Marxism and social movements

 Content: Marxism and Social Movements: An Introduction, Colin Barker, Laurence Cox, John Krinsky and Alf Gunvald Nilsen   PART 1: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORKS  Marxism and Social Movements  1. Class-Struggle and Social Movements, Colin Barker 2. What Would a Marxist Theory of Social Movements Look Like?, Alf Gunvald Nilsen and Laurence Cox   Social-Movements Studies and its Discontents  3. The Strange Disappearance of Capitalism from Social-Movement Studies, Gabriel Hetland and Jeff Goodwin  4. Marxism and the Politics of Possibility: Beyond Academic Boundaries, John Krinsky    PART 2: HOW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS WORK  Developmental Perspectives on Social Movements   1. Eppur Si Muove: Thinking 'The Social Movement', Laurence Cox  2. Class-Formation and the Labour-Movement in Revolutionary China, Marc Blecher  3. Contesting the Postcolonial Development-Project: A Marxist Perspective on Popular Resistance in the Narmada Valley, Alf Gunvald Nilsen   The Politics of Social Movements  4. The Marxist Rank-And-File/Bureaucracy Analysis of Trade-Unionism: Some Implications for the Study of Social-Movement Organisations, Ralph Darlington  5. Defending Place, Remaking Space: Social Movements in Oaxaca and Chiapas, Chris Hesketh  6. Uneven and Combined Marxism within South Africa's Urban Social Movements, Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai and Trevor Ngwane    PART 3: SEEING THE BIGGER PICTURE  Comparative-Historical Perspective  1. Thinking About (New) Social Movements: Some Insights from the British Marxist Historians, Paul Blackledge 2. Right-Wing Social Movements: The Political Indeterminacy Of Mass Mobilisation, Neil Davidson  3. Class, Caste, Colonial Rule, And Resistance: The Revolt of 1857 In India, Hira Singh  4. The Black International as Social-Movement Wave: C.L.R. James's History of Pan-African Revolt, Christian Hogsbjerg   Social Movements against Neoliberalism  5. Language, Marxism and the Grasping of Policy-Agendas: Neoliberalism and Political Voice in Scotland's Poorest Communities, Chik Collins  6. Organic Intellectuals in the Australian Global-Justice Movement: The Weight of 9/11, Elizabeth Humphrys  7. 'Disorganisation' as Social-Movement Tactic: Reappropriating Politics During the Crisis of Neoliberal Capitalism, Heike Schaumberg  8. 'Unity of The Diverse': Working-Class Formations and Popular Uprisings From Cochabamba to Cairo, David McNally  References