Fragments of Victory -

Fragments of Victory

The Contemporary Irish Left

Oisín Gilmore, David Landy (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover
224 Seiten
2025
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4875-9 (ISBN)
23,65 inkl. MwSt
Inspiring insiders’ accounts of modern Irish activism under austerity and beyond
There is much to learn from modern left-wing activism in Ireland. A rich tapestry of movements, including republicans, social democrats, trade unions, Trotskyists and anarchists, they have been battling neoliberalism and austerity with vigour, frustration, success and failure.



Fragments of Victory charts these political currents, from the difficult early years of anti-austerity campaigning, to the successful mass campaign to end water charges and prevent water privatisation, and the seismic victory that was 'Repeal' - the campaign for women’s reproductive rights. Looking to the present, the campaign around the brutal housing crisis is also addressed.



Each chapter covers a different campaign or group, written by leading activists who provide insiders' perspectives on how history was made, and share valuable insights that can be applied to international movements everywhere.

Oisín Gilmore has been involved in political activism in Ireland, the UK and Europe since 2001, and is currently researching labour organisation and economic development at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He has been published in a number of journals as well as in left-wing publications including Jacobin, Lookleft, Rabble and The Commune. David Landy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology in Trinity College Dublin and Director of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict. He has written for Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, and Social Movement Studies on the water charges movement, Irish anti-racism and Palestinian solidarity. He is the author of Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights, and co-editor of Enforcing Silence: Academic Freedom and Criticism of Israel.

1. Introduction - Oisín Gilmore and David Landy

Part I: Campaigns

2. Anti-Austerity Struggles 2008-13 - by David Landy

3. Water Charges - by Dave Gibney

4. Abortion - by Aileen O’Carroll and Máire Ni Chuagáin

5. Housing - by Juliana Sassi, Seamus Farrell, Rosi Leonard and Aisling Hedderman

Part II: Organisations

6. Trade Unions - by Mary Muldowney

7. The Centre Left - by Paul Dillon

8. Anarchism - by Kevin Doyle

9. Trotskyism - by David Landy

10. Republicanism - by Dan Finn, Stewart Reddin and Damian Lawlor

11. Conclusion - by Oisín Gilmore

Erscheint lt. Verlag 20.1.2025
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-7453-4875-0 / 0745348750
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-4875-9 / 9780745348759
Zustand Neuware
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