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alexcallinicos.bsky.social
Emeritus Professor of European Studies, King’s College London. I write mainly about capitalism and its great adversary Marxism.
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Having excluded all trans people from proceedings before it, the Supreme Court decides in favour of For Some Women Scotland.

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🚨NEW: Trump ordered staffers to kill Elon Musk’s planned top-secret Pentagon briefing on China after word of it leaked, Axios has learned. "What the f**k is Elon doing there? Make sure he doesn't go," Trump said, a top official recalled. www.axios.com/2025/04/16/t...

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A big victory for the forces of reaction: UK supreme court rules definition of woman in Equality Act refers to ‘a biological woman’ – live www.theguardian.com/law/live/202...

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on.ft.com/3Y3szR8 Donald Trump has given BYD the edge over Tesla

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on.ft.com/4cC5gnl Members of UK’s largest Jewish body condemn Israel’s offensive in Gaza

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on.ft.com/3GbwKUL A warning to US foodies from irate Italian producers

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on.ft.com/44pRPoo Trump is halfway to making America a police state

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@alexcallinicos.bsky.social : #Trump can’t control his tariff chaos: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

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My latest column on when the financial markets forced Trump to blink: socialistworker.co.uk/alex-callini...

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Trump has frozen the junk bond market on.ft.com/4jwS4T4 Risky corporate borrowers shut out of bond market since Trump’s tariff blitz

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‘“This is what victory looks like. The IDF is here, and the communities below are protected and active,” Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said on a tour of the area last month. “And the [Lebanese] villages on the other side are crushed.”’ on.ft.com/4ie9vqB

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Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration’s Demands www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

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‘The Trump administration is embarking on an economic equivalent of the Vietnam War—a war of choice that will soon result in a quagmire, undermining faith at home & abroad in both the trustworthiness & the competence of the US—& we all know how that turned out’ www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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on.ft.com/3Yr7AI0 Trump, Truss and the ‘moron premium’

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on.ft.com/3YsyW0m The ‘Nixon shock’ might help us make sense of the Trump one

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on.ft.com/4j3ARRi Why Xi holds a stronger hand than Trump

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on.ft.com/4cxzUym The tariff crisis is not existential

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Yet another turn of the merry go- round on.ft.com/4ltDRrR US tech tariff exemption will be temporary, says Trump

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I feel like this has become a "must always retweet" instance.

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@alexcallinicos.bsky.social will be doing a Q&A online giving a Marxist analysis of Tariffs and the chaos in the markets. But crucially, what can we do now as socialists and left movements to shift the agenda.

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Trump's iPhone olive branch is a significant trade war retreat www.bbc.com/news/article...

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A first tribute to a fine comrade, active in the struggle in Australia, Ireland and Britain. Rest in power. ✊🏽

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Trump blinks again - this time for the sake of Big Tech & avoiding the wrath of ordinary consumers: //on.ft.com/43Q3BIx Trump excludes smartphones from reciprocal tariffs after market rout

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Puzzling (as well he might) over the social base for Trump’s tariffs, Adam Rooze makes an interesting point: ‘The period 1917-1923 really was the last revolutionary moment in European history. This was where a right-wing populism proved its … 1/ open.substack.com/pub/adamtooze/…

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Adam Tooze on Trump’s real cunning plan - decouple from China. adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartboook...

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Nice comparative essay on Brzezinski and Kissinger by @edwardluce.bsky.social He downplays their crimes, but I look forward to his forthcoming biography of Brzezinski. on.ft.com/3E6FQSd The last grand strategists: what Brzezinski and Kissinger could teach Trump

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on.ft.com/42Fzx18 US dollar’s haven status under threat, fund managers warn

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Derry socialist, musician and academic Colm Bryce was ‘a power house of social justice’ www.derryjournal.com/news/people/...

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on.ft.com/3EhuL0y China increases retaliatory tariffs on US imports to 125%

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Pottering around at the edge of the City, I passed by LSE to discover that the Economist Bookshop has been replaced by some nonsensical Start Up hub. Universities have become a caricature of themselves.

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on.ft.com/3Eioa64 The US would be better off without the global dollar, says @michaelpettis.bsky.social Maybe so but I’m not convinced that Trump wants to give it up (although it’s true he’s not brilliant at making his preferences mutually consistent).

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on.ft.com/3RJYmTn The Trump tariff crisis is not over yet

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We could learn a lot from the MST movement in Brasil 🇧🇷. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

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Trump’s really gone and done it this time: on.ft.com/429t4LY Wall Street sell-off resumes as Donald Trump’s China tariffs spook investors

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From ‘Be Cool!’ to ‘Getting Yippy’: Inside Trump’s Reversal on Tariffs www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

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‘the overall takeaway is that the Treasury market felt pretty sick, but not nearly as badly as it did in March 2020.’ on.ft.com/3YoEOYu A Treasury market meltdown postmortem

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on.ft.com/3G1EHf3 US-China trade snarls as world’s biggest economies brace for divorce

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on.ft.com/4idI3Jo ‘BlackRot’ coalition: Social Democrats dilute Merz’s pro-business agenda

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Trump caved a day earlier than I’d predicted, but - Trade virtually embargoed between China & USA - US policy in chaos for 90 days - US policy credibility in the gutter - long-run investing stalled till resolution - as US equities up temporarily, where’ll US bond markets go now?

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on.ft.com/4i6RoCV An apology to the bond vigilantes

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Markets 1, Trump 0: ‘we now know the market has Trump on a leash ... Whether “this was the plan all along” is an academic question. Whatever the plan may have been, its extent and its timing were ultimately determined by the movement of capital.’ on.ft.com/3RGdwZN

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Clinton political adviser James Carville: "I used to think that if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the president or the pope or as a . 400 baseball hitter. But now I would like to come back as the bond market. You can intimidate everybody."

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