Contemporary France has witnessed a rise of new forms of social movement, mobilizing around new causes and articulating changing demands. This text examines these movements since the 1990s, from anti-racism and the movement of the unemployed, to solidarity or the associations of the Sans .

This is a history of the rise of the anti-globalization movement, from Seattle to September 11th, 2001. The text charts the group's most notable successes and its failures and is international in scope. It covers all aspects of the topic, social, legal, and political.

Losing control in the media arena as a result of activist pressure has become a public relations nightmare for the modern multinational enterprise. This text reveals how corporate giants attempt to control their enemies and how groups and individuals can fight back.

Analyzing a broad range of movements, this volume, now available in paperback, reflects on the many challenges that globalization presents for transnational activisim. It explores how international government organizations might offer political opportunities and constraints for social movements, addressing both domestic and global problems.

Direct Action in British Environmentalism is the fulllest scholarly analysis available of this phenomenon. It is essential reading for students of politics and environmental studies.

Immigration is at the heart of social, cultural and political debate in France. This book examines the assumptions about immigrants and ethnic and national identity through a study of the Maghrebis, especially their political mobilisation from the colonial to the postcolonial period.

The demonstrations at Seattle and Genoa have shown that we are in a new era of protest. Callinicos analyses the development of the movement, distinguishes between the political forces within it and explores the dilemmas - notably over violence and the nation-state - that it confronts.

Do our ideas about social movements travel successfully beyond the democratic West? This book offers an opportunity to explore this question and to consider how popular contention unfolds in places where speech and assembly are tightly controlled.

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This book was briefly published by Ellipsis in 1997. It is now re-published by Penkiln Burn in a further limited edition of 2000 copies.

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Ireland Britain and the Campaign to Shut Sellafield. A significant contribution to current debate on energy, climate change and nuclear power. Marks the 50th anniversary of the Windscale Fire.

Why do people join social movements? What keeps them involved once they have joined? These central questions in the study of social movements are investigated in this study of the interwar Greenshirt Movement.

When a small group of women set out to march to Greenham one summer day at the end of August 1981, none of them could have imagined that this outing would change their lives forever. This work traces the development of the protests starting from the summer of that year through the climax of the Cold War.

Reviews and analyzes the impact of the May 1968 events in France, initially through a narrative account of the events themselves and then through a systematic survey of the various manners in which they have been interpreted and reproduced in France - in political, sociological and fictional texts.

This is a collection of in-depth and reflective pieces by activists and other key figures in "DIY culture", who tell their own stories and histories. The book argues that popular protest of the 1990s is characterized by a culture of immediacy and direct action.

The demonstrations at Seattle and Genoa have shown that we are in a new era of protest. Callinicos analyses the development of the movement, distinguishes between the political forces within it and explores the dilemmas - notably over violence and the nation-state - that it confronts.