Festival of the oppressed: Solidarity, reform, and revolution in Poland, 1980-81

Politics & Social Sciences

Barker, Colin

Politics & Government

Bookmarks

Five times in the last 40 years, the working class has posed a radical alternative to the status quo.France 1968: A general strike and factory occupations by millions of workers shake the country.Chile 1972: Workers defending the Popular Unity government set up workers’ councilsthe cordonesand demand control over production.Portugal 1974: Army officers overthrow the dictator Caetano and release an upsurge of "popular power" whichs last 18 months.Iran 1979: The viciously repressive Shah is toppled and workers set up independent councils, the shoras.Poland 1980: Demanding radical change, workers build the independent trade union Solidarity to fight for their own interests, exposing the false socialism of the Eastern Bloc.In each of these cases, the actions of workers themselves were the driving force of struggles with revolutionary potential. They demonstrate that workers can and will fight back on a mass scale.Each episode offers an inspiring glimpse of the way in which workers rise to the challenge of fighting for a better worldand pose their own alternative to the system.Although none of these struggles ultimately achieved their goals, they were "revolutionary rehearsals" that hold important lessons about the struggle for socialism under modern conditions.

Revolutionary Rehearsals

Bookmarks Publications

Markham seemed to have everything—except perhaps a loving wife. His elegant home in Santa Fe housed contemporary art, and he’d just inherited his father’s European collection. But that’s when the trouble started. While working with the paintings, Helen, an art historian from the university, was shot and killed; later a painting was stolen; and then an Italian concert pianist staying at the house died in a bizarre piano explosion. Professor Candrew Nor, Helen’s colleague, gets embroiled and from crime scene details concludes that the killer was quite short. Suspicion falls on the Hispanic handyman. But Markham’s estranged brother had been left out of the fathers will and several other people have reasons for murder. Candrew meets the maid Zona, a sixties holdover, and then at Helen’s funeral is introduced to Professor LaBarre, her mentor from Yale. Both have roles that are not at first clear and it takes Candrew’s logic and scientific skills to pin down the murderers.

False Perspective: Murder In The Art Department

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Nick, an astronomy graduate student, dies in a laboratory fire in what is later shown to be murder. He had stumbled on alien signal coming from Europa as a series of on-off methane pulses that formed a digital signal. Because of his stormy relationship with his arrogant professor, Nick had not acknowledged that there were previous signals he’d recorded, but the geology professor Candrew Nor is able to get a copy of this early part of the message, although he can’t at first decode the pages of arcane numbers. Candrew’s search for Nick’s murderer is complicated by the international importance of message, and by the arrival on campus of an English astronomer (who is later abducted), a visiting pastor Rhodes (from the HighRhode to Heaven), Nick’s wife (attacked in her house), and a graduate student from Indian (who has sophisticated monitoring equipment). Candrew himself is attacked at his office by an unknown foreigner. It takes detailed analysis of debris from the burnt lab to finally tie the murderer to the crime.

Icy Moon - Murder in the Astronomy Department

The Royal Road to the Stars

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Science Fiction

Troubador Publishing

This book is a significant contribution to the expanding study of social movements. The essays consider some of the manifold ways in which people join together in popular movements to pursue visions of a different and more just society. They examine the impact of such movements, both on ordinary citizens swept along by demands for change, and on conventional institutions caught in the crossfire between radical protest and the pursuit of more mundane goals. They cast a new light on seemingly familiar themes: participation as a learning experience, the critical ingenuity of leadership but also its failures of judgment and internal divisions and the ever-changing nature of protest in the face of relentless social change. Above all, these essays succeed in capturing the essential vitality and creativity of ideas and language expressed by citizens as they struggle to reinvent their lives and times.

To Make Another World: Studies in Protest and Collective Action

Kennedy, Paul

Social Sciences

Routledge

Nottingham Trolleybuses

Middleton Press

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