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'''Global Justice School 2009'''
'''Global Justice School 2009'''


'''[http://archive.4edu.info/Global_Justice_2005/EPN_00.0_GJS_2005%20_Programme.htm See also readings from the Global Justice School 2005]'''
'''[http://4edu.info/index.php/Global_Justice_School_2008 See also readings from the Global Justice School 2008]'''


'''29 March – 19 April 2008'''
'''28 November – 19 December 2009'''


==I. Globalization: the world transformed==
==Crisis==
''[http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/1456 Blog from the first days of the school, by John, USA]''


* '''Sat. 28/11 : Arrivals'''
* '''Sun. 29/11 : [[Historical Overview. (Stéphanie)]]'''<br>Theory of crises, long waves. Crises 1873, 1929, 1973.
* '''Mon. 30/11 : [http://4edu.info/index.php/Historical_Overview._(St%C3%A9phanie) Current crisis. (Stéphanie)]'''<br>How bad is it? Why economical, not only financial, crisis. Regional integration. Roots in neoliberal globalisation. Crisis of capitalism?
* '''Tue. 01/12 : Gender dimension of crisis. (Marijke)'''<br>Marxist analysis of gender, women in work force, how crises affects women (ideological, social)
* '''Wed. 02/12 : Working class recomposition. (Antonio)'''<br>Definition of 'working class'. Fragmentation, identity and heterogeneity of working class. How to fight for unity. What state after 25 years of neoliberalism → and affected by crisis.


29/03     Introduction to the session
14.00: Visit to [http://www.iisg.nl International Institute of Social Histoty (IISH).] (optional)
* '''Thu. 03/12 : Crisis and migration. (Murray)'''<br>Theoretical approach to migration (why, who) – not just individual, rational choice. Gender dimension, distinction between legal and illegal migration, migrations caused by war. Internal migration. Right wing populism, anti fascist struggle.
* '''Fri. 04/12 : Day off.''' Walking tour of Amsterdam (optional)
* '''Sat. 05/12 : [[Crisis and Identity: Religion, ethnicity, sexuality. (Peter)]]'''<br>Fragmentation of working class → Alternatives to class identity. Religion (fundamentalism, liberation theology) nationalism, LGBT.
* '''Sun. 06/12 : [[Crisis of World Order. (Gilbert)]]'''<br>Imperialism, Globalisation, Emerging powers, Military globalisation, Latin American integration.
* '''Mon. 07/12 : [[Economic and ecological crisis - our responses.]] (Lot) '''<br>Combining economic and climate crises, food crisis,


30/03      [[The political economy of globalization: towards a new mode of accumulation? Braulio.]]
==Climate==


31/03      [[Globalization and social re-composition, I: What has become of the working class? Antonio.]]
* '''Tue. 08/12 : Reviewing Marxism (Svend)'''<br>Is Marxism productivist, Marx/Engels on nature., possibilities in USSR in 1920'Renewal of Marxism through the interaction with feminism and the broad conception of Marxism as "a theory of the moving contradictions of capitalism".
* '''Wed. 09/12 : Current climate crisis, (Marijke)'''<br>Scientific explanation, roots of climate crisis in late capitalism, green capitalism, climate movement.
* '''Thu. 10/12 : Climate change + our programme. (Marijke)'''<br>Non productivism, scarcity of resources, what is an ecological society
* '''Fri. 11/12 : Day off.'''<br>


1/04      [[Globalization and political re-composition, II: The Role of the State in Africa  Antonio.]]
==Strategy and Programme==


2/04      [[Globalization and social re-composition, III: causes and effects of migration. Murray]]
* '''Sat. 12/12 : Social movements and democracy, gender, class, sexuality. (Penny)'''<br>Role of movements, autonomy, alliances. Organising at work place and outside work place. How does radicalisation happen? Consciousness. Non-progressive movements.


[[3/04  Globalization and social re-composition, II: gender. Nadia]]
* '''Sun. 13/12 : Latin America, workers, governments. (Franck) '''<br>Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, popular mobilisations, elections, governments. Increasing break with neoliberalism and imperialism. Review of previous day's concepts and experiences, such as Comintern debates on "workers' governments" and their relevance for today.


4/04 FREE DAY
* '''Mon. 14/12 : [[Europe: broad parties and state. (Soren)]]'''<br>United front, popular front. Extra-parliamentary struggles, pre-conditions of government participation, Iceland.


5/04 [[Globalization and social recomposition, V: Globalisation, climate change and alternative development.]] Daniel Tanuro
* '''Tue. 15/12 : Democracy, Society and state: self management and the conquest of power. (Sabado)'''<br>Bourgeois state, roots of bureaucratisation, challenges to the state (reform vs. revolution), self organisation, strikes, alternative ways of organising. (Bolivia, resistance to water privatisations, Porto Allegro, Oaxaca)


==II. Strategic challenges==
* '''Wed. 16/12 : Socialist democracy: Plan, market and democracy. (Catherine)'''<br>How much room to market? Understanding of democracy: represent people by community? What is socialist governance. 


6/04  [[Globalization and social recomposition, V: LGBT communities and struggles in the dependent world.]] Peter
* '''Thu. 17/12 : Building anti-capitalist parties/why parties? (Léon)'''<br>Importance of parties. What kind of parties? Role of parties. How our parties differ from bourgeois parties. Democratic Centralism.  


7/04  [[Globalization, nation-states, and the challenges of nationalism, communalism and ‘identity politics’.]] Peter
* '''Fri. 18/12 : Why Internationalism and an International? (Léon)'''<br>How resistance is globalising, Solidariy, another international?


8/04  Alternative policies, I: "de-linking" or a different globalisation? Stéphanie Treillet.
* '''Sam. 19/12 : Evaluation, cleaning, departure.'''
 
9/04 Globalization and global disorder, I: US empire and resistance. Gilbert Achcar.
 
10/04  Globalization and global disorder, II:  Religion and fundamentalism in politics — the cases of Christianity and Islam. Gilbert Achcar
 
11/04 FREE DAY
 
12/04  [[Globalization and political recomposition, II: European integration and the radical left.]] Ollivier.
 
13/04 [[Globalization and political recomposition, III: Developments in the Latin American left.]] Ollivier.
 
==III. Alternatives: the politics of global justice==
 
14/04 [[Alternative policies, II: rethinking trade and finance. Eric.]]
 
15/04. Globalization and political re-composition, IV: cracks in the Asian models. Pierre.
 
16/04  Globalization and political representation: international institutions, movements, social forums, thinking democracy. Pierre.
 
17/04 A new internationalism: subjects, parties and social transformation. Penny.
18/04 Confronting neo-liberal globalization, the globalization of resistance: taking power + Socialism C21 . Laurent
 
19/04 balance sheet (starts at 10.00)
Cleaning and departure


==Structure of each day==
==Structure of each day==

Latest revision as of 11:14, 27 January 2010

Global Justice School 2009

See also readings from the Global Justice School 2008

28 November – 19 December 2009

Crisis

  • Sat. 28/11 : Arrivals
  • Sun. 29/11 : Historical Overview. (Stéphanie)
    Theory of crises, long waves. Crises 1873, 1929, 1973.
  • Mon. 30/11 : Current crisis. (Stéphanie)
    How bad is it? Why economical, not only financial, crisis. Regional integration. Roots in neoliberal globalisation. Crisis of capitalism?
  • Tue. 01/12 : Gender dimension of crisis. (Marijke)
    Marxist analysis of gender, women in work force, how crises affects women (ideological, social)
  • Wed. 02/12 : Working class recomposition. (Antonio)
    Definition of 'working class'. Fragmentation, identity and heterogeneity of working class. How to fight for unity. What state after 25 years of neoliberalism → and affected by crisis.

14.00: Visit to International Institute of Social Histoty (IISH). (optional)

  • Thu. 03/12 : Crisis and migration. (Murray)
    Theoretical approach to migration (why, who) – not just individual, rational choice. Gender dimension, distinction between legal and illegal migration, migrations caused by war. Internal migration. Right wing populism, anti fascist struggle.
  • Fri. 04/12 : Day off. Walking tour of Amsterdam (optional)
  • Sat. 05/12 : Crisis and Identity: Religion, ethnicity, sexuality. (Peter)
    Fragmentation of working class → Alternatives to class identity. Religion (fundamentalism, liberation theology) nationalism, LGBT.
  • Sun. 06/12 : Crisis of World Order. (Gilbert)
    Imperialism, Globalisation, Emerging powers, Military globalisation, Latin American integration.
  • Mon. 07/12 : Economic and ecological crisis - our responses. (Lot)
    Combining economic and climate crises, food crisis,

Climate

  • Tue. 08/12 : Reviewing Marxism (Svend)
    Is Marxism productivist, Marx/Engels on nature., possibilities in USSR in 1920'Renewal of Marxism through the interaction with feminism and the broad conception of Marxism as "a theory of the moving contradictions of capitalism".
  • Wed. 09/12 : Current climate crisis, (Marijke)
    Scientific explanation, roots of climate crisis in late capitalism, green capitalism, climate movement.
  • Thu. 10/12 : Climate change + our programme. (Marijke)
    Non productivism, scarcity of resources, what is an ecological society
  • Fri. 11/12 : Day off.

Strategy and Programme

  • Sat. 12/12 : Social movements and democracy, gender, class, sexuality. (Penny)
    Role of movements, autonomy, alliances. Organising at work place and outside work place. How does radicalisation happen? Consciousness. Non-progressive movements.
  • Sun. 13/12 : Latin America, workers, governments. (Franck)
    Brazil, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, popular mobilisations, elections, governments. Increasing break with neoliberalism and imperialism. Review of previous day's concepts and experiences, such as Comintern debates on "workers' governments" and their relevance for today.
  • Tue. 15/12 : Democracy, Society and state: self management and the conquest of power. (Sabado)
    Bourgeois state, roots of bureaucratisation, challenges to the state (reform vs. revolution), self organisation, strikes, alternative ways of organising. (Bolivia, resistance to water privatisations, Porto Allegro, Oaxaca)
  • Wed. 16/12 : Socialist democracy: Plan, market and democracy. (Catherine)
    How much room to market? Understanding of democracy: represent people by community? What is socialist governance.
  • Thu. 17/12 : Building anti-capitalist parties/why parties? (Léon)
    Importance of parties. What kind of parties? Role of parties. How our parties differ from bourgeois parties. Democratic Centralism.
  • Fri. 18/12 : Why Internationalism and an International? (Léon)
    How resistance is globalising, Solidariy, another international?
  • Sam. 19/12 : Evaluation, cleaning, departure.

Structure of each day

9.00-9.30: Lecture, part I

9.30-9.40: Break

9.40-10.10: Lecture, part II

10.10-10.20: Break

10.20-10:50: Lecture, part III

10.50-11.00: Break

11.00-12.00: Q&A

12.00-16.00: Lunch and time for reading

16.00-17.30: Discussion by language group

17.30-19.00: Concluding discussion, beginning with reports from each group.

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