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Renouncing the Le-: Working-class conserva7sm in France, 1930-1939 Joseph Starkey A Thesis submi+ed for the Degree of PhD at Cardiff University 2014 Abstract Histories of the working class in France have largely ignored the existence of working-class conservaGsm. This is parGcularly true of histories of the interwar period. Yet, there were an array of Catholic and right-wing groups during these years that endeavoured to bring workers within their orbit. Moreover, many workers judged that their interests were be+er served by these groups. This thesis explores the parGcipaGon of workers in Catholic and right-wing groups during the 1930s. What did these groups claim to offer workers within the wider context of their ideological goals? In which ways did conservaGve workers understand and express their interests, and why did they idenGfy the supposed ‘enemies of the leT’ as the best means of defending them? What was the daily experience of conservaGve workers like, and how did this experience contribute to the formaGon of ‘non-leT’ poliGcal idenGGes? These quesGons are addressed in a study of the largest Catholic and right-wing groups in France during the 1930s. This thesis argues that, during a period of leT-wing ascendancy, these groups made the recruitment of workers a top priority. To this end, they harnessed parGcular elements of mass poliGcal culture and adapted them to their own ideological ends. However, the ideology of these groups did not simply reflect the interests of the workers that supported them. This thesis argues that the interests of conservaGve workers were a raGonal and complex product of their own experience. -
The Surreal Voice in Milan's Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi
City University of New York (CUNY) CUNY Academic Works Dissertations, Theses, and Capstone Projects CUNY Graduate Center 2-2021 The Surreal Voice in Milan's Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi Jason Collins The Graduate Center, City University of New York How does access to this work benefit ou?y Let us know! More information about this work at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/4143 Discover additional works at: https://academicworks.cuny.edu This work is made publicly available by the City University of New York (CUNY). Contact: [email protected] THE SURREALIST VOICE IN MILAN’S ITINERANT POETICS: DELIO TESSA TO FRANCO LOI by JASON M. COLLINS A dissertation submitted to the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, The City University of New York 2021 i © 2021 JASON M. COLLINS All Rights Reserved ii The Surreal Voice in Milan’s Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi by Jason M. Collins This manuscript has been read and accepted for the Graduate Faculty in Comparative Literature in satisfaction of the dissertation requirement for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy _________________ ____________Paolo Fasoli___________ Date Chair of Examining Committee _________________ ____________Giancarlo Lombardi_____ Date Executive Officer Supervisory Committee Paolo Fasoli André Aciman Hermann Haller THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK iii ABSTRACT The Surreal Voice in Milan’s Itinerant Poetics: Delio Tessa to Franco Loi by Jason M. Collins Advisor: Paolo Fasoli Over the course of Italy’s linguistic history, dialect literature has evolved a s a genre unto itself. -
SIAC HOME Files/STALINISM TRADITION and the WORKING CLASS.Pdf
Stalinism, Tradition, and the Working Class A response to comrades who honeymoon in the past DON MILLIGAN Mayday in London, 1928 2 The Dictatorship of the Proletariat There is one, only one, essential element in the Marxist critique of capitalism. It is very simple and very plain, but in it are focused all the many- faceted analyses of the capitalist order. It is this: there is a striking contradiction between the increasingly social character of the process of production and the anti-social character of capitalist property. [. ] This contradiction between the anti-social character of [private] property and the social character of our production is the source of all anarchy and irrationality in capitalism.1 Isaac Deutscher n the Marxist tradition ‘dictatorship’ means domination and, just to confuse matters, it also carries with it the Irather more conventional political meaning that refers to a state of lawless and arbitrary rule by a tyrant or an association of tyrants. In the former rather than the latter sense Marxists have always thought of capitalist society as ‘the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie’. After all, capitalist society is founded upon the defence of private property against all comers, and the state and legal system is organized to ensure that the most favourable social and political conditions for the businessman and the entrepreneur prevail. The state guarantees the right of the owners of private capital to employ workers to generate profits in order to finance a new round of private investment, and so on. Irrespective of whether or not the state or political form of capitalist rule is oligarchic, dictatorial, or democratic, Marxists in the past, and today, regard the bourgeois domination of society as ‘dictatorial’. -
And Bernardo Bertolucci's 1900
The “Betrayed Resistance” in Valentino Orsini’s Corbari (1970) and Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1900 (1976) Dominic Gavin The connections between Italian film and history have been the object of renewed attention in recent years. A number of studies have provided re-readings of Italian cinema, especially from the perspective of public memory. Charting the interrelations of cinema, the public use of history, and historiography, these studies include reevaluations of the cinema of the Resistance, the war film, the Holocaust and the Fascist dictatorship.1 The ongoing debates over Resistance memory in particular—the “never-ending liberation,” in the words of one historian—have provided a motive for reconsidering popular cultural productions as vehicles of collective perceptions of the past.2 If Italian film studies came relatively late to the issues of cinema and public memory, this approach has now become mainstream.3 In this essay, I am concerned with films on the Resistance during the 1970s. These belong to a wider grouping of contemporary cinematic productions that deal with the Fascist dictatorship and antifascism. These films raise a series of critical questions. How did the general film field contribute to the wider processing of historical memory, and how did it relate to political violence in Italy?4 To what extent did the work of Italian filmmakers participate in the “new discourse” of international cinema in the 1970s concerning the treatment of Nazism and the occupation,5 or to what extent were filmmakers engaged in reaffirming populist -
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I c/66-14 AN ESSAY ON REVISIONISM IN THE ITALIAN COMMUNIST PARTY Giorgio Galli Massachusetts Institute of Technology Center for International Studies International Communism Project The following essay explores the evolution of Italian Communist re- visionism. In general when we speak of "revisionism" in the Italian Communist Party (PCI) we usually refer to the question of whether the conquest of power is possible and of what strategy the Party puts forward in order to achieve it: the classical questions, in short, which were at the center of the first great revisionist debate in the Second International. Extensive comparisons have therefore been made between Italian "revisionism" and its classical antecedents. But first a brief review of the PCI's attitude toward the Italian Con- stitution may be illuminating. At a particularly signi icant moment in its recent history, the Eighth Congress of December 1956, the PCI approved the "Elements for a Policy Declaration" which regards the Italian Constitution that went into effect in January 1948, as an "important victory on the Italian road to Socialism," and illustrates one fundamental aspect of it in the follow- ing manner: As far as private property is concerned, it is guaranteed by law, 'with the aim of safeguarding its social function and making it accessible to all,' and it is precisely for this reason that the Constitution lays down limits for it and even provides for expro- priation, with compensation, for 'reasons of general interest.' It is not, therefore, unreasonable to state that the Republican Constitution . sets up some of the conditions which may, when they are put into effect . -
Durham E-Theses
Durham E-Theses English Folk under the Red Flag: The Impact of Alan Bush's `Workers' Music' on 20th Century Britain's Left-Wing Music Scene ROBINSON, ALICE,MERIEL How to cite: ROBINSON, ALICE,MERIEL (2021) English Folk under the Red Flag: The Impact of Alan Bush's `Workers' Music' on 20th Century Britain's Left-Wing Music Scene , Durham theses, Durham University. Available at Durham E-Theses Online: http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/13924/ Use policy The full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that: • a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in Durham E-Theses • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. Please consult the full Durham E-Theses policy for further details. Academic Support Oce, Durham University, University Oce, Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HP e-mail: [email protected] Tel: +44 0191 334 6107 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk 2 English Folk under the Red Flag: The Impact of Alan Bush’s ‘Workers’ Music’ on 20 th Century Britain’s Left-Wing Music Scene Alice Robinson Abstract Workers’ music: songs to fight injustice, inequality and establish the rights of the working classes. This was a new, radical genre of music which communist composer, Alan Bush, envisioned in 1930s Britain. -
"Pages from an Editor's Sketch Book," by August Spies
Pages from an Editor’s Sketch Book by August Spies Published in August Spies’ Auto-Biography; His Speech in Court, and General Notes. Chicago: Niña van Zandt, January 1887; pp. 22-35. In 1872 the Chicago section of the old International started a socialistic German weekly, Vorbote. “Vorbote” translated into English means “Fore- runner” or “Pioneer.” The Honor- able Pinkerton claims that the word means “free-booter”; he as- serts this in a book written by him- self, and since the gentleman's reputation for truth and veracity is almost monumental, we had better believe than dispute with him. The Vorbote remained a weekly until shortly after the police- and militia-riots in 1877, when there was added to it a tri-weekly. The wholly unjustifiable clubbing and killing of workmen, the unconsti- tutional assaults of the police upon peaceable meetings during these riots had given such an impetus to the labor-movement in this city, that in 1879 the tri-weekly Arbeiter-Zeitung had to be trans- formed into a daily, including a Sunday issue (Fackel). These pa- pers, published by the Socialistic Publishing Society, of which any man, if he belonged to the Socialistic La- bor Party, could become a member by paying an initiation fee of 10 cents, were very prosperous. In the spring of 1879 the Socialistic ticket, headed by Dr. Ernst Schmidt as candidate for mayor, received over 12,000 votes. In the summer of the same year, however, the transactions and behavior of some of the members in connection with the judiciary election brought dissensions into the ranks of the young party, which greatly diminished its numbers and also 1 reduced the subscription list of the organ. -
Haymarket Riot (Chicago: Alexander J
NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK NOMINATION NFS Form 10-900 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-86) OMB No. 1024-0018 HAYMARKET MARTYRS1 MONUMENT Page 1 United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service______________________________________________National Register of Historic Places Registration Form 1. NAME OF PROPERTY Historic Name: Haymarket Martyrs' Monument Other Name/Site Number: 2. LOCATION Street & Number: 863 South Des Plaines Avenue Not for publication: City/Town: Forest Park Vicinity: State: IL County: Cook Code: 031 Zip Code: 60130 3. CLASSIFICATION Ownership of Property Category of Property Private: X Building(s): Public-Local: _ District: Public-State: _ Site: Public-Federal: Structure: Object: Number of Resources within Property Contributing Noncontributing ___ buildings ___ sites ___ structures 1 ___ objects 1 Total Number of Contributing Resources Previously Listed in the National Register:_Q_ Name of Related Multiple Property Listing: Designated a NATIONAL HISTrjPT LANDMARK on by the Secreury 01 j^ tai-M NPS Form 10-900 USDI/NPS NRHP Registration Form (Rev. 8-86) OMB No. 1024-0018 HAYMARKET MARTYRS' MONUMENT Page 2 United States Department of the Interior, National_P_ark Service___________________________________National Register of Historic Places Registration Form 4. STATE/FEDERAL AGENCY CERTIFICATION As the designated authority under the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended, I hereby certify that this __ nomination __ request for determination of eligibility meets the documentation standards for registering properties in the National Register of Historic Places and meets the procedural and professional requirements set forth in 36 CFR Part 60. In my opinion, the property __ meets __ does not meet the National Register Criteria. -
Spring 2018 P a G E 3 P a G E 4 the Reporter
Printing by Baxter Printing, 3837 Ridge Road, Highland IN 46322. (219) 923-1999, http://www.baxterprint.com/ P a g e 2 The Reporter Dear ILHS members and friends: park is named, It would be fair to say the ILHS is much there is about memory, but not in the passive sense. nothing on We engage the stimulation of our individual site to explain and collective memories in order to promote who Lucy is. The action. We stimulate memory through the city of Chicago is preservation of monuments and historical nearly void of statues and markers promoting sites, by the creation and participation in important women and their contributions and commemorative events and the promotion of Lucy should really be a household name in resources and human activities designed to tell Chicago. Alderman Reboyas has been slow to stories of important events primarily related to respond to our requests for assistance. Please labor history, which can be arguably called the feel free to call him! connective tissue of human endeavors. Finally, if my memory serves me well, I One endeavor your ILHS is working would be remiss if I didn’t remind all of you to toward is the funding and placement of a new join the ILHS and the Chicago Federation of headstone in Forest Home Cemetery just yards Labor at Haymarket Square at DesPlaines and from the martyrs. Nina Van Zandt Spies, the Randolph for this year’s May Day event at widow of Haymarket Martyr, August Spies. 2:30 pm for our annual celebration. The Her story is exceptional and is one of those Filipino Labor Federation, KMU, which that once again reminds us why the Haymarket means the May First Movement, will be our Affair (no pun intended) is remarkable as a guests and dedicate this year’s plaque. -
The “Bordigist Current”
THE “BORDIGIST CURRENT” (1919-1999) Italy, France, Belgium Philippe Bourrinet Index Introduction ...........................................................................................................5 1. The origins (1912-1926) ........................................................................................11 2. German Left or Italian Left? ...................................................................................30 3. The Birth of the Left Fraction of the PCI ..............................................................45 1933-39 Bilan. Milestones on the road to defeat 4. The Weight of the Counter-Revolution..................................................................65 5. The War in Spain: No Betrayal! .............................................................................88 6. Towards war or revolution? (1937-39) ..................................................................103 7. Balance sheet of the Russian Revolution...............................................................115 1939-45 Trial by fire 8. The ordeal of war: from fraction to party? ............................................................137 9. The “Partito Comunista Internazionalista” ...........................................................153 Conclusion..........................................................................................................167 Appendix 1 DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES OF THE BELGIAN FRACTION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNIST LEFT...................170 Appendix 2 Manifesto of the Communist Left -
"A Road to Peace and Freedom": the International Workers Order and The
“ A ROAD TO PEACE AND FREEDOM ” Robert M. Zecker “ A ROAD TO PEACE AND FREEDOM ” The International Workers Order and the Struggle for Economic Justice and Civil Rights, 1930–1954 TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Philadelphia • Rome • Tokyo TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright © 2018 by Temple University—Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education All rights reserved Published 2018 All reasonable attempts were made to locate the copyright holders for the materials published in this book. If you believe you may be one of them, please contact Temple University Press, and the publisher will include appropriate acknowledgment in subsequent editions of the book. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Zecker, Robert, 1962- author. Title: A road to peace and freedom : the International Workers Order and the struggle for economic justice and civil rights, 1930-1954 / Robert M. Zecker. Description: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018. | Includes index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017035619| ISBN 9781439915158 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781439915165 (paper : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: International Workers Order. | International labor activities—History—20th century. | Labor unions—United States—History—20th century. | Working class—Societies, etc.—History—20th century. | Working class—United States—Societies, etc.—History—20th century. | Labor movement—United States—History—20th century. | Civil rights and socialism—United States—History—20th century. Classification: LCC HD6475.A2 -
HAYMARKET: WHOSE NAME the FEW STILL SAY with TEARS a Dramatization in Eleven Scenes Michael E
HAYMARKET: WHOSE NAME THE FEW STILL SAY WITH TEARS A Dramatization in Eleven Scenes Michael E. Tigar* BACKGROUND The dialogue in this play is taken from the trial record of the Haymarket trial,1 writings of Darrow2 and Altgeld,3 poems of Vachel Lindsay,4 speeches of the defendants,5 and an article by Judge Gary.6 I created other dialogue based upon the biographies and autobiographies of the participants.7 In some instances, I combined several characters into one, and rearranged the order of events. However, the key speeches of each participant are their actual words. The bombing, trial, executions and pardon of the survivors were such a complex series of events that a simple chronological retelling would lack dramatic intensity. Therefore, I chose to tell this story through a series of flashbacks, centering on a meeting of Clarence Darrow and Lucy Parsons. This meeting takes place in November 29, 1922, the day then-Governor Small pardoned a group of Darrow's clients from the celebrated 1920 Communist Labor trial. Lucy was the wife of Haymarket defendant Albert Parsons. She was a formidable figure in the anarchist movement both before and after her husband's death. Darrow both depicts and symbolizes the lawyer who defends the movement for social change. His attitudes towards his own work are made up of his hopes, a fighting faith that keeps him going, and a more tempered view based on his experiences. Lucy Parsons’ writings show her to have formed the views that she expresses in the play quite early. Indeed, there is evidence that she greatly contributed to forming her husband’s political and social outlook.