Conferences

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Radical Assembly wants to offer the stage to explore these questions by creating a comradely and egalitarian space of dialogue for Marxists. Following the legacy of the Socialist Scholars Conference and the Left Forum, and based on the successful model of the international network of Historical Materialism conferences around the world, Radical Assembly will be an inclusive and non-sectarian gathering for thinking about the great problems that we are facing and how to best understand and address them. Keenly analytical but not trapped within a sterile scholasticism, we encourage papers and panels that attempt to explain social phenomena and explore concepts and ideas with an eye toward transforming and overcoming the authoritarian present. Our first conference will take place on the campus of Borough of Manhattan Community College from April 22-24, 2027.

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The conference brings together debates on Marxist theory, labour, imperialism, neofascism, feminisms, social reproduction, platform capitalism, artificial intelligence, dependency, ecological crisis, culture, art, education, the state and social struggles. The plenaries focus on Marxist Theory Today on Tuesday, Imperialisms and Neofascisms on Wednesday, and Social Struggles in Latin America and the World on Thursday.

Call for Paper is Online and submission form open! Planetary Warscapes Ablaze: Imperial Mutations in Infernal Times 5-8 November 2026, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London *DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS HAS NOW PASSED*

Registration is open and programme is online! Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order 6-9 November 2025, SOAS, Russell Square, Central London Deadline for abstracts: Friday 16 May 2025

Since the mid-2010s, East and Southeast Asia have witnessed an unending chain of uneven uprisings against interlocking oppressive processes of racial capitalist accumulation. This new conjuncture has emerged during an interregnum of multipolar competition for global military domination and financial hegemony. It is characterized by counter-revolutions of the global right and authoritarian regimes with muscular ethnocentric aspirations for settler and imperial consolidation. The mobilization of US military allies in the Asia-Pacific to suppress support for Palestinian liberation, the Chinese extraction of frontier resources through infrastructural development, and Russia’s imperial rhetoric in its invasion of Ukraine demonstrate such ongoing geopolitical competition. Other Asian states, even those not situated at the extreme end of the rightwing and authoritarian spectrum, likewise participate as sub-empires in the process of global capital accumulation—violently subsuming in the process their peripheral regions and ethnic minorities for resources and labor. This sub-imperial dynamic is evident in the relationships between Japan and Okinawa, Indonesia and West Papua, Taiwan and the country’s indigenous people, and Myanmar and the Rohingya.

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We now live in a world of genocide and disaster. That we are witnessing the Israeli war machine destroying Gaza and attacking Lebanon while the Earth is crossing one ‘climate-change’ threshold after another suggests that catastrophe is becoming the ‘new normal’ of contemporary capitalism.

Countering the Plague: Forces of Reaction and War and How to Fight Them 7–10 November 2024 Registration is open and Draft Programme is out SOAS, Russell Square, Central London For inquiries contact: conference@historicalmaterialism.org