“Workers – men and women – of the world, unite under the banner of the Fourth International. It is the banner of your approaching victory!”
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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.
Articles in this section
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”We will storm the sky and the whole earth”
Seventy years since the formation of the Fourth International
29 September 2008, by -
Working class, social movement, alliances - and the limits of radical democracy
Hegemony and United Front
13 November 2007, byHow is the issue of the united front and the fight for working hegemony posed today - the the era of increased differentiation inside the working class and the existence of dozens of radical social movements?
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Marxism
Thirty years after: A critical introduction to the Marxism of Ernest Mandel
3 September 2007, byErnest Mandel’s Introduction to Marxism has been and remains a reference book for many activists. Thirty years after its first publication, in 1974, Daniel Bensaïd looks back at one of Mandel’s most widely read works.
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Strategy
Elements of revolutionary strategy
2 July 2007, byWith the development of the revolutionary process in Bolivia and Venezuela, and the sharp left debates and divisions on overall strategy in countries like Brazil, France and Italy, the issue of revolutionary strategy is coming back on the agenda.
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France
The French elections and our strategic project
28 April 2007, byA long interview on the political project of revolutionary marxists, with an introduction reflecting on the outcome of the first round of the French presidential elections on 20 April 2007.
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France
“The Presidential campaign is rotting French political life”
11 February 2007, byThe failure of the anti-neoliberal left in France to agree a united candidate for the coming presidential elections has caused great controversy. For some leftists the LCR shares the blame, for refusing to back any candidate who is equivocal about participation in a ’left’ government with the neoliberal Socialist Party. Daniel Bensaïd explains the LCR’s intransigence on this point - and the damage being done to the French body politic by the campaign.
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A new debate is opening
The Return of Strategy
2 February 2007, byIn the light of developments in Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil, Italy and France, a new debate is developing. According to Bensaid the ’utopian moment’ of the Global Justice Movement in the early part of the decade is being replaced with a more hard-headed grappling with political strategy.
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Luxemburg
The Challenge of Revolutionary Democracy in the Life and Thought of Rosa Luxemburg
23 September 2006, byTalk presented March 21 at an International Conference - organized under the name “Rosa Luxemburg’s Thought and Its Contemporary Value” - at Wuhan University by the School of Philosophy and The Institute of Marxist Philosophy in the People’s Republic of China March 20-22, 2006.
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Marxism
Uneven and Combined Development and the Sweep of History: Focus on Europe
21 September 2006, byAn important conceptual tool for responding to such dynamics is the theory of uneven and combined development formulated by Leon Trotsky as a contribution to the rich body of Marxist analysis.
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Twelve comments plus one more, to continue the debate with John Holloway
16 September 2006, byDaniel Bensaid continues the debate on whether the left can change the world without taking power.
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