Revolutionary Groups & Movements

During WW2, a group of Jewish refugees (intellectuals, writers, artists and athletes - most from Germany and Austria) escaped to Britain and were i...

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...

In words and photographs, here is the story of the controversial Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton. The words ...

A sweeping overview of civil resistance movements around the world that explains what they are, how they work, why they are often effective, and wh...

This book discusses research on civil wars. Chapter One focuses on conceptual and methodological grounding of the synergetic approach to mental imm...

In popular understanding, the Ku Klux Klan is a hateful white supremacist organization. In Ku Klux Kulture, Felix Harcourt argues that in the 1920s...

Extraordinary national acclaim accompanied the publication of award-winning historian Linda Gordons disturbing and markedly timely history of the r...

*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...

An accessible biography of one of the most influential figures of recent times based on new, original research.Che Guevara is something of a symbol...

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...

Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest-rallying others aro...

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

From their earliest meetings, activist David Graeber knew that the Occupy Wall Street movement was something different. From small beginnings its d...

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Jeffrey C. A...

Former BBC Middle East correspondent, Jeremy Bowen was on the ground for them as revolutions swept through the region. Realising this as a game-cha...