Type: Announcement

– Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory, Wednesday 3 March, 4-6:00pm GMT: Neoliberalism and Empire: Latin American and East Central European Perspectives. Quinn Slobodian discusses his book Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, with Virginia Fontes (Universidad Federal Fluminense, Brazil) and Balázs Trencsényi (Central European University). Register here in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEldOCorDgqGtERdbt_7sr-Nors-iXXYK2K   – Seminar on 50th Anniversary of

– An online symposium hosted by the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung and the International Rosa Luxemburg Society in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of her birth. Join the RLS and IRSS, 4–5 March 2021 for a series of panels, discussions, and keynote lectures on the life and legacy of this incredible woman, for whom “the most revolutionary thing

– A four-part narrated PowerPoint lecture by Barbara C. Allen focusing on the experiences of Alexander Shlyapnikov in 1934-7 during Stalin’s Great Terror. It derives from the narrator’s book, Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik (Brill, 2015; Haymarket Books, 2016).  Part one: https://youtu.be/Dq-CmKGXTps Part two: https://youtu.be/fm1tPf-xfPg Part three: https://youtu.be/Y9T9mQX88vI Part four: https://youtu.be/0V9Rh9mlMWo   – A People’s History of Classics

– Marxism Translated: Introduction – https://youtu.be/pnciIQR1cSE – Now Out: two-volume biography of Hubert Harrison “the father of Harlem Radicalism.” Columbia University Press published the second volume, “Hubert Harrison: The Struggle for Equality, 1918” (December 2020, 1000 pp.)  https://cup.columbia.edu/book/hubert-harrison/9780231182638  and this follows volume 1 — “Hubert Harrison: The Voice of Harlem Radicalism. 1883-1918” (November 2008, 624 pp.) https://cup.columbia.edu/book/hubert-harrison/9780231139113 – CfP: Socialist Political Thought

– Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory warmly invites you to a Book Launch: Routledge Handbook of Marxism and Post-Marxism, with Prof Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (Columbia University) and Dr Trevor Ngwane (University of Johnannesburg) in conversation with the Editors and Contributors, Wednesday 17 February 2021, 4-6pm GMT. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEsfuuqrDgiHden_tKoQ2EyeEq79aXTlFHK – The Revolutionary Karl Kautsky with Ben Lewis: https://cosmonaut.blog/2021/02/01/the-revolutionary-karl-kautsky-with-ben-lewis/ – Andrew G. Bonnell’s Red

– Jacob A. Zumoff is the author of The Communist International and U.S. Communism, 1919-1929. His forthcoming book, The Red Thread: The Passaic Textile Strike, be published by Rutgers University Press in July 2021.  https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/bucknell/the-red-thread/9781978809895   – When and Why Did Self-Determination Become a Right for All Nations? Jews, Arabs, and the Marxist World Revolution by

– Stuart Hood (1915-2011) – Scottish dominie’s son, Edinburgh University Communist student, Tuscan partigiano, reforming BBC executive, distinguished academic and admired Scottish novelist – died in Brighton at the end of January 2011. Marking the tenth anniversary of Hood’s death and the publication of Stuart Hood – Twentieth-Century Partisan (Cambridge Scholars Publishing: eds. David Hutchison and David Johnson), an

– Theory in Crisis Seminar: Alberto Toscano, ‘Fascist Times’ Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmLUfG5h_no – The Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), a leading Portuguese research centre in the field of Modern and Contemporary History, welcomes applications for six-years Research Contracts, funded by the FCT – Foundation for Science and Technology, acting as host institution in the framework of the fourth

– ULIP Theory in Crisis seminar series, with Deborah Cowen: ‘Crisis in Motion’. Friday January 29: https://ulip.london.ac.uk/events/theory-crisis-seminar-deborah-cowen-crisis-motion – Lenin150 (Samizdat), 2nd expanded edition: https://t.co/NKct662Qnp?amp=1 – DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM IN GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE CONFERENCE, Monday 11th – Friday 15th January. Visit the Conference Website: https://newpolitics2021.org. Register For Free Here: https://t.co/VwyN5dnqYv?amp=1 – Racialized Precarity and the Coordinates of Class: Time, Technology and Working Bodies, with Dr

The question of anti-Semitism has been at the forefront of much political discussion and debate in recent years. We are seeing the rise of a new wave of anti-Semitism – not only driven by the street fighting far right, but in close proximity to the Trump presidency and part of the arsenal of those in

The question of anti-Semitism has been at the forefront of much political discussion and debate in recent years. We are seeing the rise of a new wave of anti-Semitism – not only driven by the street fighting far right, but in close proximity to the Trump presidency and part of the arsenal of those in

As an alternative to the annual London Conference, the Historical Materialism Editorial Board has curated a small number of panels to maintain conversations and give comrades intellectual nourishment between the 5th and the 15th November.  The programme will be published on the week of the 26th October and you will be able to register for