Ecosocialist School 2015
Module 1. Concepts in Marxism
Saturday 21 November
1. Introduction: historical materialism method / place of Marxism in history
Alex Merlo
Sunday 22 November
2. Mode of production / mode of reproduction, women's oppression in capitalism
Susan Pashkoff
Monday 23 November
3. Class: objective definitions, shifting contours, subjective expressions (migration, generations, gender)
Léon Crémieux
Tuesday 24 November
4. Feminism, Marxism and intersectionality: class, gender, race and sexuality as mutually constitutive
Nadia Demond
Wednesday 25 November
5. Relationship human society/nature, productivism
Marijke Colle
Thursday 26 November Free day
Friday 27 November
6. Long waves and crises: economic, ecological, civilizational
Henri Wilno
Module 2. Deepening globalisation and its contradictions
Saturday 28 November
7. From the highest stage of capitalism to globalization: imperialisms and sub imperialisms, uneven and combined development
Alex De Jong
Sunday 29 November
8. Climate, food crisis, energy and peasant struggles and migration (women's struggles)
Marijke Colle
Monday 30 November
9. China's global role: challenging the US
Pierre Rousset
Tuesday 1 December
10. EU imperialism and the case of Greece
Eric Toussaint
Wednesday 2 December
12. Reactionary fundamentalisms and nationalism on the rise (including attacks on immigrants’ women’s and lgbt rights)
Terry Conway
Thursday 3 December Free day
Module 3. Strategic questions in changing the world
Friday 4 December
US imperialism and the challenges it faces in the Middle East
Julien Salingue
Saturday 5 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
Peter Drucker
Sunday 6 December
14. Climate change and social transformation
Manuel Garí Ramos
Monday 7 December
15. New parties of the left: reformism in opposition or government (Syriza, Podemos, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay)
Tuesday 8 December
16. Class, environmental, and emancipatory struggles and institutions: what is a "transitional approach" in the 21st century?
Catherine Samary
Wednesday 9 December
17. The feminist challenge in changing society: feminizing our perspectives and our movements
Penny Duggan
Thursday 10 December
18. The strategic importance of internationalism and the role of an international
Alex de Jong
Friday 11 December Evaluation, cleaning