https://open.spotify.com/track/4cXkuDcAPqZ9WJD6GAM2tJ?si=e4e28c7bfabc47a4 Nanak naam,  chardi kala,  tere bane sarbat da bhala. I say these words by way of normalising a Sikh consciousness and vocabulary. The words appear at the end the Ardas, one of...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCBELp1ZG7E These times are horrific beyond words. In January the International Court of Justice found it to be plausible that the State of Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. At the time of writing over thirty-three...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RePChC4XpU The Israeli settler government, conducting a genocidal war against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, has taken steps to prevent Palestinian workers in Israel and settlements from the West Bank and...

Close up of watemelon's red ripe slice and black stones isolated over blue On 25 March 2024, Francesca Albanese presented ‘An Anatomy of Genocide’, her report to the UN Human Rights Council as the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the...

Republished from Progressive Political Economy: Last year I published an edited volume called Clickbait Capitalism. The title came as a surprise, even to me. The book was meant to be called Libidinal Economies of Contemporary Capitalism. No one was interested in the...

A few days ago a discussion developed on Twitter (as these things do) about whether Gaza (and specifically the failure to prevent or halt the ongoing genocide) signals a failure of international law. Many of the responses seemed to be saying a similar thing, mainly,...

DATE: September 16 - September 18 2024 We live under orders of speculation, where both financial capital and nation-state modes of accounting, or not accounting for, lives and ways of living perpetuate how we come to understand and act in the world. At the same...

Apparently, we might no longer live in the Anthropocene. Such was the result of a formal vote by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (SQS), issued on the 5th of March 2024, who oversee and administer 4.5 billion...

This was originally a talk, prepared for the Pashukanis @100 conference, with an afterword post-ICJ interim order of 26 January 2024.  In some ways it is ironic and in other ways entirely appropriate that the Pashukanis @100 event falls on the very days...

Reposted from Unemployed Negativity: Years ago I remember encountering Félix Guattari's little essay, "Everybody Wants to be a Fascist." At the time its title seemed more clever than prescient. (Although it is worth remembering how much fascism, and the...

On 29th December 2023, South Africa filed an application at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), instituting proceedings against Israel. In its application, it asked the ICJ – the judicial organ of the United Nations – to determine whether Israel had violated its...

@ShahdAbusalama (Twitter) Colonialism—a modern form of imperialism—emerged in the sixteenth century, after the Spanish and Portuguese occupation of South America. Colonialism involves a state occupying a territory and exploiting its resources (natural and human) for...

On December 17th Chile will face its second constitutional plebiscite in little more than a year. As might be recalled, in September 2022, 68.89% voted to reject the draft Constitution written by a Convention in which the Left held a considerable majority. This time,...

@Seyhan Avşar The Enemy, The Law, The Reason The repercussion of the prosecution of Can Atalay will have a major impact on the politics in Turkey. Atalay is a socialist lawyer and rights defender who was sentenced to 18 years in prison following the ‘Gezi Trial’....

Continuing our series on Folúkẹ́ Adébísí brilliant Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge (Bristol University Press 2023), Beth Kamunge-Kpodo and Folúkẹ́ Adébísí have a conversation about how to use decolonisation to uncover the silences and absences in legal knowledge....

(24 December 1934 - 5 November 2023) My most enduring image of Enrique Dussel shows him in the role that made him happiest. That of a teacher, maestro in Spanish; with a lowercase 'm', as in the mastery of non-mastery. There he is, in front of a whiteboard on which...

Dear Mr Starmer, We, the undersigned, are writing to request that the Labour party immediately clarify its position on the prohibition of collective punishment. On 11 October, you were asked on LBC radio if Israel’s siege of Gaza, and the cutting off of...

The Earth is closing on Palestinians in Gaza. As I write these lines, Israel continues to bomb more than two million Palestinians, refugees and the descendants of refugees confined to the besieged Gaza Strip, which measures a mere 365 square km. More than 300,000...

Gordon Bennett, ‘Home Decor (Relative/Absolute) Flowers for Mathinna #2 (1999) Although ‘race’ is a construction, it manifests in various juridical and political formations, and in the lived experience of everyday life. Australia, as a state and society, is one such...

Mankind has been plagued by war since the beginning of civilization. History proves this well. Not just these days, but these centuries have always been war. But these days, by virtue (or perhaps evil) of the availability of social media and the internet, we, I mean...

Using decolonisation to uncover the silences and absences in legal knowledge. A conversation between Foluke Adebisi, author of Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge (Bristol University Press 2023), and Katie Bales KB: I should begin by just reiterating how brilliant I...