Welcome! Newsletter number 71.
New review! Can’t ignore a book subtitled “How Socialism Can Work in the Real World”, especially when the title contains a big promise: “The Blueprint”. It’s from the Jacobin circles. The review (pretty long) is titled “Where Is the Edge?”.
Some activism this month: Talked at a Stockholm solidarity event for the Minnesota 15, contributed to an Öcalan book launch, joined a farm house tour of my union (wrote an article about it in German), and reported on pro-Palestine activists disrupting a speech by Annalena Baerbock in Uppsala, Sweden – a video of the action has gone viral (I think that’s what you call it when there have been more than a million views).
We also had a guest in Stockholm. Niillas Somby was visiting to present In the Hour of the Wolf: Tales of a Sámi Warrior, the English translation of his autobiography.
I was invited to briefly (very briefly!) comment on Europe’s “Gen Z protests” for Arbetaren.
I wrote an article about the Swedish elections for analyse & kritik. Also realized that an article about Sápmi I wrote for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in English is available in German as well.
Sports writing in junge Welt: women’s U20 soccer world cup, Pesäpallo world championships, review of Erste Frauen: Pionierinnen des Sports (great book!), interview with Brigitte Weich who makes films about women’s soccer in North Korea, and the season’s first Alpine skiing World Cup weekend (preview and summary).
After a terrible train journey, I was interviewed in Leipzig by Alexander Prinz for his new talk show, Prinz Weekly: Was machst du? The interview itself was fun. It is now out in various formats (long or short, with or without video). I’m linking to the long ZDF video version, because that feels very polished.
My book on South Tyrol has been announced! It was great to work on it, very personal.
Okay, I admit, this paragraph is a little self-involved, but I do enjoy my work popping up in different contexts, for example my sports writing in Italian, Indonesian, and Hungarian.
Last month, I wrote an article in German about the Berlin bookstore Schwarze Risse. There’s now also an interview with a collective member (incidentally called Gabriel) online in English, which I’d recommend to anyone who can’t be bothered with the German.
More next month. Stay safe!