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The global economic crisis: a Marxist analysis of the actual crisis and a reminder of the previous crises of global capitalism. This will be the foundation and the global framework of the whole school. | The global economic crisis: a Marxist analysis of the actual crisis and a reminder of the previous crises of global capitalism. This will be the foundation and the global framework of the whole school. | ||
*[[reading materials on the capitalist crisis]] | |||
Stéphanie Treillet FRENCH | Stéphanie Treillet FRENCH | ||
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Women and the global crisis: the document produced for the last World Congress as the starting point. Social problems, migration, wars and violence against women, the rise of patriarchal religious rules against women, attacks on abortion rights, the climate crisis and food sovereignty, all these problems affect women in a specific way. | Women and the global crisis: the document produced for the last World Congress as the starting point. Social problems, migration, wars and violence against women, the rise of patriarchal religious rules against women, attacks on abortion rights, the climate crisis and food sovereignty, all these problems affect women in a specific way. | ||
*[[reading materials on women and the crisis]] | |||
Terry Conway ENGLISH | Terry Conway ENGLISH | ||
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The crisis and migration: a short theoretical and historical approach, analysis of the gender dimension, legal and illegal immigrants, war and climate migrants. The political questions linked to migration: fortress Europe, militarisation of borders (Mexico), racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, divisions in the working class, the fights of undocumented workers and of ‘illegal’ immigrants (USA, Europe), the rise of extreme right movements and parties. | The crisis and migration: a short theoretical and historical approach, analysis of the gender dimension, legal and illegal immigrants, war and climate migrants. The political questions linked to migration: fortress Europe, militarisation of borders (Mexico), racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, divisions in the working class, the fights of undocumented workers and of ‘illegal’ immigrants (USA, Europe), the rise of extreme right movements and parties. | ||
*[[Reading materials on migration and the crisis]] | |||
Murray Smith ENGLISH | Murray Smith ENGLISH | ||
'''• Friday 3rd of December''' | '''• Friday 3rd of December''' | ||
Day off, possibility for participants of a walking tour in Amsterdam: Rob | Day off, possibility for participants of a walking tour in Amsterdam: Rob Gerretsen | ||
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The crisis of the world order, imperialism today: Lenin’s classical analysis, the dominance of American imperialism today, the role of European imperialism, geopolitics, the changing roles of ‘emerging’ economies (China in Africa, Brazil in South America…). | The crisis of the world order, imperialism today: Lenin’s classical analysis, the dominance of American imperialism today, the role of European imperialism, geopolitics, the changing roles of ‘emerging’ economies (China in Africa, Brazil in South America…). | ||
*[[Reading materials on the crisis of the world order]] | |||
* Gilbert's PowerPoint Presentation: Imperialism and crisis of World Order [[File:EN_GJS10_PPTImperialism.pdf]] | |||
Gilbert Achcar ENGLISH | Gilbert Achcar ENGLISH | ||
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The crisis and identities, religious, ethnic, sexual: those identities play different roles and are subject to different dynamics in the current crisis. Religion as a progressive or a reactionary force; ethnicity as a new field of struggles (indigenous peoples and their rights); nationalism (our classical analysis applied today) in a globalised world; how do sexual identities and LGBTI struggles express themselves in different parts of the world. | The crisis and identities, religious, ethnic, sexual: those identities play different roles and are subject to different dynamics in the current crisis. Religion as a progressive or a reactionary force; ethnicity as a new field of struggles (indigenous peoples and their rights); nationalism (our classical analysis applied today) in a globalised world; how do sexual identities and LGBTI struggles express themselves in different parts of the world. | ||
*[[Reading materials on the crisis and identities]] | |||
Peter Drucker ENGLISH | Peter Drucker ENGLISH | ||
== Module 2 The ecological crisis == | == Module 2 The ecological crisis == | ||
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Revisiting Marx (and Engels) on nature: what is Marx’s vision on the relationship between humanity and nature? Was Marxist a “productivist”? The development of the workers movement and its vision on progress and on the relationship between man and nature will be part of a historical overview. | Revisiting Marx (and Engels) on nature: what is Marx’s vision on the relationship between humanity and nature? Was Marxist a “productivist”? The development of the workers movement and its vision on progress and on the relationship between man and nature will be part of a historical overview. | ||
*[[Reading materials Marx]] | |||
Alain Tondeur | Alain Tondeur FRENCH | ||
FRENCH | |||
'''• Tuesday 7th of December''' | '''• Tuesday 7th of December''' | ||
Food crisis, food sovereignty, peasant movements: the economic crisis and the ecological crisis ; new role of anticapitalist peasant organisations and indigenous peoples, impact of the food crisis for the rural and urban poor in the Global South, link with agricultural policies in Europe and the USA. | Food crisis, food sovereignty, peasant movements: the economic crisis and the ecological crisis ; new role of anticapitalist peasant organisations and indigenous peoples, impact of the food crisis for the rural and urban poor in the Global South, link with agricultural policies in Europe and the USA. | ||
*[[Reading materials food crisis]] | |||
Esther Vivas SPANISH | Esther Vivas SPANISH | ||
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The climate crisis explained: the scientific evidence and explanation of this climate crisis, its roots in the capitalist mode of production, what and how do we campaign against this crisis. This conference is mainly based, concerning the political part, on the resolution of the World Congress. | The climate crisis explained: the scientific evidence and explanation of this climate crisis, its roots in the capitalist mode of production, what and how do we campaign against this crisis. This conference is mainly based, concerning the political part, on the resolution of the World Congress. | ||
*[[Readings on climate]] | |||
Marijke ENGLISH | |||
'''• Thursday 9th of December''' | '''• Thursday 9th of December''' | ||
What is ecosocialism: our socialist program revisited in the framework of the global ecological crisis; why change from socialism to ecosocialism? Dialectics between means and aims, technology is not neutral, link between social justice and ecological justice. Which type of structural measures, which type of production and consumption? | What is ecosocialism: our socialist program revisited in the framework of the global ecological crisis; why change from socialism to ecosocialism? Dialectics between means and aims, technology is not neutral, link between social justice and ecological justice. Which type of structural measures, which type of production and consumption? | ||
*[[Reading materials on ecosocialism]] | |||
Laurent Garrouste | Laurent Garrouste FRENCH | ||
FRENCH | |||
'''• Friday 10th of December''' | '''• Friday 10th of December''' | ||
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'''Historical overview and discussion on parties''': why parties? What kind of parties? History of the worker’s parties, differences with bourgeois parties; what is a contemporary interpretation of a Leninist party? Recent experiences in building parties. | '''Historical overview and discussion on parties''': why parties? What kind of parties? History of the worker’s parties, differences with bourgeois parties; what is a contemporary interpretation of a Leninist party? Recent experiences in building parties. | ||
*[[Reading materials on parties]] | |||
Josep-Maria Antentas SPANISH | Josep-Maria Antentas SPANISH | ||
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'''BRIC, Asia and the global crisis''': the new specific characteristics of Asia, its growing importance in the global crisis; an insight in our political work and new perspectives in party building. | '''BRIC, Asia and the global crisis''': the new specific characteristics of Asia, its growing importance in the global crisis; an insight in our political work and new perspectives in party building. | ||
*[[Reading materials on BRIC, Asia ]] | |||
Pierre Rousset ENGLISH | Pierre Rousset ENGLISH | ||
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'''The crisis and Europe''': the economic and institutional crisis in Europe, new opportunities, new challenges in building broad anticapitalist parties, European campaigns, strategic problems in the European context. | '''The crisis and Europe''': the economic and institutional crisis in Europe, new opportunities, new challenges in building broad anticapitalist parties, European campaigns, strategic problems in the European context. | ||
*[[Reading materials on the crisis and Europe]] | |||
Léon Crémieux FRENCH | Léon Crémieux FRENCH | ||
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'''Plan, market and democracy''': a balance sheet of the Stalinist centrally ‘planned’ societies, what do we mean by our project for socialist democracy? How much room for the market? What representation of the people? What is socialist ‘governance’? | '''Plan, market and democracy''': a balance sheet of the Stalinist centrally ‘planned’ societies, what do we mean by our project for socialist democracy? How much room for the market? What representation of the people? What is socialist ‘governance’? | ||
*[ | *[[Reading materials on plan, market and democracy]] | ||
Catherine Samary FRENCH | Catherine Samary FRENCH | ||
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'''Why internationalism and why an international''': historical aspects of the four internationals; the F.I. today (see also ‘Role and tasks’ voted at the W.C.); globalisation and the appeal from Chavez. | '''Why internationalism and why an international''': historical aspects of the four internationals; the F.I. today (see also ‘Role and tasks’ voted at the W.C.); globalisation and the appeal from Chavez. | ||
*[[reading materials on internationalism]] | |||
Léon Crémieux FRENCH | Léon Crémieux FRENCH | ||
Latest revision as of 16:22, 2 January 2011
27th of November – 18th of December 2010
Arrivals are expected on Saturday 27th of November, departures are scheduled on Saturday 18th of December, after a detailed evaluation and general cleaning. The school is organized in three separate modules. Participants, who can not stay the whole three weeks, can choose to attend only one or two modules.
Module 1 The global economic crisis
• Sunday 28th of November and Monday 29th of November
The global economic crisis: a Marxist analysis of the actual crisis and a reminder of the previous crises of global capitalism. This will be the foundation and the global framework of the whole school.
Stéphanie Treillet FRENCH
• Tuesday 30th of November
Women and the global crisis: the document produced for the last World Congress as the starting point. Social problems, migration, wars and violence against women, the rise of patriarchal religious rules against women, attacks on abortion rights, the climate crisis and food sovereignty, all these problems affect women in a specific way.
Terry Conway ENGLISH
Evening on the debt crisis: with a lecturer from the CADTM
Pauline Imbach FRENCH
• Wednesday 1st of December
The ‘new’ working class: definition of working class and class consciousness, an overview of the history of trade-unionism and of the formation of working class parties should be part of the introduction, linked with a brief history of the Internationals. New problems concerning class consciousness, class identity and fragmentation of the working class will also be discussed.
Louis-Marie Barnier FRENCH
• Thursday 2nd of December
The crisis and migration: a short theoretical and historical approach, analysis of the gender dimension, legal and illegal immigrants, war and climate migrants. The political questions linked to migration: fortress Europe, militarisation of borders (Mexico), racism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, divisions in the working class, the fights of undocumented workers and of ‘illegal’ immigrants (USA, Europe), the rise of extreme right movements and parties.
Murray Smith ENGLISH
• Friday 3rd of December
Day off, possibility for participants of a walking tour in Amsterdam: Rob Gerretsen
• Saturday 4th of December
The crisis of the world order, imperialism today: Lenin’s classical analysis, the dominance of American imperialism today, the role of European imperialism, geopolitics, the changing roles of ‘emerging’ economies (China in Africa, Brazil in South America…).
- Gilbert's PowerPoint Presentation: Imperialism and crisis of World Order File:EN GJS10 PPTImperialism.pdf
Gilbert Achcar ENGLISH
• Sunday 5th of December
The crisis and identities, religious, ethnic, sexual: those identities play different roles and are subject to different dynamics in the current crisis. Religion as a progressive or a reactionary force; ethnicity as a new field of struggles (indigenous peoples and their rights); nationalism (our classical analysis applied today) in a globalised world; how do sexual identities and LGBTI struggles express themselves in different parts of the world.
Peter Drucker ENGLISH
Module 2 The ecological crisis
• Monday 6th of December
Revisiting Marx (and Engels) on nature: what is Marx’s vision on the relationship between humanity and nature? Was Marxist a “productivist”? The development of the workers movement and its vision on progress and on the relationship between man and nature will be part of a historical overview.
Alain Tondeur FRENCH
• Tuesday 7th of December
Food crisis, food sovereignty, peasant movements: the economic crisis and the ecological crisis ; new role of anticapitalist peasant organisations and indigenous peoples, impact of the food crisis for the rural and urban poor in the Global South, link with agricultural policies in Europe and the USA.
Esther Vivas SPANISH
• Wednesday 8th of December
The climate crisis explained: the scientific evidence and explanation of this climate crisis, its roots in the capitalist mode of production, what and how do we campaign against this crisis. This conference is mainly based, concerning the political part, on the resolution of the World Congress.
Marijke ENGLISH
• Thursday 9th of December
What is ecosocialism: our socialist program revisited in the framework of the global ecological crisis; why change from socialism to ecosocialism? Dialectics between means and aims, technology is not neutral, link between social justice and ecological justice. Which type of structural measures, which type of production and consumption?
Laurent Garrouste FRENCH
• Friday 10th of December
Guided tour of the IISH (International Institute of Social History) by Marcel Van der Linden
Module 3 Strategy, program and the building of parties
• Saturday 11th of December
Social movements and our fight for another society: unions are amongst the first mass social movements; the women’s movement, the global justice movements, mass campaigns (against the war, against climate change…) are an important field of our intervention. What is the importance of these movements for our ecosocialist and feminist project? What is the link with our building of parties?
Penny Duggan ENGLISH
• Sunday 12th of December
Historical overview and discussion on parties: why parties? What kind of parties? History of the worker’s parties, differences with bourgeois parties; what is a contemporary interpretation of a Leninist party? Recent experiences in building parties.
Josep-Maria Antentas SPANISH
• Monday 13th of December
Neoliberal crisis, social struggle and political alternative in Latin America
Key words
• Imperialism
• Experiences of change (and their limits) in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador
• Social-liberalism in Brazil and other countries
• Indianism and development model
• Discussion on “socialism of the XXIst century
We will take on three themes
1) Imperialism in Latin America under Obama
2) Left governments and class struggle in Latin America
3) Political alternatives and the debates on “socialism of the XXIst century”
Franck Gaudichaud SPANISH/FRENCH
• Tuesday 14th of December
BRIC, Asia and the global crisis: the new specific characteristics of Asia, its growing importance in the global crisis; an insight in our political work and new perspectives in party building.
Pierre Rousset ENGLISH
• Wednesday 15th of December
The crisis and Europe: the economic and institutional crisis in Europe, new opportunities, new challenges in building broad anticapitalist parties, European campaigns, strategic problems in the European context.
Léon Crémieux FRENCH
• Thursday 16th of December
Plan, market and democracy: a balance sheet of the Stalinist centrally ‘planned’ societies, what do we mean by our project for socialist democracy? How much room for the market? What representation of the people? What is socialist ‘governance’?
Catherine Samary FRENCH
• Friday 17th of December
Why internationalism and why an international: historical aspects of the four internationals; the F.I. today (see also ‘Role and tasks’ voted at the W.C.); globalisation and the appeal from Chavez.
Léon Crémieux FRENCH
• Saturday 18th of December
Final global and individual evaluation by all participants and global cleaning!