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Capitalism: Concept and Idea 150 Years of Marx’s Capital: The Philosophy and Politics of Capital Today Friday-Saturday 13-14 October 2017 9:00am-5:00pm Conference Booking essential. Register at http://kingston.ac.uk/cap17 With less than 2 weeks to go, registration for ‘Capitalism: Concept and Idea’ remains open. More than two-thirds of the places are now taken, so be sure to confirm your booking

Le séminaire de philosophie sociale du Sophiapol portera, pour les deux ans à venir, sur le concept de classe sociale, selon deux versants, le premier à caractère théorique, le second, à caractère plus empirique, mais il ne saurait y avoir de séparation tranchée entre les deux niveaux. Le séminaire se propose cette année de prendre

World Accumulation and Planetary Life or Why Capitalism Will Not Survive until the ‘last tree is cut’ Jason W. Moore 6-7.30pm, 10th October Ben Pimlott Lecture Theatre, Goldsmiths Why does it seem easier to imagine the end of the world than to see the end of capitalism? Part of the answer turns on a rift

The Red and the Black – The Russian Revolution and the Black Atlantic 13-15 October, 2017, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. Conference to be held at the Institute for Black Atlantic Research (IBAR), University of Central Lancashire, Preston, from Friday 13 October 2017 to Sunday 15 October 2017, to mark the centenary of the

CAN CAPITALISM SURVIVE THE GREAT RECESSION? RE-EXAMINING MARX’S CAPITAL FOR TODAY   Speaker: Stephan Hammel, UCI Professor and writer on Marxian economics and value theory Commentator: Ali Kiani, Iranian Marxist thinker and translator   Main readings: Capital III, Chs. 13-15 (see note at end on online and print sources) Supplementary readings:  Dunayevskaya, Marxism and Freedom, pp. 137-49; Michael

The Department of European and International Studies and thenextrecession.wordpress.com blog.are co-sponsoring a major international conference to mark the 150th anniversary of the publication of Volume I of Karl Marx’s Capital in September 1867.   Some places are still available. Book Tickets @ £10 at http://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-social-science-public-policy/school-of-politics-and-economics/capital150-marxs-capital-today  Capital.150: Marx’s Capital Today 19-20 September at The Venue, 1st Floor, Student Central, Malet Street, London, WC1E

Join author and activist Seán Mitchell as he launches his latest book, Struggle or Starve: Working-Class Unity in Belfast’s 1932 Outdoor Relief Riots. (https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/1049-struggle-or-starve) In October 1932, the streets of Belfast were gripped by vicious and widespread rioting that lasted the best part of a week. Thousands of unarmed demonstrators fought extended pitched battles against heavily-armed

The L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History, McMaster University 21-22 September 2017 Précis: Three trends have made up much of the established history of international Communism and its commitment to colonial liberation, self-determination of nations and racial equality. International communism had no time for genuine interest in these subjects, instead preferring strict subordination of Communists to

Marking the Centenary of the October Revolution   Representing Revolution Friday 27 October – Sunday 29 October 2017 Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre, Dumfries, Scotland   A weekend of film and discussion exploring how the October Revolution has been represented in a selection of American, British, French and Russian (Soviet) films, featuring   Warren Beatty’s Reds (1981)

CAPITAL.150: MARX’S CAPITAL TODAY London WC1E 7HY, Malet Street, Student Central (formerly ULU) 19-20 September   Contact: capital150conference@gmail.com Registration: http://bit.ly/2uhukxO TUESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER Crises (11am–1:30pm) Mino Carchedi – The old is dying and the new cannot be born: the exhaustion of the present phase of capitalist development Rolf Hecker – Marx’s critique of capitalism during the 1857 crisis Paul Mattick

Capitalism: Concept and Idea 150 Years of Marx’s Capital: The Philosophy and Politics of Capital Today     Friday-Saturday 13-14 October 2017, 9:00am-5:00pm Conference Advance registration now open! Booking essential. Register here. As a counterpoint to the retreat of the concept of communism from history to ‘idea’, this conference will mark the 150th anniversary of the first

Rosa Luxemburg’s Concept of Revolution and Its Meaning for Today   SUNDAY, JULY 23, 2017    6:00-8:00 PM Westside Peace Center 3916 Sepulveda Blvd., near Venice Blvd. (free parking in rear) Suite 101-102, press #22 at door to get into building Culver City (LA area)   Speakers: Peter Hudis Xiong Min   A Marxist, a