List of illustrations viiList of contributors ixAcknowledgements xii1 Radical left movements in Europe: An introduction 1MAGNUS WENNERHAG2 Radical left parties and movements: Allies, associates, or antagonists? 22LUKE MARCH3 Radical left parties and left movements in Northern Europe 43DANIEL KEITH4 Radical and moderate left activism in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia (1989–2010) 62JIRˇ Í NAVRÁTIL5 Contentious labour in Italy and Greece: Movements and trade unions in times of precarity and austerity 82LORENZO ZAMPONI AND MARKOS VOGIATZOGLOU6 Left without its party: Interest organizations of former GDR elites and the transformation of the PDS/Linke 101AMIEKE BOUMA7 "History bites us by the neck": Contemporary communism(s) in Finland and France 119AINUR ELMGREN8 Troubles with the (troubled) past: Anarchists in Poland after 1989 137GRZEGORZ PIOTROWSKI9 Rethinking transformative events to understand the making of new contentious performances: The "autonomous left" and the anti-fascist blockade in Lund 1991 156ANDRÉS BRINK PINTO AND JOHAN PRIES10 The radical left movement, revolutionary groups, and Syriza: Framing militant dissidence during the Greek crisis 173SOTIRIOS KARAMPAMPAS11 Diffusion of radical repertoires across Europe: The arrival of insurrectionary anarchism to Finland 193MARI KUUKKANEN12 The Ukrainian new left and student protests: A thorny way to hegemony 211VOLODYMYR ISHCHENKO13 Taking every opportunity against the state: Anarchists in contemporary Russia 230CHRISTIAN FRÖHLICH14 Radical anti-fascism in Scandinavia: Shifting frames in relation to the transformation of the far right 248JAN JÄMTE15 A resurgence of the radical left? Some notes 268DONATELLA DELLA PORTAIndex 280