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Women's Liberation & Socialist Revolution

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.

The IIRE's courses often discuss how the international movement of women fighting their oppression and exploitation has reached a new level since the 1960s. The resolutions collected in this volume are a product of that movement and the discussions it has prompted. They explain the Marxist analysis of the roots of women's oppression, and the tasks facing socialists around the world.

Pierre Frank's history of the Fourth International, in a new expanded edition

We live in an age where everything has been internationalised. Imperialism brought in its wake world politics and world economics. In this 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.

IIRE Fellows are busy: addressing the UN, writing new books & explaining history

The IIRE's latest newsletter spotlights some impresisve accomplishments by the Institute's fellows. The lastest Asian edition of the Global Justice School (GJS), and the Youth School in Amsterdam are also reported. The newslatter also highlights the plans for our upcoming GJS in Amsterdam and other developments. The IIRE's successful contribution to the European Social Forum, also reported in this issue, is one of the reasons why we are extending our fundraising partnership with the SOWS, a Dutch foundation for scientific research.

New NSR shows the development of Permanent Revolution

A new book published by the IIRE brings together classic writings on the Russian revolution together with introductions by D Rayner O'Connor Lysaght, a veteran supporter of the Fourth International in Ireland and a noted revolutionary historian. Titled "October Readings: the development of the concept of Permanent Revolution", the volume is the latest book in our series "Notebooks for Study and Research".

Out now: Building Unity Against Fascism: Classic Marxist Writings

The latest issue of the Notebook for Study and Research, "Building Unity Against Fascism: Classic Marxist Writings", goes on sale this week. It gathers together some of the earliest writings on Italian fascism, from the early 1920s, with Trotsky's famous work on the rise of fascism in Germany and Spain, along with war-time writings by Daniel Guérin and Ted Grant. Writings by US Marxists Felix Morrow, James P Cannon and Farrell Dobbs discuss how radicals can deal with the rice of nacent, proto-fascist movements in the United States. A companion volume, to be published in 2011, assesses the far right and fascist movement today, and the movements being built to counter them.

Both are timely. In 2007, French fascist Le Pen won almost four million votes. In 2009 the British National Party won almost a million votes while Germany's fascist NPD won over 750,000. In 2010, fascist-led organisations like the Engish Defence League and Italy's Future and Freedom party emerged. To help activists understand this twenty-first century wave of fascism, this book gathers together the most important analyses from the 20th century. Based on a successful first printing by Socialist Resistance, this expanded second printing includes an introduction by IIRE co-director Marijke Colle.

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