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Roy, Denny, Taiwan: A Political History, Ithaca NT, Cornell University Press, 2003 , pp. 255

Chapter 6 examines the opposition’s struggle and breakthrough.

Gott, Richard, Hugo Chavez and his Bolivarian Revolution, London, Verso, 2005 , pp. 315

Analysis sympathetic to Chavez, includes a section on the popular uprising following the 2002 coup.

Coates, Ken, Work-ins, Sit-ins and Industrial Democracy, Nottingham, Spokesman Books, 1981 , pp. 175

An account of sit-ins or work-ins to prevent workplace closures in Britain in early 1970s, and an examination of subsequent experiments in workers’ control.

Dekar, Paul, The Australian No Uranium Mining Campaign, 16 3 (Jul-Sep) 2000 , pp. 27-26

See also: Caroline Milburn, Australia: Women at forefront of Jabiluka resistance, 1999 pp. smaller than 0

Shawcross, William, Side Show: Kissinger, Nixon an d the Destruction of Cambodia, 1979 London, Andre Deutsch and Fontana, 1980 , pp. 467

Detailed analysis of the evolution of the US war on Cambodia.

, Come Together: The Years of Gay Liberation 1970-73, ed. Walter, Aubrey, London, Heretic Books, 1981 , pp. 218

Based on articles from the newspaper Come Together. Walter was one of the founders of the British Gay Liberation Front.

, Everywhere Taksim: Sowing the Seeds for a New Turkey at Gezi, ed. David, Isabel; Toktamis, Kumru, Amsterdam, Amsterdam University Press, 2015 , pp. 256

Alexander, Robert, The Tragedy of Chile, Westport CT, Greenwood Press, 1978 , pp. 509

El-Mahdi, Rabab, Orientalising the Egyptian uprising, Pambazuka News, 2011

suggesting a non-western interpretation of events.

Olivera, Oscar; Lewis, Tom, ¡Cochabamba! Water War in Bolivia, Cambridge MA, South End Press, 2004 , pp. 224

Gress, David, Peace and Survival: West Germany, the Peace Movement and European Security, Stanford CA, Hoover Institution Press, 1985 , pp. 266

Mamonova, Tatyana, Women and Russia: Feminist Writings from the Soviet Union, Boston MA, Beacon Press, 1984 , pp. 272

Mamonova and three others in the group were forced into exile by the KGB.

, Gathering Visions, Gathering Strength, ed. Bierley, John, Bradford and London, GVGS Publishing Group and Peace News, 1998 , pp. 39

Report of conference of that title bringing together nonviolent activists from different campaigns and different generations.

Sadiqi, Fatima; Ouguir, Aziza, Reflecting on feminism in Africa. A conversation from Morocco, 17 2 2018 , pp. 269-278

Interview with Fatima Sadiqi, professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies, on the discourse around feminism, Islam, gender equality, social justice and democracy in Morocco.

, Mexico: Submission to the Committee On the Elimination of Violence Against Women, Amnesty International, 2018 , pp. 13

This report sets out Amnesty International’s concerns about the Mexican state’s failure to comply with observations of the Committee (in the combined seventh and eighth periodic reports) on violence against women. Amnesty notes in particular the murder of women for gender-based motives, also known as “femicides”, the gender alert mechanism, disappearances of women, and the torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of women during detention, which is exacerbated in the context of a militarization of public security.

Gaetano, Arianne, Out to Work: Migration, Gender and the Changing Lives of Rural Women in Contemporary China, Honolulu, Hawaii, University of Hawaii Press, 2015 , pp. 232

The author’s research spans the period 1998 -2012 to chart the impact of the economic reforms on rural women drawn into urban areas, often employed in domestic service or in hotels and office cleaning. She notes how this migration of cheap and flexible labour from the countryside has underpinned high levels of urban consumption, and both helped to empower the women migrants and to perpetuate gendered forms of difference and inequality.

See also: Chang, Leslie T., Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China, New York, Penguin Random House, 2009, pp. 448 (pb).

Chang, who was a journalist for the Wall Street Journal inside China, revealed the lives of migrant women working on assembly lines in an industrial city, primarily by focusing on the experiences of two young women for three years.  Her book which won awards in the USA, threw light on a previously unknown area, and illustrated the very mixed impact of the economic reforms and migration from the countryside on women’s opportunities.

Woods, Lucy, Young Climate Heroes, Mar-Apr 2020 , , pp. 67-72

Survey of youth climate activism in schools and universities in Canada, focused on the climate impacts of excess consumption and fast fashion, symbolized by the November 2019 'Black Friday' shopping spree. Based on interviews with six young Canadians involved in a rang e of environmental activism. 

, The Syrian Uprising: Domestic Origins and Early Trajectory, ed. Hinnenbusch, Raymond; Imady, Omar, London, Routledge, 2018 , pp. 358

Scholarly, interdisciplinary analysis of the Assad regime and of the first two years of the uprising. The book explores the nature of the uprising, reasons for the lack of success, and why it turned into an increasingly sectarian civil war.

See also: Hinnenbusch, Raymond, Omar Imady and Tina Zintl, 'Civil Resistance in the Syrian Uprising: From Peaceful Protest to Sectarian Civil War', in Adam Roberts, Michael J. Willis, Rory McCarthy and Timothy Garton Ash, eds. Civil Resistance in the Arab Spring  (E.V.B.a.), pp. 223-47.

An overview with a focus on the role, possibilities and limitations of civil resistance in the specific context of the Assad regime, and the realities of the civil war from 2012 and the rise of ISIS.

Ishkanian, Armine, Democracy Building in Post-Soviet Armenia, London, Routledge, 2008 , pp. 206

Critical assessment of western support for civil society groups, noting that it can create a backlash and needs to be considered in the historical, social and cultural context of the country involved. Also makes comparisons with other post-Soviet states.

Gros, Jean-Germain, The Hard Lessons of Cameroon, 6 3 (July) 1995 , pp. 112-127

Includes comments on the role of the French government in supporting Biya.

Mailer, Phil, Portugal: the Impossible Revolution, 1977 London, Merlin Press, 2012 , pp. 276

Firsthand account from Irish libertarian socialist, looking beyond parties and discussing agrarian and urban social struggles.

Kerr, Michael; Knudsen, Are, Lebanon: After the Cedar Revolution, London, C. Hurst, 2012 , pp. 256

Covers Lebanon since the mass movement in response to Hariri’s assassination, covering the role of Hizbollah and other political groupings.

Bailey, Ron, The Squatters, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1973 , pp. 206

Covers the London Squatters Campaign 1968-71, but notes background of the mass movement by homeless people in Britain at the end of the Second World War to occupy military bases, and later luxury flats, in 1945-46.

Piscopo, Jennifer; Slavelis, Peter, Chile's Constitutional Moment, 120 823 2021 , pp. 43-49

The authors comment on the significance of the nearly 80 per cent support in the October 2020 referendum for a new constitution, to be decided upon by a special assembly. They also note the scale of the year-long movement which had achieved this concession by the conservative government, and the diversity of those demanding greater social and economic equality and political change.  The article then focuses on the problems of both satisfying the diverse socio-economic and ideological groups involved in the struggle and of changing the institutional context that maintained the legacy of the Pinochet dictatorship. 

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