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Socialist History Society Public Meeting Cult and Anti­Cult: Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky in the 1920s Saturday 27th January 2018 2.00pm  MARX MEMORIAL LIBRARY  37a Clerkenwell Green EC1R 0DU  nearest tube Farringdon  FREE TO ATTEND – ALL WELCOME   Speaker: Prof Kevin Morgan   The communist cult of the individual was not just a Soviet phenomenon

Historical Materialism Volume 25, Issue 3, 2017 is Now Out! You still have a short amount of time to support historicalmaterialism.org by taking advantage of our special subscription offer. Email brill@turpin-distribution.com and say that you want to benefit from this offer: Individual Print or Electronic Subscription now @ 25% discount. €57 / US$67.30 for 1,000pp a year (Discount

Application Deadline–January 15, 2018 The African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS) is pleased to announce the 2018 C.L.R. James Research Fellowship to support research towards the completion of a dissertation or publication of a book. Named after Afro-Trinidadian theorist C.L.R. James, the research fellowships are intended to promote research in black intellectual history by graduate students, independent scholars,

SECOND WORLD CONGRESS ON MARXISM Peking University, 5-6 May 2018 The World Congress on Marxism is organized every three years by Peking University in China in collaboration with the school of Marxism in Peking. In 2015, more than 200 scholars from all over the world attended the First World Congress on Marxism and most of them

Austro-Marxism: The Ideology of Unity. Volume II Changing the World: The Politics of Austro-Marxism Mark E. Blum and William Smaldone During the first half of the twentieth century, Austrian socialist thinkers such as Otto Bauer, Rudolf Hilferding, Karl Renner, and Max Adler emerged from and helped transform Austrian Social Democracy into one of Europe’s best organized

 Carlo Vercellone presents The Common as a Mode of Production. Towards a critique of the political economy of common goods.      Hosted by the Research Centre on Labour and Global Production      Thursday 14 December, 4-6pm, City Centre Seminar Room, 2nd Floor, The      Bancroft Building (31 on the map), Queen Mary University of London E1 4NS      The paper is available here:      http://generation-online.org/c/fc_rent14.htm      What is the common?

Professor Gilbert Achcar Hassan Sherry Neoliberal Dogmatism: The IMF and the ‘Arab Spring’ Tuesday, 5 December, 5-7PM Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building   The Catastrophic Consequences of Neoliberal Dogmatism in the MENA Region The neoliberal doctrine’s postulates are completely inconsistent with the realities of the MENA region. They have produced catastrophic results,

The Productive Powers of Labour and the Redundant Transformation to Prices of Production: A Marx-immanent Critique and Reconstruction Author: Geert Reuten http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/1569206x-12341538

Building capitalism Historical change and the labour process in the production of built environment Linda Clarke, Westminster University   Drawing on examples from the construction sector, divergences in the post-war development of labour differences – in particular between Britain and (West) Germany – in the nature of wage relations in the post-war era, in the

All title in the Historical Materialism series HALF PRICE   The festive season is almost upon us. Here at Haymarket, we can’t think of any better way to celebrate than by treating yourself – and your kith, kin and comrades – to some cutting edge critical Marxist theory. If you need a little more convincing,

London Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory Dr Anne Alexander (University of Cambridge) Marxist approaches to understanding Islam and Islamism: a critical reappraisal 29 November 2017 18:30-20:00 King’s College London King’s Building, room K2.31 (Nash Lecture Theatre) London WC2R 2LS The role of Islam in the contemporary world has been a highly contested topic for decades. The

Here is an update from MHI about their Annual Conference, and about some new articles (and an audio recording) in their web journal, “With Sober Senses.” [https://www.marxisthumanistinitiative.org/our-publication] The Annual Conference will take place via Skype and in select locations over the weekend of December 9-10. We welcome participation of invited guests, from anywhere in the world and