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Marx’s Species Being, Ecology and Feminism:  Theorizing a Marxist-Humanist Alternative to Capitalism Sunday, July 21, 2019 6:00-9:00 PM Poetic Research Bureau 951 Chung King Road, Chinatown, LA 90012 (near Chinatown stop on Gold Line, parking on street or paid lot next to gas station at College and Hill St.) Speaker: Heather Brown, author of MARX

UNEVEN AND COMBINED DEVELOPMENT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: A CONFERENCE GLASGOW, 5-7 SEPTEMBER 2019 Hosted by the University of Glasgow’s Socialist Theory and Movements Research Network in association with Historical Materialism Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/uneven-and-combined-development-for-the-21st-century-a-conference-tickets-65189629938 The conference programme can be accessed here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1XOeXw-ymYGCwN3f6c-KPj4W3z5WsSj7Z As recently as the early 1990s, anyone predicting that Trotsky’s ‘law’ of uneven and combined

Deprovincialising Marxism Reading Group Meeting: July 25 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm https://maydayrooms.org/event/deprovincialising-marxism-reading-group/ Ambitions to correct the marginal status of anti-colonial and non-Western writings within academic reading lists have hastened with calls to decolonize curricula taking hold across disciplines. The struggle around knowledge production in Western academia has become an important site for rehabilitating the supposedly

Join us for a discussion of Jamie Woodcock’s groundbreaking new book, Marx at the Arcade. 7:00pm, 31 July, Housmans Bookshop, London Tickets: https://housmans.com/event/marx-at-the-arcade-consoles-controllers-and-class-struggle-with-jamie-woodcock/ Raking in $135 billion a year, videogames far outstrip film and music in their generation of vast profits for capital. Yet, despite the importance of the industry as an avenue for capitalist

From Harlem to Hanoi: Recovering Black Radical Anti-imperialism With Robyn Spencer Part of the Social Histories of Revolution series. Hosted by Haymarket Books. Join us for the final talk in our Social Histories of Revolution series, as historian Robyn Spencer discusses the relationship between Black Power movements and anti-imperialism. 6:45pm, 2 July, The Daryll Forde

The Centre for Employment, Innovation and Change (CERIC) is organising a workshop on platform work. Following the presentation of a recent project for the European Parliament on the social protection of platform workers, three sessions will look into the mobilisation of workers around platform work. The first session convenes workers activists and trade unions that successfully have organised

Marxist-Humanist Initiative (MHI) is sponsoring two panels at the upcoming Left Forum conference (https://leftforum.org) in New York City. The panels focus on perspectives for confronting Trumpism and, more broadly, for confronting the resurgence of authoritarianism—both the right-wing and “left-wing” (pro-Stalinist) varieties.   Speakers include Jason Stanley, the author of How Fascism Works; Anne Jaclard, MHI’s organizational secretary; Bill Weinberg

Are Art Workers Organising? 22nd June 10.30am to 2.30pm at Conway Hall London, WC1R 4RL More information: https://www.facebook.com/events/1267063636788612/ “Vis-à-vis the public, the actor is here as an artist, but vis-à-vis the entrepreneur, they are here as a productive worker” This meeting brings together activists from across the arts industries (theatre, design, arts, games) to discuss

From Economic Science Fiction to Labor as Commons 21 June 2019 – Middlesex University, Hendon Town Hall, Committee Room 1 -9:30-5:30 As suggested by William Davies et al. in the edited anthology Economic Science Fictions (2018), capitalism might be reconceptualised as an eminently fictional form of how social life should be organised that bears little

Marx & Philosophy Society  2019 Annual Conference The Legacy of Georg Lukács   Saturday 15 June 2019 9:30am-5:45pm University College London Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL Room 728   Please note: Prior registration is necessary given the limited seats available. To register, email reviews@marxandphilosophy.org.uk.   9.30       Registration 10.00    

Marxist-Humanist Initiative Events in London  18 June, at Birkbeck College   MHI will participate in a public meetings taking place at London’s Birkbeck College on Tuesday 18 June, 2019. Marxist-Humanists will engage with other perspectives. Everyone is welcome to attend. Donald Trump–An Extraordinary Danger to the World. What We Can Do Birkbeck College, Room B18 Mallet Street,

Revisiting the ‘Mode of Production’: Enduring Controversies over Labour, Exploitation and Historiographies of Capitalism One-day workshop at the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham, 1st July 2019  In the provocative monograph Theory As History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation (Brill Academic Publishers, 2010), Jairus Banaji sets out to survey