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Today we are launching on our website a whole new special issue on Identity Politics which will appear in print later this year in volume 26:2 of the journal. Big thanks to HM editors Ashok Kumar and Dalia Gebrial, and guest editors Adam Elliott-Cooper and Shruti Iyer for their very hard work putting this issue together. Thanks also to all the contributors and peer-reviewers. Special thanks to artist Natalia Podpora for her illustrations.

The deadline for abstracts has been extended a final time, to midnight GMT on 13 June 2018
***PLEASE NOTE: THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER EXTENSIONS***

This text is based on Heide Gerstenberger (2017) Markt und Gewalt. Die Funktionsweise des historischen Kapitalismus (Westfälisches Dampfboot) Münster. An English translation will appear published by Brill asMarket and Violence.

In this article Alberto Toscano considers three texts that allow us to explore the place that a recovery and reinterpretation of Lenin’s ‘Materialism and Empirio-Criticism’ played in setting the agenda of European Marxist philosophy after the crisis of ’56.

Moishe Postone (1942-2018) died in Chicago, Monday, March 19, 2018, after a battle with cancer.  A member of the Historical Materialism Advisory Board, he delivered one of the plenary talks at theHistorical Materialism conference in London last November (2017).  He became seriously ill some weeks after returning to Vienna.  He was working there this academic year at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Institute for Human Sciences).

Lea Kuhar is a young research fellow at the Philosophical institute, Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts (ZRC SAZU) and a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Postgraduate School ZRC SAZU where she is researching the topic of the Marxian Critique of political economy and modern political philosophy. She is also a co-worker and a member of the program committee of the Institute of Labor studies.  Email: lkuhar@zrc-sazu.si

HM editorial board members are currently on strike in their pre-1992 UK universities over the private financialisation of pensions.

Susan Dianne Brophy has a PhD in Social and Political Thought (York University – Toronto, Canada) and is currently an Assistant Professor in Legal Studies (St. Jerome’s University – Waterloo, Canada). For more info see https://uwaterloo.ca/scholar/s3brophy. An earlier draft of this paper was presented at the HM London 2016 conference.

Ankica Čakardić is an assistant professor and the chair of Social Philosophy and Philosophy of Gender at the Faculty for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb. Her research interest include Marxist critique of social contract theory, Political Marxism, Marxist-feminist and Luxemburgian critique of political economy, and history of women’s struggles in Yugoslavia. She is currently finishing her book on the social history of capitalism, Hobbes and Locke. A longer version of this paper, presented at the 2017 London Historical Materialism conference, has been published in the journal’s Issue 25.4 as ‘From Theory of Accumulation to Social-Reproduction Theory: A Case for Luxemburgian Feminism’, available in advance here.

Soviet Environmentalism: The Path Not Taken by Arran Gare

Presented at Historical Materialism London (2017) by Tiarnán Somhairle

Soma Marik (b. 1962) is Associate Professor of History , RKSM Vivekananda Vidyabhavan, West Bengal, and former Visiting Professor, School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University. She has published extensively on Marxism, the Russian Revolution, Communist Women in India, and Communalism in India. She has been an activist in the women’s liberation/gender rights movements for over three decades.