What’s New – 21st March 2023

– Verso Theory Sale: New Works of Theory in Context https://www.versobooks.com/lists/5283-verso-theory-sale-new-works-of-theory-in-context – Forthcoming:* Raising the Red Flag: Marxism, Labourism, and the Roots of British Communism, 1884–1921, by Tony Collins. * Paperback edition from Haymarket Books out 12 months after hardback edition https://brill.com/display/title/64893?language=en – Forthcoming:* Communes and Conflict: Urban Rebellion in Late Mediaeval Flanders, by Jelle

What’s New – 9th March 2023

– The Rise of Neo-Fascism hybrid symposium, Mar 31, 12-4:15pm, with Nicholas De Genova, Gerald Horne, Sarasij Majumder, David McNally, Alberto Toscano, Nancy Beck Young, and Luca Oliva, University of Houston, Classrooms and Business Building, Room 108 & Live Streaming https://uh.edu/infotech/services/streaming-media/events/class/ccs/ –  CLSGC Lecture: A Century after Pan-African Congress, London: Pan-Africanism and the Making of Black

What’s New – 28th February 2023

– SOAS Politics Departmental Seminar Series, in collaboration with the Department of Development Studies, presents: Book launch of ‘The New Cold War: The United States, Russia and China, from Kosovo to Ukraine’ (Westbourne Press, 2023) by Prof. Gilbert Achcar https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-launch-the-new-cold-war-by-prof-gilbert-achcar-tickets-558251574487 – CfP for a forthcoming special issue of Radical History Review. Deadline is 1st May 2023.https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/2022/08/05/after-the-economic-miracle-due-may-1-2023/

What’s New – 22nd February 2023

– Struggles in the Concrete – Architecture, Architectural History and the Marxist Tradition An Architecture Space and Society Centre Conference 27-28 April 2023 http://www7.bbk.ac.uk/assc/2023/01/23/struggles-in-the-concrete-architecture-architectural-history-and-the-marxist-tradition/ – Recent HM articles that are temporarily available for free or are Open Access https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/aop/article-10.1163-1569206x-00002093/article-10.1163-1569206x-00002093.xml?language=en https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/30/4/article-p3_1.xml?language=en https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/30/4/article-p55_2.xml?language=en https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/30/4/article-p108_7.xml https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/30/4/article-p125_8.xml?language=en https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/30/4/article-p137_9.xml?language=en – The Problem of Class Abstractionism @ Sociological Theory https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/07352751231152489 –

What’s New – 9th February 2023

– THE NEW OLD WARS: Raul Sanchez Cedillo, Michael Hardt, Arseny Kumankov, Artemy Magun, Sandro Mezzadra, Svitlana Matvienko, Feb 11, 10 AM ET The New Old Wars – Institute for Global Reconstitution (igrec.io):https://igrec.io/the-new-old-wars/ – The Politics of Hope and Indignation, Two Case Studies, Professor Darko Suvin, McGill University, Wednesday February 8th, 2.00-4.00pm (Online). To book

What’s New – 5th February 2023

– New HM podcast! Landownership and Class. Historical Materialism Podcast Are landowners a ‘third class’ beyond capitalists and workers? Or are landowners simply a class fraction of capitalists? How can tenants resist the power of the landowning class? In this episode, Lukas Slothuus and Ashok Kumar talk with Francesca T.C. Manning, author of A Defence

What’s New – 20th January 2023

– Revised Date: ‘How to be a Marxist in the Academy: Althusserian Theories of Education’. A roundtable discussion of Althusser’s thinking on education, pedagogy, student politics and educational labour, Tue, 28 February 2023, 18:00 – 20:00 GMT https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/how-to-be-a-marxist-in-the-academy-athusserian-theories-of-education-tickets-505854453287 – Mandel Centenary video project- please donate to our crowdfunder! https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/ernest-mandel-centenary-video – Celebration of the life and

What’s New – 16th January 2023

– Celebrate the Life and Work of Jeffrey B. Perry https://www.eventbrite.com/e/celebrate-the-life-and-work-of-jeffrey-b-perry-tickets-497232274117 – CfP: 4th Seminar Work and Workers in Latin America and the Caribbean. Information and Email to send proposals: https://trabalhoetrabalhadoresnaamericalatinaecaribe.net/iv-seminario-trabalho-e-trabalhadores-na-america-latina-e-caribe/ – YouTube video: Towards a Queer Marxism: A Roundtable Discussion https://youtu.be/YiGmMunNVFs – JPE Musashi Online International Symposium on Secular Stagnation as a New Great

What’s New – 22nd December 2022

– Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory: Paul Cammack, Surbhi Kesar, and Lucia Pradella on The Politics of Global Competitiveness, Wednesday 18 January.  1600-1800hrs GMT. The seminar will take place on Zoom: please register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0oc-CtrT8rHtcdjuhwkmuCJ3M_CzFqWKfnhttps://whatsworthreading.weebly.com/ – Now out: James Connolly: Socialist, Nationalist and Internationalist by Liam McNulty https://www.jamesconnolly.ie/is-the-voice-of-james-connolly-silenced-by-a-british-bullet-in-1916-coming-back/ – Now Out: Paths of Revolution: Selected

What’s New –19th November 2022

– Book Launch & Exhibition: Mutant Ecologies by Asbjørn Skou, 23 November 2022, 16:00 to 18:00, The Exchange, Strand Campus, London. More info: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/book-launch-exhibition-mutant-ecologies]/ Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-exhibition-mutant-ecologies-tickets-469872450147 – Call for Papers for the International Marxist-Feminist Conference: Body, Work and Care in Contemporary Digital Capitalism, 16-18 Nov 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. More details here: https://www.transform-network.net/en/calendar/event/international-marxist-feminist-conference-body-work-and-care-in-contemporary-digital-capitalism/ – Crowdfunder: Plaque

What’s New – 27th October 2022

– Next Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory: Revolution and Counterrevolution in China, with Lin Chun (LSE), Wednesday 2 November 2022, 4-6pm GMT, King’s College London, Strand campus WC2R 2LS, Room: KINGS BLDG K2.31 (Nash Lecture Theatre). Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/professor-chun-lin-revolution-and-counterrevolution-in-china-book-launch-tickets-435576078777?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=escb – Christopher Hill and the English Revolution: 50 years after TWTUD https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/christopher-hill-and-the-english-revolution-50-years-after-twtud-tickets-429290016997 – The Lost Voice of Lulii

CFP HM Special Issue: Palestine/Israel and the Critique of Capitalism 

Send 300 word abstracts: hmpalestineisraelissue@gmail.com.  Abstract Deadline Extended: 14th January Full Submission Deadline: 23rd May Guest Editors: Raja Khalidi, Matan Kaminer, Nijmeh Ali, Abed Kanaaneh, Oded Nir, and Heba Taha.  In the introduction to his recent book, Kareem Rabie observes that “in Palestine, [capitalist] planning is in large part a form of speculation that implies a future