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  • Cover image of book The Craftivist Collective Handbook by Sarah P Corbett
    The Craftivist Collective Handbook - by Sarah P Corbett

    £22.00   hardback   (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781800182509 | ISBN 10: 1800182503

    If we want our world to be more beautiful, kind and fair, can we make our activism more beautiful, kind and fair?   ‘Gentle Protest’ is a unique methodology of strategic, compassionate and visually intriguing activism using handicrafts as a t ... more

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  • Cover image of book African Activists of the Twentieth Century: Hani, Maathai, Mpama/Palmer, Saro-Wiwa by Hugh Macmillan, Tabitha Kanogo, Robert R. Edgar, Roy Doron and Toyin Falola
    African Activists of the Twentieth Century: Hani, Maathai, Mpama/Palmer, Saro-Wiwa - by Hugh Macmillan, Tabitha Kanogo, Robert R. Edgar, Roy Doron and Toyin Falola

    £32.00   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780821425145 | ISBN 10: 0821425145

    An omnibus collection of concise and up-to-date biographies of four influential figures from modern African history.  Chris Hani, by Hugh Macmillan Chris Hani was one of the most highly respected leaders of the African National Congress, the S ... more

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  • Cover image of book They Called Me a Lioness : A Palestinian Girl
    They Called Me a Lioness : A Palestinian Girl's Fight for Freedom - by Ahed Tamimi and Dena Takruri

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9780593134597 | ISBN 10: 0593134591

    A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir.  “I cannot even begin to convey the clarity, the intensity, th ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh
    We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir - by Raja Shehadeh

    £10.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781788169981 | ISBN 10: 1788169980

    A subtle psychological portrait of the author's relationship with his father during the twentieth-century battle for Palestinian human rights.   A FINALIST FOR THE US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 2023 FOR NONFICTION   'Profoundly personal as wel ... more

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  • Cover image of book Comrades Come Rally! Manchester Communists in the 1930s & 1940s by Mike Crowley
    Comrades Come Rally! Manchester Communists in the 1930s & 1940s - by Mike Crowley

    £15.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781914143533 | ISBN 10: 1914143531

    Comrades Come Rally is a history of the Communist Party in Manchester revealed through the lives of rank and file members, through the struggle against mass unemployment, the fight against fascism in Britain and in Spain, to the election of the 1945 ... more

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  • Cover image of book Freedom is A Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
    Freedom is A Constant Struggle - by Angela Y. Davis

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241994603 | ISBN 10: 0241994608

    From the Author of Women, Race and Class, this is a timely provocation that examines the concept of attaining freedom in light of our current world conflicts.  In these newly collected essays, interviews and speeches, world-renowned activist an ... more

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  • Cover image of book See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur
    See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love - by Valarie Kaur

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781783255030 | ISBN 10: 178325503x

    Renowned activist, filmmaker and civil rights lawyer Valarie Kaur made headlines when her 'Breathe and Push' speech on how to survive in a time of rage went viral with 30 million views worldwide. In this inspiring and timely debut, she shows you how ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change by Magid Magid
    The Art of Disruption: A Manifesto For Real Change - by Magid Magid

    £14.99   hardback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781788702904 | ISBN 10: 1788702905

    A guide to being courageous and community-minded, and to disrupting and dismantling age-old power structures in work, life and politics, written by someone who has done exactly that.  Let's be honest. Magid Magid's story seems an unlikely one.  ... more

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  • Cover image of book XOXY: A Memoir - Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist by Kimberly M Zieselman
    XOXY: A Memoir - Intersex Woman, Mother, Activist - by Kimberly M Zieselman

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781785928376 | ISBN 10: 1785928376

    Meet Kimberly, a regular suburban housewife and mother, whose discovery later in life that she was born intersex fuelled her to become an international human rights defender and globally-recognised activist.   Charting her intersex discovery a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Taking Up Space: The Black Girl
    Taking Up Space: The Black Girl's Manifesto for Change - by Chelsea Kwakye and Ore Ogunbiyi

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781529118544 | ISBN 10: 1529118549

    As a minority in a predominantly white institution, taking up space is an act of resistance. Recent Cambridge grads Chelsea and Ore experienced this first-hand, and wrote Taking Up Space as a guide and a manifesto for change.  FOR BLACK GIRLS ... more

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  • Cover image of book Parkland by Dave Cullen
    Parkland - by Dave Cullen

    £14.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781787477070 | ISBN 10: 178747707x

    The deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting.  Emma Gonzalez called BS. David Hogg called out Adult America. Cameron Kasky recruited a colorful band of teenagers. Four days after escaping Marjory S ... more

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  • Cover image of book 50 Years Legal: Five Decades of Fighting for Equal Rights by Simon Napier-Bell, edited with Mark Neeter
    50 Years Legal: Five Decades of Fighting for Equal Rights - by Simon Napier-Bell, edited with Mark Neeter

    £12.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9781911346203 | ISBN 10: 1911346202

    This is both the story of the 50-year battle for equal rights and deeply personal accounts from high profile politicians, comedians, actors and others in the public arena.  The book features contributions from David Hockney, Stephen Fry, Julian Clar ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Shock Doctrine of the Left by Graham Jones
    The Shock Doctrine of the Left - by Graham Jones

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781509528554 | ISBN 10: 1509528555

    Shocks, from natural disasters to military catastrophes, have been exploited for years by the state to impose privatisation, cuts and rampant free markets on us. This book argues that the Left can turn this on its head by using those same moments of ... more

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  • Cover image of book May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France by Mitchell Abidor
    May Made Me: An Oral History of the 1968 Uprising in France - by Mitchell Abidor

    £12.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780745336947 | ISBN 10: 0745336949

    The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, factories and universities were occupied. At the height ... more

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  • Cover image of book No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson by Jeff Sparrow
    No Way But This: In Search of Paul Robeson - by Jeff Sparrow

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781911617204 | ISBN 10: 1911617206

    Film star. Icon. Agitator. Martyr.   Paul Robeson was a brilliant student and champion athlete who abandoned a career in law to find worldwide fame as a performer and activist. He was undoubtedly the most famous African American of his time — be ... more

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  • Cover image of book #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line by David Hogg and Lauren Hogg
    #NeverAgain: A New Generation Draws the Line - by David Hogg and Lauren Hogg

    £7.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781984801838 | ISBN 10: 198480183x

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   From two survivors of the Parkland, Florida, shooting comes a declaration for our times, and an in-depth look at the making of the #NeverAgain movement.  On February 14, 2018, seventeen-year-old David Hogg and his ... more

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  • Cover image of book Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Nick Montgomery and Carla Bergman
    Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times - by Nick Montgomery and Carla Bergman

    £13.00   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781849352888 | ISBN 10: 1849352887

    Why do radical movements and spaces sometimes feel laden with fear, anxiety, suspicion, self-righteousness, and competition? Montgomery and bergman call this phenomenon rigid radicalism: congealed and toxic ways of relating that have seeped into soci ... more

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  • Cover image of book Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters by Various artists
    Posters for Change: Tear, Paste, Protest: 50 Removable Posters - by Various artists

    £21.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781616896928 | ISBN 10: 1616896922

    The US presidential election in 2016 brought to a head myriad political activism around the world, around the rights of minorities, women, the LGBTQ community, and the environment. In the midst of this turmoil, nearly 300 designers from around the wo ... more

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  • Cover image of book Student Revolt: Voices of the Austerity Generation by Matt Myers
    Student Revolt: Voices of the Austerity Generation - by Matt Myers

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780745337340 | ISBN 10: 0745337341

    *Selected as one of openDemocracy's Best Political Books of 2017*   Whatever happened to the student revolt? In 2010 young people across Britain took to the streets to defy a wave of government attacks on education, increasing tuition fees, an ... more

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  • Cover image of book Guerillas Of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible by Kevin Van Meter
    Guerillas Of Desire: Notes on Everyday Resistance and Organizing to Make a Revolution Possible - by Kevin Van Meter

    £16.50   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781849352727 | ISBN 10: 1849352720

    Behind the smiling faces of cashiers, wait staff, and workers of all sorts, a war is going on, usually without the knowledge of official political and labor organizations.   Guerrillas of Desire begins with a provocation: The Left is wrong. I ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World by Marwan M. Kraidy
    The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World - by Marwan M. Kraidy

    £15.95   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780674980051 | ISBN 10: 0674980050

    Uprisings spread like wildfire across the Arab world from 2010 to 2012, fueled by a desire for popular sovereignty. In Tunisia, Egypt, and Syria, protesters flooded the streets and the media, voicing dissent through slogans, graffiti, puppetry, video ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ten Years on the Parish: The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett by Mike Morris, Tony Wailey, and Andrew Davies (Editors)
    Ten Years on the Parish: The Autobiography and Letters of George Garrett - by Mike Morris, Tony Wailey, and Andrew Davies (Editors)

    £12.00   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781786940759 | ISBN 10: 1786940752

    George Garrett’s autobiographical work Ten Years On The Parish, published here in full for the first time since it was written in the late 1930s, shines a light on the hardships and poverty endured by many in the years between the wars. Garrett was ... more

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  • Cover image of book Things That Can and Cannot Be Said by John Cusack and Arundhati Roy
    Things That Can and Cannot Be Said - by John Cusack and Arundhati Roy

    £6.00   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780241980088 | ISBN 10: 0241980089

    An account of the extraordinary meeting between four brilliant political activists: Booker Prize winner Arundhati Roy, NSA whistle-blower Edward Snowden, Pentagon Papers insider Daniel Ellsberg and acclaimed actor John Cusack.  'What sort of ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance by Andrew Hsiao
    The Book of Dissent: Revolutionary Words from Three Millennia of Rebellion and Resistance - by Andrew Hsiao

    £9.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781784786175 | ISBN 10: 1784786179

    Throughout the ages and across every continent, people have struggled against those in power and raised their voices in protest - rallying others around them and inspiring uprisings in eras yet to come.  Their echoes reverberate from Ancient Gre ... more

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  • Cover image of book Snowden by Ted Rall
    Snowden - by Ted Rall

    £11.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781609806354 | ISBN 10: 1609806352

    As many as 1.4 million citizens with security clearance saw some or all of the same documents that would later be leaked by Edward Snowden. Why did he, and no one else, decide to step forward and take on the risks associated with becoming a whistlebl ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Have Nothing to Lose But Our Fear: Activism and Resistance in Dangerous Times by Fiona Jeffries
    We Have Nothing to Lose But Our Fear: Activism and Resistance in Dangerous Times - by Fiona Jeffries

    £14.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781783604142 | ISBN 10: 178360414x

    Our 24/7 lives are saturated with round-the-clock fear. Scare-tactic headlines fill our homes and our public spaces. If it’s not the war on terror, it’s the new war on the middle class. Crisis is the new black, as catastrophe after casualty after cra ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster by Brian W. Lavery
    The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster - by Brian W. Lavery

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781909954144 | ISBN 10: 1909954144

    Brian W. Lavery‘s The Headscarf Revolutionaries takes readers back to the highly dramatic Winter of 1968. Three trawlers from Hull’s fleet sank in rapid succession. One fishwife, Lillian Bilocca, put down her filleting knife.   It sickened her that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering by Rosemarie Freeney Harding with Rachel Elizabeth Harding
    Remnants: A Memoir of Spirit, Activism, and Mothering - by Rosemarie Freeney Harding with Rachel Elizabeth Harding

    £16.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780822358794 | ISBN 10: 0822358794

    An activist influential in the civil rights movement, Rosemarie Freeney Harding’s spirituality blended many traditions, including southern African American mysticism, Anabaptist Christianity, Tibetan Buddhism, and Afro-Brazilian Candomblé.  Remn ... more

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  • Cover image of book Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist by Bill McKibben
    Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist - by Bill McKibben

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781250048714 | ISBN 10: 1250048710

    Bestselling author and environmental activist Bill McKibben recounts the personal and global story of the fight to build and preserve a sustainable planet.  Bill McKibben is not a person you'd expect to find handcuffed and behind bars, but that ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in the Badlands of India by Amana Fontanella-Khan
    Pink Sari Revolution: A Tale of Women and Power in the Badlands of India - by Amana Fontanella-Khan

    £8.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781780744063 | ISBN 10: 1780744064

    A Radio 4 Book of the Week.   When Sheelu was arrested for stealing from a powerful politician in the notoriously crooked region of Uttar Pradesh, she was sure that she would be forced to accept a prison sentence, not least because she had alleged ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Little Book of Craftivism by Sarah Corbett
    A Little Book of Craftivism - by Sarah Corbett

    £5.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908714077 | ISBN 10: 1908714077

    Craftivism is a term coined by Betsy Greer, referring to the raising of social consciousness through the medium of craft. The Craftivist Collective, run by Sarah Corbett, is at the forefront of this movement. Their mini cross-stitched banners and tin ... more

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  • Cover image of book American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation by Michael Kazin
    American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation - by Michael Kazin

    £12.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9780307279194 | ISBN 10: 0307279197

    An intimate history of the reformers, radicals, and idealists who fought for a different America, from the abolitionists to Michael Moore and Noam Chomsky.   While the history of the left is a long story of idealism and determination, it has ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest and Social Change in Egypt, 1999 - 2011 by Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing (Editors)
    The Journey to Tahrir: Revolution, Protest and Social Change in Egypt, 1999 - 2011 - by Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing (Editors)

    £19.99   paperback   (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781844678754 | ISBN 10: 184467875x

    Leading analysts of Egypt on repression, dissent and the dramatic revolution.  The toppling of Hosni Mubarak marked the beginning of a revolutionary restructuring of Egypt's political and social order. Jeannie Sowers and Chris Toensing bring to ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blood on the Tracks: The Life And Times of S. Brian Willson by S. Brian Willson
    Blood on the Tracks: The Life And Times of S. Brian Willson - by S. Brian Willson

    £17.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781604864212 | ISBN 10: 1604864214

    "We are not worth more, they are not worth less." This is the mantra of S. Brian Willson and the theme that runs throughout his compelling psycho-historical memoir. Willson's story begins in small-town, rural America, where he grew up as a "Commie-ha ... more

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  • Cover image of book Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 by Nadine Gordimer
    Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008 - by Nadine Gordimer

    £12.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408800966 | ISBN 10: 1408800969

    Nadine Gordimer’s life reflects the true spirit of the writer as moral activist, political visionary and literary icon. Telling Times collects together all her non-fiction for the first time, spanning more than half a century, from the twilight of co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Springtime: The New Student Rebellions by Clare Solomon & Tania Palmieri (eds)
    Springtime: The New Student Rebellions - by Clare Solomon & Tania Palmieri (eds)

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781844677405 | ISBN 10: 1844677400

    The autumn and winter of 2010 saw an unprecedented wave of student protests across the UK, in response to the coalition government's savage cuts in state funding for higher education, cuts which formed the basis for an ideological attack on the natur ... more

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  • Cover image of book Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: the Power of Story by Eric Selbin
    Revolution, Rebellion, Resistance: the Power of Story - by Eric Selbin

    £19.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848130173 | ISBN 10: 1848130171

    Why do revolutions happen? Decades of social science research have brought us little closer to understanding where, when and amongst whom they occur. In this groundbreaking book, Eric Selbin argues that we need to look beyond the economic, political ... more

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  • Cover image of book What Would it Mean to Win? by Turbulence Collective
    What Would it Mean to Win? - by Turbulence Collective

    £13.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781604861105 | ISBN 10: 160486110x

    Movements become apparent as “movements” at times of acceleration and expansion. In these heady moments they have fuzzy boundaries, no membership lists - everybody is too engaged in what’s coming next, in creating the new, looking to the horizon. But ... more

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  • Cover image of book Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca Cola by Mark Thomas
    Belching Out the Devil: Global Adventures with Coca Cola - by Mark Thomas

    £12.99   paperback   (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780091927042 | ISBN 10: 0091927048

    Coca-Cola and its logo are everywhere. In our homes, our workplaces, and even our schools. It is a company that sponsors the Olympics, backs US presidents and even re-brands Santa Claus. A truly universal product, it has even been served in space.  F ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Shall I Live My Life? On Liberating the Earth from Civilization by Derrick Jensen
    How Shall I Live My Life? On Liberating the Earth from Civilization - by Derrick Jensen

    £17.99   paperback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781604860030 | ISBN 10: 1604860030

    In this collection of interviews, Derrick Jensen discusses the destructive dominant culture with ten people who have devoted their lives to undermining it. Whether it is Carolyn Raffensperger and her radical approach to public health, or Thomas Berry ... more

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  • Cover image of book Global Activism, Global Media by Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw and  Neil Stammers
    Global Activism, Global Media - by Wilma de Jong, Martin Shaw and Neil Stammers

    £24.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780745321950 | ISBN 10: 074532195x

    Radical political activist movements have grown exponentially over the last decade. Activist politics have come to influence 'mainstream' politics over fundamental issues such as trade, gender relations, the environment and war. This book brings toge ... more

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  • Cover image of book Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement by Josie Sandercock et al (ed)
    Peace Under Fire: Israel/Palestine and the International Solidarity Movement - by Josie Sandercock et al (ed)

    £15.00   paperback   (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781844675012 | ISBN 10: 1844675017

    The International Solidarity Movement (ISM) was founded to support Palestinian non-violent resistance to Israel's military occupation. Its highly visible actions, which have included breaking the sieges in Ramallah and Bethlehem, as well as saving co ... more

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  • Cover image of book Be the Difference: A Beginner
    Be the Difference: A Beginner's Guide to Changing the World - by Danny Seo

    £15.99   paperback   (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780865714328 | ISBN 10: 0865714320

    At the age of 12, Danny Seo gathered a handful of kids and founded Earth 2000 - an environmental group that blossomed into a 20,000 member force of tenacious teenage crusaders. Since then he has continued to work passionately for change.   In this ... more

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