Type: Announcement

There is currently an open call for funded residencies at Mayday Rooms.  They are advertising as widely as possible to engage different communities of resistance whose histories are underrepresented in our archival collection.  Please circulate to whoever you think might be interested. http://maydayrooms.org/open-call-for-residencies/ or retweet from https://twitter.com/maydayrooms

English translation of Livio Maitan’s Towards a history of the Fourth International   The IIRE is raising funds for the English translation of Livio Maitans _Per una storia della IV internazionale: la testimonianza di un comunista controcorrente._ In this book Livio Maitan (1923-2004) relates his experience of being a revolutionary communist during the second half of the

Announcing Radical Philosophy series 2! Critical projects that seek to sustain themselves over a long stretch of time have to change if they are to avoid becoming part of an establishment. And if they are prepared to change, they have to change more than once. Radical Philosophy began as a magazine produced on typewriters and

The deadline for the HM London Conference has been extended until 15 May. CALL FOR PAPERS Revolutions Against Capital, Capital Against Revolutions? http://conference.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/hmlondon/annual14/schedConf/cfp One hundred years ago, hailing the Russian Revolution, Antonio Gramsci characterised the Bolsheviks’ success as a ‘revolution against Capital’. As against the interpretations of mechanical ‘Marxism’, the Russian Revolution was the ‘crucial

The list of books for review in HM has been updated. If you wish to review any of these books, or would like to propose other books for review, please write to sebastian.budgen@clara.co.uk 

Historical Materialism New York starts this Friday, April 21st, at NYU with its opening plenary ‘Class Composition and Strategy Today.’ The conference, titled ‘Resurgent Radicalism in a Polarized World,’ will feature dozens of important panels and discussions across the weekend, including sessions organized by co-sponors, Verso Books, Haymarket Books, Viewpoint Magazine, Jacobin, Salvage, and others. 

The preliminary schedule for the HMNY conference is now available online:  http://hmny.org/preliminary-schedule/

Now Online: Historical Materialism, Volume 25, Issue 1, 2017 http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/1569206x/25/1

PLEASE SHARE WIDELY: One hundred years after the Russian Revolution resurgent left militancy and moves towards socialism coincide with an empowered right, itself emboldened by the crises of politics and capital. This is an age of social uncertainty – pregnant with possibility as well as peril. Join the HMNYC 2017 conference as radical left theory

Finally online the website: http://marx200.org/ and English:http://marx200.org/en The website regards the three big anniversaries in 2017/2018: 100 years russion revolution, 150 years Capital, and 200 years Marx.   On the site you will find, in English and German, among others conferences worldwide around the three anniversaries, all the german forewords of Capital and Manifesto (the

This Virtual Special Issue brings together a selection of articles from Revolutionary Russia to commemorate the centenary of the momentous events in Russia over the course of 1917. It was a year that witnessed the demise of autocracy, popular revolution, the spread of democracy, and the rise of revolutionary socialism that would shape Russia, Europe and the international system

Wang Shiwei (1907-47) was a writer and translator. He is best known in China today as the author (in 1942) of “Wild Lily”, an essay supportive but critical of China’s wartime Communist Party, for which he worked as a writer in Yan’an, the Chinese Communists’ capital in the Anti-Japanese War. Wang Shiwei, though not himself