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Professor of Political Economy, Labour and resistance to exploitation. Blogs at http://andreasbieler.blogspot.co.uk Views my own!

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CSSGJ @cssgj.bsky.social · 8h
CSSGJ is honoured to host Tariq Ali on 11th December at 6pm (UK time). The title of his talk is 'Gaza and the Demise of International Law and Order'. For a free ticket please register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gaza-and-t... @abieler.bsky.social @oliverdodd.bsky.social @sinembal.bsky.social
Gaza and the Demise of International Law and Order
Tariq Ali delivers the CSSGJ Annual Lecture 2025: Gaza and the demise of international law and global order
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 5d
Hillary Clinton blames TikTok and “totally made up” videos for young people’s views on Israel and Palestine.

She says social media influenced “not just the usual suspects” but also “young Jewish Americans who don’t know the history and don’t understand.”

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Nadia Whittome MP @nadiawhittomemp.bsky.social · 5d
We all desperately want to clear the courts backlog seeing victims withdraw from the criminal justice process.

But the backlog was caused by chronic underfunding, not juries.

Restricting jury trials would undermine our democracy and right to a fair trial, and may even be a false economy.
Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 5d
What the abolition of kafala means for Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia, see globallabourcolumn.org/2025/11/28/w...
What the abolition of kafala means for Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia
-Maureen Chadi Kalume Kenyan domestic workers in Saudi Arabia have endured exploitation, harassment, and violence for many years under the kafala system. In this sponsorship arrangement, confiscati…
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 5d
Death threats for defending labour rights in Liberia, see globallabourcolumn.org/2025/11/30/d...
Death threats for defending labour rights in Liberia
-George S. Tengbeh Liberia’s labour market is entering one of its most volatile periods since the passage of the Decent Work Act. The rights and dignity of Liberian workers remain critically …
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Global Justice Now @globaljusticenow.bsky.social · 6d
CAMPAIGN WIN 🎉

The UK is withdrawing funding from a massive gas power plant in Mozambique. Funding this carbon bomb would have been a climate and human rights disaster. Thanks to campaigners keeping up the pressure, today we can celebrate this huge win

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Britain withdraws $1.15 billion backing from TotalEnergies-led Mozambique LNG
The British government has decided to withdraw its $1.15 billion backing for the TotalEnergies-led Mozambique Liquefied Natural Gas project, it said on Monday.
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CSSGJ @cssgj.bsky.social · 6d
CSSGJ is hosting Maria Luz Bort Caballero on 1st December at 6pm(UK time). Her title is 'Teaching to Read, Reading to Question: Critical Literacy in Education Degrees'. Please register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/teaching-t... @abieler.bsky.social @sinembal.bsky.social @oliverdodd.bsky.social
Teaching to Read, Reading to Question: Critical Lit in Education Degrees
Teaching to Read, Reading to Question: Critical Literacy in Education Degrees - a public talk by Maria Luz Bort Caballero
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 9d
Climate Change and Labour Precarity: A Worker-Centred Agenda, see socialistproject.ca/2025/11/clim...
Climate Change and Labour Precarity: A Worker-Centred Agenda
Just as the COP30 meeting in Belen, Brazil, has ended, the last week of November is Canada Climate Week Xchange. We could hope this is good news, but instead of the week’s activities being sponsored b...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 9d
EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe, see andreasbieler.blogspot.com/2025/11/eu-c... @rolanderne.bsky.social
EU Court Upholds Minimum Wage Directive in Victory for Social Europe
‘The Court of Justice of the European Union has delivered a landmark verdict on the EU Minimum Wage Directive that I would characterise as “...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 11d
Sign the urgent petition against the plan to slash night, weekend and bank holiday pay for thousands of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS staff. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Nottingham: Don't cut night & weekend pay for NHS staff
Sign the urgent petition against the plan to slash night, weekend and bank holiday pay for thousands of Nottingham University Hospitals NHS staff.
you.38degrees.org.uk

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 13d
Huge Costs to Workers and the Environment: Tech Bubbles and New Investments in the US, see socialistproject.ca/2025/11/huge...
Huge Costs to Workers and the Environment
Early in his second presidency, Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs was met with widespread scepticism. Critics warned of economic decline and a global backlash. Yet the current landscape for the Uni...
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CSSGJ @cssgj.bsky.social · 13d
CSSGJ is pleased to host Dr.Ian Bruff on 24th November at 6p.m. (UK time). The title of his talk is 'All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism'. Please register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/all-that-h... @abieler.bsky.social @ianbruff.bsky.social @sinembal.bsky.social
All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of Neoliberalism
All that has Never Been True: The Dismal Ruins of the Neoliberalism = Free Markets Assumption - a public talk by Ian Bruff
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Kai Heron @kaiheron.bsky.social · 14d
The finishing touches are being put on a special issue of the Journal of Labor and Society edited by @alejopedregal.bsky.social, Nemanja Lukić and I on the ecomodernist features of imperialism. We have some incredible contributions that I can't wait to share.

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Ross Balzaretti @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social · 14d
If you are in Nottingham, there will be protests south side of Trent Buidling while the Council is in session tomorrow 1-2pm and Tuesday 10-11. Please join if you can.

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Ross Balzaretti @rossbalzaretti.bsky.social · 14d
University warned closures will be 'colossal blow' ahead of decision

www.nottinghampost.com/news/notting...
University warned closures will be 'colossal blow' ahead of decision
Staff, students and high-profile musicians have decried the proposals
www.nottinghampost.com

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 14d
In 2023/24, UK govt gave £78.2bn tax relief on pension contributions.

32% benefitted 29.2m basic rate (20%) taxpayers.

68% went to higher and additional rate (40% and 45%) tax payers.

Equalizing tax relief at 20% to all, leaves govt £14.5bn spare to alleviate poverty.
This is how Rachel Reeves could deliver a progressive budget
The chancellor has an opportunity to boost the public purpose and deliver redistribution
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 16d
Labour’s Climate Fight Requires Public Ownership, socialistproject.ca/2025/11/labo...
Labour’s Climate Fight Requires Public Ownership
Zohran Mamdani’s historic victory in New York’s Democratic Party primary for mayor in June 2025 and victory in the general election on November 4th has provided a dose of hope to a Left seeking a path...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 17d
Big pharma wants billions more from our NHS – the government must not give in. Tell your MP to defend our health system:
act.globaljustice.org.uk/tell-your-mp...
Tell your MP: Stop pharma’s raid on the NHS
The UK government is seriously considering demands from Donald Trump and big pharma to hike the amount the NHS pays for medicines – and it could run into the billions. This would represent a big win f...
act.globaljustice.org.uk

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 18d
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
#TaxTheBanks
Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing. The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 18d
$50-bn in Subsidies has Failed to Secure EV Jobs, Investment or Future, see socialistproject.ca/2025/11/50-b...
$50-bn in Subsidies has Failed to Secure EV Jobs, Investment or Future
On October 16, 2023, it was all smiles for the cameras in Loyalist Township where politicians and corporate executives gathered for a groundbreaking ceremony to build a new $2.761-billion Electric Veh...
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ETUI @etui.bsky.social · 19d
📣 New publication!

📄 In a new ETUI working paper, Diletta Porcheddu and Sara Prosdocimi delve into the intersection of #AI and labour relations in #finance, focusing on how #socialdialogue and #collectivebargaining can foster ethical and responsible AI adoption.

🔗 Read more here: etui.org/Z96
Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 19d
Data Center Resistance: Stopping the Corporate AI Offensive, see socialistproject.ca/2025/11/data...
Data Center Resistance
Major tech companies – OpenAI (GPT), Google (Gemini), Anthropic (Claude), Meta (Llama), and xAI (Grok) – are spending heavily to boost the computing power of their respective large language artificial...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 19d
Three Dimensions of Militarism in the Climate Crisis, see socialistproject.ca/2025/11/thre...
Three Dimensions of Militarism in the Climate Crisis
War, famously, is the pursuit of politics by other means. Cliche though it may be, the impacts of war and militarism are often overlooked by social movements focusing on formal political processes. An...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 21d
Complex Challenges Require Radical Responses: Confronting Trump’s Tariffs, see socialistproject.ca/2025/11/comp...
Complex Challenges Require Radical Responses
Robert Chernomas and Fred Wilson, in their SP Bullet of October 24th, “Beyond the ‘Elbows Up’ Response to the Tariff War,” call for a “national industrial policy” strategy to respond to the economic c...
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Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 21d
Macron, Merz, and Starmer: The rearguard of liberal democracy, see socialistproject.ca/2025/11/macr...
Macron, Merz, and Starmer
Large parts of the world are ruled by autocrats. Vladimir Putin is the worst of them all, Xi Jinping is not much better, and even America, the bastion of freedom, has fallen into the hands of a would-...
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CSSGJ @cssgj.bsky.social · 21d
CSSGJ is pleased to host Fabiola Mieres and Christiane Kuptsch from ILO on 17th November at 6 pm (UK time). Their title is 'Temporary Labour Migration: Towards Social Justice?'. Please register www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/temporary-... @abieler.bsky.social @sinembal.bsky.social @oliverdodd.bsky.social
Temporary Labour Migration: Towards Social Justice?
Temporary Labour Migration: Towards Social Justice? - a public talk by Fabiola Mieres & Christiane Kuptsch
www.eventbrite.co.uk

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 23d
Macron, Merz, and Starmer: The rearguard of liberal democracy, see socialistproject.ca/2025/11/macr...
Macron, Merz, and Starmer
Large parts of the world are ruled by autocrats. Vladimir Putin is the worst of them all, Xi Jinping is not much better, and even America, the bastion of freedom, has fallen into the hands of a would-...
socialistproject.ca

Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 24d
Rosebank is a climate disaster waiting to happen that will enrich a powerful few.

This is the last chance to stop Rosebank and we only have a few weeks left. I've just written to the government to share my views. Join me here:

act.globaljustice.org.uk/tell-keir-st...
Tell Keir Starmer: Stop Rosebank
This is the moment that activists across the UK have been building towards: it's decision time for the UK government. Oil giant Equinor has just resubmitted a new application for Rosebank - the bigges...
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 24d
📍 Malta

Together with @ccre-cemr.bsky.social, we’ve kicked off the first #LABProject workshop - unions & local governments from across Europe discussing social dialogue in small islands and remote regions.

Everyone deserves access to quality public services, no matter where they live.
Andreas Bieler @abieler.bsky.social · 25d
Canadian Auto Isn’t in ‘Crisis’, It’s in Danger of Extinction, see socialistproject.ca/2025/11/cana...
Canadian Auto Isn’t in ‘Crisis’, It’s in Danger of Extinction
Canadian autoworkers have faced many crises over the years, but the present threat is distinct. Lana Payne, President of Unifor, has warned that “If we don’t push back hard against him [US President D...
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