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–  Book Launch: Claude McKay – The Making of a Black Bolshevik https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-claude-mckay-the-making-of-a-black-bolshevik-tickets-423341504837 – Freedom, Now – A lecture by Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, University of London) on democracy, liberalism and the threat of fascism.https://www.eventbrite.com/e/freedom-now-tickets-392472103627 – Notes on Contemporary University Struggles: A Dossier – Viewpoint Magazinehttps://viewpointmag.com/2022/01/19/notes-on-contemporary-university-struggles-a-dossier/ – Panel: Guy Debord and The Society of the Spectacle

– Those who fought with Orwell. The international volunteers of the POUM – a talk by Andy Durgan https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/those-who-fought-with-orwell-the-international-volunteers-of-the-poum-tickets-405142862207 – Call for Papers: New Political Science – Capitalism and American Political Development. https://networks.h-net.org/node/8585/discussions/10909307/call-papers-capitalism-and-american-political-development – New reviews and an updated list of books for review recently published online in the Marx and Philosophy Review of Books https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/submissions

– The Deutscher Prize Committee is pleased to announce the shortlisted books for this year’s prize: Ilya Budraitskis – Dissidents among Dissidents Ideology, Politics and the Left in Post-Soviet Russia Kolja Lindner – Marx, Marxism and the Question of Eurocentrism Silvia Federici – Patriarchy of the Wage: Notes on Marx, Gender, and Feminism Gabriel Winant –

–  September 15th 23.30 BST Marx’s Critique of the Gotha Programme – Contemporary Reflections (a new edition published by PM Press with Peter Hudis and Kevin Anderson in conversation) https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/marxs-critique-of-the-gotha-programme-contemporary-reflections-tickets-412489756967 – Registration is open for the Nineteenth Historical Materialism Conference (10-13 November, @SOAS, Central London) https://conference.historicalmaterialism.org/event/3/registrations/1/ Please remember that this year, the conference is being

– Introducing “Marxism in our Time”, a new initiative from the Deutscher Prize:http://www.deutscherprize.org.uk/wp/podcast-interviews-with-shortlist-authors/ Featuring interviews with all the authors that made the 2020 shortlist. The first three episodes are now available to stream on iTunes, Spotify, and PodBean. In our latest episode, committee member Alex Colas is joined by Maïa Pal to discusses themes from Pal’s 2020

– Contested Concepts of Property in Past & Present, 4-5.10.2022, in Jena. The current version of the program can be found on our website:  https://sfb294-eigentum.de/en/events/sfb-jahrestagung/ Registrations for the conference are now possible at:  anmeldung.sfb-eigentum@uni-jena.de.  – Call for Applications from the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation’s International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies (IRGAC) for postdoctoral fellowships at research

– Tyrus Miller’s Modernism and the Frankfurt School (Edinburgh University Press, 2014) is now available in open access for free download as an e-book. It can be accessed by ordering the e-book at: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-modernism-and-the-frankfurt-school.html – Recording Now Available for Viewing: Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World,Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás

– Forthcoming*: Communism and the Avant-Garde in Weimar Germany – A Selection of Documents by Ben Fowkes. * Paperback edition available from Haymarket Books 12 months after Brill edition https://brill.com/view/title/33847?language=en – Forthcoming*: The Specificity of the Aesthetic, Volume 1, by Georg Lukacs . Volume Editors: Erik Bachman and Tyrus Miller. *Paperback edition available from Haymarket

– Launch of Clark McAllister’s “Karl Marx’s Workers’ Inquiry: International History, Reception, and Responses”, published by Notes from Below. Saturday 9th of July, from 5pm at Mayday Rooms, London. Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-of-karl-marxs-workers-inquiry-by-clark-mcallister-tickets-370474137117 Live-streamed here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhCucOO9Dvs&feature=youtu.be – Delivery as Dispossession: Land Occupation and Eviction in the Postapartheid City (Oxford University Press, April 2022) by Zachary Levenson.

Historical Materialism London 2022 Call for Abstracts 10-13 November 2022 @Central London Deadline for abstracts: 25 July 2022 https://conference.historicalmaterialism.org/   For all enquiries, please contact: historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk The war in Ukraine is a brutal and tragic reminder of the fact that imperial ambitions, inter-imperialist rivalry, and nationalism can easily escalate into open warfare, in ways that risk generalised

–  Étienne Balibar y la igualibertad. https://isegoria.revistas.csic.es/index.php/isegoria/announcement/view/34 – Forthcoming:* Larisa Reisner. A Biography, by Catherine Porter. * Paperback edition out with Haymarket Books 12 months after the hardback. https://brill.com/view/title/31852?language=en – Forthcoming:* Fundamental Problems of the Sociology of Thinking, by Konstantin Megrelidze, edited by Craig Brandist, and translated by Jeff Skinner. * Paperback edition published by

–  From Brett Story: Calling for help on an archival film about post-war socialism and the new left. They are looking for documentation key figures of the UK based socialist left and personal photos, audio recordings, and footage that gives a sense of the intellectual and artistic scene from the years 1952-1965 – meetings, delegations