About

What we publish

Briefs. Each one sets out what a movement is demanding, what it will actually get if it wins that demand, and which structural changes would make the result irreversible.

Between 2019 and 2026, youth-led uprisings shook or brought down governments in Sudan, Chile, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya, Nepal, Indonesia, Madagascar, Morocco, Peru and Togo. This generation is extraordinarily good at filling a street. It keeps losing at the same point: the demand.

Movements ask for a resignation and win it, while the structure that produced the grievance survives untouched. In Egypt in 2011, Mubarak left in eighteen days and the military council that had held real power since 1952 took over. Ukraine is the counter-example: it built independent anti-corruption bodies after Maidan, and when parliament moved to gut them in 2025 the street had something concrete to defend. You cannot defend a resignation.

What we are not

We are a publisher. We do not organise campaigns, fund groups, train anyone, or tell any country what it should want. We supply the menu and the evidence. The people who live there choose.

We publish nothing that aids confrontation — no security-force analysis, no evasion techniques, no target selection. Demands and institutions only. We do not publish the identities of organizers, contacts, or sources.

Method

Every brief must pass three tests before it is published:

• Is it useful to someone who has already decided to act? We inform people in motion. We never recruit.
• Is every claim sourced to a documented case? We are evidence, not opinion.
• Could a university press publish it unchanged? If not, it has drifted from analysis into organising.

Use this freely

Everything here is released under CC BY 4.0. Translate it, reprint it, strip our name off it, hand it out on paper. Attribution is welcome and never required — in some places it is safer without.