Ecosocialist School 2016

Preliminary program

Module 1. Concepts in Marxism

Friday 18 November Introduction to the school

Saturday 19 November 1. Introduction: historical materialism method / place of Marxism in history
Alex Merlo

Sunday 20 November 2. Mode of production / mode of reproduction, women's oppression in capitalism

Monday 21 November 3. Relationship human society/nature, productivism

Tuesday 22 November 4. Feminism, Marxism and intersectionality: class, gender, race and sexuality as mutually constitutive

Wednesday 23 November 5. Class: objective definitions, shifting contours, subjective expressions (migration, generations, gender)

Thursday 24 November Free day

Friday 25 November 6. Long waves and crises: economic, ecological, civilizational

Module 2. Deepening globalisation and its contradictions

Saturday 26 November 7. From the highest stage of capitalism to globalization: imperialisms and sub imperialisms, uneven and combined development

Sunday 27 November 8. Climate, food crisis, energy and peasant struggles and migration (women's struggles)

Monday 28 November 9. China's global role: challenging the US

Tuesday 29 December 10. EU imperialism and the case of Greece

Wednesday 30 December 11. Reactionary fundamentalisms and nationalism on the rise (including attacks on immigrants’ women’s and lgbt rights)

Thursday 1 December Free day

Module 3. Strategic questions in changing the world

Friday 2 December 12. US imperialism and the challenges it faces in the Middle East

Saturday 3 December 13. New horizons of international and anti-racist solidarity: climate refugees, natural disasters, femonationalism/homonationalism and feminist/queer anti-imperialism, anti-austerity and labour

Sunday 4 December 14. Climate change and social transformation

Monday 5 December 15. New parties of the left: reformism in opposition or government (Syriza, Podemos, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay)

Tuesday 6 December 16. Class, environmental, and emancipatory struggles and institutions: what is a "transitional approach" in the 21st century?

Wednesday 7 December 17. The feminist challenge in changing society: feminizing our perspectives and our movements

Thursday 8 December 18. The strategic importance of internationalism and the role of an international

Friday 9 December Evaluation, cleaning

• 9.00-9.40: Lecture. Part 1

• 9.40-9.50: Break

• 9.50-10.30: Lecture. Part 2

• 10.30-10.40: Break

• 10.40-11:20: Lecture. Part 3

• 11.20-11.30: Break

• 11.30-12.00: Questions and answers

• 12.00-15.00: Lunch and time for individual reading

• 15.00-16.30: Discussion in language groups

• 16.30-17.10: Final discussion, starting with reports from the group. Part 1

• 17.10-17.20 Break

• 17.20-18.00 Final discussion. Part 2

• 18.00-20.30: Reading time

• 20.30: Evening meal