The Anarchist Press in Egypt before World War I

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Gorman
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Education ◽  
World War I ◽  
State Power ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
World War

This chapter traces the development of the radical secular press in Egypt from its first brief emergence in the 1870s until the outbreak of World War I. First active in the 1860s, the anarchist movement gradually expanded its membership and influence over subsequent decades to articulate a general social emancipation and syndicalism for all workers in the country. In the decade and a half before 1914, its press collectively propagated a critique of state power and capitalism, called for social justice and the organisation of labour, and promoted the values of science and public education in both a local context and as part of an international movement. In seeking to promote a programme at odds with both nationalism and colonial rule, it incurred the hostility of the authorities in addition to facing the practical problems of managing and financing an oppositional newspaper.

Epilogue

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Heber Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
World War I ◽  
New Deal ◽  
State Power ◽  
Environmental Problems ◽  
Resource Scarcity ◽  
World War ◽  
Federal Level ◽  
General Expansion ◽  
The New Deal

This epilogue analyzes how environmental reform hardly ceased by the end of the 1910s. While the general expansion of the environmental state at the federal level paused with the eclipse of Progressivism during World War I, and became more coercive and reliant on state power, there was no abrupt end to conservation. Americans still sought to address the concerns about artificiality and resource scarcity that had animated the movement. In the next decade, the crisis of Depression and the politics of the New Deal particularly brought a kind of rebirth to conservation. The chapter asserts that environmental problems are about people as much as nature. Any effective remediation will be a triumph of social justice as much as a reflection of respect for nature. A better society and better laws depend on better people, as Progressive activists and theorists so acutely observed.

Occupation, War, and the Transformation of the Sanusiyya

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eileen Ryan
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Catholic Identity ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
World War ◽  
Central Objective ◽  
Political Interests ◽  
Sufi Order

Fierce opposition to the Italian invasion of Libya in October 1911 demonstrated the fallacies of Insabato’s predictions that a positive Italo-Sanusi relationship would lead to an easy victory. Nevertheless, Italian colonial officials continued to pursue an alliance with the Sanusiyya as a central objective. During World War I Italian and British officials toyed with the idea of exacerbating divisions within the Sanusi family, descendants of the man credited with founding the Sufi order. Rather than negotiating with the recognized head of the Sanusiyya, Ahmed al-Sharif, officials promoted the leadership of his younger cousin, Idris al-Sanusi. In the context of prolonged war, Idris’s negotiations with European officials met with widespread approval among Sanusi elites. For Italian colonial officials, the development of a power-sharing relationship with Idris meant minimizing the Catholic identity of Italian colonial rule, much to the dismay of missionaries and Catholic political interests in Rome.

Women against War

2019 ◽  
pp. 169-200
Author(s):  
Anya Jabour
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
World War I ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
The United States ◽  
Red Scare ◽  
International Social Work ◽  
World War ◽  
International Social

Chapter 7 focuses on Breckinridge’s involvement in an international women’s movement dedicated to feminism, pacifism, and justice that flourished in the United States and Europe during and after World War I. This chapter explores the origins of Breckinridge’s pacifism, her introduction to feminist-pacifism during World War I, and her continuing commitment to internationalism in the isolationist 1920s. Breckinridge maintained her commitment to social justice and her participation in international social work circles even at the height of the Red Scare.

The National War Labor Board: Stability, Social Justice, and the Voluntary State in World War I

1986 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 250
Author(s):  
Ronald W. Schatz ◽  
Valerie Jean Conner
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
World War I ◽  
World War

DEEDS NOT WORDS: AMERICAN SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS AND WORLD WAR I

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 704-718
Author(s):  
Jennifer D. Keene
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
World War I ◽  
Civil Liberties ◽  
World War ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
The First World War ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Government ◽  
Justice Movements

This essay investigates how the repressive wartime political and social environment in World War I encouraged three key American social justice movements to devise new tactics and strategies to advance their respective causes. For the African American civil rights, female suffrage, and civil liberties movements, the First World War unintentionally provided fresh opportunities for movement building, a process that included recruiting members, refining ideological messaging, devising innovative media strategies, negotiating with the government, and participating in nonviolent street demonstrations. World War I thus represented an important moment in the histories of all three movements. The constructive, rather than destructive, impact of the war on social justice movements proved significant in the short term (for the suffragist movement) and the long term (for the civil rights and civil liberties movements). Ultimately, considering these three movements collectively offers new insights into American war culture and the history of social movements.

The Competence of the International Labor Organization Under the United Nations System

1951 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 286-313 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Sulkowski
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
World War I ◽  
United Nations ◽  
League Of Nations ◽  
Labor Organization ◽  
International Labor Organization ◽  
World War ◽  
International Labor ◽  
United Nations System ◽  
Nations System

The International Labor Organization (hereafter referred to as the ILO) was established by the peace treaties concluded at the close of World War I as an autonomous part of the League of Nations for the purpose of promoting social justice.

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