Fight the Power!

(Paperback, UK ed.)

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In his famous history series A History of the English Speaking Peoples Winston Churchill seemed to think that history was about wars and made by great leaders. Fight the Power begs to differ and instead presents A Visual History of Protest Amongst the English Speaking Peoples. Today's occupy movements are part of a long history of struggle. This book visualises key moments in history where ordinary people have risen up and fought governments, corporations, even empires. When the 99% have stood up to combat exploitation and abuse or in pursuit of freedom of action and a better life. In other words, to show times in history, just like today, when people have struggled forward to FIGHT THE POWER! This comic book covers 14 cases of such struggle over the last 200 years and in several English speaking countries including not just the US and UK but Australia, Canada, South Africa, Ireland, India and Jamaica.

Author Bio

Sean Michael Wilson is a comic book writer from Scotland, who now lives in Japan. He has had more than a dozen books published with a variety of US, UK and Japanese publishers, with War on Want, 'Iraq :Operation Corporate Takeover' being reported on by a variety of mainstream agencies. He is also the editor of the critically acclaimed collection 'AX:alternative manga' (one of Publishers Weekly's 'Best ten books of 2010'). Benjamin Dickson is a writer whose previous works include the apocalyptic graphic novel Falling Sky (awarded "Best Indie Surprise 2006" and named one of the best graphic novels of the decade by Ain'tIt Cool News), and the science fiction thriller Slumdroid, currently being published by Scar Comics. He has had short stories published by Self Made Hero, Ctrl Alt Shift and Heavy Metal, and also worked on 1001 Graphic Novels to Read Before You Die.