If you're around London next Thursday, I'll be giving a talk at LSE on "Imperialism, Inequality and Human Rights" for anyone interested - you can sign up to attend here: lselaw.events/event/pil-hu...

Over 70 legal scholars and practitioners have signed an open letter opposing the governments proposed
"cumulative impact" measure, as an unwarranted attack on the right to protest - if you wish to add your name to the letter you can do so here: forms.gle/VXhwMtwhZhof...

I've posted a new paper on SSRN - it argues that unless imperialism is central to our analysis of inequality and its impact on human rights, then our theory and practice remain in a blind alley - forthcoming in the Palestine Yearbook of International Law is.gd/igjgnI

I've posted a new paper on SSRN - it looks at the question of democratic forms (right to protest etc) via the principle of working class self-emancipation, and sets out an argument about how we should engage these forms in times of crisis and authoritarianism is.gd/1fxDIP

I've posted a new paper on SSRN - it looks at the fundamental challenge posed to socio-economic rights by the logic of commodification and how socio-economic rights might be reasserted on the basis of decommodification, human needs, and political struggle is.gd/jdVAiS

"Organize and fight against all imperialism. Stop war profiteering. Lower the cost of living. Resist wage cuts. Peace and socialism is in the hearts of millions around the world. May First, the “sun of tomorrow”, shines upon us. The future is ours". - Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

Like their Tory predecessors, the British Labour Party are pursing social murder with gusto - a war on the working class that requires a response in kind from us

Prabhat and Utsa Patnaik with straight facts on the rise of neo-fascism