Matt Huber

My book has been 'out of stock' for months on Verso's site, but I'm happy to report it's back up! www.versobooks.com/products/775...

📺Catch up and share the first session of the Series in Advanced Political Economy (SAPE). Energy and Food: Towards Public Ownership and Reorganising Production with Costas Lapavitsas, @matthuber.bsky.social and @xkonstantinidis.bsky.social. 📷Watch & share - www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rf5f... #GFTUET

A cool feature in @grist.org that draws a bit from the argument in my first book Lifeblood. grist.org/culture/hidd...

So, so bad politically when the technologies we promote for the energy transition don’t work well. My district bought some too and they were a disaster (particularly in the cold). www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/n...

Such a good piece: "The result is that professionals at work are trapped in an endless scroll of cultural novelty and outrage, algorithmically delivered to them on the very same device they use to earn their salaries." www.damagemag.com/p/the-earner...

Cool thing I'm getting AI generated emails that *appear* to be from legitimate radio stations inviting me to do book interviews, and when I agree they say I have to pay a $300 production fee lol.

Really enjoyed this fair, critical history of Michael Harrington and Democratic Socialism. www.npr.org/2026/09/24/n...

I'm having so much fun this morning writing an ordinary book review, but I also have the sinking feeling I'm like a handloom weaver in the early 19th Century.

Marx: "Capital therefore has an immanent drive, and a constant tendency tendency, towards increasing the productivity of labour, in order to cheapen commodities and, by cheapening commodities, to cheapen the worker himself." Seems relevant.

Earlier this summer at the SASE conference, I was happy to present a new essay I've been working on for the forthcoming Socialist Register volume: "After the Climate Movement: Against Movementism and Toward a Working Class Strategy." (see video below) youtu.be/HuvxGOaADLc?...

Comenzando "El Futuro de la Revolución", de @matthuber.bsky.social, con una edición muy cuidada de @erratanaturae.bsky.social, el día que leo que la ONU reconoce que los esfuerzos por frenar el cambio climático han fracasado y que vamos de cabeza a una catástrofe ambiental. Maravillosa sociedad.

Penguin has a page up for my new book, coming Feb 2027, HOUSE SOCIETY The epigraph is from Kenneth T. Jackson's famous "Crabgrass Frontier": "... no society can be fully understood apart from the residences of its members" The book is an exploration and affirmation of that thesis!

Really fascinating look into how the new "reform caucus" in the IBEW (CREW - The Caucus of Rank & File Electricians) organized members to use a strike threat to win big in a contract fight. labornotes.org/blogs/2025/1...

“Mr. Poindexter insisted that he was ‘not running to carry the flag for the Democratic Party.’ ‘I am literally fighting for workers,’ he said.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/u...

Wrote about the report for @jacobinmag.bsky.social. jacobin.com/2026/08/clim...

A follow up post on the write up of the report (follow the QPs). I have to say it's amazing that in the year of our lord 2026, the Marxist definition of the working-class is a subject of great debate in mainstream discourse. matthuber.substack.com/p/who-is-in-...

A follow up post on the write up of the report (follow the QPs). I have to say it's amazing that in the year of our lord 2026, the Marxist definition of the working-class is a subject of great debate in mainstream discourse. matthuber.substack.com/p/who-is-in-...

Wrote about the report for @jacobinmag.bsky.social. jacobin.com/2026/08/clim...

This basic idea shapes so much of my thinking on electricity. clcouncil.org/publications...

Apropos of nothing, this is one of my absolute favorite passages from Capital: “When the worker co-operates in a planned way with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.” 🔥

Thanks to @jacobinmag.bsky.social for publishing a revised version of this: jacobin.com/2026/07/gree...

“The U.S. Treasury receives the revenue from most of Venezuela’s exports, then disburses it…through the country’s banking system, a relationship akin to parents handing out allowances…Mr. Rubio and his team set the conditions on what that money can be spent on, and by whom.”

I should say it’s on the concept of ‘green capital’ which I don’t think is very helpful for the Left.

Did a 🧵 over at the other place which would be too cumbersome to reproduce here but I hope you will check it out here: x.com/threadreader...

“In reality, machinery embraces a host of possibilities, many of which are thwarted, rather than developed, by capital” (159).

Hey London ppl! I'm speaking at Marxism 2026 in Shoreditch later today (from 12:00-1:15pm on climate politics and socialist strategy and 2:15-3:30 for a 'conversation' on degrowth). You can get tickets here: socialistworker.co.uk/marxismfesti...

“The same scientific reassessment in May that found the highest-emissions scenario implausible also found that the lowest-emissions scenarios are slipping out of reach. That should give more, not less, cause for concern.” foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/30/s...

“Backed by unions like the United Auto Workers, Osborn, who led in a May poll, is proof that the anti-corporate pitch, delivered plainly by someone voters take for one of their own, can land in ‘Trump country’.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Call it the Christophers law (@brettchristophers.bsky.social). www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Thanks to @camillaroyle.bsky.social for arranging this. socialistworker.co.uk/in-depth/tak...