I’ve resigned from my position in the Department of Politics at Birkbeck because of Eric Kaufmann’s public statements and activities, and because of the impact on Birkbeck staff and students of being in such close proximity to his far-right followers. …

Freedom of speech is a material condition determined by structures of power. The oppressed can shout their plight endlessly into the wind but if these words are not recorded, broadcast, distributed, amplified, paraphrased, repeated… did they ever speak at all? We are already in dangerous times in which the material…