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1st Edition

Radical Left Movements in Europe

Edited By Magnus Wennerhag, Christian Fröhlich, Grzegorz Piotrowski Copyright 2018
296 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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When the Iron Curtain lifted in 1989, it was seen by some as proof of the final demise of the ideas and aspirations of the radical left. Not many years passed, however, before the critique of social inequalities and capitalism was once again a main protest theme of social movements. This book provides an account of radical left movements in today’s Europe and how they are trying to accomplish... Read more

1. Radical Left Movements in Europe: An Introduction

Magnus Wennerhag

2. Radical Left Parties and Movements: Allies, Associates or Antagonists?

Luke March

3. Radical Left Parties and Left Movements in Northern Europe

Daniel Keith

4. Radical and Moderate Left Activism in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia (1989–2010)

Jiří Navrátil

5. Contentious Labour in Italy and Greece: Movements and Trade Unions in Times of Precarity and Austerity

Lorenzo Zamponi and Markos Vogiatzoglou

6. Left Without Its Party: Interest Organizations of Former GDR Elites and the Transformation of the PDS/Linke

Amieke Bouma

7. "History Bites Us by the Neck" – Contemporary Communism(s) in Finland and France

Ainur Elmgren

8. Troubles With the (Troubled) Past: Anarchists in Poland After 1989

Grzegorz Piotrowski

9. Rethinking Transformative Events to Understand the Making of New Contentious Performances: The "Autonomous Left" and the Anti-Fascist Blockade in Lund 1991

Andrés Brink Pinto and Johan Pries

10. The Radical Left Movement, Revolutionary Groups and Syriza: Framing Militant Dissidence During the Greek Crisis

Sotirios Karampampas

11. Diffusion of Radical Repertoires Across Europe: The Arrival of Insurrectionary Anarchism to Finland

Mari Kuukkanen

12. The Ukrainian New Left and Student Protests: A Thorny Way to Hegemony

Volodymyr Ishchenko

13. Taking Every Opportunity Against the State: Anarchists in Contemporary Russia

Christian Fröhlich

14. Radical Anti-Fascism in Scandinavia: Shifting Frames in Relation to the Transformation of the Far Right

Jan Jämte

15. A Resurgence of the Radical Left? Some Notes

Donatella della Porta

Biography

Magnus Wennerhag is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.

Christian Fröhlich is an Assistant Professor at the School of Sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia.

Grzegorz Piotrowski is a faculty member at the European Solidarity Centre, Gdańsk, Poland. He is also Researcher at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.

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