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1990: 'Material, social and ideological preconditions for the Nazi genocide.'

27 January 2020

By: Ernest Mandel

Photo on a certificate (xerocopy) issued by 'Onafhankelijke Patriottische Groep Vrank en Vrij', 1944. Source: IISG.

In 2020, it is seventy-five years since the liberation of Auschwitz. As a young resistance-activist, Ernest Mandel barely escaped death in the camps himself. We publish here a 1988 essay in which he attempted to outline the preconditions for the Nazi genocide.

Heroism of reason

20 January 2020

By: Michael Löwy

Michael Löwy reviews Livio Maitan's ''Memoirs of a critical communist. Towards a History of the Fourth International''

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English publication of 'Against Capitalism and Bureaucracy - Ernest Mandel’s socialist strategy'

10 January 2020

Gegen Kapitalismus und Bürokratie – zur sozialistischen Strategie bei Ernest Mandel

We are happy to announce that we met our fundraising goal to support the English translation of Manuel Kellner’s book on the thought of Ernest Mandel.

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A look back at 2019

9 January 2020

Here is an overview of what we did in the last year.

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Call for donations: English publication of 'Against Capitalism and Bureaucracy - Ernest Mandel’s socialist strategy'

20 December 2019

Ernest Mandel at the congres ‘Capitalism in the seventies’, Tilburg, september 1970

Our Institute was founded in 1981 on the initiative of among others, Ernest Mandel (1923 – 1995). Mandel was one of the most creative and prolific revolutionary Marxists in the post-war world. In five decades of theoretical work, he published some 2000 articles and 30 books.

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A contribution to the history of the Fourth International

18 December 2019

By: Rob Gerretsen

Rome, 1950. Leone Iraci, Alfonso Cascone, Livio Maitan

Livio Maitan - Memoirs of a Critical Communist

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