Revolutionary Violence and the New Left by Alvarez, Alberto Martin; Rey Tristán, Eduardo;

Short description:

First study on the transnational nature of the revolutionary violence of the New Left. Leading figures and rising stars in the field examine the processes of dissemination of ideologies among revolutionary organizations in Latin America, Europe, and the United States.

Long description:

Leading figures and rising stars in the field present the first contribution explaining the transnational nature of the revolutionary violence of the New Left. Focusing on the processes of dissemination of ideologies and mobilization of ideas and repertoires of action among the revolutionary organizations of the New Left in Latin America, Europe, and the United States, this book contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of the New Left wave and, at the same time, helps explain the "why" of the emergence of very similar armed leftist groups in vastly different geographical and political contexts.

"El libro constituye el primer intento de construir una perspectiva global sobre la emergencia y desarrollo de la izquierda armada...lejos de limitarse a un ejercicio de indagación histórica, este libro atesora lecciones para el entendimiento del terrorismo y la insurgencia a escala global...." - Guillermo Mira Delli Zotti, América Latina Hoy

"Este volumen es un ingente esfuerzo que reúne a investigadores expertos ... con el fin de mostrar la importancia que tuvo la tercera ola de violencia revolucionaria...esta reflexión también puede darnos pistas para comprender la cuarta ola de violencia revolucionaria en la que hoy estamos inmersos." - Salvador Martí i Puig, Revista CIDOB d’Afers Internacionals

Table of Contents:

Foreword

Peter Waldmann

Introduction

Alberto Martín Álvarez and Eduardo Rey Tristán

1. Reflections on the Third or New Left Wave: 17 Years Later

2. The Cuban Connection. The Departamento America and the Latin American Revolutions

3. The role of the Left – wing editors on the diffusion of the New Left wave. The case of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli

4. The Legitimization of Latin-American guerrilla warfare in the Italian Radical Catholicism

5. Hitler’s Children? German Terrorism as Part of the Transnational ‘New Left Wave’

6. The Impact of the Third World and the Armed Struggle Debate on the People’s Liberation Front. Spain, 1958-1965

7. Transnational Ties of the Japanese Armed Left. Shared Revolutionary Ideas and Direct Personal Contacts

8. Frames of Injustice across Borders. Revolutionary Left and Police Repression in Italy, France, and the USA

9. Floating with the Tide. The Formation of the "Third Wave" and the Influx of American Radicals

Daniel Kaiser & Holger Marcks

10. The Long Wave. The New Left in Guatemala, Nicaragua and El Salvador