Fellows

Professor at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, where he teaches economy, philosophy and sociology.

Claudio Katz is a known argentinean economist, militant and activist. His teoretic contributions and works have been published in several Latinamerican countries as well as in Europe. He is a member of the EDI (Economistas de Izquierda/Left-wing economists) 

Research director at the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam and professor of sical movement history at the University of Amsterdam

Marcel van der Linden is a dutch academic and works as editor or co-editor on numerous journals, reviews and magazines. His main field of study is global and conmparative labour history.

Selcted publications:

- Transnational Labour History: Explorations (Aldershot [etc.]: Ashgate, 2003). XIV + 226 pp.

Emerit Research Director in Sociology at the CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research), Paris, since 1978. Silver Medal of the CNRS as the best social scientist in 1994. Guest Lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, since 1981.

Michael Löwy, born in Brazil from Jewish/Viennese parents at May 6, 1938, is an anthropologist, lawyer, mediator, and activist, he has written widely on political philosophy and intellectual history.

Teacher of political science at University of Quebec, Montreal.

David Mandel is a canadian scholar, union and political activist. He is co-founder of the School for Workers Democracy, which conducts rank-and-file labour education in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.

He is an international expert on the post-Soviet labour movement and have written several works about the ex-USSR. The latest being Labour after Communism (South End Press)

Specialist on Balkans and Eastern Europe, Catherine Samary is a regular Fellow of the IIRE. Born in 1945, she received her PhD in economics at the University of Paris X: Nanterre. She was a lecturer at the University Paris Dauphine and at the Institute of European Studies (University Paris 8).

Professor of Philosophy at Iowa State University.

Anthony Arthur Smith (born in Providence, 1951) is a scolar and philosopher. He studied at Boston College and State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1980 as well as the University of Munich and the University of Tubingen

Historian Jan Willem Stutje has published on the Dutch and international workers movement. Stutje has written the biography of the Dutch communist Paul de Groot (Paul de Groot, De man die de weg wees). His biography of Ernest Mandel (Ernest Mandel, Rebel tussen droom en daad) was translated into German and English. In May 2012 he published the biography of Dutch socialist pioneer Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis.

Éric Toussaint is President of the Committee for the Cancellation of the Third World Debt (CADTM)

Éric Toussaint is a historian and politologist, he is a member of the Attac scientific council in France and the International Council of the Worlds Social Forum.

He have published countless articles, many of which can be found on the CADTM website. Some of his books have been translated to english and spanish.

Selected publications: 

Teacher of sociology at Université de Paris VIII.

Josette Trat is the author of works of feminist theory and former editor of Cahiers du féminisme.

Sara R. Farris is a Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She works on sociological and political theory, ‘race’/racism and feminism, migration and gender, with a particular focus on migrant women and their role within social reproduction. She is the author of , with a particular focus on migrant women and their role within social reproduction. She is the author of Max Weber's Theory of Personality.