Political Activism

A brilliant work of narrative nonfiction BooklistMatt Taibbi is one of the few journalists in America who speaks truth to power Bernie SandersA s...

From its explosion onto Dublin's streets in October 2014 the anti- water charges campaign has changed the face of politics in Ireland. As a result ...

On February 21st 2012, five members of an obscure feminist post-punk collective called Pussy Riot staged a performance in Moscow's Cathedral of Chr...

The Gay Liberation Front founded in 1970 urged gay men and gay women to unite around a simple set of demands among which were calls for an end to d...

The early twentieth century is usually remembered as an era of rising nationalism and military hostility, culminating in the disaster of the First ...

Local faith-based NGOs (FBOs) are a major force in international development. Almost all religious traditions call followers to charity and non-pro...

Development is a difficult endeavor in any environment, much more so in places such as Myanmar with its perfect storm of extreme poverty, interna...

Today''s international arena is characterised by complex interactions and information flows among a host of actors, resulting in diffused vulnerabi...

The increasing complexity and interdependence of international NGOs has brought to the surface concerns not only about performance but about the st...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy outlined a bold new policy of reform toward Latin America which gave commitments to work with Latin American gov...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy outlined a bold new policy of reform toward Latin America which gave commitments to work with Latin American gov...

Polynesian Panthers records the Pacific rights and social activist movement in New Zealand, told by those who were there. Forming in 1971, the Poly...

In 1946 many Jewish soldiers returned to their homes in England imagining that they had fought and defeated the forces of fascism in Europe. Yet in...

My Story: Princess Sophia Duleep Singh - the thrilling story of the princess and suffragette. Born in Britain to Indian and Egyptia...

This book provides a lively account of the gilets jaunes, the yellow vest movement that has shaken France since 2018. Charles Devellennes assesses ...

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

In the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd and the resurgence of Black Lives Matter the call for the abolition of the police became a central d...

A Must-Read Book of 2020 - TIME'Should be read around the world.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist'Garza is ferociously smart and ...

In 1981, a group of women marched from Cardiff to the Greenham Common RAF base in Newbury to protest the siting of US nuclear missiles on British s...