Type: Event

SPECIAL PANEL EVENT Dr Stathis Kouvelakis (King’s College London) Kate Evans (cartoonist, artist, and activist) John Rees (writer and activist) Revolution Then and Now Tuesday, 16 January, 5-7PM Room:  Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre (BGLT), SOAS Brunei Gallery Building   The revolutionary tradition has a long history, and revolutionaries have inspired subsequent generations in fighting for

RED PETROGRAD: REVOLUTION IN THE FACTORIES, 1917-1918 Book launch and discussion Steve Smith   Thursday 18 January 6:30pm start Hosted by Haymarket Books and Social Histories 1917   Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre, SOAS, University of London Thornhaugh Street Russell Square London WC1H 0XG * * *   When the Russian autocracy fell in February 1917, workers across Petrograd

International Workshop on “Machines & Measure” (Leicester, Feb 2018) 16 February, 2018 | Leicester University School of Business, UK   Centre for Philosophy and Political Economy (CPPE), Leicester University School of Business & Conference of Socialist Economists (CSE) South Group   How are machines being used in contemporary capitalism to perpetuate control and to intensify

Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory Professor Bill Bowring (Birkbeck)  Marx, the State, and Spinoza: Against Hobbes and Schmitt 17 January 2018 18:00-19:30 King’s College London Room K2.31, Nash Lecture Theatre Strand Campus London WC2R 2LS In 1859 Marx stated that he intended to examine “the bourgeois economic system in this sequence: capital, landed property, wage-labour; the

Ukrainian Solidarity Campaign Book Launch and Discussion UKRAINE AND THE EMPIRE OF CAPITAL From Marketisation to Armed Conflict   with Yuliya Yurchenko Introductory speakers:   Lloyd Russell-Moyle, Member of Parliament for Brighton Kemptown Michael Calderbank, Red Pepper co-editor Tuesday, 16 January 2018, 6:30  pm, Room 16, Palace of Westminster, House of Commons, London SW1A 0AA Hosted by Lloyd Russell-Moyle Member of

SPECIAL PANEL EVENT Dr Stathis Kouvelakis (King’s College London) Kate Evans (cartoonist, artist, and activist) John Rees (writer and activist) Revolution Then and Now Tuesday, 16 January, 5-7PM Room:  Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre (BGLT), SOAS Brunei Gallery Building   The revolutionary tradition has a long history, and revolutionaries have inspired subsequent generations in fighting for

Neoliberalism, Social Oppression and Class Relations Neoliberal capitalist development has entrenched the culturally specific character of labour power based on race, ethnicity, gender, caste and tribe. Theories of ‘intersectionality’ have drawn attention to how injustice and social inequality are multidimensional, involving several social identities – such as gender, race, social class – that ‘interact with

STAMP  (Centre for the Study of States, Markets & People)  School of Business & Law, University of East London  Annual Research Colloquium  on  “Neoliberalism and Ordoliberalism: One or Two Critiques?”  Tuesday 12 December 2017, 14.30pm – 19.30pm. Venue: USS G.19/20, University of East London, 1 Salway Road, London E15 1NF (five min walk from Stratford

This year’s Historical Materialism Sydney conference, to be held at the University of Sydney’s New Law Building, is just days away — on this Thursday 7th and Friday 8th December. We have received a record number of submissions this year and an updated timetable of panels and speakers can be found here. KEYNOTE SPEAKER: This year’s keynote speaker is Jason W. Moore, who is an Associate Professor

ACCUMULATION OF CAPITAL: PERMANENT UNEMPLOYMENT AND COLONIAL SUPER-EXPLOITATION Speaker: Lilia Monzó, Chapman University Professor; writer on Marxism and women of color Commentator: Hamid Assian, environmental and anti-racist activist   Sunday, December 3 6:15-8:00 PM  Art Share 801 East Fourth Place (Arts District)  Los Ángeles (Free parking in lot across the street on Hewitt St. by

Dr Matteo Rizzo (SOAS, University of London) Chair: Professor Henry Bernstein (SOAS, University of London) Discussant: Alana Dave (International Transport Workers Federation) BOOK LAUNCH: Taken for a Ride: Grounding Neoliberalism, Precarious Labour, and Public Transport in an African Metropolis Tuesday, 28 November, 5-7PM Room: Djam Lecture Theatre (DLT), SOAS Main Building How does public transport

PARTY CARTELIZATION AND MOVEMENT DYNAMICS: THE CASE OF GREECE Speaker: Seraphim Seferiades (Panteion University, Athens)   King’s College London, K6.63 (6th Floor) Strand Campus,   Date: 30/11/2017 (17:00-19:00) Contact: Stathis Kouvelakis stathis.kouvelakis@kcl.ac.uk   More info https://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/european-studies/eventrecords/2017-18/eisdeptressem6.aspx   The question of how labour and social movements interact with political parties (especially those claiming an ‘ally’ status, such Labour and Left parties)