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The story, narrated by his brother, of one of the most iconic figure of the anti-mafia struggle, Peppino Impastato, who revolted against the patriarchal structure of his family, went against his father who belonged to the Sicilian mafia organisation and ignited an anti-mafia culture and actions at the cost of his own life.

A History of the People’s Democracies

2nd edn

Author(s): Francois Fejto

Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1974, pp. 565

Originally published: 1969

Examines destalinization in Poland and why the Polish 1956 uprising avoided bloodshed, making comparisons with Hungary and its 1956 Revolution, see pp. 79-80 and 87-123. These events are set in the wider context of Soviet and bloc politics.

The State of Resistance: Popular Struggles in the Global South

Editor(s): Francois Polet

Zed Books, London, 2007, pp. 176

Over 40 contributions from writers and activists on resistance to neoliberal globalization, including material on anti-privatization campaigns in South Africa and Indian peasants opposing the WTO.

Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers Union

Author(s): Frank Bardacke

Verso, London and New York, 2011, pp. 840

Very detailed account and analysis by former civil rights activist who also worked in the fields for six seasons 1971 and 1979, charting contradictions within the movement and the role of Chavez, based on hundreds of field reports and first hand experience.

Moral Entrepreneurs and the Campaign to Ban Landmines

Author(s): Frank Faulkner

Rodopi, Amsterdam, 2007, pp. 244

Faulkner argues that the 'bottom up' international campaign, and the cooperation between leading activists and sympathetic government officials, provides a model for a way of achieving arms control. The campaign succeeded in changing policies on anti-personnel mines in 130 countries.

The Wretched of the Earth

Author(s): Frantz Fanon

MacGibbon and Kee, London, 1965

Eloquent and influential defence of revolutionary violence as a necessary psychological reaction to the prolonged experience of structural domination by colonialism, and as a socially radicalising experience promoting the possibility of genuine political freedom.

Out Now! A Participant’s Account of the American Movement Against the Vietnam War

Author(s): Fred Halstead

Pathfinder, Atlanta, GA, 2001, pp. 886

Originally published: 1978

Traces the rise of the anti-Vietnam War movement, including accounts of the ideological and institutional rivalries between organizations, and covers all the major demonstrations and civil disobedience actions from the Students for a Democratic Society March on Washington in 1965 to US withdrawal from Vietnam in 1973.

Thinking about Nuclear Weapons: Analyses and Prescriptions

Editor(s): Fred Holroyd

Croom Helm in association with the Open University, London, 1985, pp. 409

Covers a range of perspectives on nuclear weapons. Includes influential McGeorge Bundy, George F. Kennan, Robert S. McNamara, Gerard Smith, Nuclear weapons and the Atlantic Alliance, 1982 , pp. 753-766 , arguing that NATO should not use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional attack. Also includes section from the Alternative Defence Commission report on ‘The rationale for rejecting nuclear weapons’, as well as an extract from Edward P. Thompson’s 1980 pamphlet Protest and Survive (see below).

The Landgrabbers: The Fight Over Who Owns the Earth

Author(s): Fred Pearce

Transworld, Eden Project Books, London, 2012, pp. 400

Examination of how land is being taken from subsistence farmers round the world, for example across Africa, South-East Asia and parts of Eastern Europe.

Le Rose et le Noir : Les homosexuels en France depuis 1968

2nd updated and extended edition

Author(s): Frédéric Martel

Points2008, pp. 772

Originally published: 1996

Original French version. Examines activist lesbian and gay organizations in relation to post-1968 feminism, gay ‘ghettoes’ and the gay press, and explores the impact of AIDS and revival of militancy in the 1990s. Notes influence of American movement, but also stresses differences.

The Pink and the Black: Homosexuals in France Since 1968

(transl. Jean Marie Todd)

Author(s): Frédéric Martel

Stanford University Press, Palo Alto CA, 1999, pp. 464

Examines activist lesbian and gay organizations in relation to post-1968 feminism, gay ‘ghettoes’ and the gay press, and explores the impact of AIDS and revival of militancy in the 1990s. Notes influence of American movement, but also stresses differences.

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