Eighty years ago, the Fourth International was founded, inspired by the ideas of Leon Trotsky. The tool created in the aftermath of October 1917, the Third (Communist) International, had been transformed into a branch of of the diplomacy of the Soviet Union, purged the national parties, and ended in Germany in a defeat without a fight to Nazism.
We are very excited that the 7th international LGBTIQ seminar will take place in Amsterdam in the middle of July. As well as participants from many European countries we are expecting people from Asia, from the Middle East and from Latin America. But airfares are high and wages low In those parts of the world so we have a budget to help people who otherwise couldn’t come.
We the Indians: The indigenous peoples of Peru and the struggles for land, Hugo Blanco, Merlin Press/Resistance Books reviewed by Derek Wall
The IIRE is happy to have cooperated with Haymarket Books from the United States to publish this new edition of Soma Marik's detailed study of the place of democracy and women's liberation in early Marxism and Bolshevism.
Audio-recordings of our event of March 30 are now online:
Peter Drucker spoke about the background to the rise of Trump, conflicts on the US right and issues facing the resistance, Paul Le Blanc spoke about the US Left today and recent social movements.