Catherine Samary

Catherine Samary is a lecturer at the Dauphine University, Paris and previously a central leader of the reunified Fourth International. She is a co-founder of its largest section, the Revolutionary Communist League.

Catherine received her PhD in economics in 1986, at the [http://www.iire.org/nsr_15-20.html] . She was later a research associate at the Institut du Monde Soviétique et d'Europe Centrale et Orientale (IMSECO). Her research focuses on five themes:
# theoretical and practical questions of socialism
# analysis of the Yugoslav and other so-called socialist experiences and in particular the implications of their reforms and crises
# issues concerning planning, market relationship of property, democracy
# globalisation and the capitalist restoration - comparative aspects, theoretical questions
# Criteria of efficiency and social justice in economy

She is a regular contributor to "Le Monde Diplomatique, International Viewpoint" and "Rouge". She is the author of numerous books.
* Her dissertation on the Yugoslav reforms from 1947 to 1980 was later published as "Le marche contre l'autogestion" (Paris, PubliSud/La Breche, 1988).
* She wrote "Plan, market and democracy: the experience of the so-called socialist countries" (Amsterdam, International Institute for Research and Education, Notebook No. 7/8, 1988)
* Yugoslavia Dismembered (translated by Peter Drucker, Monthly Review Press, New York, 1995)
* She also contributed an article to Gilbert Achcar's collection on "The Legacy of Ernest Mandel".