Making Our Own History: A User's Guide to Marx's Historical Materialism
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About this Event
The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), in collaboration with the Nottinghamshire Morning Star Readers and Supporters Group, is very pleased to be hosting this public talk given by Jonathan White, based on his recently published book, "Making our Own History: A User's Guide to Marx's Historical Materialism".
Jonathan White taught and researched in history at the Universities of Warwick and Southampton before becoming a trade union official. He is the editor and a contributor to Building an Economy for the People: an alternative economic and political strategy for 21st century Britain, published by Manifesto Press (2012) and wrote the introduction to a recent volume on State Monopoly Capitalism, also published by Manifesto Press in 2019. He is an occasional contributor to the Morning Star and is a trustee of the Marx Memorial Library, Associate Editor of its journal Theory and Struggle and he regularly teaches and lectures at the Library's Workers' School.
This online talk will be held live on Zoom and all who register to attend the event in advance will be able to access the talk using Zoom through your eventbrite ticket registration.
The event will consist of an approximately 40 minute talk, followed by a 40 minute Q&A.