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