

With a heavy heart I announce that my 18-year-old younger sister, Lara Sayegh, was killed today on her way from Gaza City to the south. She and my mother were reaching Egypt for safety. My angel collapsed as she was walking on the “safe route” past the Israeli checkpoint, in an…

Has it ever in our lifetimes been so clear how tyrannical and full of shit the U.S. is?

Enthusiastically backing a genocide, smearing and arresting anti-genocide students, crushing protests at elite universities and banning a social media app to stop the spread of real…

Sorry to disappoint our Western-centric friends thinking what is going on in Columbia University constitutes the height of student resistance. This is the National University COLOMBIA 2022

‘Spycops’ uncovers the controversial and secretive world of undercover policing, raising important questions about ethics, accountability, and civil liberties.

An eye-opening read for those interested in #LawEnforcement and #HumanRights . Raphael Schlembach

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It's very obvious what is happening.

Apologists for Israel's genocidal onslaught know they've lost public opinion on both sides of the Atlantic.

They know pressure on arms sales and diplomatic support is growing.

The answer?

Whip up a moral panic about protesters instead.

Two headlines today that expose humanity's collective madness: The planet is baking and we spend 2440 billion dollars on war

Britain, the U.S., and others are publicly claiming they stand on the side of de-escalation in the Middle East while providing Israel behind the scenes with the weapons through which they escalate. Israel is pulling the trigger, but the imperialists are loading the weapons.