African Awakenings
Author(s): Red Pepper
In: Red Pepper, No Dec/Jan, 2012, pp. 27-32
with articles by Firoze Manji, ‘Hope for the Future’; Justin Pearce, ‘Aspiring to Tahrir’ and Tommy Miles ‘After Gaddafi’.
How Alexei Navalny Revolutionized Opposition Politics in Russia, before his Apparent Poisoning
Author(s): Regina Smyth
In: The Conversation, 2020
An assessment, by a US academic, of Navalny's role and impact in the immediate aftermath of his poisoning.
See also: Nikitin, Vadim, ‘As Alexei Navalny’s Life Hangs in the Balance, So Does the Fate of the Russian Opposition’, The Nation, 2 September, 2020.
Analysis of Navalny’s changing political stance that discerns ‘an unexpected but unmistakable left turn’ in recent years.
See also: Gorokhovskaia, Yana, 'The Navalny Case may Weaken the Idea that Putin is in Total Control', Guardian Weekly, 4 September 2020, p. 47.
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Gewaltfreie Aktion: Erfahrungen und Analysen
Author(s): Reiner Steinweg, and Ulrike Laubenthal
Brandes & Aspel, Frankfurt am Main, 2011
Noting that nonviolent actions, like the resistance to 'Stuttgart 21', seem to become the focus of public attention, the authors (who have participated in many such protests in recent years) analyze the theory, practice, history, and current situation of nonviolent resistance in its international context.
Gewaltfreie Aktion. Erfahrungen und Analysen
Editor(s): Reiner Steinweg, and Ulrike Laubenthal
Brandes and Apsel, Frankfurt am Main, 2011, pp. 288
This book contains a number of articles on examples of nonviolent action, as well as more theoretical reflections on nonviolent action, both nationally and internationally.
Fracking Expands in Latin America
Author(s): Santiago Novorro, and Renata Bessi
In: Popular Resistance, 2015
Reports on the pressure from multinational companies to extract hydrocarbons from rocks through fracking in Bolivia, Columbia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Chile, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico, and documents the harmful environmental effects including contamination of water supplies. The report also notes the growing resistance in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina to fracking, for example the No Fracking Brazil Coalition (Coesus) protests outside the offices of fossil fuel companies tendering for areas to frack in October 2015, with international support.
Africa’s Troubled Transitions
Author(s): Rene Lemarchand
In: Journal of Democracy, Vol 3, No 4 (Fall), 1993, pp. 98-109
Resistance Studies Network
Editor(s): Resistance Studies Network
The Resistance Studies Network is a forum for scholars engaging with practices of resistance. The Journal of Resistance Studies (main editors Stellan Vinthagen and Jorgen Johansen) is published by Irene Publishing, University of Gothenburg. It is an international academic journal with a primary, but critical, focus on nonviolent resistance. It includes many articles and debates of theoretical interest, but also carries articles and book reviews relating to specific movements round the world. In 2020 the editors reached an agreement to offer two free e-issues of the journal during the year to members of the International Peace Research Association, the European Peace Research Association and the Peace and Justice Studies Association. The journal also cooperates with the Waging Nonviolence website (see below) and asks authors also to provide shorter and more accessible versions of their JRS contributions, suitable for the activist-oriented users of that website. Visit www.resistance-journal.org.
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Social Media and Protest Participation: Evidence from Russia
Author(s): Reuben Enikolopov
In: Econometrica, Vol 28, No 4, 2020
The article assesses the impact of the main Russian online social network, VK, on the likelihood of protest with a focus on 2011. It argues that increased use of the network did have some impact on the likelihood of protest, but did so through simplifying coordination rather than increasing the availability of criticism of the regime. The authors also suggest that wider social use of the network actually increased support for the government.
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Brazil: four women killed every day in 2019, human rights body says’
Author(s): Reuters
In: The Guardian, 2019
Reuters report on the alarming rate of femicides which occurred in Brazil since the beginning of 2019, leading to the initiative of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, supported by Human rights activists and civil society, calling on the Brazilian Government “to implement comprehensive strategies to prevent these acts, fulfil its obligation to investigate, prosecute and punish those responsible, as well as to offer protection and comprehensive reparation to all victims.” Between January and beginning of March 2019 Brazil counted 126 femicides and 67 attempts. (The full statement is available at this link http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/media_center/PReleases/2019/024.asp).
To see previous reports on femicide in Brazil, have a look at this link which states that the Gender Equality Observatory for Latin America and the Caribbean (GEO) of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) found that 2,795 women were victims of femicide in 2017 in 23 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean (https://oig.cepal.org/sites/default/files/nota_27_eng.pdf).
Available online at:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/feb/04/brazil-women-killed-2019-rate-alarming-iachr
Timeline: Key Dates in Hong Kong's Anti-Government Protests
Author(s): Reuters
In: Reuters, 2020
Covers period from February 2019, when proposals for extradition to China were made by Hong Kong's Security Bureau, to May 28 2020, when China's parliament endorsed the decision to impose national security legislation on Hong Kong.
Available online at:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hongkong-protests-timeline-idUSKBN236080
The Politics of Protest: The Israeli Peace Movement and the Palestinian Intifada
Author(s): Reuven Kaminer
Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 1996, pp. 248
Veteran Israeli leftist explores relations between moderates and militants, and gives special emphasis to rise of an autonomous women’s movement, especially Women in Black and their weekly vigils. With glossary of political parties and groups.
Greenpeace: An Insider’s Account
Author(s): Rex Weyler
Pan Macmillan, London, 2004, pp. 600
By a founder of Greenpeace International, focusing on the 1970s.
Panama: Disaster or democracy?
Author(s): Ricardo Arias Calderon
In: Foreign Affairs, Vol 66, No Winter 1987/88, 1987, pp. 328-347
The President of the Christian Democratic Party discusses the 1987 National Civic Crusade to coordinate the protest movements and formulate its key demands: for justice, removal of Noriega and democratiization. Explains background to protests, notes the 1,500 arrests and numerous shootings of protesters, and comments on changing attitudes inside the USA.
The Fight for the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers Movement
(Foreword by Gary Soto)
Author(s): Susan Ferris, and Ricardo Sandoval
Harcourt Brace and Co, New York, 1998, pp. 352
Well documented and illustrated account of movement.
The Power of Nonviolence
revised 3rd editionAuthor(s): Richard B. Gregg
James Clark, London, 1960, pp. 192Originally published: 1935
Classic analysis of ‘moral jiu jitsu’ as the basis of nonviolent resistance, and in particular of Gandhi’s interpretation and strategy of nonviolent action (‘satyagraha’). The updated second edition includes material on unarmed resistance during World War Two in Norway and Denmark, and on the US Civil Rights Movement.
Available online as PDF at:
http://www.nonviolenceunited.org/pdf/thepowerofnonviolence0206.pdf
The Flower of the Dragon: The Breakdown of the US Army in Vietnam
Author(s): Richard Boyle
Ramparts Press, San Francisco CA, 1972, pp. 283
Traces the growth of disillusionment with the war amongst American GIs and the increasingly militant opposition within the US forces. Extracts published as pamphlet ‘GI Revolts: The Breakdown of the US Army in Vietnam’, available online: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/richard-boyle-gi-revolts-the-breakdown-of-the-u-s-army-in-vietnam
Constructing Papuan Nationalism: History, Ethnicity, and Adaptation
Author(s): Richard Chauvel
East-West Center, Washington DC, 2005, pp. 140
Available online as PDF at:
http://www.eastwestcenter.org/fileadmin/stored/pdfs/PS014.pdf
Mairead Corrigan, Betty Williams
Foreword by Joan Baez
Author(s): Richard Deutsch
Barrons, Woodbury NY, 1977, pp. 204
Account of the genesis, development and programme of the Peace People by French journalist resident in Belfast at the time the movement began
Armed Struggle: The History of the IRA
Author(s): Richard English
Pan Books, Oxford, 2012, pp. 544
Originally published: 2003
The chapters in this history of the IRA which deal with the gradual shift in the position of Provisional Sinn Fein and IRA, their engagement in the political process through discussions with both the rival nationalist SDLP and the British government, and their eventual decision to end the military campaign, provide valuable insights into the dynamics of the peace process in Northern Ireland. The final chapter subjects the republican case to critical – though not unsympathetic – scrutiny but rejects the contention that the struggle was in any straightforward sense an anti-colonial one or that its religious dimension can be ignored.