Big Flame: Building the Movements, New Politics

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by Max Farrar and Kevin McDonnell

This book addresses the ideas and experiences of a small British revolutionary socialist and feminist organisation in the 1970s and 1980s.

Written by two former members, it sets out the organisation’s eclectic influences: Italian Marxism, libertarianism, anarchism ― and its complex relationship with Leninism and Trotskyism. Big Flame lost momentum in the early 1980s when many leftists joined the Labour Party. It includes a critical interpretation of Big Flame’s successes and failures.

Why Does Labour Matter? The Past, Present, and Future of Labour and Labour Studies

Université du Québec à Montréal, 14-15 November 2025

In 1976 the Canadian Committee on Labour History (CCLH) launched its journal Labour/Le Travail, hoping to “foster imaginative approaches to both teaching and research in labour studies through an open exchange of viewpoints.” With the fiftieth anniversary of this event approaching, scholars, activists, unionists, and workers are invited to convene in the spirit of this tradition to exchange views and to consider new and renewed imaginative approaches to the study of labour and the working class.

Acronia: History of Anarchism and Radical Movements: "Decolonizing the History of Anarchism and Radical Movements"

«Acronia. Studies in the history of anarchism and radical movements»

https://mimesisjournals.com/ojs/index.php/acronia/index

Decolonizing the History of Anarchism and Radical Movements

Deadline for submission of the abstract (not more than 1,000-1,500 words and a short bio of the author): February 15th, 2025.

Looking back at the African Lefts. Call for papers for the Cahiers d’histoire. Revue d’histoire critique

Abstract: This call for papers from Cahiers d'histoire. Revue d'histoire critique focuses on left-wing activism in Africa, particularly that which can be considered as revolutionary, underpinned by anti-colonialism and anti-imperialism, from the 1960s, with access to independence, to the 1990s, with the implementation of a multi-party system and the imposition of structural adjustment policies.

Control and punishment devices: 3rd International Conference on History of Prison and Punitive Institutions

Control and punishment devices: 3rd International Conference on History of Prison and Punitive Institutions

“Control and punishment devices”

3rd International Conference on History of Prison and Punitive Institutions

https://www.unavarra.es/congreso-historia-prision/?languageId=1

14 to 16 January 2026, Iruñea - Pamplona.
Universidad Pública de Navarra – Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa.

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Strikes and Social Conflicts in Hostile Environments

Call for Conference Papers: “Strikes and Social Conflicts in Hostile Environments”, September 5-6, 2025

Deadline for Submission of Abstracts: March 15, 2025 - EXTENDED DEADLINE

Seventh Conference of the International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts

Co-Organized by

    The Arrighi Center for Global Studies, Johns Hopkins University and the
    International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts (IASSC)

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Shared Housing: New Approaches to Re-evaluating Everyday Life in East-Central and Southeastern Europe between the Late Eighteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

This call for articles is aimed at surveying the field of housing to create a collage of the newest approaches and findings and consequently provide a state-of-the-art springboard from which to reflect on the dynamics that arose between people outside of public spaces and the less visible effects of the experience of shared living as a process and encounter on both urban and rural environments.

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