Anthony Ballas
@tonyjballas.bsky.social
@DukeU Literature | @3ammagazine, @monthly_review, @NatCounterPunch, @scalawagmag, @proteanmag & more | Internationalism, Haitian Revolution, Melville | Host: De Facto Podcast, Co-Host Cold War Cinema Podcast
"Imperialism bends toward irrationality"
—Gerald Horne**
**New De Facto interview w/ Dr. Horne on his new edition of "Blows Against the Empire" drops this weekend, stay tuned! @intpub.bsky.social
—Gerald Horne**
**New De Facto interview w/ Dr. Horne on his new edition of "Blows Against the Empire" drops this weekend, stay tuned! @intpub.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
"Imperialism bends toward irrationality"
—Gerald Horne**
**New De Facto interview w/ Dr. Horne on his new edition of "Blows Against the Empire" drops this weekend, stay tuned! @intpub.bsky.social
—Gerald Horne**
**New De Facto interview w/ Dr. Horne on his new edition of "Blows Against the Empire" drops this weekend, stay tuned! @intpub.bsky.social
Happy to report that you can now add Justin Leroy to this list as well; his book "The Lowest Freedom" is due out April 2026. Looking forward to our conversation.
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Happy to report that you can now add Justin Leroy to this list as well; his book "The Lowest Freedom" is due out April 2026. Looking forward to our conversation.
New from Portolan:
"Punitive Environments and the Anti-Immigration Authoritarian Commonsense" by Martina Tazzioli & Maurice Stierl
"Punitive Environments and the Anti-Immigration Authoritarian Commonsense" by Martina Tazzioli & Maurice Stierl
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 AM
New from Portolan:
"Punitive Environments and the Anti-Immigration Authoritarian Commonsense" by Martina Tazzioli & Maurice Stierl
"Punitive Environments and the Anti-Immigration Authoritarian Commonsense" by Martina Tazzioli & Maurice Stierl
New from PortolanSAQ: "We Are All 'Illegal' Now: Border Despotism, Authoritarianism, Civil War" by Nicolas De Genova
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 AM
New from PortolanSAQ: "We Are All 'Illegal' Now: Border Despotism, Authoritarianism, Civil War" by Nicolas De Genova
New from Portolan:
"Property as Warfare: Building on Genocide in Gaza" by Brenna Bhandar & Alberto Toscano
Link 🔗 below
"Property as Warfare: Building on Genocide in Gaza" by Brenna Bhandar & Alberto Toscano
Link 🔗 below
November 7, 2025 at 2:31 AM
New from Portolan:
"Property as Warfare: Building on Genocide in Gaza" by Brenna Bhandar & Alberto Toscano
Link 🔗 below
"Property as Warfare: Building on Genocide in Gaza" by Brenna Bhandar & Alberto Toscano
Link 🔗 below
Very exciting new volume: CHINA CHANGES EVERYTHING with contributions by @Jacqueline Luqman, @pawel.bsky.social, @margaretkimberley.bsky.social, Danny Haiphong, and Gerald Horne w/ @AspenBallas, @webduboisclub, & myself, as well as many others.
November 2, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Very exciting new volume: CHINA CHANGES EVERYTHING with contributions by @Jacqueline Luqman, @pawel.bsky.social, @margaretkimberley.bsky.social, Danny Haiphong, and Gerald Horne w/ @AspenBallas, @webduboisclub, & myself, as well as many others.
Happy to launch Portolan, an internationalist journal associated with Duke UP's South Atlantic Quarterly, edited by Michael Hardt, Sandro Mezzadra, Niccolò Cuppini, & myself
"Capital & the Global War Regime" by Michael & Sandro is now available on the site.
Please spread the word!
(Link below)
"Capital & the Global War Regime" by Michael & Sandro is now available on the site.
Please spread the word!
(Link below)
October 31, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Happy to launch Portolan, an internationalist journal associated with Duke UP's South Atlantic Quarterly, edited by Michael Hardt, Sandro Mezzadra, Niccolò Cuppini, & myself
"Capital & the Global War Regime" by Michael & Sandro is now available on the site.
Please spread the word!
(Link below)
"Capital & the Global War Regime" by Michael & Sandro is now available on the site.
Please spread the word!
(Link below)
CFP: Frederic Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Please circulate far and wide.
Submission info linked below.
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Please circulate far and wide.
Submission info linked below.
October 28, 2025 at 10:43 PM
CFP: Frederic Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Please circulate far and wide.
Submission info linked below.
April 10–12, 2026
Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
Please circulate far and wide.
Submission info linked below.
Paul Robeson on Toussaint Louverture & Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh on Toussaint, Haiti & the Haitian Revolution.
October 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Paul Robeson on Toussaint Louverture & Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh on Toussaint, Haiti & the Haitian Revolution.
For the issue #6 of Peace, Land, & Bread, Gerald Horne and I wrote about "Ho Chi Minh and Black Liberation." We discuss Garveyism, Malcolm X, Robert F. Williams & more.
Check it out!
Thank you Ben, Taylor, Talia, and everyone @iskrabooks.bsky.social for their work on these beautiful editions.
Check it out!
Thank you Ben, Taylor, Talia, and everyone @iskrabooks.bsky.social for their work on these beautiful editions.
October 25, 2025 at 5:33 PM
For the issue #6 of Peace, Land, & Bread, Gerald Horne and I wrote about "Ho Chi Minh and Black Liberation." We discuss Garveyism, Malcolm X, Robert F. Williams & more.
Check it out!
Thank you Ben, Taylor, Talia, and everyone @iskrabooks.bsky.social for their work on these beautiful editions.
Check it out!
Thank you Ben, Taylor, Talia, and everyone @iskrabooks.bsky.social for their work on these beautiful editions.
Alright, fun's over. They caught on.
October 11, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Alright, fun's over. They caught on.
I don't normally do this, but since Peter Kolchin's classic book "Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom" is currently 95% off. I HIGHLY recommend you snag a copy right now
October 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
I don't normally do this, but since Peter Kolchin's classic book "Emancipation: The Abolition and Aftermath of American Slavery and Russian Serfdom" is currently 95% off. I HIGHLY recommend you snag a copy right now
@KamranBaradaran and I interviewed Indian philosopher Divya Dwivedi about caste, Brahmanism, the threats against her life, and more for @proteanmag
Link below 🙏
Link below 🙏
September 29, 2025 at 6:10 PM
@KamranBaradaran and I interviewed Indian philosopher Divya Dwivedi about caste, Brahmanism, the threats against her life, and more for @proteanmag
Link below 🙏
Link below 🙏
📣Mark your calendars! Set your clocks!🚨
Gerald Horne to appear on a very special episode of @blackpowermedia.bsky.social, "Rupturing the Aesthetic" w/ Khadija Haynes.
Gerald Horne to appear on a very special episode of @blackpowermedia.bsky.social, "Rupturing the Aesthetic" w/ Khadija Haynes.
August 26, 2025 at 12:03 AM
📣Mark your calendars! Set your clocks!🚨
Gerald Horne to appear on a very special episode of @blackpowermedia.bsky.social, "Rupturing the Aesthetic" w/ Khadija Haynes.
Gerald Horne to appear on a very special episode of @blackpowermedia.bsky.social, "Rupturing the Aesthetic" w/ Khadija Haynes.
Icymi! My latest interview with Gerald Horne on his new book, The Capital of Slavery, Washington, D.C. 1800-1865.
Link below
Link below
August 26, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Icymi! My latest interview with Gerald Horne on his new book, The Capital of Slavery, Washington, D.C. 1800-1865.
Link below
Link below
📣De Facto Ep22 is now live!🚨
Gerald Horne on The Capital of Slavery, Canada, Russia, Alaska Summit, BRICS & China's Rise
Link in comment below 👇
Gerald Horne on The Capital of Slavery, Canada, Russia, Alaska Summit, BRICS & China's Rise
Link in comment below 👇
August 22, 2025 at 1:17 PM
📣De Facto Ep22 is now live!🚨
Gerald Horne on The Capital of Slavery, Canada, Russia, Alaska Summit, BRICS & China's Rise
Link in comment below 👇
Gerald Horne on The Capital of Slavery, Canada, Russia, Alaska Summit, BRICS & China's Rise
Link in comment below 👇
Check out what I received in the mail...
August 19, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Check out what I received in the mail...
📣De Facto ep21 is LIVE!🚨
Alana Lentin on her new book THE NEW RACIAL REGIME: Topics include:
-left anti-wokeness, CRT, 1619, Catherine Liu
-Cedric Robinson
-Fanon contra postcolonial theory
-Palestinian resistance
-Z*onism & academia
-March for Humanity & Palestinian statehood
Alana Lentin on her new book THE NEW RACIAL REGIME: Topics include:
-left anti-wokeness, CRT, 1619, Catherine Liu
-Cedric Robinson
-Fanon contra postcolonial theory
-Palestinian resistance
-Z*onism & academia
-March for Humanity & Palestinian statehood
August 10, 2025 at 5:50 PM
📣De Facto ep21 is LIVE!🚨
Alana Lentin on her new book THE NEW RACIAL REGIME: Topics include:
-left anti-wokeness, CRT, 1619, Catherine Liu
-Cedric Robinson
-Fanon contra postcolonial theory
-Palestinian resistance
-Z*onism & academia
-March for Humanity & Palestinian statehood
Alana Lentin on her new book THE NEW RACIAL REGIME: Topics include:
-left anti-wokeness, CRT, 1619, Catherine Liu
-Cedric Robinson
-Fanon contra postcolonial theory
-Palestinian resistance
-Z*onism & academia
-March for Humanity & Palestinian statehood
All you JohnAshbery fans out there should tune in tonight to wmcb.net for DJTY's (@tyholter.bsky.social) tribute show to Ashbery.
August 6, 2025 at 4:14 PM
All you JohnAshbery fans out there should tune in tonight to wmcb.net for DJTY's (@tyholter.bsky.social) tribute show to Ashbery.
I just finished recording an interview w/ Alana Lentin on her new book The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (@plutopress.bsky.social, 2025). The video should be up and ready on the De Facto channel within the week. Stay tuned!
August 6, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I just finished recording an interview w/ Alana Lentin on her new book The New Racial Regime: Recalibrations of White Supremacy (@plutopress.bsky.social, 2025). The video should be up and ready on the De Facto channel within the week. Stay tuned!
Happy to announce that the Vanguard Edition of the Curriculum the Basic Principles of Marxist-Leninism Part 2: Historical Materialism is now available for pre-order.
Introduction by Gerald Horne and myself. Order yourself and a comrade a copy!
Introduction by Gerald Horne and myself. Order yourself and a comrade a copy!
August 2, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Happy to announce that the Vanguard Edition of the Curriculum the Basic Principles of Marxist-Leninism Part 2: Historical Materialism is now available for pre-order.
Introduction by Gerald Horne and myself. Order yourself and a comrade a copy!
Introduction by Gerald Horne and myself. Order yourself and a comrade a copy!
@jasonachristian.bsky.social, @ptklein.com and I just had a very special guest on @coldwarcinema.com. Any guesses as to who it might be? Find out July 29th!
July 14, 2025 at 2:40 PM
@jasonachristian.bsky.social, @ptklein.com and I just had a very special guest on @coldwarcinema.com. Any guesses as to who it might be? Find out July 29th!
📢New Episode is LIVE!🚨
@resistrun.bsky.social joins me on De Facto for a wide ranging discussion on working class dynamism & building working class unity, Marxism, Claudia Jones, Assata Shakur, US fascism, journalistic malfeasance at the NYT, Mamdani's win & much much more
link is below!
@resistrun.bsky.social joins me on De Facto for a wide ranging discussion on working class dynamism & building working class unity, Marxism, Claudia Jones, Assata Shakur, US fascism, journalistic malfeasance at the NYT, Mamdani's win & much much more
link is below!
July 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
📢New Episode is LIVE!🚨
@resistrun.bsky.social joins me on De Facto for a wide ranging discussion on working class dynamism & building working class unity, Marxism, Claudia Jones, Assata Shakur, US fascism, journalistic malfeasance at the NYT, Mamdani's win & much much more
link is below!
@resistrun.bsky.social joins me on De Facto for a wide ranging discussion on working class dynamism & building working class unity, Marxism, Claudia Jones, Assata Shakur, US fascism, journalistic malfeasance at the NYT, Mamdani's win & much much more
link is below!
De Facto just reached 3000 followers. Thanks to everyone for supporting the channel. More to come on the horizon. 🙏 🙏
July 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
De Facto just reached 3000 followers. Thanks to everyone for supporting the channel. More to come on the horizon. 🙏 🙏
I am also pleased to announce that Alana Lentin will be joining me on De Facto in late July to discuss her new book The New Racial Regime:
Recalibrations of White Supremacy (@plutopress.bsky.social).
www.plutobooks.com/978074534796...
Recalibrations of White Supremacy (@plutopress.bsky.social).
www.plutobooks.com/978074534796...
June 30, 2025 at 9:06 PM
I am also pleased to announce that Alana Lentin will be joining me on De Facto in late July to discuss her new book The New Racial Regime:
Recalibrations of White Supremacy (@plutopress.bsky.social).
www.plutobooks.com/978074534796...
Recalibrations of White Supremacy (@plutopress.bsky.social).
www.plutobooks.com/978074534796...