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This book presents a discussion of the historical developments, strategic dilemmas, concrete achievements and obstacles experienced by advocates of egalitarian change in both left parties and protest movements from the nineteenth century to the present.
List of contents
Introduction: From radical dilemmas to affirming disruption / Part I: Labour Movement Struggles / 1. The Russian revolution and 'All Power to the Bolsheviks' / 2. Anarchists and the Spanish Civil War: 'Fighting Against All Sides At Once' / 3. The Parliamentary Route to Socialism: Reformism, Revisionism and the 'Third Way' / Part II: Beyond Class: Pluralising Social Struggle? / 4. Civil Rights Movement: Disrupting Racism in the 'Free World' / 5. 1968: The emergence of a 'New Left' / 6. We're starting our own movement: feminist challenges to left patriarchy / 7. Different struggle, same dilemmas? Environmentalism, the Fundis-Realos divide and the move towards Green expertise / Part III: Contemporary Struggles / 8. Contention when 'there is no alternative': anti/alter-globalization / 9. Contemporary protest movements: anti-austerity and pragmatic prefiguration / 10. Contemporary left parties: the turn of a new populist left? / Conclusions
About the author
David J. Bailey is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Birmingham, UK
Summary
This book presents a discussion of the historical developments, strategic dilemmas, concrete achievements and obstacles experienced by advocates of egalitarian change in both left parties and protest movements from the nineteenth century to the present.
