Type: Blog Update

1.  Marxism, Space and a Few Urban Questions: A Rough Guide to the English Language Literature http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/reading-guides/marxism-space-and-few-urban-questions-rough-guide-to-english-language-literature   2. Marxist Literary Criticism: An Introductory Reading Guide http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/reading-guides/marxist-literary-criticism-introductory-reading-guide   3. Borderland Marxism and Russia’s Revolutionary Periphery: A Reading Guide http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/index.php/reading-guides/borderland-marxism-and-russias-revolutionary-periphery-reading-guide

The Long Brazilian Crisis: A Forum Edited and Introduced by Juan Grigera and Jeffery R. Webber. Contributors: Ludmila Abilio, Ricardo Antunes, Marcelo Badaró Mattos, Sabrina Fernandes, Rodrigo Nunes, Leda Paulani, and Sean Purdy Available at: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/long-brazilian-crisis-forum Brazil has returned to world headlines. This time because Jair Bolsonaro, a grotesque and until now marginal, far-right politician, won

Check out two new posts on the Historical Materialism website.  Chris Rumble reviews Marx Returns by Jason Barker (2018, Zero Books). http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/book-review/karl-marxs-mathematical-return Rationality, Islam, and Decolonisation with Maxime Rodinson http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/blog/thinker-and-militant

There is now a series of bios/vignettes by Jairus Banaji on the HM website. Alfred Sohn-Rethel, Ali Shari‘ati, Erich Fromm, Evald Ilyenkov,Friedrich Engels, Jacek Kuroń, Marc Bloch, Maxime Rodinson, Paul Mattick Sr., Sadiq Jalal al-Azm,Sartre’s second volume and Serge Mallet are all featured.