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A Spectre is Haunting Europe. Transmisogyny and the Far-Right Critique of Global Capitalism

If the contemporary European far right were to rewrite The Communist Manifesto, they would likely begin their account of contemporary “globalist” ills with that very statement. For the far right, transmisogyny expresses a form of righteous violence against a world where things have gone out of joint. In 2022, at the height of alt-right culture wars,

Marx and Engels as Polyglots

Historical Materialism Conference East and Southeast Asia 2025 – Schedule

Statement by the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism

Journals

May 2025 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 4, 2024

Dec 2024 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 3, 2024

Nov 2024 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 2, 2024

Events

6th Nov 2025 12:00 | event

Twenty-Second Annual Conference

23rd Jul 2025 9:00 | event

Historical Materialism Conference in East and Southeast Asia 2025

26th Jun 2025 9:00 | event

Historical Materialism Paris 2025 (26-28 Juin 2025): Conjurer la catastrophe / Combating the Catastrophe

Books

Aug 2025 | book-series

The Collapse of the Weimar Republic. Political Economy and Crisis

Sep 2025 | book-series

Hellworld: The Human Species and the Planetary Factory

Sep 2025 | book-series

The Constitution of Socialism. A World without Capital

Networks

Podcast

Broadcasts

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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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