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.
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
David C. Rapoport
Part I: The Origins and Diffusion of the Wave
2. The Cuban Connection. The Departamento America and the Latin American Revolutions
Dirk Kruijt
3. The role of the Left – wing editors on the diffusion of the New Left wave. The case of Giangiacomo Feltrinelli
Eduardo Rey Tristán and Guillermo Gracia Santos
4. The Legitimization of Latin-American guerrilla warfare in the Italian Radical Catholicism
Guido Panvini
5. Hitler’s Children? German Terrorism as Part of the Transnational ‘New Left Wave’
Petra Terhoeven
6. The Impact of the Third World and the Armed Struggle Debate on the People’s Liberation Front. Spain, 1958-1965
Eudald Cortina Orero
7. Transnational Ties of the Japanese Armed Left. Shared Revolutionary Ideas and Direct Personal Contacts
Patricia G. Steinhoff
Part II: Building a Transnational Imagined Community
8. Frames of Injustice across Borders. Revolutionary Left and Police Repression in Italy, France, and the USA
Luca Falciola
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
Alberto Martín Álvarez
