Political Activism

*Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017* This is the history of the black radicals who organised as Communists between th...

In one of the world's most intractable and under-reported rebellions, the Naxalites have been engaged in a decades-long battle with the Indian stat...

`I had breakfast with Hugo Chavez, lunch with Bashar al-Assad, cocktails with Putin and dinner with Qadafi. Fidel Castro wooed me with flowers, p...

The Reconstruction was to be a time of rebuilding and healing for the South following the Civil War, but was marked by the continued strong hatr...

Burma's pro-democracy movement emerged in 1988 when massive demonstrations swept across the country. This book gives an account of the movement, it...

Intellectuals and the Chinese Communist Party: Radical Education during the Rising Age of Communism in China from 1920 to 1949 provides an analytic...

In 1968, Mexico prepared to host the Olympic games amid growing civil unrest. The spectacular sports facilities and urban redevelopment projects bu...

Through its millennium-long existence, Gaza has often been bitterly disputed while simulta--neously and paradoxically enduring prolonged neglect. J...

Rebel groups are often portrayed as predators, their leaders little more than warlords. In conflicts large and small, however, insurgents frequentl...

According to renowned Marxist economist Samir Amin, the recent Arab Spring uprisings comprise an integral part of a massive second awakening of the...

An inside look at al-Qaeda from 9/11 to the death of its foundertold through the words of Bin Laden and his closest circle   As seen on 60 Minutes ...

Presenting an analysis of modern-day extremism, this book explores how any group or movement--political, ideological, racial, ethnonational, religi...

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As the United States withdraws its combat troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, politicians, foreign policy specialists, and the public are worrying ab...

The deadly May 31, 2010 Gaza flotilla incident has been misunderstood. This book explores the incident in more detail than mainstream media covera...