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Our first one-month 'New Questions' School was held in 1995. Over the years these sessions have built on and synthesized innovations in the IIRE curriculum going back to our first years. Wrestling with a range of different themes, participants focus on the implications of a changing world economy and on challenges to traditional ways of organizing.
From 2005, the school was named "Global Justice School", focusing on the challenges posed by the "movement of movements" since 2001. This school was a great occasion for us to build links with many activists and organizations from all around the world.

Since 2012, our three week school is called the Ecosocialist School. We understand that the ecological crisis must be central in the strategy and practice of activists for social change, and we hope this school contributes to the renewal of socialist thought among broad layers of activists. The Ecosocialist School is tri-lingual: English, French and Castilian.

On this page, you can find materials of different lectures given during these courses. You can find more recordings on our YouTube channel.

Lectures for Ecosocialist School 2012

Ecosocialist School 2012
15 December 2012
Between the 24th and the 15th December 2012, the IIRE is helding its Ecosocialist School. Nineteen young activists from fifteen different countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, France, Germany, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, Niger, Spanish State, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Turkey, United States) participate in the session. During these three weeks, they will live together, self organise the practical life in the institute, attend the lectures and discuss their content and the social and political situation in their different countries.
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Introduction to our critical marxism (2012)	Alex Merlo
Women and the crisis of the capitalist system	Marijke Colle
Imperialism today	Alex de Jong
The new working class	Dan La Botz
A Marxist-feminist view on gender	Nadia de Mond
Marxism and the national question	Jaime Pastor
The global economic crisis	Nacho Álvarez
Marx, Engels and Nature	Daniel Tanuro
Food crisis	Jack Whitman
Climate crisis	Marijke Colle
Our socialist project	Catherine Samary
Revolutionary strategy in the twenty first century	Pierre Rousset
Dynamics of the left forces in Asia	Pierre Rousset
The dynamics of the "Arab spring"	Christian Babel
The left, popular nationalisms and anticapitalisms in Latin America	Franck Gaudichaud
The crisis in Europe	Alan Thornett
The current transformation in Africa	Paul Martial
Internationalism and the Fourth International	Penny Duggan

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