Thank you very much to all those who have attended and organised HM 2013 Tenth Annual Conference ‘Making the World Working Class’, November 7-10, London. 

It has been a great experience and we look forward to next year’s meeting!

Members of the Political Marxism community have participated in the following panels:

History as Method

Chair: Peter Thomas

Samuel Knafo and Benno Teschke – Political Marxism and the Question of Methodology for Historical Materialism

Clemens Hoffmann – The Heterogeneity of Universalism: Making Sense of the ‘Dual Spread’ of Modernity: Debating Capitalism and the Inter-State System beyond Europe

Discussant: Charlie Post

Problematising Histories of Capitalism: Working class – law and state formation

Chair: Robert Knox

Frantz Gheller – Rethinking the social roots of Quebec’s development: The challenge of international relations

Xavier Lafrance – Problematising capitalism and re-thinking the making of a working class in France

Maia Pal – Processes of jurisdictional accumulation in early modern Spain & France: a pre-capitalist history of international law

Javier Moreno Zacarés – Rethinking the Spanish empire and world systems capitalist development: the role of burghers

…Feel free to get in touch with us if you are interested in any of the projects above.