This is not about answering all of the questions of work and strategy, but developing a sober, critical and materialist assessment of the difficult realities of the conjuncture.

In doing so, we aim to develop a crucial aspect of the broader Historical Materialism project: creating a space where Marxist analysis can engage with organisers and scholars alike. We want to bridge the gap between Marxists inside and outside the university, encouraging dialogue across disciplines, contexts, and roles - from trade unionists and workplace militants to researchers and theorists. The journal is intended as one part of this project, alongside the stream at the annual Historical Materialism London Conference and the expanding international network of conferences.

This first call is intended to be broad and open. We invite submissions on the following, non-exhaustive, topics:

* The changing nature of work across industries and occupations.
* Changing trends in capítal mobility and types of capital
* The persistence and limits of inherited or mainstream theoretical categories and organisational practices
* Strategic dilemmas in contemporary labour organising
* The relationship between media, data, and labour discipline in digital capitalism
* Peripheral and precarious labour in the Global South and North
* Old and new migration patterns in the global division of labour and their impact on the organisation of work and workers
* Workers’ responses to the climate crisis, authoritarian neoliberalism, precarious living and technological displacement
* The continuities-discontinuities between “traditional” Taylorism and contemporary algorithmic management, with a focus on the question of whether capital is still organising labour

The deadline for submitting abstracts of 300 words max is the 31st of October 2025. Please submit abstracts through the form on the website.

If the abstract is accepted, the deadline for submitting the first draft is the 3rd of April 2026, with the aim of publishing the first issue of the journal later in 2026.

We follow a similar format to the main Historical Materialism journal for submissions. The word limit for articles is between 8,000 and 12,000 words, including references. They are submitted for anonymous peer review. We invite peer reviewers and then discuss each piece as the editorial board, making the decision based on both the reviews and our collective discussion. Our aim is to develop a rigorous and critical process of reviewing, while remaining both comradely and constructive. The publication is open-access and freely available to read online in multiple formats.

We particularly invite new writers and those outside the university. If you are interested in contributing but would like to discuss any part of the process, please contact us.

More details here: workersandcapital.historicalmaterialism.org

Petro Poroshenko in an alternate reality
#meme #history
One of the engravings from the Chile Sojuzgado portfolio

First editorial work by the “new” generation of the Mexican Taller de Gráfica Popular. During the 1960s, most of the members of the Taller had left the collective or died.

Jesús Álvarez Amaya, determined to revive the organization. After several years of training and financial difficulties, which they managed to overcome by selling an archive of 3,000 works to the government, the TGP was revived with this publication, Chile Sojuzgado.

The portfolio consists of reproductions of the works that were presented in an exhibition at the workshop itself on September 11, 1974. It was created to denounce the military dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet and “to remember Salvador Allende, the constitutional president of Chile, assassinated by the military junta that bloodied the country, crushing the sister nation and brutally crushing all legal order and democratic treatment,” according to Amaya himself.

Glory to Ukraine! (a Soviet version from 1967, created by Hanna Valiuha)

Слава Україні! (по-радянськи - 1967)

Olena Lyubchenko and Zach Hicks co-translated these excerpts from The October Revolution and the Factory Committees (Октябрьская революция и фабзавкомы), the first English-language fragments of a massive text about how Petrograd workers took direct control of the factories in which they worked during the Revolution of 1917. The translators came upon the text through CLR James's letters to Marty Glaberman in the aftermath of the breakup of the Correspondence Publishing Committee. James never read it himself, but he saw the Factory Committees as “the proletarian counterpart (the modern historical symbol of our problems today, the practical concrete problems of the working class) [to what Marx’s] Economic-Philosophical Manuscripts represented in theory.”
#en #history #article
Read it, along with their translator's introduction here.

Oleksandr Kyselov "How Language Is Weaponized in Wartime Ukraine"

In wartime Ukraine, many nationalists denounce even everyday uses of the Russian language.

A Ukrainian socialist from Donbas writes on the need for a plural vision of Ukrainian society that is also able to include Russian-speakers: "No Ukrainian wins from replacing one exclusion with another."