What’s New – 30th December 2021

– HM 29.4 is now out! Please subscribe if you haven’t already: https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/node/237 https://brill.com/view/journals/hima/29/4/hima.29.issue-4.xml – Now Out: Karl Marx, Historian of Social Times and Spaces, by George García-Quesada https://brill.com/view/title/54731 – Now Out: Aesthetic Thinking: Essays on Intention, Painting, Action, and Ideology, by Fred Orton https://brill.com/view/title/61337 – Now Out: Leo Kofler’s Philosophy of Praxis: Western Marxism

What’s New – 14th December 2021

– Call for Papers: Historical Materialism Special Issue on Strategy https://www.historicalmaterialism.org/news/call-for-papers-historical-materialism-special-issue-strategy – Instituto Societas www.societas.com.mx, Conferencia Inaugural. Información:  https://www.societas.com.mx/post/conferencia-inaugural-17-de-diciembre-2021 https://www.societas.com.mx/informacion-del-evento/first-inaugural-conference-primera-conferencia-inaugural-2021-1 – Now Out: Theory of Crisis, by Uno Kōzō. Editor / Translator: Ken C. Kawashima https://brill.com/view/title/23813 – Conjuncture. Episode 1: The Black Radical Intellectual Tradition and the Critique of the Present: An Interview with Anthony

Call for Papers: Historical Materialism Special Issue on Strategy

**DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 14 February 2022** In 2006, French Marxist theorist Daniel Bensaïd made an urgent plea to reopen the strategic debate within the anti-capitalist Left. Fifteen years later, and after a major capitalist crisis, a series of important movements and also significant defeats of the Left, a pandemic and a new major economic crisis,

What’s New – 2nd November 2021

– Capitalism and the Sea: The Maritime Factor in the Making of the Modern World, with Liam Campling and Alejandro Colás in conversation with Jeffery R. Webber, York University, Friday, December 3, 12:30pm EDT. Please Register: https://yorku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIuceCrqT4iGt3zBzWF-Y4bd9J3e-J-Gbg0 – Book Launch: International Brigade Against Apartheid: Secrets of the War that Liberated South Africa, December 8th –

What’s New – 30th November 2021

–  Karl Radek on China: Documents from the Former Secret Soviet Archives, Reviewed by Fabian Van Onzen https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/19783_karl-radek-on-china-documents-from-the-former-secret-soviet-archives-by-alexander-pantsov-ed-reviewed-by-fabian-van-onzen/?fbclid=IwAR0shb8um_W05RxBYD2NwyEVCB9h7zflp5-xvtaKzYTP0GXH-WkGf7mTBEc – Now Published: Toward a New World: Articles and Essays, 1901-1906, On the Psychology of Society; New World, and Contributions to Studies in the Realist Worldview, by Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov. Editor/Translator: David Rowley. https://brill.com/view/title/61336 – Book launch:

What’s New – 23rd November 2021

–  Special issue of the Cambridge Journal of Economics to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of Joan Robinson’s death and the one-hundred-and-twentieth anniversary of her birth in 2023.Please, see more details here:  https://academic.oup.com/cje/pages/call-for-papers-celebrating-joan-robinson – The Department of Africana Studies at Brooklyn College, City University of New York, is searching for a Social Scientist of the Caribbean. This is a

What’s New – 17th November 2021

– Historical Materialism Istanbul 2022, 15th-17th April: Systemic Fragilities and Strategies for Resistance: Power, Poverty, Climate, and Pandemics. The Conference will be held at Kadir Has University and the CFP will follow in December. See you there! – As part of the Haymarket Books Holiday Sale, all books in the Historical Materialism Book Series are currently

What’s New – 8th November 2021

– Let’s go on a bear hunt: Marxism and children’s literature, with Dr Emma Bell (Brighton University), Prof Michael Rosen (Goldsmiths, University of London), on Wednesday 10th of November 2021, 4-6pm Register here in advance for this meeting:   https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0rdO-spz0jHNxNQO6d2XY1x5bpn1u71-Po – HM podcast is now also available on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/histmat – IV International Marxist Feminist Conference,

What’s New – 26th October 2021

– Teach-in series on Socialism in the World Crisis – Teach-in #1: What is State-Financed Capitalism? Saturday October 30, 2pm EST. Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkcu6vrj4iHd2DtkYnECl50VcPfajB4CKQ – Theory in Crisis online seminar, Verónica Gago, ‘Feminist International: Political Alliances and Challenges’. Register: https://london.ac.uk/institute-in-paris/events/theory-crisis-feminist-international-political-alliances-and-challenges – ‘G.D.H. Cole: A Libertarian Trapped in the Labour Party’, David Goodway, 11 November 2021, 6.30pm. Socialist

What’s New – 13th October 2021

– Registration Open for ‘Acting as if – Prefigurative Politics in Theory and Practice’, 22 – 25 October. https://sites.google.com/view/acting-as-if  – New Book: Karl Marx, Capital, Volume One: A Glossary of Concepts https://thesiseleven.com/2021/06/07/new-book-karl-marx-capital-volume-one-a-glossary-of-concepts/ – The Illusion of the Economic: Why We Need to Replace Economics by Patrick Murray https://youtu.be/qeE00R16Pqw – CfP: Theory Collective at the New

What’s New – 5th October 2021

– LPC 2021 Stream CFP: The digitalisation of work, the economy, and migrant labour. Abstracts should be between 350 and 500 words. Key words should be given that indicate the focus of research and the methods used. The abstract should contain clear information about theoretical orientation, findings, methodology, and what contribution is being made to

What’s New – 24th September 2021

– A discussion of Martin Hägglund’s This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom (2019) from a Marxist perspective https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/this-life-and-marx-value-normativity-freedom-tickets-177235715797?fbclid=IwAR3EYcM3ysN4jyD9bWmF_DVwJ3VNIQm8ej1uZxEV3ZrR3mXjBtlBTbD3SQs – Alan Shandro talks about Lenin and the Logic of Hegemony Political Practice and Theory in the Class Struggle https://newbooksnetwork.com/lenin-and-the-logic-of-hegemony – New book is out: Nights of the dispossessed. Riots Unbound, edited by Gal Kirn, Niloufar