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Garza, Alicia, The Purpose of Power: How We Come Together When We Fall Apart, New York, Penguin/Random House, 2020 , pp. 336

One of the co-founders of the hashtag Black Lives Matter in 2013, Garza outlines in this book a long term strategy for social change.  It is based on her own years of experience in community organizing.  She has moved on from the Black Lives Matter organization (although still close to the other co-founders) to create the Black Futures Lab.  She has developed a policy platform (based on a major cross-party survey of Black people in the US in 2018) that focuses on central, widely supported demands. These include raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour, broadening opportunities for Black home ownership, and removing the police presence from schools that often leads to pupils being jailed.  She has campaigned in the 2020 US election on her agenda.  Her book also argues the need to abandon outdated models of individual leadership from the Civil Rights Movement, as well as cautioning against over-reliance on celebrity activists and the role of the internet.

See also: Mahdawi, Arwa, ‘Move Fast and Fix Things’, Guardian Weekly, 23 Oct. 2020, pp. 34-7.

An extended interview with Alicia Garza.

Hoffman, Peter, The History of the German Resistance, 1933-1945, 1977 Montreal, McGill-Queens University Press, 1996 , pp. 872

Standard work covering all aspects of the internal German resistance, including various forms of nonviolent protest, though with a major focus on the 1944 Generals’ Plot.

, Beijing Spring 1989: Confrontation and Conflict, The Basic Documents, ed. Oksenberg, Michael; Sullivan, Lawrence; Lamberts, Marc, Armonk NY, M.E. Sharpe, 1990 , pp. 403

Collection of documents from official perspective.

Arillo, Cecilio, Breakaway: The Inside Story of the Four Day Revolution in the Philippines, February 22-25 1986, Manila, CTA and Associates, 1986 , pp. 288

Account focusing primarily on role of military and using extensive military sources, but also discusses the role of people power.

Hodges, Donald; Gandy, Ross, Mexico Under Siege: Popular Resistance to Presidential Despotism, London, Zed Books, 2002 , pp. 268

Spans period from 1940 to 2000, examining urban worker protest and railway strikes, new peasant movements, school strikes, student opposition and also the rise of guerrilla struggles, including the Zapatistas.

Levy, Jacques, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa, New York, W.W. Norton, 1975 , pp. 546

Bennett, Scott, Aborigines and Political Power, Sydney NSW, Allen and Unwin, 1989 , pp. 167

General analysis, includes some references to protest.

Simpson, Tony, No Bunkers Here: A Successful Nonviolent Action in a Welsh Community, Merthyr Tydfil, Nottingham and Mid-Glamorgan CND and Peace News, 1982 , pp. 47

Account of direct action campaign against the building of a nuclear-blast-proof bunker.

, Before Stonewall: Activists for Gay and Lesbian Rights in Historical Context, ed. Bullough, Vern, New York, Routledge, Harworth Gay and Lesbian Studies, 2002 , pp. 464

Survey of gay and lesbian rights issues in USA. Part 1 covers period before 1950, Parts 2 and 3 organizational activists and national figures , and Part 4 ‘Other Voices’.

Campbell, Juleann, Setting the Truth Free: The Inside Story of the Bloody Sunday Justice Campaign, Dublin, Liberties Press, 2014 , pp. 256

Detailed account of the campaign set up by the families of the 13 people killed, and 14 injured, on ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Derry in 1972. The campaign set up in 1992 succeeded, in the face of intransigence by the British authorities and indifference or open hostility of many others, in forcing the government to institute a new inquiry under Lord Justice Saville. This concluded in 2010 that the demonstrators had been unarmed, that no stones or petrol bombs had been thrown and that the civilians were not posing any threat. British Prime Minister David Cameron made a public apology in Parliament, describing the killings as ‘unjustified and unjustifiable.’ The book is written by the niece of one of those who was killed, and includes the testimonies of eyewitnesses, and a foreword by the leading civil rights lawyer, Garreth Pierce.

, Towards Democratic Viability: The Bolivian Experience, ed. Crabtree, John; Whitehead, Laurence, Basingstoke, Palgrave, 2001 , pp. 356

Hurwitz, Deena, Walking the Red Line: Israelis in Search of Justice for Palestine, Philadelphia PA, New Society Publishers, 1992 , pp. 208

Essays by 20 Israelis – some of them ‘selective objectors’ – who question standard definitions of nationalism, national security and loyalty.

, A Political Space: Reading the Global through Clayoquot Sound, ed. Magnusson, Warren; Shaw, Karena, Minneapolis MN, University of Minnesota Press, 2002 , pp. 320

Campaign on Vancouver Island, Canada, against corporate loggers trying to take over indigenous land. Protesters blocked roads against logging. Both men and women took part, but cited as a protest organized on feminist principles.

Malagreca, Miguel, Lottiamo Ancora: Reviewing One Hundred and Fifty Years of Italian Feminism, 7 4 (May) 2006 , pp. 69-89

Includes material on the second wave of Italian feminism in 1960s and 1970s and developments on divorce, family law and employment law in the 1970s and 1980s, Ends with some discussion of lesbian and queer struggles for recognition.

, The State of India's Democracy, ed. Diamond, Larry; Plattner, Marc; Ganguly, Sumit, Baltimore MD, John Hopkins University Press, 2007 , pp. 264

, Sudan: The Generals Strike Back, , , pp. 59-60

Provides a well informed summary of the context and nature of the October military coup.

See also: 'Sudan: Coup de Grace', The Economist, 27 November 2021, p. 55.

This analysis of the coup leaders' decision to reinstate Prime Minister Hamdok interprets this move as' the army tightening its grip on Sudan's political transition. 

Pannella, Marco; Angioli, Matteo, Una Libertà Felice. La Mia Vita, Milano, Edizioni Mondadori , 2016 , pp. 180

In this work, Marco Pannella, Italian journalist and politician, founder of the Partito Radicale Nonviolento Transnazionale e Transpartito (Nonviolent Radical Party, Transnational and Transparty (PRNTT)), narrates the story of his political life and devotion to nonviolence as the core principle of his political programme. He also narrates the hunger-strikes and dialogues he engaged in to pursue political objectives.

Further information about the Party can be found at http://www.radicalparty.org/, which is available in Italian, English, French, Russian, and Arabic.

The page dedicated exclusively to him can be found at https://www.partitoradicale.it/marco-pannella/ 

Lee, Paul; So, Clement; Long, Louis, Social Media and the Umbrella Movement: Insurgent Public Sphere in Formation, 8 4 2015 , pp. 356-375

The authors from the Chinese University of Hong Kong interviewed a random sample of 1011 to assess the role of social media in the Umbrella Movement. They found a positive correlation between support for the movement and reliance on social media for news and that this group also distrusted the Hong Kong authorities, the police and Chinese Government.

Fahmi, George, Are We Seeing a Second Wave of the Arab Spring?, March 2019 London, Chatham House, 2019

Dr Fahmi outlines the early months of protest in both Sudan and Algeria, and discusses parallels with 2011 in terms of being 'nationwide, sustained over time, political in nature and interconnected', with the movements encouraging each other.

Piven, Frances; Cloward, Richard, Poor People’s Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail, 1977 New York, Vintage Books, 1979 , pp. 408

Compares the efficacy of defiance and disruption with constitutional methods in four US movements.

New Internationalist, , Mao or never. China's people speak, 371 (September) 2004 , pp. 9-28

Gifford, Paul, African Christianity: Its Public Role, London, C. Hurst, 1998 , pp. 368

Christian Churches have been important in quite a few African movements. This book analyses different churches – Catholic, Protestant (mainstream), Evangelical, Pentecostal and Independent – and their beliefs, and also assesses their role in the emerging of civil society. Case studies of four countries: Ghana, Uganda, Zambia and Cameroon.

Kaplan, John, The Court Martial of the Kaohsiung Defendants, Berkeley CA, Berkeley University Press, 1981 , pp. 79

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