Prof. Costas Lapavitsas and Dr. Geoffrey Ingham discuss ‘Thinking about Money’ on 18 January 2017 at the SOAS, London. https://soundcloud.com/soaseconomics/thinking-about-money-part-i The recording is part of the symposium and launch of Marxist Monetary Theory,a collection of papers by Costas Lapavitsas part of the HM book series published by Brill. Money and finance are pre-eminent, even dominant, features of contemporary capitalism. Costas Lapavitsas
Richard Seymour on Enzo Traverso and Daniel Bensaïd Richard Seymour is an author, broadcaster and a founding editor of Salvage. Most recently he is the author ofCorbyn: The Strange Rebirth of Radical Politics (Verso, 2016). This review was originally posted on hisblog Lenin’s Tomb on 28 December 2016, and is a helpful introduction to Historical
Historical Materialism’s London Annual Conference 10-13 November 2016 Please find here the audio recording of the conference’s closing plenary session that took place Sunday 13 November, 17.15-19.00. With Ashok Kumar, Tithi Bhattacharya, Susan Ferguson and David McNally. Chair: Ashok Kumar Tithi Bhattacharya – The Ontology of Labour Power: Producing and Social Reproducing Capital Susan Ferguson – The Child, the Market, and Capitalism: a
Tony Norfield reviews François Chesnais’s Finance Capital Today: Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump, Brill, Leiden, 2016. Tony Norfield worked for nearly 20 years in the dealing rooms of banks in the City of London, completing his role as Executive Director and Global Head of FX Strategy for ABN AMRO. He has a
HM London 2016 conference: Panagiotis Sotiris on Rethinking Popular Sovereignty: From the Nation to the People of a Potential New Historical Bloc Abstract[1] During the past decades traditional notions of sovereignty have been challenged in Europe. First, we have the erosion of sovereignty induced by the process of European Integration. Secondly, the new waves of
HM London 2016 conference: Pete Green on Michael Roberts’s The Long Depression. Pete Green is an independent researcher, retired Further Education lecturer and UCU activist in the UK. The panel discussion of The Long Depression, therecent book by Michael Roberts, was one of the highlights of this year’s 2016 Historical Materialism conference in London. Michael himself
This archive piece from 2002 attempts to frame a Marxist agenda in the study of sexuality at the start of the 21st Century. By Paul Reynolds. Marxism might be regarded as having been conspicuously absent from the development of the study of sexuality and the politics of sexual identity and orientation since the 1970’s.[1]
The following article by Jairus Banaji is part of a forthcoming symposium on Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu’s How the West Came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism (Pluto, 2015) to be published in Historical Materialism. Anievas and Nisancioglu’s work has been recently awarded the International Political Economy Working Group Book Prize of 2016 (British International Studies Association)
HM London 2016 Conference: Panel on Michael Roberts’s The Long Depression Michael Roberts is a private researcher who has worked as an economist in the City of London for over 30 years. He is the author of The Great Recession – a Marxist View (2009, Lulu Press) and The Long Depression(2016, Haymarket Publications). He has
HM London 2016 conference: Jim Kincaid on Michael Roberts Jim Kincaid is an independent researcher based in Leeds, West Yorkshire (UK). Previously Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Bradford University, he has been associated with Historical Materialism since 2002, first as member of the Editorial Board, and now as a corresponding editor. He has published articles in
Talk given at Birkbeck, University of London, on 22 September 2016 for the occasion of the publication of Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller: Tales out of Loneliness, Edited and translated by Sam Dolbear, Esther Leslie, and Sebastian Truskolaski. Illustrated by Paul Klee, Verso, London 2016 Walter Benjamin’s The Storyteller: : Tales Out of Loneliness is an edition of
Miriyam Aouragh writes on the recent protests in Morocco following the death of Mohsin Fikri Poster by Contemporary Bart As Morocco’s streets roiled with protest, we looked with astonishment and even mistook some of the videos for scenes of the 2011 uprisings. It is not an exaggeration to say that, yet again, the whole country rose up.
