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Category Archives: Dissemination
Youth Activism and Solidarity: A step closer to publication
Yesterday the copy editor’s comments and queries on the manuscript for our book Youth Activism and Solidarity: the Non-Stop Picket against Apartheid arrived. I’ve spent the last day attentively working through every bit of changed formatting, spelling, and punctuation, to ensure the … Continue reading
Youth Activism and Solidarity: The Non-Stop Picket Against Apartheid book manuscript submitted
Today we have finally submitted the manuscript of Youth Activism and Solidarity, our book about the anti-apartheid Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy, to our publishers. The book will now go through a process of peer review. All being … Continue reading
The Non-Stop Picket and the solidarity of the British Far Left
Today is the anniversary of the launch of the City of London Anti-Apartheid Group’s Non-Stop Picket of the South African Embassy in London. The ways in which City Group provided solidarity with those resisting apartheid in South Africa both drew … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Project staff
Tagged ANC, Anti-Apartheid Movement, City of London Anti-Apartheid Group, Cold War, Communist Party of Great Britain, critical geopolitics, Far Left, geopolitics, internationalism, Marxist Workers Tendency, Militant, Non-Stop Picket, Pan-Africanist Congress, political geography, Revolutionary Communist Group, Socialist Workers Party, Solidarity, South African Communist Party, Third World
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New book on protest camps in international context
I have a new book, just out, on protest camps and political activism. I co-edited ‘Protest Camps in International Context: spaces, infrastructures, and media of resistance’, with my colleague, Fabian Frenzel from the University of Leicester School of Business, alongside Anna Feigenbaum … Continue reading
Posted in Academic, Dissemination, Gavin Brown, Project staff
Tagged Protest Camps, social movements
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Opposing apartheid then, defending human rights now
On Tuesday 8 December (at 18.30), as part of the Leicester Human Rights Arts and Film Festival, Gavin Brown will be giving a talk, at the Secular Hall, exploring what anti-apartheid campaigning in the 1980s can teach human rights defenders … Continue reading
Disobedient Films present the London Recruits
The Disobedient Objects exhibition at the V&A has now closed (prior to travelling the world over the next few years), but it continues to generate creative explorations of how objects of various kinds have been used in (and as) protest. This week … Continue reading
Thinking about Youthful Resistance in Leicester
On Saturday 10 January 2015 Gavin Brown ran an afternoon of discussions about ‘Youthful Resistance‘ for Leicester People’s University. This free event, held in the basement of a popular bar in the city centre, was attended by about twenty people. … Continue reading
