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Audio lectures and reading materials of the Ecosocialist School

Between the 24th and the 15th December 2012, the IIRE is helding its Ecosocialist School. Nineteen young activists from fifteen different countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Niger, Spanish State, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Turkey, United States) participate in the session. During these three weeks, they will live together, self organise the practical life in the institute, attend the lectures and discuss their content and the social and political situation in their different countries. 

Click "read more" to access the daily lectures in audio format and the reading materials for each day.

First Module: The systemic crisis of capitalism, consequences for the exploited and the oppressed

First Lecture

Introduction to our critical Marxism  

Lecture by Alex Merlo

Second Lecture

Women and the crisis of the capitalist system

Lecture by Marijke Colle

Third Lecture

Imperialism today

Lecture by Alex de Jong

Fourth Lecture  

The new working class

Lecture by Dan La Botz 

Fifth Lecture

A Marxist-feminist view on gender

Lecture by Nadia de Mond

Sixth Lecture

Marxism and the national question

Lecture by Jaime Pastor

Seventh Lecture

 The global economic crisis

Second module: The crisis of civilisation and our ecosocialist alternative

Eighth Lecture

Marx, Engels and Nature

Lecture by Daniel Tanuro

Ninth Lecture

Food crisis

Lecture by Jack Whitman

Tenth Lecture

Climate crisis

Lecture by Marijke Colle

Eleventh Lecture

Our socialist project

Lecture by Catherine Samary

Twelfth Lecture

Revolutionary strategy in the twenty first century

Lecture by Pierre Rousset

Third module: Struggles and political challenges throughout the world

Thirteenth Lecture

Dynamics of the left forces in Asia

Lecture by Pierre Rousset

Fourteenth Lecture

The dynamics of the " Arab spring"

Lecture by Christian Babel

Fifteenth Lecture

The left, popular nationalisms and anticapitalisms in Latin America

Lecture by Franck Gaudichaud

Sixteenth Lecture

The crisis in Europe

Lecture by Alan Thornett

Seventeenth Lecture

The current transformation in Africa

Lecture by Paul Martial

Eighteenth Lecture

Internationalism and the Fourth International

Lecture by Penny Duggan