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With Roman Rosdolsky, who passed away in 1967 in Detroit in the United States, the last surviving founding member of the communist movement in western Ukraine and one of the most remarkable Marxists of recent decades passed away.

The fate of Rosdolsky is characteristic of an entire generation of European revolutionaries. His peculiarity was that he survived the successive persecutions by local fascism as well as Nazism and Stalinism.

Daniel Bensaïd (2000), Marx’s Paris Turn

Our new book, a biography of the famous revolutionary Michel 'Pablo' Raptis is now available. 

This summer, the IIRE organizes again an international school for young socialist activists. This youth school is a unique opportunity for activists to come together, learn, exchange experiences and build networks. 

In recent years, our regular program of yearly youth schools was interrupted by the pandemic. Fortunately, we are now able to return to our regular rhythm of educational courses 

This lecture was Mandel’s contribution to the 1970 congress ‘Capitalism in the Seventies’, organized by faculty and students of the Hogeschool Tilburg, the Netherlands.


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This text was Ernest Mandel’s contribution to a colloquium on the occasion of the centenary of Marx’s Capital, organized by the institute of political science of the Goethe University Frankfurt and publisher Europäische Verlagsanstalt. The contributions and discussion were originally published in Kritik der politischen Ökonomie heute,100 Jahre Kapital (Frankfurt am Main, 1968). 

Op zondag 16 april kwam het droevige nieuws dat onze kameraad Marijke Colle op vijfenzeventigjarige leeftijd is overleden. Als overtuigd feministisch-socialist zette Marijke zich vele jaren in voor verschillende bewegingen en bleef ze tot op het eind politiek actief. Haar toewijding, intellect en geestdrift maakten haar een voorbeeld voor veel anderen.

El socialista y militante Ernest Mandel nació hace cien años, el 5 de abril de 1923. Fue un “internacionalista flamenco de ascendencia judía”, un intelectual que escribió algunas de las obras más significativas de teoría marxista de la segunda mitad del siglo XX.