Great texts on social movements

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	"The best.  No BS.  peerless scholarship. An acknowledged classic and deservedly so.  Let's learn what fighting to win is made of!  Read it."

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	"Identity formation, organising and disruption amongst poor South Africans.  Quality engaged scholarship."

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	"The social movement that defeated Thatcher.  A libertarian-socialist perspective from inside the movement.  Warning: Trotskyists will not approve."

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	""1968" - so often evoked, so little understood.  Begin here, but you can only begin.  A tantalising scratch at something wonderful and hardly understood."

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	"The labour movement has the most awesome power.  But unions keep selling us out.  That's a bit of a problem.  Get some case studies - and inspiring stories - and begin to understand more here."

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	"Iran is clearly a fulcrum of the modern world system.  Its working class is therefore potentially very important.  A provocative introduction to their situation."

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	"Students: read this. We need to learn to organise to win. USAS have figured out how to do this. And while we're talking students, why isn't Kirkpatrick Sale's SDS available on here? It's so good!"

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	"The analysis may often be optimistic & journalistic; but it's an engrossing tour of the struggles for the vote in Britain; Levellers, Chartists, Suffragettes, syndicalists; and their later betrayal"

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	"Ignore the predictable haters (who almost certainly haven't read it); despatches from the front lines of one of the most striking contemporary social movement organisations."

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	"How the "anti-capitalist movement" (as if it was ever more than a notion) saw itself, before running out of imaginary steam in 2003.  Nevertheless, some fascinating and inspiring content."

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	"EF! & the anti-roads movement in the UK. Some more detail on the organising, timeline and dynamics of particular campaigns would be good. Hence read with issues of Do or Die and the EF! Action Update."

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	"Mostly an insight into the radical anti-AIDS group ACT-UP, exploring also contemporary and related movements.  Lots of detail, fascinating stories."

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	"The text to read alongside Derek Wall's book."