European integration and the radical left

Powerpoint presentation of talk or is it?

Required readings

Leon Trotsky, 'The United States of Europe' (translated from Pravda, 30 June 1923)

Excerpt from FI 15th World Congress, 'Role and tasks of the Fourth International' (2003) (IVP no. 351/2, summer 2003)

François Sabado: A balance sheet of the European elections (July/August 2009)

Ernest Mandel: "INTERNATIONAL CAPITALISM AND "SUPRA-NATIONALITY"", The Socialist Register, 1967 (pp 27-28 and 37 - 39 required, the rest suggested)

Suggested readings

European Anti-Capitalist Left: 'Declaration of European Anti-Capitalist Left meeting ' (2005)

Peter Cocks: "Towards a Marxist Theory of European Integration", International Organization, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Winter, 1980), pp. 1-40 Only with log in to JSTOR

Tom Nairn, "The Left Against Europe", New Left Review special issue, 75 (September - October 1972) Hard copy available at the IIRE library.