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Launch meetings for ‘Bob Crow – socialist, leader, fighter’ by Gregor Gall Gregor Gall will be speaking on his biography of Bob Crow, former general secretary of the RMT union at i) Five Leaves Radical bookshop on Wed 10 May at 7pm in Nottingham- http://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/bob-crow-socialist-leader-fighter-a-political-biography-with-gregor-gall/ ii) Bookmarks socialist bookshop on Thurs 11 May at 6.30pm in London –  https://bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/events The

Book Launch The Thatcherite Offensive: a Neo-Poulantzasian Analysis Alexander Gallas, University of Kassel   Join Alexander Gallas for the launch of the paperback edition of The Thatcherite Offensive: a Neo-Poulantzasian Analysis. Drawing on the theories of Nicos Poulantzas and dissecting internal Conservative Party policy papers, Gallas analyses Thatcherism as a coordinated offensive of the power block,

Seminar in Contemporary Marxist Theory King’s College London   Foxconn beyond China: Capital-labour relations as co-determinants of global organisation of production Dr Rutvica Andrijasevic (University of Bristol)    Wednesday 9 May, 6pm K-1.56 King’s Building   King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS    Foxconn, a Taiwanese-owned firm, is the world’s largest electronics contract manufacturer

1. On Tuesday 25 April Toni Negri will be in Cambridge (Gonville & Caius –  5.00pm) The Cambridge talk (“Post-operaismo o neo-operaismo”) will focus on possibilities of revolutionary organisation in our present time. We are expecting that this will include material related to revival of the class composition and inchiesta / inquiry methods that were

International Conference Wars of Position: Marxism and Civil Society 8-10th June 2017 People’s History Museum, Manchester, UK   Key-note speakers: Jodi Dean, Neil Faulkner, Kevin Morgan   This international conference brings together: analysis of the theory and practice of twentieth-century Marxist parties in relation to civil society; analysis of contemporary Left formations’ approaches to civil society;

CAPITAL.150: MARX’S CAPITAL TODAY   19-20 September 2017   International conference sponsored by Department of European and International Studies, King’s College London, and thenextrecession.wordpress.com blog   Karl Marx published the first volume of his life work, Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, in September 1867. Together with Volumes II and III, published after Marx’s death by Friedrich Engels, this book

Global Civil War: Solidarity by Proxy Tuesday 25 April 2017 6:30pm to 8:00pm Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE Hosted by the Internationalism, Cosmopolitanism and the Politics of Solidarity Research Group at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights Speaker: Professor Susan Buck-Morss Chair: Dr Ayça Çubukçu In the twenty-first century any world war is

Marxism in Culture Seminar Friday, 28 April 2017 17:30-19:30 Wolfson Room, Institute of Historical Research Senate House, University of London   Nat Raha (University of Sussex) Queering Marxist [Trans]Feminism: Queer and Trans Social Reproduction Despite the recent resurgence of social reproduction theory and Marxist feminist political praxis, the social reproduction of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and

RETHEORIZING FASCISM IN THE TRUMP ERA SUNDAY, APRIL 16, 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: Hamid Assian, environmental and anti-racist activist Kevin B. Anderson, UC Santa Barbara and author of

THE DILEMMAS OF LENIN: TERRORISM, WAR, EMPIRE, LOVE, REVOLUTION by Tariq Ali On the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Tariq Ali paints an illuminating portrait of Lenin https://www.versobooks.com/books/2433-the-dilemmas-of-lenin ————— EVENTS: Join Tariq Ali (author of The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution) at the following events – 21 April, Opera North – Howard

10 Public Lectures on Philosophy, Politics and the Arts, Nov. 2016–April 2017 Please join the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) for their 2016/17 public lectures series in collaboration with Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School, University of the Arts London. The lectures are free and open to the public but require registration for

Marx’s Capital after 150 Years: Critique and Alternative to Capitalism   International Conference    May 24-26, 2017 Toronto   The Marx Collegium York University   Conference Participants: Immanuel Wallerstein, Etienne Balibar,  Saskia Sassen, Bob Jessop, John Bellamy Foster, Silvia Federici,  Richard Wolff, Moishe Postone, Kevin B. Anderson, Bertell Ollman, Leo Panitch, Ursula Huws, Michael Kraetke, Terrell Carver,