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  • Radical in Diversity: Europe's Left 2010-2020

  • By Cornelia Hildebrandt , Danai Koltsida , Amieke Bouma | 19 Jul 21 | Posted under: Great Britain , European Union , The Left
  • This volume reviews the full breadth of discussions around the left project from 2010 to 2020, tracking developments within the left across Europe – edited by Amieke Bouma and transform! europe's Cornelia Hildebrandt and Danai Koltsida.

    What is the role of the radical left in Europe? How can regional groups parties and groups contribute to a common European left?
    Scholars and activists from 22 countries explore radical left strategies:

    • How best to struggle against chauvinism and right-wing extremism?
    • How to respond to economic, financial and migration crises?
    • How to combine traditional left interests - social welfare, workers' rights, medical care and education, with new left concerns such as the social inclusion of migrants and the protection of the environment?
    • How can left parties contend with new bourgeois and green left-of-center parties?
    • And importantly, how to forge a European left that transcends national interests, reigning in corporate interests and promoting social, gender and racial emancipation?

    The contributors examine specific local backgrounds and review parties and movements, in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Balkans, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, and the UK.

    Ordering Information

    Radical in Diversity. Europe's Left 2010-2020
    edited by Amieke Bouma, Cornelia Hildebrandt and Danai Koltsida
    Merlin Press
    ISBN: 9780850367690

    The book can be ordered here

    Table of Contents

    Amieke Bouma, Cornelia Hildebrandt, & Danai Koltsida: Introduction

    Central and Western Europe

    Germany
    Cornelia Hildebrandt: The Left Party in Germany With East-West History on the Move

    Austria
    Barbara Steiner: The Left in Austria: Out of the Impasse with a Fresh Breeze

    France
    Giuseppe Cugnata: The Reconfiguration of the French Radical Left, 2017-2020

    Luxembourg
    Adrien Thomas: Luxembourg´s Left: Between Co-optation and Marginalisation

    Belgium
    Nico Biver: The Rise of the Remarkable Workers´ Party of Belgium

    The Netherlands
    Amieke Bouma: The Socialist Party in the Netherlands, 2010-2021

    Scandinavia

    Denmark
    Eva Milsted Enoksen & Ulrik Kohl: The Red-Green Alliance: To the Left of a Centre-Left Governmment

    Sweden
    Henning Süssner Rubin: Sweden: A Left Dilemma

    Finland
    Jukka Pietiläinen: Finnland - The Left Alliance: From an Opposition Outsider to a Renewed Left-Green Party

    Central and Eastern Europe

    Estonia
    Jukka Pietiläinen: Estonia: From a Marginal Left Party to a Marginal National Minority Party

    Latvia
    Niks Derums: The Left in Latvia

    Lithuania
    Andrius Bielskis: On the Weakness of the Political Left in  Lithuania

    Poland
    Piotr Janiszewski: The Left in Poland: Three Decades after Transition

    Czech Republic
    Matěj Metelec: Left-Wing Politics in Czechia: The Twilight of Anti-Communism and the Uncertain Future of the Left

    Slovakia
    Michael Augustin: Ten Years of the Radical Left and Left-Wing Milieu in Slovakia

    Hungary
    Zoltán Pogátsa: The Political Left in Hungary

    Romania
    Florin Poenaru: The Curious Case of the Romanian Social Democratic Party

    Bulgaria
    Jana Tsoneva: The State of the Left in Bulgaria, 2013-2020

    South-Eastern Europe
    Krunoslav Stojaković: The New Left in South-Eastern Europe: Between Dynamics and Stagnation

    Southern Europe

    Greece
    Danai Koltsida: The Greek Left in Turbulent Times, 2010-2020

    Cyprus
    Yiannos Katsourides: The Cypriot Left: AKEL

    Italy
    Paolo Chiocchetti: The Continuing Crisis of the Italian Radical Left

    Spain
    Marga Ferré: From the Streets to the Government: The Many Contradictions Facing the Spanish Left

    Portugal
    André Freire: The Left in Portugal: From a Left-Wing Majority to a "Blinker Goverment", 2015-2020

    Ireland and the UK

    Ireland
    Stephen Hopkins: The Radical Left in Contemporary Ireland 2011-2020

    The UK

    Kate Hudson: The Radical Left in Britain: the Last Ten Years

    Author Details

    List of European Radical Left Parties


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