The New European Left A Socialism for the Twenty-First Century?

by Hudson, Kate

• ISBN13: 9780230248762
• ISBN10: 0230248764
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-17
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

Hudson explores the development of communists and other left forces, charting their survival and renewal after 1989. She shows how an open and democratic form of socialism has emerged which embraces environmental, gender and anti-war politics.

Author Biography

KATE HUDSON Visiting Fellow at London South Bank University, UK, having been Head of Social and Policy Studies from 2000 to 2010. She was Founding Editor of the international journal, Contemporary Politics, Editor from 1995 to 2008 and continues to serve on the editorial board, as well as that of Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe. She is the author of European Communism Since 1989 (2000), The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia (2003) and CND: Now More Than Ever – the Story of a Peace Movement (2005). She is also General Secretary of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Table of Contents

Survival and Renewal: the 1990s Regroupment: Establishing a European Movement The Party of the European Left Diverse Trends: an Overview A Successful Model? Die Linke (the Left Party – Germany) How Have the Mighty Fallen: Partita della Rifondazione Comunista (Party of Communist Refoundation – Italy) Back from the Brink: French Communism Re-orientates (Parti Communiste Francais) Communism Renewed and Supported: the Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) The Scandinavian Left European Left and Global Left: 1999-2009