📣 Next month, come along to Clair Quentin's (@clairq.bsky.social) book launch and learn the answer to the question: "Is Capital Alive?", with @joshmilburn.bsky.social and Chandni Dwarkasing
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Loughborough Law has some fully-funded PhD studentships.
Please get in touch if you're interested in doing a PhD climate law/public law/EU law, from Marxist, political economy or any other critical perspective!
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The FM of Italy and Greece issued a joint statement on the Global Sumud Flotilla, calling on Israel “to ensure the safety and security of the participants and to allow all consular protection measures.”
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The whoooooooooooole shebang is out with @europeanlawopen.bsky.social.
Everything you wanted to know about Marxism and EU law, but were afraid to ask.
Thanks! I'd like to hear more about your critique of sustainable freight policy. Could you send me an e-mail to awoodhouselaw@gmail.com?
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It's 100 pages and around 60,000 words of Marxist analysis of the EU. We hope that it signals a break from the past, by introducing ideas and authors that offer a challenge to the very precepts of EU law.
Read the full symposium here 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#EULaw #Marxism
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Finally, my paper examines EU emissions trading arguing:
🔹 It has tended towards a regressive wealth redistribution, passing on costs to workers
🔹 The urgency of the climate crisis demands a different use of public power, to consciously shape decarbonisation.
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🔹 Kivotidis' paper highlights the limitations of critical approaches to the democratic deficit which overlook the issue of class rule and state power in their, and outlines the structural function and class character of the EU.
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🔹 Tzanakopoulou's paper focuses on class struggle. Distancing itself itself from liberal, idealistic readings of the EU, the paper adopts a historical materialist lens to analyse the division of class struggle betwene the trasnational and member state levels
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The rest of the symposium contains three subsatntive pieces, which use the tools of Marxism to engage in concrete EU law debates
📌 Maria Tzanakopoulou on class struggle in the EU
📌 Dimitrios Kivotidis on the democratic deficit
📌 Andrew Woodhouse on the climate crisis & emissions trading
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The programmatic piece:
🔹 Sets out Marxism’s distinctive theoretical and methodological approach
🔹 Outlines how Marxists from various ‘disciplines’ have understood the EU
🔹 Shows Marxist approaches can deepen and extend the insight of exsiting critical approaches to EU law
tinyurl.com/2am6x9wf
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The centrepiece of the symposium is a 24,000 word programmatice article laying the groundwork for future approaches to EU law by me, @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social
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Our introduction reflects on why Marxism has largely been absent from EU law:
🔹 EU law is often framed as technocratic & consensual, not as a site of class struggle
🔹 The field is unusually supportive of the European project, with limited critical approaches
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New symposium out now🎉
Edited by @pashukanist.bsky.social, @nanoboss.bsky.social + me in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social seeks to introduce Marxist approaches to EU law scholarship.
Read now 👉 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
🧵 (1/9) A thread on the symposium (please share!)
Wherein, @nanoboss.bsky.social, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and I attempt to chart out the Marxist tradition and its relationship to EU law - both historically and theoretically, as part of our broader symposium in @europeanlawopen.bsky.social
Tis a chunky tome.
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Definitely read @andywoodhouse.bsky.social's piece, which gives us a forensic Marxist account of EU emiisions trading. One more substantive piece left now in our @europeanlawopen.bsky.social Marxism and EU symposium, the monster by me, @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and @nanoboss.bsky.social.
Today, after 14 years, I’m resigning from the Labour Party.
Jeremy Corbyn and I will co-lead the founding of a new party, with other Independent MPs, campaigners and activists across the country.
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Big thanks to @acelg-uva.bsky.social for the fellowship and feedback on the paper
Thanks also to @pashukanist.bsky.social @nanoboss.bsky.social @tillyclough.bsky.social, Dimitrios + Maria
Link to @europeanlawopen.bsky.social is here: doi.org/10.1017/elo....
Abstract below 👇
2: As a method of climate action, the Emissions Trading System retains captial's control over economic production, and seeks to shape that actin the direciton of climate objectives. However, the severity of climate change calls the use of public power to shape the rapid decarbonisation of society.
The paper makes a two-fold argument:
1) the Emissions Trading System has tended to increase the economic wealth of capital by redistributing economic value away from workers. By raising the cost of essential goods, the poorest in society pay the cost of climate action.
The picture is a screenshot of the title of the paper (The de-politicisation of decarbonisation through climate rent: a Marxist critique of the EU emissions trading system) on the online website of the European Law Open journal
New publication 🙌
It uses the concept of "climate rent" to critique the distribution of power and wealth in the EU Emissions Trading System.
It's part of an upcoming symposium on Marxism + EU law edited by Me, @pashukanist.bsky.social + @nanoboss.bsky.social
Read it here👉 doi.org/10.1017/elo....
Here I argue the Home Secretary's case that Palestine Action is concerned in terrorism is lacking in evidence, and proscribing the group is disproportionate. It will criminalise a significant proportion of civil society and be counterproductive for maintaining safety.
No matter how often I see this data, I always find it shocking. Of all the massive growth in output produced by the world's workers since 1980, more than half of it has been captured by the richest 1%. This is what happens when capital controls production.
Thanks so much Ana 🙏
read this pretty much in one breath, a great piece. We should all do more history.
Big thanks to @pashukanist.bsky.social @gjdavies.bsky.social @tillyclough.bsky.social @diamondashiagbor.bsky.social and others for help with the paper along the way 🙏
New publication in Industrial Law Journal 🎉
The early EU once imagined a different kind of environmental policy. It was rooted in social democracy, not neoliberal logic.
It's open access so you can give it a read at the link below 👇
doi.org/10.1093/indl...
"What can be offered as a resolution is not a ‘correct interpretation’, a new rights challenge, or even a new law, but something which challenges the very root of these social oppressions."
A really thoughtful, provocative essay on FWS.
With further pieces to come from @andywoodhouse.bsky.social on the emissions trading system; Dimitrios Kivotidis on the 'democratic deficit' and a comprehensive (some might say really fucking long) piece by @nanoboss.bsky.social @andywoodhouse.bsky.social and myself, on Marxist theory and the EU.
