In its 2025 edition, the International Colloquium Marx and Marxism has as its central theme ‘End-of-the-world capitalism – The age of polycrisis’

We invite researchers from across Brazil and around the world to discuss the complex combination of disasters associated with the global advance of capitalist reproduction: the economic crisis with its devastating consequences for the working class (in particular, the platformization of labour); the climate catastrophe; wars; the care crisis; the oppression of women, of racialized people and of the LGBTQIA+ community; the abandonment of entire populations forced to take on immigrant status; as well as the association of these multiple phenomena with each other.

Ten thematic axes have been defined to guide the call for papers:

1. Capital accumulation, crisis, and attacks on democracy
2. State and politics: radicalization of democracy versus revolution?
3. Education, capital, and democracy
4. Social struggles in and against capitalism
5. Culture and art against capitalism
6. Race, gender, and class: democracy for whom?
7. Environmental crisis, capital, and democracy
8. Democracy, right to the city, and transformations in the countryside
9. Global rise of the far right and neo-fascism
10. Imperialism and geopolitics: the failure of the “export” of democracy
11. Renewing historical materialism: developments of Marxist theory in current capitalism

Call for papers

The colloquium will only accept submissions of complete papers, within the limits of the thematic axes of the event.

• Submission deadline: April 15, 2025
• Approval notification: May 1, 2025

The Scientific Committee will not provide feedback justifying the selection of papers.

Basic information

Date: 25-29 August 2025.

Venue: Universidade Federal Fluminense. Campus do Gragoatá, Niterói – Rio de J.

Submission period: from February 17 to April 15, 2025.

Formatting Guidelines for Submissions

• Font: Times New Roman, 12 points and with 1.5 spacing between lines;
• Size: minimum of 10 and maximum of 30 pages in A4 format, including bibliography and notes;
• Include abstract of up to 250 words and 3 to 5 keywords;
• IMPORTANT: submitted papers must be in pdf format. No other format will be accepted.

Submission rules

1. Anonymous texts for evaluation must not contain any references that could identify the authors.
2. Full papers written in Portuguese, English and Spanish will be accepted.
3. Only unpublished works will be accepted. Articles already published, even with merely formal changes (title, section names, etc.), are not considered unpublished.
4. Each participant may submit only two papers, either as an author or as co-author.
5. Each paper may contain a maximum of 3 co-authors.
6. Each paper must have at least one registered author.
7. By sending the article, the authors declare to be aware of the rules of submission and selection by the Scientific Committee.
8. Non-compliance to any of the above rules will lead to automatic disapproval of all papers within the session before the evaluation by the scientific committee. There will be no refund of the submission fee in these cases.

Submission fee

US$100.00 per paper. If the paper is approved, it will also be necessary for an author to register as a work presenter (registration will open on June 1 and close on July 30, 2025). The author who will register as a paper presenter will not pay a registration fee. Only one author per work can register under this condition. The others must register as listeners (the registration fee will be US$40.00 for teachers and professionals and US$20.00 for students).

Paper’s presentation

The presentation will take place exclusively in person, during the space reserved in the event schedule. The work must be presented orally, with the use of slides being optional. The time reserved for each presentation is 30 minutes.

Languages

Portuguese, English and Spanish.