In Solidarity, David Featherstone addresses a necessary and timely topic. Despite the frequency with which the word "solidarity" is invoked, it has in fact rarely been the subject of rigorous analysis. Instead, the forms that solidarities take are frequently taken as given. This book redresses this situation by drawing on an innovative combination of archival research, oral histories and first-hand participant observation with political movements.
Throughout, Featherstone invokes a rich variety of case studies, from historical solidarities, such as the anti-slavery and anti-fascism movements, right up to present day concerns, such as the anti-corporate globalization movement, and climate change activism. In doing so, the book emphasizes international forms of solidarity which have frequently been marginalized by nation-centered histories of the left and social movements.
Wide-ranging and original, Solidarity is a fascinating investigation of an increasingly vital subject.

Introduction: Thinking solidarity politically
Part I: Theorizing solidarity
1 Solidarity: theorizing a transformative political relation
2 Rethinking internationalism
Part II: Colonial and anti-colonial internationalisms
3 'Labour with a white skin will never emancipate itself while labour with a black skin is in bondage': maritime labour and the uses of solidarity
4 'Your liberty and ours': black internationalism and anti-fascism
Part III: Solidarity and Cold War geopolitics
5 'No trade with the junta': political exile and solidarity after the Chilean coup
6 'Beyond the barbed wire': European nuclear disarmament and non-aligned internationalism
Part IV: Solidarity in the shadow of neoliberalism
7 'Our resistance is as transnational as capital': the counter-globalization movement and prefigurative solidarity
8 'If the climate were a bank it would be bailed out': solidarity and the making of climate justice
Conclusion: Solidarity without guarantees
Notes
References
Index