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As I'm securing image permissions for my next book, I'm reminded that I took some crappy photos about ten years ago that I would have loved to include but would now be too difficult to access again. Note to self: take better photos!

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Home again after some much needed rest and delighted to have received my copy of “Bollettino Archivio G. Pinelli” with my story about the Indian anarchist M.P.T. Acharya.

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Home again after some much needed rest and delighted to have received my copy of “Bollettino Archivio G. Pinelli” with my story about the Indian anarchist M.P.T. Acharya.

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Looking forward to speaking in the “Anarchism and Empire round table” next week. Still time to register here:

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Looking forward to speaking in the “Anarchism and Empire round table” next week. Still time to register here:

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www.sapiens.org/culture/davi...?

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Sad to hear that Marika Sherwood has passed away. I met her many years ago and she was always kind to me. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marika_...

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One of the most horrifying stories to come out of this war of extermination. I posted the Hebrew reporting a few days ago, here it is in English. www.972mag.com/gaza-human-s...

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Today in news from democratic Germany: Mayor of Berlin asks the President of my university to cancel a lecture with UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for alleged antisemitic remarks. Israeli Ambassador talks of Freie Universität as a "Hamas training camp" www.tagesspiegel.de/berlin/eine-...

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Melbourne Uni has curated a collection of Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers & Thought & Practices from the Global South of 677 items. Two years in the making. Humbled to feature in it; can't believe my luck to share space w/ folks I hold in high esteem. omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decolonialit...

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Coming to an anarchist journal near you soon.

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Coming to an anarchist journal near you soon.

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CfP for a conference on the role of women in anarchist print culture

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CfP for a conference on the role of women in anarchist print culture

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Looking forward to this book from @akpress.org "A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre" The first biography of the revolutionary political prisoner who laid the foundation for contemporary abolitionist struggles and Black anarchism. www.akpress.org/a-continuous...

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"Lasciate dunque che mi chiamino anarchico!" centrostudilibertari.it/it/bollettin...

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"Lasciate dunque che mi chiamino anarchico!" centrostudilibertari.it/it/bollettin...

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Help! I want to use this classic group photo from India House, London (1909) in my book, but it is in the hands of Hindutva fanatics, and I don't want to ask them for permission. It is old enough to be in the public domain. Any suggestions for getting access. savarkarsmarak.com/%E0%A4%9B%E0...

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Help! I want to use this classic group photo from India House, London (1909) in my book, but it is in the hands of Hindutva fanatics, and I don't want to ask them for permission. It is old enough to be in the public domain. Any suggestions for getting access. savarkarsmarak.com/%E0%A4%9B%E0...

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While completely unknown in Denmark, Johannes Hohlenberg wrote extensively on yoga and was a friend of Sri Aurobindo, the Indian nationalist. His book "Yoga: Its Meaning in Europe" was translated by the Indian National Committee in Stockholm into Swedish in 1917. auroville.today/articles/771...

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This Sunday reading: Hikaru Tanaka "Anarchism: Feminist Confrontations with Patriarchy and the State" in the Handbook of Feminisms in Japan www.mhmjapandocuments.com/copy-of-hndb...

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A gentle reminder that I keep an archive of the Indian anticolonial anarchist M.P.T. Acharya's writings available for download on my website. Today I added two more, ‘La conciencia fisiológica de la especie’ and ‘Gandhi y la no-violencia’, from La Protesta olebirklaursen.wordpress.com/miscellaneous/

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I am not Danish, but I live in Denmark and I certainly view the US as a threat to this country. After all, the President has issued plausible, specific threats multiple times. I think those threats should be taken seriously. Why wouldn't I? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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A gentle reminder that I keep an archive of the Indian anticolonial anarchist M.P.T. Acharya's writings available for download on my website. Today I added two more, ‘La conciencia fisiológica de la especie’ and ‘Gandhi y la no-violencia’, from La Protesta olebirklaursen.wordpress.com/miscellaneous/

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Update: here is a longer write-up about the exhibition "Open House: One Hundred Years of a Mosque in Berlin", on at the Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf until 23 March 2025, based on an interview with Dr. Aischa Ahmed and myself. www.ndr.de/kultur/sendu...

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Back in Dec 2024, me and my co-curator, Aischa Ahmed, spoke to NDR about the exhibition "Open House: One Hundred Years of a Mosque in Berlin", on at the Museum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. I was cut from the final radio segment, but you can listen to Aischa speaking here: www.ndr.de/kultur/Deuts...

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Below is a list of initiatives and resources to support Palestinian students, academics and universities, particularly in the UK and Ireland (but some opportunities are further afield). Please use the form below to add to this list, and please share widely. docs.google.com/forms/d/1mKm...

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Below is a list of initiatives and resources to support Palestinian students, academics and universities, particularly in the UK and Ireland (but some opportunities are further afield). Please use the form below to add to this list, and please share widely. docs.google.com/forms/d/1mKm...

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Anyone doing historical or genealogical research? Use my "CITY DIRECTORIES ONLINE" on my website (under "Research"). txgoyens.wixsite.com/tomgoyens

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I'm glad to see my translated article "Lasciate dunque che mi chiamino anarchico!: M.P.T. Acharya e l'anarchismo indiano" out in the latest Bollettino Archivio G. Pinelli. centrostudilibertari.it/it/bollettin...

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After receiving excellent feedback on my last two chapters from my former PhD supervisor, my book manuscript is now at 90,000 words. I'm wrapping up the Introduction and the Conclusion, and hope to send it off to the publisher in a month.

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I'm glad to see my translated article "Lasciate dunque che mi chiamino anarchico!: M.P.T. Acharya e l'anarchismo indiano" out in the latest Bollettino Archivio G. Pinelli. centrostudilibertari.it/it/bollettin...

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Look who showed up at the AfD meeting yesterday! It's Adolf Hitler lookalike and wannabe, Elon Musk!

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In Jan 1909, on two separate occasions, Kunja Lal Bhattacharya and Basudev Bhattacharya assaulted William Lee-Warner in London. ‘I thought it desirable that Anglo-Indian insolence should be stopped, so with the walking stick, which luckily I carried, I taught Sir William Lee-Warner better manners’.

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On February 12, 2025 — his birthday — we will be celebrating the life and thought of the much missed David Graeber. This will be a hybrid event, at Housmans Bookshop, in London, and a site in New York (tbc). housmans.com/event/celebr...

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I'm so grateful to Gautam Pemmaraju for this generous and insightful review of my book "Anarchy or Chaos: M.P.T. Acharya and the Indian Struggle for Freedom" (Hurst, 2023) in the latest issue of Nidan. hasp.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/journals/nid...

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CFP: Imagining the Anti-Fascist City: Contested Geographies of Resistance and Solidarity University of Helsinki, 5–6 June 2025 helsinkinotebooks.com/2025/01/09/c...

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