With its latest publication "New Parties of the Left: Experiences
from Europe," the IIRE, in collaboration with Resistance Books,
provides a much needed analysis of the European regroupment of the
radical left. With its pan-European focus combined with detailed
accounts from France, Denmark, Britain, Germany, Italy and Portugal
this book offers a unique and unprecedented insight into
contemporary political history of the radical left in Europe.
Social democratic and Stalinist parties, including the Labour Party
in Britain and the Socialist Party in France, have shifted to the
right across the continent and have fully embraced neo-liberalism.
This has opened up a political space to the left of
social-democracy which has been filled by new formations of the
radical left over the last decades. The book starts out with an
introductory background chapter which takes an overall look at the
developments of the radical left in Europe since 1989 and the
collapse of the Left as we knew it. This chapter provides the
reader with new statistical information, such as membership figures
and election results, about the left parties and discusses
similarities, differences and political challenges for these new
parties. The late IIRE Fellow Daniel Bensaid puts the discussion on
the reorganisation of the European left into a broader historical
and ideological perspective in the chapter 'An idea whose time has
come'. With the financial crisis, Bensaid writes, a holy alliance
between the left and the right is being preached in order to
socialise the losses after having privatised the profits. Social
democratic parties have, across the continent, actively contributed
in the destruction of the tools of social solidarity, and hereby
undermined their own social base. At the same time, European
communist parties are undergoing a slow agonising death. Against
this background, Bensaid argues, there is a need for new
anticapitalist parties, as he points out the successful stories
across the continent. The following chapters provide valuable and
unique first hand insight into the development and discussions
within the New Anti-capitalist Party (Nouveau Parti
Anticapitaliste) in France, the Red-Green Alliance (Enhedslisten)
in Denmark, Respect in Britain, The Left (Die Linke) in Germany,
the Communist Refoundation Party (Partito della Rifondazione
Comunista) in Italy and the Left Bloc (Bloco de Esquerda) in
Portugal. Each chapter covers a political party and is written by a
long-standing member of the party in question. Contributors: Daniel
Bensaid Salvatore Cannavo Jorge Costa Klaus Engert Alain Krivine
John Lister Miguel Romero Alda Sousa Alan Thornett Bertil Videt
Michael Voss
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