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Drum solo at Barrowlands. * * * Come hear a drum solo at Wembley on Friday and join the Ezra Collective family. Last remaining tickets here - aegp.uk/EC24

Thank you Rolling Stone UK so grateful to be winners of The Group Award. This is bigger than the 5 of us - was important to recognise all the small, grass roots venues who came before this moment in our journey. Thank you for everything.

Here are two new studies that place a particular focus on class. Firstly, Andrew Smith's exploration of how class shapes access to the reading and writing of poetry, and how readers and poets contest that exclusion: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9….

This image is driving MAGA and Donald Trump CRAZY. It would be such a shame if you spread it everywhere… 🤣

Today we celebrate the life of John La Rose (1927–2006) on what would have been his 97th birthday. A visionary poet, publisher and activist, his legacy of justice, education and culture as resistance continues to inspire us at the GPI. #JohnLaRose #Legacy #BlackHistory

The Antonio Gramsci Society UK Les Back Fray 🦑 Peter Venables Sol Gamsu Mark Swift Good wishes for the new year (grazie di esistere!)

luca cangemi Les Back Fray 🦑 Peter Venables Sol Gamsu Mark Swift Grazie di tutto Luca, vieni a trovarci ancora - thank you for all that you do!

RIP David Lodge. You are missed in the modern university with its funding crisis, audit culture, reputation management, and substitution of ideological cliches in place of critical analysis. It's crying out for satire - who will fill your shoes? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Deeply honoured to have my work recognised in this way.

Paul Gilroy, one of the foremost theorists of race and racism, has very generously donated several hundred books from his university office library. We will be selling these books, priced mostly from £1-5, from the 18th of January onwards. Come find a hidden treasure!

Du Bois last message to the world - what an extraordinary thing.

Grateful to Zoe Williams at The Guardian for the mention of our book in today's paper #socialmurder #austerity theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

It was a pleasure meeting Les Back Les Back 2day at z #PhDThrive_Connect event. Les interviewed me back in 2014 when I was applying 2 #GoldsmithsCollege, & after all these yrs, we finally met in #Glasgow—where he now serves as z Head of Sociology at University of Glasgow UofG Social Sciences.

“while scholarship is rewarded individually, it cannot be practised alone; it is a shared collective endeavour or it is nothing. Redundancies in one place damage us all.”— Les Back

"While scholarship is rewarded individually, it cannot be practised alone; it is a shared collective endeavour or it is nothing...Unprecedented damage is being experienced everywhere in UK higher education.. & we must find ways to repair it" Les Back timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-redu…

Sobering, important reflections here - but Les Back’s Les Back particularly spoke to me, not least in holding onto academia as a collective endeavour timeshighereducation.com/depth/uks-redu…

Too much talk about our PhD scars does current students a disservice timeshighereducation.com/opinion/too-mu… via Times Higher Education

A pilgrimage to the Cable Street Mural in London, a celebration of the kind of cross community antifascist coalitions we so need today.