Radioactive Radicals: A Novel of Labor and the Left
Radioactive Radicals: A Novel of Labor and the Left

Author: Dan La Botz

Publisher: BookLocker.com, Inc.

Published: 2024-05-30

Total Pages: 745

ISBN-13:

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ONE NIGHT AT A METAL scrap company Wes and Dirk killed a Mafioso, by accident they would say. That event will haunt their lives for more than thirty years. Wes and Dirk, both born in August 1945, were like many in their generation affected by the radiocaesium from the two atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan that month. The bombs’ radioactive contamination turned them and hundreds of thousands of others into the idealist activists of the 1960s and 1970s who fought for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. Dirk, who tells the story of their lives, takes the reader on a decades-long, coast-to-coast trip, through protests, riots, and strikes. He and Wes become truckdrivers and help to organize a rebellion in the Teamsters, dealing with trucking company bosses, corrupt union officials, the FBI, and the Mafia. We learn of their love affairs, their marriages, and their infidelities. The country changes, the old movements die, age, yet the fight still goes on. What, Dirk asks, has been the meaning of it all?

The Radical Left in Britain
The Radical Left in Britain

Author: James Jupp

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-07-27

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 1135780870

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The past ten years have seen a revival of interest in the recent history of the British labour movement, and particularly in the alleged 'lost opportunity'for a British revolution at some stage between 1900 and 1926. What is attempted here is a reassessment of the radical politics of the 1930's, a decade also mythologized in the recent past as one in which British intellectuals were either 'fellow-travelling' with Stalin or 'moving towards Marxism', depending on your point of view. My concern is not centrally with those poets, writers and scientists whose memoirs of the 'RedThirties' are readily avai.

Unholy Alliance
Unholy Alliance

Author: David Horowitz

Publisher: Regnery Publishing

Published: 2006-02-02

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780895260260

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The bestselling Unholy Alliance-now in paperback! Former Leftist radical David Horowitz blows the lid off the dangerous liaison between U.S. liberals and Islamic radicals. With America's battle against the disastrous force of terrorism at hand, Horowitz takes us behind the curtain of the unholy alliance between liberals and the enemy-a force with malevolent intentions, and one that Americans can no longer ignore.

Radicals in America
Radicals in America

Author: Howard Brick

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-07-15

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0521515602

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Radicals in America offers the first complete and continuous history of left-wing social movements in the United States from the Second World War to the present. The book traces the full panoply of radical activist causes, demonstrating how successive generations join currents of dissent, face setbacks and political repression, and generate new challenges to the status quo.

A State of Play
A State of Play

Author: Steven Fielding

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-04-24

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1849669805

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This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. A State of Play explores how the British have imagined their politics, from the parliament worship of Anthony Trollope to the cynicism of The Thick of It. In an account that mixes historical with political analysis, Steven Fielding argues that fictional depictions of politics have played an important but insidious part in shaping how the British think about their democracy and have helped ventilate their many frustrations with Westminster. He shows that dramas and fictions have also performed a significant role in the battle of ideas, in a way undreamt of by those who draft party manifestos. The book examines the work of overtly political writers have treated the subject, discussing the novels of H.G. Wells, the comedy series Yes, Minister and the plays of David Hare. However, it also assesses how less obvious sources, such as the films of George Formby, the novels of Agatha Christie, the Just William stories and situation comedies like Steptoe and Son, have reflected on representative democracy. A State of Play is an invaluable, distinctive and engaging guide to a new way of thinking about Britain's political past and present.

Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts
Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts

Author: Gustavo Fischman

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 9780742530720

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We are living in a time of resurgent global conflicts and imperialistic tensions-a time in which many children are being left behind by school systems that appear more concerned with developing accountability schemes and standardized models of testing than with defending the right of every child to have access to a good education. In response to these oppressive and challenging conditions a group of committed educators and activists have come together to link educational transformation to the larger struggle to transform oppressive social relations. Critical Theories, Radical Pedagogies, and Global Conflicts draws from a range of viewpoints to demonstrate that another education, and indeed, another world, is possible.

The European Radical Left
The European Radical Left

Author: Giorgos Charalambous

Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)

Published: 2021-09-20

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780745340517

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A historical analysis of radical left parties and movements in Europe spanning the late 1960s to the anti-austerity movements of the late 2000s

The Socialist Ideas of the British Left’s Alternative Economic Strategy
The Socialist Ideas of the British Left’s Alternative Economic Strategy

Author: Baris Tufekci

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-11-30

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 3030349985

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This book provides the first book-length study of the political and economic ideas of the British left’s Alternative Economic Strategy in the 1970s and early 1980s. Discussing the AES’s approaches to capitalism, the nation state and the working class, it argues that existing academic accounts have significantly overstated the radicalism of the strategy. Perhaps more notable, especially in the light of its stated ‘revolutionary’ aims, was the extent of its moderation – its continuities with post-war Labour revisionism, its marked reluctance to look beyond the market economy, the degree of its preoccupation with Britain’s global-economic status, and its inability to break with Labourist politics of class co-operation in the national interest. While the book argues that the AES was the last ‘class politics’ socialist initiative in mainstream British politics, it also explores the ways in which its ideas perhaps prepared the way for New Labour in the 1990s, and its relationship with 'Corbynism' since 2015.

The Rise of New Labour
The Rise of New Labour

Author: Anthony Francis Heath

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 019924510X

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This work explores the emergence of New Labour from the ruins of old Labour's four successive defeats by the Conservatives. Based on the British Election Surveys, the book explores some of the key questions about contemporary British elections and the factors that decide their outcomes.

Constructing Post-Imperial Britain: Britishness, 'Race' and the Radical Left in the 1960s
Constructing Post-Imperial Britain: Britishness, 'Race' and the Radical Left in the 1960s

Author: J. Burkett

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-04-11

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1137008911

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The end of empire shaped the way the British public saw their place in the world, society and the ethnic and racial boundaries of their nation. Focussing on some of the most controversial organisations of the 1960s, this book illuminates their central importance in constructing post-imperial Britain.