Notebooks for Study and Research

Banks are at the heart of contemporary capitalism – they are key to financial markets, generate the bulk of financial profits, and have enormous influence on policy making. Eric Toussaint offers us a wide-ranging, informative and sharp outline of their role. And as one would expect from the author, the analysis is politically committed, while also suggesting concrete measures to deal with the power of banks. – Costas Lapavitsas, former MP for Syriza and Professor at SOAS, University of London.

Merlin Press, London, 2013, 166 pages

An accessible introduction to the relationship between the workers' movement and the women's movement. The first part is historical, the second theoretical.

China's rise – Strength and Fragility is the first book being jointly published by Resistance Books, the IIRE and Merlin Press. Author Au Loong Yu will be visiting Britain from 12 to 22 November to launch the book at meetings around the country.

The book looks at the dramatic political and economic developments in China from a Marxist perspective. It argues that to understand China today it is also necessary to study the Chinese revolution and it describes the unique social formation that exists today in China as bureaucratic capitalism.

Ed. by Fred Leplat and Özlem Onaran

282 pages

ISBN 978-0-902869-63-9

Resistance Books, London 2012

The IIRE presents the number 52 of it's Notebooks for Study and Research series, edited in collaboration with Resistance Books. 

With its latest publication “New Parties of the Left – Experiences from Europe”, the IIRE, in collaboration with Resistance Books, provides a much needed analysis of the European regroupment of the radical left. With its pan-European focus combined with detailed accounts from France, Denmark, Britain, Germany, Italy and Portugal this book offers a unique and unprecedented insight into contemporary political history of the radical left in Europe.

Between 1918 and 1968, the forces of revolution and counter-revolution fought a ceaseless battle over Europe’s history. This new issue of the Notebooks for Study and Research, "Revolution and Counterrevolution in Europe" shows how the Moscow-led communist parties led the revolutionary movements to disaster In Germany, Spain, France and elsewhere.

Women's Liberation & Socialist Revolution is the title of the latest issue of IIRE's Notebooks for Study and Research. Its subtitle, Documents of the Fourth International, places it in the "documents and debates" series of Notebooks, which aim to collect documents and articles around a particular question.

We live in an age where everything has been internationalised. Imperialism brought in its wake world politics and world economics. In 'The Long March of the Trotskyists: Contributions to the history of the Fourth International', the new book from the IIRE, Pierre Frank explains how the Fourth International, founded in 1938 by Revolutionary Marxist militants, nuclei, currents and organizations, answered the problem of the construction of anti-capitalist, revolutionary political formations.