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The Long Roots of Formalism in Brazil Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 157 Author: Luiz Renato Martins Editor: Juan Grigera The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism’s combined but uneven development as these appear from the global ‘periphery’. The grand project of Brasília is the main theme

The new issue of the Global Labour Journal is out. As always, all contributions are open access and can be downloaded on the website. ————— GLOBAL LABOUR JOURNAL, 10 (1), January 2019 Front Matter Editorial Editorial Board PDF ARTICLES For a Future of Work with Dignity: A Critique of the World Bank Development Report, The

From Lucas Poy (University of Buenos Aires / CEHTI / Argentina)  of the Social History Portal News Service:  Together with other colleagues, I am updating the Social History Portal News Service (https://socialhistoryportal.org/news). The website is an initiative of the International Association of Labour History Institutions (IALHI), a network that brings together archives, libraries, document centres, museums and

Militant Acts: The Role of Investigations in Radical Political Struggles by Marcelo Hoffman  The link to the SUNY Press page for the book is here: http://www.sunypress.edu/p-6670-militant-acts.aspx

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: https://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/1569206x-12341548 (See also: https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2018/02/01/rosa-luxemburgs-bloc-with-the-spd-bureaucracy/ https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2018/02/13/rosa-luxemburg-and-the-revolutionary-party-revisited/ https://johnriddell.wordpress.com/2018/02/22/rosa-luxemburg-national-liberation-and-the-defeated-polish-revolution/ ) https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/25/4/article-p37_37.xml https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/24/1/article-p135_7.xml 

Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge) South-South Development Cooperation 3.0? Changes in the Decade Ahead Tuesday, 29 January, 5-7PM Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building   The last decade or so has been a period of remarkable success for the actors, ideas and practices of South-South Cooperation. First, the number of Southern development partners

Please support HM by taking out a discounted subscription! For journal subscription and purchasing details, please go here. Individual copies are available to purchase directly from Central Brooks (sasha@centralbooks.com). Research Article: High Tech, Low Growth: Robots and the Future of Work Kim Moody Research Article: Marx’s Reading of Spinoza: On the Alleged Influence of Spinoza on Marx Bernardo Bianchi

Deadline for submissions now extended to Jan 21 for HMNYC — still time to get yours in!   http://socialisminourtime.com/proposals/

Next CSE/Capital and Class Midlands event: Hugo Radice (University of Leeds) The rise and fall of managerialism: from Veblen to shareholder value Thursday 24 January, 4.30pm University of Birmingham (Muirhead 112) In analysing capitalism we need also to understand the social relations internal to the corporation. Beyond a simple relationship between ‘owners’ and ‘workers’, this

The Los Angeles Coalition for Peace, Revolution & Social Justice invites you to a panel discussion: Eco-Socialism or Extinction: Can We Overcome the Existential Threat of Capitalism? “Before the spark reaches the dynamite, the lighted fuse must be cut.” – Walter Benjamin Sunday, January 6, 2019, 6:00-9:00 p.m. Westside Peace Center 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., near Venice

APSN has launched a new Indoleft website which includes all the Indoleft reports and Drunken Republic cartoons archived on the APSN website since 2003. The address for the new site is: https://www.indoleft.org Please help us promote the new site by telling your friends and contacts about it and sharing it on social media. — see also www.asia-pacific-solidarity.net 

Which HM articles would you nominate to be unpaywalled? https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/hima-overview.xml?rskey=zCfEQS&result=1   Reply to: sebastien.budgen@wanadoo.fr