Thomas Carmichael
is former Dean of the Faculty of Information and Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario, where he is now Professor Emeritus and Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of English and Writing Studies. He has also held visiting appointments at Aix-Marseille University. He has published widely on contemporary American literature and culture, and on literary and Marxist theory, particularly on the work of Louis Althusser. [tomc@uwo.ca]
FTC Manning
lives and works in San Francisco, California. Their work revolves around ground rent theory, financialisation in the longue-durée, and struggles over land and housing. They are currently working on a project studying Jamaican land tenure in the twentieth century with Dr Rachel Goffe, as well as a research project which clarifies marxian state theory through a study of the relationship between landowners, law, and state. They can be reached at <fmanning@sfclt.org>.
Mariana Massó
is a PhD candidate at the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. She holds a doctoral Research Fellowship at the National Research Council (Conicet). Her main research interests are Latin American history and the history of communism. She has recently published ‘Revista Informaciones: la fase final del Tercer Periodo en el comunismo sudamericano, 1933–1934’ (Izquierdas, 50, 2021). [massom93@gmail.com]
Kim Moody
was a founder member of Labor Notes in the US and is the author of several books on labour and politics. His most recent work is On New Terrain: How Capital Is Reshaping the Battleground of Class War (Haymarket Books, 2017). He has a PhD and is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for the Study of the Production of the Built Environment of the University of Westminster in London. He is a member of the University and College Union, the National Union of Journalists, the British Universities Industrial Relations Association, and the Working-Class Studies Association. [moodyk@westminster.ac.uk]
Roberto Mozzachiodi
completed his doctorate at Goldsmiths, University of London in 2020. He is an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths College and a Visiting Lecturer at Regent’s University. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism. He writes on Francophone Marxist histories and philosophy. [robertomozzachiodi@gmail.com]
Rogney Piedra Arencibia
is a PhD candidate at Queen’s University and a Vanier Scholar, specialising in Marxist philosophy, particularly in the works of Friedrich Engels and the Soviet philosopher E.V. Ilyenkov. He is author of the book Marxismo y dialéctica de la naturaleza [Marxism and Dialectics of Nature], published in two editions: Havana, 2017; Quito, 2019. He has published several academic articles and offered lectures in Spanish and English about the history of dialectics, the philosophy – science relation, Ilyenkov, and Classical Marxism. [r.piedraarencibia@queensu.ca]
Kristin Plys
is an assistant professor in the Departments of Sociology and History at the University of Toronto, specialising in the political economy of the Global South. The greater part of her intellectual work analyses the historical trajectory of global capitalism as seen from working-class and anti-colonial movements. She has held visiting positions at the Lahore University of Management Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan, the Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen, Germany, and the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi, India. Her first book, Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India (Cambridge University Press, 2020), winner of the Global Sociology Award from the Federation of the Social Sciences and Humanities (Canada), uncovered histories of the left resistance movement that was launched from Delhi’s vibrant café culture during India’s brief period of dictatorship of 1975–7. Her second book, Capitalism and Its Uncertain Future (Routledge, 2022), co-authored with Charles Lemert, explores lesser-known theories of capitalism as seen from the Global South. [kristin.plys@utoronto.ca]
Manuel Quiroga
holds a PhD in History from the National University of Córdoba, Argentina. He is the author of La Segunda Internacional y el imperialismo. Una comparación entre la socialdemocracia alemana y francesa (1896–1914), published by Ariadna Ediciones, Chile. [manuelquirogasoto@gmail.com]
Panagiotis Sotiris
is a journalist and independent researcher working in Athens. He has taught social and political philosophy at the University of Crete, Panteion University, the University of the Aegean, the University of Athens and the Hellenic Open University. A member of the Editorial Board of Historical Materialism, he has edited the collective volume Crisis, Movement, Strategy: The Greek Experience (Historical Materialism Book Series; Brill, 2018) and is author of A Philosophy for Communism: Rethinking Althusser (Historical Materialism Book Series; Brill, 2020). [panagiotis.sotiris@gmail.com]