Historical Materialism Journal
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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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With the contract now signed, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be publishing my second book, *Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well*, with Brill in the @histmat.bsky.social Book Series. It should be out by early 2028 at the latest.
January 28, 2026 at 9:55 AM
With the contract now signed, I’m pleased to say that I’ll be publishing my second book, *Peasant Modernism: Marx, Culture, and the Future of Eating Well*, with Brill in the @histmat.bsky.social Book Series. It should be out by early 2028 at the latest.
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“Those two things, queer politics and Marxism, were together in my mind but not always reconciled. So, I began having to puzzle the connections together myself”
@alansearslefty.bsky.social interviewed in @histmat.bsky.social about Eros and Alienation:
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@alansearslefty.bsky.social interviewed in @histmat.bsky.social about Eros and Alienation:
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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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January 30, 2026 at 1:15 PM
“Those two things, queer politics and Marxism, were together in my mind but not always reconciled. So, I began having to puzzle the connections together myself”
@alansearslefty.bsky.social interviewed in @histmat.bsky.social about Eros and Alienation:
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@alansearslefty.bsky.social interviewed in @histmat.bsky.social about Eros and Alienation:
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Published as part of a special issue on Austro-Marxism, with several excellent contributions and including a translation of Otto Bauer 'Marx's Theory of Economic Crisis' from 1904.
Thanks to @histmat.bsky.social for publishing my article “Afterlives of Austro-Marxism in Yugoslavia: Rethinking the Multinational Federal Political Community in Crisis”
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January 28, 2026 at 7:59 AM
Published as part of a special issue on Austro-Marxism, with several excellent contributions and including a translation of Otto Bauer 'Marx's Theory of Economic Crisis' from 1904.
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Thanks to @histmat.bsky.social for publishing my article “Afterlives of Austro-Marxism in Yugoslavia: Rethinking the Multinational Federal Political Community in Crisis”
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January 28, 2026 at 5:00 AM
Thanks to @histmat.bsky.social for publishing my article “Afterlives of Austro-Marxism in Yugoslavia: Rethinking the Multinational Federal Political Community in Crisis”
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Demain, à 19 h, heure de Paris, j'aurai le plaisir de participer à une table ronde consacrée au livre de Ian Birchall sur l'internationalisme de gauche en France entre 1890 et 1962, récemment publié dans la collection Brill ft. @histmat.bsky.social.
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Beyond the Tricolour (with Ian Birchall)
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January 19, 2026 at 10:37 AM
Demain, à 19 h, heure de Paris, j'aurai le plaisir de participer à une table ronde consacrée au livre de Ian Birchall sur l'internationalisme de gauche en France entre 1890 et 1962, récemment publié dans la collection Brill ft. @histmat.bsky.social.
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Historical Materialism Barcelona, 2-4 July 2026.
The deadline for abstract submissions to Historical Materialism Barcelona, 'Countdown… Thinking the catastrophe to ward it off', has been extended to 31 January.
What are you waiting for, comrades?!
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The deadline for abstract submissions to Historical Materialism Barcelona, 'Countdown… Thinking the catastrophe to ward it off', has been extended to 31 January.
What are you waiting for, comrades?!
historicalmaterialismbcn.net
Historical Materialism BCN
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January 16, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Historical Materialism Barcelona, 2-4 July 2026.
The deadline for abstract submissions to Historical Materialism Barcelona, 'Countdown… Thinking the catastrophe to ward it off', has been extended to 31 January.
What are you waiting for, comrades?!
historicalmaterialismbcn.net
The deadline for abstract submissions to Historical Materialism Barcelona, 'Countdown… Thinking the catastrophe to ward it off', has been extended to 31 January.
What are you waiting for, comrades?!
historicalmaterialismbcn.net
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Third Camp Socialism: A Phyllis and Julius Jacobson reader is available from @histmat.bsky.social .
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Third Camp Socialism. A Phyllis and Julius Jacobson Reader - Historical Materialism
Paul Heideman and Kent Worcester Volume Editors: Paul Heideman and Kent Worcester Third Camp Socialism collects Phyllis and Julius Jacobson’s major writings on civil rights, Stalinism, the Cold War, a...
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January 16, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Third Camp Socialism: A Phyllis and Julius Jacobson reader is available from @histmat.bsky.social .
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Hey y'all! This week we have David Camfield reviewing Phyllis and Julius Jacobson's Third Camp Socialism ( @histmat.bsky.social ).
Hey y'all! This week we have David Camfield reviewing Phyllis and Julius Jacobson's Third Camp Socialism ( @histmat.bsky.social ).
Reading Third Camp Socialism in the Time of Trump and Xi – Spectre Journal
David Camfield reviews Paul Heidemann and Kent Worcester's newly edited Phyllis and Julius Jacobson reader.
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January 16, 2026 at 5:50 PM
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Hey y'all! This week we have David Camfield reviewing Phyllis and Julius Jacobson's Third Camp Socialism ( @histmat.bsky.social ).
Hey y'all! This week we have David Camfield reviewing Phyllis and Julius Jacobson's Third Camp Socialism ( @histmat.bsky.social ).
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Preliminary proofs are in......
January 6, 2026 at 12:44 PM
Preliminary proofs are in......
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Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is an adaption of Luibov Popova Untitled Textile Design on May Morris Honeysuckle Wallpaper for Historical Materialism, edition of 100, screen print on wallpaper (2010).
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January 11, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Cover for Haymarket Books, Historical Materialism book series. Cover art is an adaption of Luibov Popova Untitled Textile Design on May Morris Honeysuckle Wallpaper for Historical Materialism, edition of 100, screen print on wallpaper (2010).
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Long(ish) essay for the website of the @histmat.bsky.social journal: Spotify’s fuckery, how the culture industry is implicated in the war machine, and “the specter of music that could be free.” Pretty proud of this one.
Every Song’s a War Song: Spotify and the Military Music Industrial Complex - Historical Materialism
In the 1890s, the idea of a “record industry” was a novel concept. The phonograph had only been invented in 1877, its close cousin the gramophone patented and made available for purchase little more t...
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January 10, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Long(ish) essay for the website of the @histmat.bsky.social journal: Spotify’s fuckery, how the culture industry is implicated in the war machine, and “the specter of music that could be free.” Pretty proud of this one.
Now online: 'Every Song’s a War Song: Spotify and the Military Music Industrial Complex' by Alexander Billet.
Every Song’s a War Song: Spotify and the Military Music Industrial Complex - Historical Materialism
In the 1890s, the idea of a “record industry” was a novel concept. The phonograph had only been invented in 1877, its close cousin the gramophone patented and made available for purchase little more t...
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January 8, 2026 at 9:03 AM
Now online: 'Every Song’s a War Song: Spotify and the Military Music Industrial Complex' by Alexander Billet.
Our third issue of the new and improved Historical Materialism newsletter, keeping you updated with a suite of publications, calls for papers, videos, upcoming events, and and and.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Our third issue of the new and improved Historical Materialism newsletter, keeping you updated with a suite of publications, calls for papers, videos, upcoming events, and and and.
If you haven't already signed up, be sure to do so at the bottom of our website here: www.historicalmaterialism.org.
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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
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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).
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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.
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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.