Marxism And Social Movements : Historical Materialism, Volume 46

Marxism and Social Movements is the first sustained engagement between social movement theory and Marxist approaches to collective action.

The chapters collected here, by leading figures in both fields, discuss the potential for a Marxist theory of social movements, explore the developmental processes and political tensions within movements, set the question in a long historical perspective and analyse contemporary movements against neo-liberalism and austerity.