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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsContents Preface: Walter Baier, Eric Canepa, Haris Golemis: The Radical Left in Europe – Rediscovering Hope. Becoming Subjects of History – Art, Theory, and Politics: Frigga Haug; Contradictions in Marxist Feminism; Eva Brenner, A Theatre of Self-Emancipation – Jura Soyfer on Stage in Contemporary Vienna. Challenges for Left Strategy: Tamás Krausz: Searching for Alternatives – Interviewed by Róbert Nárai; Walter Baier: Lenin, Luxemburg, Bauer – The Left and the National; Hans-Jürgen Urban: The Issue of Immigration – A Crucial Test for the Mosaic Left?; Alexandros Kioupkiolis: Counter-Hegemony, the Commons, & New City Politics; Theodora Kotsaka: Commons Transition & the Role of the State – A New Question for the Left. Labour, Precarity, and Organisation: Bernd Riexinger: Connective Class Politics as an Inspiration for the Left; Jane McAlevey: Restoring Working Class Power – Super Majority Strikes; Peter Ullrich: In Itself, But Not Yet For Itself – Organising the Academic Precariat. The Left and the Question of Europe: Luciana Castellina, Judith Dellheim, and Gabi Zimmer: Reclaim the Manifesto of Ventotene!; Heinz Bierbaum: The European Left – Its Current State and Prospects. Anniversaries: Yannis Almpanis, Mátyás Benyik, Raffaella Bolini, Judith Dellheim, Haris Golemis, and Christophe Ventura: Assessing the Anti-Globalisation Movement and the Social Forums – A Roundtable; Jiří Málek: The 1968 Prague Spring: A Socialist Project; Rossana Rossanda: Italy’s 1969 `Hot Summer’; Luciana Castellina: 1968 – Myths and Reality; Erhard Crome: 1989 & its consequences for Russia and Germany; Tasos Trikkas: The Greek Communist Party – The Centenary of Its Birth, Fifty Years after its Split in 1968. Country Reports: Jon Trickett interviewed by Stelios Foteinopoulos: The Challenges Before the Labour Party; Gavin Rae: Conservative Authoritarianism and the Far-Right in Hungary and Poland; Ľuboš Blaha: The Central European Left and Europe – Beyond Liberalism; Adriano Campos and Alda Sousa: The Radical Left and Social Democracy in Portugal: Achievements and Roadblocks. The Marxist-Christian Dialogue: The Manifesto of Hermoupolis; Michael Löwy: Why a Marxist-Christian Dialogue?; Nikos Xydakis: Christians and Marxists – The Adventure of a Dialogue. Europe: An Economic Update: Joachim Bischoff: The Return of the Economic and Financial Crisis.
