The International Institute for Research and Education (IIRE) is a research and educational centre based in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
It conducts training and publishes research for and by progressive activists around the world.
[citation needed] The institute was established in Brussels in 1982 by royal charter.
[citation needed] The IIRE is often associated with the ideas of two of its founding Fellows.
[citation needed] Ernest Mandel and Livio Maitan were leaders of the Fourth International in the decades after the Second World War.