Marx in Soho
17 June 2009
Friday, 3 July 2009 the IIRE will host a performance of Howard Zinn’s MARX in SOHO
Directed by Michael Fox Kennedy with Jerry Levy as Karl Marx
1 July: Literature, Memory and Social Movements: Indonesia 2009
17 June 2009
IIRE and Grenzeloos Magazine
invite you to the public forum:
Literature, Memory and Social Movements:
Indonesia 2009
A public lecture by MAX LANE
1 July 2009, 19.30
27th of may: Crisis in Europe: an anticapitalist perspective
27 May 2009The current economic crisis shows once again that economical and political developments don't end at national borders. Some politicians draw the conclusion that the European Union should play a greater role in handling crises like this one. However, according to critics the EU itself is part of the problem because it propagates the same kind of neoliberal policies that were a factor in causing this crisis. What would a left-wing, Europe-wide approach to the crisis look like?
The socialist project has been betrayed and must be reinvented in the 21st century
24 April 2009
Eric Toussaint, interviewed by IHU On-line (Brazil)
As he assesses the international crisis and the proposals made by the Left to meet a fast deteriorating global situation, Eric Toussaint distinguishes between two very different kinds of Left that suggest different ways of of resolving the interconnected crises of capitalism.
Latin America Faces the Global Crisis
23 April 2009by IIRE Fellow Claudio Katz
It is true that banks are less leveraged, but the outflow of capital is intensifying. Internationalized industry is hit by global overproduction, and lower prices of raw materials depress growth. Moreover, attempts at stimulation collide with reduced resources from the central economies.
A G20 meeting for naught
9 April 2009by IIRE Fellow Eric Toussaint and Damien Millet
The G20 summit meeting in London from April 1st onward was loudly announced and publicized. Those 20 industrialized and emergent countries (G20) are meeting to find solutions to the crisis. But long before the end of the summit, it is clear that they will not rise to the challenge.