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Dependent Fascism in Latin America Revisited

Alexander Scott | November 3, 2026

The current political conjuncture in Latin America, characterized by an ascendant far-right, demands more than the language of populism or democratic backsliding. What if, under radically transformed conditions, there is currently a return to the conditions of dependent fascism?

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Democratic economic planning and ecological transition

Michael Beggs | October 26, 2026

This seminar considers the ecological and systemic arrangements for a postcapitalist political economy.

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A Critical Introduction to Multi-Factor Productivity

Adam David Morton | October 26, 2026

This seminar launches the new book Understanding Productivity (Routledge, 2026), edited by Phillip Toner and Roy Green.

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Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, Part I

Joe Collins | October 20, 2026

From whence come the industrious people? Why spend months reading Marx’s so-called ‘notebooks’ in Theories of Surplus Value, Part 1 (TSVI) when you could skip to where those notes find coherence in the polished manuscript of Capital, Volume 1 (hereafter KI)?

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Shortlist for the 2026 Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize

Wenting He | October 15, 2026

The selection committee for the Australian International Political Economy Network (AIPEN) Richard Higgott Journal Article Prize is pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2026 prize, as voted on by AIPEN members.

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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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