Political Activism

This volume brings together articles on the law of armed conflict and the use of force from the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law...

The law of neutrality - the corpus of legal rules regulating the relationship between belligerents and States taking no part in hostilities - assum...

This fourth volume in the Hidden Voices Series is about Oukasie, a township in the Madibeng municipality. At various times in its history, its inha...

This is the life and times of Jabu Ndlovuwife, mother, worker, union activistwho fought for the rights of her fellow workers and community members....

Why is it that some social movements engaged in contentious politics experience radicalization whereas others do not? The Dynamics of Radicalizatio...

Revolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of contentious...

The demise of apartheid was one of the great achievements of postwar history, sought after and celebrated by a progressive global community. Lookin...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless: he was subtle and manipulative. Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work fo...

Miami, Summer 1968. The Vietnam War is raging; Martin Luther King, Jr., and Bobby Kennedy have just been assassinated. The Republican Party meets i...

Women in conflict zones face a wide range of violence from a variety of sources: from physical and psychological trauma to political, economic and ...

Athletes across the globe have engaged in high profile protests against state violence since NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernicks refusal to stand dur...

Previously published as The BidThe prisoner who wakes up in a box miles from anywhere.The jailer who doesnt question his job.The shipment of drones...

**A Telegraph Best History Book 2023 and Spectator Book of the Year**The inspirational story of the ordinary people who forged the documents that s...

From the Mangrove Nine to Notting Hill Carnival, writer and social commentator Chanté Joseph takes us through the formative, radical histories of B...

When the tech platforms promised a future of connection, they were lying. They said their walled gardens would keep us safe, but those were prison ...

In this fully illustrated introduction, acclaimed historian Dr Aaron Edwards provides a concise overview of one of the most difficult and controver...

This is the inside story of an Army Ranger, surrounded and outnumbered, fighting a desperate action on the ground during the Black Hawk Down raid i...

'Brings out the practical activism, principled politics, and revolutionary patience crucial to organizing the oppressed on a rapidly over-heating p...

'Vigorously affirming anarchism's plurality, the authors make a powerful case for the reconfiguration of anticolonial struggle' Ruth Kinna, Profess...

Two occupied buildings: one the former headquarters of the NO-DO (a Francoist propaganda outlet) that has been taken over by a small group of fasci...

The New Yorker's award-winning war correspondent returns to his own country to chronicle a story of mounting civic breakdown and violent disorder, ...