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 By IIRE Fellow Claudio Katz
The seism on Wall Street has surprised the world Establishment.
At the summits of power, panic and alarmist declarations dominate.
Everyone is absorbing an event which could be the beginning of a change
of epoch. The comparison with the fall of the Berlin Wall gives some
indication of this historical dimension.
The present crisis started to incubate
in June 2007, with the collapse of the insurance funds managed by Bear
Stearns, and demonstrated its force with the nationalization of the
British bank Northern Rock. From this gestation we moved on to events
the profundity of which is obvious to everyone.
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IIRE has signed a contract with the Dutch Foundation for Research and Education in Scientific Socialism (SOWS). The SOWS has decided to support the political and educational activities held at the Institute. Such activities include Youth, Women, Middle East, LGBTT and Climate Change
Schools and Seminars, plus IIRE publications. In return IIRE will ask it supporters to become a donor for SOWS. SOWS will use these funds exclusively for IIRE but decides on a yearly basis which activities of IIRE will be supported.
We encourage our readers to consider testament pledges and other donations. Suggested regular donations from IIRE friends are 25, 50 and 100 euros, but any donation will of course be appreciated.
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 After a successful inaugural seminar series in 2007/2008, Returns of Marxism will continue beginning in October 2008. Topics in this year’s lecture series include: contemporary Latin American politics, the politics of gentrification, reading Capital, radical feminism, Marxism and philosophy and more.
In recent years we have seen a renewed interest in Marxism worldwide. A new generation is discovering the fertility of the many traditions of Marxism for understanding and attempting to change the world. This seminar series aims to bring together scholars, writers and activists from different fields in order to discuss the relevance of Marxist ideas for contemporary debates.
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The prolonged conflict between ruralismo and the government has
resulted in an exhausting political battle. The first bloc aims to
hoard the agrarian rent at the cost of the popular majority, and the
government needs to exhibit authority in order to implant a social
pact that favours the capitalist class as a whole.
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Interview with IIRE Fellow Gilbert
Achcar
(Znet June 2008)
2008 is the sixtieth
anniversary of the founding of Israel and of the Nakba, the
Palestinian catastrophe. What do you see as the Israeli goal and has
it changed over the years? What is the current Israeli strategy
regarding both Gaza and the West Bank?
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by IIRE Fellow
Éric Toussaint
In Latin America, if we exclude Cuba,
we can point to three general categories of governments. First, the
governments of the right, the allies of Washington, that play an active
role in the region and occupy a strategic position: these are the
governments of Álvaro Uribe in Colombia, Alan García in Peru and Felipe
Calderón in México.
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By Joost Kircz
A preliminary remark
The term scientific socialism did get a negative connotation due to the usages of this term in the Stalinist tradition for a system of mental rules that claimed to cover all human experiences, investigations and advancements.
As a result of this mechanical so-called dialectic materialism (Diamat), the revolutionary left turned away from the issue, developed a sometimes more, sometimes less adequate critique but did not counter it with a full answer to the real underlaying question of methodology.
This lack of a fundamental understanding of the vast problem area of how we actually have to face, analyse and henceforward develop a revolutionary praxis remains a fundamental obstacle in the development of contemporary revolutionary theory.
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