Author(s): Peter Waterman
Publisher: Into Kustannus
Year: 2014
Language: English
City: Helsinki
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Some previews…
Some Inspirations…
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
Part 1
Chapter 1. Britain, 1936-55: Growing up Jewish, Middle-Class, Communist and Internationalist
Point of departure
East End, my
Alec, the East-European, extrovert and talmudic one
Ray, the introspective, moderate English one
Growing up Communist and internationalist
The Young Communist League, 1951: ‘All My Life and All My Strength’
The Berlin Youth Festival, 1951: tearing the curtain, embracing the enemy
School is Dead! Long Live … er … College?
Bucharest Youth Festival, 1953: failing to humanise Communism
Failing to revolutionise Adrienne
Training to become a journalist
Dazzling international, Communist and sexual vistas.
Chapter 2. Czechoslovakia 1955-58: From Agitator to Agent
The International Union of Students: vanguard with a decreasing rearguard
World Student News: a hopeless proposition?
Primitive socialism their example
Sad country
The
Living under socialism
The freedom of the mountains
Colleagues, friends, comrades and a lover
The not-very-cosmopolitan Brits
The Norwegian babes-in-the-woods
The Icelanders, ebullient and reserved
The romantic Italian
The overcoated Soviet
The bouncing Czech
The serious Japanese
The smiling Iraqi
The insurrectionary Guatemalan
The film students
Zuzana
Tourist of the revolutions
Warsaw
Sofia
Slovakia
Moscow
Bye-bye Stalin
Chapter 3. Intermezzo 1958-66: Meeting the Actually-Existing Working Class
Back to Blighty
The fucking army
Hamelin
London
Oxford: their university and mine
Revolution in Coca-Cola Island
Oxford: back street to High Street
Chapter 4. Prague, 1966-69: Workers of the World, Forgive Me!
Introduction: optimism and pessimism
The WFTU: not so much a spectre haunting as a shadow cast
The WFTU: trying to breathe life into the golem
Disillusioned tourist of the exhausted revolution
Lagos, 1968: the beginning of the rest of my life
Prague: abnormal times again?
Comrades, friends and fellow workers
August 1968: the re-imposition of abnormality
Goodbye Stalin
Part 2
Chapter 5. Birmingham-Zaria, 1969-72: Social
Birmingham, 1969-70: becoming an Africanist
Zaria, 1970-72-: negotiating boundaries
Living in
Toters of bibles and smokers of grass
The Star Society and the Star Chamber
Nigerian unions and the travelling labour seminar
Chapter 6. Academic/Activist, 1970s-80s: Divisions of Labour
Introduction: in paradise, if not at home
The Netherlands: an embarrassment of tolerance
The Institute of Social Studies: developing what?
Labour and Development, 1970s-80s: but what about the workers?
Things fall apart
The New
Chapter 7. Academic/Activist, 1980s-90s: Being Alternative
‘Alternative’ development strategies
From social movement unionism to the new internationalisms
Travelling hopefully
Yugoslavia: what if the Communists come to power?
India: straws and whirlwinds
Poland: the pope’s battalions
Western Europe: the rise and fall of shopfloor internationalism
El Perú: the binary opposite of The Netherlands?
Barcelona: communicating labour internationalism
The Philippines: not communicating labour internationalism
South Africa: post-colonialism of a special type
Conclusion: do principles have a price?
Chapter 8. Real Virtuality, From 1998-201?: Globalised Localities, Solidarities and Cyberspaces
Exploring Cyberia
2008: Back in the
Emancipating labour internationalism in print and online
Encountering feminism and feminists
Chapter 9. Between Place and Space: The World of Social Forums, 2002-to whenever
Learning Portañol
Porto Alegre 2002: of fish and water
Florence 2002: globalisation from the middle
Porto Alegre 2003: life after capitalism … and civil society?
London 2004: verticals and horizontals
Mumbai 2005: cyberspatial engagement
Nairobi 2007: another world of labour is not yet possible
Malmö and Caracas 2008: still seeking the new labour internationalism
WSF9, Belem 2009: which other world is desirable?
Is another World Social Forum possible?
Chapter 10. Let’s Hear it
Re:exploring Cyberia
Internationalism at a slight angle
Hic Sunt Vulpes?
The oh-too-rooted cosmopolitans
Roots in space?
References
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