Also a class (hi)story: Working-class struggles and political socialization on the Eve of lebanese civil war

By retrieving the political experience of the Factory Committees, the following contribution aims at investigating the role of ideology and socio-economic pressures in the process of dislocation and recomposition of the political identities and solidarities in class terms characterizing Lebanon's early 1970s, and which marked the articulation of the process of constitution-building of Lebanese National Movement. The contribution suggests the genealogical re-examination of the pre-war years - inclusive also of the transformative impact of ideological and class phenomena - as a viable starting point to critically revise the often misleading and simplistic narratives through which the first phase of the conflict has been dominantly understood.