Type: Announcement

SPECIAL PANEL EVENT: Dr Susanne Jaspars (SOAS University of London), Professor Laura Hammond (SOAS University of London), Professor David Keen (LSE) Power, Politics, and Profit: The History of Food Aid in Conflict and Protracted Crisis Tuesday, 4 December, 5-7PM Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building Food aid, and its withdrawal, has been used

The new Institute for International Management at Loughborough University London has one PhD studentship available. Students seeking to do a PhD thesis on comparative political economy, employment relations and/or the labour process, including Marxist and/or institutionalist approaches, may contact Matt Vidal directly (mgvidal@gmail.com).  The common theme uniting the research focus of the Institute is the

50% off all these HM Book Series books until 2 January! https://www.haymarketbooks.org/series_collections/1-historical-materialism

Thanks so much to all who participated in and helped organise #HM2018! The consensus seems to be that this was one of our very best editions and we had 800 registrations, which is a big increase on last year. We would be keen to hear your comments and constructive suggestions at historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk You can also get

New Special Issue,  Augmenting the Left,  Global Discourse volume 8, issue 2.  ABSTRACT Nine papers with respective replies, grounded in Marxist traditions, analyse the potential for social transformation through a reinvigorated radical Left, all within the context of the ascendance of the far Right worldwide. Papers variously take up new lines of analysis, while also identifying and theorizing strategies and possibilities for

From the editors of the Marxist Sociology Blog:  We are delighted to announce a relaunch of the Marxist Sociology Blog! It is a public sociology blog aimed at publishing Marxist theory, research, commentary and debate for a general public audience.  We will be regularly publishing short articles (around 1,000 words each) in accessible language with

Reflections on the Legacy of 1968 Meeting & Discussion 2- 4 pm Saturday 17th November 2018  Speakers Mike Makin­Waite Author of Communism and Democracy and Prof David Parker Author of Letters of Solidarity and Friendship: Czechoslavakia 1968-1971 Chaired by Prof Willie Thompson MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY 37a Clerkenwell Green EC1R 0DU nearest tube Farringdon Organised by the Socialist

The final HM conference timetable is up online. Abstracts are also available.  http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/fifteenth-annual-conference

The final HM conference timetable is up online. Abstracts are also available.  http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/fifteenth-annual-conference

SYMPOSIUM Dr Alpa Shah (LSE, University of London) Kheya Bag (New Left Review) Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerrillas Tuesday, 30 October, 5-7PM Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building   Alpa Shah and Kheya Bag discuss some of the insights in Shah’s new book, Nightmarch: Among India’s Revolutionary Guerillas. Nightmarch refers to a seven-night

If you can offer a bed or a sofa to a comrade during the HM London conference (8-11 Nov), please send us an email at historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk. Interesting breakfast conversations guaranteed!

The Lost Revolution: The Women’s Antifascist Front between Myth and Forgetting presents the history of the largest revolutionary women’s movement outside of Russia and China, which mobilised millions of women in the liberation of Yugoslavia by the Partisan armies during the Second World War.   A pioneering attempt to critically examine the revolutionary traditions of the