In 1988, a series of demonstrations and strikes, often bloodily repressed, disturbed the country.
Though the Russian Constitution guarantees freedom of assembly, this right has been progressively restricted, with the police and city authorities requiring protesters to obtain demonstration permits and often refusing to issue them.
The rank and file took the lead in these demonstrations and forced their often conservative teachers' union leadership to follow.
Commenting on Egypt's incredibly brave Facebook generation rebels, the political scientist Frank Fukuyama recently wrote: "They could organize protests and demonstrations, and act with often reckless courage to challenge the old regime.
After World War II, African-Americans launched an epochal movement of demonstrations and civil disobedience, often brutally suppressed, to exercise rights they supposedly already had.
And, on May 1 , 2012 that tradition of protest against exploitation of workers was drawn upon by the Occupy movement, which held May Day demonstrations and rallies -- often with a significant union presence -- in numerous cities and towns across the United States.
Indeed, in studies of demonstrations and riots, CSR often involves obstruction and violence that imposes the collective's will on an antagonistic out-group, notably the police (Drury & Reicher, 2005).
He expelled ex-partisans from the police force and cracked down on leftist organizations and demonstrations, often through the use of excessive violence.
Throughout the decade, until Polish Communism finally collapsed, Mr. Kuron could be seen at protest marches and demonstrations, often trying to keep the peace and always speaking politely to the police in his characteristic raspy voice.
Just after the opening of the school year, there were demonstrations nearly every other day and, often, violent clashes, as bands of young girls dressed in niqabs stormed government schools.
