The reaction in Europe to the recent Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip has revealed many steps forward in Europe, but also many problems and difficult tasks either for the “specific” solidarity movement with Palestine, or for the social movement more generally.
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Latest update : 25 October.
This section contains articles on theoretical, analytical and historical themes usually longer than articles published in the news magazine section.
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Palestine Solidarity
Current challenges for the solidarity movement
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Economic crisis
The free fall is over, but... The crisis continues
27 January 2010, byJoel Geier contributed his view of the economic crisis to the IIRE economists’ seminar in a report based on this article.
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Daniel Bensaïd
The powers of communism
20 January 2010, byThis essay was probably among the last written by Daniel Bensaïd. It appears in the latest issue of Contretemps, the journal of which Daniel was one of three publishing editors. The piece is a contribution to a series of essays on the meaning of communism put together as part of a symposium on the same topic being held in Paris on January 22nd and 23rd. Daniel was looking forward to the symposium.
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Economic crisis
Global crisis and the policy reaction in Western and Eastern European Union
18 January 2010, byThis article is based on the report given at the IIRE Economists’ seminar in October 2009. It examines European Union policy response to the crisis.
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France
A page has been turned (the formation of the NPA)
8 January 2010, byWe never saw the reference to Trotskyism as a way to shut ourselves off from others. For us, it was more like a polemical challenge. We accepted the Trotskyist tag in our conflict with the Stalinists — but without building a neurotic identity out of it or, conversely, downplaying the importance of this heritage.
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European radical left
Notes on recent developments in the European radical left
31 December 2009, byThe recent elections in Germany and Portugal have confirmed the emergence of a new radical Left in a number of countries across Europe. In Germany, Die Linke won 11.9 percent of the vote and 76 seats in the Bundestag. In Portugal, the Left Bloc received 9.86 percent of the vote and doubled its number of seats to 16.
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Food crisis
Causes, consequences and alternatives
14 December 2009, byThis article examining the food crisis is based on a report given at the IIRE Ecnomists’ seminar in October 2009.
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World Economy
Economists’ seminar discusses the crisis
30 November 2009, byA seminar of economists and leading members of the Fourth International was held from 2-4 October at the International Institute of Research and Education (IIRE) in Amsterdam.
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Interview
“It is time to define the strategy”
11 October 2009, byThe French philosopher Daniel Bensaïd, a revolutionary of ideas from the anti-capitalist left, has just published his In Praise of Profane Politics, a dense and complex work through which this thinker hopes to contribute to a counter attack by the transformative left which can take ordinary people out of a never ending crisis.
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Against Tolerance
Islam, sexuality, and the politics of belonging in the Netherlands
8 June 2009, bySex seems to play a key role in the Dutch politics of belonging. Sex – especially homosexuality – is instrumentalized by the nationalist right who uses it to represent immigrants as ‘strangers’ who threaten tolerant, modern, Dutch society. Tolerance, power, and xenophobia come to be increasingly entwined in the Netherlands. A plea against ‘tolerance’ as the foundation for political and social struggle.
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