Alexei Anisin, "Debunking the myths behind nonviolent civil resistance," Critical Sociology, vol. 46, nos. 7/8, 2020, pp. 1121-1139.
Response Monika Onken, Dalilah Shemia-Goeke and Brian Martin, "Learning from criticisms of civil resistance," Critical Sociology, vol. 47, nos. 7-8, 2021, pp. 1191-1203.
Reply Alexei Anisin, "Reinforcing criticisms of civil resistance: a response to Onken, Shemia-Goeke and Martin," Critical Sociology, vol. 47, nos. 7-8, 2021, pp. 1205-1218.
Benjamin S. Case, "Molotov cocktails to mass marches: strategic nonviolence, symbolic violence, and the mobilizing effect of riots, Theory in Action, vol. 14, no. 1, 2021, pp. 18-38.
Response Brian Martin, "Towards strategic rioting?" Theory in Action, vol. 15, no. 2, April 2022, pp. 77-91.
Mark Bray, Antifa: The Anti-fascist Handbook (Brooklyn, NY: Melville House, 2017)
Response Sue Curry Jansen and Brian Martin. "Can antifa build an effective broad-based anti-fascist movement?", Waging Nonviolence, 25 April 2018. Also published in openDemocracy, 3 May 2018.
Thomas Davies, "The failure of strategic nonviolent action in Bahrain, Egypt, Libya and Syria: 'political ju-jitsu' in reverse," Global Change, Peace & Security, vol. 26, no. 3, 2014, pp.299-313
Response Brian Martin. Failures of nonviolent action? Global Change, Peace and Security, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2016, pp. 117-120.
Reply Thomas Davies, "Learning from failures in the 2011 uprisings," Global Change, Peace and Security, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2016, pp. 121-122.
Peter Gelderloos, How Nonviolence Protects the State (Cambridge, MA: South End Press, 2007)
Response Brian Martin. How nonviolence is misrepresented. Gandhi Marg, Vol. 30, No. 2, July-September 2008, pp. 235-257.
Andreas Malm, How to Blow Up a Pipeline (London: Verso, 2021)
Responses Forum, On Andreas Malm's How to Blow Up a Pipeline, Journal of Pacifism and Nonviolence, Vol. 2, 2024, pp. 257-291.
Shon Meckfessel, Nonviolence Ain't What It Used to Be (Chico, CA: AK Press, 2016)
Response Brian Martin. Riots and resistance: unarmed insurrection and lessons for nonviolent struggle. Gandhi Marg, vol. 42, no. 3, October-December 2020, pp. 157-170.
Howard Ryan, Critique of Nonviolent Politics: From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement (2010 version)
Response Brian Martin, "Critique of violent rationales." Pacifica Review, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1997, pp. 83-91.
Marcie Smith, "Change agent: Gene Sharp's neoliberal nonviolence: part one, Nonsite.org, Issue #28, 10 May 2019, and part two, Nonsite.org, Issue #30, 29 December 2019.
Response Craig Brown, "Gene Sharp: more anarchist than neoliberal," Journal of Resistance Studies, vol. 6, 2020, pp. 69-104
Michael Stratford, "Can nonviolent defence be effective if the opponent is ruthless?: the Nazi case", Social Alternatives, vol. 6, no. 2, April 1987, pp. 49-57.
Responses and replies Brian Martin, "The Nazis and nonviolence", Social Alternatives, vol. 6, no. 3, August 1987, pp. 47-49; Ralph Summy, "Defending nonviolent defence," Social Alternatives, vol. 6, no. 3, August 1987, pp. 49-50; Michael Stratford, "The Nazis and nonviolent defence", Social Alternatives, vol. 8, no. 3, 1989, pp. 58-61; Brian Martin, "The Nazis and nonviolence (II)", Social Alternatives, vol. 9, no. 1, April 1990, pp. 54-55.
See also Alexandre Christoyannopoulos, "Pacifist rejoinders to the 'Hitler question'," European Journal of International Security, 14 January 2026.
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