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. He was a Senior Lecturer in Italian at the University of Kent 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, 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 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