Demonstrations & Protest Movements

From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonmen...

The Jackson County Rebellion explores a dramatic if little-known populist insurgency in the American West. Author Jeff LaLande takes a deep dive in...

The wave of uprisings and revolutions that swept the Middle East and North Africa between 2010 and 2012 were most vividly transmitted throughout th...

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy...

This book looks into the role of women of Sheffield and how it has evolved from the powerlessness of a woman involved in a wife sale, to the achiev...

In 1918, after years of campaigning, many British women over the age of 30 gained a parliamentary vote. Cheltenham was the hub of activity in the C...

On 16 August 1819 on St Peter''s Field, Manchester, a peaceful demonstration of some 60,000 workers and reformers was brutally dispersed by sabrewi...

Crowds and Party channels the energies of the riotous crowds who took to the streets in the past five years into an argument for the political part...

'This is mindful activism . . . thought-out, strategic and engaging' Guardian'I love what Sarah does! It's quiet activism for everyone including in...

Over the last forty years, the landscape of the USA has been fundamentally transformed. It is partially visible in the ascendance of glittering coa...

A critique of capital through the lens of war, and a critique of war through the lens of the revolution of 1968. We are at war, declared the P...

Cyril Pustan lived an extraordinary life. He was born into an Orthodox Jewish household in London in 1929 where his father was a refugee from the p...

In Our Bloc, Momentum co-founder James Schneider lays out an action plan for the British left. To move from defeatism to renewed confidence, he pro...

This book is a wide-ranging survey of the rise of mass movements for democracy and workers rights in northern England from 1789 to 1848. It is a pr...

This is the first collection of essays on Chartism by leading social historian Dorothy Thompson, whose work radically transformed the wa...

Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation, with speeches from Olly Alexander, Sir Elton John, Aliso...

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead B...

In discussions about people power or nonviolent action, most people will immediately think of Gandhi or Martin Luther King, a few will recall the e...

First there was the Arab Spring, then the Indignados, then Occupy Wall Street. And then there was the Printemps erable the Maple Spring. In 2011, p...

In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin's state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected occupation by union members an...

In early 2011, the nation was stunned to watch Wisconsin''s state capitol in Madison come under sudden and unexpected occupation by union members a...

They are reviled. For centuries the Roma have wandered Europe; during the Holocaust half a million were killed. After World War II and during the T...

This book brings together an extraordinary wealth of experience and will be an eye-opener for many readers. It seeks to provide an introduction to...

Contesting Austerity compares the contentious responses to austerity in Portugal and Spain between 2008 and 2015. While in Spain a sustained wave o...

In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government leased over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natu...

A seminal work on the power of nonviolent action, this classic book outlines, in a systematic way, the elements involved in successfully opposing m...

A highly relevant, inclusive collection of voices from the roots of resistance. . . . Empowering words to challenge, confront, and defy.--Kirkus Re...

Charged is an essential investigation into the role of policing protest in Britain today. As the UK government tries to suppress all forms of disse...

This book draws upon original research into womens workplace protest to deliver a new account of working-class womens political identity and partic...

In 2012 and 2013, masses of French citizens took to the streets to demonstrate against a bill on gay marriage. But demonstrators were not merely de...

In a comprehensive and theoretically novel analysis, Take Back Our Future unveils the causes, processes, and implications of the 2014 seventy-nine-...