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For the reader, a grim question lingers over this story. If the most significant movement for social democracy the world has ever known was ultimately defeated, where could it ever win?

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Nice way to summarize multiple research papers in a chart

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The FT is like that kid who believed in Santa Claus till they were 12 and just can't believe all their friends were right the whole time.

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This is exciting - look what just arrived (pre-orders help!):

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‘“When we got into office Paul Marshall was a Lib Dem man,” a former Lib Dem MP told me. “By the time the coalition was over, he was a Gove man.”’ @petergeoghegan.bsky.social on the businessman whose influence is reshaping British right-wing media: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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"No capitalist ever voluntarily introduces a new method of production, no matter how much more productive it may be, and how much it may increase the rate of surplus-value, so long as it reduces the rate of profit." Guess who?

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Ah, good old Elliott Management, whose previous good deeds include nearly bankrupting the Argentinian government over distressed debt restructuring

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This is a hard but necessary read: ending USAID means children starve to death.

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on the left you have people annoyed they can't make rent and might die while they appeal their chemo denial. on the right you have people annoyed they'd get in trouble if they called someone "retard" and broadcast it to potentially millions of people. both sides have legitimate grievances.

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What BP et al are doing arguably represents the most dismal ever example of Marx's "coercive law of competition" in action. I.e. when they say "we have to keep drilling 'cos our competitors are," they are telling a kind of (mealy-mouthed) truth: no more drilling = lower profits = get taken over.

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Yesterday I ask you to write for us, today I ask you to 🌷😍join us🌷😈! We're looking for someone to support our digital + social media work, with flexibility on hours etc. Come help us panic post about the climate crisis (+ much more), it will be great. Message me with any questions!

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Fuller versions of these lessons in @brettchristophers.bsky.social ‘s “The Price is Wrong” and Andreas Malm/Wim Carton’s “Overshoot”.

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New online: @brettchristophers.bsky.social and @adamtooze.bsky.social in conversation, moderated by @katearonoff.bsky.social, about the climate crisis and the limits of capitalism. www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

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"Not the End of the World"

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Best summary I've read yet of the Trump Way from @nesrinemalik.bsky.social

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Want the climate books written by authors we have on wickedproblems.earth and don't want to give that geld to Amazon? We've teamed up with @bookshop-org.bsky.social to offer you a way to support our authors, independent booksellers, and our work for the show. win/win/win/win.

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Bonus post out today on the Dept. of Finance Funds Report, looking at what it tells us about institutional property investment. It's only available for paid subscribers but at the moment but pay wall will be removed in a fortnight theweekinhousing.substack.com/p/the-funds-...

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The very £big #housing question of what’s next for the private rented sector… www.ukpropertyaccountants.co.uk/corporate-la...

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Writing for the @financialtimes.com, the foreign ministers of the Baltic and Nordic states warn against a rushed peace deal in Ukraine on.ft.com/41jbmnE

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"If one does not recognize and understand [the volatility of electricity pricing in liberalized markets] and its implications, one cannot understand the political economy of the decarbonization of power generation. It really is as simple as that." @brettchristophers.bsky.social

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Great #MustListen interview with @kevinclimate.bsky.social on #RTÉ #TodayCB. "Is it an emergency yet?" www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

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Capitalism really has run out of answers when the solution to a mess created largely by private-equity ownership is ... another PE owner

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Duh, BlackRock obviously

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New from us: clean energy technologies contributed more than 10% of China’s GDP in 2024 for the first time ever, with sales and investments worth $1.9tn. Clean energy sectors drove a quarter of the country’s GDP growth and have overtaken real estate sales in value.

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In the alternate universe of UK university management, it is apparently not contradictory to make staff redundant at the same time as opening a third campus in Asia www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Three new titles out today! Save 30% on related books from our catalogue with the purchase of new Verso titles!

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I wrote a long (and laudatory) review of Sandeep Vaheesan's excellent book on the history of democratic struggle over the US electricity system. Published at @phenomenalworld.bsky.social. A big acknowledgement goes to @andrewelrod.bsky.social for helping the piece along.

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They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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For all the hoopla about (cheap) renewables growth, 2024 saw yet another annual increase in global power generation from fossil fuels (coal and gas both up) and associated CO2 emissions. Europe the only major region where emissions from power generation fell. Just awful.

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Det här är en kris. Både för samhället som slösar bort resurser och för alla de personer som står utanför ett dagligt socialt sammanhang.

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I had a lot fun talking to Jan on his amazing podcast, @futurehistories.bsky.social about climate, decline, adaptation, repair, subjectivity, planning and socialization, with special mentions of Anders, Neurath, and Marcuse. Have a listen and let me know what you think!

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Future histories interviews @cominsitu.bsky.social here: futurehistories-international.com/episodes/s03... Really good episode!

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‘US fossil fuel companies always knew that the Republican administration begun in 2016 had no significant climate commitments, Paris or otherwise.’ On the podcast, @brettchristophers.bsky.social joins @moonjets.bsky.social to discuss climate ‘overshoot’. Listen here: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

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My review of the 2024 paperback version of Bankruptcy, Bubbles and Bailouts: The Inside History of The Treasury Since 1976 by @aerond.bsky.social for @bjsociology.bsky.social. A wonderful analysis of the Treasury's role in the hollowing out the UK economy. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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‘The last five years have been a real smack in the face for anyone who was hoping that initiatives in the late 2010s were a real harbinger of change.’ @brettchristophers.bsky.social on how fossil fuel companies are failing to ‘keep it in the ground’, on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

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I wrote about the unholy alliance of tech and fossil fuel interests backing Trump 2.0, and why it’s getting harder to tell those apart (AI) newrepublic.com/article/1915...

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First paper from a new project on the politics of energy crises and transitions in South Africa is out! I use the analytic of infrastructural time to make sense of (1) how such crises emerge and(2) the specific formations of "resilience" developed in response. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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📣 CfP: NUPE2025 (Nordic Urban Political Economy) June 11-12, Uppsala. Seeking critical contributions on urban political economy, especially housing, green transition, platform urbanism, marginalization & resistance. Submit via nordic-urban.org/nupe2025/

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Tuesday next week! Not sure the subtitle points to the most promising area to find disagreement among the panelists, but in any case, excited for this discussion with @brettchristophers.bsky.social, @danielagabor.bsky.social & @jonathanhopkin.bsky.social. In person (first come, first serve) & online

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On the podcast: @brettchristophers.bsky.social joins @moonjets.bsky.social to discuss the roles of Europe, the US and China in climate change, why solutions like ‘carbon capture’ are futile and where there’s room for cautious optimism. Listen on our website: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

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‘It often feels as though New Left Review has been around for as long as the King James Bible.’ Jeremy Harding on a new book of the journal’s editorials: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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