Gay Men and the Sexual History of the Political Left

Editor(s): Gert Hekma, and Harry Oosterhuis

Harrington Press, New York, 1995, pp. 408

Includes chapters on the often difficult relationship between socialist, anarchist or social democratic movements and homosexuality in countries such as pre-First World War Netherlands, Civil-War Spain, the German Weimar Republic and post-1945 East Germany.

Peace Under Fire: Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement

Editor(s): Ghassan Andoni, Huwaida Arraf, Nicholas Blincoe, Hussein Khalili, Marissa McLaughlin, Radhika Sainath, and Josie Sandercock

Verso, London, 2004, pp. 240

Collection of news reports, web-logs and diaries of International Solidarity Movement activists engaged in nonviolent resistance to Israeli military action in the occupied territories, including contributions relating to Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, who were both killed.

The People Want : A Radical Exploration of the Arab Uprisings

Author(s): Gilbert Achcar

University of California Press, Berkley, CA, 2013, pp. 358

Achcar rejects the concept of a sudden 'Spring', arguing instead that there is a long term deep-seated revolution which will take many years to develop. Achcar's Marxist inspired analysis stresses the basic socio-economic changes required.  He also covers the role of both the relatively tolerant monarchies of Morocco and Jordan and the 'oil monarchies' of the Gulf. 

Sudan's Revolution at the Crossroads: A Year since Omar-al-Bashir's Fall from Power

Translated into English by Charles Goulden. Spanish and Arabic translations available.

Author(s): Gilbert Achcar

In: Le Monde Diplomatique, 2020

Achcar, a professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, assesses the prospects for a successful outcome in Sudan, and notes the parallels with the earlier uprising in Eygpt and the 2019 movement in Algeria. He also comments on the deteriorating economic situation and the added problems created by the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. But the outcome of the revolution depends largely on the very varied social and ideological groupings that fostered the revolution, and their present relationship with long established political forces. Achar provides an illuminating analysis. He also examines the different tendencies within the armed forces, whose role is crucial.

Available online at:

https://mondediplo.com/2020/05/06sudan

'From One Arab Spring to Another'

Author(s): Gilbert Achcar

In: Radical Philosophy, 2020

In this article (partially adapted from an interview in Marxist Left Review 19, but rewritten and updated) Achcar begins by situating 2011 within a global crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. He also notes the specific features of the region, and comments on the defeat of the workers' movement and the left in Egypt, and then turns to prospects in Algeria. Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq.

Available online at:

https://www.radicalphilosophy.com/article/from-one-arab-spring-to-another

The Data Harvest

Author(s): Gill Bikrum

In: Red Pepper, 2021, pp. 30-33

Gill discusses the Indian farmers' protests in the context of the shift towards neo-liberal global capitalism and the power of Indian agribusiness, aided by new internet platforms and data analytics.

Third Wave Feminism: A Critical Exploration

(expanded 2nd edition)

Author(s): Stacy Gillis, Gillian Howie, and Rebecca Munford

Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2007, pp. 344

Wide range of theoretical perspectives organized in 3 parts: Generations and Genealogies; Locales and Locations; Politics and Popular Culture. Part II includes essays on ‘Imagining Feminist Futures: The Third Wave, Postfeminism and Eco/feminism’ by N. Moore, and ‘Global Feminism, Transnational Political Economies, Third World Cultural Production’ by W. Woodhull.

Georgia’s Rose Revolution: A Participant’s Perspective

Special Report no. 167

Author(s): Giorgi Kandelaki

US Institute of Peace, Washington DC, 2006, pp. 12

Account by student leader and founder of Kmara. Discusses background of Shevardnadze regime, comments on why protesters and the government avoided violence, assesses role of internal media (especially Rustavi-2) and argues that the role of foreign support was limited by lack of information and by caution. Summary and full report available online.

Available online at:

http://www.usip.org/publications/georgias-rose-revolution-participants-perspective

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