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Bloody Sunday
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk
/RUSsunday.htm
A history of the 1905 demonstration for workers' rights and the freedom to form trade unions that triggered the 1905 Russian Revolution, with extracts from letters and the demonstrators' petition to the tsar.

Nelson Mandela
www.nobel.se/peace/laureates
/1993/mandela-bio.html
A biography of the man who led the African National Congress against apartheid, and, after 27 years of imprisonment, became South Africa's first black president.

SNCC 1960-1966
www.ibiblio.org/sncc/
This site covers the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee from its birth in 1960 to 1966. It focuses on the first six years of the movement, to explore adequately such events as sit-ins, the Freedom Rides and Freedom Summer.

Women's Liberation
http://womenshistory.about.com/
od/60s70s/
Portal site with links to many resources on women’s history of the 1960s and 1970s.

Hidden Agendas – The writings of John Pilger
http://pilger.carlton.com/print/109424
Excellent article on the oppression of the Palestinian people by the Israelis. Pilger makes the point that those who rely on news only from the television would have no idea of the roots of the Middle East conflict, or that the Palestinians are victims of an illegal military occupation.

Oppression.org
www.oppression.org/index2.html
Articles and information on oppressive regimes around the world.

Amnesty International
www.amnesty.org/
The official site of the worldwide movement that campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience, ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners, end political killings and 'disappearances' and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.

Books

The Holocaust: Causes by Pat Levy
An examination of anti-Semitism and the possible reasons why the Nazis were driven to persecute the Jews.

Wars of National Liberation by Daniel Moran
Lesser-known conflicts and wars in the name of independence are explored here, including the peasant revolution in China and terrorism used throughout the Middle East, Algeria and Northern Ireland.

A Modern History of the Kurds by David McDowall
The division of Kurdistan between three modern nation-states – Iraq, Turkey and Iran – and the struggle of the Kurdish people for national rights have been constant themes of recent Middle East history.

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