by Julien Chuzeville

« Ce livre parle d’une époque où le mot “socialisme” était subversif. Les socialistes étaient alors en opposition ouverte contre la société capitaliste, qu’ils voulaient renverser pour mettre en place un monde complètement différent – qu’ils appelaient souvent “communisme”. Pour eux, socialisme et communisme tendaient essentiellement au même but. Ces mots aujourd’hui usés ont pourtant désigné l’espoir d’un monde meilleur, l’espoir de la fin des oppressions. »

The latest issue of Labour History Review is now available online.

Liverpool University Press is pleased to inform you of the latest content in LABOUR HISTORY REVIEW, a highly regarded publication that is essential reading for those working in and researching social and political history, and the working lives and politics of 'ordinary' people.

Call for Papers: Working Group “Labour and Coercion” at the European Labour History Network (ELHN) Conference 2026

***EXTENDED DEADLINE*** 15 July 2025

The ELHN Working Group “Labour and Coercion” invites proposals for papers and sessions at the upcoming 6th ELHN Conference. The event will take place from 16 to 19 June 2026 in Barcelona.

Vienna, 24 and 25 November, 2025

The annual conference 2025 of the Austrian Society for Exile Studies (öge) is dedicated to the experiences of refugees under the title Love, Sexuality and Intimacy in Exile. It looks at these topics from a historical, current and interdisciplinary perspective and explores emotional, romantic and physical experiences. According to historian Ute Frevert, feelings ultimately motivate action and should therefore be considered as a central category of analysis when we investigate agency in exile.

Support the 100 anniversary of the General Strike national partnership 

11 museums, libraries, archives and history groups have today written to the trade union and labour movement to seek support for a national partnership to celebrate the General Strike 100 anniversary in 2026. 

Work and the Balkans, special issue of the Études Balkaniques

(scheduled for publication in the second half of 2026)

Editors: Antonis Nasis, PhD candidate in history at EHESS/CETOBaC – University of Crete, and Christos Andrianopoulos, PhD in History and member of the CRH at EHESS

Call for contributions

Work and the Balkans

Palestine and global resistance to genocide

The Workers of the World journal invites submissions for the upcoming themed issue, Palestine, and global resistance to genocide. The deadline for submissions is May 15, 2025.

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Education, how, what and for whom?

The Workers of the World journal invites submissions for the upcoming themed issue, Education, what, for whom, how? The deadline for submissions is July 15, 2025.