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McCaughan, Michael, The Battle of Venezuela, London, Latin America Bureau, 2004 , pp. 116

Examines thwarting attempted coup by the right against Hugo Chavez in 2002. (See also the works under Venezuela in E IV.12)
Schell, Orville, Discos and Democracy: China in the Throes of Reform, New York, Pantheon Books, 1988 , pp. 384

Includes material on 1976-79 and 1986-87.
Mandela, Nelson, No Easy Walk to Freedom, 1965 London, Heinemann, 1986 , pp. 189

, People’s Power in Nepal, ed. Vishwakarma, R.K., New Delhi, Manak Publications, 2006 , pp. 298

Prominent Maoist contributors.
Gerlach, Allen, Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador, Willimantic CT, Scholarly Resources Inc., 2003 , pp. 286

Valocchi, Stephen, Social Movements and Activism in the USA, New York and London, Routledge, 2009 , pp. 200

Examines what can be learned from social movement activists, focusing on community, labour, feminist, gay and lesbian, peace and anti-racist groups in Hartford Connecticut.
Kerton, Sarah, Tahrir Here? The influence of the Arab Uprisings on the emergence of Occupy, 11 3-4 2012 , pp. 302-308

Cairns, Brendan, Stop the Drop, In Verity Burgmann, Jenny Lee, Staining the Wattle, Ringwood VIC, McPhee Gribble/Penguin Books, 1988 , pp. 308 , pp. 243-253

On the 1980s revived movement against nuclear weapons, in particular Australia’s People for Nuclear Disarmament.
Cockburn, Cynthia, The Women’s Movement: Boundary Crossing on Terrains of Conflict, In Robin Cohen, Shirin M. Rai, Global Social Movements (A. 6. Nonviolent Action and Social Movements) London, Athlone Press, 2000 , pp. 46-61

Focuses on action-research project Women Building Bridges in Northern Ireland, Israel/Palestine and Bosnia Hercegovina, and comments on role of transnational women’s networks, including Women in Black.
, Striking a Balance: The Northern Ireland Peace Process, ed. McCartney, Clem, in Accord, issue 8 London, Conciliation Resources, 1999

Accounts of peace process from perspectives of various parties involved, including several members of the then recently formed Northern Ireland Executive. Clem McCartney writes on ‘The Role of Civil Society’ and Monica McWilliams and Kate Fearon of the Northern Ireland Women’s Coalition on ‘Problems of Implementation’.
Vollnhal, Clemens, Jahre des Umbruchs: Friedliche Revolution in der DDR und Transition in Ostmitteleuropa, Goettingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012

The disintegration of the Soviet bloc led to different kinds of peaceful transformation in Central Eastern Europe at the end of the 1980s.  In spite of many differences, common tendencies became apparent. Leading experts elaborate on similarities and differences in the GDR, Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.
Mengesha, Weyni; Dreyer-Lude, Melanie; Clarke, Kristian; Shaw, Kathryn; Warwick, Jacqueline; Palmer, Alisa; Dubois, Frédéric, Institutional Responses to #MeToo: A Conversation, 180 2019 pp. smaller than 0

Theatre administrators, artistic directors, and heads of programmes from across Canada discuss about how institutional policies and cultures have shifted in the wake of #MeToo. The participants reflect on the challenges of assessing the impacts and effects of a cultural movement that is still unfolding and how #MeToo has changed the relationship between training institutions and the performing arts industry.
Valera, Raquel, A People's History of the Portuguese Revolution, London, Pluto Press, 2019 , pp. 352

This account of the 19 months Revolution of the Carnations, which arose out of the  military coup that overthrew the Portuguese dictatorship in April 1974, stresses that it was a mass popular revolution, not just a change of regime, that involved workers' strikes and widespread  debate and communal organizing. It was also a socialist revolution, which was replaced by liberal democracy. The author is a professor at the new University of Lisbon.
Green, Duncan, How Does Change Happen? Lessons from Malawi, Oxfam FP2P, 2020

Oxfam provides a very useful analysis of developments in Malawi by Nic Cheeseman and Golden Matonga, who argue that two key lessons are that change results from a combination of pressures and that 'people power is critical to strengthening the independence and effectiveness of democratic institutions'.  There are also 10 comments on this analysis by Malawi citizens.

See also: Corcoran, Bill, 'Malawi One of the Few Wins for Democracy in 2020:', Irish Times, 28 December, 2020.

Corcoran comments on Chatham House awarding their 2020 prize in December to the judges of Malawi's Constitutional Court in recognition of their bravery in annulling the presidential poll of 2019.  He then elaborates on the evolution of the campaign to annul t he election and to celebrate the upholding of democracy in Malawi when it was under threat in many other parts of the world.

See also: Swift, Richard,  'Introducing Lazarus Chakwera', New Internationalist, September-October 2020, p.11.

Brief but useful summary of events leading to the election of the opposition leader Chakwera in June 2020.
Raftopoulos, Malayna; Morley, Joanna, Ecocide in the Amazon: the contested politics of environmental rights in Brazil, 2020 pp. smaller than 0

This article uses the 2019 fires in the Brazilian Amazon as a starting point to consider the political conflicts over environmental rights in Brazil. The authors argue that the concept of ecocide provides a useful focus for examining the social and ecological consequences of President Bolsonaro’s ‘extractive imperialism’. They also stress the failure of international bodies to prevent continuing destruction of the natural environment.

See also Devine, Jennifer (2020) ‘The Political Forest in the Era of Green Neoliberalism’ in Antipode, Vol. 52, issue 4, pp. 911-927. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12624
Fischer, Louis, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, 1950 London, Granada, 1983 , pp. 593

Lively sympathetic biography used as basis for Richard Attenborough’s 1982 film.
Kopacsi, Sandor, In the Name of the Working Class, London, Fontana/Collins, 1989 , pp. 348

Eyewitness account by the police chief of Budapest in 1956, who refused to obey Soviet orders to quell the uprising and was later sentenced to life imprisonment, but released in 1963 in an amnesty granted by Khrushchev.
Ramet, Sabrina, Balkan Babel: The Disintegration of Yugoslavia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic, Boulder CO, Westview Press, 2002 , pp. 426

, Nevertheless, They Persisted: Feminisms and Continued Resistance in the U.S. Women's Movement, ed. Reger, Jo, New York and Milton Park, Routledge, 2018 , pp. 238

The year 2017 began with Trump’s presidency, sparking women’s marches in the U.S. and across the globe. This edited collection of empirical studies of the U.S. women’s movement focuses on sociological and historical data. It includes discussions of digital and social media, gender identity and the reinvigorated anti-rape climate, while also focusing on issues of diversity, inclusion, and unacknowledged privilege in the movement.
Bartlett, John, Chile's Protesters Have Won a Path to a New Constitution, , pp. smaller than 0

Bartlett briefly traces the evolution of the movement. from high school students protesting about metro fare increases to major demonstrations in Santiago and across the country voicing numerous demands. The article analyzes both the socio-economic problems creating anger, and the neo-liberal nature of the Pinochet constitution, designed to maximize the role of private businesses and minimize the social and economic role of the state. It also notes the role of civil society groups in promoting public debate and crystalizing demands for a new constitution.
Kelly, Kathy, Other Lands Have Dreams: From Baghdad to Pekin Prison, Petrolia CA, Counterpunch, 2006 , pp. 173

Kelly participated in the Gulf Peace Team and later co-founded Voices in the Wilderness, breaking sanctions against Iraq. See also: ‘Kathy Kelly and Milan Rai, ‘Voices in the Wilderness: Campaigning against Sanctions on Iraq 1995-2005’, in Howard Clark, People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity (A. 1.b. Strategic Theory, Dynamics, Methods and Movements) , pp.143-49.
Qinglian, He, China’s listing social structure, 5 (September/October) 2000 , pp. 69-100

A critical assessment of Chinese society by a Chinese social scientist, widely discussed within China, indicating the context for unrest. Inset is an article describing a pensioner campaign led by a former Party official (pp. 82-83).
Seidman, Gay, Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human rights, and Transnational Activism, New York, Russell Sage Foundation, 2007 , pp. 176

Especially ch. 3, pp. 47-71, ‘Monitoring multinationals: lessons from the anti-apartheid era’.
Thompson, Mark, The Anti-Marcos Struggle: Personalistic Rule and Democratic Transition in the Philippines, New Haven CT, Yale University Press, 1995 , pp. 225

Eisenmann, Roberto, The struggle against Noriega, 1 1 (winter) 1990 , pp. 41-46

Editor of La Prensa, Panama’s leading daily, looks at the role of Panama’s people and the organized opposition, in article written before US invasion.

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