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The Greek revolutionary Michel Pablo had a remarkable, globe-spanning career, from wartime resistance activity to his work supplying weapons and finance for the Algerian independence struggle. He’s finally gotten the biography he deserves.
Michel Pablo may be a little-known figure today, but (…)
Statement by the International Committee of the Fourth International adopted on 25 October 2023.
Copyright. Demonstration in Liège. © Fourth International
1. The contradictions of the global capitalism continue to bring forth brutal wars and occupation. Threatened by economic and political (…)
MEXICO’S PRESIDENT ANDRÉS Manuel López Obrador (or AMLO) has now been in power for five years, long enough to assess the successes and failures of his administration and to look toward the future. AMLO was elected to his six-year term in 2018 by a landslide, with 54.71% of the vote while his (…)
This summer, younger comrades met to foster international solidarity across the socialist movement. Becky Brown reports.
This year the 4th International youth camp was held in Vieure, central France, from 23-29 July. 200 youth from across Europe came together to better understand how their (…)
Livio Maitan belonged to a lost world of professional revolutionaries whose struggles and sacrifices left a deep mark on twentieth-century history. Historian Enzo Traverso pays tribute to one of the Italian left’s most creative activist-intellectuals.
This year marks the centenary of the (…)
Ernest Mandel was an internationalist and revolutionary activist who combined thought and action throughout his life. In intellectual terms, his extensive theoretical output, his many analyses of the economic and political situation and his numerous articles influenced a large generation of (…)
Ian Parker reviews a new book about the work of Ernest Mandel.
Manuel Kellner, a Fourth Internationalist comrade in Germany, had the good fortune to be able to write his doctoral thesis on the work of the Belgian Trotskyist activist and theoretician Ernest Mandel. Now here it is: Against (…)
Socialist scholar and activist Ernest Mandel was born one hundred years ago, on April 5, 1923. A ’Flemish internationalist of Jewish descent’, he was a militant and scholar, writing some of the most significant works of Marxist theory of the second half of the twentieth century.
Mandel was (…)
Belgian Marxist Ernest Mandel popularized the term “late capitalism” to describe the way the system had changed in the postwar decades. Mandel’s work was a landmark in the study of capitalism, and we can still learn a lot from his analysis today.
Belgian economist and radical thinker Ernest (…)
Born on this day a century ago, Ernest Mandel was one of the major political thinkers of his age. From his teenage activism in the anti-Nazi resistance to his final days, Mandel was an uncompromising defender of socialist ideals and working-class interests.
he Belgian socialist intellectual (…)
Dave Kellaway reports on a conference he participated in last Saturday in Rome.
On April 1, there were hundreds of us in the modern auditorium of the central Roman national library. It may have looked like an academic conference of mostly senior researchers and professors with a sprinkle of (…)
If it had been a film, it could have been said that the conference dedicated to Livio Maitan, on the centenary of the birth of the Venetian revolutionary Marxist intellectual and leader who died in Rome in 2004, was a success with both the public and critics.
“Looking to the future” was the (…)
To commemorate the centenary of Livio Maitan’s birth, a conference will be held on April 1, 2023, at the National Central Library in Rome, Viale Castro Pretorio, 105 – 00186, exactly one hundred years after his birth. It aims to reconstruct the journey of a revolutionary Marxist militant (…)
The International Youth camp took place from 23 to 29 July 2022 in Vieure, France. After two years of suspension due to Covid-19, the gathering is a week of self-managed camp that this year brought together more than 200 young revolutionaries from different parts of Europe, but also from (…)
Between July 23 and 29, around 200 young people gathered to celebrate the 37th edition of the Revolutionary Youth Camp organised by the Fourth International in Vieure (France). After almost three years since the last camp, the hope, motivation and emotion of returning to share self-managed (…)
The 2021 International Women’s Seminar of the Fourth International was held on 10/11 and 17/18 July. While previous seminars were hosted in the IIRE Amsterdam, the pandemic made it unavoidable that this should be a totally online event.
This had the very important and positive effect of (…)
Introduction to Ernest Mandel, Introduction to Marxist Theory - selected writings, Publication date: 26 July 2021, Resistance Books, 306pages; 140x216mm, RRP: £15, €18, $20 (print). ISBN 978-0-902869-65-3 (print) e-ISBN 978-0-902869-64-6 (e-book)
So, it wasn’t the death of capitalism that (…)
Review of Livio Maitan, Memoirs of a critical communist. Towards a History of the Fourth International, Preface by Daniel Bensaid, translated by Gregor Benton, edited and with an introduction by Penelope Duggan, Resistance Books, IIRE, Merlin Press, 2019, 455 pages.
Livio Maitan was born in (…)
After having had to cancel the 2020 meeting due to the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, the Fourth International successfully managed to organize it as an online meeting in 2021. The International Committee is the central political body of the FI, and over the last period has held its (…)
“In order to change the conditions of life we must learn to see them through the eyes of women.”
Leon Trotsky, “Against Bureaucracy, Progressive and Unprogressive” (6 August 1923), in Problems of Everyday Life and Other Writings on Culture and Society, Monad Press, New York, 1973, p. 65. (…)
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