Ecosocialist School 2016
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
Susan Pashkoff
Monday 21 November
3. Relationship human society/nature, productivism
Marijke Colle
Tuesday 22 November
4. Feminism, Marxism and intersectionality: class, gender, race and sexuality as mutually constitutive
Nadia Demond
Wednesday 23 November
5. Class: objective definitions, shifting contours, subjective expressions (migration, generations, gender)
Léon Crémieux
Thursday 24 November Free day
Friday 25 November
6. Long waves and crises: economic, ecological, civilizational
Henri Wilno
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
Alex De Jong
Sunday 27 November
8. Climate, food crisis, energy and peasant struggles and migration (women's struggles)
Marijke Colle
Monday 28 November
9. China's global role: challenging the US
Pierre Rousset
Tuesday 29 December
10. EU imperialism and the case of Greece
Eric Toussaint
Wednesday 30 December
11. Reactionary fundamentalisms and nationalism on the rise (including attacks on immigrants’ women’s and lgbt rights)
Terry Conway
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
Julien Salingue
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
Peter Drucker
Sunday 4 December
14. Climate change and social transformation
Manuel Garí Ramos
Monday 5 December
15. New parties of the left: reformism in opposition or government (Syriza, Podemos, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Uruguay)
Manuel Garí Ramos
Tuesday 6 December
16. Class, environmental, and emancipatory struggles and institutions: what is a "transitional approach" in the 21st century?
Catherine Samary
Wednesday 7 December
17. The feminist challenge in changing society: feminizing our perspectives and our movements
Penny Duggan
Thursday 8 December
18. The strategic importance of internationalism and the role of an international
Alex de Jong
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