Memorial awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2022

The International Association of Labour History Institutions is honoured to congratulate Memorial, which has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2022 together with human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski from Belarus, and the Ukrainian human rights organisation Center for Civil Liberties. Memorial is a human rights organisation founded in Moscow, Russia, in 1987, and a long-time member of our association.

 

CfP: Historical Materialism Special Issue on ‘Western Marxism’

Ever since the publication in 1976 of Perry Anderson’s Considerations on Western Marxism, the very notion of Western Marxism has been a reference point, a widely used categorization, and the object of intense debates and controversies. The idea that there is a particular version of ‘Western’ Marxism, opposed to both classical Marxism, but also to ‘Eastern’ Marxism, in the sense of the Marxist orthodoxy projected by the Soviet Union, was not, of course, Anderson’s in the first place.

CfP: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Brazilian Slavery in Global Perspective

The Brazilian journal Esboços: histórias em contextos globais (ISSN 2175-7976) invites researchers to submit papers to the special issue “Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Brazilian Slavery in Global Perspective” organized by Clemente Gentil Penna, Marcelo Matheus, and Melina Teubner. The papers must be submitted through the journal’s electronic platform until December 30, 2022. The special issue will be published in v. 30 n. 54, 2023.