Over the past decade racism, racialisation, empire and solidarity have re-emerged as some of the most central and contested issues to contemporary political struggles. The political right has mainstreamed and instrumentalised explicit and implicit forms of racism to reach the halls of power. This racism has not simply been rhetorical, as successive right-wing governments have
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Remembering John Weeks
By Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad Filho A leading critic of economic orthodoxy who dedicated his life to building a better world. John Weeks, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the School or Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), has died aged 79 from leukaemia. In the almost fifteen years since retiring, he focused on popularising radical
Call For Papers: Race and Capital Special Issue
Over the past decade racism, racialisation, empire and solidarity have re-emerged as some of the most central and contested issues to contemporary political struggles. The political right has mainstreamed and instrumentalised explicit and implicit forms of racism to reach the halls of power. This racism has not simply been rhetorical, as successive right-wing governments have
Historical Materialism Conference only 24-hours left for online registration
Register online now before online registration closes tomorrow Tuesday 5th at midnight GMT! Go to: https://conference.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/hmlondon/annual16/schedConf/registration Final Timetable is available at: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/HM_2019.pdf And the list of abstracts: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/Abstracts_compressed.pdf
Historical Materialism 2019 begins next THURSDAY: 3 days left to register
Historical Materialism 2019 begins on THURSDAY, you have only a three days left to register in advance (registrations close on Tuesday). Register now online at: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/sixteenth-annual-conference A provisional timetable is available online and the FINAL timetable will be available at the start of the week. Don’t miss the deadline, register now! Claps
New from Brill’s Historical Materialism series: U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence
U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence Uneven and Combined Development. Dissident Marxism in the United States: Volume 4 Editors: Paul Le Blanc and Bryan D. Palmer U.S. Trotskyism 1928-1965. Part III: Resurgence: Uneven and Combined Development is the third of a documentary trilogy on a revolutionary socialist split-off from the U.S. Communist Party, reflecting Leon Trotsky’s confrontation with Stalinism
Special Issue of SAQ: What’s Left of the Left?: The View from Sudan
Introduction: Writing the Dialectic Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf Abstract View article The Free Officers and the Comrades: The Sudanese Communist Party and Nimeiri Face-to-Face, 1969–1971 Alain Gresh Abstract View article Organized Labor in Contemporary Sudan: The Story of the Railway Workers of Atbara Ahmad A. Sikainga Abstract View article The House That Matriarchy Built: The Sudanese
Historical Materialism Issue 27.2 is out now
You can find it on the HM website. http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/journal/volume-27-issue-2-2019
New from Brill’s Historical Materialism series: The Dialectic of Capital (2 vols.)
The Dialectic of Capital: A Study of the Inner Logic of Capitalism Author: Thomas Sekine This is the first book written in English that tries to expose the “thing-in-itself (or inner logic)” of capitalism in a form homomorphic to Hegel’s Logic, following the method previously established in Japan by Kôzô Uno (1987-1977). Neither ‘bourgeois-liberal’ nor even ‘conventionally-Marxist’ economics
Haymarket Books is Having a Summer Sale
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New from Brill’s Historical Materialism series: How Language Informs Mathematics: Bridging Hegelian Dialectics and Marxian Models
How Language Informs Mathematics: Bridging Hegelian Dialectics and Marxian Models Author: Dirk Damsma In How Language Informs Mathematics Damsma shows how Hegel’s and Marx’s systematic dialectical analysis of mathematical and economic language helps us understand the structure and nature of mathematical and capitalist systems. More importantly, Damsma shows how knowledge of the latter can inform model assumptions and
Comintern Project Book List Hits a Dozen
The Communist International Publishing Project 1983-2020 General Editors: John Riddell and Mike Taber With eight volumes of the originally projected series have now been published, with another scheduled for 2020. In addition, three related collaborative projects are completed or in preparation. All published books on the list, below, are available both at libraries and for