Massive mobilizations against femicides across Latina America and Caribbean

Author(s): tanya Wadhwa

In: Peoplesdispacth, 2019

Reports on three major Latin American countries, Argentina, Colombia and Mexico that witnessed mobilizations against femicide and gender-based crimes in February 2019 comments also on the social and human rights organisations that are demonstrating against gender-based violence.

Available online at:

https://peoplesdispatch.org/2019/02/09/massive-mobilizations-against-femicides-across-latin-america-and-caribbean/

Civil society, youth and societal mobilization

Author(s): Taras Kuzio

In: Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol 39, No 3 (Special Issue ‘Democratic Revolutions in Post-Communist States’, ed. Taras Kuzio), 2006, pp. 365-368

Examines the leading role of youth organizations – Otpor in Serbia (2000), Kmara in Georgia (2003) and Pora in Ukraine (2004) – and conditions for success, including training, western technical and financial assistance, choice of strategies and response of authorities.

Pakistan: Military Rule or People’s Power

Author(s): Tariq Ali

Jonathan Cape, London, 1970, pp. 272

The first four chapters cover the period 1947-1968. Chapters 5-7 (pp. 156-216) discuss the mass revolt from November 1968 to March 1969, which the author compares to the May 1968 Events in France.

Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years, 1963-1965

Author(s): Taylor Branch

Vol 2, 3 volumes, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1998, pp. 746

Part 2 of a trilogy. Episodes extracted from this readable narrative have been compiled into one volume – Taylor Branch, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, New York, Simon and Schuster, pp. 256.

At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68

Author(s): Taylor Branch

Vol 3, 3 volumes, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2006, pp. 1056

Part 3 of a trilogy. Episodes extracted from this readable narrative have been compiled into one volume – Taylor Branch, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, New York, Simon and Schuster, pp. 256.

Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63

Author(s): Taylor Branch

Vol 1, 3 volumes, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1988, pp. 1064

Part 1 of the trilogy. Episodes extracted from this readable narrative have been compiled into one volume – Taylor Branch, The King Years: Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement, New York, Simon and Schuster, pp. 256.

1983: Reagan. Andropov and a World on the Brink

Author(s): taylor Downing

Little Brown, New York, 2018, pp. 400

Downing demonstrates how on 9 November 1983 the USSR put its nuclear  forces on high alert in fear of a pre-emptive US nuclear strike, bringing the world close to nuclear war. (Fortunately the US did not react rapidly.) Whereas in 1962 both sides in the Cuba crisis knew it could trigger nuclear war (and tried frantically to avert it), in 1983 the Reagan Administration had no idea that its renewed Cold War anti-communist rhetoric and military build-up (including  'Star Wars' plans) were seen by Moscow as a rationale and strategy for an attack. A NATO exercise and change in codes were therefore interpreted as a prelude to attack. Downing revealed the main lines of this story in a TV documentary in 2008.

Apocalypse Never. Forging The Path To A Nuclear Weapon-Free World

Author(s): Ted Daley

Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, New Jersey and London, 2010, pp. 296

Ted Daley argues that maintaining the nuclear double standard by which some countries permit themselves reliance on nuclear weapons, while denying them to others is military unnecessary, morally unjustifiable, and politically unsustainable. He insists on the necessity of considering nuclear abolition as an attainable political goal rather than a utopia.

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