Author(s): Gareth Porter
Just World Publishing, Charlottesville, VA, 2014, pp. 310 (pb)
Detailed analysis by an investigative US reporter of attempts by the George W. Bush Administration and Israel to prove that Iran was developing nuclear weapons. Porter scrutinizes the evidence cited and throws doubt on much of it.
Author(s): Garvaghy Residents
Beyond the Pale, Belfast, 1999, pp. 171
Garvaghy Road, a Catholic area in mainly Protestant Portadown, has been the scene of confrontations down the years during the annual Orange Order parade on the weekend before 12 July, following a service in Drumcree Church. The Orange Order claims the right to march along the road; the residents say that they face abuse and violence when this happens and that there are alternative routes the parade could take. Resistance to the event has included sit-downs, a women’s Peace and Justice Camp and the setting up of Radio Equality. Part 1 of the book is based mainly on the diaries of residents in July 1998 when the parade was banned and police and soldiers erected barricades and dug trenches to prevent the march from entering the road. Part 2 is an edited version of the Residents’ submission in 1996 to the Parades Commission.
Editor(s): Henry E. Vandon, and Gary Prevost
Oxford University Press, New York, 2007, pp. 116
Originally published: 2002
Author(s): Gary Young
In: Chatham House, 2020
Younge assesses the impact of protests over police shootings on the US presidential election. He makes comparison with the political gains achieved in 1963, following the March on Washington and he also compares 2020 with the 2016 elections.
See also: Tavernise, Sabrina and John Eligon, ‘Voters say Black Lives Matter protests were important. They disagree on why’, The New York Times, 7 November 2020.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/black-lives-matter-protests.html
See also: Corbould, Clare, ‘What now for Black Lives Matter? Whatever happens under Biden, the role of African American women will be vital’, The Conversation, 11 November 2020.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/publications/the-world-today/2020-12/black-lives-mattered
Author(s): Gary Younge
In: The New York Review Of Books, 2020
In this ‘Long Read’ article Younge discusses how protests for racial justice in the US from the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter have prompted expressions of European solidarity, but argues that the European continent must face its own predominant role in the history of slavery. (Also available on The Guardian, 11 June 2020. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jun/11/what-black-america-means-to-europe-protests-racism-george-floyd)
For an overview on how the BLM 2020 protests have erupted across the African continent see also: O’Dowd, Peter and Allison Hagan, ‘Black Lives Matter Movement Resonates Across Africa’, WBUR, 12 June 2020
(https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kkk-all-black-baseball-monrovians/) and
Wallace, Julia, ‘Africa Declares Black Lives Matter’, Left Voice, 26 June 2020. (https://www.leftvoice.org/africa-declares-black-lives-matter)
https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2020/06/06/what-black-america-means-to-europe/
Author(s): Gaur Gandbhir
In: Green Left Weekly, No 1292, 2020, pp. 10-10
This article was written in response to the All India General Strike of 26 November 2020, organized by 10 trade unions and over 250 farmers' organizations, that mobilized over 250 million to protest against the new farm and labour laws passed by the BJP dominated coalition government. It examines the protests and the laws which gave rise to them.
Author(s): Gautam Bhan, and Kalyani Menon-Sen
Yoda Press, New Delhi, 2008
Author(s): Gautam Bhan
In: Environment and Urbanization, Vol 21, No 1 (April), 2009, pp. 127-142
See also the book Gautam Bhan, Kalyani Menon-Sen, Swept Off the Map: Surviving Eviction and Resettlement in Delhi, New Delhi, Yoda Press, 2008
Editor(s): Gavin Cawthra, Gerald Kraak, and Gerald O'Sillivan
Macmillan, London, 1994, pp. 252
A compilation from the (London) Committee on South African War Resistance.
Author(s): Gay Seidman
In: Mobilization, Vol 6, No 2 (Fall), 2001, pp. 111-127
Author(s): Gay Seidman
Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 2007, pp. 176
Especially ch. 3, pp. 47-71, ‘Monitoring multinationals: lessons from the anti-apartheid era’.
Author(s): Gbenga Afolayan
In: Agenda, Vol 33, No 2, 2019, pp. 52-60
This article examines how women’s organisations have attempted to ensure compliance for Hausa-Fulani women with the Minimum Age of Marriage Clause of Nigerian Child Rights Act of 2003, in a context of plural legal systems and traditional norms, which make achieving gender equality difficult. The authors focus on this issue in the context of feminist attempts in Nigeria since the 1980s to reconstruct the concept of ‘the feminine’. This reconstruction is especially important in struggling against patriarchy and local interpretations of Islam in northern Nigeria.
Author(s): Genaro Arriagada
Unwin Hyman, Boston, 1988, pp. 196
Opposition leader, active in the 1983 jornadas de protesta, and also in No campaign of 1988. Chapter 7 discusses the protests between 1983 and 1986.
Author(s): Gene Keyes
In: Peace and Change, Vol 5, No 2/3, 1978, pp. 3-10
Author(s): Gene Keyes
In: Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol 4, No 2 (June), 1981, pp. 125-151
Author(s): Gene Sharp
Edizioni Gruppo Abele (Out of print), Torino, 1985, pp. 818
Translation of Gene Sharp’s classic three-volume of nonviolent resistance, its techniques and dynamics. Volume 1 is a discussion on the nature of power where Sharp establishes his main arguments that governments are ultimately dependent on the support of the people and of intervening institutions. So cooperation can always potentially be withdrawn, both by specific institutions and by the people as a whole. He distinguishes nonviolence from passivity and submission, and provides examples to illustrate its main characteristics. In Volume 2 he describes the methods of nonviolence, which amount to almost 200 grouped into three broad categories: protest and persuasion, non-cooperation and intervention. Finally, in Volume 3 he discusses the dynamics and factors that constantly change within a society that can determine the success of nonviolent action. These can be regarded as social sources of power, leadership, negotiation and so on, alongside strategy and tactics. The third volume also discusses the retribution suffered by those involved in nonviolent struggles, the dynamics that need to be implemented for improving cohesion within nonviolent groups and offers other analytical considerations on power and its distribution within society.
Pdf versions can be found at:
Author(s): Gene Sharp
Chiarelettere, Milano, 2011, pp. 144
This work was firstly published in the 90s, following a request that Sharp received from some Burmese activists who were attempting to dismantle their dictatorial regime. It was then used in Thailand and in Serbia in the same decade. It has been translated into over 30 languages and was cited during the Arab awakening in 2011-12. Sharp discusses the nature of dictatorship and the tools and dynamics to dismantle it. He gives prominence to the importance of strategy and planning of nonviolent action and offers insights on how to establish a lasting democracy.
Author(s): Gene Sharp
Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1990, pp. 166
Examines theoretical case for relying on the power of society to deter and defend, rather than weaponry, cites examples of Ruhr 1923 and Czechoslovakia 1968-69 as examples of improvised civilian defence, and explores strategy and possibility of ‘transarmament’. Sharp’s 72-page Self-reliant Defense Without Bankruptcy or War, 1992, written for Soviet successor states (especially the Baltic states) can be downloaded from http://aeinstein.org.
http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Civilian-Based-Defense-English.pdf
Parts 2 ‘The Methods of Nonviolent Action’ and Part 3 ‘Strategy and Dynamics of Nonviolent Action’
Author(s): Gene Sharp
Vol 2 & 3, 3 volumes, Porter Sargent, Boston, 1973, pp. 902
Part 1 of this now classic analysis explores the political and sociological theories underlying nonviolent resistance to develop a 'consent theory of power'; this has since been much debated. Part 1 also discusses nonviolent action as an 'active technique of struggle' and contextualizes Gandhi's contribution within a much wider historical context of major resistance movements dating from the later 18th century to 1968. Part 2 categorises and illustrates the now famous list of 198 methods, while the longest volume, Part 3, elaborates Sharp’s strategic approach.
Author(s): Gene Sharp
Housmans Bookshop, London, 2011, pp. 94
Originally published: 1993
Also published by London, Serpent’s Tail, 2012, and available from the Albert Einstein Institution (see website).
Written at the request of a Burmese dissident, this is now widely known as a succinct analysis of how nonviolent resistance can overthrow tyrannical regimes.
http://www.aeinstein.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/FDTD.pdf