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Fire and flames : a history of the German autonomist movement / written by Geronimo ; introduction by George Katsiaficas ; translation and afterword by Gabriel Kuhn.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Geronimo.
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Radicalism--Germany.
- Radicalism.
- New Left--Germany.
- New Left.
- Protest movements--Germany.
- Protest movements.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, Calif. : PM Press, 2012.
- Summary:
- Geronimo is the pen name of an activist for the German autonomous movement. George Katsiaficas is a visiting professor of sociology at Chonnam National University and a Fullbright Fellow. He is the author of The Imagination of the New Left and The Subversion of Politics. Gabriel Kuhn is a translator and the author of Life Under the Jolly Roger. Geronimo is the pen name of an activist for the German autonomous movement. George Katsiaficas is a visiting professor of sociology at Chonnam National University and a Fullbright Fellow. He is the author of The Imagination of the New Left and The Subversion of Politics. Gabriel Kuhn is a translator and the author of Life Under the Jolly Roger. Geronimo is the pen name of an activist for the German autonomous movement. George Katsiaficas is a visiting professor of sociology at Chonnam National University and a Fullbright Fellow. He is the author of The Imagination of the New Left and The Subversion of Politics. Gabriel Kuhn is a translator and the author of Life Under the Jolly Roger.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- Translator's Note and Glossary
- Preface to the English-Language Edition
- Background
- I. THE EMERGENCE OF AUTONOMOUS POLITICS IN WEST GERMANY
- A Taste of Revolution: 1968
- The Student Revolt
- The Student Revolt and the Extraparliamentary Opposition
- The Politics of the SDS
- The Demise of the SDS
- Militant Grassroots Currents
- What Did '68 Mean?
- La sola soluzione la rivoluzione: Italy's Autonomia Movement
- What Happened in Italy in the 1960s?
- From Marxism to Operaismo
- From Operaio Massa to Operaio Sociale
- The Autonomia Movement of 1977
- Left Radicalism in the 1970s
- "We Want Everything!": Grassroots Organizing in the Factories
- The Housing Struggles
- The Sponti Movement at the Universities
- A Short History of the K-Groups
- The Alternative Movement
- The Journal Autonomie
- The Urban Guerrilla and Other Armed Groups
- The German Autumn of 1977
- A Journey to TUNIX
- II. THE MAKING OF THE AUTONOMEN IN THE 1980S
- The Antinuclear Movement: 1975-81
- Brokdorf
- Political and Social Composition of the Antinuclear Movement in the 1970s
- 1978-80: Can You Close Drill Holes with Fences?
- The Brokdorf Resistance, 1980-81
- A Short Summary
- The Squatters' Movement in West Berlin: 1980-83
- The Concept of Autonomy and the Housing Struggle in West Berlin
- The End of the Housing Struggle
- The Struggle Against the Startbahn-West
- The Isolation of the Autonomen in the German Peace Movement
- III. A FEW SKETCHES OF THE AUTONOMOUS MOVEMENT DURING THE FINAL YEARS OF THE WEST GERMAN REPUBLIC
- Class Movements and Mass Movements
- Between Balaclavas and Birkenstocks: The Autonomous Movement and the Greens
- Autonomen, Anti-imperialists, and the Urban Guerrilla
- The Antinuclear Movement of the 1980s
- Wackersdorf.
- The Nuclear Disaster of Chernobyl
- In Hamburg There Is a Beautiful Hafenstraße
- In West Berlin There Is a Wonderful Kreuzberg
- The Kreuzberg Riot of May 1, 1987
- The 1987 Reagan Visit
- Autonomous Community Organizing
- Revolutionary May 1
- Wrong Shots at the Startbahn-West
- Attacks on the Autonomous Women's Movement
- The IMF and World Bank Summit
- 1989
- Appendix: "Autonomous Theses 1981"
- Afterword.
- ISBN:
- 1-60486-731-0
- OCLC:
- 797820611
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