Teoria Della Nonviolenza

Author(s): Aldo Capitini

Edizioni del Movimento Nonviolento, Perugia , 1980

Italian philosopher Aldo Capitini expounds the principles and practices which he regards as inherent in nonviolence and explains his own ethics-based philosophy, which informs his political analysis. He evaluates the role of the United Nations, the Cold War, the relations between Italy and Europe, the arguments for economic controls versus the free market, the global role of  the USA and the confrontation between East and West.  He argues that only an individual transformation of the actors concerned will favour the implementation of new forms of politics and, therefore, lead to new realities

Le Tecniche Della Nonviolenza

Author(s): Aldo Capitini

Edizioni dell'Asino, Roma, 2009, pp. 224

Originally published: 1967

This works elucidates fundamental principles of nonviolence, and proposes a toolkit of nonviolent practices and techniques with reference to some of Capitini’s lived experiences in Italy and worldwide. To develop his argument, Capitini draws connections between ethics and politics, ends and means of both politics and social action, and between the rule of law and civil disobedience.

Black Southern Student Sit-in movement: An Analysis of Internal Organisation

Author(s): Aldon Morris

In: American Sociological Review, Vol 46, No 6 (December), 1981, pp. 744-767

(reprinted in Doug McAdam, David A. Snow, Readings on Social Movements: Origins, Dynamics and Outcomes (A. 7. Important Reference Works and Websites) )

Describes the expansion of organisational capacity for direct action between 1956 and 1960.

Available online at:

http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2095077?uid=4&sid=21104692244447

Noviolencia y Transformación social

Author(s): Pere Ortega, and Alejandro Pozo

Icaria, Barcelona, 2005, pp. 131

This book is an introduction to some of the classic theories and movements of nonviolent action, based on the studies of Sharp and Ackerman, which have not yet been translated into Spanish. But it provides a personal interpretation derived from the principled approach to nonviolent action. A very good starting point for beginners in this subject.

The Saudi street artist speaking truth to power

Author(s): Alessio Perrone

In: New Internationalist, 2019, pp. 68-70

Ms Saffaa is a Saudi artist who paints murals to support feminists in Saudi Arabia and transmits her art and political messages through the Internet. She is in exile in Australia (where she had a scholarship to study), having refused to return to Saudi Arabia to renew her passport, and campaigns against the 'guardianship laws', declaring 'I am my own guardian'. The article reproduces one of her murals.

Available online at:

https://newint.org/features/2019/07/01/interview-ms-saffaa

Calling Myself a Feminist in Japan

Author(s): Alex Litz

In: Uprizine, 2019

Wakako Fukuda, one of the leading voices of the SEALDs (Student Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy) activist group in Japan, speaks about her experience of being discriminated against at work, and endlessly harassed online, for her strong presence in the Japanese feminist activist community.

Available online at:

https://www.upri-zine.com/blog/2019/04/11/d

Social Defence and Soviet Military Power: An Inquiry into the Relevance of an Alternative Defence Concept

Author(s): Alex P. Schmid

Centre for the Study of Social Conflict, State University of Leiden, Leiden, 1965, pp. 469

A generally sceptical assessment of social defence as an alternative to military preparations against a putative Soviet attack. Concludes that it could supplement but not replace nuclear deterrence or military defence. Useful discussion of 10 conditions favourable to (or crucial for) success of social defence.

The Battle for the Arab Spring: Revolution, Counter-Revolution and the Making of a New Era

Author(s): Lin Noueihed, and Alex Warren

Yale University Press, New Haven CT, 2012, pp. 304

Part I examines ‘The Roots of Rage’, for example the role of ‘Bread, oil and jobs’ and the new media; Part II ‘The Battlegrounds’ discusses Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, Yemen and Syria; and Part III considers ‘The New Arab Politics’. Noueihed is a Lebanese/British Reuters correspondent for the Middle East and Warren a specialist in the area.

Power struggles: strategies and tactics of the anti-nuclear movement in contemporary Tokyo

Author(s): Alexander Brown

Vol Doctor of Philosophy, University of Wollongong2015, pp. 283

Explores the strategy and tactics of the anti-nuclear energy movement in Tokyo developed in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in March 2011, points to the existing dissatisfaction with both the nuclear industry, and the decaying institutions of Japan’s capitalist developmental state, as the foundations upon which the anti-nuclear energy movement has become the longest social movement in Japan.

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