Type: Event

London launch event for George Ciccariello-Maher’s Building the Commune: Radical Democracy in Venezuela Thursday 2nd March 18:30 at London  Waterstones Gower Street ————— The Pink Tide of leftist governments that have swept across Latin America have become increasingly crisis prone in the past year. None have encapsulated this in the Western imagination as much as

Katy Turton (Queens University, Belfast: Women in Revolt: The Female Experience of the 1917 Revolutions https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-revolt-the-female-experience-of-the-1917-revolutions-tickets-31569682771 Revolutionary crises tend to bring women to the fore and the Russian revolutions of 1917 are no exception. The Tsarina’s role in precipitating the fall of the Romanov dynasty is well known and due recognition has been given to

Professor Diane Elson (Essex, UK) Economic Inequality and Gender Inequality Tuesday, 21 February, 5-7PM Room: Alumni Lecture Theatre (ALT), Room 110, Senate House North Block   Economic inequality is now of major concern to both mainstream and heterodox economists. Gender inequality has always been of major concern to feminist economists, but is often ignored by

1) HopeRoad & Leo Zeilig Invite you to join us for the launch of An Ounce of Practice  28 February, 6:00pm (Room G22/256 University of London, Senate House Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU) Tickets: FREE. RSVP essential (Please RSVP by Friday 24th February 2017)   AN OUNCE OF PRACTICE Set between London and Harare in the present

New Book Events! The Last Day of Oppression, and the First Day of the Same: The Politics and Economics of the New Latin American Left (Haymarket and Pluto, 2017). By Jeffery R. Webber [Event details at end.]   Description In this penetrating volume, Jeffery Webber explains the political dynamics and conflicts underpinning the contradictory evolution of left-wing

Seminar on Contemporary Marxist Theory King’s College London   Wednesday 8 February 2017 Dr Tony Norfield (SOAS), Finance and the Imperialist World Economy 18:00-20:00 342N Norfolk Building (entrance on Surrey St) King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS http://www.kcl.ac.uk/sspp/departments/european-studies/eventrecords/2016-17/Finance-and-the-Imperialist-World-Economy-Dr-Tony-Norfield.aspx   Wednesday 15 March 2017 Prof Alan Cafruny (Hamilton College, USA) and Prof Magnus Ryner (KCL); discussants: Prof

Andreas Malm (Lund University, Sweden) Violent Past, Hot Present, Extreme Future: Episodes of Fossil Imperialism and Climate Change in Egypt, India and Nigeria Tuesday, 31 January, 5-7PM Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre (BGLT), SOAS Brunei Gallery   Global warming is lapping the shores of countries in the Global South with a whole fleet of existential

The NYU Department of Sociology Presents: “Internationalism and Democracy after the Eurozone Crisis”   Monday, January 30th NYU Department of Sociology 295 Lafayette St., 4th Floor Conference Room, 4156 1-3 PM   Since 2008, Europe has been mired in an institutional and political crisis that shows no signs of abating. If the 2008 financial meltdown

Marxism in Culture Seminars 2017  All seminars start at 5.30pm. PLEASE NOTE THE LATE START ON THE 3RD OF MARCH. This term all seminars take place in the Wolfson Room, at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU.The seminar closes at 7.30pm and retires to the bar. SPRING TERM: 03

October 1917:workers in power Book launch with Paul Le Blanc​ ​Hosted by Resistance Books​ Friday 24 February, 7pm Housmans Bookshop, 5 Caledonian Rd, N1 9DY Drinks and snacks provided Paul Le Blanc is Professor of History at La Roche College (USA) and author of works on the labour and socialist movements, including Lenin and the Revolutionary Party, From

Professor Stephanie Barrientos (Manchester, UK) Retail Shift: Transforming Work and Gender in Global Production Tuesday, 24 January, 5-7PM Room: Alumni Lecture Theatre (ALT), Room 110, Senate House North Block   The expansion of global retail has significant implications for analysis of work and gender. Within the retail sector supermarkets, agrifood and manufacturing brands play a

Palestine Ltd. Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory Toufic Haddad 6.00pm, Monday 23 January 2017 Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS University of LondonRussell Square WC1H 0XG Admission Free – All Welcome In Palestine Ltd. (IB Tauris, 2016), Toufic Haddad explores how neoliberal frameworks have shaped and informed the common understandings of international, Israeli and Palestinian interactions throughout the