The Deutscher

Memorial Prize

Welcome to the website for the
Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

Nominations are invited for the 2009 Prize – Closing Date: May 1^st 2009

The
Deutscher Prize

The Deutscher
Memorial Prize 2008

Every year, this prize is awarded for a book which exemplifies the best and most innovative new writing in or about the Marxist tradition. The closing date for nominations is May 1^st.

There is a modest prize of £250, the winning title is announced in the press, and the author is invited to deliver the following year’s Deutscher Memorial Lecture which generally takes place towards the end of November, and which has often been subsequently published in the New Left Review or Historical Materialism.

Current members of the Deutscher Jury include Chris Arthur, Alex Callinicos, Simon Clarke, Alejandro Colas, Esther Leslie, Marj Mayo, Sandy Nicoll, Alfredo Saad-Filho.

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The 2008 Deutscher Prize
has been awarded to:

Nomads, Empires, States:
Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy

by Kees Van Der Pijl
published by Pluto Press

Kees Van Der Pijl was awarded the 2008 Deutscher Prize for Nomads, Empires, States: Modes of Foreign Relations and Political Economy published by Pluto Press