Political Activism

The Autonomous Life? is an ethnography of the squatters' movement in Amsterdam written by an anthropologist who lived and worked in a squatters' co...

Founded in the 1970s and today active in more than 40 countries, the Animal Liberation Front has in recent years been considered a domestic terrori...

In 1889, Samuel Winkworth Silver's rubber and electrical factory was the site of a massive worker revolt that upended the London industrial distric...

Intended for the general reader with an interest in American history, this book profiles eleven women who made enduring contributions to society...

In 1907 suffragette Annie Kenney brought the militants' fight for women's right to vote to Bristol. For the next few years the city rang with the c...

Beginning with responses to fascism in the 1930s and ending with protests against the Iraq wars, David McCarthy shows how American artists - includ...

Eqbal Ahmad (1930?-1999) was a bold and original activist, journalist, and theorist who brought uncommon perspective to the rise of militant Islam,...

Celebrity philanthropy comes in many guises, but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions, pretensions and wrongheadedness than U2's icon...

The most dramatic, revealing and little-known story in Turkey's history - which illuminates the nation'Through the spellbinding career of a single,...

'Defying the Dragon' tells a remarkable story of audacity: of how the people of Hong Kong challenged the PRCs authority, just as its president reac...

In this #1 national bestseller, a journalist who's been attacked by Antifa writes a deeply researched and reported account of the group's history a...

A timeless collection of quotations by visionaries who have been catalysts for change - through the ages and across the globeYou Had Better Make So...

The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the voice of a generation'Everything needs to cha...

South African poet and political activist Dennis Brutus (1924-2009) wrote poetry of the most exquisite lyrical beauty and intense power. And throug...