Comprehensive guides on activism, protest strategy, movement building, and creating effective campaigns for social change.
How campus organizers can defend free expression while challenging institutional power in unionization fights
Student activism for union neutrality requires more than petitions and speak-outs. This strategic guide explores how to defend free expression, confront institutional resistance, and sustain campaigns through timing challenges.
How decentralized networks, parallel governance and real-time metrics can withstand international interference and restore Haitian self-rule
Haiti’s struggle for sovereignty demands more than protest against foreign manipulation. It requires resilient grassroots networks capable of autonomous governance, economic self-reliance and real-time self-measurement. This strategy outlines how movements can build and test durable power under pressure.
How horizontal movements can seize food, housing and health to build real sovereignty
Horizontal movements often stall at slogans and reformist demands. This essay explores how to transform assemblies into engines of sovereignty by seizing tangible control over food, housing and health, building counter-institutions that challenge power at its roots.
How movements can challenge systemic justice, defend political prisoners, and build sovereign alternatives
Challenging prisons and state violence requires more than protest. This essay outlines a dual strategy of disrupting the supply chains of repression while building abolitionist alternatives that embody freedom and solidarity.
How radical occupations can outmaneuver repression and build lasting commons power
Occupation strategy must evolve beyond holding buildings toward building sovereignty. Learn how to design departure rituals, mobile symbols, and narrative continuity that transform repression into renewal.
How joyful disruption and participatory ritual can dismantle systemic ableism and build autonomous commons
Playful direct action can do more than protest systemic ableism. When designed as participatory ritual and documented as living myth, it dismantles oppressive norms while seeding autonomous, joyful alternatives.
How movements can confront spiritual power while building inclusive, transformative community alternatives
Movements that confront religious authority often alienate the very people they hope to liberate. This essay explores how to challenge dogma while creating inclusive, awe-filled alternatives rooted in reason, justice and collective sovereignty.
Designing trust metrics and shared rituals that honor autonomy while building collective vitality
How can movements defend radical individual sovereignty without collapsing into isolation? This essay explores ritual design, trust metrics, and evolving feedback systems that harmonize personal responsibility with collective vitality.
How movements can delegitimize draft registration and build protective power for long-term resistance
Conscription registration is often framed as a neutral administrative act. In reality, it is the infrastructure of state coercion. This essay explores how movements can challenge the legitimacy of registration itself while building collective power and long-term protection for those who refuse.
How movements can defeat nationalist narratives by exposing cross-border exploitation and building shared sovereignty
Anti-immigrant scapegoating distracts from the real engine of inequality: capitalist land theft and exploitation. This essay offers movement strategy to expose cross-border profit chains and build genuine solidarity between immigrant and local communities.
Designing recallable councils and open forums for disciplined, participatory socialist movements
How can movements balance iron discipline with genuine grassroots self-governance? This guide explores recallable councils, open forums, and structural transparency to build socialist power without suffocating initiative.
Movement strategy to dismantle containment logic without reproducing nationalism or militarism
How can movements confront the Cold War logic of containment and military escalation without echoing nationalist or militarist frames? This strategic guide explores storytelling, divestment, cross-border solidarity, and value-based pressure campaigns to shift both imagination and budgets.
How movements can sequence disruptive tactics and community rituals to build power without alienating allies
Direct action can energize a movement or isolate it. This essay explores how to sequence disruptive tactics with community rituals and narrative-building so that each rupture feeds long-term solidarity and strategic growth.
How activist organizations can reject certitude, resist cult dynamics, and build cultures of humility
Movements that preach liberation often replicate the dogma they oppose. Learn how to design internal processes and public narratives that cultivate humility, structured dissent, and genuine critical thinking without slipping into cult dynamics.
Designing participatory spaces that decode symbolic authority and build everyday agency
In an era of surveillance and misinformation, movements must cultivate collective discernment without sliding into elitism or secrecy. This essay explores how to design everyday participatory spaces that democratize knowledge and turn public life into a living laboratory of critical agency.
Designing federated networks and cultural spaces that survive repression and reignite anti-fascist struggle
How can revolutionary movements survive repression and disillusionment without abandoning their ideals? This guide explores how to design federated networks, cultural spaces, and clandestine structures that embed anti-fascist and anarchist principles into daily life so movements can persist, adapt, and reignite.
How movements can elevate Syrian grassroots leadership while resisting geopolitical co-option
Solidarity with Syria demands more than opposing war. It requires practices that elevate Syrian grassroots leadership, resist geopolitical co-option, and build real accountability. This guide outlines strategic principles and concrete mechanisms for movements seeking anti-authoritarian, anti-imperial solidarity.
How radical openness and sacred storytelling can dismantle naturalized hierarchies
Revolutionary contingency teaches that nothing is fixed, not even defeat. Learn how to use the philosophy of radical openness to dismantle naturalized hierarchies and transform setbacks into sacred stories that strengthen your movement.
How democratic federations resist co-optation and build revolutionary sovereignty
Worker cooperatives can challenge capitalism, but only if they resist co-optation and build real sovereignty. This strategic guide explores how federations, political education, and shutdown drills turn ethical businesses into insurgent infrastructure.
How movements can harness cinematic spectacle without surrendering collective identity or sovereignty
Media spectacle can inspire rebellion but often distorts anarchist principles into nationalist hero myths. Learn how organizers can reclaim narrative power, transform spectators into participants, and build collective sovereignty through strategic media practice.
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