Lecture 11: the world we live in is created by revolutions, for good and bad

Revolutions are a normal and fundamental part of contemporary European history. More than this, most European states draw their claim to existence from revolutionary moments. This lecture examines this with particular reference to the European Resistance movements of the mid-1940s and the use made of them by subsequent states.

· Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison, Social movements: a cognitive approach. Cambridge: Polity, 1991

· Michael Foot, Resistance. London: Eyre Methuen, 1976

· Steven Hawes (ed.), Resistance in Europe, 1939 - 1945. (1976)

· HR Kedward, Occupied France: collaboration and resistance (1985)

· György Lukács, History and class consciousness. London: Merlin, 1971

· Rosa Luxemburg, "Social reform or revolution?" in Selected Political Writings. New York: Monthly Review, 1971 [other collections may also contain this]

· Barrington Moore, Social origins of dictatorship and democracy: lord and peasant in the making of the modern world. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1967

· George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia. London: Penguin, 1971

· Kim Robinson, Red Mars. London: HarperCollins, 1993 (novel)

· EP Thompson, Beyond the cold war. London: END, 1982

· Hilary Wainwright, Arguments for a new left. London: Verso, 1994

Lecture 12: "Down with capitalism": is the anti-globalisation movement revolutionary?

Something that looks very like a revolutionary situation is going on at the moment around the world, as the most powerful institutions in the world resort to violence or abandon their meetings in the face of mass protests against their rule. How can we assess the importance of this movement, and what is its meaning for social change in Ireland?

· Peter Alexander, "Globalisation, inequality and labour's response". In Colin Barker and Mike Tyldesley (eds.), Seventh international conference on Alternative futures and popular protest. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, 2001

· Emma Bircham and John Charlton (eds.), Anti-capitalism: a guide to the movement. London: Bookmarks, 2001

· Eugene Byrne, ThiGMOO. London: Earthlight, 1999

· John Charlton, "Talking Seattle". International Socialism 86 (April 2000). Can be downloaded from this site

· Laurence Cox, "Globalisation from below? Ordinary people, movements and intellectuals". Paper to 2nd William Thompson Summer School (Cork, 2001). Available online at http://www.iol.ie/~mazzoldi/toolsforchange/rev/firkin.html

· Barbara Epstein, Political protest and cultural revolution: non-violent direct action in the 1970s and 1980s. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991

· Naomi Klein, No logo: taking aim at the brand bullies. London: Flamingo, 2000

· Amory Starr, Naming the enemy: anti-corporate movements confront globalisation. London: Zed, 2000

· David Wood, "Resisting globalisation". In Colin Barker and Mike Tyldesley (eds.), Fifth international conference on Alternative futures and popular protest. Manchester: Manchester Metropolitan University, 1999

· Workers' Solidarity Movement, Fighting global capitalism. Dublin: WSM, 2001. Can be downloaded and printed from http://www.struggle.ws/wsm/pdf/pamphlet/globalcap.html

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