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Starr, Stephen, Revolt in Syria: Eyewitness to the Uprising, London , Hurst, 2015 , pp. 178 pb

In this book, which was well reviewed, Starr - an Irish journalist - provides a detailed account of the complex nature of Syrian society with its many minorities and why some supported Assad. He had worked in Syria since 2007 and was able to send reports from inside the country to a range of respected US and UK newspapers during the nonviolent uprising and the subsequent civil war. His account is based partly on interviews with a wide range of people with diverse allegiances and viewpoints.

al., et; Cohen, Ilana, As Protests Rage Over George Floyd’s Death, Climate Activists Embrace Racial Justice, , pp. smaller than 0

Highlights the establishment of joint effort between racial justice movements and climate justice movements in the United States in the aftermath of George Floyd’s killing.

Smith, Alison; Bennett, George, Kenya: from “White Man’s Country” to Kenyatta’s state 1945-1963, In D. A. Low, Alison Smith, History of East Africa, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1976 London, Clarendon Press, 1976 , pp. 109-156

Summary of developing African opposition, including early ‘passive resistance’ and land protests, attempts at unionization, and links with the East African Indian National Congress, as well as role of Mau Mau.

Valiyev, Anar, Parliamentary elections in Azerbaijan: A failed revolution, 53 3 (May/June) 2006 , pp. 17-35

Argues that despite violence used against opposition and shattered hopes, the protests promoted increased political participation.

Heine, Hartmut, La oposición al franquismo: de 1939 a 1952, Critica, 1983 , pp. 502

Pearlman, Wendy, Violence, Nonviolence, and the Palestinian National Movement, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011 , pp. 304

Fagan, Adam, Environment and Democracy in the Czech Republic: The Environmental Movement in the Transition Process, Aldershot, Edward Elgar, 2004 , pp. 200

General analysis of movement in 1990s and case studies of individual environmental organizations.

Foner, Philip, American Labor and the Indochina War: The Growth of Union Opposition, New York, International Publishers, 1971 , pp. 126

Traces the emergence of (belated) trade union opposition from a November 1967 conference in Chicago, attended by 523 trade unionists from 38 states and 63 international unions, which established the trade union division of the peace organization SANE. Includes a chapter on labour-student alliances.

Silva de Assis, C., Transgendering the media: Trans Media Watch and the struggle over representations of transgender in the British media, Utrecht, University of Utrecht, Faculty of Humanities Theses, 2014 , pp. 100

, Ukraine's Euromaidan: Analyses of a Civil Revolution, ed. Marples, David; Mills, Frederick, Stuttgart and Hannover, Ibidem Press, 2015 , pp. 304, pb.

Collection of essays edited by two historians at the University of Alberta. Topics cover the role of nationalism, the issue of the Russian language, the mass media, the motives and aims of the protesters, gender issues, and the impact of Euromaidan on politics in Ukraine, the EU, Russia and also Belarus. The Russian annexation of Crimea, and the creation of pro-Russian republics in the east of Ukraine and ensuing wars are covered in an epilogue.

Prandini, Mariana, Liberating abortion pills in legally restricted settings, in Henne, Kathryn and Rita Shah (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Public Criminologies New York and London, Taylor & Francis, 2020 , pp. 120-130

Mariana Prandini examines how Brazilian feminists mobilized against the criminalization of abortion in August 2018, when people from different countries in Latin America gathered for a week for the Festival for Women’s Lives. Brazilian, Uruguayan and Argentinian activists exchanged information about their own struggles for abortion rights. Prandini also analyses the criminalization of the abortion pill and its effect on abortion activism in Brazil.

Pasqual, Cira, Women and the crisis in Venezuela: a conversation with Gioconda Mota, , pp. smaller than 0

Venezuela veteran activist for women’s rights, Gioconda Mota, discusses the growth of feminist movements in Venezuela. She pays particular attention to how they have contributed to the improvement of existing legal frameworks on the issue of gender violence and women’s role in the economy, and how much work is still needed with regard to dissident sexualities and abortion. She also discusses the predominantly sexist nature of justice administration, and the lack of women’s participation in strategic spheres of power, despite the increased participation in communal councils, social organisations and committees. She also sheds light on the feminisation of poverty, due to the double burden of productivity and care on women. The interview with Mota came after a group of feminist researchers released a ground-breaking report on the situation of women’s human rights in Venezuela, called ‘Desde Nosotras’ (From Us), whose 250 pages reveal the key challenges facing the political, economic, health, sexual and reproductive rights of Venezuelan women today.

, Coalitions And Political Movements. The Lessons Of The Nuclear Freeze, ed. Rochon, Thomas; Meyer, Davi, Boulder and London, Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1997 , pp. 278

Analyses the ‘Nuclear Freeze’ movement, the largest mass movement in the U.S. in the 1980s, that addressed the dangers of the ‘Second Cold War’ between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The book highlights the development of the movement; its social and political impact; and its transformation in the 1990s. 

Feldman, Daniel; Alibašić, Haris, The Remarkable 2018 "Velvet Revolution": Armenia's Experiment Against Government Corruption, 21 4 2019 , pp. 420-432

Feldman attended a conference on anti-corruption organized by the new government in 2018 with judges, prosecutors and investigators. The focus of the article is an examination of how far the nature of the rebellion (and its wider context) might be expected to promote a more democratic government committed to end corruption. After making comparisons with other countries, they provisionally conclude that the prospects for a transition to a government respecting the rule of law are positive.

Haberkorn, Tyrell, The Anniversary of a Massacre and the Death of a Monarch, 76 2 2017 , pp. 269-281

Haberkorn begins by describing a photographic exhibition at Thammasat university of the massacre of students there in October 1976 in connection with a military coup. The exhibition in October 2016, which commemorated the fortieth anniversary of that tragedy, had particular resonance in the context of the 2014 military coup and the death of the king after 70 years on the throne in 2016.

Index on Censorship, , Index on Censorship, 9, No 1, Feburary London, Index on Censorship, 1980

This issue is largely dedicated to dissent in China.

Luthuli, Albert, Let My People Go!, London, Collins, 1962 , pp. 256

Autobiography of President of ANC from 1952 to 1967, and Nobel Prize winner.

Vanaik, Achin, The New Himalayan Republic, 49 (Jan/Feb) 2008 , pp. 47-72

Analyses the ‘Second Democratic Revolution’ of April 2006, which led to the end of the Nepali Monarchy in December 2007, and the historical background to the revolution, with a particular focus on the role of the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist).

Burbach, Roger, Ecuador: The Popular Rebellion against the “Partidocracia” and the Neo-Liberal State, Berkeley CA, Center for the Study of the Americas, 2007

Tyler, Imogen, Revolting Subjects: Social Abjection and Resistance in Neoliberal Britain, London, Zed Books, 2013 , pp. 224

Begins with forced eviction (despite their resistance) of about 500 travellers from their homes in 2011, and explores exclusion and labelling of a range of ‘abjected’ groups (treated as scapegoats) and denigration of their resistance. Main focus on Britain, but makes comparisons with other oppressed groups, such as those in the Niger Delta.

Smith, Jackie; Glidden, Bob, Occupy Pittsburgh and the challenges of participatory democracy, 11 3-4 2012 , pp. 288-294

, Staining the Wattle, ed. Burgmann, Verity; Lee, Jenny, Ringwood VIC, McPhee Gribble/Penguin Books, 1988 , pp. 308

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