Report Women's Seminar 2019
29 October 2019
In Mid-July, the IIRE again organized a women's seminar. A report and some photos can be found here. Here, we publish a report by Penny Duggan, one of the organizers of the seminar.
New publication: Critique of Modern Barbarism. Essays on fascism, anti-Semitism and the use of history
28 October 2019
In this new collection of essays, Enzo Traverso examines the relationships between anti-Semitism, modernity and the Holocaust. Traverso analyses multiple dimensions of the destruction of the European Jews, debates over the historical memory and left-wing debates on the nature of anti-Semitism.
Inspired by the critical theory of the Frankfurt School and the heterodox Marxism of a thinker like Walter Benjamin, Traverso argues that after Auschwitz, critical thought needs to reconsider the notion of progress as such.
October 27: Public meeting on 'Feminism for 99 per cent'
20 October 2019
Last month saw the launch of Feminism for 99%'s Dutch translation. Reason enough to present this manifesto at the first meeting in a series of 'Grenzeloos gesprekken' on 27 October. The manifesto has now been translated into more than 20 languages. It rejects the liberal feminism of the 1%, which aims to break the glass ceiling for a limited group of (mostly white) heterosexual women. Feminism for the 99% advocates a feminism that is on the side of the majority of women: workers, migrants, lesbians and transgender women.
IIRE activities Summer 2019
30 September 2019
The past summer, the IIRE again organized a Youth School and a Women's seminar.
First up was the Women’s Seminar which took place 13-17 July.
Upcoming books: MEMOIRS OF A COMMUNIST AGAINST THE CURRENT & CRITIQUE OF MODERN BARBARISM
11 September 2019
In the coming weeks, we will publish two new books; a political memoir of a central leader of the Fourth International, Livio Maitan, and a new, considerably enlarged edition of ''Marxism after Auschwitz'' by Enzo Traverso.
Understanding the new rise of the women's movement!
26 April 2019
Recent years have seen an exciting and motivating new rise of the women's movement starting in Argentina and including major mobilisations against violence in India, the anti-Trump mobilisations in the US and elsewhere in January 2017, the #metoo movement world wide, #Ele Nao! in Brazil, the mass women's strike in the Spanish state in 2018 and 2019…