Stefan Zylinski
@stefanzylinski.bsky.social
Political economist | PhD researcher at University of Bristol | Writer.
Working on:
> climate finance
> sustainable development
> macro-finance
> industrial policy
> green transitions
> minerals and energy
> anti-fascism
Working on:
> climate finance
> sustainable development
> macro-finance
> industrial policy
> green transitions
> minerals and energy
> anti-fascism
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I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 PM
I haven’t seen this get covered in English yet so let me translate.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
Grok is saying that the crematories at Auschwitz’s were conceived as disinfectant chambers, not mass execution and that the law has made it taboo to acknowledge that this is what they were
X is a Nazi site. Get off the Nazi site.
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Reminder: Join us on 27 November to discuss 'Coloniality dressed in green'!
With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social who will explain how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule
With discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok
Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social who will explain how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule
With discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok
Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly workshop - November 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Stefan Zyinski will present his article 'Coloniality dressed in Green'
available: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/gpe/3/2/article-p315.xml
Discussants are Johannes Jaeger and...
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us
November 20, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reminder: Join us on 27 November to discuss 'Coloniality dressed in green'!
With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social who will explain how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule
With discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok
Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social who will explain how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule
With discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok
Register here: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Looking forward to presenting one of my recent papers at this!
New CPERN online workshop: Coloniality dressed in green
Join us on 27 November to discuss how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule
With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social and discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok
Register on zoom: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Join us on 27 November to discuss how climate finance risks becoming a new tool for colonial rule
With author @stefanzylinski.bsky.social and discussants Johannes Jaeger and Ewa Dziwok
Register on zoom: bham-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: CPERN monthly workshop - November 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Stefan Zyinski will present his article 'Coloniality dressed in Green'
available: https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journals/gpe/3/2/article-p315.xml
Discussants are Johannes Jaeger and...
bham-ac-uk.zoom.us
November 4, 2025 at 9:18 AM
Looking forward to presenting one of my recent papers at this!
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“For right-wing populists, the cost of living crisis is the gift that keeps on giving, allowing them to blame the experience of declining living standards on migrants and perceived ‘outsiders’.”
Our Director @mathewlawrence.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🔗👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our Director @mathewlawrence.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🔗👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Soaring bills are the gift that keeps on giving for Reform. Shame Labour doesn’t have the guts to do anything about them | Mathew Lawrence
A cost of living crisis is not inevitable if there is the will to stop companies extracting profits from Britain’s essential services, says Mathew Lawrence of the Common Wealth thinktank
www.theguardian.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:32 AM
“For right-wing populists, the cost of living crisis is the gift that keeps on giving, allowing them to blame the experience of declining living standards on migrants and perceived ‘outsiders’.”
Our Director @mathewlawrence.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🔗👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Our Director @mathewlawrence.bsky.social in @theguardian.com 🔗👇
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"Where non-aligned countries wanted a seat at the capitalist table in order to flip it, today's polyaligned countries want something different: a larger slice of the pie on the way to a green capitalist future."
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
A Green Cold War
In our era of global economic interdependence, the face of geopolitics has changed.
www.break-down.org
October 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
"Where non-aligned countries wanted a seat at the capitalist table in order to flip it, today's polyaligned countries want something different: a larger slice of the pie on the way to a green capitalist future."
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
Everyone should be reading @iliasalami.bsky.social!
www.break-down.org/a-green-cold...
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The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Useful reminder from Peter Kellner on the problems we refuse to acknowledge are getting better, and the politics of hopelessness that this breeds
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
open.substack.com/pub/kellnerp...
September 23, 2025 at 6:53 AM
The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!
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The US-UK 'Tech Prosperity Deal' exemplifies how not to structure tech investment. £31bn from US firms like OpenAI, Microsoft and Nvidia comes with public sector AI outsourcing and potential scrapping of the Digital Services Tax.
Latest piece in @guardian ➡️ buff.ly/jXuANv5
Latest piece in @guardian ➡️ buff.ly/jXuANv5
September 19, 2025 at 9:54 AM
The US-UK 'Tech Prosperity Deal' exemplifies how not to structure tech investment. £31bn from US firms like OpenAI, Microsoft and Nvidia comes with public sector AI outsourcing and potential scrapping of the Digital Services Tax.
Latest piece in @guardian ➡️ buff.ly/jXuANv5
Latest piece in @guardian ➡️ buff.ly/jXuANv5
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Who owns Britain?
How does privatisation of essentials services like energy & water shape your life?
How does it impact the cost-of-living crisis?
We’ve been digging into the data — what we’ve found will shock you. 🧵
How does privatisation of essentials services like energy & water shape your life?
How does it impact the cost-of-living crisis?
We’ve been digging into the data — what we’ve found will shock you. 🧵
Data Dashboard | Who Owns Britain
An interactive Data Dashboard exploring who owns and profits from Britain’s essential services.
www.common-wealth.org
September 17, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Who owns Britain?
How does privatisation of essentials services like energy & water shape your life?
How does it impact the cost-of-living crisis?
We’ve been digging into the data — what we’ve found will shock you. 🧵
How does privatisation of essentials services like energy & water shape your life?
How does it impact the cost-of-living crisis?
We’ve been digging into the data — what we’ve found will shock you. 🧵
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Today, it’s the defenders of privatisation who are clinging to an out-of-date ideology. They’re out of touch & out of time.
Let’s end the rip-off & take back our future.
Explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below.
www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...
Let’s end the rip-off & take back our future.
Explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below.
www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...
Who Owns Britain?
How the radical experiment of privatisation transformed society and reshaped our lives.
www.common-wealth.org
September 16, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Today, it’s the defenders of privatisation who are clinging to an out-of-date ideology. They’re out of touch & out of time.
Let’s end the rip-off & take back our future.
Explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below.
www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...
Let’s end the rip-off & take back our future.
Explore our new project — Who Owns Britain? — at the link below.
www.common-wealth.org/interactive/...
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US has made an all-in bet on AI and Fossil Fuels. China on green tech.
@katemac.bsky.social & I @parismarx.com podcast on how China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
techwontsave.us/episode/291_...
@katemac.bsky.social & I @parismarx.com podcast on how China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
techwontsave.us/episode/291_...
September 1, 2025 at 4:14 AM
US has made an all-in bet on AI and Fossil Fuels. China on green tech.
@katemac.bsky.social & I @parismarx.com podcast on how China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
techwontsave.us/episode/291_...
@katemac.bsky.social & I @parismarx.com podcast on how China's bet made Solar+batteries+EVs turn into business models of Coke cans-everywhere, cheap, accessible, satisfy the thirst for freedom.
techwontsave.us/episode/291_...
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The IRA was surprisingly effective at spurring investment in green energy. Where it failed was making it *politically* sustainable by delivering immediate tangible benefits to the public. In that sense, the Green New Deal was, in retrospect, the more prudent and realistic approach. on.ft.com/4n4Ayra
August 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
The IRA was surprisingly effective at spurring investment in green energy. Where it failed was making it *politically* sustainable by delivering immediate tangible benefits to the public. In that sense, the Green New Deal was, in retrospect, the more prudent and realistic approach. on.ft.com/4n4Ayra
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I think it's time to give up the idea that Capital only thrives under liberal institutions.
I'm totally baffled abt the markets. Where is Capital? Trump is messing w/ govt data; imposing tariffs; flirting w/ default; meddling in corporate management.
Where are the CEO complaints? The bond vigilantes? Where are billionaire hedge funders who trade on good data? Was Capital's power a mirage?
Where are the CEO complaints? The bond vigilantes? Where are billionaire hedge funders who trade on good data? Was Capital's power a mirage?
"Antoni is the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation. He has been a relentless booster of Trump’s policies on social media. And he has demonstrated time and again that he does not understand economic statistics." With embarrassing examples from trade, employment, LFP, UI.... [Dominic Pino, NRO]
August 12, 2025 at 8:35 PM
I think it's time to give up the idea that Capital only thrives under liberal institutions.
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‘Our genocide’: Israeli rights groups abandon their restraint on Gaza
After months of hesitation, B'Tselem & Physicians for Human Rights-Israel assert that Israel's assault on Gaza is intended to erase Palestinian life — both now and in the future.
www.972mag.com/btselem-phri...
After months of hesitation, B'Tselem & Physicians for Human Rights-Israel assert that Israel's assault on Gaza is intended to erase Palestinian life — both now and in the future.
www.972mag.com/btselem-phri...
‘Our genocide’: Israeli rights groups abandon their restraint on Gaza
After months of hesitation, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel assert that the war is meant to erase Palestinian life — now and in the future.
www.972mag.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:09 PM
‘Our genocide’: Israeli rights groups abandon their restraint on Gaza
After months of hesitation, B'Tselem & Physicians for Human Rights-Israel assert that Israel's assault on Gaza is intended to erase Palestinian life — both now and in the future.
www.972mag.com/btselem-phri...
After months of hesitation, B'Tselem & Physicians for Human Rights-Israel assert that Israel's assault on Gaza is intended to erase Palestinian life — both now and in the future.
www.972mag.com/btselem-phri...
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This article on on NYC landlords unable to pay their expenses gives a foretaste of what I suspect the pushback to a rent freeze is going to look like. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/07/b...
Rent Freeze Proposal Chills Cash-Starved Owners of Bronx Buildings
Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani’s pledge is raising alarms as bankers refuse to finance regulated buildings where costs outstrip income.
www.thecity.nyc
August 7, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This article on on NYC landlords unable to pay their expenses gives a foretaste of what I suspect the pushback to a rent freeze is going to look like. www.thecity.nyc/2025/08/07/b...
Thousands of company directors are reported to have left the UK after Labour's #nondom tax changes.
If this is indeed true (& the methods to calculate this are patchy at best), then from my perspective, good riddance.
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www.ft.com/content/a3fc...
If this is indeed true (& the methods to calculate this are patchy at best), then from my perspective, good riddance.
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www.ft.com/content/a3fc...
Thousands of company directors leave UK after Labour’s tax changes
FT analysis finds jump in departures with UAE the top destination
www.ft.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Thousands of company directors are reported to have left the UK after Labour's #nondom tax changes.
If this is indeed true (& the methods to calculate this are patchy at best), then from my perspective, good riddance.
1/
www.ft.com/content/a3fc...
If this is indeed true (& the methods to calculate this are patchy at best), then from my perspective, good riddance.
1/
www.ft.com/content/a3fc...
Good to see the beginning of efforts to address the economic causes of why many turn to the far-right rather than a) joining in the culture war politics or b) chastising them for being 'ignorant racists'.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Labour urged to revive Sure Start label to win back Reform voters
Commission says new Best Start project should be called Sure Start to rebuild trust in austerity damaged areas
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Good to see the beginning of efforts to address the economic causes of why many turn to the far-right rather than a) joining in the culture war politics or b) chastising them for being 'ignorant racists'.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Looking forward to another financial crisis in a few years.
Cutting "red tape" (aka public protections), as Reeves is doing, does not save money. Instead, it transfers costs from the rich to the poor. Other people pay for financial recklessness, filthy rivers, air pollution, lax building standards and consumer rip-offs.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Reeves says rules and red tape are ‘boot on the neck’ of business
At the Mansion House dinner she calls for regulators to allow more risk to clear the way for economic growth
www.theguardian.com
July 16, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Looking forward to another financial crisis in a few years.
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BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is on track to become Dems' candidate for NYC mayor — toppling Andrew Cuomo's comeback dreams and putting incumbent Eric Adams on notice.
Cuomo has conceded and said he called to congratulate Mamdani.
ow.ly/SHE050WfR0C
Cuomo has conceded and said he called to congratulate Mamdani.
ow.ly/SHE050WfR0C
June 25, 2025 at 2:33 AM
BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani is on track to become Dems' candidate for NYC mayor — toppling Andrew Cuomo's comeback dreams and putting incumbent Eric Adams on notice.
Cuomo has conceded and said he called to congratulate Mamdani.
ow.ly/SHE050WfR0C
Cuomo has conceded and said he called to congratulate Mamdani.
ow.ly/SHE050WfR0C
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While almost everyone has fallen for Netanyahu's ploy of focusing on Iranian-US-Israeli air strikes, Israel has been intensifying its genocide. For the sake of humanity, ALL EYES ON GAZA! www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
Israel kills at least 43 Palestinians in Gaza, including aid seekers
Among the dozens killed are 20 aid seekers, as NGO warns Israel is also deliberately blocking energy access.
www.aljazeera.com
June 23, 2025 at 6:41 PM
While almost everyone has fallen for Netanyahu's ploy of focusing on Iranian-US-Israeli air strikes, Israel has been intensifying its genocide. For the sake of humanity, ALL EYES ON GAZA! www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
Super happy to be back in Bolivia for the next few weeks! 🇧🇴
June 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Super happy to be back in Bolivia for the next few weeks! 🇧🇴
Fascists wanna watch the world burn🔥
June 19, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Fascists wanna watch the world burn🔥
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