Author(s): Peter Ackerman, and Christopher Kruegler
Praeger, Westport CT, 1993, pp. 366
Focuses on the importance of resistance strategy in determining the outcome. Outlines 12 principles of strategic action and assesses five movements (Russia 1905, Ruhr 1923, the Indian independence campaign,, resistance in German-occupied Denmark, and Solidarity in Poland) in relation to these principles.
Editor(s): Christopher Kruegler, Ronald M. McCarthy, Roger S. Powers, and William B. Vogele
Garland, New York, 1997, pp. 610
Valuable guide to both the theory and practice of nonviolence, summarizing 104 nonviolent campaigns and actions, listing methods of protest, and examining relevant organisations and personalities.
Editor(s): Landon E. Hancock, and Christopher Mitchell
Kumarian, Bloomfield CT, 2007, pp. 238
Author(s): Christopher Munthe Morgenstierne
Nordiska Afikrainstitutet, Uppsala, 2003, pp. 142
Companion to Eriksen and Sellstrom, this section.
http://nai.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A241390&dswid=-2339
Editor(s): Christopher Rootes
Routledge, London, 1999, pp. 328
Primary emphasis on sociological analysis of how environmental movements change, with statistics on participation in them. Chapters on Germany, Spain and Southern Europe and the USA. Derek Wall writes on ‘Mobilizing Earth First!’ in Britain. Jeff Haynes, ‘Power, Politics and Environmental Movements in the Third World’ (pp. 222-42) includes specific references to the Chipko, Narmada and Ogoniland movements, as well as other forms of environmental action in Kenya and the role of the WTO.
Author(s): Chrstine Mason
In: Journal of Peace Research, Vol 42, No 6, 2005, pp. 737-749
Author(s): Church of England, Board of Social Responsibility
Hodder and Stoughton, London, 1982, pp. 190
Influential report which concluded that Just War principles forbid the use of nuclear weapons, and recommended that the UK should renounce its independent nuclear deterrent, followed by a phased withdrawal from other forms of reliance on nuclear weapons including, ultimately, the presence of US air and submarine bases.
Author(s): Ciara Nugent
2019
This long report explores the rate and consequences of femicide in El Salvador.
See also https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/06/el-salvador-devastating-epidemic-femicide and https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/apr/17/teenage-girls-el-salvador-rising-sexual-violence-report
Author(s): Ciaran McKeown
Blackstaff Press, Belfast, 1984, pp. 320
McKeown was one of the group of student activists campaigning on civil rights issues at Queens University Belfast in the mid-1960s from which People’s Democracy emerged in 1968. However, he opposed the Belfast to Derry march in January 1969 as likely to inflame sectarian divisions, and the Marxist direction to which the organization turned. Best known for his leading role in the Peace People whose origins and development he recounts in detail. Sets out his idea for a parliamentary system based not on political parties but on autonomous community groups.
Author(s): Cihan Ziya Tugal
In: New Left Review, No 76 (Jul-Aug), 2012, pp. 5-24
Criticizes the western view of Turkey as model for the Islamic world and analyses the Erdogan government’s domestic and foreign policy. Written the year before Gezi Park , but provides relevant background.
https://newleftreview.org/II/76/cihan-tugal-democratic-janissaries
Author(s): Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharaya, and Nancy Fraser
Verso , London, 2019, pp. 85
A manifesto inspired by the international women's strike, ‘NiUnaMenos’ in Argentina and other radical feminist actions. It argues for a linkage between feminism and LGBTQ+ rights and the struggle against neoliberal capitalism, and rejects the kind of liberal feminism (exemplified by Hillary Clinton) that seeks equal opportunities for women within an inherently oppressive system.
Author(s): Cira Pasqual
In: Venezueananalysis, 2018
Venezuela veteran activist for women’s rights, Gioconda Mota, discusses the growth of feminist movements in Venezuela. She pays particular attention to how they have contributed to the improvement of existing legal frameworks on the issue of gender violence and women’s role in the economy, and how much work is still needed with regard to dissident sexualities and abortion. She also discusses the predominantly sexist nature of justice administration, and the lack of women’s participation in strategic spheres of power, despite the increased participation in communal councils, social organisations and committees. She also sheds light on the feminisation of poverty, due to the double burden of productivity and care on women. The interview with Mota came after a group of feminist researchers released a ground-breaking report on the situation of women’s human rights in Venezuela, called ‘Desde Nosotras’ (From Us), whose 250 pages reveal the key challenges facing the political, economic, health, sexual and reproductive rights of Venezuelan women today.
Author(s): Fiona Bloomer, Claire Pierson, and Sylvia Estrada
Policy Press, Bristol and Chicago, 2020, pp. 176
This book uses case studies from a range of countries to provide a transnational and interdisciplinary analysis of trends in abortion politics, and considers how religion, nationalism, and culture impact on abortion law and access. It also explores the impact of international human rights norms and the role of activists on law reform and access to abortion. Finally the authors examine the future of abortion politics through the more holistic lens of ‘reproductive justice’. The countries included are: Argentina, Egypt, Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, Uruguay and the US.
Author(s): Claire Pierson, and Jennifer Thomson
In: International Feminist Journal of Politics, Vol 20, No 3, 2018, pp. 350-365
Reproductive rights are an under-theorised aspect of the Women, Peace and Security (WPS) agenda as UN Security Council resolutions (e.g. UNSC resolution 1325) demonstrate. Yet reproductive rights are central to women’s security, health and human rights. Although they feature in the 2015 Global Study on UNSC resolution 1325, there is less reference to reproductive rights, and to abortion specifically, neither in the text of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolutions themselves, nor in the National Action Plans (NAPs, policy documents created by individual countries to outline their implementation plans for 1325). Through content analysis of all resolutions and NAPs produced to date, this article asks where abortion is in the WPS agenda. It argues that the growing centrality of the WPS agenda to women’s rights in transitioning societies means that a lack of focus on abortion will marginalize the topic and stifle the development of liberal legalization.
Author(s): Clara Bingham
Random House, New York, 2016, pp. 655, pb
The book focuses on 'year' August 1969-1970, and explores the roots of the movement against the Vietnam War in the Civil Rights Movement, citing testimony of those involved.
Editor(s): Clara Urquhart
Praeger and Jonathan Cape, London, 1973, pp. 255
Originally published: 1963
A collection of brief essays or speeches by eminent proponents of peace or nonviolence on dangers facing the world and role of civil disobedience. Contributors include Martin Buber, Danilo Dolci, Erich Fromm, Kenneth Kaunda, Jawaharlal Nehru and Albert Schweitzer. There are essays by founding members of the Committee of 100: Bertrand Russell, Michael Scott and Robert Bolt.
Author(s): Clare Duchen
Routledge, London, 1986, pp. 165
Chapter 1, ‘Beginnings’ examines role of women in May 1968 and the emergence of the Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes in 1970, laying of a wreath on the tomb of the unknown soldier to commemorate his wife (leading to arrests), support for women strikers (e.g. in a hat factory in Troyes) and the 5th April 1971 Manifesto by 343 prominent women who had resorted to illegal abortions. Later chapters explore ideological divisions within the movement, theoretical issues and the relationship of feminists to socialist government in France.
Editor(s): Clare Solomon, and Tania Palmieri
Verso, London, 2011, pp. 256
Focuses on the widespread student protests in Britain in 2010, but also extends to Italy, France, Greece and the USA, as well as the beginning of the Arab uprisings in Tunisia. Includes texts from the past and reminders of 1968, as well as coverage of contemporary events, and political and theoretical commentaries from established and new voices.
Dec-Jan 2015
Author(s): Clare Walker
In: Red Pepper, 2015, pp. 32-33
Discussion, in light of lessons from the 2014 People's Climate March. of how to prepare for mobilization at the UN Paris Conference of the Parties on Climate Change
See also: Worth, Jess, 'Climate Justice Comes to Copenhagen', New Internationalist, 16 December 2009
https://newint.org/blog/editors/2009/12/16/climate-justice-invades
See also: Peoples Climate Movement 'To change everything, we need everyone', https://peoplesclimate.org/our-movement/
Sets out policy: to demand radical action on climate change, through mass mobilization and alignment with other movements for economic and racial justice. Provides very brief overview of campaigning since 2014 People's Climate March.
Author(s): Clarence Marsh Case
Garland, New York, 1972, pp. 423
Originally published: 1923
Early sociological study of nonviolent action in social movements, and of Gandhian strategy.