Radical Left Movements in Europe

Magnus Wennerhag is an Associate Professor in Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Soedertoern University, Stockholm, Sweden. Christian Froehlich 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, Gdansk, Poland. He is also Researcher at Soedertoern University, Stockholm, Sweden.

List of illustrations vii List of contributors ix Acknowledgements xii 1 Radical left movements in Europe: An introduction 1 MAGNUS WENNERHAG 2 Radical left parties and movements: Allies, associates, or antagonists? 22 LUKE MARCH 3 Radical left parties and left movements in Northern Europe 43 DANIEL KEITH 4 Radical and moderate left activism in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia (1989-2010) 62 JIR I NAVRATIL 5 Contentious labour in Italy and Greece: Movements and trade unions in times of precarity and austerity 82 LORENZO ZAMPONI AND MARKOS VOGIATZOGLOU 6 Left without its party: Interest organizations of former GDR elites and the transformation of the PDS/Linke 101 AMIEKE BOUMA 7 "History bites us by the neck": Contemporary communism(s) in Finland and France 119 AINUR ELMGREN 8 Troubles with the (troubled) past: Anarchists in Poland after 1989 137 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 156 ANDRES BRINK PINTO AND JOHAN PRIES 10 The radical left movement, revolutionary groups, and Syriza: Framing militant dissidence during the Greek crisis 173 SOTIRIOS KARAMPAMPAS 11 Diffusion of radical repertoires across Europe: The arrival of insurrectionary anarchism to Finland 193 MARI KUUKKANEN 12 The Ukrainian new left and student protests: A thorny way to hegemony 211 VOLODYMYR ISHCHENKO 13 Taking every opportunity against the state: Anarchists in contemporary Russia 230 CHRISTIAN FROEHLICH 14 Radical anti-fascism in Scandinavia: Shifting frames in relation to the transformation of the far right 248 JAN JAEMTE 15 A resurgence of the radical left? Some notes 268 DONATELLA DELLA PORTA Index 280