Study and engagement network with a particular focus on Disability Politics and Marxism(s). We hold monthly talks and will be launching other activities soon.
After a Workers' Inquiry workshop co-hosted with Notes from Below (in Jan) & a co-organised book review symposium event (in Mar), we're excited to announce 9 more events for 2026! marxismdisability.wordpress.…
Joining links will be shared on the MDN mailing list ahead of each event.
ALT Poster with the list of all the events, written in white and yellow on a black background.
Pre-order the Disability and Work issue - a collaboration between Marxism & Disability Network and the Notes from Below editorial collective
If you are able to, please consider spending more on an issue to cover the distribution of free copies.
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If you wish to join our mailing list, please use the link below: jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-ji…
We're looking forward to next week's November seminar, alongside the 5 panels and 1 roundtable that will be part of the Marxism & Disability Stream at the HM conference!
Just a few days left until our event with Ester Micalizzi! Really looking forward to the presentation and our collective discussion!
Join us on Tue, 3rd November from 6:30pm GMT (UK time)
#Marxism#Feminism#Disability
The Marxism and Disability Stream at the 23rd Annual Historical Materialism conference (London, SOAS University, 5-8th November) will host 6 panels and a roundtable event. Join us!
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Marxism and Disability Network call for 2027 events
With the end of the year fast approaching, the steering committee for the Marxism & Disability Network is excited to announce the MDN call for proposals in preparation for the 2027 schedule of events!
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ALT Marxism & Disability Network
Call for 2027 event proposals
Historical Materialism annual conference in London - plenaries announced
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Looking forward to our Marxism & Disability Stream & other panels at the conference in November!
unfortunately good timing for the latest round of pro vs anti eugenics discourse: some quotes from here on the subjectivising process of dis/ableism which helps to construct and maintain the othered status of the surplus class
ALT "The UK has been on this trajectory since Thatcher’s neoliberal reforms of 1979 and the logic of privatisation and austerity intersects with and intensifies the logic of social murder. Descriptions of it as “slow” or “structural” or “bureaucratic” violence belie how widespread and relentless and effective this form of mass extermination of surplus populations truly is. We suggest what these phrases capture most of all is how tolerated this form of violence is; the social murder of the surplus class is demonstrably not objectionable enough to have been opposed by the proletariat, perhaps because its victims are so Othered: abject non-Subjects composed by various minoritised identities (read: non-white, non-male, non-cishetero, disabled, non-citizens, etc.), not the proper working class."
Joe Gallagher and Arianna Introna look at recent British state policy as targeted social murder, contextualising its eugenic function and clarifying the horizons of working-class resistance to this rising tide.
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'Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism and Disablement' is due to be published in Feb 2027 - available in Open Access and paperback formats
It can be preordered from here: bristoluniversitypress.co.uk…
(a 50% discount can be accessed until the end of July)
ALT Book cover with floral patterns from a William Morris part-finished sketch. It features large, curvaceous stylized flowers and twisting acanthus leaves - set against a background of smaller, entwined vines and leaves.
The title "Disabling Capitalism: A Critical Inquiry Into Work, Productivism, and Disablement" by Ioana Cerasella Chis is displayed on a yellow rectangle.
6th Oct MDN event
Disablement, Art and Alienation - a panel event with:
* Saul Leslie – Publication of A Working Title I Want to Change
* Stefan Sunandan Honisch – Vulnerability: Disablement & the Political Economy of Music Performance
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Our first publication concerns how Marxists should approach the concept of ‘ableism’ as a description and explanation of disability oppression; a question which has caused lively debate in the Network since last Spring.
The task of disability analysis is to question why and how impaired people became dominated and excluded, while ableism merely describes this oppression as a trans-historical, almost ‘natural ‘, fact of living in a world filled with non-disabled people.
Williams-Findlay concludes that only an analysis of disability rooted in the concrete social, economic and political institutions which enforce disabled people’s exclusion and marginalisation can be the basis for an emancipatory strategy.