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In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987-2025)

‘Our subjective horizon is the optimism of the intellect; our objective, structuring condition is pessimism of the will. Without optimism of the intellect, we have the party without the people. Without pessimism of the will, we have the illusion of power. Until we recognize this there is no path for action.’[1] Asad Haider It is

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Fully Emasculated, Red Lipstick Communism Now!

Enemies, Comrades, and The Counterrevolutionary Logic of Cisness

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Sep 2025 | journal

VOLUME 33, ISSUE 1, 2025

May 2025 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 4, 2024

Dec 2024 | journal

VOLUME 32, ISSUE 3, 2024

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16th Apr 2026 12:00 | event

Historical Materialism Cluj / Kolozsvár

3rd Apr 2026 12:00 | event

Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026

6th Nov 2025 10:00 | event

Twenty-Second Annual Conference

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

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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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