Author(s): Paul Mason
In: Paul Mason, Why Its Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions (A.8.a. General Titles)
Discusses resistance of slum dwellers in Philippines to eviction, but also their role in providing cheap workforce undermining organized labour.
Author(s): Paul Nugent
Frances Pinter, London, 1996, pp. 306
Author(s): Paul Nugent
Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2004, pp. 620
especially ch. 9 ‘Democracy Rediscovered: Popular Protest, Elite mobilization and the Return of Multipartyism’, pp. 368-433.
Editor(s): Paul Preston
Harvester Press, Hassocks, 1976, pp. 341
Author(s): Paul Preston
Routledge, London, 1986, pp. 274
Chapter 1, ‘Internal contradictions of Francoism 1939-69’, covers some of the major strikes and demonstrations, and chapters 2 & 3 the Carrero Blanco years 1969-73 and the Arias Navarro government of 1974-76. For political developments from 1939 to 1975, see also: Paul Preston, Spain in Crisis: Evolution and Decline of the Franco Regime, Hassocks, Harvester Press, 1976 , pp. 341 .
Author(s): Paul Robinson
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia, American History, pp. 1-28
This brief history of opposition to nuclear weapons has a global focus, though from a US perspective, and covers the evolution of the movement up to 1991. It starts in 1944 with the opposition of nuclear scientists. The author argues that the movement included an array of tactics, from radical dissent to public protest to opposition within the government, and succeeded in constraining the arms race and helping to make the use of nuclear weapons politically unacceptable.
https://www.civilresistance.info/DOI%3A%2010.1093/acrefore/9780199329175.013.26
Author(s): Paul Routledge
In: Political Geography, Vol 22, No 3, 2002, pp. 343-370
Author(s): Paul Routledge
Praeger, Westport CT, 1993, pp. 196
Introduces radical geography perspective on spatial components to sites of resistance. Chapter 1 looks at the developing resistance to aspects of economic development (industrialization, dams, deforestation) and the numerous movements since independence among tribal peoples, peasants, women and squatters. Chapters 3 and 4 analyse the Baliapal movement against a missile testing range, and the Chipko movement against logging.
Author(s): Paul Routledge
In: Michael Keith, Steven Pile, Geographies of Resistance, London, Routledge, 1997 , pp. 68-86
Author(s): Paul Scharre
W.W. Norton, New York, 2018, pp. 448
An extensive examination of the possibilities and implications of artificial intelligence applied to the battlefield, from drones to 'killer robots', with varying degrees of autonomous ability to make decisions without human intervention. Scharre interviewed engineers creating new weapons and those in the military who might use them. He disagrees with campaigners seeking a total ban, which he thinks impossible, arguing instead for ensuring a minimum degree of human involvement in their deployment.
See also: Trying to Restrain the Robots', The Economist, 19 Sept. 2019, pp. 26-27.
A succinct examination of autonomous weapons and of issues arising, starting with the 'Harop' drone produced by Israeli Aerospace Industries, which can be classed as either a remote-controlled weapon or as an autonomous robot, depending on its software at the time. The article reports briefly on the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a coalition of 89 NGOs, and concludes by noting that in 2017 the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (also known as the Inhumane Weapons Convention, agreed in 1980) appointed an expert group to examine the implications of autonomous weapons and different approaches to controlling their use.
Author(s): Paul Wapner
In: World Politics, Vol 47, No 3, 1995, pp. 311-340
Author(s): Paul Wapner
State University of New York Press, Albany NY, 1996, pp. 252
Analysis of the roles of different types of transnational organizations and their impact on environmental ‘discourse’, including Friends of the Earth and the World Wildlife fund. Chapter 3 is specifically on Greenpeace, direct action and changing attitudes. See also: Paul Wapner, Politics beyond the State: Environmental Action and World Civic Politics, 1995 , pp. 311-340 .
Author(s): Paul Wilmot
In: Waging Nonviolence, 2019
Wilmot, director of 'Solidarity Uganda', which helps organize civil resistance in East Africa, provides an overview of movements for democracy in all Africa's regions. His survey also notes examples of growing authoritarianism, and stresses the diversity of the continent.
https://wagingnonviolence.org/2019/03/prospects-for-revolution-in-africas-54-countries/
June 2019
Author(s): Pauline Bock
In: New Statesman, 2019
France, which abolished conscription in 1997, reintroduced a new form of universal national service for 16 year olds in 2018, which extended to women as well as men and included forms of social as well as military service. Bock's article discusses the national debate at a time when the new form of service was being tested by over 2,000 young volunteers in a pilot programme. The eventual service will be compulsory, with no exceptions recognized, and penalties envisaged included being banned from taking the academic qualification the baccalaureat or a driving test.
See also: Williamson, Lucy, 'France's Macron brings back National Service', BBC News, 27 June 2018.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-44625625
This report stresses that Macron's original plan had been 'softened and broadened' with less focus on military experience and with an emphasis on fostering social cohesion.
Author(s): Piotr Żuk, and Paweł Żuk
In: Critical Discourse Studies, 2019, pp. 1-24
The article analyses the language used by the Polish nationalist right in relation to LGBT communities and women’s right to abortion. The authors show links between the language of Church officials hierarchs and right-wing columnists. The attack on gender uses the same methods of political mobilisation and power management as the campaign against refugees and immigrants. The anti-gender discourse may strengthen the narrative against the ‘liberal EU’ and create substitute ‘scapegoats’ inside Poland. The dispersed anti-gender discourse does have a real impact on social attitudes – on the one hand, it polarises social sympathies and, on the other hand, it strengthens right-wing attitudes. The analysis is based on right-wing press articles, Church officials’ statements, videos on YouTube and a parliamentary debate about the right to abortion.
Editor(s): Peace News
2000Examines different types of interventions, including nonviolent direct action, and reviews some relevant books.
Editor(s): Peace News
Monthly Peace News plus additional material.
Peace News reports on major peace, environmental, anti-racist, social justice and other protests to assert rights or resist oppression. It also carries critiques of movement, radical political analysis, theoretical debates and book reviews.
Author(s): Peacemaker
In: Peacemaker, Vol 33, No 9-12 (Sept-Dec), 1971
Statements by two anarchists in the draft resistance movement, who went underground and then to jail, commenting critically upon it. An introduction by Takver notes the important role played by individual anarchists and anarchist groups in the anti-war movement.
Author(s): Pearl Pillay
In: The Broken Rifle, No 98 (December), 2013
Brief article which details evolution of strike from 10-16 August.