Comprehensive guides on activism, protest strategy, movement building, and creating effective campaigns for social change.
Reviving Makhno’s vision of self-governing communes for modern movements
Explores how decentralized, self-governing networks inspired by Nestor Makhno can challenge state-centric power by building resilient local autonomy, federated solidarity and practical sovereignty at the margins of the global system.
Building movements that reunite language, nature and power through multispecies dialogue
Activism must escape the human bubble. By reclaiming language as a planetary dialogue—shared with rivers, forests and animals—movements can dissolve anthropocentric myths and create genuine ecological sovereignty.
Building face-to-face sovereignty through participatory struggle and collective action
Radical democracy demands more than open forums—it demands the total reinvention of power. This essay explores how activists can cultivate direct, face-to-face self-organization that dismantles hierarchy, transforms everyday spaces into laboratories of freedom, and makes revolution a lived form of governance.
Weaving mutual aid, direct action, and joy into a decolonial archipelago
Anarchism in the Philippine archipelago demands a living strategy beyond reformism. By weaving mutual aid, direct action, and collective rituals of liberation, communities can erode hierarchy and rediscover self-rule amid sea and city alike.
Building grassroots solidarity that amplifies Cuban rebels and resists co-optation
To support Cuban freedom authentically, movements must break from state propaganda and external saviorism alike. Real solidarity means creating secure, humble, and decentralized links that let grassroots Cuban rebels tell their own truth and steer their own struggle.
Building post-capitalist solidarity through truthful dialogue and creative resistance
Amid capitalism's digital dissolution of value, fragmented movements risk implosion through ego and spectacle. Reviving honest, experimental dialogue and ritualised disagreement can rebuild solidarity, enabling radical communities to reimagine value as story, relation and practice rather than price.
Reclaiming geography as a tool of liberation through autonomous cartography
Conventional maps mirror the mind of power. By reinventing geography through anarchist practice, movements can reclaim imagination, trace autonomy, and construct living cartographies that defy control.
Decentralized power, ecological resilience, and the insurgent art of self-governance
Drawing on Kropotkin’s ecological anarchism, this essay explores how mutual aid networks can evolve into credible forms of alternative governance, linking local autonomy with systemic transformation and ecological balance.
Harnessing fragmentation and uncertainty to build unified transformative movements
Chaos is not the enemy of activists but the material of transformation. This essay explores how movements can interpret systemic fragmentation, cultivate collective sense-making, and design strategies that transform confusion into creative leverage.
Building worker power beyond compromised union leadership through ritual disruption and grassroots sovereignty
This essay explores how workers can cultivate autonomous, militant resistance beyond union bureaucracy. It proposes tactical rituals that shift power from official leadership back to the rank and file, transforming workplace culture into a living architecture of grassroots sovereignty.
How activist constellations outmaneuver hierarchy through verbs, cycles and open-source tactics
To escape the paralysis of hierarchy, movements must dissolve into agile constellations. This essay explores disband‑and‑reassemble cycles, verb‑based language, and open‑source insurgency as methods for sustaining creativity, avoiding groupthink and striking precisely where power is weakest.
Creating strategic, democratic, anti‑racist organizations rooted in community power
Movements collapse without clarity, discipline, and accountability. This essay explores how revolutionary organizations can blend anti‑racist practice, democratic governance, and community grounding to avoid the fragmentation that doomed earlier formations like Love and Rage.
Transforming existential longing into movement sovereignty and shared meaning
Movements gain depth when they alchemize despair into solidarity. By turning private pain into shared ritual and cooperative action, activists can rebuild meaning and sovereignty amidst alienation.
Building decentralized infrastructures that embody mutual aid and resist co-optation
Explores how activists can design technological infrastructures rooted in mutual aid and decentralization, embedding renewal rituals and cultural safeguards to prevent hierarchy and control from re-emerging within digital movements.
Strategies for exposing corporate control and building community sovereignty
Mainstream economics obscures power behind mathematical illusions. This essay explores how movements can expose corporate dominance, dismantle fear and fragmentation, and build alternative economies rooted in trust and tangible community power.
Building sovereign movements through gardens, mutual aid, and cultural self-management
This essay explores how decentralized organizing, rooted in everyday practices like community gardens and mutual aid, can nurture autonomous power. It offers strategies for sustaining spontaneity without fragmentation and transforming local cooperation into a living revolution.
Reclaiming hearing, scent, and intuition as tools for deeper community connection
Contemporary activism overvalues sight and speech, yet the real pulse of a community vibrates in sound, scent, and intuition. By training our subtler senses, organisers can perceive unspoken needs and craft campaigns aligned with lived rhythms rather than imposed narratives.
Transforming solidarity into accountable, risk-bearing relationships rooted in land defense
True solidarity cannot be purchased; it must be lived in risk, accountability, and shared stakes. This essay explores how organizers can move from performative allyship to authentic accomplice work that dismantles colonial structures and builds lasting trust with Indigenous communities.
Building voluntary networks through counter-economics and moral coherence
Movements for a stateless, voluntary society succeed only when their tactics mirror the freedom they seek. This essay explores how activists can cultivate consistency between means and ends through counter-economics, ritual reflection, and structural autonomy.
How movements thrive through voluntary cooperation and joyful self-interest
To escape the guilt-ridden culture of obligation, movements must reconstruct solidarity around voluntary desire, personal sovereignty and mutual joy. By replacing duty with freely chosen collaboration, organizers unleash enduring enthusiasm and redefine what it means to act together.
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