Katherine Mackinnon

Both of these results today go to show just how antifascists can mobilise. Fascists have an entire apparatus to make their victory feel inevitable. It is not. To crush hope. But hope lives on whilst we keep it alive.

From @kamack.bsky.social’s article: a mock epitaph on Lord Strathure (the judge who sentenced John Maclean to five years in Peterhead jail) written by John S. Clarke, “a poet, a journalist, a politician and a lion tamer” who once cured Lenin’s dog

Seamus Heaney and the ancient gods. (1972) m.youtube.com/watch?v=74XL...

Great article from @kamack.bsky.social

A really lovely piece of writing from Katherine on socialist print culture, the materiality of books and doing public history in the city. Crazy that it only has three ‘likes’ on this tumbleweed website.

An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class is published one week today! To celebrate, I'll be having an Edinburgh book launch at Leith Arches on Leith Walk. Sign up here! 🔽 argonautbooks.co.uk/event/2j2uXL...

eBay users! Don't ignore today's email, even though it looks like a boring standard update to the User Privacy Notice. They want to use your data to train AI models. If you click the link over the words "the right to object", it takes you to a page with a toggle button letting you opt out.

Pals I am going to MADRID this week, any recommendations? I lived there in mid-2000s so know it decently well, but my time then was spent permanently on the randan whereas this will be a more chill visit. Especially on the lookout for tasty scran, radical history & stuff 9-12 yr old kids might enjoy

Pals I am going to MADRID this week, any recommendations? I lived there in mid-2000s so know it decently well, but my time then was spent permanently on the randan whereas this will be a more chill visit. Especially on the lookout for tasty scran, radical history & stuff 9-12 yr old kids might enjoy

WHEN COMPANIES RULE: BOOK TOUR Corporate power is scary, but not new. I'll be talking about my new book, tracing its history from the East India Company to Amazon, and what we can do about it today. Sign up here: www.maha-rafi-atal.com/when-compani... Want me to come to your city? Get in touch!

When St George's Place, Glasgow was renamed it was home to the South African Consulate so all mail then had to be addressed to 'Nelson Mandela Place'. The consulate tried to get a PO box # but Glasgow postal union refused to deliver unless address was Nelson Mandela Place. bsky.app/profile/scot...

'Mercury's Garden' Sgùrr nan Gillean and Loch Creitheach #IsleofSkye #Scotland #Cuillin www.damianshields.com

Mandela statue unveiling. By the time that golden sheet was off of Mandela it was bucketing rain just like in 1993

Hey pals! If you use Instagram the IGPlus extension is a great piece of kit which you can use to turn off various grim features, make it just be people you follow's photos that you see etc. Really useful

The first instalment of a series of poems in Nahuatl, Spanish, and English by Mayahuel Xuany and translated by Juana Adcock.

This piece provides a really good bit of sociological and historical context on violence and parts of Glasgow city centre recently sensationalised on tv www.gla.ac.uk/schools/soci...

Learnt of this podcast recently and been enjoying working my way through their archives trinitysocialjustice.com/conjuncture-...

Do you care about video games, imperialism, and militarism? Check out our first blog post and upcoming political education training!

In February 1972, 20 students from Glasgow School of Art greeted Gordon Campbell, the Scottish Secretary of State, as he opened the Charing Cross section of the M8. They waved banners that are as relevant now as they were then as Campbell passed beneath in the Lord Provost's car. 📷 Newqsquest

"Building Groups on Tricky Ground" can help organisers establish a group among workers in a precarious position (such as dispersed or seasonal migrant workers), as a first step towards building collective power. workersobservatory.org/resources/gu...

These are really practical and useful resources, brilliant work! All available as PDFs at the end of the thread ⬇️

Day 2 of the UCU workers' strike at the University of Edinburgh. The 1,800 jobs UCU estimates will be cut is unprecedented in Scottish higher education. It is happening in the wealthiest Scottish university, and the third richest in the UK, currently sitting with over £3billion reserves.

I can only second this. If you are in Glasgow, visit Category Is. It's much more than a bookshop. It's a community hub, a place of active resistance, and a big fucking hug.

Demonstration in support of the Plessey Occupation, March 1982. The Plessey Occupation was a landmark, predominantly female factory sit-in at the Plessey Capacitors plant in Bathgate to resist closure and mass redundancies.

Fuck ChatGPT flyers. The future is broadsheets.

'What Gibbs describes as the unmaking of the working class happened as a result of concerted political will. Rebuilding will require similar effort. Books like his are a start.' Thanks to @tajmccoy.bsky.social for incisively reviewing my new book, An Injury to All. hyphenonline.com/2026/09/24/u...

Really enjoyed hearing @tajali1.bsky.social speak about his new book at the Glasgow launch last night, hosted by Glasgow Trades Council. Important discussions about working-class history, antiracism and community organising. Looking forwards to reading the book!

For postgraduate researchers working on place, memory, heritage, anthropology & difficult histories Methodologies for Place and Memory Loss 📍 University of Stirling 📅 11 November ⏰ Apply now tockify.com/sgsah/detail... @uoe-sps.bsky.social @uofgges.bsky.social @standrewssgsd.bsky.social

Today's charity shop find. Like to imagine it came from a long-disappeared tropical fish shop

The Facial Expressions of Tethys by artist Julius von Bismarck. A suspended high-sea buoy that moves in real time. Sensors on a twin buoy out in the Atlantic Ocean send live satellite data to motors inside the museum. This makes the indoor buoy copy the exact, real-time movements of the ocean waves.

Read this over the weekend - what a sharp, funny, dark wee book. I've never really read anything like it. Loved it and can't wait to read more of Agnes Owens' work.