Historical Materialism | Research in Critical Marxist Theory

Who Was Larisa Reisner? An Interview with Cathy Porter

Cathy Porter, author and translator, educated at London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies and Cambridge University, has published over twenty books on Russian history, culture and politics, most recently Larisa Reisner. A Biography (2nd ed., Brill/Historical Materialism/Haymarket, 2022), shortlisted for the Isaac Deutscher Memorial Prize, and its accompanying volume Writings of Larisa Reisner,

An Introduction to Guy Debord’s The Society of the Spectacle

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

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

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

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

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

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Podcast

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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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