‘The authors and the actors of their own drama’: Towards a Marxist theory of social movements

Capital & Class

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 109-139

  Gunvald Nilsen, Alf ^a  

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EID: 77950751877     PISSN: 03098168     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/03098168090330030501     Document Type: Article

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