Bøger af Laurence Cox

1968 bød på en af det tyvende århundredes største omvæltninger. 1960’ernes og 1970’ernes sociale bevægelser udfordrede selve grundlaget for efterkrigstidens orden. Selvom arven fra ”det lange 1968” lever videre, misforstås og karikeres begivenheden dog ofte.I et forsøg på at undgå misforståelser og karikaturer og at forstå den vedvarende betydning af 1968 bedre udforsker denne bog æraens revolutionære ideer og praksisser ved at gå direkte til de tekster, bevægelserne selv producerede. Bogen samler og introducerer mere end 80 taler, manifester, øjenvidneberetninger, plakater med mere fra 12 forskellige lande.Bogen giver indblik i, hvordan kvindefrigørelsesbevægelsen, Black Power, anti-imperialismen, væbnet kamp, oprindelige folks bevægelser, modkulturen, miljøbevægelsen, militante arbejdere, homoseksuelles kampe og meget andet blev en del af det politiske landskab. Bogens kapitler gennemgår USA, Canada, Mexico, Japan, Vesttyskland, Danmark, Frankrig, Italien, Storbritannien, Nordirland, Jugoslavien og Tjekkoslovakiet.

We live in the twilight of neoliberalism: the ruling classes can no longer rule as before, and ordinary people are no longer willing to be ruled in the old way. Pursued by global elites since the 1970s, neoliberalism is defined by dispossession and ever-increasing inequality. The refusal to continue to be ruled like this - 'ya basta!' - appears in an arc of resistance stretching from rural India to the cities of the global North. *BR**BR*From this network of movements, new visions are emerging of a future beyond neoliberalism. We Make Our Own History responds to these visions by reclaiming Marxism as a theory born from activist experience and practice. *BR**BR*This book marks a break both with established social movement theory, and with those forms of Marxism which treat the practice of social movement organising as an unproblematic process. It shows how movements can develop from local conflicts to global struggles; how neoliberalism operates as a social movement from above, and how popular struggles can create new worlds from below.

Buddhism and Ireland is the first history of its subject, a rich and exciting story of extraordinary individuals and the journey of ideas across Europe and Asia.