In Global Marxism, Simin Fadaee outlines that Marxism remains a living tradition and the cornerstone of revolutionary theory and practice in the Global South. She explores the lives, ideas and legacies of a group of revolutionaries who played an exceptional role in contributing to counter-hegemonic change. Figures such as Ho Chi Minh, Kwame Nkrumah, Ali Shariati and Subcomandante Marcos did not simply accept the version of Marxism that was given to them - they adapted it to local conditions and contexts. In doing this they demonstrated that Marxism is not a rigid set of propositions but an evolving force whose transformative potential remains enormous.

In this book launch, hosted by the Contemporary Marxism Research Group, Simin Fadaee will be joined in discussion by Lucia Pradella and John Narayan who will examine how Marxism has much to teach us in the never-ending task of grasping the changing historical conditions of capitalism and the complex world in which we live.

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SPEAKERS

Simin Fadaee is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Manchester and President of the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Social Classes and Social Movements. Her work is broadly focused on social movements, revolutions, and social justice. She is the author or editor of several books, including Marxism, Religion and Emancipatory Politics (2022) and Understanding Southern Social Movements (2016).

Lucia Pradella is a Reader in International Political Economy at King's College London. She has published extensively on Marx's critique of political economy and on workers' movements, migration, imperialism, and alternatives to capitalism.

John Narayan is a Senior Lecturer in European and International Studies at King’s College London and an anti-racist scholar of globalization and inequality. His current research centres on abolitionism, and the political economy of the influential anti-racist scholar A. Sivanandan