Catherine Samary


Catherine Samary was until her retirement a lecturer at the Dauphine University, Paris. She is a member of the reunified Fourth International and of its broad international leadership body, the International Committee. She was a co-founder of what was for many years its largest section, the Revolutionary Communist League.
Catherine received her PhD in economics in 1986, at the. She was later a research associate at the Institut du Monde Soviétique et d'Europe Centrale et Orientale. Her research focuses on five themes:
  1. theoretical and practical questions of socialism
  2. analysis of socialist experiences and in particular, the implications of their reforms and crises pertaining to Yugoslavia and other nations
  3. issues concerning planning, market relationship of property, democracy
  4. globalisation and the capitalist restoration - comparative aspects, theoretical questions
  5. criteria of efficiency and social justice in economy
She is a regular contributor to Le Monde Diplomatique, International Viewpoint and Tout est à Nous. She is the author of numerous books, which are listed below:
She is notable for having been one of the few authors on the radical Left in France to actively oppose the 2004 law which excludes girls wearing Muslim headscarves from schools in France.