Fifty years on from the events of 1968, prominent activists from different generations will examine the significance of student protest then and now. Matt Myers hilary wainwright Ralph Miliband @ LSE #LSEstudent bit.ly/2RpkyBS

Great to speak at the Ralph Miliband @ LSE lecture last night alongside hilary wainwright. We discussed Ralph Miliband’s role in 1968, the changing class composition of the student body after 2010, and the generational aspects of the current capitalist crisis.

My article for the new print issue of ⁦Red Pepper⁩ redpepper.org.uk/the-rise-of-th…

Eric Hobsbawm wasn’t just a historian of the twentieth-century communist movement: he was part of it. jacobinmag.com/2019/03/eric-h…

We are pleased to announce that 'Experiences of Time and the Decline of Social Conflict in Late Twentieth Century Italy (Fiat, 1979-1980)' by Matt Myers has won the 2021 contemporary european history Prize ow.ly/UZt950IiUwh

Huge congrats to Matt Myers for his fascinating and prize-winning essay on time, labor, and Fiat ⏱️⚙️🚗

I have a new article out which may be of interest to those wanting to know more about the defeat of Europe's most impressive workers' movement at the turn of the 1980s. cambridge.org/core/journals/…

cambridge.org/core/journals/… I have a new article on workers' resistance to obsolescence in the 1970s. It explores the relationship between multinational capital, economic nationalism, black and migrant workers, racism/anti-racism, and the crisis of British labour before Thatcher.

My article on Rossana Rossanda jacobin.com/2024/03/rossan…

My book has a cover Oxford University Press

academic.oup.com/book/59556 I’m very happy to say that my book The Halted March of the European Left will be published next month.

I'm pleased to announce that my book, The Halted March of the European Left, is officially released today by OUP History. Many thanks to Charles S. Maier and Göran Therborn for the endorsements. global.oup.com/academic/produ…

blog.oup.com/2025/04/what-a… My blog for @OUPHistory on the significance of the late twentieth century's hinge decade.

The 1970s have long been seen as the beginning of the Left’s decline, but historian Matt Myers argues this story misses the mark. Instead it was a decade of labor strength, stalled by backlash, not inevitability: jacobin.com/2025/08/europe…

Spoke with Matt Myers for Jacobin about his new book The Halted March of the European Left, asking why the left’s surge stalled and what lessons it offers for today jacobin.com/2025/08/europe…

jacobin.com/2025/08/europe… I was interviewed by Jacobin on my new book.

My article for jacobinmag on the French student movement currently resisting the educational reforms of Emmanuel Macron. Its success depends on struggles outside the university jacobinmag.com/2018/05/univer…