Historical Materialism | Research in Critical Marxist Theory

A Line Is Followed, a Strategy Is Constructed – An Interview with Henri Lefebvre (1979)

This interview with Henri Lefebvre was conducted for the French Communist Party (PCF) journal La Nouvelle Critique in 1979. As the interview shows, Lefebvre’s renewed engagement with the PCF was neither nostalgic nor opportunistic but grounded in his conviction that Marxism required continual theoretical renegotiation if it was to remain capable of grasping contemporary reality.

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A Timely Book on Urgent Questions: Marx’s Theory of Value at the Frontiers

World Trotskyism in 2025: A Brief Sketch

Jakob Moneta (1914–2012): Jewish Internationalist and Socialist Trade Unionist

Journals

Dec 2025 | journal

VOLUME 33, ISSUE 2, 2025

Sep 2025 | journal

VOLUME 33, ISSUE 1, 2025

May 2025 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 4, 2024

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21st Jul 2026 12:00 | event

Historical Materialism Rio 2026

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Historical Materialism Barcelona

16th Apr 2026 12:00 | event

Historical Materialism Cluj / Kolozsvár

Books

Mar 2026 | book-series

Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen. Towards Counter-Cinema

Mar 2026 | book-series

Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism. A Selection, Volume 2

Feb 2025 | book-series

Artists and Radicalism in Germany, 1890–1933. Reform, Politics and the Paradoxes of the Avant-Garde

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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?

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Palestine

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Marxism and Health

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Insurgent Universality

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