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Social Movement Studies is the leading international academic journal of social movements. RT ≠ endorsement. We tweet about movements and research on movements. Follow our publications: www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/curr…

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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
As promised, the new blockbuster double issue in global Labour movements is out now Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Special Issue editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
As promised, the new blockbuster double issue in global Labour movements is out now Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Special Issue editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...
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Social Movement Studies
Special issue: New insights into global labour: movement strategy and mobilisation in the context of crisis; Guest editors: Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba. Volume 25, Issue 4-5 of Social Movement Studies
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@cffominaya.bsky.social Available for library and teaching orders: www.routledge.com/Feminist-and...
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Feminist and LGBTQ Mobilizing in Contemporary Social Movements
This book brings together a compelling collection of articles that delve into the multifaceted dimensions of feminist and LGBTQ organizing within contemporary social movements. Through an array of cas...
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
If you publish with us please feel free to tag and we are very happy to share! Also if you want to comment on an article you have read-- we appreciate all who read and publish with us!
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20/05/2026
"Dictatorship in action." Journalist @davidcayjohnston.bsky.social reacts to the shocking deal Donald Trump's lawyers negotiated with his own administration that establishes a $1.8 billion "slush fund" to reward the president's allies.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 20/05/2026
Journalist Ed Augustin, reporting from Havana, calls the Trump administration’s strict fuel blockade of Cuba “collective punishment of a population, particularly targeting poor communities, pregnant women, children and the elderly.”
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Cubans Starving & Dying Because of Intensified U.S. Blockade: Reporter in Havana
In Havana, we speak to journalist Ed Augustin, who calls the Trump administration's strict fuel blockade of Cuba, in place since the beginning of 2026, “the collective punishment of a population, particularly targeting poor communities, pregnant women, ...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/05/2026
This graduation season, schools across the U.S. have continued their attempts to silence pro-Palestine speech. Rutgers professor Noura Erakat says repression of Palestine protest only spreads outwards. "We are the Trojan horse to bring in these policies that will affect everyone."
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/05/2026
"This will be the third graduation and commencement ceremony in a row where we do not have a student speaker, where we do not have a faculty speaker and we do not have a live-streamed commencement. ... [T]hey took [all] that away specifically because of Palestine repression."
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/05/2026
The Trump administration has blocked nearly all refugees from resettling into the United States — except for white South Africans.
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“Clear Racism”: Trump Admin Blocks Refugee Resettlement, Except for White South Africans
The Trump administration is advancing plans to resettle an additional 10,000 white South Africans in the United States as refugees. Under President Trump's proposal, which was submitted to Congress on Monday, the U.S. would lift its record-low refugee a...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 21/05/2026
"Our students are being told that your families, Palestinian families, are expected to suffer and die, and you should be okay with it."
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“They’re Trying to Silence Us”: Students, Faculty on Censoring Pro-Palestine Voices at Graduations
As colleges hold graduation ceremonies across the country, many schools are attempting to silence pro-Palestine speech at the commemorations, including canceling speakers and eliminating live speeches...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 26/05/2026
“I could hear screaming the whole time.”
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“Designed to Break You”: Gaza Flotilla Activists Faced Violence, Sexual Abuse in Israeli Detention
“I could hear screaming the whole time.” Our guests Alex Colston and Haitham Arafat spent days in Israeli custody after being abducted from a humanitarian mission sailing to Gaza. They share accounts ...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 27/05/2026
Brendan Ballou spent two years prosecuting January 6 Capitol rioters. He is now representing two D.C. police officers suing the Trump administration over its new "anti-weaponization" fund that could be used to compensate January 6 insurrectionists who attacked them and their colleagues.
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Capitol Police Officers Sue Trump over Slush Fund for Jan. 6 Rioters & Other Allies
Two officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021, have filed a lawsuit in federal court to block the creation of a $1.8 billion so-called anti-weaponization fund. Former Capitol Police officer...
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maxwineinger.bsky.social @maxwineinger.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Protesters Block Newark ICE Detention Facility as Hunger and Work Strike Enters Day 3 www.thecity.nyc/2026/05/25/p...
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Protesters Block Newark ICE Detention Facility as Hunger and Work Strike Enters Day 3
Striking Delaney Hall detainees are demanding the immediate release of the young, the elderly and medically vulnerable people.
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 27/05/2026
"Gabriela Soto says that she started the protest in conjunction with the detainees’ strike so that the media could see how ICE is 'destroying families and separating them.' ... a guard asked her why she was 'spreading lies' and talking to the press."
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“They Are Not Alone Inside”: Protests Outside Newark ICE Jail Support Hunger-Striking Detainees
Around 300 immigrants detained at the Delaney Hall ICE jail in Newark, New Jersey, have been on a hunger and work strike since Friday to protest inhumane conditions and due process violations. Delaney...
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Extinction Rebellion London Actions MoM (Movement of Movements) @xrlondonactions.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
✂️ CUT THE TIES ACTION Yesterday, Cut The Ties To Fossil Fuels protesters occupied the headquarters of Federate Hermes, who invest in TotalEnergies, one of the companies behind the East African Crude Oil Pipeline. 🖤 The glorious Oil Slickers supported the action.
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comixman @comixman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Counter protesters to Rededicate 250.
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
A blockbuster double special Issue on GLOBAL LABOR MOVEMENTS will be dropping soon! Edited by Elizabeth Humphrys and Katrin Uba Meanwhile catch our current issue here-full of great articles plus a Mahsa Amini profile piece: www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...
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Volume 25, Issue 3 of Social Movement Studies
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
@SocMovStudies · If you will be at the CES conference in Dublin in June check out the Meet the Editors event (check the program for details) Council for European Studies June 17th Dublin-come meet the editors and participate in the Q and A and reception!
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 30/11/2025
Since a new issue is due to drop soon, let's have a more in-depth look at our current issue: Volume 24, Issue 6! 🧵 www.tandfonline.com/toc/csms20/2...
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Volume 24, Issue 6 of Social Movement Studies
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Nathan Katz @nathankatz.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Woo! It's been a long wait but my new article is now published in @socmovstudies.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Anti-leftism as an aesthetic in white power punk
White Power music scenes embrace both White Supremacy and the music cultures they situate themselves in. For White Power punk scenes, there is a reliance on the shaping and utilization of punk aest...
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Dr. Lisa Corrigan @drlisacorrigan.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.
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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
“Largest single-day protest in American history.” Roughly 2% of the population rose up to demand the restoration of democracy. So powerful. From @gelliottmorris.com open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...
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Second "No Kings Day" protests the largest single-day political protest ever*, with 5.2-8.2 million participants
Here are the initial results from our crowdsourced crowd-counting estimates
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Swen Hutter @swenhutter.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Out now @socmovstudies.bsky.social: we introduce the concept of a "protest script" & demonstrate how video-enhanced protest event analysis (vPEA) helps trace a common script of the Italian and German anti-containment protests. doi.org/10.1080/1474...
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Understanding protest scripts: the anti-containment protests in Germany and Italy during the COVID-19 pandemic
The pandemic did not bring protest politics to a halt. Instead, it sparked diverse and divergent forms of contention. This study compares the development and characteristics of anti-containment pro...
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
Nepal. Wow. Hope we get some interesting submissions on that at some point.
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12/09/2025
Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism
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Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism
“Fascism, it’s always about using nationalism, and the nation, as a bludgeon to generate support for death policies, on behalf of death governments. For violence and repression and exploitation, inter...
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
New and final issue of the year coming soon! Chock full of great articles! Climate activism, 15-M, women's movements, housing movements, "preppers" and more! Stay tuned!
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/09/2025
“In many ways, it’s bringing the logic of Gaza into the Caribbean, in terms of unaccountability, impunity and an expansive notion of national defense to justify what is, in effect, just extrajudicial killing.”
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Deadly U.S. Strike on Venezuelan Boat Raises Fears of Wider War: Greg Grandin
Acclaimed historian Greg Grandin joins Democracy Now! to discuss the Trump administration’s attack on an alleged drug-smuggling boat in international waters, which killed 11 people earlier this week. ...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/09/2025
“The underlying issue is economic inequality.”
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Indonesia Protests: At Least 10 Killed, Thousands Arrested Amid Police Crackdown
Authorities in Indonesia have launched a brutal crackdown on nationwide protests, sparked by outrage over generous housing allowances and other perks for politicians amid a deepening cost-of-living cr...
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Vicente Valentim @valentimvicente.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Come join us @iepolisci.bsky.social! This dept has one of the healthiest environments I've found in academia. Plus, everyone does brilliant work and you get to live in a great city with a salary that allows you to enjoy it. We only work in English, so language is not an issue. Apply!
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 05/09/2025
Israel bombed the Mushtaha Tower in Gaza City, leveling the 12-story building as part of a larger escalation aimed at depopulating the largest urban center in the Palestinian territory.
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Keith A. Preble, Ph.D. @poliscikeith.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
I really enjoyed reading this piece! “Not seeing the forest for the helicopters: UNESCO recognition and resistance to the US military in Okinawa” in Social Movement Studies: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @cnwillis.bsky.social
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Not seeing the forest for the helicopters: UNESCO recognition and resistance to the US military in Okinawa
Previous studies have found that when activists’ demands are not met by their home government, activists may adopt transnational strategies to levy international pressure on their government. While...
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Things have been busy and we have also been trying to get some well earned vacation time over the summer. But this is to say: We appreciate all of you reviewers, authors, readers, and supporters! We have another great issue dropping soon, and we are so glad to have such wonderful community (you)!
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why | Owen Jones
In Britain’s increasingly authoritarian society, any sort of protest can find itself at odds with the law. You might even go to jail, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024: Social Movement Studies: Vol 0, No 0 - Get Access www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024
From 7 October 2023 to 7 June 2024, the Crowd Counting Consortium recorded nearly 12,400 pro-Palestine protests and over 2,000 pro-Israel protests in the United States. Since January 2017, when CCC...
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
OA Full article: Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Diffusion as a colonizing process and the challenges of decolonizing Extinction Rebellion Aotearoa New Zealand
The Extinction Rebellion (XR) model, including three demands and a disruptive theory of change, were transferred from the imperial center of the United Kingdom to Aotearoa. Initially activists assu...
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
OA Full article: Strategic innovation and mobilization barriers: labor movement campaigning amidst Lebanon’s economic collapse www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Strategic innovation and mobilization barriers: labor movement campaigning amidst Lebanon’s economic collapse
This paper addresses the potential for labor movements to drive popular opposition in countries where ruling elites dominate civil society and public institutions. While past studies have examined ...
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
OA Full article: Coalition-building as a power resource: Transnational collaborations between global unions and non-union actors www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Coalition-building as a power resource: Transnational collaborations between global unions and non-union actors
This article explores how the global unions use coalition-building as a power resource in three different types of transnational labour campaigns. The first is an enabling campaign for seafood work...
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
OA Full article: Epistemic historising and the pillars of independent living www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Epistemic historising and the pillars of independent living
This article explores epistemic injustices faced by disabled people, and particularly by the members of the Independent Living (IL) movement – a new social movement that emerged in the late 1960s t...
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G Elliott Morris @gelliottmorris.com · 20/06/2025
Our effort to crowdsource an estimate of attendance at the No Kings Day protests last weekend is the leading estimate of turnout on the NKD Wikipedia page. Well done to everyone who helped out. This is the power of independent, data-driven media! en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_King...
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No Kings protests - Wikipedia
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 22/06/2025
Special Report: Mahmoud Khalil Reunites With Family After Release From ICE Jail
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Special Report: Mahmoud Khalil Reunites With Family After Release From ICE Jail
Columbia University graduate, Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil reunited with his wife and met his newborn son after being released from over 100 days in ICE detention. After flying from Louisiana…
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
A creative form of cultural protest and direct action
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.
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End Deportations Belfast @enddbelfast.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
#WeAreBelfast Huge numbers turning out against a paltry showing of far-right today in Belfast.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
el pueblo unido jamás será vencido
A facebook post screenshot from "Ian Bremmer" with text saying "spotted in southern California: 'ice' pinatas" over a picture of dude shaped piñatas with ICE hats and sunglasses
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Cinjaa @cinjaa.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
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Police arrested autistic activist in supported housing as part of Quaker raid operation
Exclusive: Joe Booth, 23, says he has PTSD after arrest in which seven officers entered his flat when he was in bed
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
www.bbc.com/news/article... Direct action calling for UK to obey international law leads to a ban on Palestine Action, if passed by parliament...making membership illegal
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Palestine Action to be banned after RAF base break in
The home secretary will move to proscribe the Palestine Action group in the coming weeks, the BBC understands.
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Social Movement Studies Journal @socmovstudies.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
The 2024 Journal Impact Factor is 2.4 (Journal Citation Reports® Clarivate Analytics, 2025). The 2024 CiteScore (Scopus) data are as follows: 8.5 (2024) CiteScore (Scopus) Q1 (2024) CiteScore Best Quartile 2.338 (2024) SNIP 1.381 (2024) SJR
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