The International The Booker Prizes winner will be announced TONIGHT! You can tune in live right here from 9.30pm: youtube.com/watch?v=wkPtCv…

Meanwhile, take a look at the shortlisted authors and translators and support independent bookshops with us 🏆 uk.bookshop.org/lists/the-inte…?

What is the role of technology and AI in workplaces?

Sale ends this Friday!

Very excited to read this!

Volume V of the The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg out this week with Verso Books, an amazing collection of never before translated writings on the 1917 Russian and 1918–19 German revolutions:

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The KPD transformed Rosa Luxemburg into a safely dead martyr, but her legacy continues to be a rich resource for ongoing global struggles.

We’ve been working on highlighting ways the genocide isn’t simply a “humanitarian” or “public health” crisis and I think this episode on control of water as a tool of genocide captures that extremely well, alongside a pressing material ask we’ve gotten from listeners in Palestine

Review of Robin Blackburn’s new book: 'Slavery in America, Brazil, and Cuba relied on capitalist markets, which supplied credit and demand for slave-made goods. The Reckoning, Blackburn’s history, offers an account of the politics behind this system.' jacobin.com/2024/05/slaver…

Next episode drops tomorrow !!! (sorry for the delay) it’s with Hannah Proctor (h nn h pr ct r) and we talk about losing in 2019, the Paris Commune, revolutionary self-criticism practices and much more…

C. D. Blanton reflects on Fredric Jameson's Late Marxism in part 7 of our Jameson at 90 series.

Courageous students building libraries and negotiating for divestment and academic boycott across campuses and liberated zones: We have made Towers of Ivory and Steel available for free download for your use. Power to the students!

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Abolition is not a distant dream or an unreachable horizon but an attainable reality.

Take a journey into the heart of rural Brazil in the #InternationalBookerPrize2024 shortlisted Crooked Plow, an aching, tender story highlighting the importance of protecting the land that sustains us. Verso Books

Central to “The Reckoning,” Robin Blackburn’s magisterial account of nineteenth-century slavery and abolition, is an emphasis on the class coalitions and political action necessary to both maintain and undermine the dominance of slaveholders. jacobin.com/2024/05/slaver…

'...Dem's are seeking to 'domesticate' elements of fascism.' ~ Ruth Wilson Gilmore (via Puff the Magic Hater h/t Deborah E. McDowell ) in this organizingmythoughts.org/beyond-analogy…

How the Black Meme Turns a Trope Into a Trap

'Legacy Russell’s Black Meme argues that owning, replicating, and remediating Black material is a theft rooted in historical frameworks of subordination.'
hyperallergic.com/915548/legacy-… via hyperallergic

In good company with Daniel Denvir Verso Books at the San Antonio Teacher’s Alliance event today! Complete with HEB sparkling water still life

'Landlord abolition is like police abolition, we don’t go around and fire everyone individually, we create a system in which landlordism isn’t possible.'

THIS WEEK AT KAIROS

TUES: Hear #BrettChristophers ' vision for large-scale government-led intervention.
WEDS: Come & use our space. (Emailing ahead essential).
THURS: Join Natasha Walter & Trudi Warner to discuss women's experience of climate breakdown.

kairos.london/events

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