1.
Introduction to session (Peter and Eva)
1.1.
IIRE Global Justice School: general
introduction
2. The political
economy of globalization: towards a new mode of accumulation? (Braulio)
2.0. Outline
2.1. Claudio Katz, Imperialism
in the 21st century:
2.2. FI 14th World
Congress text: Confronting
Capitalist Globalization
2.3.
'Marxist economy: Handbook of basic definitions'
2.4.
Alex
Callinicos, 'The
general strategy of American imperialism', International Socialism
(Dec. 2002)
2.5.
Michel
Husson, 'World
capitalism in a phase of permanent instability' (IVP, 2005)
2.6. Ellen Meiksins Wood, 'Capitalist
empire and nation-state: a new American imperialism?', Against the
Current, Vol. XVIII, No. 6
2.7. Standard Schaefer, interview with Michael
Hudson, CounterPunch
3. Globalization
and social recomposition, I: what’s become of the working class? (Claude)
3.0. Outline
3.1. Karl Marx to Otechestvenniye Zapiski,Nov.
1877
3.2. Excerpts from
Eric Wolf, Europe and the
People without History (1982)
3.3. Excerpt from FI
7th World Congress, Dynamics of World Revolution Today (1963)
3.4. Peter Blumer,
'South Africa: New phase begins', IVP no. 253 (Feb. 1994)
3.5. Excerpts from
UNCTAD, World Investment Report 1994: Transnational Corporations, Employment
and the Workplace
3.6. Charles Tilly,
'Globalization threatens labor's rights', International Labor and
Working-Class History no. 47 (1995)
4. Evening: The
Netherlands (Joost)
5. Globalization
and social recomposition, II: gender (Eva)
5.0. Outline
5.1. World March of
Women, '2000 good reasons to change course!'
(2000)
5.2. Frédérique
Vinteuil, 'Marxism and feminism' (translated from Critique Communiste, 1983)
5.3. Feminist
Assembly of Madrid, 'Women
and the European Constitution' (Jan. 2005)
5.4. Excerpts from
Wally Seccombe, Weathering the Storm: Working-Class Families from the
Industrial Revolution to the Fertility Decline (Verso 1993)
5.5. Susan Caldwell,
'Women
lead the way' (IVP327, Jan. 2001)
5.6. M. Barbosa, H.
Dashner, P. Duggan, C. McAllister, and E. Nikell, 'Introduction: Women and economic
integration', in P. Duggan and H. Dashner eds. Women's Lives in the New
Globalization Economy (IIRE NSR no.22)
5.7. 13th FI World
Congress, Resolution on women in Western Europe and North America, 'Changing
forms of the struggle for women's liberation' (1991)
5.8. 13th FI World
Congress, Resolution on women in Latin America: 'Dynamics
and convergence of mass movements and feminist currents' (1991)
5.9. Stéphanie
Treillet, 'Women's
oppression in globalization'
6. Globalization
and social recomposition, III: migration and ethnicity (Jean)
6.0. Outline
6.1. Excerpt from FI
15th World Congress, 'Resistances
to capitalist globalization' (2003)
6.2. David Barsamian, 'Immigration and racism'
6.3. Thierry
Parisot, 'Invisible but real'
6.4. Bridget Anderson, 'Turning
survival into resistance'
7. Globalization
and political recomposition, I: what role for the state: the question of Africa
(Jean)
7.0. Outline
7.1. Excerpt from
Leon Trotsky, History of the
Russian Revolution
7.2. Chris Fagen, 'What's behind
the killing in Central Africa?'
7.3.
Mandisi Majavu, 'Congo, a
story of "unimportant people"'
7.4.
Ritt Goldstein, 'Africa, oil
& US military'
7.5.
Jon Jeter, 'For South Africa's poor, a new power
struggle'
7.6.
Zeynep Toufe, 'Invisible
children: AIDS, Africa and selective vision'
7.7. Excerpt from FI
15th World Congress, 'A new world situation'
(2003)
8. Globalization
and social recomposition, IV: ecological and peasant struggles (Michael)
8.0. Outline
8.1. FI 15th World
Congress text - Ecology
and Socialism
8.2.
Via Campesina, "Biodiversity, biosafety and genetic
resources" within the article entitled “On
Negotiation Treaty Plant Genetic Resources In Spoleto-Italy”
9. Globalization
and political recomposition, II: crisis in the Latin American left (Michael)
9.0. Outline
9.1. Claudio Katz: Centre-left,
nationalism and socialism
9.2. Francisco
Louça, Daniel Bensaïd and Michael Löwy: "Letter to
Democracia Socialista"
10. Globalization
and social recomposition, V: LGBT communities and struggles in the dependent
world (Peter)
10.0.
Outline
10.1.
Peter Drucker: Introduction: Remapping sexual
identities. In: Different Rainbows: Same-Sex Sexualities and Popular
Movements in the Third World (2000).
10.2.
Peter Drucker: Reinventing liberation: Strategic questions for
lesbian/gay movements. In: Different Rainbows: Same-Sex Sexualities and
Popular Movements in the Third World (2000).
11.
Globalization, nation-states, and the challenges of
nationalism, communalism and ‘identity politics’ (Peter)
11.0.
Outline
11.1.
Excerpt from Marx & Engels (1847) , 'The Manifesto of the communist party'
(Collected Works vol. 6)
11.2.
Excerpt from V.I. Lenin (1916) , 'The discussion on self-determination summed up'
(Collected Works vol. 22)
11.3.
Michael Löwy, 'Why nationalism?',
from Fatherland or Mother Earth? (IIRE NSR no. 27/28, 1998)
11.4.
Excerpts from FI 15th World Congress, 'A new world situation' (2003)
11.5.
Daniel Bensaïd,
'Thesis 4', from 'Theses of resistance'
(IVP, 2004)
11.6.
Peter Drucker, 'Self-organization,
self-emancipation and identity' (translated from De Internationale,
no. 67, winter 1999)
11.7.
'Indians unite for autonomy, land and justice' (IVP 263,
Feb. 1995)
11.8.
FI 15th World Congress, 'On lesbian/gay liberation' (2003),
points 22-24 and 33 (see reading 10.3)
11.9.
Michael Löwy, 'Twenty-first
century internationalism' from Fatherland or Mother Earth?
12. Globalization
and global disorder, I: US empire and resistance (Gilbert)
12.0.
Outline
12.1.
The "Seven
Theses"
12.2.
Iraq's
Year of Blood
12.3.
FI IC, "The world
imperialist offensive and the occupation of Iraq" (Feb. 2005)
13. Globalization
and global disorder, II: Religion and
fundamentalism in politics — the cases of Christianity and Islam (Gilbert)
13.0.
Outline
13.1.
Marxists
and Religion
14. Globalization
and political recomposition, III: European integration and the radical left
(Ollivier)
14.0.
Outline
14.1.
François
Vercammen, 'War
drive, America Inc. vs Europe plc' (IVP 349, May 2003)
14.2.
G. Buster,
'European
Union: The Lisbon strategy' (IVP 359, May/June 2004)
14.3.
François
Sabado, 'Confronting
the attacks of the bourgeoisie' (IVP 363, January 2005)
14.4.
Catharine
Samary, 'European
Union: what kind of new Europe' (IVP 354, November 2003)
14.5.
G. Buster,
'All
except weapons' (IVP 331, May 2001)
14.6.
François
Sabado, 'Building
broad anti-capitalist parties - a necessary step' (IVP, December 2004)
III.
Alternatives: the politics of global justice
15. Alternative
policies, I: ‘delinking’ or a different globalization? (Stéphanie)
15.0.
Outline
15.1.
Vandana Shiva,
'Deconstructing market access' (www.zmag.org, 2 Nov. 2002) http://www.zmag.org/content/Economy/shiva_access.cfm
15.2.
George
Monbiot, 'I was wrong
about trade' (The Guardian, 2003)
15.3.
Lee Chang-geun, 'People's
responses to the WTO: exclusion or inclusion?' (2000)
15.4.
Walden
Bello, 'The struggle for a
deglobalized world' (www.corpwatch.org, 2000)
15.5.
Patrick
Bond, '"Deglobalisation"?
Sure, but what's next?' (Green Left Weekly, 26 Feb. 2003)
15.6.
Sarah
Peart, 'What is
the global justice movement?' (www.scottishsocialistparty.org)
16. Alternative
policies, II: rethinking trade and finance (Eric)
16.0.
Outline
16.1.
Eric Toussaint, 'Ideas
for alternatives'
17. Evening
Campaigning against structural adjustment and debt (Eric)
18.
Globalization and political recomposition, IV: cracks in the
Asian models (Pierre)
18.0.
Outline
18.1.
Introduction
to the document, 'Resistances to capitalist globalization' (written for
15th FI World Congress, International Viewpoint 351/2, summer 2003)
18.2.
Maxime Durand, 'Asia's four-in-one crisis' (International
Viewpoint 298, Mar.1998)
18.3.
Eric Toussaint and Damien Millet, 'Disaster donations may
well end up servicing the Third World debt!' (2005)
18.4.
Excerpt from FI 15th World Congress, 'A new
world situation' (2003)
19. Globalization and political representation:
international institutions, movements, parties and rethinking democracy
(Pierre)
19.0.
Outline
19.1.
FI 12th
World Congress, 'Dictatorship of the proletariat and socialist democracy' (IVP
special issue, 1985)
19.2.
Joåo
Machado, 'PT local governments and
socialism', from Iain Bruce ed., The Porto Alegre Alternative, Direct
Democracy in Action (IIRE NSR no. 35/36, 2003)
19.3.
Michael
Löwy, 'Towards
a new International?' (IVP no. 348, March 2003)
20. Confronting
neoliberal globalization, the globalization of resistance: the Social Forums
(Pierre)
20.1.
Pierre Rousset, 'The World
Social Forum: a new framework for solidarities', in Bandung 2005
21.
A new internationalism: subjects, parties and social
transformation (Penny)
21.0.
Outline
21.1.
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)
21.2.
Excerpt from FI 15th World Congress, 'Role and tasks of the Fourth International'
21.3.
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)
21.4.
Excerpt from Ernest Mandel, The Leninist Theory of Organisation
21.5.
Excerpt from Jo Freeman, 'Tyranny of structurelessness' (in
Ms. Magazine, 1973)
21.6.
Excerpt from FI 13th World Congress, 'Resolution on positive action'
21.7.
Excerpt from the Code of Conduct of the ICS (Indian section
of the FI)
21.8.
Tatau Godinho, 'Women in the leadership' (from Teoria e
Debate, Apr.-June 1991)
21.9.
Mexican PRT, 'Sanctions
policies in a feminist party' (from Bandera Socialista no. 402,
1989)
21.10.
Interview with Philippine women, 'Now you can participate as
a whole person', International Viewpoint 275 (Mar. 1996)
21.11.
FI 15th World Congress, 'On lesbian/gay liberation' (2003),
point 27 (see reading 10.3)
21.12.
FI 14th World Congress, 'Building
the International today' (from IVP, spring 1996)
21.13.
Penny Duggan, The Feminist
Challenge to Traditional Political Organizing, IIRE Working Paper no.
33 (Jan. 1997)