Networks
HM was created in London, UK in 1997. One of its founding objectives was to make historical materialism less anglocentric. Since then, it has developed various networks in other parts of the world. Activists and academics have organised - some on a regular basis - conferences in major cities such as Delhi, New York, Sydney, Rome, Beirut, Toronto and Motreal. These are mostly self-organised, while always maintaining links with London's editorial board.
Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Struggles Stream
6th Nov, 2016
Combatting the Right: Sexual Violence, Discrimination and Oppression and Left Responses
Call for Papers of Sexuality and Political Economy Stream
HM Athens
Latest conference: the most recent Historical Materialism Athens conference took place 24–27 April 2025, addressing an era in which, as the organisers put it, catastrophe is becoming the “new normal” of contemporary capitalism. Read more about the conference »
HM Australasia
Historical Materialism Sydney 2018 | Contesting the Survival of Capitalism | University of Sydney | 13-14 December
HM Cluj/Kolozsvár
Historical Materialism Cluj / Kolozsvár — Interregnum here & now: post-communist collapse, planetary crisis, and emancipatory resolve.
HM Istanbul
Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026 — From Catastrophe to Struggle: Rethinking Capitalism amid Wars and Disasters.
HM Montreal
Latest conference: the most recent edition of The Great Transition — the Montreal chapter of the Historical Materialism network — took place 29 May – 1 June 2025 in Montreal, under the theme “Reviving post-capitalist solidarities,” held as part of the World Social Forum of Intersections. Visit The Great Transition website »
HM New York
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.
HM Paris
Historical Materialism Paris 2027 — The New World: Imperialism, Fascism, and Class Struggle.
HM Rio
Historical Materialism Rio 2026 — Beyond the Commodification of Life: Social Struggles and Possible Futures.
