Tom Behan was an academic and writer on Italian history, politics and culture and an active member of the British Socialist Workers Party

Socialist Workers Party (Britain)

The Socialist Workers Party is a far left party in Britain founded by Tony Cliff. The SWP's student section has groups at a number of universities...

 for over 30 years.. He was a Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Kent

University of Kent

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 at Canterbury, author of the first political biography of Europe's leading radical playwright and winner of the 1997 Nobel Prize for Literature Dario Fo

Dario Fo

Dario Fo is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor and composer. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. He currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress...

, and an authority on Italian organised crime .

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)

External links

• Obituary by Chris Bambery
  Chris Bambery
  Chris Bambery was a member of the Central Committee of the British Socialist Workers Party until April 2011 when he resigned from the party. He is a leading member of the newly formed International Socialist Group ....
  
   in Socialist Worker
  Socialist Worker
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• 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