“The hour of the barbarian is at hand. The modern barbarian. The American hour. Violence, excess, waste, mercantilism, bluff, conformism, stupidity, vulgarity, disorder.”
Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism
Important, detailed coverage of commitments made by the OU to UKLFI regarding the use of the term ‘ancient Palestine’ in learning materials. Still lots of ambiguities & no public retraction, defence of the term or internal investigation, but some softening perhaps.🤔
novaramedia.com/2026/03/03/o...
'This is the real crisis of free speech in the west. The target is not just protest, but a people. Israel seeks to erase Palestinians as a society. First they are destroyed in the present. Then they are deleted from the past'
Strong from @owenjones.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Academics slam Open University for caving to pro-Israel lobby on 'Ancient Palestine' term
www.newarab.com/news/academi...
The image shows page 1 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine
The image shows page 2 of the letter from the BRISMES Committee on Academic Freedom to The Open University. The letter is available to read in full on the BRISMES website: https://www.brismes.ac.uk/news/academic-freedom-letter-to-the-open-university-regarding-use-of-the-term-ancient-palestine
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#AcademicFreedom | We have written to The @openuniversity.bsky.social to express our profound concern about the university’s response to a letter from the UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI) regarding the use of the term ‘#ancientPalestine’.
Read our letter: bit.ly/4r0j68L 1/3
"Artistic Labour of the Body" Book presentation on Rose-Anne Gush’s monograph, with @rsenne.bsky.social Alexander Stoffel and Jenny Nachtigall.
Fri 20 March 2026, 5:30–7:30pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground, G11 Ground Floor, South Wing, UCL, Gower Street, WC1E 6BT
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
The term ‘ancient Palestine’, as many ancient historians…have agreed, conveys the true multiculturalism of ancient Palestine. It is the best way to reject the weaponizing of ancient heritage for ethnonationalist and genocidal purposes’
👏🏼 @luxmea.bsky.social
www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260215-isr...
Lee Miller at Tate: from surrealist suave, (via Vogue and Buchenwald), to Hitler’s burning house and the execution of Lászlo Bárdossy.
The British establishment ever ready to prop up the ailing Zionist project. This latest speculative gambit by UKLF* needs to be challenged head on.
archive.ph/kBMjS
Today (and all days)
Ystrdy, the OU Palestine Solidarity Group launched a call on our Vice-Chancellor to retract commitments to caveat & proscribe future use of term ‘Ancient Palestine’ in learning materials. We have >200 signatures from colleagues & international scholars. Add yours:
docs.google.com/document/u/3...
The OUPSG (#OpenUniversity #Palestine Solidarity Group oupalestinesolidarity.org) has launched an Open Letter to its VC requesting a full retraction of commitments made to an Israeli lobby group (aka foreign pressure on #AcademicFreedom).
Please read, sign & share 🇵🇸
docs.google.com/document/u/3...
Lambeth refuse to hear call of 5000 local residents and workers, claiming the council have “no control” over their pension fund. 🧐
www.brixtonbuzz.com/2026/01/who-...
This should be great
At Houston's BAIA Fine Art Print Fair, Black Art in America presents the first public exhibition of an early study by John Biggers, created in the early 1950s and foundational to his iconic mural 'The Contribution of the Negro Woman to American Life.' www.blackartinamerica.com/blogs/news/b...
Loved Kerry James Marshall at the Royal Academy: full of life, incident, wit and visual ingenuity. Renews hope in painting’s capacities.
Our Next Seminar: 📢☢️
Radioactive Marxisms & Atomic Fairytales from the former East Germany, with Sarah James
Friday 28th November 2025, 5.30-7.30pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing, UCL Gower St, London WC1E 6BT
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
📣Not 1 but 2 South London Your Party events @peckhamlevels tomorrow
💥Kicking off with a Regional Assembly for members from 2pm
🎉And concluding with a rally of local trade unionists and campaigners joined by @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social from 6.30pm
Hasta mañana ✊🚩
www.brixtonbuzz.com/2025/11/jere...
The London Underground has, over the past 25 years, hosted works by some of Britain’s leading contemporary artists. Eleanor Pinfield, director of Art on the Underground, talks to Apollo about why preserving public art is becoming an ever more urgent task
Relieved to see the Edward Burra at Tate Britain before it closed. Fascinating show packed full of great paintings, from 1920s Paris to 1970s Cornwall (via Harlem, Rye and 1930s Spain).
⚡️First seminar of new academic year
Rethinking Revolutionary Memory: The Production and Afterlives of Yugoslav Socialist Monuments with Sanja Horvatinčić & Beti Žerovc
31st Oct 🎃, 5.30-7.30pm
@ucl-ias.bsky.social
IAS Common Ground
G11, South Wing, UCL,WC1E 6BT
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...
Happy 40th Anniversary to the Hackney Peace Carnival Mural!
Great to be part of yesterday’s celebrations.
👏🏼🎉🕊️☮️🚩❤️
For details of the wider festivities see:
www.lovehackney.uk/hackney-peac...
Really looking forward to being part of this panel on Sunday discussing the Hackney Peace Carnival Mural. Part of a wider celebration to mark the mural's 40th Anniversary. Should be great!
Free tickets to panel discussion:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hackne...
‘The lack of urgency on all manner of organising questions has been excruciating, and if there doesn’t issue from this a new debate, a new coalition, a new strategy, and a new set of tactics — then we deserve what we get’.
Good (/bleak) by @leninology.bsky.social
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Really looking forward to being a part of the celebrations for the Hackney Peace Carnival Mural's 40th anniversary.
Book your free tickets now 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-hackne...
Clifford Wight painted several murals in Coit Tower; this one, measuring approximately 4 feet by 10, shows a full-length portrait of a steelworker, who is wearing heavy gloves, bib overalls, and a light tan sweater over a collared shirt. On a leather belt slung at a jaunty angle across his waist, there are two large open-ended wrenches. His right hand is grasping a hose or cable, while the left is holding a rivet gun. Under a steel hard hat, the expression is somewhat grim, with deep lines etched connecting nose to chin.
"Steelworker" (Clifford Wight, 1934) // Coit Tower // Telegraph Hill // San Francisco, Calif.
This is the first union job I've had so I needed to share this mural today; it was linked to its neighbor with a banner that read "Workers of the World Unite" until it was painted over by censorious jerks
The Painted Empire: Mural Messages Across Central Mexico
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