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How Contingent Faculty Organizing Can Succeed in Higher Education Despite recent organizing gains among some contingent faculty members, the adjunctification of higher education has left hundreds of thousands of college and university teachers with low pay, spotty benefit coverage, and little job security. As former adjuncts Joe Berry and Helena Worthen report in their new book, The rapid, pandemic related expansion of on-line education threatens to further erode employment conditions for the ...

The Other Regional Counter-Revolution: Iran’s Role in the Shifting Political Landscape of the Middle East Iraqi security forces firing tear gas and live rounds into a crowd of demonstrators during the 2019 Tishreen (October) uprising The last decade has seen historic political upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa: a tsunami of popular uprisings that have brought down several dictators and led to momentous transformations in political consciousness, if not always to democratic out...

Tweet With the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Tokyo nearly a month away, an American athlete is already making controversial headlines. As my Red State colleague Nick Arama reported Sunday, Gwen Berry turned her back on the American flag in protest after she won a spot on the U.S. team with a third-place finish in the hammer throw during U.S. Olympic Trials in Eugene, Oregon. The bronze medalist instead put a shirt over her head emblazoned with “Activist Athlete.” Condemnation...

The Media Line Staff Mon, 28 Jun 2021 18:00 - 19:30 British Summer Time (UTC+1) CEFTUS Online Talk: Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity, with Dr Gülay Türkmen and Dr Mehmet Kurt About this event This online meeting will discuss Dr Gülay Türkmen’s recently published book, Under the Banner of Islam: Turks, Kurds, and the Limits of Religious Unity (Oxford University Press, 2021). Sunni Islam has played an ambivalent role in Turkey’s Kurdish conflict�...

Israeli efforts to control criticism intensified during assault on Gaza.

Katharine Rankin is Professor and Associate Chair in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Toronto. She has contributed broadly to scholarship on market and state formation through a decolonial, area-studies orientation engaging ethnographic approaches—and featuring case studies of infrastructure development, post-conflict and post-disaster governance, commercial gentrification, microfinance, and a trans-Himalayan trading entrepôt. Empirically these pursuits have tran...

A new book seeks to explain the relationship between transgender identity and Marxist theory but offers no coherent link between the two, writes SONYA ANDERMAHR

Yves here. The latest Israel-Palestine conflict has barely been declared over (despite skirmishes continuing) but the post-mortems are starting, in keeping with its significance. This was a victory for Netanyahu. As Barkely Rosser points out at Econospeak: With the welcome cease fire in Israel-Palestine, it looks like Bibi Netanyahu has achieved his near term goal of remaining prime minister of Israel, thus not only remaining power but also out of jail, with barely anybody noticing that he has ...

Yves here. The Israel-Palestine ceasefire is reportedly holding, despite skirmishes…which makes me wonder if this is merely a de-escalation under different branding. That would still be progress but much more tentative than a ceasefire. This article goes bigger picture and looks at how Israel’s winning of battles is losing it friends. I’ve been saying for some time that Israel is destined to find the US a less loyal ally over time; younger Jews don’t care about Israel all that much. And...

Leila Al-Shami is an activist and writer. She is co-author of Burning Country: Syrians in Revolution and War (Pluto Press 2016, 2018). She is currently active with the 100 Faces of the Syrian Revolution campaign.