The Peter Thomas Moment

Adam David Morton | October 13, 2026

Political theorist and Professor in History of Political Thought, Brunel University of London whose towering The Gramscian Moment defined Gramsci Studies.

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Our Political Economy and Theirs

Elliot Dolan-Evans | September 30, 2026

What is the structured totality of global capitalism shaping public health - especially HIV - during war in Ukraine today and how can a political economy of health advance understandings of conflict, violence and displacement?

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Next Past & Present Reading Group Text

Adam David Morton | September 25, 2026

This is to announce that the Past & Present Reading Group will be meeting to discuss, on a weekly basis and starting in October 2026, our next text which is: Susan Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti and Universal History (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009).

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From Locality to Totality

Chris Hesketh | Adam David Morton | September 21, 2026

On the tension between locality and totality that we see configuring the contours of significant debate today across economic geography in postcolonial, poststructural, decolonial, and constructivist approaches and why a Marxist notion of open concrete totality should not be marginalised.

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Historical Materialism | Sydney | Call for Papers

Riki Scanlan | September 3, 2026

Historical Materialism | Sydney | Liberation, Now: The Death of Liberal Order and the Fight for Another World | 11-12 February 2027 | Call for Papers

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Divisions in the Core of Global Capitalism? Italian Labour and ‘Free Trade’

Andreas Bieler | August 4, 2026

A focus on the mobilisation against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations between the EU and Mercosur and its implications for trade unions and other members of the labour movement broadly defined such as social movements and environmental groups.

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Geoengineering, climate overshoot and the politics of climate repair

Adam David Morton | July 28, 2026

When: 1 September, 12:00-1:30 pm

Where: Room 441, Social Sciences Building (A02), University of Sydney

Speaker: Dr Natasha Heenan

Following decades of climate denial, obstruction and delay, we find ourselves in an “overshoot conjuncture” where the absence of a [...]

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When Violence Works: Capital Accumulation and Political Order in Colombia

Manuela Mahecha Alzate | July 7, 2026

Did Colombia achieve economic success despite armed conflict and paramilitary violence? Or were they part of the same political-economic order?

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