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, Glasgow's Festival of Climate Resistance, 2657 , , pp. 7-7

Provides brief examples of protests and related activities in Glasgow from 31 October to 12 November 2021 during the COP 26 Conference. Almost all the events were organized by the COP 26 Coalition, a UK-based coalition of groups committed to climate justice, which also assisted activists from abroad.

, The Tenant Movement in New York City, 1904-1984, ed. Lawson, Ronald; Naison, Mark, New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press, 1986 , pp. 289

See also the article by Ronald Lawson, The Rent Strike in New York City 1904-1980: The End of a Social Movement Strategy, 1984 , pp. 235-258

Forward, Roy; Reece, Bob, Conscription, 1964-1968, In Roy Forward, Bob Reece, Conscription in Australia, Brisbane QLD, University of Queensland Press, 1968 , pp. 79-142

Shenker, Jack, The Egyptians: A Radical Story, London, Allen/Penguin, 2016 , pp. 528

Account of the revolt against Mubarak by a Guardian journalist, based on first hand contact with activists, but also people in slums and factories and those living outside Cairo, and covering earlier development of the workers' activism and unionism and also village revolts against landowners. It includes wider-ranging historical analysis of Egypt's political and economic relations with the West.

, Abortion decriminalised in Northern Ireland, 2020

Provides a brief and interactive timeline on the history of abortion in Northern Ireland.

See also https://humanism.org.uk/campaigns/public-ethical-issues/sexual-and-reproductive-rights/ and the submission to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence against Women on mistreatment and violence against women during reproductive healthcare in Ireland and Northern Ireland by the Abortion Rights Campaign in May 2019.

Boylan, Jessie, Atomic amnesia: photographs and nuclear memory, 28 1 2016 , pp. 55-73

Addresses how photography (using photographs taken in the USA and Australia) can illuminate the unimaginable, namely nuclear catastrophe, in order to fuel the imagination in the search for alternatives that lead to a world free of nuclear weapons.

Ku, Agnes, New Forms of Youth Activism - Hong Kong's Anti-Extradition Bill Movement in the Local-National-Global nexus, 24 1 2020 , pp. 111-117

This article, which is part of an issue on 'Youth Politics in Urban Areas', focuses on the 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill movement to explore the role of young people in steering this movement. Ku examines how they drew on local and international resources to direct the movement, and 'the path-breaking strategies and results that have emerged'.  

Kyaw, Lynn, Reflections on Military Coups in Myanmar: and why Political Actors in Arakan Chose a Different Path, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Transnational Institute, 2021

The article starts with an analysis of the personal as well as the institutional factors leading to the 2021 coup.  It then assesses the special situation in Rakhine State (previously the kingdom of Arakan), home to Muslim minorities including the Rohingya, and to Arakan Buddhists, who are hostile to both Muslims and to the Burmese (Buddhist) government.

, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965 (with assistance of Alex Hayley) Penguin, 2001 , pp. 512

See also:  Malcolm X, George Brietman, Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements, New York, Grove Press, 1966 , pp. 226 .

Joppke, Christian, East German Dissidents and the Revolution of 1989: Social Movements in a Leninist Regime, New York, New York University Press, 1995 , pp. 277

Baskin, Jeremy, Striking Back: a history of COSATU, London, Verso, 1990 , pp. 488

Authoritative account of COSATU’s early years by then National Coordinator.

Ensalaco, Mark, Chile Under Pinochet: Recovering the Truth, Philadelphia PA, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1999 , pp. 296

Sellström, Tor, Sweden and National Liberation in Southern Africa: Volume II - Solidarity and Assistance 1970-1994, Uppsala, Nordiska Afikrainstitutet, 2002 , pp. 912

Companion to Eriksen and Morgenstierne, above.

Shridharani, Krishnalal, War Without Violence, London, Gollanez, 1939 , pp. 288

Reprinted by New York, Garland, 1972, pp. 351.

Respected early analysis of satyagraha with emphasis on strategy. Also comments on role of nonviolent action in democratic states in resisting an invasion.

Brown, Carolyn, ‘We Were All Slaves’: African Miners, Culture and Resistance at the Enugu Government Colliery, Portsmouth, Oxford and Cape Town, Heinemann, James Currey and David Philip, 2002 , pp. 354

Part 2 is on major miners’ strike organized by the militant Zikist movement. The movement became associated with riots and an assassination attempt and was banned in April 1950.

Wilson, Andrew, Belarus – The Last European Dictatorship, New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 2011 , pp. 256

Covers earlier Belarusian history and search for identity, but gives weight to analysis of President Lukashenka’s rise to power and how he maintained it effectively for so long, including his handling of the challenge in the 2010 presidential election.

Radrianja, Solano, Be Not Afraid; Only Believe: Madagascar 2002, 102 407 (April) 2003 , pp. 132-146

, Spain in Crisis: Evolution and Decline of the Franco Regime, ed. Preston, Paul, Hassocks, Harvester Press, 1976 , pp. 341

Aronson, Geoffrey, Creating Facts: Israel, Palestine and the West Bank, London, New York and Washington, Kegan Paul International with Institute of Palestine Studies, 1990 , pp. 334

Covers the growing resistance from 1967 inside the Occupied Territories.

, The Squatters’ Movement in Europe: Commons and Autonomy as Alternatives to Capitalism, ed. Martínez, Miguel; Squatting Europe Kollektive, ; Cattaneo, Claudia, London, Pluto Press, 2014 , pp. 288

Case studies from most of Europe (excluding eastern Europe and Greece) covering direct action to create social housing and other community services over 30 year period.

, Campaigning for the Environment, ed. Kimber, Richard; Richardson, J.J., London, Routledge, 1974 , pp. 238

Case studies of a range of environmental conflicts in Britain over urban development, water supply, power lines, M4 motorway, juggernaut lorries, the Cublington airport campaign, and the genesis of the Clean Air Act. Focus on pressure groups.

Menasche, Louis; Radosh, Ronald, Teach-ins USA: Reports, Opinions, Documents, New York, Praeger, 1967 , pp. 349

Records how the Teach-In movement began modestly in a mid-West campus in 1965 but spread across the country, engaging many students and professors, and released a vast quantity of material about the Vietnam War. For first teach-in see: ‘History of Education: Selected Moments of the 20th Century: 1965 First ‘Teach-in’ held at University of Michigan: New Tool for Further Education is Born’:

http://schugurensky.faculty.asu.edu/moments/1965teachin.html

Muñoz-Lamartine, Ernesto, Chile: Student Leaders Reinvent the Movement, Fall 2011 pp. smaller than 0

Account of talk by Giorgio Jackson, President of the Catholic University’s Student Association in Chile.

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