Fellows
An interview with IIRE Fellow Eric Toussaint , by Pauline Imbach Some talked about a new start for the movement for another globalization with the World Social Forum in Belém. Do you think this is the case?
Since the World Social Forum (WSF) went through difficult moments in 2006, 2007, and 2008, we can really call this 9th edition a new start. It was a huge success in various respects.
By IIRE Fellow Claudio Katz
The seism on Wall Street has surprised the world Establishment. At the summits of power, panic and alarmist declarations dominate. Everyone is absorbing an event which could be the beginning of a change of epoch. The comparison with the fall of the Berlin Wall gives some indication of this historical dimension.
Fellows discuss IIRE's future course
Every participant in a session at the IIRE
writes a balance sheet at the end of the session, and these remarks and
suggestions are important for the content and format of future sessions. But
because our Fellows come from all over the world, it is not easy to bring
permanent staff and collaborators together to collectively exchange experiences
with sessions and discuss future activities. In February 1999, however, many of
our regular co-workers met in a rare IIRE Fellows' meeting, to draw a balance
sheet of our activities over the last couple of years and to brainstorm about
future sessions. It was a very productive meeting, in which many ideas emerged
to improve the quality of our work, immediately or in the longer term.
IIRE Fellows rethink global justice
Changes in the capitalist system and the
rise of the global justice movement are posing big challenges for the kind of
political education we do at the IIRE. We took these challenges into account
three years ago when we renamed our annual fall
Last November many of the activists who
attended our
