Revolutionary Groups & Movements

A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceWhy the conventional wisdom about the Arab Spring is wrongThe Arab Spring promised to end dictatorship a...

The surprising story of how George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson came to despair for the future of the nation th...

If the rise of Islamic State can overthrow powerful states in a matter of weeks, what kind of a secure future can the world expect? After more than...

What was Martin Luther King Jr. really like? In this ground breaking volume, Lewis V. Baldwin focuses on the man himself. Drawing on the testimonie...

The emergent Indignados movement in Spain is transforming Spanish politics and society, heralding an end to the Transition since Franco, and respon...

For the first time, Ciro Bustos, Che's right-hand man in the struggle for Argentina, tells his story. As a young man inspired by the example of Cub...

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy...

1918 was a watershed moment for the development of British democracy: for the first time, some women could vote. The occasion marked the culminatio...

Scrutinises the political strategies and ideological evolution of Islamist actors and forces following the Arab uprisingsWhat role does political I...

For nearly 700 years debate has raged over the true nature of William Wallace and his role in Scotlands turbulent history. Was he the Braveheart of...

A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England - soon followed by Scotland and Ireland...

A smouldering tinderbox of social, religious and constitutional revolution, mid-seventeenth-century England - soon followed by Scotland and Ireland...

In October 1944, the US Office of Strategic Services described the Irgun Tsvai Leumi - National Military Organization - as 'an underground, quasi-m...

The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day. Student...

Against the usual argument heard most frequently on the left, that there is no subject for a radical politics together with its form of political m...

Marx's Philosophy of Revolution in Permanence for Our Day, a selection of writings by the Marxist-Humanist philosopher and revolutionary Raya Dunay...

A woman ahead of her time, Lucy Parsons was an early American radical who defied all the conventions of her turbulent era. Born in 1853 in Texas, s...

The first book to comprehensively examine how the Black Panther Party has directly shaped the practices and ideas that have animated grassroots act...

War and Revolution identifies and takes to task a reactionary trend among contemporary historians. It is a revisionist tendency discernible in the ...

Since early 2007 a new breed of combatants has appeared on the streets of Mogadishu and other towns in Somalia: the 'Shabaab', or youth, the only s...

In 1969, several young men met on a rainy night in Kabul to form an Islamist student group. Their aim was laid out in a simple typewritten statemen...

The eruption of the anti-Assad revolution in Syria has had many unintended consequences, among which is the opportunity it offered Sunni jihadists ...

In the Spring of 2017, activist, journalist and hip-hop artist Marcel Cartier was given exclusive access to the structures set up in the predominat...

This book explores how news and information about the conflict in Northern Ireland was disseminated through the most accessible, powerful and popul...

The historical studies presented here examine four ideologies Leninism, Trotskyism, anarchism, and anti-imperialism still with us, however differen...

A political portrait focused on Guevara's thought and political record aimed at dispelling many of the myths about the revolutionary. This re-exami...

In these essays and speeches Michael Collins spelled out his vision for the future of Ireland, as well as his analysis of its past. Some of them ar...

Since 1866 the Ku Klux Klan has been a significant force in Mississippi, enduring repeated cycles of expansion and decline. Klansmen have rallied, ...

Fast-moving, self- propelled 'violent images' have radically changed the nature of insurgency in the modern world. The global media has revolutioni...

'Its existence is known only by the effects of its action.' Author Curt Riess on what happens when an organisation goes underground. Written in 19...

Forty years after its foundation, Lebanese Hezbollah remains an organization difficult to understand. An Islamist terrorist group dedicated to dest...