Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by Fourth International
This document was first tentatively adopted at the 13th World Congress of the Fourth International, in 1991, under the tittle “Socialist revolution and Ecology”. Its adoption, with few modifications, was later confirmed at the 15th World Congress, early 2003.
I. Foreword
Humanity has faced (…)
, by BLANCO Hugo
A leader of the peasant uprising in the Cuzco region of Peru in the early 1960s, a symbol of the unity and renewal of the Peruvian revolutionary left in 1978-1980, imprisoned, threatened with death, exiled and freed thanks to international solidarity, Hugo Blanco has in the last year faced what (…)
, by BETTO Frei, LÖWY Michael
On the following pages, we propose a few possible themes for the debate, at the World Social Forum, on the question: “Principles and values of a new society”. These are not axioms, but working hypotheses and suggestions for reflection.
We, of the World Social Forum, believe in certain values, (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Raya Dunayevskaya, The Power of Negativity: Selected Writings on the Dialectic in Hegel and Marx, edited by Peter Hudis and Kevin B. Anderson (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2002), 386 pages, $100.00 cloth; $24.95 paper.
August H. Nimtz, Jr., Marx and Engels: Their Contribution to the (…)
, by ALI Tariq
Dear friend,
Remember when you approached me after the big antiwar meeting in November 2001 (I think it was Glasgow) and asked whether I was a believer? I have not forgotten the shock you registered when I replied ‘no’, or the comment of your friend (…)
, by ALI Tariq
"The honour of great peoples, is to be valued for the beneficience, and the aydes they give to peoples of inferiour rank, or not at all. And the violences, oppressions, and injuries they do, are not extenuated, but aggravated by the greatness of (…)
, by HEARSE Phil
On John Holloway’s boook: “Change the World Without Taking Power, The Meaning of Revolution Today”, Pluto Press 2002 (pbk).
Discussing the ideas in this book is useful, not because John Holloway has legions of devoted followers, but because many of the ideas he advances about fundamental (…)
, by HOLLOWAY John
For a fuller development of many of the ideas presented here, see Holloway (2002).
What is it about Empire that annoys me?
It is not the basic thesis. The idea that capitalism is a decentred and deterritorialising system of rule, that the old understanding of the world in terms of (…)
, by NAIK Asmita
One of the first reports that demonstrated the need to protect refugees from threats from humanitarian workers was this 2002 joint UNHCR and Save the Children UK report on the sexual exploitation of refugee children in West Africa.
Sharply turning the tables on the carers and protectors, it (…)
, by African Geopolitics, BENCHEIKH Ghaleb
African geopolitics - One often thinks that there is a substantial incompatibility between Islam and democracy. Why wasn’t democracy capable of putting its roots in certain Moslem countries, in North Africa for example? Ghaleb Bencheikh - This so-called relentless incompatibility between (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
A Debate on John Holloway’s book Change the World Without Taking Power, London: Pluto Press, 2002.
Dear John,
Sorry for the delay, but finally I had the time - and the plesure - to read your book. It is a remarkable essay, thought-provocative and truly radical - in the original sense of the (…)
, by YECHURY Sitaram
Speech At The Xavier Institute of Social Service On the Occassion of the Platinum Jubilee of the R.C. Church Diocese, Ranchi, November 2002.
I feel both honoured and privileged to be invited as the chief guest on the occasion of the platinum jubilee of the R.C. Church Diocese, Ranchi at (…)
, by KATZ Claudio
The renewal of interest in the study of imperialism has changed the debate on globalisation, previously centred exclusively on the critique of neo-liberalism and on the new features of globalisation. A concept developed by the main Marxist theorists of the 20th century - which enjoyed a wide (…)
, by LE BLANC Paul
Review of Fatherland or Mother Earth? Essays on the National Question by Michael Löwy (London: Pluto Press/IIRE, 1998).
Michael Löwy has made important contributions to Marxist thought for more than three decades. Portions of his previous writings have been gathered into the seven essays on (…)
, by SANTIAGO Charles
Introduction
Water Security will be the divisive issue of the 21st Century. Water corporations, together with multilateral agencies, are transforming scarce water resources into a profitable commodity. Given the acute state of the water crisis, there is a fear that if water corporations take (…)
, by FAYYAZUDDIN Ansar
STEPHEN JAY GOULD died on May 20, 2002 of cancer at the age of 60. He leaves behind a vast scientific and literary legacy imbued indelibly with his unique humanist and socialist commitments.
For the last thirty-five years Gould was a faculty member at Harvard where he taught geology and the (…)
, by BENSAÏD Daniel
Hannah Arendt was worried that politics might disappear completely from the world. The century had seen such disasters that the question of whether ‘politics still has any meaning at all’ had become unavoidable”. The issues at stake in these fears were eminently practical: ‘The lack of meaning (…)
, by POST Charles
On Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri . Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2000, $18.95 paperback.
EMPIRE IS A paradox. An overly long (478 pages with notes and index), often abstruse intellectual exercise, this book would appear to be a work destined to obscurity — to (…)
, by LÖWY Michael
Despite their undeniable differences, Marx and Weber have much in common in their appraisals of modern capitalism: they share a vision of the capitalist economic system as a universe where “individuals are directed by abstractions,” (Marx), where impersonal relations and objects [Versachlicht] (…)
, by FARBER Samuel, YOUNG Cynthia
CYNTHIA YOUNG’S COMMENT on my book Social Decay and Transformation: A View from the Left (ATC 97) [see below] presents legitimate disagreements and criticisms. It also includes some distortions of my views, however, particularly when it amalgamates my point of view with those of authors with (…)
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