Tom Behan
Tom Behan (22 June 1957 – 30 August 2010) was an academic and writer on Italian history, politics and culture and an active member of the British Socialist Workers Party for over 30 years.[1] He was a Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Kent at Canterbury,[2] author of the first political biography of Europe's leading radical playwright and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Dario Fo,[3] and an authority on Italian organised crime.[4]
Selected bibliography
- Forward to 1921 : the dissolution of the Italian Communist Party (1991)
- The Camorra (1996)
- Workers' Playtime: Dario Fo (1997)
- The long awaited moment : the working class and the Italian Communist Party in Milan, 1943-1948 (1997)
- Interview: the return of Italian Communism? (1999)
- Dario Fo: Revolutionary Theatre (2000)
- Genoa: Nothing can be the same again (2001)
- See Naples and die : the Camorra and organised crime (2002)
- The resistible rise of Benito Mussolini (2003)
- The legacy of Giuseppe Garibaldi - the 19th century's Che Guevara (2007)
- Giovanni Pesce: leading Italian partisan, who kept fighting for freedom (2007)
- Defiance : the story of one man who stood up to the Sicilian mafia (2008)
- How capitalism created the mafia (2008)
- Aldo Moro killing: a miscalculation that almost destroyed the Italian left (2008)
- The Italian Resistance : fascists, guerrillas and the Allies (2009)
References
- ↑ http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/art.php?id=22302
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2010-09-01.
- ↑ http://us.macmillan.com/author/tombehan
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2010-09-03.
External links
- Obituary by Chris Bambery in Socialist Worker
- Tom Behan in his own words
- Tom Behan: The story of a man who stood up for the masses by Carmen Casaliggi
- Obituary in Times Higher Education Supplement
- Staff page at the University of Kent
- Tribute to Tom Behan: revolutionary activist and writer
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