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Accumulation by dispossession - Accumulation par dépossession – Acumulación por desposesión  
Accumulation by dispossession - Accumulation par dépossession – Acumulación por desposesión  


Articulation - articulation - articulación (mostly used in the technical sense of ''joining segments'')
Articulation - articulation - articulación (mostly used in the technical sense of 'joining segments')


(Materiel) base - Base (matérielle) / L'infrastructure  – base material / infraestructura  
(Materiel) base - Base (matérielle) / L'infrastructure  – base material / infraestructura  

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The following is a list of frequently used terms and words, with the translation in the three languages used in the school: English, French, Castillian.


Accumulation by dispossession - Accumulation par dépossession – Acumulación por desposesión

Articulation - articulation - articulación (mostly used in the technical sense of 'joining segments')

(Materiel) base - Base (matérielle) / L'infrastructure – base material / infraestructura

Bonapartism – Bonapartisme – Bonapartismo

Comrade – Camarade – Companera

Caesarism – Césarisme – Caesarismo

Commodity - Marchandise – Mercancía

Economism – economisme – economismo

FI: Fourth International – QI: Quatrième Internationale – CI: Cuarta Internacional

Hegemony – Hégémonie – Hegemonía

Labour power - Force de travail - Fuerza de trabajo

Long waves (expansionary phase followed by depressive phase) - Les Ondes longues (phase expansive ou ascendantes, suivi par phases descendantes) – ondas largas (fases ascendentes y luego descendentes)

Means of production - Moyens de production – Medios de producción

Mode of production - Mode de production – Modo de producción

Popular front – Front populaire – Frente popular

Primitive accumulation - Accumulation primitive – Acumulación primitiva (o acumulación originaria)

Productive forces - Forces productives – Fuerzas productivas

Relationships of force - Rapports de force – Relaciones de fuerzas

Social formation – formation sociale - formación social

Socially necessary labour (time) – (Temps de) travail socialement nécessaire – (Tiempo de) trabajo socialmente necesario

Squadrismo – Squadrisme(?)/ l'utilisation de bandes armés - Escuadrismo (not to be confused with ‘squaddism’, a term mostly used in Britain to describe the use of violence by anti-fascists)

Struggle - lutte - lucha

Subaltern classes - classes subalternes - Clases subalternas

Superstructure - Superstructure – Superestructura

Subsumption ('formal' and 'real') - subsomption (formelle et réelle) - subsunción (formal y real)

Surplus labour – Surtravail – Plustrabajo

Surplus product – Surproduit – Plusproducto

Surplus value – Plus-value (ou survaleur) – Plusvalía

'syndicalism' or 'trade-unionism'? Trade-unionism refers to the activity of trade-unions: – syndicalisme – sindicalismo In English, 'syndicalism' can refer to a specific radical ideology (often 'anarcho-syndicalism')

trade-union – syndicat – sindicato

trade-unionism – syndicatisme - sindicalismo

Transitional demands - Revendications transitoires – Reivindicaciones transitorias

Ultra-left – gauchiste – ultraizquierda

Uneven and combined (development) - (développement) inégal et combiné – (desarrollo) desigual y combinado

United front – Front unique - Frente Único

Vanguard party - Parti d'avant-garde - Partido de vanguardia


Most cited authors beyond Marx and Engels:

Arruzza, Cinzia

Benjamin, Walter

Bensaïd, Daniel

Bhattacharya, Tithi

Gramsci, Antonio

Harvey, David

Hobsbawm, Eric

Jameson, Fredric

Kollontai, Alexandra

Lenin, Vladimir

Löwy, Michael

Luxemburg, Rosa (and Karl Liebknecht)

Mandel, Ernest

Miliband, Ralp

Poulantzas, Nicos

Samary, Catherine

Shaikh, Anwar

Tanuro, Daniel

Thompson, E. P. (The Making of the English Working Class / La formation de la classe ouvrière anglaise / La formación de la clase obrera en Inglaterra)

Toussaint, Éric (CADTM – Committee for the abolition of illegitimate debts / Comité pour l’abolition des dettes illégitimes / Comité para la abolición de las deudas illegítimas)

Trotsky, Leon

Traverso, Enzo


Expressions (speakers should avoid using expressions as much as possible)

'Les Trente Glorieuses': post-war period of strong economic growth, 1945-1973. In English often referred to as 'post-war boom'.