Historical Materialism | Research in Critical Marxist Theory

A thank you note from the organisers of the 2025 Historical Materialism London Conference

A huge thanks to all the participants in the 2025 Historical Materialism London conference. The conference was a huge success with 1,043 presentations and over 1,400 participants. The biggest Historical Materialism London Conference ever! We would like to thank you for this huge commitment to travel (some of you from very far, at great expense,

Council Communists Meet Philosophers from Heidelberg – The Pre-History of Critical Theory in 1920s Germany

From the Nation to the People: Rethinking the “We” of Emancipation

Fred Orton 1945-2025

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

The Davidson Debate. Bourgeois Revolutions in Historical Perspective

Nov 2025 | book-series

Congress of Contradictions: The Tenth Party Congress, March 1921

Nov 2025 | book-series

Volunteers for the Revolution. The International Militia of the POUM in the Spanish Civil War

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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