Marco Pannella, il Partito Radicale e la Nonviolenza

Editor(s): Laura Arconti, and Maurizio Turco

Reality Book2016, pp. 454

This book introduces key documents presented by the Italian Partito Radicale Nonviolento Transnazionale e Transpartito (Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty (PRNTT)) enunciating the core values from which nonviolence was extrapolated as the guiding principle for the party’s political action. It is also a testament defining the Party’s programme on the abolition of the death penalty; the abolition of prohibitionism, especially with regards to drugs; the abolishment of Genital Female Mutilation; freedom in scientific research, especially in relation to stem cells research; and the enabling of international jurisdiction aimed at ensuring citizens’ access to international legal institutions to advance their political and social goals.

Misogynation. The True Scale of Sexism

Author(s): Laura Bates

Simon and Schuster UK, London and Glasgow, 2018, pp. 320

This is a collection of articles authored in The Guardian by journalist Laura Bates, in which she uncovers the sexism underpinning personal relationships, the workplace, the media and society in general.

How All Politics Became Reproductive Politics: From Welfare Reform to Foreclosure to Trump

Author(s): Laura Briggs

Vol 2, University of California Press, Oakland, CA, 2017, pp. 304

Feminist critic Laura Briggs argues that all politics in the U.S. are effectively reproductive politics. She outlines how politicians’ racist accounts of reproduction — stories of Black “welfare queens” and Latina “breeding machines" — encouraged the government and business disinvestment in families. With decreasing wages, the rise in temporary work and no resources for family care, US households have grown increasingly precarious over the past forty years in race-and class-stratified ways. This crisis, Briggs argues, fuels all others, such as immigration, gay marriage, anti-feminism, the rise of the Tea Party, and the election of Trump.

These two volumes form the book series Solinger, Rickie, Khiara M. Bridges, Zakiya Luna and Ruby Tapia (eds.) Reproductive Justice: A New Vision For The Twenty First Century, Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 

“Los my poes af” – the fine line between being radical enough and being too radical

Author(s): Laura Hartman

In: Agenda, Vol 33, No 2, 2019, pp. 74-83

The author explores how women’s organisations in South Africa are often constrained in demanding their rights, or protesting in the streets, by their links to governments, political parties or international charities. Not only do these organisations need financial backing, but they are also expected to maintain a professional profile. She illuminates this dilemma by studying organisations in the Cape Flat of Cape Town, mostly run by black and coloured women struggling against increasing crime and violence against women and children.

Algerian Youth and the Political Struggle for Dignity: Evolution, Trends and New Forms of Mobilisation

Author(s): Laurence Thieux

In: Journal of North African Studies, Vol 26, No 2, 2021, pp. 294-310

The article explores why young people generally are turning away from political parties, civil society bodies and trade unions as channels for their frustrations and a means of defending human rights. It then examines the new methods and forms of mobilization specifically within the Algerian context.

Reviving the nuclear disarmament movement: a practical proposal

Author(s): Laurence Wittner

In: Foreign Policy in Focus, 2017

Advocates that nuclear disarmament movements develop a strategy to rouse the public from its torpor and shift the agenda of the nuclear powers from nuclear confrontation to a nuclear weapons-free world. He recalls the example set by the Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign and proposes ways to implement effective strategies today. 

Available online at:

https://fpif.org/reviving-the-nuclear-disarmament-movement-a-practical-proposal/

#MeToo, Wrongs against Women, and Restorative Justice

Author(s): Laurie Kohn

In: Kansas Jourbal of Law and Public Policy, Vol XXVIII, 2019, pp. 561-586

Kohn discusses the allegations against high-profile perpetrators as a representative sample of the range of accusations raised generally by the #MeToo movement. She also analyzes the current responses available to redress these wrongs and then turns to the potential of restorative justice. This is conceived as a therapeutic form of dispute resolution that has enormous potential for eliciting the outcomes the #MeToo movement seek: true gender-equality, respect, and understanding.

U.S. Supreme Court declines Alabama bid to revive abortion restriction

Author(s): Lawrence Hurley

In: Reuters, 2019

Decision by the U.S. Supreme Court that declined to hear Alabama’s 2019 bid to revive a Republican-backed state law that would have effectively banned the ‘dismemberment abortion’ procedure after 15 weeks of pregnancy. Through this procedure, the woman’s cervix is dilated and the contents of the uterus removed. The decision by the U.S. Supreme Court left in place  a lower court ruling that protects woman’s constitutional right to abortion recognized in the landmark 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling. 

See also https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-won-t-hear-appeal-restore-alabama-abortion-law-n1024516

Available online at:

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-court-abortion/us-supreme-court-declines-alabama-bid-to-revive-abortion-restriction-idUSKCN1TT22D

The Struggle Against the Bomb

One World or None: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement Through 1953

Author(s): Lawrence S. Wittner

Vol 1, Stanford University Press, Stanford CA, 1993, pp. 456

Covers responses to the Bomb from 1945-1953, including by scientists and churches, but with emphasis on the Soviet-initiated protests under the World Peace Council.

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