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What’s New – 05th October 2023 - Historical Materialism
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What’s New – 05th October 2023

5th Oct 2023

– Virtual Book Talk with Gilbert Achcar on The New Cold War, in online conversation with host Sadia Abbas (CES, Rutgers) and guest Simon Pirani. Register here:

https://shorturl.at/ejrB2

– Discussion of Theodore Allen’s ‘The Kernel and Meaning’: A Strategic Critique of U.S. Labor History, Thursdays, 6:30-8:30 pm   28 Sept, 5, 12, 19, 26 October. Before Theodore W. Allen published his well-known The Invention of the White Race, he drafted “The Kernel and Meaning: A Contribution to a Proletarian Critique of U.S. Historiography.”

https://marxedproject.org/event/kernel-and-meaning/

– Lukács – History and Class Consciousness: An on-line talk to mark anniversary of the book’s publication, by Andrew Feenberg. Monday October 23rd 2023 at 8pm London time [12 noon Pacific time] All welcome, but you will need to register:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMldeiurzIjHNfQFLh02xD2bIH9_gIne3_Z

– Daniel Loick discusses his new book, The Abuse of Property (MIT Press, 2023), with Brenna Bhandar and Jacob Blumenfeld. Video: 

https://www.youtube.com/live/NydcNinyNqs?si=pQUa6-j0jB-g0j10 

Book: 

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545501/the-abuse-of-property/

– Paul Clammer, Black Crown: Henri Christophe, the Haitian Revolution and the Caribbean’s Forgotten Kingdom, Wed, 18 Oct 2023 17:30 – 19:00 BST, On-line, register here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ucl-institute-of-the-americas-caribbean-series-paul-clammer-black-crown-tickets-722788559037

– A video of an online forum (sponsored by Haymarket Books and Pluto Press) on Lenin: Preparing for Catastrophe, Forging Revolution — featuring Paul Le Blanc, Jodi Dean, Linda Loew, and Cliff Connolly — can be accessed through this You Tube link: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvZ3S71iFH8

– Reform, Revolution, and Opportunism: Debates in the Second International, 1900-1910. Edited by Mike Taber.Buy from Haymarket Books directly at a 30% discount:

https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2109-reform-revolution-and-opportunism

– Sessions 1-4 of the Lukacs and History and Class Consciousness Marathon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwUckT02AX4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seaz-Q9uQ4I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOgP74igYH4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqyWuPsossM 

– New book: Dismantling Green Colonialism: Energy and Climate Justice in the Arab region – Hamza Hamouchene & Katie Sandwell. It will be officially out with Pluto Press on 20th October. For pre-orders with a 30% discount, please use code GREEN30 on Pluto’s website:

https://www.plutobooks.com/9780745349213/dismantling-green-colonialism/