Historical Materialism | Research in Critical Marxist Theory

Enemies, Comrades, and The Counterrevolutionary Logic of Cisness

Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, Trans femme futures: Abolitionist ethics for transfeminist worlds. Pluto Press, 2024. Sophie Lewis, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses against Liberation. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2025. Reviewed by Katharina Hunfeld What does the consolidation of far-right power in mainstream politics demand of the Left? On the current terrain

Interview with Shi Yongqin: Leon Trotsky was a Milestone Figure in the Development of Marxism

Call for Papers

Marxism & Disability Network (MDN) call for abstracts for 2026 events

Alienation, Eroticism, and Utopia: An Interview with Alan Sears

Journals

Sep 2025 | journal

VOLUME 33, ISSUE 1, 2025

May 2025 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 4, 2024

Dec 2024 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 3, 2024

Events

3rd Apr 2026 12:00 | event

Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026

6th Nov 2025 10:00 | event

Twenty-Second Annual Conference

23rd Jul 2025 9:00 | event

Historical Materialism Conference in East and Southeast Asia 2025

Books

Nov 2025 | book-series

Artistic Labour of the Body

Nov 2025 | book-series

Revolution as Realpolitik. Ernst Meyer (1887–1930) – Biography of a KPD Chairman

Nov 2025 | book-series

Without a Trace… Pogrom, Sweatshop, Gulag: The Jewish Radical Odyssey of Noah and Miril London

Networks

Podcast

Broadcasts

Historical Materialism
A podcast on critical Marxist theory

Episode 9: Racecraft

How does racialisation shape the labour process? How is race formed in the transition from slavery to wage labour? What is the role of racecraft in wage labour exploitation?

Episode 8

Palestine

Episode 7

Marxism and Health

Episode 6

Insurgent Universality

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