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We are writing to announce that the Twenty-Fourth Alternative Futures and Popular Protest Conference will be held on 15-17^th April 2019 at the University of Manchester. From 1995 to 2018 this hugely successful international conference was organised by Colin Barker and Mike Tyldesley at MMU. Colin and Mike are now retired, and so we are very pleased to be able to move the conference half a mile down Oxford Road, to the UoM. 

Workshop on ‘Biological Thought and the German Left’. 

Marx and Marxism 2019: Marxism without taboos – confronting oppressions

From Lucas Poy (University of Buenos Aires / CEHTI / Argentina)  of the Social History Portal News Service: 

Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles by Marcelo Hoffman 

Revolutionary Left in Sub-Saharan Africa (1960’s-1970’s) – a political and social history to be written | H-Luso-Africa | H-Net

Available in print and Open Access:

Socialist Resistance present:

Quite rightly, over the last few days we have been honouring the memory of Rosa Luxemburg, but hagiography is not a Marxist genre and commemoration should always be allied to critical appreciation. In this spirit, I strongly recommend these pieces from Historical Materialism:

Call for Abstracts: Irreligion and the Critique of Religion
Deadline: 24 March 2019

Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge)

First International Theoretical Encounter in Havana “Leon Trotsky: life and contemporaneity.” An academic approach. A tribute to the Centenary of the Communist International.