Political Activism

A History of Riots is the result of a conference held by the London Socialist Historians Group in early 2012, designed to look again at the histori...

The so-called Democratic Antifascist Youth Movement Nashi represents a crucial case of a post-Orange government-organised formation whose values ha...

The Arab Spring uprisings were not about gender; these were uprisings demanding rights for all. Yet, they presented a rare opportunity for women to...

Policing Transnational Protest offers an original perspective on the history of police surveillance of anticolonial activists in France, Britain, a...

From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dram...

How do some national-secessionist campaigns get on the global agenda whereas others do not? Which projects for new nation-states, Philip Roeder ask...

In 1948, inspired by changes to federal law, Massachusetts government officials started hatching a plan to build multiple highways circling and cut...

How can we understand and contest the global wave of violence against women? In this book, Alison Brysk shows that gender violence across countries...

A vivid story of the men and women who took a stand when sport mixed with politics. In 1971, when the racially selected all-white Springbok rugby...

The young generation aren't apathetic. We're disenfranchised, under or unemployed, insecure and anxious. But we're also angry. We know there are al...

This is the first collection of essays on Chartism by leading social historian Dorothy Thompson, whose work radically transformed the way in which ...

In 1930, on 1 September, 100,000 workers, employed and unemployed, marched through Budapest under the slogan 'Work and Bread!'. Many were injured a...

In its heyday, the United Farm Workers was an embodiment of its slogan Yes, we can-in the form ¡Sí, Se Puede!-winning many labor victories, securin...

Since the first wave of uprisings in 2011, the euphoria of the Arab Spring has given way to the gloom of backlash and a descent into mayhem and war...

The 1980s saw one of the largest social movements in US history, as activists fought to change the Reagan Administrations policy of supporting righ...

This volume of Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change is divided into two parts. Part I presents a series of cases that tie together na...

This book is about the global crisis and the right to resistance, about neoliberal biopolitics and direct democracy, about the responsibility of in...

In January 2007, the students of the radical Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) took over a childrens library in protest of the Government of Pakistans decisi...