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Record Nr.

UNINA9910164046003321

Autore

Roussopoulos Dimitrios I

Titolo

The New Left : legacy and continuity / / Dimitrios I. Roussopoulos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Black Rose Books, 2017

ISBN

9781551642987

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Altri autori (Persone)

RoussopoulosDimitrios I

Soggetti

Right and left (Political science) - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Dimitrios Roussopoulos. Legacy. Progeny and progress? / Andrea Levy -- The legacy of the New Left / Anthony Hyde -- They loved the Revolution so very much / Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Alain Geismar, Jacques Sauvageot -- Two uprisings / Jacques Martin -- Fugitive radicals -- The death of SDS / Mark Rudd -- The legacy and lessons of the 1960s / Katherina Haris -- Democratic idealism / Gregory Nevala Calvert -- The way we were and the future of the Port Huron Statement / Tom Hayden. Continuity. Continuity / Natasha Kapoor -- Origins, legacy and continuity / Dimitrios Roussopoulos.

Sommario/riassunto

As the contributors to this anthology revisit the sixties to identify its ongoing impact on North American politics and culture, it becomes evident how this legacy has blended with, and influenced today's world-wide social movements, in particular, the anti-globalization movement, and the 'Right to the City' movement: the successes and failures of civil society organizations as they struggle for a voice at all levels of decision-making are examined, as are the new movements of the urban disenfranchised--the homeless, the alienation of youth, the elderly poor. Apart from evoking memories of past peace and freedom struggles from those who worked on the social movements of the 1960s, this work also includes a number of essays from a rising generation of intellectuals and activists, too young to have experienced the 1960s firsthand, whose perspective enables them to offer fresh insights and analyses.