Sid @sidneyluckett

Neither history nor identity has to be permanent

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Replying to @Dlrdrk1
Apart from NATO’s/USAs green light, Turkey will also have Russia’s. Any ‘cold war’ between imperialist powers will always sacrifice weaker nations #Ukraine #Kurds #Rojava
#Turkey is blocking #Sweden and Finland from joining the #NATO while Turkey is the only #NATO member that refuses to take sanctions against Russia. At this point the NATO should overthink once again if Turkey belongs to alliance or not!
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The Orwell Prizes
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May 18
Featuring reportage, history, essays, economics and anthropology, many of these often in the same book, the finalists for #TheOrwellPrize for Political Writing 2022 are a mixture of established names and debut authors. Congratulations to all those on this year's shortlist!
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Some history inspired novels do capture (at least some of) the complexity: Llosa “Harsh Times” & “Conversations in the Cathedral” and possibly, Orwell “Homage to Catalonia”
Sohini Chattopadhyay @popeyed
May 18
Historians' works do not read as seamlessly as a history-inspired novel because our past is NOT about a single narrative with an easy resolution. Our chapters explain multiple causalities. They show through evidence uncomfortable and often conflicting truths.
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Nadia Davids @NadiaDavids9
May 13
Funerals, homes, children, olive trees, flags, schools, hospitals, whole families wiped from the registry, boys playing on a beach, little girls picking up books from the rubble, neighbourhoods, memory, food- a life under endless siege and blamed, always blamed. Palestine 💔
Excellent statement 🔴
Nadia Davids @NadiaDavids9
May 13
PEN SA's statement on the killing of Palestinian journalist, Shireen Abu Akleh, by Israeli forces on May 11th. Thoughts with those gathered to mourn her at her funeral today and solidarity with journalists everywhere who must be free and safe to do their vital work.
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🤷🏽‍♀️ Come to South Africa! The vast majority of the population don’t think that thinness is attractive.
Matt Lucas
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Apr 23
shout out to the lady who stopped me at football today to ask me why i've lost weight and to inform me i look a lot older. for the first time in my life, i think i've just been thin-shamed.
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A sad day 💔 Thanks for your enormous contribution to the struggle for justice throughout the world. Aluta Continua 🔥
ROAR Magazine @ROAR_Magazine
Apr 20
After more than a decade of independent publishing, it is with a mixture of pride and sadness that we announce the end of ROAR as an active publication. 1/
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Much of his story stands or falls by the notion of a ‘linguistic border’ within Ukraine . What & where is that?
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Its a pleasure Alpa.. I wish that I had had an opportunity to meet David This might be useful for those who don't know of Hardt & Negri's Empire. The article concludes with a section 'In Praise Of Alterglobalisation' newleftreview.org/issues/ii1…

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Empire, Twenty Years On, NLR 120, November–December 2019

If Empire was, for many, the signature text for the age of globalization, how do its theses fare now, in an era of rising nationalism and protracted crisis? In a landmark update, the authors examine...

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Michael Hardt: Remembering my friend David Graeber jacobinmag.com/2020/09/remem…

Remembering My Friend, David Graeber

David Graeber will remain for me a model for how to live to the fullest a scholarly and activist life.

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newleftreview.org/issues/ii1… This might be useful background reading for the memorial lecture

Michael Hardt & Antonio Negri, Empire, Twenty Years On, NLR 120, November–December 2019

If Empire was, for many, the signature text for the age of globalization, how do its theses fare now, in an era of rising nationalism and protracted crisis? In a landmark update, the authors examine...

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🥰Non-dogmatic utopian thinking ... R Bregman, K Ross, D Graeber, M Löwy, EO Wright, U le Guin, W Benjamin, E Bloch ..etc 🌻
Ayça Çubukçu @ayca_cu
Apr 2
"You have an actual worker-led project—a Black- and Brown-led, multi-racial, multi-national, multi-gender, multi-ability organizing team...You get the Communists involved, you get some socialists and anarcho-syndicalists..." --> shar.es/aWPnGt
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Postcolonialism is becoming popular in the most unexpected places 😂😂
Sohini Chattopadhyay @popeyed
Mar 26
Bridgerton’s postcolonial moment is this: the Bengali woman’s arsenal, the nightie, made it into British high fashion.
It has hardly been launched and Twitter has already suspended its account - it has violated community norms 😡 On March 18, 2022, the "Academy of Democratic Modernity" (ADM) announced its foundation and the establishment of a new internet platform. democraticmodernity.com.

ADM – (Academy of Democratic Modernity)

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😂😂😂 Made my day already .. it’s only 6am
Nika Dubrovsky @nikadubrovsky
Mar 20
Bojana Videkanic: Dear Lenin, I have to correct you. Imperialism isn't the highest stage of capitalism, the highest stage of capitalism is stupidity.
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Replying to @NadiaDavids9
Nadia 🙏🏽 - a wonderful Utopian text ♥️
The 15th March is the anniversary of the killing of Anna Campbell in Afrin by a Turkish Airstrike #Afrin #Rojava #YPJ #WarCrimes invidious.fdn.fr/FqhgwZfZ3I8

Hêlîn Qerecox

Hêlîn Qercox (Anna Campbell) went to Rojava to be part of the women's revolution and insisted on being part of its defense. On the 15th March 2018 she fell m...

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