Political Activism

In the wake of the global financial crisis, new forms of social organization are beginning to take shape. Disparate groups of people are coming tog...

Martin Luther King once insisted that 'a riot is the language of the unheard.' Since 2011 swathes of protest, rebellion, and rioting have covered t...

In 1915, Puerto Rican activist Luisa Capetillo was arrested for wearing men's trousers in public. This act of rebellion was the result of a lifelon...

*****''There have been many books written about the events of Bloody Sunday, however, none has wrenched the reader as violently back to those CS ga...

Compelling. The Guardian An insightful and inspiring history. BBC History Magazine A tantalising revelatory book. The House Brisk and illuminating....

The rise of American Empire has coincided with appeals for a more humane war. But what if efforts to make war more ethical-to ban torture and limit...

Illustrated with examples from contemporary culture, from Grand Theft Auto and Robin Thicke to US Presidential campaigns and online abuse of female...

Anti-racist scholar-activism raises urgent questions about the role of contemporary universities and the academics that work within them. As profou...

'Nathan Law's agonising account of China's ruthless takeover of Hong Kong provides a terrible insight into Beijing's ambitions - the world needs to...

A surge of African American enrolment and student activism brought Black Studies to many US campuses in the 1960s. Sixty years later, Black Studies...

'A powerful even startling book that challenges the shibboleths of 'white' anarchism'. Its analysis of police violence and the threat of fascism ...

Alaa Abd el-Fattah is arguably the most high-profile political prisoner in Egypt, if not the Arab world, rising to international prominence during ...

Vanessa Nakate continues to teach a most critical lesson. She reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm, we are not all in the same boa...

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  Kamala Harris: politician, attorney, trailblazer. Award-winning children's author, Leila Rasheed, explores the life of th...

'John Feffer is our 21st-century Jack London' - Mike Davis In a post-Trump world, the right is still very much in power. Significantly more than h...

An essential, comprehensive account of what white feminism is, and an empowering manifesto for revolution For readers of Reni Eddo-Lodge''s Why I'...

'An inspiring rallying cry for activists everywhere to work together to build a just, ecosocialist future' - Grace Blakeley Time is up. The climat...

A collection of the New Yorkers groundbreaking writing on race in America, including work by James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Ta-Nehisi C...

Over the last five years, transgender people have seemed to burst into the public eye: Time declared 2014 a trans tipping point, while American Vog...

A revealing memoir, laying open the cruel truth behind the longstanding ban on LGBT+ personnel serving openly in H.M. Forces.Discover the human cos...

More than forty years ago a womens liberation movement called man ribu was born in Japan amid conditions of radicalism, violence, and imperialist a...