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Steele, Jonathan, Eternal Russia: Yeltsin, Gorbachev and the Mirage of Democracy, London, Faber and Faber, 1994

Chapter 4, pp. 59-70, gives an eye witness account of the coup and stresses the inefficiency of the plotters and the limited popular response to Yeltsin’s call for popular defiance and a general strike.

, Cries for Democracy: Writings and Speeches from the 1989 Chinese Democracy Movement, ed. Han, Minzhu, Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 1990 , pp. 401

Collection of materials from the protest movement.

Neocosmos, Michael, From People’s Politics to State Politics: Aspects of National Liberation in South Africa, In Adebayo Olukoshi, The Politics of Opposition in Contemporary Africa (E. I.2.1.i. General Overviews) Uppsala, Nordiska Afikrainstitutet, 1998 , pp. 195-241

Discusses the post-1990 statist supplanting of ‘the popular emancipatory project’.

Duncan, Emma, Breaking the Curfew: A Political Journey through Pakistan, London, Arrow Books, 1990 , pp. 312

A journalist (now deputy editor of the Economist) provides her perspective on Pakistan in the 1980s.

May, Rachel, ”Surviving All Changes is Your Destiny”: Violence and Popular Movements in Guatemala, 26 2 1999 , pp. 68-91

Examines the impact of violence on popular movements and how they adapted.

Dalton, John, The Moral Vision of Cesar Chavez and the Farm Worker Movement, New York, Harcourt Brace, 1988 , pp. 350

, Indigenous Peoples and the Nation State: ‘Fourth World’ Politics in Canada, Australia and Norway, ed. Dyck, Noel, St John’s Nfld, Institute of Social and Economic Research, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1985 , pp. 263

McCrea, Frances; Markle, Gerald, Minutes to Midnight: Nuclear Weapons Protest in America 1950s-80s, Newbury Park CA, Sage, 1989 , pp. 200

Mama, Amina; Okazawa-Reis, Margo, Militarism, Conflict and Women’s Activism in the Global Environment: Challenges and Prospects for Women in three West African Countries, 101 (July) 2012 , pp. 97-123

Focus on examples from Nigerian, Sierra Leone and Liberian civil wars over several decades.

McCluskey, Conn, Up Off Their Knees: A Commentary on the Civil Rights Movement in Northern Ireland, Republic of Ireland, Conn McCluskey & Associates, 1989 , pp. 245

Account of origins and development of the movement by an activist who played a key role in its foundation.

International Institute for Population Sciences (IIPS), ; ICF, , National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4), 2015-16: India, Mumbai, IIPS, 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.

Rentschler, Carrie, #MeToo and Student Activism against Sexual Violence Communication, 11 3 2018 , pp. 503-507

This article examines how students organize and use media to address sexual violence, the problem of faculty/student relationships, and the failures of some institutional response. It notes, in particular, how students make sexual violence public through the use of open letters; how they create anonymous and informal online reporting platforms for students to disclose sexual violence; and how they model practices of accountability and survivor-centred care.

Fauzan, Achmad; Schiller, Jim, After Fukushima: The rise of resistance to nuclear energy in Indonesia, Essen, Germany, German Asia Foundation, 2011 , pp. 35

Evaluates the worldwide impact of the Fukushima disaster in Japan and provides an account of the dynamics of the anti-nuclear power movement in Indonesia.

Bayer, Markus; Bethke, Felix; Lambach, Daniel, Levelling the Political Playing Field: How Nonviolent Resistance Influences Power Relations after Democratic Transition, 6 1 2020 , pp. 103-133

This article examines the important question of how far nonviolent resistance promotes peaceful and democratic political outcomes after the overthrow of  a dictatorial or authoritarian regime, as claimed in the nonviolence literature. The authors develop hypotheses about the likelihood of more egalitarian and peaceful relations at a governmental and party political level, and a greater political role for civil society, as a result of use of nonviolent resistance. These hypotheses are examined by comparing post-transition politics in Benin (an impressive example of successful nonviolent resistance) and Namibia (where in 1966 the South West African People's Organization began an armed struggle for independence from apartheid South Africa).

Nanda, Bal, Gandhi and His Critics, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 1985 , pp. 178

Nanda, who has also written a balanced biography of Gandhi and studies of other Indian leaders close to Gandhi (including Gandhi’s early mentor Gokhale), here examines controversial aspects of Gandhi’s life and thought.

Hiscocks, Richard, Poland: Bridge for the Abyss?, London, Oxford University Press, 1963 , pp. 359

Burma Campaign UK, , The Burma Campaign UK,

Askanius, Tina; Uldam, Julie, Online Social Media for Radical Politics: Climate Change Activism on You Tube, 4 2 , pp. smaller than 0

Discusses evolution of alternative media campaigning from the 15th UN Climate Conference in Copenhagen, December 2009.

Achcar, Gilbert, 'From One Arab Spring to Another', , pp. smaller than 0

In this article (partially adapted from an interview in Marxist Left Review 19, but rewritten and updated) Achcar begins by situating 2011 within a global crisis of the neoliberal stage of capitalism. He also notes the specific features of the region, and comments on the defeat of the workers' movement and the left in Egypt, and then turns to prospects in Algeria. Sudan, Lebanon and Iraq.

Jasper, James, The Art of Moral Protest: Culture, Biography, and Creativity in Social Movements, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997 , pp. 514

Takes up the challenge that ‘most academic theories of social movements are not prepared to explain the full range of protest goals and activities, especially those of privileged rather than oppressed citizens’, specifically drawing on the US environmental, anti-nuclear energy, and animals rights movements.

Tai, Zixue, The Internet in China: Cyberspace and Civil Society, London, Routledge, 2006 , pp. 365

, War and Society: The Militarisation of South Africa, ed. Nathan, Laurie; Cock, Jacklyn, New York, St. Martins Press, 1989 , pp. 361

See also Laurie Nathan, Force of Arms, Force of Conscience: A Study of Militarisation, the Military and the Anti-Apartheid War Resisters’ Movement in South Africa, 1970-1988, Bradford, University of Bradford, 1990 .

Nathan was a leading activist in the End Conscription Campaign.

Tilly, Charles, Social Movements, 1768-2004, Boulder CO, Paradigm Publishers, 2004 , pp. 204

Chapter 5, pp. 95-122, ‘Social Movements enter the Twenty-First Century’, takes as its starting point the January 2001 text message in Manila, ‘Go EDSA, Wear black’ and goes on to discuss the relationship between social movements and communications technology with further details on unrest in Manila.

Kaufman, Edy, The Role of the political parties in the redemocratization of Uruguay, In Saul Sosnowski, Louise B. Popkin, Repression, Exile and Democracy: Uruguayan Culture, Durham NC, Duke University Press, 1993 , pp. 272 , pp. 17-58

Includes references to role of ‘truly peaceful resistance’ in 1983.

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