The race for profit is widening social inequalities and destroying the planet. As the productivist catastrophe is worsening day by day, democratic and revolutionary socialism must be rethought to meet needs within ecological limits. This Manifesto adopted in February 2025 by the Fourth International raises the banner of a civilisational alternative: ecosocialism.
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Sixty years ago, on October 1, 1965 the Indonesian army set in motion its plans to seize power from president Sukarno and to destroy the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI), one of the main forces supporting the president. In the article below, dated November 1965, Mandel criticizes the political approach of the PKI in the preceding period.
The complexity and the limits of the 2017 Catalan independence movement force us to (re)think it in a broader sense and ask ourselves how else the events could have gone. This question takes us back to the foundational shortcomings of the independence movement and the lack of synergy between it and the social movements in previous years.
1. On the dialectics of productivity, relations of production and emancipationi
In late November and early December the IIRE will again organize an international three-week school for socialist activists. This 'Ecosocialist school' is a unique opportunity for activists to come together, learn, exchange experiences and build networks. To facilitate participation, we keep costs as low as possible and, if necessary, help fund travel costs for activists from the Global South. For this year's school, we already have applications from several European countries, the U.S., Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Argentina, Algeria, Indonesia and Mexico.