Radical Left Movements in Europe

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

• List of illustrations viiList of contributors ixAcknowledgements xii1 Radical left movements in Europe: An introduction 1MAGNUS WENNERHAG2 Radical left parties and movements: Allies, associates, or antagonists? 22LUKE MARCH3 Radical left parties and left movements in Northern Europe 43DANIEL KEITH4 Radical and moderate left activism in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia (1989–2010) 62JIRˇ Í NAVRÁTIL5 Contentious labour in Italy and Greece: Movements and trade unions in times of precarity and austerity 82LORENZO ZAMPONI AND MARKOS VOGIATZOGLOU6 Left without its party: Interest organizations of former GDR elites and the transformation of the PDS/Linke 101AMIEKE BOUMA7 "History bites us by the neck": Contemporary communism(s) in Finland and France 119AINUR ELMGREN8 Troubles with the (troubled) past: Anarchists in Poland after 1989 137GRZEGORZ PIOTROWSKI9 Rethinking transformative events to understand the making of new contentious performances: The "autonomous left" and the anti-fascist blockade in Lund 1991 156ANDRÉS BRINK PINTO AND JOHAN PRIES10 The radical left movement, revolutionary groups, and Syriza: Framing militant dissidence during the Greek crisis 173SOTIRIOS KARAMPAMPAS11 Diffusion of radical repertoires across Europe: The arrival of insurrectionary anarchism to Finland 193MARI KUUKKANEN12 The Ukrainian new left and student protests: A thorny way to hegemony 211VOLODYMYR ISHCHENKO13 Taking every opportunity against the state: Anarchists in contemporary Russia 230CHRISTIAN FRÖHLICH14 Radical anti-fascism in Scandinavia: Shifting frames in relation to the transformation of the far right 248JAN JÄMTE15 A resurgence of the radical left? Some notes 268DONATELLA DELLA PORTAIndex 280