2019 will mark the 70th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, the world’s largest socialist society. Although popularly perceived as a rupture, historians have increasingly emphasised continuities across the 1949 divide, making the end of the Maoist system in 1978 a much more striking transition. The picture that emerges from the early PRC is one in which China is not a top-down totalitarian regime, but one enabled by ordinary people wishing to secure their place, including scientists, farmers, artists, and religious officials.

Call for papers for the 3rd Conference of the European Labour History Network, 19-21 September 2019, Amsterdam

Exploring Workers’ Education: institutions and practices

Working-Class Politics in 20th century Europe

Stefano Musso, Matt Perry, Xavier Vigna

Third Conference of the European Labour History Network (ELHN)
Amsterdam, 19-21 September 2019

Written and Visual Representations of the World of Work "in and by the Working Class"

Call for Papers for a Session

Coordinators:

Call for papers for the 3rd European Labour History Network (ELHN) conference, 19 – 21 September 2019, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

EXPOSITION D'HISTOIRE
 La médecine du travail du XIXe au XXIe siècles : Plus de deux siècles d'histoire contemporaine à la croisée de quelques chemins...
par Isabelle Cavé
Docteur en sciences humaines (santé)
Représentante des usagers au Groupe hospitalier gériatrique Broca (Broca, La Rochefoucault, La Collégiale).

The Institute for Advanced Studies (IEA) in Saint Louis, Senegal, is a citizen initiative for:

International Conference Colonial Cities in Global Perspective

Venue and date : Saint-Louis, Senegal, from December 10-12, 2018

Call for Papers

The Global History Network, the Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar, the Foundation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris, and the Institute of Advanced Study in Saint-Louis, seek papers for a conference on Colonial Cities in Global Perspective, to be held in Saint-Louis, Senegal, from December 10-12, 2018.

Thought and Action: Anarchism as Militant Community and Way of Life
Saturday, September 15, 2018
10,30-13,00/ 15,00-18,30
Ateneo degli Imperfetti,
Via Bottenigo, 209
Marghera-Venezia

A seminary on contemporary anarchism starting from the militant thought and lives of Amedeo Bertolo and Eduardo Colombo.
Organized by: Laboratorio Libertario/ Ateneo degli Imperfetti di Marghera and the Centro studi libertari/Archivio Giuseppe Pinelli di Milano.

You are invited to the launch of the new online catalogue for the

Marx Memorial Library's Spanish Collection

24 July 7pm

Marx Memorial Library, 37a Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DU

Our Spanish Collection is a unique archive on the International Brigades, British Aid Spain movement and anti-Franco campaigns and - at over 8,000 items - includes diaries, letters, photographs, printed ephemera and much more.