1.
Introduction – Peter Drucker / Susan Caldwell
1.1.
IIRE
Global Justice School: general introduction
1.2.
Report
on Fellows' Seminar
2.
The
economics of globalization: towards a new mode of accumulation? –
Stephanie Treillet
2.0.
Outline
2.1.
Claudio Katz, "Imperialism
in the 21st century" (IVP 345, November 2002)
2.2.
Robert Went, "Globalization:
towards ultra-imperialism?" (written for Cahiers de critique communiste,
October 2003)
2.3.
IIRE, "Marxist
economy – handbook of basic definitions" (September 1983)
3.
Globalization
and social recomposition, I: gender – Susan Caldwell
3.0.
Outline
3.1.
Stéphanie Treillet, "Women's
oppression under globalization" (translation from Critique Communiste,
September 2003)
3.2.
Nadia DeMond, "ESF:
Feminism and the movement" (IVP 354, November 2003)
3.3.
Susan Caldwell, "Women
lead the way" (IVP 327, January
2001)
3.4.
World March of Women, "2000
good reasons to change course!" (October 2000)
3.5.
Frédérique
Vinteuil, "Marxism and Feminism" (translated from Critique
Communiste, spécial Marx, 1983)
4.
LGBT
communities and struggles in the dependent world –
Peter Drucker
4.0.
Outline
4.1.
FI 15th World
Congress, 'On lesbian/gay liberation' (2003)
5.
Globalization
and social recomposition, II: what's become of the working class? –
Claude Jacquin
5.0.
Outline "
'Globalization': simply a stage in the internationalization of capital or
a new form of organization of capital?"
(2003)
6.
Globalization
and social recomposition, III: land, water and peasantries –
Pierre Rousset
6.0.
Outline
6.1.
Via Campesina,
"What is the Via Campesina?", "Biodiversity, biosafety and
genetic resources" and "Food sovereignty and international trade"
(ns.rds.org.hn/via)
6.2.
FI 15th World
Congress, 'Ecology and socialism' (2003)
7.
Globalization
and social recomposition, IV: migration and ethnicity –
Jean Nanga
7.0.
Outline
7.1.
Terry Conway
et al., "Migration: complete control" (IVP 343, Sept. 2002)
7.2.
Etienne
Balibar, "Racism and crisis", from Balibar & Wallerstein, Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities
(London: Verso, 1991)
7.3.
Gloria Wekker,
"What can European women learn from anti-racist struggles in the United
States?", in Helma Lutz et al. eds., Crossfires:
Nationalism, Racism and Gender in Europe (London: Pluto, 1995)
7.4.
Ron Blom, "Racism
and resistance in Europe" (IVP 279, July 1996)
8. Globalization
and global disorder: the US empire faced with failed states, asymmetrical
warfare and other challenges –
Gilbert Achcar
8.0.
Outline
8.1.
Excerpt from
Gilbert Achcar, The Clash of Barbarisms:
September 11 and the Making of a New World Disorder (New York: Monthly
Review Press, 2002 – IIRE Notebook for Study and Research no. 33/34)
8.2.
Gilbert
Achcar, "The Empire prepares to strike"(in Eastern Cauldron, New York: Monthly Review Press, forthcoming 2004)
9.
Islamic
fundamentalism – Gilbert Achcar
9.0.
Outline
9.1.
Excerpts from
Gilbert Achcar, Clash of Barbarisms
9.2.
Sedef Ozturk, "
Women and Islam"; "Islam cannot resolve women's problems"; "Artificial categories and hasty
judgements"; and "Religion is the most rigid of all ideologies" (International Viewpoint 158, March 1989)
10.
Globalization,
nation-states, regional blocks and international institutions – G.
Buster
10.0.
Outline
10.1.
Peter Gowan,
Leo Panitch and Martin Shaw, "The state, globalisation and the new
imperialism" (Historical Materialism no. 9, autumn 2001)
10.2.
Paul Hirst, "Politics:
territorial or non-territorial?"
(www.theglobalsite.ac.uk, 2001)
11.
Globalization
and political representation: movements, parties and rethinking democracy –
Pierre Rousset
11.0.
Outline
11.1.
Extracts from
Daniel Bensaïd, Revolutionary Strategy
Today (Amsterdam: IIRE Notebook no. 4, 1987)
11.2.
Alain Krivine
and Chris Harman, "The future of the revolutionary left"
(International Viewpoint 336, Dec. 2001)
11.3.
Michael Löwy, "Marxism:
towards a fifth international?" (International Viewpoint 348, Mar. 2003)
12.
Globalization
and political recomposition, I: what role for the State: the question of Africa –
Jean Nanga
12.0.
Outline
12.1.
Excerpt from
Leon Trotsky, History of the Russian
Revolution (London: Sphere Books, 1967)
12.2.
Jean Nanga, "The
marginalization of Sub-Saharan Africa" (International Viewpoint 355,
Dec. 2003)
12.3.
Extracts from
Amilcar Cabral, Unity and Struggle
(New York: Monthly Review, 1979)
12.4.
Jean Mpelé, "Congo:
High stakes in Brazzaville" (International Viewpoint 246, June 1993)
12.5.
"Another
Africa is possible"
13.
Globalization
and political recomposition, II: cracks in the Asian models –
Pierre Rousset
13.0.
Outline
13.1.
Introduction
to the document, "Resistances to capitalist globalization" (written
for 15th FI World Congress, International Viewpoint 351/2, summer 2003)
13.2.
Maxime Durand,
"Asia's four-in-one crisis" (International Viewpoint 298, Mar.1998)
13.3.
Pierre
Rousset, "Asia-Pacific: birth of a new internationalism"
(International Viewpoint 343, Sept. 2002)
13.4.
Pierre
Rousset, "The World Social Forum 2004 preparation" (Sand in the Wheels 184, Oct. 2003)
14.
Globalization
and political recomposition, III: European integration and the anti-capitalist
left – G. Buster
14.0.
Outline
14.1.
François
Vercammen, "Is the European Union becoming a world power?"
(International Viewpoint 319, Feb. 2000)
14.2.
G. Buster, "'All
except weapons'" (International
Viewpoint 331, May 2001)
14.3.
François
Vercammen, "Europe: the new stage and its difficulties"
(International Viewpoint 354, Nov. 2003)
14.4.
G. Buster, "European
Union: at the crossroads " (International Viewpoint 354, Nov. 2003)
15.
Alternative
policies, I: 'delinking' or a different globalization? –
Stéphanie Treillet
15.0.
Outline
15.1.
Lee
Chang-geun, 'People's responses to the WTO: exclusion or inclusion ?' (July
2000)
15.2.
Patrick Bond, '"Deglobalisation"?
Sure, but what's next?' (Green Left
Weekly, 26 Feb. 2003)
15.3.
Victor Wallis,
'What alternative to globalization?' (Monthly
Review, Sept. 2002)
16.
Alternative
policies, II: rethinking trade and finance – Eric Toussaint
16.0.
Outline
16.1.
Eric
Toussaint, 'Abolish the debt to free development: Ideas for alternatives'
(2003)
17.
Campaigning
against structural adjustment and debt – Eric Toussaint
17.0.
Outline
18.
Confronting
neoliberal globalization, the globalization of resistance: the Social Forums –
Eric Toussaint
18.0.
Outline
18.1.
Eric
Toussaint, 'Globalize resistance' (2003)
18.2.
Salvatore
Cannavo, 'World Social Forum: from event to movement' (IVP no. 339, Apr. 2002)
18.3.
Interview by
Sergio Ferrari with Eric Toussaint, 'World Social Forum: from Porto Alegre to
India' (2003)
18.4.
World Social
Forum, 'Call of social movements' (Porto Alegre, Jan. 2003)
19.
Rethinking
the international – Penny Duggan
19.0.
Outline
19.1.
Excerpt from
FI 12th World Congress, 'Dictatorship of the proletariat and socialist
democracy' (from IVP special issue, Resolutions
of the Twelfth World Congress of the Fourth International, 1985)
19.2.
Excerpt from
FI 15th World Congress, 'Role and tasks of the Fourth International' (International Viewpoint no. 351-2,
summer 2003)
19.3.
Excerpt
from FI 11th World Congress, 'Socialist revolution and the struggle for women's
liberation' (from 1979 World Congress of
the Fourth International: Major Resolutions and Reports)
19.4.
Excerpt from
Ernest Mandel, The Leninist Theory of
Organisation (1972)
19.5.
Excerpt from
Virginia Vargas, 'Women: tragic encounters with the left', Report on the Americas vol. 25 no. 5 (May 1992)
19.6.
Excerpt from
Jo Freeman, 'Tyranny of structurelessness' (in Ms. Magazine, 1973)
19.7.
Excerpt from
FI 13th World Congress, 'Resolution on positive action' (from International
Discussion Bulletin no. 1, 1991)
19.8.
Excerpt from
the Code of Conduct of the ICS (Indian section of the FI)
19.9.
Interview with
Philippine women, 'Now you can participate as a whole person', International
Viewpoint 275 (Mar. 1996)
19.10.
FI 15th World
Congress, 'On lesbian/gay liberation' (2003), point 27
19.11.
FI 14th World
Congress, 'Building the International today' (from IVP, spring 1996)
19.5.
Penny Duggan, The Feminist Challenge to Traditional
Political Organizing, IIRE Working Paper no. 33 (Jan. 1997)