Taking advantage of the high-level profile of those participating in the Palestine Seminar, IIRE -together with the Dutch bimonthly Grenzeloos, organised a public forum on Palestine.
Interview with IIRE Fellow Gilbert Achcar (from Irish Left Review , 15 January 2009)
Daniel Finn: What do you think are the chief goals of Israeli strategy at present in their assault on the Gaza strip?
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.
Next lecture:
Tuesday, June 9th, 7.30 p.m.
Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance – Laura Horn, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
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.
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.
By Joost Kircz
A preliminary remark