Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social
@alex_callinicos
Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King's College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism. @seminarmarx
My book The New Age of Catastrophe is published this month by Polity. politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…
Er …in other news in March 2025 Ofcom dropped all of its remaining impartiality investigations into politicians' TV & radio programmes so UK broadcasting can keep blurring the lines between opinion & news , misinformation & fact checking but Wikipedia has to be reigned in 🤔
Wikipedia is currently in a legal battle with the UK government to try and stop the platform being censored in the UK - or even completely blocked - thanks to the Online Safety Act.
Good luck to everyone mobilising against the fascists in Epping today.
It’s a humiliating climb down
Together, the EU and the US are a market of 800 million people. And nearly 44 percent of global GDP. It’s the biggest trade deal ever ↓
socialistworker.co.uk/news/anti-raci… Anti-racists outnumber fascists at crucial Essex protest - Socialist Worker
.@adam_tooze on the singular character of the Israeli-imposed famine in Gaza:
🗳️ 18-24 poll average (with Corbyn party): 🟣 JCP – 27% (+27) 🔴 LAB – 23% (-18) ➡️ REF – 18% (+10) 🟢 GRN – 13% (-7) 🟠 LD – 11% (-5) 🔵 CON – 5% (-) +/- vs GE2024
My first ride in a BYD EV. @elonmusk is going to get his ass so kicked.
Police station stormed in Egypt as outrage over Gaza blockade reaches boiling point middleeasteye.net/news/young-egy…
Yvette Cooper - Labour MP for Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley (West Yorkshire) since 1997. Yvette is currently the Secretary of State for the Home Office, often controversially. Not quite the top job that she wanted but don’t rule her out of making another bid for party…
“Starving people to death is a diabolical way of waging war. It must end.” — Pope Leo to Netanyahu substack.com/home/post/p-16…
450,000 of you have signed up to fight back. Do you want to go for half a million? You know what to do: yourparty.uk
Wow, this is embarrassing. A few years @paulmasonnews was a serious interlocutor about how to fight fascism. This is just a wild incoherent rant. Was the KPD’s formation the cause of Hitler’s victory - or, still worse, planned by Luxemburg & Liebknecht (!) to achieve it?
Corbyn’s new party is designed to put Farage in No10 ... Sultana, Lali and others are using the same playbook/rhetoric that the KPD used to pave Hitler's path to victory... I am not exaggerating ... 1/... thenewworld.co.uk/paul-mason-cor…
I am starting to see establishment goons, Davos whores, insecure high-income slaves (IHIS), high ranking members of the International Association of Name Droppers, mildly cognitively impaired social climbers, and slow-thinking media influencers bemoaning the situation in #Gaza.
Victor Orban, that model antiracist whose last election campaign had George Soros as its main target …
Labour MPs who tried to get @KNEECAPCEOL cancelled from festivals in the UK — Lisa Nandy, David Taylor, Starmer himself — are following the same playbook as Victor Orbán. It’s revealing to see who is lining up on the same side as Starmer in trying to silence critical voices. 👇
En 48 heures, une Angleterre insoumise émerge à l'appel de Jeremy Corbyn et Zarah Sultana. En 48 heures, 400 000 personnes ont donné leur adhésion. La première condition du succès est remplie : rompre avec le Labour, ses mensonges, son néolibéralisme et la filiation pourrie avec…
“If you don’t like the changes that we’ve made, I say the door is open and you can leave” - Keir Starmer, Feb 2023.
I’ve been monitoring Israeli WhatsApp and Telegram groups, including IDF and government ones today, as well as public social media. Defenders of Israel are aghast at the torrent of verified reports. They have no answers to the charges. Many are expressing resignation that Israel…
On virtually every level, the Starmer government is beyond the pale. Starmer himself is a disaster as a politician. His Cabinet largely composed of opportunists and mediocrities. That's why 400,000 have signed up for something different and better. The Labour MPs who should join…
A friend today messaged me about my recent thread regarding Israel offering safe haven for terrorists and paedophiles, and particularly the detailed information provided in the thread. This got me thinking about the broader challenges confronting Israeli propaganda, and the…
One hint that Israel was going to starve everyone in Gaza was that senior Israeli national security people said, in Oct '23, that they were going to starve everyone in Gaza. This was published in English by @fathomjournal/@Fathom_Editor, Michael Walzer's favorite magazine.