On June 17, 2015 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Valdai International Discussion Club will hold a seminar “Global Alternatives to Left-Wing Forces in the 21st Century: Marxism and Other Ideologies”. The meeting will be broadcast online.
On June 17, 2015 the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Valdai International Discussion Club will hold a seminar “Global Alternatives to Left-Wing Forces in the 21st Century: Marxism and Other Ideologies”. The meeting will be broadcast online.
The last two calendar years have been marked by a significant increase in left-wing protest movements, both within the European Union and around the world. The most notable of these has been the rise of the Coalition of the Radical Left (or SYRIZA) to power in Greece. It is high time for us analyse the ideological base of new protest parties, how they fit in with – and even go beyond – traditional left-wing Marxism.
Another aspect is how to reconcile the protest mentality with the alternative economic strategy proposed by such parties and how such a scenario plays out in the case of the SYRIZA coalition. The seminar represents the first results of the Valdai Discussion Club’s Global Alternatives programme initiated at the beginning of 2015.
Boris Kagarlitsky, Director, Institute for Global Research and Social Movements (ISGO), author of the Valdai Paper “Marxism in the Post-Globalization Era”
Fyodor Lukyanov, Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine, Chairman of the Presidium of the Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, Scientific director of the Valdai Discussion Club
Ivan Timofeev, Program Director of the Russian International Affairs Council
Ivan Ayala, Economist for the Podemos Party (Spain)
Renfrey Clarke, Australian editor and journalist, Socialist Alliance member.
Moderator:
Oleg Barabanov,Head of the Global Alternatives programme at the Valdai Discussion Club, Research Supervisor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations European Studies Institute
