. James Pogue is one of the best journalists around, and this essay on foreign mercenaries, the Central African Republic, and the long tail of French colonialism in Africa is typically brilliant
granta.com/wagner-in-afri…

A new movement resource.
MayDay Rooms recording suite will soon be available to book for comrades interested in making radical history podcasts, anti-authoritarian radio missives, experimental audio etc etc.

This is the coolest Verso has ever been

last year, the cult camberwell restaurant silk road suddenly closed, causing a disturbance of anxious men in my dms. for Vittles i looked back on the silk road era of london, the uyghur restaurants that have opened since, and the new silk road

vittlesmagazine.com/p/vittles-revi…

🎧 NEW EPISODE 🎧

“Learning how to be colonialists' w/ Rashid Khalidi

The brothers welcome Rashid Khalidi to discuss the history of the Palestinian people’s struggle against the Zionist project, the colonial affiliations of Zionism, the background of the Nakba, and more.

I wrote this for New Left Review on Germany, mass subsidies, and attempts to reinforce Europe's industrial core

newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

I have a three month old daughter and even the thought of her getting a slight scratch fills me with a profound existential fear. I’m not sure I even have the words to describe how the news of the continuing horrors coming from
Gaza makes me feel.

Utterly unimaginable

'A partisan of the living, the incomprehensibility of non-existence was something he loathed...If Socrates went to his death tranquilly, Canetti went to his with a bitter fist'. Terrific essay by Jared Marcel Pollen on the life and work of Elias Canetti: newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/04/…

Earlier this month +972 Magazine outlined AI’s pivotal role in Israel's war on Gaza

I dive into the human decisions behind all the bloodshed

It's a story that implicates Israel's military & broad swaths of a civilian tech sector

972mag.com/israel-gaza-la…

Time flies! Common Wealth launched five years ago today 🎂

Thanks to our supporters + the wonderful team who have built CW together, it has been quite a journey.

Proud of what we've achieved, excited by what is to come. Here's a preview of upcoming work.

common-wealth.org/perspectives/t…

A very serene afternoon (after a hectic train journey) in the calming reading room of Salford’s ever excellent WCML.

Highly recommend comrades make the effort to visit the space and view their extensive archive of radical materials.

Lies, confections, distortions: how the right made London the most vilified place in Britain
My column

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Leave Bill Nighy and his daily stroll around Pimlico alone!

‘There is something almost obscene about debating “what made Britain so wealthy” in the midst of the worst decline in living standards across the country since records began’. Kojo Koram newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/04/…

ACT NOW

March this Saturday, Central London
April 27th

(see on Brick Lane, Tower Hamlets)

this is what should be front page news:
'A total of 283 bodies were recovered at Nasser Hospital..among the deceased were allegedly older people, women and wounded, while others were found tied with their hands…tied and stripped of their clothes'
news.un.org/en/story/2024/…