From colloquiums to seminars, from articles to opinion pieces, a thesis has spread to the point of acquiring the quiet force of a commonplace: it is to Marx himself, and not to Stalin or Lenin, that the original sin and the inevitable metamorphosis of the socialist paradise into a totalitarian hell can be traced.

El IIIF de Ámsterdam ha concluido recientemente su anual Escuela de Jóvenes.  Agradecemos a nuestros donantes, a los intérpretes, a los conferenciantes y a los participantes que hicieron de la Escuela de Jóvenes 2021 un éxito con más de 40 participantes de una docena de países diferentes. Vamos a subir las grabaciones de las conferencias impartidas en la escuela, empezando por la conferencia introductoria sobre "La crisis ecológica global y el activismo climático".

In this lecture Mandel discusses the character of the 1968 upsurge, its strengths and weaknesses, the political surrender of many former radicals and the gains of the movement. This lecture was given at an event organized by the US socialist organisation Solidarity