Haiti is descending into anarchy, causing the gang leader behind the violence to emerge as the country’s most powerful leader.
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When parliament blocked a radical MP from taking his seat in parliament, Burke warned that ignoring the people’s democratic will could have disastrous consequences.
Colonialists daily reinforced a hierarchy that allowed white people to abuse Africans.
Before a revolution can take place, the oppressed first have to recognize that they actually do not have many rights.
As a passionate and partisan defender of Allende’s socialism, Guzmán’s films celebrate popular protest and struggles for democracy and equality in Chile.
It is easy to feel jaded in a time of catastrophe but there is a compelling moral argument for us to work towards a better world.
A scholar of religion looks at how faith helped guide the labor rights icon in his organizing endeavors.
He was an important philosopher, mathematician and social reformer of his time. But Richard Price was subsequently written out of history.
The storming of the presidential palace in Sri Lanka is a moment of powerful symbolism – one with many historical precedents.
Usually when a leader handles a crisis poorly, it’s politically costly. But President Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus crisis is not likely to hurt him, says an expert on health crises.
People get angry far more often than they rebel. And rebellions rarely become revolutions. An expert on the French Revolution explains why today’s protest movements are different.
Revolutions are built not on deep misery but on rising expectations. History may not provide much hope of immediate change in Hong Kong – but protesters may have a longer view.
The battle between nationalism and a wider European identity in the 19th century has influenced philosophy to this day.
A government-imposed internet blackout in Sudan is the latest in a series of internet shutdowns as a means to quell dissent.
From the French Revolution to #MeToo, social movements often burst into the mainstream with what seems like little warning. Cass Sunstein explains why.
Food and medical aid at Venezuela’s borders could spark a revolution.
A populist movement that threatened to topple a French government more than 60 years ago has important lessons for today’s protests and why they represent a reckoning.
The University of Reading wrongly judged that Geras’ essay, which discusses political violence, might fall foul of the government’s Prevent strategy.
The Russian Revolution – an event that affected more than Russia and was more than a revolution.
Since the Byzantine era, gossipy anecdotes about the mishaps of rulers and their inner circles have been compiled, shared and published.
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