Kategoria BISAC: Political Science >> Political Ideologies - Radicalism

From the Marxist-tinged anarchism of the Haymarket martyrs to the Occupy Wall Street movement, these essays give a vibrant sense of the central role of the Left in social movements and struggles of the past and present, and highlights some of the amazing individuals, whose unstoppable energies generated remarkable transformations.

Left Americana considers both the limitations and successes of Christian socialists, Communists, Maoists, Trotskyists, and the "New Left" activists of the sixties and seventies in creating profound social and political change.

Paul Le Blanc is...

The words are Seale's, with contributions by other former party members; the photographs, including many icons of the 1960s, are by Stephen Shames, who also interviewed many other members of the party--including Kathleen Cleaver, Elbert "Big Man" Howard, Ericka Huggins, Emory Douglas, and William "Billy X" Jennings--and supplements his own photography with Panther ephemera and graphic art.

Shames, a student...

'Fuck May 68, ' the Athenian walls scream, 'Fight Now ' This graffiti is a call to arms from the world's most militant anarchist and anti-authoritarian movement. This book, the first major ethnographic study of the Athenian activist milieu, provides rare on-the-ground insights into its struggles against capitalism, the state and rising fascism. It also unravels the movement's internal complexities, unities and tensions. Greece, and specifically Athens, has become the epicentre of capitalist economic crisis - as well as of radical resistance to its consequences. In this context, this highly...

Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. First, by profligate deficit spending benefitting only themselves; second, by agreeing to an IMF -bailout- of the Greek economy, devastating ordinary Greek citizens who were already enduring government-induced poverty, unemployment, and hunger. Finally, in response to dire -austerity- measures, the people of Greece stood up, forming, from their own historic roots of resistance, Syriza--the Coalition of the Radical Left. For those who caught the Syriza wave, there was, writes Helena Sheehan, a minute of...

Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. First, by profligate deficit spending benefitting only themselves; second, by agreeing to an IMF "bailout" of the Greek economy, devastating ordinary Greek citizens who were already enduring government-induced poverty, unemployment, and hunger. Finally, in response to dire "austerity" measures, the people of Greece stood up, forming, from their own historic roots of resistance, Syriza--the Coalition of the Radical Left. For those who caught the Syriza wave, there was, writes Helena Sheehan, a minute of...

The Highway of Despair follows Theodor Adorno, Georges Bataille, and...