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

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