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Woodcock, George, Gandhi, London, Fontana/Collins, 1972 , pp. 108

By respected writer on anarchist theory and movements.

, Poland, Genesis of a Revolution, ed. Brumberg, Abraham, New York, Vintage Books, 1983 , pp. 336

Postero, Nancy, Now We Are Citizens: Indigenous Politics in Postmulticultural Bolivia, Stanford CA, Stanford University Press, 2006 , pp. 340

Bartkowski, Maciej; Kahf, Mohja, The Syrian resistance: a tale of two struggles, London, OpenDemocracy.net, 2013

Part 1 of a two part series. Part 2 is available at http://www.opendemocracy.net/civilresistance/maciej-bartkowski-mohja-kahf/syrian-resistance-tale-of-two-struggles-part-2

Wall, Derek, Earth First! and the Anti-Roads Movement, London, Routledge, 1999 , pp. 219

Gessen, Masha, Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot, Riverhead Books, 2014 , pp. 308

Discusses roots of the group founded in 2011 and their international support, especially among musical celebrities, after their 2012 demonstration in Moscow Cathedral, leading to imprisonment of the three involved. See also:  Pussy Riot, Pussy Riot!: A Punk Prayer For Freedom, London, Feminist Press, 2013 , pp. 152 , including letters from prison, court statements, poems and tributes by international admirers.

, Here we Stand, ed. Earnshaw, Helena; Jones, Angharad, Aberystwyth, Honno, 2014 , pp. 450

Anthology of accounts by 17 British women campaigners, engaged in a range of militant direct action, including one by Welsh Language Society (Cymdeithas yr laith) activist, Angharad Thomas.

Martin, Rachel, #MeToo was a Rallying Cry at Women's Marches in Italy, , pp. smaller than 0

The US feminist magazine reports that #quellavoltache  (MeToo) was a central theme of annual Women's Marches and rallies in Rome, Milan and Florence.   The Rome rally of hundreds of women was addressed by Asia Argento, who commented on the media abuse she had received after speaking out about being assaulted by Harvey Weinstein.  Representatives from the International Women's House and the Network of Women Against Violence, as well as a refugee woman activist, also spoke. 

Nugdalla, Sarah, The Revolution Continues: Sudanese Women’s Activism, In Okech A. (eds) Gender, Protests and Political Change in Africa. Gender, Development and Social Change Cham, Switzerland, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 , pp. 107-130

This chapter examines how aspects of the Bashir regime's policy of Islamisation, control over women's bodies and concepts of  morality and respectability, prompted Sudanese women's activism after 1989.  It also explores how the political context has influenced space for activism, and the changing discourse about women's activism arising from the #FallThatIsAll movement.

See also: Gorani, Amel, ‘Sudanese women demand justice’, OpenDemocracy, 20 May 2011.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/sudanese-women-demand-justice/

Amel Gorani reports the systematic use of sexual violence, torture, cruel and degrading treatment as one of the major security threats and tools of repression targeting women and communities all over Sudan.

See also: Bakhit, Rawa Gafar, ‘Women in #SudanRevolts: heritage of civil resistance’, OpenDemocracy, 19 July 2012

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/5050/women-in-sudanrevolts-heritage-of-civil-resistance/

Explores how women have been active in the Sudanese civil resistance and non-violent protests

Nikolova, Madlen, Anti-Corruption Protests Show the Hollowness of Bulgaria's Democracy, , pp. smaller than 0

This article provides an analysis of the socio-economic and political framework within which the movement of 2020 erupted, noting that both the right and the left in Bulgarian politics were accused of corruption, which indicated the 'lack of real political alternatives'. It also notes that issues such as high unemployment, low wages and failing health system are scarcely raised in parliament, even by the Bulgarian Socialist Party. Concludes by pointing to parallels with the 2013 protests.

Kaunda, Kenneth, Zambia Shall Be Free, London, Heinemann, 1962 , pp. 202

Bunce, Valerie; Wolchik, Sharon, Defeating Authoritarian Leaders in Post-Communist Countries, New York, Cambridge University Press, 2011 , pp. 364

Discusses electoral defeats of authoritarian leaders from 1998 to 2005 (Slovakia, Croatia, Serbia, Georgia, Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan), but also unsuccessful movements in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. Analyses local and international actors and draws comparisons with other parts of the world.

, The Politics of Structural Adjustment in Nigeria, ed. Olukoshi, Adebayo, Portsmouth NH, Heinemann, 1993 , pp. 144

Includes assessments of the increasingly active role of civil society and relations with the state.

, Greece under Military Rule, ed. Clogg, Richard; Yannopoulos, George, London, Secker and Warburg, 1972 , pp. 272

See especially: chapter 3.’The Ideology of the Revolution of 21 April 1967’, pp. 36-58; chapter 4 ‘The Colonels and the Press’. pp.59-74; chapter 8 ‘Culture and the Military’, pp. 148-62, which includes materials on censorship and repression and on forms of intellectual resistance, such as circulating ‘samizdat’, and liberal protests and manifestos; and chapter 9 ‘The State of the Opposition Forces since the Military coup’, pp. 163-90.

Ritter, Daniel, On the Role of Strategy in Nonviolent Revolutionary Social Change: the Case of Iran, 1977-1979, Florence, European University Institute, Max Weber Programme, 2011 , pp. 19

Amnesty International, , Rights Razed: Forced Evictions in Cambodia, London, Amnesty International, 2008 , pp. 64

Analysis of lack of proper consultation and of legal protection for those evicted.

, The Politics of Resource Extraction: Indigenous Peoples, Multinational Corporations and the State, ed. Sawyer, Suzana; Gomez, Edmund, New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2012 , pp. 336

Studies cover Peru, India (Orissa), Philippines, Nigeria (the Niger Basin), Chad and Cameroon, as well as Australia and Canada.

Hill, Lance, Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement, Chapel Hill NC, University of North Carolina Press, 2004 , pp. 363

Documents emergence of armed self-defence groups in Louisiana and Mississippi in the mid-1960s to counter the Klan and enforce civil rights legislation.

Wheaton, Bernard; Kavan, Zdeněk, The Velvet Revolution: Czechoslovakia 1989-1991, Boulder CO, Westview Press, 1992 , pp. 255

Saradzhyan, Simon; Abdullaev, Nabi, Putin, the protest movement and political change in Russia, 17 Feb 2012 Paris, EU Institute for Security Studies, 2012

Cotton, James, Politics and Policy in the New Korean State, New York, St. Martins Press, 1995 , pp. 246

Proceedings of conference in Melbourne, 1992.

Bunster, Ximena, The mobilization and demobilization of women in militarized Chile, In Eva Isaksson, Women and the Military System, Brighton, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1988 , pp. 455 , pp. 210-222

Discusses how Pinochet regime mobilized women to support it, but also role of women in spearheading resistance in 1979 and their role in 1986.

See also Ximena Bunster, Surviving beyond Fear: Women and Torture in Latin America, In Marjorie Agosin, Surviving Beyond Fear: Women, Children and Human Rights (E. IV.1. General and Comparative Studies) Fredonia NY, White Pine Press, 1993 , pp. 98-125 .

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