Is today's left really new? How has the European radical left
evolved? Giorgos Charalambous answers these questions by looking at
three moments of rapid political change - the late 1960s to late
1970s; the turn of the millennium; and post-2008. He challenges the
conventional understanding of a 'new left', drawing out
continuities with earlier movements and parties. Charalambous
examines the 'Long '68', symbolised by the May uprisings in France,
which saw the rise of new left forces and the widespread criticism
by younger radical activists of traditional communist and socialist
parties. He puts this side by side with the turn of the millennium
when the Global Justice Movement rose to prominence and changed the
face of the international left, and also the period after the
financial crash of 2008 and the rise of anti-austerity politics
which initiated the most recent wave of new left parties such as
Podemos in Spain and Syriza in Greece. With a unique 'two-level'
perspective, Charalambous approaches the left through both social
movements and party politics, looking at identities, rhetoric and
organisation, and bringing a fresh new approach to radical history,
as well as assessing challenges for both activists and scholars.
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