Political Activism

The emergent Indignados movement in Spain is transforming Spanish politics and society, heralding an end to the Transition since Franco, and respon...

With lively, informative contributions by both scholars and activists, Bucking Conservatism highlights the individuals and groups who challenged Al...

The principle of the 'lesser evil'-the acceptability of pursuing one exceptional course of action in order to prevent a greater injustice-has long ...

Being Numerous shatters the mainstream consensus on politics, personhood, and truth, and offers in its place a bracing analysis of a perilous world...

Originally published in 2012 to wide acclaim, this updated edition, Why It's Still Kicking Off Everywhere, includes coverage of the most recent eve...

Kristin Ross's new work on the thought and culture of the Communard uprising of 1871 resonates with the motivations and actions of contemporary pro...

What is your name? asked General Mohammad.  Matthew, I said. I had stopped saying Matt a while ago because it means dead' in Arabic.  On New Year...

Discover the truth behind the headlines with this collection of Private Eye's popular reportage column Scene & Heard, including previously unse...

Fifty years ago, an eruption of armed violence traumatized Northern Ireland and transformed a period of street protest over civil rights into decad...

For the first time, Ciro Bustos, Che's right-hand man in the struggle for Argentina, tells his story. As a young man inspired by the example of Cub...

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

The world is facing a wave of uprisings, protests and revolutions: Arab dictators swept away, public spaces occupied, slum-dwellers in revolt, cybe...

This state of the union is not normal.In this clothbound, hardcover volume, acclaimed artist Ward Schumaker transforms the egregious utterances of ...

The Russian Revolution is remembered as the catalyst for the bloody conflict between the Reds and the Whites as each side tried to gain control of ...

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...

1918 was a watershed moment for the development of British democracy: for the first time, some women could vote. The occasion marked the culminatio...

The wit and wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, British statesman and twice Prime Minister of the United Kingdom with a new foreword by Lord Lexden. Di...

What if your own government deliberately creates terrorists? What if their short-term aims deposing regimes that no longer serve Western interests...

Most personal histories of apartheid in Southern Africa tell the story of the armed struggle. This book is about opposition to apartheid within the...

Throughout the twentieth century Scottish miners resisted deindustrialisation through collective action and by leading the campaign for Home Rule. ...

Scrutinises the political strategies and ideological evolution of Islamist actors and forces following the Arab uprisingsWhat role does political I...

Why populations brutalized in war elect their tormentorsOne of the great puzzles of electoral politics is how parties that commit mass atrocities i...