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John Duncan
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PhD researcher in Human Rights, austerity and neoliberalism | trying to YouTube | All my links https://linktr.ee/johntheduncan
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Made a new thumbnail incase people are happier to click on my face
Thumbnail with a graphic "unlocking the carbon economy" set against me gesturing at it with text reading "conservation or genocide?"
November 26, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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The face of someone who's just about to discover their PowerPoint deleted all the slides with text and left them with the only content being pictures of his face
Me at a conference looking shell-shocked
November 21, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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November 20, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Red berries with one in the foreground having a water droplet on it
November 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Leaves and moss on the dog walk
A collage of leaves, moss, and the dog
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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The Dentist and Audrey 2 from Little Shop of Horrors
Me dressed as the dentist holding anton wearing a flower hat and looking furious Me dressed as the dentist holding anton wearing a flower hat and looking furious Me dressed as the dentist holding anton wearing a flower hat and looking furious Me dressed as the dentist holding anton wearing a flower hat and looking furious
November 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Big announcement!!! My video on how Chicken Run is communist is now part of Britain's media history

Over the summer the British Film Institute (BFI) got in touch cause they wanted to archive this video as a historically significant piece of media (lol) and it's now been archived
Thumbnail for chicken run is communist featuring the BFI logo and text reading "now part of British film history"
October 23, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Gym selfy
October 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Me and my grey son
Me holding the grey cat like a baby
October 15, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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October 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Keir Starmer is a Worm
October 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Bibliography Coulthard, G. S. (2014). Red Skin, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition. University of Minnesota Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctt9qh3cv Said, E. (1993) The Morning After, London Review of Books. Available at: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v15/n20/edward-said/the-morning-after (Accessed: 06 October 2025). Tartir, A., Dana, T. and Seidel, T. eds., 2021. Political economy of Palestine: Critical, interdisciplinary, and decolonial perspectives. Springer Nature.
October 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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This goes live in 10 minutes
Thumbnail reading "i was right" atop charlie kirk amd nigel farage
September 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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Flattering gym lighting
Gym selfy
September 25, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Bibliography here
Bibliography Dowling, E., 2022. The care crisis: What caused it and how can we end it?. Verso Books. Silvia Federici, “Reproduction and Feminist Struggle,” in Women, Development, and Labor of Reproduction: Struggles and Movements, Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Giovanni F. Dalla Costa, eds. (Trenton: Africa World Press, 1999), 47-66. Fraser, N., 2022. Cannibal capitalism: How our system is devouring democracy, care, and the planet and what we can do about it. Verso books. Hopkins in Bhattacharya, T. ed., 2017. Social reproduction theory: Remapping class, recentering oppression. Pluto Books. Patricia Hill Collins, Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (New York: Routledge, 2000), Walia, H., 2021. Border and rule: Global migration, capitalism, and the rise of racist nationalism. Haymarket books.
September 19, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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New video is up for patrons. It's on global care chains, hard border regimes, and fascism. Video will be public on friday at 19:00 UK time

www.patreon.com/posts/139105...
Text reading "global care chains" atop of three images of care and migration
September 17, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Got my first print publication in @newint.bsky.social on the concept of family abolition
What if...we abolished the family snippet
August 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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August 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Couple new thumbnail options
Left to right: cops arresting a protestor, Kneecap, Bob Vylan. John in the foreground and Text reading repression Bob Vylan with some cops and a Palestine flag. Text reading "This is Repression"
July 29, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Bibliography
Kundnani, A., 2023. What is Antiracism?: And why it means anticapitalism. Verso Books. McBean, S. (2025) Authoritarianism with a dash of identity politics: The Crime and Policing bill, Authoritarianism With a Dash of Identity Politics: the Crime and Policing Bill. Available at: https://onrevolution.substack.com/p/authoritarianism-with-a-dash-of-identity (Accessed: 22 June 2025) Rawsthorne, P., 2018. Implementing the Ridley Report: The Role of Thatcher's Policy Unit during the Miners’ Strike of 1984–1985. International Labor and Working-Class History, 94, pp.156-201. Said, E., 1988. Identity, negation and violence. New Left Review, 171(September/October), pp.46-60. Woodman, C., 2018. Spycops in context: A brief history of political policing in Britain. Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, 14.
July 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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New glasses
Selfie with glasses Reading capital with glasses perched precariously at the end of my nose
July 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Book writing is ongoing
Laptop with word open on chapter 2 titled social reproduction and the primitive accumulation of gender and racial class relations
July 8, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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What are investor state dispute settlements?
July 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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A list of examples where fossil fuel and mining corporations won $billions from States enacting climate legislation
June 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Secret courts sue states
June 29, 2025 at 12:51 PM