“Kellner offers the following critical appreciation: ‘One hopes that many more people will be inspired by Mandel’s verve and let themselves be motivated to live his kind of life, yet without succumbing to ungrounded political confidence or to some of his more questionable ideas.’”
The Reasons for Founding the Fourth International
3 September 2025, byThe Fourth International was founded on 3 September 1938. We are publishing for the first on International Viewpoint this article by Ernest Mandel published for the fiftieth anniversary, in 1988.
Ernest Mandel: partybuilder and pedagogue
22 July 2025, by“However, Ernest was also a practical revolutionary convinced of the need to build revolutionary organizations, both the section in Belgium and the Fourth International worldwide.”
Thirty years since the death of Ernest Mandel
22 July 2025, bySunday, 20 July 1995, marks three decades since the death of Ernest Mandel (1923-1995) "the most creative economist of our time," in the words of the Pakistani socialist Tariq Ali. Thus ended a whole life informed by the passion of revolutionary militancy and an intense activity in the construction of Marxist organizations and of the international itself.
The strategy of transitional demands
31 December 2024, byWe have particularly highlighted this aspect of the international dimension that every socialist strategy needs because it emerges unequivocally from the experiences and struggles of the European proletariat.
Ernest Mandel Was One of the 20th Century’s Greatest Marxist Thinkers
26 October 2023, by“For Mandel, the hope for such a future was based on the spark of rebellion that had always made people rebel against oppressive and alienating conditions. The task of socialists was to fan that spark into a flame by supporting all such rebellions and by presenting an alternative way forward.”
Ernest Mandel’s ‘Introduction to Marxist Theory’
8 October 2021, by“Mandel’s main fault, several speakers at the commemorative meeting claimed, was over-optimism. But he left us with writing on the history and economic grounding of capitalism, analyses of bureaucracy and alienation, and an account of the underlying structural preconditions for the world we live in today.”
1990: The assassination of Trotsky
28 August 2020, byThis article was first published under the pseudonym of Louis Couturier in La Gauche, the journal of the Belgian section of the Fourth International, on 19 September 1990.
Mandel and Capitalist Breakdown
8 August 2020, byUsing insights from Belgian Marxist thinker Ernest Mandel, economist George Kerevan argues capitalism will suffer profound breakdown this century.
The work of Ernest Mandel, a significant legacy for revolutionary combat in the 21st century
20 July 2020, byErnest Mandel (1923-1995), who died a quarter of a century ago, has left us a significant theoretical legacy. It is unavoidable for anyone who wishes to make a balance sheet of the 20th century and contribute to the elaboration of revolutionary perspectives for the 21st century.
