Catherine Samary

For the town in Poland, see Samary, Poland.

Catherine Samary[1] born in 1945, is a French researcher in political economy, specialized on the former Yugoslavia and Eastern Europe. She received her PhD in economics in 1986: her thesis on the contradictory logics of the reforms in the Yugoslav self-management system was published in 1988.[2]

She was until her retirement a lecturer at the Paris, Dauphine University. She is a regular lecturer at the International Institute for Research and Education, in Amsterdam.[3]

She wrote in French several books, essays and articles on the Yugoslav experience including Yugoslavia Dismembered.[4] She developed comparative analysis of the different experiences and reforms of the Soviet planning system.[5]

Samary put emphasis on specific phases of democratic mass movements in those countries (like in 1968 in Czechoslovakia or later in Poland) compared to their socio-economic transformations through the capitalist restoration after 1989.[6][7]

She is member of the scientific council of the French Attac and of the editorial board of its Review Les Possibles; founding member of the Association Autogestion (self-management) and of the European Network in solidarity with Ukraine.[8] She has been involved in its delegations to Ukraine in relation with the left political, trade unionist and feminist networks.[9]

In 1973 she joined the Fourth International and she is member 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.

She contributed a chapter of the book (coordinated by Gilbert Achcar, in French and English) about The Legacy of Ernest Mandel.[10]

She was actively involved in debates over the 2004 French law banning Muslim girls from wearing headscarves in public schools.[11] She documented three years of conflicts on this issue in an article titled Au-delà du voile et de la laïcité (Beyond the Scarf and Laicity), published on the website Les mots sont importants.[11] She also published an analysis of French secularism as "not anti-religious".[12]

She is a regular contributor to the reviews Contretemps, Inprecor, International Viewpoint, VientoSur.

Samary wrote D'un communisme décolonial à la démocratie des communs in the context of the anniversary of October Revolution in 2017, published by Editions Le Croquant in French. The book presents the Yugoslav experience as a break with Stalin's orientation. And it is revisited in the context of the ongoing debates on the commons. Its extended version in English (co-edited with Fred Leplat)  was published under the title Decolonial Communism: Democracy and the Commons. Published by Resistance Books, Merlin Press and the IIRE, 2019.

References

  1. ^ 1.      http://csamary.fr
  2. ^ Samary, Catherine (1988). Le marché contre l'autogestion: l'expérience yougoslave. Paris : Montreuil: Publisud ; La Brèche. ISBN 978-2-86600-379-1.
  3. ^ "L'IIRF | IIRE". www.iire.org. Retrieved 2025-12-04.
  4. ^ Samary, Catherine (1995). Yugoslavia dismembered. New York: Monthly Review Press. ISBN 978-0-85345-921-7.
  5. ^ Samary, Catherine (1988). "Plan, Market and Democracy The experience of the so-called socialist countries" (PDF). International Institute for Research and Education.
  6. ^ "Résultats de la recherche - Le Monde diplomatique". www.monde-diplomatique.fr (in French). Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  7. ^ "Search results - Le Monde diplomatique - English edition". mondediplo.com. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  8. ^ "Stop the bombing! Russian troops out! Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance!". Stop the bombing! Russian troops out! Solidarity with the Ukrainian resistance!. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  9. ^ "Delegation news". Delegation news. Archived from the original on 2023-03-16. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  10. ^ "Mandel's Views on the Transition to Socialism - Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières". www.europe-solidaire.org. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  11. ^ a b "Au-delà du voile et de la laïcité - Les mots sont importants (lmsi.net)". lmsi.net. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
  12. ^ "La laïcité n'est pas anti-religieuse". solidaritéS (in French). 2008-05-27. Retrieved 2026-01-30.
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