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From Tunisia With Love

by Emily Johns and Milan Rai | Feature | February 2011

As Peace News goes to press, the leaderless people’s uprising in Tunisia is about to sweep away its second government in as many weeks, as part of a global youth revolt that stretches all the way to the student occupations in Britain.

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Howard Clark (ed), 'People Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity'

by Sian Jones | Review | March 2010

Pluto Press 2009; ISBN 978-0-74-532-901-7; 256pp; £17.99

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People Power: a strategic political force

by Michael Randle | Feature | November 2009

Two new books have appeared that are essential reading for anyone interested in understanding how collective nonviolent action – civil resistance – can operate at a strategic level to furt ...

Abdul Ghaffar Khan

by Shireen Shah | Feature | November 2008

During the Indian struggle for independence, Mohandas Gandhi gained many followers, including a Muslim Pashtun (or Pathan) from what is now Pakistan, named Abdul Ghaffar Khan, who orga ...

Mary King, 'A Quiet Revolution: The First Palestinian Intifada and a Strategy for Non-violent Resistance'

by Michael Randle | Review | October 2008

Nation Books, 2008; ISBN 978-1-56025-802-5; pp488; £9.99

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Gene Sharp, 'Waging Nonviolent Struggle - 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential'

by Nik Gorecki | Review | July - August 2008

Porter Sargent Pub, 2005; ISBN-10: 0875581625; pp598; £16.95*

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True colours

by Stephen Zunes | Feature | June 2008

Though I am one of the more prominent critics within the US academic left of US interventions and hegemonic aspirations, my research has found no evidence that the United States (nor any o ...

France May '68

by Topher Vollmer | Feature | May 2008

The events of May ’68 began in the universities. At Nanterre (just outside Paris) and the Sorbonne, students had become increasingly vocal against the US war in Vietnam. ...

We could have won

by Gabriel Carlyle | Feature | February 2008

Recently, reading about Ukraine’s 2004 “Orange Revolution” – with its iconic tent-city occupation of Kiev’s Independence Square, the Maidan – my memory was sent hurtling back to the 2003 “ ...

Mark Kurlansky, 'Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous Idea'

by Chris Cole | Review | February 2008

Vintage, 2007: ISBN 0099494124; 224pp; £7.99

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