Subversiv verksamhet

Emilia, a pensioner in northern Romania, is forced to confront the nostalgic illusions she nurtures as a reaction to the grim post-communist present when her daughter, now living in Canada, telephones urging her not to vote for the former communis...

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Under mellankrigstiden enades hyresgäster i Sverige för att slå vakt om sina intressen. Hyresstrejker, bojkotter och massuppsägningar av kontrakt användes för att pressa fastighetsägare till eftergifter, vilket i sin tur sporrade andra att ta efte...

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Nej till k * * * * t! är skriven i Moskva hösten 2023. Den är ett försök att fixera dynamiken mellan repression och fredliga protester i den radikalt nya situation som råder i landet sedan februari 2022. Den rör inte vid mer militanta former av mo...

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"Den gömda historien" bygger på den norska motståndsmannen Thor Bachs efterlämnade dokument. Här finns skildringar av det tyska angreppet på Norge den 9 april 1940 och det underjordiska arbetet i Trondheims motståndsrörelse. I dagböcker ...

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»En oumbärlig makropolitisk karta.« Upsala Nya Tidning »Fazlhashemis bok ger en rik bild av krafterna bakom frihetslängtan i Mellanöstern och Nordafrika.« Corren »En efterlängtad skildring av en kultur, ett skeende och en region som missförståtts ...

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Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) anfäktar i denna gamla stridsskrift individens rätt att göra uppror mot massans totala brist på civilt kurage. I Thoreaus tid och rum rörde det sig om slaveri och det då pågående amerikanska anfallskriget mot Mexiko...

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År 1965 arbetade Matts Mattsson som volontär på kibbutzen Hulata i norra Galiléen. Femtio år senare återvände han till Israel och Palestina som "ekumenisk följeslagare" med uppgift att bevaka mänskliga rättigheter vid en gränsstation i B...

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Vclav Havels remarkable and rousing essay on the tyranny of apathy, with a new introduction by Timothy Snyder Cowed by life under Communist Party rule, a greengrocer hangs a placard in their shop window: Workers of the world, unite! Is it a sign o...

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Sveriges moderna historia framställs ofta som en fredlig rörelse mot ökad demokrati och jämlikhet. De stora konflikter som präglat Europas 1900-tal har i Sverige undvikits helt eller lösts med kompromisser. Så har den svenska självbilden sett ut, ...

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Det här huset ska vi ta! Sedan 1968 har hus ockuperats i Sverige. Från Kårhuset, Mullvaden och Gamla Bro via Haga till senare ockupationer som Sollefteå BB. Boken berättar om husen och människorna som skred till handling och är resultatet av flera...

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'Please please please read Mindf*ck' - Richard Dawkins What if you could peer into the minds of an entire population? What if you could target the weakest with rumours that only they saw? In 2016, an obscure British military contractor t...

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For those living in the Soviet Union, Orwell's masterpieces, Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-Four, were not dystopias, but accurate depictions of reality. Here, the Orwell scholar and expert on Russian politics, Masha Karp Russian Features Ed...

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The Council on Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency have experienced volatile life histories. In this book, using political history, theoretical models, and empirical analysis.

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Traces free speech across five centuries of popular political culture, and shows how scandalous, seditious and treasonable talk finally gained protection as 'the birthright of an Englishman'.

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Many Americans believe that their own government is guilty of shocking crimes. Government agents shot the president. They faked the moon landing. They stood by and allowed the murders of 2,400 servicemen in Hawaii. Although paranoia has been a fea...

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It's one of the biggest news stories for years. A charismatic, white-haired Australian sets up a website devoted to publishing leaked documents in the public interest, and then, allegedly with the aid of a disaffected American soldier, starts rele...

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This book traces the crystallisation of post-Marxism as a specific theoretical position in its own right and considers the role played in its development by post-structuralism, postmodernism and second-wave feminism. It examines the history of dis...

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From the Baltic to the South China Sea, newly assertive authoritarian states sense an opportunity to resurrect old empires or build new ones at America's expense. Hoping that U.S. decline is real, nations such as Russia, Iran, and China are t...

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Discover the inspiring voices that have changed our world, and started a new conversation, with speeches from Olly Alexander, Sir Elton John, Alison Bechdel, and more. A sister title to Great Womens Speeches (2021), and the pocket edition of Loud ...

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The National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) was created in 2009 to contain the spiralling fallout from Ireland's property and banking collapse. Its job was to get the maximum return from the sale of assets for the Irish people and help pay do...

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Illegal migrants who evade detection, creators of value in insecure and precarious working conditions and those who refuse the constraints of sexual and biomedical classifications: these are the people who manage to subvert power and to craft unex...

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Comic books for adults have become one of the most novel and colourful forms of cultural expression in the Arab world today. During the last ten years, young Arabs have crafted stories explaining issues such as authoritarianism, resistance, war, s...

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No political scandal in American history has had a greater impact on America's political consciousness than the rise and fall of the "Tweed Ring" in New York City between 1866 and 1871. In an age ripe with scandal both public and pr...

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At the end of World War II, J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of America's preeminent physicists. For his work as director of the Manhattan Project, he was awarded the Medal for Merit, the highest honor the U.S. government can bestow on a civilia...

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First published by Cornell in 1971, The Fear of Conspiracy brings together eighty-five speeches, documents, and writingsthe authors of which range from George Washington to Stokely Carmichaelthat illustrate the role played in American history by t...

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Although the northern Illinois chapters of the story of Susan "Sukey" Richardson's escape from slavery on the Underground Railroad are documented, the part played by southern Illinois in that historic episode has remained obscure. Carol ...

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The figure of the traitor plays an intriguing role in modern politics. Traitors are a source of transgression from within, creating their own kinds of aversion and suspicion. They destabilize the rigid moral binaries of victim and persecutor, frie...

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One of the founding texts of chaos magick, still highly regarded. A book to read when you are feeling angry, because it tears holes in the fabric of oppression.

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In 2015, Nigeria's voters cast out the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP). Here, A. Carl LeVan traces the political vulnerability of Africa's largest party in the face of elite bargains that facilitated a democratic transition in 1999. These '...

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In the wake of the Arab uprisings, al-Nahda voted to transform itself into a political party that would for the first time withdraw from a preaching project built around religious, social, and cultural activism. This turn to the political was not ...

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