Fifty Years of Dictatorship

Author(s): de Figueiredo, Antonio

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1975, pp. 261

By journalist and political activist, who supported Delgado in his opposition to Salazar, was imprisoned in Portugal for his resistance to the regime, and campaigned against Portugal’s colonial abuses.

Economic Power of the Politically Powerless in the 2019 Hong Kong Pro-Democracy Movement

Author(s): Debby Chan, and Ngai Pun

In: Critical Asian Studies, Vol 52, No 1, 2020, pp. 33-43

The authors, from the Department of Sociology at the University of  Hong Kong, note the unprecedented 'scale, scope and time span' of these grassroots 'leaderless' protests. They also comment on the dramatic scenes of violent confrontation between police and protesters. They argue that this confrontation obscures 'an emerging economic resistance movement' trying to develop alternative political resources to redress the imbalance in power between them and the government. 

Military Rebellion in Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation

Author(s): Deborah L. Norden

University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 1996, pp. 242

Studies military rebellions after return to civilian government in 1982.

See also: Marcela Lopez Levy, We Are Millions: Neo-Liberalism and New Forms of Political Action in Argentina, London, Latin America Bureau, 2004 . Includes brief reference to millions demonstrating in support of President Alfonsin after a military uprising in a barracks in Argentina, Easter 1987, against trials of military for the ‘Dirty War’ (pp. 41 and 122), and explains broader context.

Protest and Recognition in the Bulgarian Summer 2013 Movement

Author(s): Delia Hallberg, and Ringo Ossewaarde

In: in Thomas Davies, Holly Eva Ryan and Alejandro Milciades Pena (eds), Protest, Social Movements, and Global Democracy since 2011: New Perspectives - Research in Social Movements, Conflicts an d Change, pp. 85-106

Against the background of the world-wide protests of 2011, the authors discuss the Bulgarian movement in early 2013 and its stronger manifestation during the summer. They aim to draw out aspects of the prolonged protests that are unique to Bulgaria, arguing they represent a 'distinctive struggle for cultural recognition' with links to the earlier 19th century National Awakening movement when Bulgaria was part of the Ottoman Empire.

Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation

with new Introduction by Jeffrey Weeks and Afterword by author commenting on his book in light of developments since 1970s.

Author(s): Dennis Altman

New York University Press, New York, 1993, pp. 304

Originally published: 1971

Key work on early period of Gay Liberation in 1960s/70s in the USA, examining different strands of movement and arguing need for struggle for common goals.

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