Op zondag 16 april kwam het droevige nieuws dat onze kameraad Marijke Colle op vijfenzeventigjarige leeftijd is overleden. Als overtuigd feministisch-socialist zette Marijke zich vele jaren in voor verschillende bewegingen en bleef ze tot op het eind politiek actief. Haar toewijding, intellect en geestdrift maakten haar een voorbeeld voor veel anderen.
It is with great sadness that we have learned of the death on 16 April 2023 of our comrade and former IIRE co-director Marijke Colle, at the age of 75. Below is a reflection on her life as a socialist and feminist activist, written by her Belgian comrades.
Born in 1947 in a very conservative Flemish Catholic family, Marijke studied biology in Ghent and became radicalized like many young people of her generation in the 1968 wave.
De socialistische wetenschapper en activist Ernest Mandel werd honderd jaar geleden, op 5 april 1923, geboren. Een 'Vlaams internationalist van Joodse afkomst', Mandel was schrijver van enkele van de belangrijkste werken van marxistische theorie in de tweede helft van de twintigste eeuw.
Any serious discussion in a Marxist organization has two aspects.i It is born of ongoing events and tends to respond to a need for action born from the same events. In this respect, any discussion which is not artificial is inevitably partly pragmatic. But the answer given and the method which determines it become part of the whole of Marxist theory, and in one way or another modify the ideas—and the action—of future generations of Marxists, and even the answers given by the same generation to future questions.
For eighty years, the theory of permanent revolution has been the object of a permanent debate inside the international labour and revolutionary movement.i A great number of articles and books have been devoted to the discussion. A significant number of revolutions and counter-revolutions have. occurred in the less developed countries of the world in which this theory could be tested in the light of real historical development.
