Youth School 2007 / 18 – 30
August
Programme and Reading
Materials
1. Sa 18 August Arrivals, welcome, introduction
Basic Marxism
(always linked to concrete examples and actuality)
2. Su 19 August Principles of
Marxism, Marxist economy, contemporary class structure, Murray Smith
2.0 Outline
2.1 Marx and Engels, 1948. Communist Manifesto,
a.
Part 1, “Bourgeois
and proletarians”
b.
Part 2, “Proletarians
and communists”
c.
Part 4, “Position
of the communists in relation to the various existing opposition parties”
2.2 Marx, 1859 Preface
to the “Critique of Political Economy
2.3 Engels, 1880.
Socialism Utopian and Scientific,
last part “Historical
Materialism”
2.4 Lenin, 1913. The
Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
2.5 Mandel, 1977.
From Class Society to Communism,
chapter 5, “The Capitalist Economy”
3. Mo 20 August Historical
materialism and Permanent revolution (exemplified with
3.0 Outline
4. Tu 21 August
4.0 Outline
4.1 Leon Trotsky, 'The United
States of Europe' (translated from Pravda, 30 June 1923)
4.2 Excerpts from François Vercammen, 'Pseudo-debates,
capitalist offensive' (IVP no. 333, July 2001)
4.3 Leon Trotsky, 'On the
united front' (2 March 1922):
4.4 Excerpts from 14th FI World Congress, 'The
political situation in imperialist
4.5 Excerpt from FI 15th World Congress, 'Role
and tasks of the Fourth International' (2003) (IVP no. 351/2, summer 2003)
4.6 François Vercammen, 'Europe:
preparing for battle' (IVP no. 356, Feb. 2004)
4.7 FI International Committee, 'The
present moment of the movement in Europe' (IVP no. 357, Mar. 2004)
5. We 22 August Women's
movement, Feminism and Islam, Eva Ferraren and Özlem Barın
5.0 Outline
5.1 1979 11th World Congress of the Fourth International: Socialist Revolution and the
Struggle for Women's Liberation
5.2 1991 13th
World Congress Resolution on Women in West Europe/North: “Changing forms of the struggle for women’s
liberation”
5.3 1991 13th
World Congress Resolution of women in Latin America: “The women’s movement and feminism in Latin
America”
5.4 Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman.
2005. “Defining
Justice”
5.5 Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman. 2005. “Finding Peace”
5.6
Gilbert Achcar. 1981. “Eleven
Theses on the Resurgence of Islamic Fundamentalism”.
5.7
Salma Yaqoob. 2005. “Islam
and the left”.
5.8
2005. “Islam
and the Left - a reply to Salma Yaqoob”
5.9
Alex Cowper. 2005.
“Why
we should defend Secularism”.
5.10
Tariq Ali. 2006.
The
Anti-Imperialist Left Confronted with Islam.
5.11
Suggested
Further
6.
Th 23 August Environment / climate change, Daniel
Tanuro
6.0 Outline
6.1 Daniel Tanuro. 2007. “Post-Kyoto is likely to be very liberal...” http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article5496
6.2 Daniel Tanuro. 2007. “The devil makes the
saucepans, but not the lids”: Defence of the climate and anti-capitalism http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article5442
6.3 Michael Löwy. 2007; “Ecosocialism,
democracy and planification” http://www.europe-solidaire.org/spip.php?article4635
6.4 World Congress Text. 2003. Ecology and Socialism http://www.internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article178
6.5 Benny Peiser.2005. “From Genocide to Ecocide: The Rape
of Rapa Nui”. Energy &
Environment, Vol. 16 No. 3&4
8. Sa 25 August Imperialism /
globalisation (War on terror,
8.0 Outline
8.1 V.I. Lenin, Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
(A Popular Outline) (1916) (excerpts)
8.2 Claudio Katz, ‘Economy: Imperialism in the
21st century’ (International Viewpoint
no. 345, November 2002) (excerpts)
8.3 Gilbert Achcar, ‘Seven theses on the current period,
the war and the anti-war movement’ (August
2004)
9. Su 26 August Sexual
liberation,
Paul Mepschen
9.0 Outline
9.1
John D'Emilio, “Capitalism and gay identity”, from Ann Snitow et al. eds., Powers of Desire (1983)
9.2
Richard
Goldstein, 2002, “Fighting the Gay Right”, The
Nation, July http://www.thenation.com/doc/20020701/goldstein
9.3
Richard Goldstein, 2002, “Queering the
pitch” http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/5-14-2002-18464.asp
9.4
Changing the
world / Our tasks
10.
Mo 27 August Role of the
youth,
Thomas Eisler
10.0
Outline
10.1
Excerpt from Karl Marx, Capital, Volume
I, Chapter 6: The Buying and Selling of Labour Power.
11.
Tu 28 August Strategies for taking power (
11.0
Outline
12.
We 29 August Our Conception of the Fourth International, Penelope
Duggan
12.0
Outline
12.1
Excerpts from Daniel Bensaïd, The Formative
Years of the Fourth International (1933-1938),
12.2
Excerpt from Ernest Mandel, The Leninist
Theory of Organization,
12.3
Excerpt from Jo Freeman, 'The tyranny of
structurelessness' (Ms. Magazine, 1973)
12.4
Excerpt from the ICS (FI Indian section) 'Code
of Conduct'
12.5
Excerpt from FI 12th World Congress,
'Dictatorship of the proletariat and socialist democracy' (IVP, 1985)
12.6
Excerpt from FI 15th World Congress, 'Role and
tasks of the Fourth International' (IVP no. 351/2, summer 2003):
12.8 Excerpt from FI IEC, 'Building revolutionary youth organisations in the imperialist countries' (May 1982)
12.9
Excerpts from Gabriel, 'Report on the balance
sheet and problems of building our youth organisations in
12.10
FI 14th World Congress, 'Building the
International today' (IVP, spring 1996)
12.11
Penny Duggan, The Feminist Challenge to Traditional Political
Organizing, IIRE Working Paper, Jan. 1997
12.12
Time
Chart of World Events and Revolutionary Movements
13.
Th 30 August Evaluation, cleaning, departure