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, negotiating highly punitive border regimes), to take time off work, interrupt organising work, write papers whilst juggling a million other demands, in order to come here to London for these 4 very intense days.
The hope and the political and intellectual nourishment that this gathering creates are invaluable especially in a moment where the forces of reaction try to make these gatherings more and more difficult.
The success of the conference is an expression of the continuous pertinence of critical Marxist theory in these times of reaction, genocide and impending extinction. It also underlines the importance of trenchant, insightful and comradely debate among Marxists as the indispensable condition for the urgently needed new emancipatory projects.
Moreover, this attendance was yet another demonstration of support and solidarity for the broader HM project, and, from our part we reiterate our commitment to improving and expanding it.
At the same time, we know that the conference wasn’t perfect, so we warmly welcome comradely and constructive feedback and suggestions for improvements at conference@historicalmaterialism.org
For those who require receipts and/or certificates of attendance, these will be issued in the coming week or so. Please be patient with us while we attend to this but feel free to chase us over the coming fortnight.
The conference and the broader HM project cannot continue to thrive unless you help us materially, and this involves three things:
- Subscribing as an individual to the journal or encouraging your university libraries to take out subscriptions. For attendees of the conference, you can take advantage of a 35% discount on individual subscriptions to Historical Materialism, and gain access to 1,500 pages of cutting-edge Marxist theory each year. To subscribe, email customerservices@brill.com and mention the discount code: 71697
- Buying the books in the HM Book Series, either by getting your library to buy the Brill editions (www.brill.com/hm) or by buying the Haymarket paperbacks (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/series_collections/1-historical-materialism). Particularly for those based in North America, it is worth taking a look at the Haymarket Historical Materialism book club: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/894-haymarket-book-club-historical-materialism-series
iii. And helping us with our current crowdfunding translation projects: https://www.toledotranslationfund.org/hans_hautmann_s_1987_volume_history_of_the_austrian_council_movement_1918_24
https://www.toledotranslationfund.org/german_october_bayerlein and
https://www.toledotranslationfund.org/raniero_panzieri_works
If you gave a paper at the conference, we also encourage you to submit an article to the journal at https://www.editorialmanager.com/hima and to submit book projects to info@historicalmaterialism.org. Further details about the journal submission process can be found here: https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/instructions-for-authors.
Our website https://www.historicalmaterialism.org has been upgraded and is constantly updated with new material. We welcome book reviews and other interventions for it!
Do not forget to subscribe to our Newsletter which is replacing our e-mail list: https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/newsletter/
Do not forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@historical_materialism_journal
And, of course, do not forget the upcoming Historical Materialism conferences outside London:
Historical Materialism Istanbul 3-5 April 2006
Historical Materialism Barcelona 2-4 July 2026
https://historicalmaterialismbcn.net/
Historical Materialism Rio de Janeiro, 15-17 July 2026
