This article constitutes a response to Matthew Gandy’s article ‘Books under threat: Open access publishing and the neo‐liberal academy in the form of a conjunctural analysis’. It discusses the UKRI (UK Research and Innovation) open‐access proposal for book publications in the context of broader and chilling attacks on academic freedom driven in large part by the current government and supported by UKRI. It argues that there is a lot at stake, not just our ability as academics to publish in university and activist presses, but also our ability to express our solidarity with Palestine, to defend the rights of transgender people, to withdraw our labour and engage in other political actions and forms of expression in the face of oppression.

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英国高等教育危机中权力分布不均：对甘迪的回应

本文是对马修·甘迪的文章“受到威胁的书籍：开放获取出版和联合分析形式的新自由主义学院”的回应。它在很大程度上由现任政府推动并得到 UKRI 支持的对学术自由的更广泛和令人不寒而栗的攻击的背景下讨论了 UKRI（英国研究与创新）的图书出版开放获取提案。它认为，这有很多利害关系，不仅是我们作为学者在大学和激进媒体上发表文章的能力，而且还包括我们表达对巴勒斯坦的声援、捍卫变性人的权利、撤回我们的劳动力和参与社会活动的能力。面对压迫时的其他政治行动和表达形式。