Are you interested in presenting and discussing your ideas on a topic related to disability through a Marxist perspective?
This autumn, we will be putting out a call for papers for the 2026 MDN series of events. Please consider submitting an abstract in a few months' time!
#Disability #Marxism
Only one more day to get your abstracts sent in!
Andy Merrifield's Roses for Gramsci (Monthly Review Press, 2025) - Brilliant!!! + Alan Sears' The Next New Left (Fernwood Publishing, 2014) - Absolute classic!
Holly Lewis!!!
"Had Rees read so much as a sentence of Marxist-feminist writing ... he’d know ... capital uses our biological capacities for its own purposes ... it creates hardened social identities for us based on biological criteria useful only to it".
spectrejournal.com/against-bad-...
"Several of the workers taken into custody on Friday have been active in efforts to unionize year-round employees, including at least one who has spoken publicly in favor of joining the United Farm Workers of America"
TODAY @ 6.30pm BST!
Matt Rozsa – Neurosocialism: Why being neurodivergent necessitates socialist solutions
Bernardo Paci: “Past in the present” or “future in the present”? Temporality, cultural representations of autism and the social division of labour
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/events-list/
Pierre Poilievre’s plans for power are based on the blueprint of his lifelong guru, Milton Friedman.
Gutting social programs, selling publicly-owned assets, sabotaging labour unions, and removing any obstacle to profiteering—unchecked corporate rule.
Martin Lukacs explains.
Sound article from James Cairns:
“The primary question is not what crises do to people, but what people do with crises, which depends on manifold historical variables, not least the state of radical infrastructure ... when crises break out”.
socialiststudies.com/index.php/ss...
📣Our next event - Tue 6th May, 6:30pm BST
Matt Rosza – Neurosocialism: Why being neurodivergent necessitates socialist solutions
Bernardo Paci - “Past in the present” or “future in the present”? Temporality, cultural representations of autism & the social division of labour
"An institution’s decisions about its money, its partnerships, and its treatment of people are inherently political statements".
nbmediacoop.org/2025/04/08/p...
Tomorrow!!
April, Tuesday 8th, 6:30pm (BST) – panel event
‘[I]n this society unity appears as accidental, separation as normal’ – Disablement, (Under)class, and Emancipatory Social Ecology
With Bob Williams-Findlay, Sandra Wyman, and Roddy Slorach
marxismdisability.wordpress.com/events-list/
Now announced... CfP: Twenty-Second Annual Historical Materialism London Conference, 'Resurgent Reaction: Marxist Strategies at the End of the Liberal Order'.
This year taking place 6-9 November 2025 at SOAS University, London
