IIRE

New NSR: Capitalism - Crisis and alternatives

Ed. by Fred Leplat and Özlem Onaran

282 pages

ISBN 978-0-902869-63-9

Resistance Books, London 2012

The IIRE presents the number 52 of it's Notebooks for Study and Research series, edited in collaboration with Resistance Books.

This book is the follow up to the previous book ‘Socialists and the Capitalist Recession’ published in 2009. Both books are the result of a previously held seminar bringing together anticapitalist economists and activists at the IIRE in Amsterdam. The aim of this Notebook is to present a comparative analysis of the crisis in different regions and to contribute to the debates about alternatives with an emphasis on the multiple dimensions of the crisis. Follows a presentation of the different chapters:

Boots Riley and The Coup in the IIRE

Public Talk by Boots Riley and The Coup in Concert from IIRE on Vimeo.

On Sunday the 8th April, boots Riley visited the IIRE for a public talk on the Occupy movement and the General Strike in Oakland.
Followed a concert by The Coup in the neighbour venue Studio/K. See a presentation of both events in this video.

Video: A Radical Approach to Humanitarian Relief

A Radical Approach to Humanitarian Relief from IIRE on Vimeo.

On the 23rd February 2012, the IIRE oganised an international public meeting to discuss the politics of Humanitarian Rleif in the Third World. Speakers from France, Philippines, Pakistan and Sri Lanka exposed their experience and reflections in building humanitarian aid programs which promot social equality and human emancipation from the grassroots.

Barry Sheppard: The Socialist Workers Party 1960/1988

The second volume of Barry Sheppard’s political memoirs starts in 1973 and covers the years of stagnation and later of decline of the SWP until 1988. These years saw the retreat of the radicalisation of the Sixties. Sheppard was deeply involved as a central leader in these years. By 1988, when Sheppard and his companion Caroline Lund resigned, the party had shrivelled into a cult and had withdrawn from the Fourth International.

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