Europe in Revolt (eBook)

Mapping the New European Left

Mark Bergfeld, Luke Stobart, Vidar Thorsteinsson, Hilary Wainwright, David Zachariah, David Broder, Daniel Finn, Leandros Fischer, Alex de Jong, Stathis Kouvelakis, Petter Nilsson, Clement Petitjean, Panagiotis Sotiris (Autoren)

Catarina Principe, Bhaskar Sunkara (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
280 Seiten
Haymarket Books (Verlag)
978-1-60846-658-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A gripping and authoritative account of the uprisings against extreme austerity that have shaken Europe.

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This authoritative survey of the new radical left forming across Europe offers “ammo for the struggles ahead, not to be ignored” (Susan Weissman, award-winning journalist and editor of Victor Serge).   In Greece, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, the debt crisis that began with the 2008 global recession helped trigger severe austerity measures. These policies, intended to address government debts, only worsened economic conditions.   In response, something happened that few outsiders expected: A massive wave of political resistance erupted across Europe. With mainstream parties largely discredited by their support for austerity, room opened for radicals to offer a left-wing alternative.   Collecting provocative, informative, and expert insights from leading scholars across the continent, Europe in Revolt examines the key parties and figures behind this insurgency. These essays and articles cover the roots of the social crisis—and the radicals seeking to reverse it—in Cyprus, England, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.

Autor

lt;div>Catarina Príncipe: Catarina Príncipe is a social movement activist from Portugal. She is a member of Bloco de Esquerda (Portugal) and Die Linke (Germany) and a contributing editor at Jacobin magazine, where she writes frequent dispatches on the European situation.

Bhaskar Sunkara: Bhaskar Sunkara is the founding editor and publisher of Jacobin magazine. He is a regular contributor to The Nation and In These Times magazine.