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The Second Japanese Political Economy Workshop with Professor Costas Lapavitsas will be held at Musashi University (Toyotama-kami 1-26-1, Nerima-Ku, Tokyo) on 6 July 2018. Program: 13:00-13:10    Introduction 13:10-14:00    Myles Carroll (York University, Canada) “Production, reproduction and crisis in Heisei Japan.” 14:10-15:00    Kostiantyn Ovsiannikov (University of Tsukuba) “Impact of Shareholder-value Pursuit on Labour Policies at Japanese

The deadline for abstracts has been extended a final time, to midnight GMT on 13 June 2018 ***PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER EXTENSIONS*** Main conference details page: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/fifteenth-annual-conference Submission page: https://conference.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/hmlondon/hm15 If you have had problems with submitting your abstract, please try again. Do not send it as an email. For panels, please tick all

Message from the Lukacs Archive: We stand with the Archive. And you? “The man, who wants to act, has not really huge opportunity for action. But there is no moment, when one could not do something.” (György Lukács) On 24 May 2018 the last research associate of the Georg Lukács Archives of the Hungarian Academy of

Just a reminder that registration for two forthcoming events closes on Friday 8th June.  Their first annual lecture will be held at 18:00 on Tuesday 26th June. It will be given by Professor Miguel Robles Durán of the Parsons School of Design Graduate Urban Council in New York on “The Dialectics of Parallel Urbanization: Cohabitation Strategies and the Politics of Scale“.

  Please find below the link to the Special Issue on Identity Politics for Historical Materialism Journal. We’ve made the entire issue freely available here: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/special-issue/issue-262-identity-politics Issue 26(2): Identity Politics   Introduction I | Marxist Interventions into Contemporary Debates Ashok Kumar, Dalia Gebrial, Adam Elliot-Cooper, Shruti Iyer,    Genealogies   II | No Identity Before Identity Politics: A Cultural Materialist History

PLEASE SHARE AND DONATE IF YOU CAN (Donation link here: https://www.crowdjustice.com/case/deliverjustice/ ) Following the direct action of 2016, and the following legal case, the Independent Workers’ of Great Britain are taking Deliveroo and the CAC (Central Arbitration Committee) to court to overturn their ruling that bogus ‘substitution’ clauses & loop-holes can be used by a company to

Talks from The 2017 New York Historical Materialism Conference are now available online: https://wearemany.org/event/2017/04/historical-materialism-2017-ny  

Goldsmiths Annual Philosophy Lecture Alienation & Freedom: Frantz Fanon’s Lost and Last Works Jean Khalfa and Robert J. C. Young 4-7pm 1 June 2018 LG01, Professor Stuart Hall Building Goldsmiths, University of London Since the publication of The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, Fanon’s work has been deeply significant for generations of intellectuals, philosophers and

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/interviews Interviews include: Alberto Toscano,Cathy Bergin,Costas Lapavitsas,Christian Fuchs,Matthew Smith,Kylie Jarrett,Craig Brandist,Evan Smith,Jairus Banaji,John Sexton,Nathaniel Mills,Nick Dyer-Witheford, and Stefan Kipfer.

Every year, the Deutscher Memorial Prize is awarded for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition. The committee is currently considering books published between 1 May 2017 and 30 April 2018. If you would like to nominate a book for the prize, either your own

THE ZAD AND NoTAV  Territorial Struggles and the Making of a New Political Intelligence by Mauvaise Troupe Translated by Kristin Ross Introduction and notes by Kristin Ross www.versobooks.com/books/2503-the-zad-and-notav ————— Vivid account and reflection on two struggles that are at the heart of the contestation of neoliberal technocracy and the state At a time of ever

A number of the talks from HM London 2017 are now online. More will go up soon. If you note any errors, please send them to historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk https://wearemany.org/event/2017/11/historical-materialism-2017-london