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The Making of Capitalism in France: Class Structures, Economic Development, the State and the Formation of the French Working Class, 1750-1914 Author: Xavier Lafrance Very few authors have addressed the origins of capitalism in France as the emergence of a distinct form of historical society, premised on a new configuration of social power, rather than as an

Some of you attended the screening of the film “Golden Dawn – A Personal Affair” in May 2016 in London (SOAS), introduced by the director, Angelique Kourounis, and  organised by the Antifascist Action for Greece. At present the director and her team are making a new documentary that highlights the rise of Golden Dawn and

Now published: Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism and Translation, Volume 2   The second issue of Barricade: A Journal of Antifascism and Translation is available online! You can find this issue’s texts on our website barricadejournal.org. As ever, Barricade is free and open-access online, with a print edition available through Cicada Press. Volume 2 features works translated into English for the first time

We are happy to announce the publication of the fifth issue of Rab-Rab: Journal of Political and Formal Inquiries in Art! The new issue of Rab-Rab includes stories about nation traitors, fierce masses, socialist women struggles, love-forms, psychedelic counter-revolutionaries, workers unions, Brecht fiddlers, jazz surrealism, Soviet trains, and anti-fascism.  Among the contributors to the fifth issue

Did you know you can also follow us on Twitter @histmat ?

From dVERSIA: On behalf of dversia magazine’s editorial collective I wanted to reach out and kindly ask you for your support for the crowd-funding campaign we just started. It would be great if you could circulate the info over your networks. We are a small independent left collective issuing an online journal and annual printed anthologies.

Please vote for the 10 articles from HM you would like to see freed from the paywall, by sending an email to historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk with “Paywall” in the Subject line. Deadline 22 June. https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/hima-overview.xml?rskey=zCfEQS&result=1  

COLLECTED WORKS, VOLUME 3 BY V.I. LENIN OUT NOW https://www.versobooks.com/books/2874-collected-works-volume-3 ———- Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to understand the twentieth century, capitalism, the Russian Revolution,

Please visit the website celebrating the life and work of Erik Olin Wright: https://thelifeandworkoferikolinwright.wordpress.com/

Please note that you can access the audio archives of the IIRE here. 

Launching “Naqḍ” Research Project    Under the Early Career Grant from the Andrew Mellon Foundation “Extimacies: Critical Theory from the Global South” headed by Dr. Nadia Bou Ali at the American University of Beirut, we are launching “Naqḍ” research project coordinated by Abdallah El Ayache. Naqḍ in Arabic means at once critique, negation, and caesura. Naqḍ as a research project seeks to establish

The schedule for HM Athens is now online. You can see it here.