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Quite rightly, over the last few days we have been honouring the memory of Rosa Luxemburg, but hagiography is not a Marxist genre and commemoration should always be allied to critical appreciation. In this spirit, I strongly recommend these pieces from Historical Materialism:

Call for Abstracts: Irreligion and the Critique of Religion
Deadline: 24 March 2019

Emma Mawdsley (University of Cambridge)

First International Theoretical Encounter in Havana “Leon Trotsky: life and contemporaneity.” An academic approach. A tribute to the Centenary of the Communist International.

Alternative Organisational Forms and Sustainability

Developmentalist Cities? Interrogating Urban Developmentalism in East Asia

The Long Brazilian Crisis: A Forum

David Walters and Tim Davenport have worked on this project for almost 3 years. The entire collection will be 6 volumes. About 98% of Deb’s writings in these volumes have never been published before. The first 2 volumes deal with EVD’s politics and union perspectives well before he became a socialist. [Any royalties go the Marxists Internet Archive.]

Continuing the Struggle: The International Labor Organization (ILO) Centenary and the Future of Global Worker Rights conference to be held in Washington, DC 2019, November 21-22, 2019

Centre on Labour and Global Production, Queen Mary University of London
http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/research/research-centres/clgp/

Sue Himmelweit (Open University and the Women’s Budget Group) 

Agrarian Change Seminars Term 2, 2018-19