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TROTSKY’S CHALLENGE: THE LITERARY DISCUSSION OF 1924 AND THE FIGHT FOR THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION FREDERICK C CORNEY   Trotsky’s analysis in Lessons of October ran counter to the efforts of Bolshevik leaders to depict October as a foundational event in which the Bolshevik Party, and its clear-sighted leader Lenin, played the major role in bringing

New book reviews have been published on Alternate Routes  http://www.alternateroutes.ca/index.php/ar/pages/view/BookReviewsCurrent Escape from the Staple Trap. Canadian Political Economy after Left Nationalism Reviewed by Robert Marshall The Winter is Over: Writings on Transformation Denied 1989-1995 Reviewed by A.T. Kingsmith Making Peace with the Earth Reviewed by Christoph Neusiedl Gramsci on Tahrir: Revolution and Counter Revolution in Egypt

Dear friends and comrades, Please find below a list of new and previously published content on the Historical Materialism website. Thanks to the authors, and to you all for sharing their work and supporting the journal and its activities. Recent content: */Articles/* A Revolutionary Lifeline: Teaching Fanon in a Postcolonial World by Sara Salem Althusser and Poulantzas: Hegemony

MARXISM AND HISTORICAL PRACTICE VOL. 1: INTERPRETIVE ESSAYS ON CLASS FORMATION AND CLASS STRUGGLE BRYAN D. PALMER   NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FROM HAYMARKET BOOKS   The pieces collected here offer a stimulating, empirically grounded survey of North American collective behavior, popular mobilizations, and social struggles. What emerges is Palmer’s sustained reflection on long-standing interpretive

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DELIVERANCE FROM SLAVERY: ATTEMPTING A BIBLICAL THEOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF LIBERATION DICK BOER   NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FROM HAYMARKET BOOKS In this wide-ranging volume, Dick Boer argues that the biblical watchword ‘delivery from slavery’ offers the key to translating the message of the exodus from slavery into a theory and practice relevant to

Historical Materialism Volume 25, Issue 2, 2017 Now Online http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/1569206x/25/2

RACISM, XENOPHOBIA, AND IMMIGRATION: A MARXIST CRITIQUE SUNDAY, AUGUST 20, 2017    6:00-8:00 PM Art Share 801 East Fourth Place (Arts District) Los Ángeles (Free parking in lot across the street on Hewitt St. by the Aztec calendar)   Speakers: Lilia D. Monzo Rene Moya   As the effects of the global capitalist crisis persist,

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PROPHETS UNARMED: CHINESE TROTSKYISTS IN REVOLUTION, WAR, JAIL, AND THE THE RETURN FROM LIMBO GREGOR BENTON   NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FROM HAYMARKET BOOKS   Prophets Unarmed is an authoritative sourcebook on the Chinese Communist Party’s main early opposition, the Chinese Trotskyists. Opposed from Moscow by Stalin, and by Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Zedong in

AUSTRO-MARXISM: THE IDEOLOGY OF UNITY. AUSTRO-MARXIST THEORY AND STRATEGY. VOLUME 1. MARK E. BLUM AND WILLIAM SMALDONE   NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK FROM HAYMARKET BOOKS   Though largely unknown to the English-speaking world, the Austro-Marxist school of thinkers offered a number of essential theoretical insights into the issues faced by the burgeoning socialist movement of

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