Historical Materialism Journal
@histmat.bsky.social
Historical Materialism is the leading journal of critical Marxist theory and research. Based at the University of London, published by De Gruyter Brill, appearing quarterly.
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Now online: 'Mohammed Harbi (1933–2026): Participant in and Historian of the Algerian Revolution' by Alex de Jong.
Mohammed Harbi (1933-2026): Participant in and Historian of the Algerian Revolution - Historical Materialism
On 1 January 2026 Algerian anticolonial militant and historian Mohammed Harbi passed away, aged 92. Describing himself as a ‘Marxist in a nationalist organisation’, Harbi was a militant in the Algeria...
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January 5, 2026 at 10:29 AM
Now online: 'Mohammed Harbi (1933–2026): Participant in and Historian of the Algerian Revolution' by Alex de Jong.
Now online: 'Peter Watkins (1935–2025)' by Nicolas Helm-Grovas.
Peter Watkins (1935–2025) - Historical Materialism
In an interview given in 2011, Peter Watkins remarked ‘I don’t think I’ve made a particularly radical film in forty years, not really’,[1] a remark that might surprise those who regarded him as one of...
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December 20, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Now online: 'Peter Watkins (1935–2025)' by Nicolas Helm-Grovas.
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Finally got copies of my book, ARTISTIC LABOUR OF THE BODY which you can buy for your libraries ✨ from @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social
Thanks to the @histmat.bsky.social book series - paperback out next year with @haymarketbooks.org
Thanks to the @histmat.bsky.social book series - paperback out next year with @haymarketbooks.org
December 17, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Finally got copies of my book, ARTISTIC LABOUR OF THE BODY which you can buy for your libraries ✨ from @dgb-philosophy.bsky.social
Thanks to the @histmat.bsky.social book series - paperback out next year with @haymarketbooks.org
Thanks to the @histmat.bsky.social book series - paperback out next year with @haymarketbooks.org
Now online: 'Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations' with Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz and Svenja Bromberg.
Grounding Critique (with author Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz and Svenja Bromberg)
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December 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Now online: 'Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations' with Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz and Svenja Bromberg.
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Join us in Cluj!
Call for Papers: Historical Materialism Cluj / Kolozsvár, 'Interregnum Here and Now: Post-communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve', April 16–18 2026.
Deadline for abstracts: February 8 2026.
Deadline for abstracts: February 8 2026.
Historical Materialism Cluj / Kolozsvár - Historical Materialism
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December 17, 2025 at 6:21 AM
Join us in Cluj!
In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).
In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987-2025) - Historical Materialism
‘Our subjective horizon is the optimism of the intellect; our objective, structuring condition is pessimism of the will. Without optimism of the intellect, we have the party without the people. Withou...
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December 14, 2025 at 11:22 AM
In memoriam: Asad Haider (1987–2025).
Call for Papers: Historical Materialism Cluj / Kolozsvár, 'Interregnum Here and Now: Post-communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve', April 16–18 2026.
Deadline for abstracts: February 8 2026.
Deadline for abstracts: February 8 2026.
Historical Materialism Cluj / Kolozsvár - Historical Materialism
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December 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Call for Papers: Historical Materialism Cluj / Kolozsvár, 'Interregnum Here and Now: Post-communist Collapse, Planetary Crisis, and Emancipatory Resolve', April 16–18 2026.
Deadline for abstracts: February 8 2026.
Deadline for abstracts: February 8 2026.
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Cover design for ‘Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Thought of Karl Marx’ Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published 23th December 2025. Cover art is from Construct 74, acrylic on wallpaper mounted on linen (2024).
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December 11, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Cover design for ‘Revolutionary Subjectivity in the Thought of Karl Marx’ Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published 23th December 2025. Cover art is from Construct 74, acrylic on wallpaper mounted on linen (2024).
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2716-r...
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Cover design for ‘Alberto Flores Galindo’ for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published 23 December 2025. Cover art is a development of Painting 15, Rhythm 69, Paint and wallpaper on canvas 2007.
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December 9, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Cover design for ‘Alberto Flores Galindo’ for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published 23 December 2025. Cover art is a development of Painting 15, Rhythm 69, Paint and wallpaper on canvas 2007.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2715-a...
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Now online: 'Fully Emasculated, Red Lipstick Communism Now!'. Ciara Cremin, *The Spectral Woman: Transfemininity and the Abolition of Gender* reviewed by Cat Moir Wolfe.
Fully Emasculated, Red Lipstick Communism Now! - Historical Materialism
Ciara Cremin, The Spectral Woman: Transfemininity and the Abolition of Gender, Pluto Press, 2025 Reviewed by Cat Moir Wolfe Introduction: the mask of manhood One of the memes on the popular satiric...
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December 9, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Now online: 'Fully Emasculated, Red Lipstick Communism Now!'. Ciara Cremin, *The Spectral Woman: Transfemininity and the Abolition of Gender* reviewed by Cat Moir Wolfe.
Forthcoming online book talk: 'Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations' with that author Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz and Svenja Bromberg.
16 December 2025, 6–7:30pm BST (London), watch from the link below.
16 December 2025, 6–7:30pm BST (London), watch from the link below.
'Grounding Critique:' A book talk with Gökbörü Tanyildiz & Svenja Bromberg
Join us for a discussion of 'Grounding Critique' with author Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz and Svenja Bromberg.
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December 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Forthcoming online book talk: 'Grounding Critique: Marxism, Concept Formation, and Embodied Social Relations' with that author Gökbörü Sarp Tanyildiz and Svenja Bromberg.
16 December 2025, 6–7:30pm BST (London), watch from the link below.
16 December 2025, 6–7:30pm BST (London), watch from the link below.
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I reviewed two fantastic books by @reproutopia.bsky.social , @fullnommunism.bsky.social and Mijke Van Der Drift for @histmat.bsky.social - reflecting on tolerable levels of dissonance in comradely feminisms: www.historicalmaterialism.org/enemies-comr...
Enemies, Comrades, and The Counterrevolutionary Logic of Cisness - Historical Materialism
Nat Raha and Mijke van der Drift, Trans femme futures: Abolitionist ethics for transfeminist worlds. Pluto Press, 2024. Sophie Lewis, Enemy Feminisms: TERFs, Policewomen, and Girlbosses against Liber...
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December 5, 2025 at 10:11 AM
I reviewed two fantastic books by @reproutopia.bsky.social , @fullnommunism.bsky.social and Mijke Van Der Drift for @histmat.bsky.social - reflecting on tolerable levels of dissonance in comradely feminisms: www.historicalmaterialism.org/enemies-comr...
The deadline for next year's HM Istanbul has been extended!!!
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
Historical Materialism Istanbul 2026
From Catastrophe to Struggle: Rethinking Capitalism amid Wars and Disasters
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December 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The deadline for next year's HM Istanbul has been extended!!!
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
Due to overwhelming demand, we have decided to extend the deadline for submitting paper/panel proposals to 12 December 2025. Make sure to send us your abstracts, comrades!
Further details from the HM Istanbul website below.
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Here is the video of our roundtable on internationalism at @histmat.bsky.social- London conference in Nov 2025.
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The Question of Internationalism: Between Marxism and Anarchism
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December 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Here is the video of our roundtable on internationalism at @histmat.bsky.social- London conference in Nov 2025.
@leninology.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
m.youtube.com/live/qdlUYhI...
@leninology.bsky.social @lsesociology.bsky.social
@lsehumanrights.bsky.social
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My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Free gifts: capitalism and the politics of nature - Contemporary Political Theory
Contemporary Political Theory -
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December 2, 2025 at 1:26 PM
My review of @alybatt.bsky.social's fantastic book "Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature" is out in Contemporary Political Theory. I had the pleasure of discussing it at @histmat.bsky.social launch last month in London with Andreas Malm and Søren Mau link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Next week I'm moderating an @histmat.bsky.social event on the instantly-canonical 'Feminism Against Cisness' with @riislover667.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, and @weakanalogy.bsky.social.
Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online
To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...
Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online
To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...
December 1, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Next week I'm moderating an @histmat.bsky.social event on the instantly-canonical 'Feminism Against Cisness' with @riislover667.bsky.social, @reproutopia.bsky.social, Lola Olufemi, and @weakanalogy.bsky.social.
Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online
To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...
Thursday, December 11, 6pm GMT, online
To register: www.eventbrite.com/e/feminism-a...
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Cover design for ‘Trouble in Paradise’ Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published 6 January 2026. Cover art is a detail from a painting by Thomas Cole, ‘River in the Catskills’, oil on canvas (1843). Photo ©️ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2701-t...
November 27, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Cover design for ‘Trouble in Paradise’ Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published 6 January 2026. Cover art is a detail from a painting by Thomas Cole, ‘River in the Catskills’, oil on canvas (1843). Photo ©️ Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2701-t...
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Cover design for ‘The Narrowest Path’ Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series, pub. 16th December 2025. Cover art is from Construct 75, after John Henry Dearle (for Morris & Co.) Iris / Varvara Stepanova, textile design, acrylic on wallpaper, 2023.
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November 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Cover design for ‘The Narrowest Path’ Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series, pub. 16th December 2025. Cover art is from Construct 75, after John Henry Dearle (for Morris & Co.) Iris / Varvara Stepanova, textile design, acrylic on wallpaper, 2023.
www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2703-t...
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Important interview with Alan Sears on eros and alienation, by Sean K Isaacs and Isadora Seconi
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Alienation, Eroticism, and Utopia: An Interview with Alan Sears - Historical Materialism
At a time when the lives of trans people, migrant workers, and women, amongst others, are threatened by the far Right, it is important to engage with the demands and analyses of these groups, both on ...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Important interview with Alan Sears on eros and alienation, by Sean K Isaacs and Isadora Seconi
@histmat.bsky.social
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Excited that this is in the world! Grats Cody!
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Excited that this is in the world! Grats Cody!
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Class, Race, and the US South. American Politics and Society through the Lens of Michael Goldfield's Work - Historical Materialism
Cody R. Melcher, Olivier Maheo, and Esther Cyna Volume Editors: Cody R. Melcher, Olivier Maheo, and Esther Cyna Class, Race, and the US South, a Festschrift for labour militant and political scientist...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Excited that this is in the world! Grats Cody!
@histmat.bsky.social
Excited that this is in the world! Grats Cody!
@histmat.bsky.social
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Cover design for ‘The Longest Night’ cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published 16 December 2025. Cover art is a development of ‘Rhythm 69 no. 65, paint and wallpaper on canvas 2007.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Cover design for ‘The Longest Night’ cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series to be published 16 December 2025. Cover art is a development of ‘Rhythm 69 no. 65, paint and wallpaper on canvas 2007.
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Another three 'place holder' front cover designs produced for publicity purposes before the final book cover is sent off. This group is due to be published Spring 2026 by Haymarket Books, Chicago, for the Historical Materialism Book Series. www.haymarketbooks.org/.../1-histor...?
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Another three 'place holder' front cover designs produced for publicity purposes before the final book cover is sent off. This group is due to be published Spring 2026 by Haymarket Books, Chicago, for the Historical Materialism Book Series. www.haymarketbooks.org/.../1-histor...?
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Four rough 'place holder' front cover designs produced for publicity purposes before the final book cover is sent off. This group is due to be published Spring 2026 by Haymarket Books, Chicago, for the Historical Materialism Book Series. www.haymarketbooks.org/.../1-histor...?
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Four rough 'place holder' front cover designs produced for publicity purposes before the final book cover is sent off. This group is due to be published Spring 2026 by Haymarket Books, Chicago, for the Historical Materialism Book Series. www.haymarketbooks.org/.../1-histor...?
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First @histmat.bsky.social conference – but definitely not the last!
I had a great time in London last wknd with my team @cominsitu.bsky.social and Rabea Berfelde – many thx to all who came to our panel and gave feedback! already looking forward to next year - hopefully take better photos then (:
I had a great time in London last wknd with my team @cominsitu.bsky.social and Rabea Berfelde – many thx to all who came to our panel and gave feedback! already looking forward to next year - hopefully take better photos then (:
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
First @histmat.bsky.social conference – but definitely not the last!
I had a great time in London last wknd with my team @cominsitu.bsky.social and Rabea Berfelde – many thx to all who came to our panel and gave feedback! already looking forward to next year - hopefully take better photos then (:
I had a great time in London last wknd with my team @cominsitu.bsky.social and Rabea Berfelde – many thx to all who came to our panel and gave feedback! already looking forward to next year - hopefully take better photos then (:
A thank you note from the organisers of the 2025 Historical Materialism London Conference...
A thank you note from the organisers of the 2025 Historical Materialism London Conference - Historical Materialism
A huge thanks to all the participants in the 2025 Historical Materialism London conference. The conference was a huge success with 1,043 presentations and over 1,400 participants. The biggest Historic...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:53 PM
A thank you note from the organisers of the 2025 Historical Materialism London Conference...