Disobedience and Democracy: Nine Fallacies on Law and Order
Author(s): Howard Zinn
Vintage Books, New York, 1968, pp. 168
and London, Pluto Press, 2003,
Well known radical historian and contributor to the literature on nonviolence and disobedience.
SNCC: the New Abolitionists
Author(s): Howard Zinn
Beacon Press, Boston, 1964, pp. 246
My Soul is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered
Author(s): Howell Raines
Penguin, New York, 1983, pp. 496
Originally published: 1977
A range of recollections from 1955 to MLK’s assassination in 1968.
On Queer Street: Social History of British Homosexuality, 1895-1995
Author(s): Hugh David
Harper Collins, London, 1997, pp. 305
Squatters in Amsterdam: Urban Social Movements, Urban Managers or Something Else?
Author(s): Hugo Priemus
In: International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Vol 7, No 3, 1983, pp. 417-427
Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement : The Protests and Beyond
Author(s): Hui, Victoria Tin-Bor
In: Journal of Democracy, Vol 26, No 2 (April), 2015, pp. 111-121
This article (following on the previous article by Davis analysing China's role in sparking the protest) focuses on the role of the Hong Kong government in opposing greater democracy and allowing excessive use of force by the police, so fuelling public anger.
Available online at:
https://www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/hong-kongs-umbrella-movement-the-protests-and-beyond/
Iraq after the "October Protests": A Different Country
Author(s): Hussein Dawood
European Council on Foreign Relations2019
This brief but interesting commentary was written after the first week of protests in October 2019, in which 100 people were killed and over 6,000 injured. Dawood discusses the immediate causes of the protests and the longer term failings of the government under Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi, elected as a compromise candidate between two Shiite coalitions a year earlier. The author notes that opposition groups like the Communist Party and the Sadrist movement (followers of the radical Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr) were not involved, but that the lack of leadership among the protesters (even within cities) was a weakness in making credible demands for change. Nevertheless, the government (despite its immediate authoritarian reaction) was making concessions by offering economic reforms and pressing for passage of anti-corruption bills before parliament.
Available online at:
https://ecfr.eu/article/commentary_iraq_after_the_october_protests_a_different_country/
Digging Deeper: Issues in the Miners’ Strike
Editor(s): Huw Beynon
Verso, London, 1985, pp. 280
History on Our Side – Wales and the 1984-85 Miners’ Strike
Author(s): Hywel Francis
Parthian Books, Swansea, 2009, pp. 96
(new edition in preparation)
Account of how the strike developed differently in Wales from other parts of Britain, and grew into a national movement involving community groups, churches and Welsh nationalists and fostered a greater national consciousness with a lasting impact on Welsh politics.
Nonviolence in Political Theory
Author(s): Iain Atack
Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2012, pp. 208
Scrutinises the theories behind nonviolence. Develops his earlier criticisms of consent theory, suggesting the relevance of Foucault’s apporach to ‘micro-resistance’ (See Iain Atack, Nonviolent Political Action and the Limits of Consent, 2006 , pp. 87-97 ).
Nonviolent Political Action and the Limits of Consent
Author(s): Iain Atack
In: Theoria, Vol 53, No 111 (December), 2006, pp. 87-97
Community Unionism: A Comparative Analysis of Concepts and Contexts
Editor(s): Ian Greenwood, and Jo McBride
Palgrave/Macmillan, Basingstoke, 2009, pp. 264
Explores the diverse meanings of community unionism, provides case studies from the UK – the ‘London’s living wage’ campaign, and activism by black and minority workers and migrant workers – and from Japan, Australia and the US.
OutRage! An Oral History
Author(s): Ian Lucas
Continuum, London, 1998, pp. 256
Catching the Cops
Author(s): Ian Neubauer
In: New Internationalist, 2019
Reports on a new app, created by the Sydney-based National Justice Project, that enables Aboriginal people to record police discrimination and violence against them. It is being adopted across Australia. The author sets this Australian initiative in the context of disproportionate jailing of Aborigines and frequent police discrimination, as well as the wider global movement to use film to highlight police injustice, with examples from the USA and Canada.
Writing the Intifada: Collective action in the Occupied Territories
Author(s): Ian S. Lustick
In: World Politics, Vol 45, No 4 (July), 1993, pp. 560-594
Review article covering nine recent books, and providing overview of movement and noting the impact on the Arab world (Algeria and Jordan) and wider world.
Media Relations of the Anti-War Movement: The Battle for Hearts and Minds
Author(s): Ian Taylor
Routledge, New York and London, 2016, pp. 268
An examination of how the anti-Iraq War movement in the UK tried to secure press coverage as part of their campaign. The focus is on local anti-war groups and their relationship with the local press and examines such questions as the influence of the social composition of the movement on their approach to the media. Taylor also assesses how local journalists and media viewed the campaign.
Mobilising Modernity: The Nuclear Moment
Author(s): Ian Welsh
Routledge, London, 2000, pp. 256
See especially chapter 6 ‘The Moment of Direct Action’ and chapter 7 ‘Networking: Direct Action and Collective Refusal’.
Anti-Nuclear Movements: Failed Projects or Heralds of a Direct Action Milieu?
Author(s): Ian Welsh
In: Sociological Research Online, Vol 6, No 3, 2001
Argues that these movements should be seen as a process of ‘capacity building’.
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The European Road to Nowhere: Anarchism and Direct Action against the UK Roads Programme
Author(s): Ian Welsh, and Phil McLeish
In: Anarchist Studies, Vol 4, No 1, 1996, pp. 27-44
National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015-16: India
Author(s): International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), and ICF
IIPS, Mumbai, 2017, pp. 637
A large scale survey conducted in a representative sample of households throughout India. It reports that 30% percent of women aged 15-49 in India have experienced physical violence since age 15, amongst many other forms of violence or discrimination, and the social context that makes it difficult to challenge. The National Family Health Survey 2018-2019 is yet to be published.