1. Action Will Be Taken
   Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2004
   Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking that moral appeals to the consciences of CEOs and finance ministers will have some effect. You might think that central banks' habit of provoking recessions when the unemployment rate gets too low is a policy based on a mere misunderstanding. You might think that structural adjustment and imperial war are just bad lifestyle choices.
2. The Activist Cookbook
   A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   Spicy recipes for fighting economic injustice.
3. The Activists' Handbook
   A Step-by-Step Guide to Participatory Democracy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2012
   A guide to grassroots activism.
4. Against Activism
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2016
   "Activism" stands in contrast to organizing. Organizing aims to bring people together to build and exercise power, informed by a strategic vision for acquiring power and changing society. To be an "activist" now merely means to advocate for change, and the hows and whys of that advocacy are unclear. Activist is a generic category associated with oddly specific stereotypes: today, the term signals not so much a certain set of political opinions or behaviours as a certain temperament. Worse, many activists seem to relish their marginalization, interpreting their small numbers as evidence of their specialness, their membership in an exclusive and righteous clique, effectiveness be damned.
5. Against the Current
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1986
   Bi-monthly magazine oriented toward movements for social and economic justice; radical, socialist and feminist in orientation.
6. Ah-Hah!
   A New Approach to Popular Education
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1983
   AH-HAH seminars are designed to organize groups of comman interests, especially workers, to come to a common understanding.
   
7. Alice in Migraland
   Resource Type: Film/Video
   Published: 2013
   The story of how undocumented students organized creatively and strategically and got the Federal Government to grant them legal status.
8. America's Social Arsonist
   Fred Ross and Grassroots Organizing in the Twentieth Century
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2016
   Gabriel Thompson provides a full picture of Fred Ross,this complicated and driven man, recovering a forgotten chapter of American history and providing vital lessons for organizers today.
9. Another Politics: Talking Across Today's Transformative Movements.
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2014
   Dixon examines the trajectory of efforts that contributed to the radicalism of Occupy Wall Street and other recent movement upsurges. He presents the histories and principles that shape many contemporary struggles.
10. Another world is possible if...
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
11. At the Escuelita Zapatista, Students Learn Community Organizing and Civil Resistance as a Way of Life
    The Class Was Stopped Twice: The First Time to Emphasize the Importance of Discipline in Their Organization
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    From August 11-17, the Zapatistas brought more than 1,500 people into their communities to attend the Escuelita Zapatista, the Little Zapatista School. According to a February comunicado by the EZLN, in a class entitled Liberty According to the Zapatistas: Autonomous Government I, "our compas from the Zapatista bases of support are going to share the little we have learned about the struggle for freedom, and the [the students] can see what is useful or not for their own struggles."
12. Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    
13. Back-to-the-Basics with Back-to-School Organization
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    August is the time to get ready for back to school by preparing ourselves with the proper supplies and organizational techniques.
14. The Barefoot Channel
    Community Television as a Tool for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    How you or you group can use local community TV station to get your message out.
15. Being an Organizer and Being an Activist is not the Same Thing
    Community Organizers are the "Brain" that Injects Strategy into the Heart of a Successful Social Movement
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    There is a lot of confusion surrounding the role that organizers and activists play in social movements. Both roles have profound differences regarding their goals and the way they face problems within social movements.
16. The Best of Enemies: Race and Redemption in the New South
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    The story of how C.P. Ellis, a member of the Ku Klux Klan, and Ann Atwater, an African American civil rights activist, overcame racial divisions to forge a strong friendship.
17. Beyond Social Democracy
    The City and Urban Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    
18. Beyond the Fragments
    Feminism and the Making of Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
    
19. Bridging the Class Divide and Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
    A guide to grassroots organizing with a focus on bridging the gap between middle class organizers and affected members of lower class communities.
20. Calling All Radicals
    How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
21. Canada's Young Activists
    A Generation Stands Up for Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
    Twenty five personal accounts of the important work of some of Canada's most prominent young activists championing causes from child labour to environmentalism.
22. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
    
23. Chinese Workers' Resistance
    Against The Current vol. 111
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2004
    Norm Diamond interviews Tim Pringle, who lives in Hong Kong, where he participates as an observer and also as a member of the editorial board of the Chinese-language magazine Globalization Monitor.
24. Choices
    A Family Global Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Choices is aimed particularly at parents who want to instil social awareness in their children, and who are looking for ideas, activities, and ways of initiating discussion.
25. Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2003
    
26. Clearness
    Processes for Supporting Individuals and Groups in Decision-Making
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
27. Coffeehouses
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    An establishment which primarily serves prepared coffee or other hot beverages.
28. The collective decides...
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    The obsession with 'process politics' leads to an obsession with all aspects of internal structure and its working. As a result, the collective can often lose sight of its larger political objectives and the primacy of the form of organisation over the political objectives it was set up to meet. This often occurs in two stages. At the outset the collective process is regarded as equally important to whatever political purposes the group might have. Later the process itself often comes to be seen as of primary importance
29. Community Organising - A New Part of the Union
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    A look at Unite’s community union organizing.
30. Community organizing
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A process by which people living in proximity to each other are brought together in an organization to act in their shared self-interest.
31. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
32. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
    
33. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
    
34. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 2 - Summer 1983 - Toward a New Economy
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
    
35. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 3-4 - Winter 1983/84 - Native Issues - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
36. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
37. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
38. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
    
39. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    
40. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
41. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
42. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
43. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
44. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
45. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
    
46. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
47. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
48. The Day the Internet Died
    An Oral History of the Egyptian Revolution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    When Hosni Mubarak Shut Off Cell Phones and the Internet in January 2011 Was the Moment When More Egyptians than Ever Went Out into the Streets.
49. Defender of the Forests
    Bonnie Phillips vs. the Timber Beasts, Gang Green and the Big Foundations
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Veteran forest advocate Bonnie Phillips passed away on May 4, 2015 in Olympia, Washington. This article is based on her final interview.
50. Democracy is in the Streets
    From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    A thoughtful and evocative history of the American New Left in the 1960's, looking critically but sympathetically at the struggles and passions of that period.
51. Don't Agonize, Organize
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1983
    
52. Don't Get Stuck in a Groundhog Day of Bad Habits
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Seven easy steps to streamlining your home office.
53. Eight Tips that Make Filing Business Income Taxes Easy
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    There are many great things about having your own businesses. Filing your taxes isnt one of them. So here are eight quick tips that you can use to make filing your taxes easier and less time consuming.
    
54. English Defence League: new wave of extremists plotting summer of unrest
    Growth of anti-Muslim group raises fears of street violence
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A profile of the supporters and the protests of the English Defence League, a right wing anti-Islam group of mostly white, young British men, many of them mobilized through their soccer clubs.
55. Exclusive excerpts from Ernest Tate's 'Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    
56. The Extraordinary Myles Horton
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1988
    Myles Horton is the founder of the Highlander Folk School, a centre for leadership training in Tennessee. The Highlander trains organizers for unions, civil rights organizations and local citizens' groups. In this article, Ellen Gould and Murray Dobbin talk to Horton to find out what his experience has taught him about organizing for social change.
57. Fast food rights: organising the unorganised
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    The experience from the examples of organising the unorganised both in the US and UK demonstrate that it is possible to develop union organisation; significant examples are discussed in this article, particularly in a British context.
58. Fighting for Hope
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
59. First Contract
    Women and the Fight to Unionize
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    Looks at the "personal side" of the struggle of working women to organize themselves into unions and win first contracts.
60. First Person Plural
    A Community Development Approach to Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    Smith provides an account of his experiences and addresses the ways of building an effective and democratic orgranization to bring about social transformation. Useful for those interested in adult education, community development and political action.
61. Get out there and organise
    The excitement of activism has supplanted slowly organized structures working for social and political change
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    While there has been an explosion of activism over the past couple of decades, the left must better cultivate organizing to make activism more sustainable and effective.
62. Get Ready for the Spring Thaw - Regain your Refrigerator
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Here#s a different sort of spring thaw and one you can do yourself. Get prepared to clean out your fridge and freezer. This process is a hot idea with refrigerator rules that will save you money and time.
63. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1984
    See also CX3147.
    
64. GI Coffeehouses Recalled: a Compliment From General Westmoreland
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    The New York Times has published an op-ed piece by historian David Parsons about the coffeehouses started near US bases during the War in Vietnam.
65. Global Labor: Socialist Register 2001
    Book review
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2001
    For all intents and purposes, I discovered the Socialist Register during the early '90s. When I say "discovered" I, of course, do not mean that I was the first to come across it. Rather, having heard of it for years, I actually read it.
66. Grassroots media relations
    A short introduction to media relations strategies for activist groups
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A media relations guide for organizers and activists.
67. Handbook of the Canadian Environmental Network
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    
68. Having the Hard Conversations
    Jane McAlevey on Fight for 15, labour's crisis of strategy, and the difference between organizing and mobilizing
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    An interview with labour organizer Jane McAlevey on labour's crisis of strategy and the difference between organizing and mobilizing. McAlevey discusses what ails the labour movement, problem with the terms "public" and "private" sector, and why we need to stop ignoring the rank-and-file.
69. Hearts and Minds: How Do People Change?
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
    Hearts & Minds: How do people change? Feb 17 Connexions Other Voices asks How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? See https://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2018-02-17.htm
70. The History Behind the Organizer of the Water War
    Oscar Olivera remembers how the Bolivian people took back their land and their power
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Many know Oscar Olivera as the voice and the organizer of the water war in Cochabamba in 2000. Others remember his experience as a factory worker.
71. How Not to Get Eaten When the Dinosaurs Escape from their Cages
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    The risks of moving too quickly to occupy TV stations, and “Suggestions for Radicals” who are in for the long haul.
72. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
73. How Sweet It Is
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2011
    Beat the winter blahs by hosting a dessert party! These simple tips will ensure you host the soiree of the season and provide a great pick-me-up for you and all your friends.
74. How to be organized In spite of yourself
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    
75. How to fight reactionaries
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Fundamentalists of all kinds only thrive when their communities feel besieged. Understanding why is not an indulgence.
76. How to Organize Video Game Systems and Accessories
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    How to Organize Video Game Systems and Accessories
77. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
78. The International Workingmen's Association, General Rules
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1864
    Rules of the First International Workingmen's Association, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.
79. The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the world
    A generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet.
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    Internet activists speak about censorship, the democratising impact of open source technology, and the importance of oportunities for anonimity in a post 9-11 world.
80. Invitation to form Operative Groups YoSoy#132
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    #YoSoy132 is against Enrique Peña Nieto, seeks the democratization of the mass media, and behaves as a peaceful movement.
81. It's here somewhere
    Resource Type: Book
    
82. Johanna Lawrenson: Organizing on the Run
    Lawrenson and Partner Abbie Hoffman Ran the Guantlet of US Law Enforcement to Organize for Justice
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    In 1978, Johanna Lawrenson launched a social movement with a fugitive. Her partner was Abbie Hoffman, an experienced organizer who at the time was wanted by the FBI.
83. John Kerry and Me
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Experiences in community organizing and electoral organizing.
84. Keeping Things on Track: Organize for Success
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    We all start the year with the intention to be organized and on top of schoolwork, bills, work, and obligations. It doesn#t take long for the best intentions to turn into the worst habits. Let these organizing tips help you start the year off right.
85. Keystone XL opponents need a jobs program
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The victorious Keystone campaign also exposed the perennial Achilles' heel of those who are fighting against climate change: We are often painted by our opponents and perceived by the public as caring more about the environment than about jobs. The neglected half of the job for environmental advocates is to ourselves become the voice for job creation. We need to develop robust programs to put unemployed pipefitters, teamsters, and others back to work. Indeed, the prerequisite for every environmental campaign should be a plausible and detailed jobs program. The sustainability movement must be a voice for workers, students, and others who want to both save the earth and promote appropriate economic development.
86. Labour Left Out
    Canada's Failure to Protect and Promote Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    
87. Learning from our History
    Ernie Tate's Memoir of His Early Years
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Richard Fidler reviews political activist Ernest Tate's two volume Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s and 60s: Ernest Tate, A Memoir.
88. Lessons from small shop organizing
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A significant amount of organizing experience in the IWW comes from working in relatively small workplaces such as stand-alone single shops or franchises of multiple smaller shops. These places present their own set of difficulties and opportunities.
89. Like to find some money? It pays to get organized.
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2010
    A poll by the US based National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO) found that an impressive 78% have found money or un-cashed checks during an organizing project and a fairly remarkable 26% of respondents have found $1000 or more.
90. Living by the Clock of the World: Grace Lee Boggs' Call for Visionary Organizing
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Grace Lee Boggs recently argued that activists should spend less time on protest organizing because it "leads you more and more to defensive operations" and "Do visionary organizing" because it "gives you the opportunity to encourage the creative capacity in people and it’s very fulfilling."
91. Looking at the Conference
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
92. The Making of Jericho Road
    Against The Current vol. 132
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
93. Making Their Voices Heard
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1987
    An account of international solidarity work in El Salvador.
94. Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
95. Marxists Internet Archive
    Resource Type: Website
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
96. The Mexican Student Movement Is Younger & Faster than "Occupy"
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    It has been decades since I have seen any march of this size include a pledge by participants with that much discipline and awareness that the march is about influencing public opinion (in other words, not about "us" but about everyone). It reminds more of the guidelines from the victorious struggles of Ghandi to win independence from colonial rule in India, the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 70s.
97. Mkhuseli "Khusta" Jack and the Art of the Boycott
    27 Years Later, a South African Organizer Looks Back at a Tactic that Hastened the End of Apartheid
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    A key figure in organizing a consumer boycott was the young South African Mkhuseli (Khusta) Jack, who recently discussed his experiences in that campaign with students and professors assembled for the 2013 Narco News Authentic School of Journalism.
98. Modern times Perspective for the Coming Months
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1974
    A discussion paper which looks at inflation as a ruling class strategy and asks what an organizing perspective should be for the coming months.
99. Moving Toward A New Society
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    A vision of a new society, with a strategy for achieving it through non-violent revolution, and specific suggestions for what individuals can do now to work for fundamental social change.
100. Murfreesboro vs. Islamophobia
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     When the Muslim community in Murfreesboro, Tennessee sought a permit to build an expanded Islamic Center, local bigots saw an opportunity to exploit the same "moral panic," invented by the Tea Party, the Christian Right and much of the corporate media, that would also emerge in New York around the so-called "Ground Zero mosque."
101. Myles Horton
     Insights from organizer Myles Horton
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1990
     
102. Naming the Moment
     Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1989
     A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
103. National Union of Public and General Employees
     Media Profile in Sources
     Resource Type: Organization
     
104. Never Worry About Losing Your Keys Again
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2010
     It seem like the items we spend most of our time searching for are the ones we need and use daily. The best example is our keys. How many of us spend 20 extra minutes every morning before leaving the house searching for our keys, or five minutes
105. A New Type of Political Organization?
     The Greater Toronto Workers' Assembly
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2010
     
106. The New Worker Organizing
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2013
     Many, perhaps most, worker center–based organizing projects focused on workers in low-wage jobs, are conducted with the active support and, often enough, leadership provided by a variety of community-based organizations—with support from one or more unions.
107. News and Letters
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
108. The Newsletter
     Periodical profile
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1974
     Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of independent leftists primarily based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published. Copies of the newsletters are available in the Connexions Archive and online on the Connexions website.
109. The Newsletter #2
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1973
     
110. No Heroes in Montreal -- Why Endless Protest Does Not a Movement Make
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2012
     No matter what you've taken to the streets to oppose - no matter how just your cause - your message gets lost when you don’t engage the community, you don't exercise discipline, or you just start acting like assholes.
111. Notebook of an Agitator
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1973
     Over 100 articles from the pen of an active participant in the events of thirty years of labor history. Cannon covers the campaigns to save Sacco and Vanzetti, the historic strikes of the 1930s, the Korean War, mcCarthyism, and prize fighting, movies, and the Catholic Church.
112. Nothing Is Ever Won Without Organizing
     Remarks to the First Nonviolence Training Session of the Mexican Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2012
     All organizing begins with the telling of a story. When we listen carefully to somebody’s story, we learn what motivates him, what she is passionate about. Listening is the first skill and duty of a community organizer. Before we can get somebody to do something, we have to learn what he and she want, which is usually different than what we presumed they wanted.
113. On Organization
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1972
     The authors argue that political groups, whether large or small, formal or informal, hierarchical or not, can only be a hindrance to revolutionary developments.
114. On Organization
     Resource Type: Article
     Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
     
115. On Revolutionary Organization: Points for Discussion
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1934
     
116. On Spontaneity and Organisation
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1975
     On the relationship of spontaneity and revolution.
     
117. On workplace organisation
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1997
     A look at the exchange between Stan Weir and Sam Friedman on workplace organisation.
118. Organize Anything Announces Top 10 List of Best Organizing Products
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2010
     Organize Anything Announces Top 10 List of Best Organizing Products
119. Organize Anything Top 10 Organizing Products 2011
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     The 2011 Organize Anything Top 10 List has been released! Check out the list of our "must haves" for 2011.
120. Organize Yourself!
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1986
     
121. The Organized Executive
     A program for productivity: New ways to manage time, paper, and people
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1983
     
122. Organizer Boosts Hoarding Expertise
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2009
     Colette Robicheau, president of the full-service organizing agency Organize Anything, is the first Canadian to receive the top level of certification from a respected U.S.-based organization that studies chronic disorganization and productivity.
123. Organizer Renny Cushing Tapped the Power of Community to Pull the Plug on Nuke Plants
     Clamshell Alliance Drew a Line in the Sand That the Nuclear Energy Industry Has Not Crossed to This Day
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2013
     As one of the key figures in the Clamshell Alliance in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Cushing was effective in organizing a movement that played a major role in freezing the construction of new nuclear power projects in the United States for decades.
124. The Organizer's Manual
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1971
     Practical suggestions for small-group and grassroots organizing, political self-e4ducation, mass education and communications, alternate community services, mass actions, legal and medical self-defense. Strategies for organizing high schools, universities, racial groups, women, the military, labor, the professions.
125. Organizers Worth Their Salt
     "Let's drink to the hard working people; Let's drink to the salt of the Earth"
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2014
     A few unions are recruiting salts these days, usually young people who apply for low-wage jobs in retail, hospitality, or logistics. But unions are reluctant to talk about salting, not wanting to alert management to look out for suspicious characters.
126. Organizing Around Transit: At the Intersection of Environmental Justice and Class Struggle
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     For the older big cities in North America, public transit is critical to their daily functioning. Organizing among workers and riders on public transit has a strategic importance.
127. Organizing in a Small Town
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1976
     Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
128. Organizing "The Poor" - Against The Working Class
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1971
     The newly found "poor" have become a focus for middle class activists. Having learned in the schools and universities that the working class either did not exist or that if it existed, it was co-opted and apathetic and could not possible act as the agent for social change, they found it "refreshing" to locate this new constituency.
129. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
     SYRIZA
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 2015
     This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
130. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 12, 2015
     Organizing
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 2015
     The focus of this issue is organizing. How can we challenge and overcome entrenched structures of economic and political power? Our own source of power is our latent ability to join together and work toward common goals, collectively. That requires organizing. Power gives way only when it is challenged by powerful movements for change, and movements grow out of organizing. In this newsletter, we feature a number of articles, books, and other organizing resources.
131. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
     Voter Suppression
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 2015
     Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
132. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - November 21, 2015
     Climate Change and Social Change
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 2015
     This issue of Other Voices spotlights climate change, the escalating crisis that the upcoming Paris climate conference is supposed to address. But climate change is not a single problem: it is a product of an economic system whose driving force is the need to grow and accumulate. Nor does it affect everyone equally: those with wealth and power can buy themselves what they need to continue living comfortably for years to come - everything from air conditioning to food to police and soldiers to protect their secure bubbles - while those who are poor and powerless find their lives increasingly impossible. A serious effort to address climate change therefore means social change and economic change.
133. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - December 19, 2015
     Utopia
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 2015
     Utopian visions, be they practical or not, free our imaginations, if only for a little while, from the daily grind of struggle and worry, and allow us to dream about the kind of world we would hope to live in. Such dreams can inspire us and guide us, even if they are not always quite practical. This issue of Other Voices peers into the world of utopian visions, practical or otherwise.
134. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - January 16, 2016
     Working class organizing
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 2016
     Working to change things for the better, fighting to prevent things from getting worse, remembering the past to illuminate possibilities for the future: as always, that is the focus of Other Voices. In this issue, we pay special attention to working class organizing. There can be no meaningful change without the active participation of the majority of the population: working people. Yet much activism ignores this obvious reality, while the organized labour union movement has put much of its reliance on 'professionals' who see organizing as a top-down technique rather than a grassroots movement. Several articles in this issue look at aspects of these issues. We also delve into the relationship between feminism and socialism, and look at the so-called 'sharing economy,' which produces increasingly exploited and precarious work, and immense profits for super-rich corporate owners.
135. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 17, 2018
     Hearts and Minds: How do People Change?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 2018
     How can we reach the millions we need to reach and engage if fundamental change is to happen? How can we accomplish the essential task of persuading a majority of the population that a fundamental social and economic transformation is necessary? Even more importantly, what will it take for people to come together and act collectively to bring about that transformation? What can we do to help make this happen?
     
136. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 25, 2018
     Looking for Answers, Creating Alternatives
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 2018
     This issue of Other Voices features people who are questioning and challenging the way the world works and trying to create better alternatives.
137. Out of the Driver's Seat
     Marxism in North America Today
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1974
     Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working class, gay rights, and students rights.
     
138. Paulina González Uses Story Telling as a Tool of Civil Resistance
     The organizer from south Los Angeles believes that you can touch peoples' hearts with stories
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2013
     Paulina González believes that story telling is fundamental to succeed any social movement needs the support and dedication of a critical mass.
139. Picture-Perfect Advice for Sorting and Storing your Photos
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2010
     Photographs are a great way to remember special occasions, but its not always easy to keep them sorted. Here are a few tips you can follow when printing or picking up your snapshots that will help you organize and protect your precious moments:
140. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1994
     Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
141. A Political History of Agrarian Organizations in Ontario 1914-1940
     with special reference to Grey and Bruce Counties
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     
142. Power: Building it Without Taking it
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2003
     
143. Prison organising
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2004
     If you're struggling for a better world, there is a chance that someone you know or even you yourself could go to prison. Thousands of people have been jailed for standing up for themselves and their communities - be they strikers, anti-war demonstrators, non-payers of unfair taxes.
144. A Proposal to American Labor
     'Open source unionism' could reinvigorate American labor in the age of the Internet
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2002
     The authors posit that union membership is too restricted by the requirement that unions have majority support in the workplace. They believe that pro-union workers who are a minority in their workplace should be mobilized by the labor movement if it wants to grow.
145. Protest Alone Won't Stop Fascism
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2017
     Desperate people are vulnerable to fascism, and the desperation is deepening: millions are eyeball deep in debt and 80% live paycheck to paycheck, while skyrocketing healthcare costs and rising rent heat up the social pressure cooker. It's this economic gut punch that the fascists hope to benefit from: as working people struggle to breathe the fascists hope to offer cheap, ready-made oxygen.
146. Quotes about Organizing
     Resource Type: Unclassified
     
147. Rank and File
     Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1974
     A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers.
148. The Red Menace
     A libertarian socialist newsletter
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     Published: 1980
     Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
     
149. Red Menace #1
     Volume 1, Number 1 - February 1976
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1976
     The first issue of The Red Menace, a libertarian socialist newsletter.
150. Resource Manual for A Living Revolution
     A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1985
     A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effect on change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
151. Reveille for Radicals
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1969
     Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
152. Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
     Volume 1, Canada 1955-1965
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2014
     The first volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
153. Revolutionary Activism in the 1950s & 60s: A Memoir
     Volume 2, Britain 1965-1970
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2014
     The second volume of long-time Canadian revolutionary socialist Ernie Tate's memoir.
154. Revolutionary Organisation and Open Letter to IS
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1972
     A 1972 pamphlet incorporating two previously published texts, 'Revolutionary Organisation' (1961) and 'An Open Letter to I.S.' (1968). They are presented as "a contribution to the serious discussing now taking place, within the ranks of revolutionaryies, as to what kind of organisation is necessary."
     
155. Rules for Radicals
     A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1971
     Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
156. Self-Liberation
     A guide to Strategic Planning for Action to End a Dictatorship
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2009
     
157. Sisters and Solidarity
     Women and Unions in Canada
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1993
     
158. Small Steps,.Big Changes
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     Tackling big projects can be daunting. We've come up with some tips and tricks on how to break a project down and take it one step at a time.
159. Social centre
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     Community spaces are used for a range of disparate activities.
160. Social Movements/Social Change
     The Politics and Practice of Organizing - Socialist Studies 4
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1988
     This collection of essays covers movements related to labour, ecology, childcare, peace, disability, gay rights, and access to abortion.
161. Some ideas about organizing from Citizens for Local Democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1997
     Suggestions about starting a local group which will focus on issues of local democracy.
162. Some Thoughts on Organization
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1978
     What type of organization should anarchists, libertarian socialists and libertarian Marxists be working towards?
163. The Spacemaker Book
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1977
     
164. Spontaneitat und Organisation
     Resource Type: Book
     
165. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1973
     A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
     
166. The Sticking Point
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     A client finds her "sticking point" - the point when she's organizing where she can't move forward.
167. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
     Resource Type: Article
     
168. A Strategy for Antiwar Organizing
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     There is a paradox here: The organized antiwar movement’s effectiveness has declined, even while public opinion polls showed that antiwar sentiment among the public as a whole has grown steadily. A movement which declines while opportunities for growth are becoming more favourable is a peculiar one indeed.
169. The Strategy and Organizing Behind the Successful DREAM Act Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2012
     Undocumented youth have shown that ordinary people build extraordinary people power, even in the United States.
     
170. Strategy and tactics: how the left can organise to transform society
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2011
     John Rees draws on the experience of recent mass movements and past revolutions to suggest ways in which the left can maximize the effectiveness of all those who want to transform society.
171. Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group's path to success with director Ben Fine
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2006
     An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
172. Talking About Organizing
     A Series
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2014
     This is an active online archive of commentaries and stories, first published in Our Times, about the experience of union organizing: what works and what doesn't. It's also the place where you'll find Our Times' columnist Derek Blackadder's WebWork series archived -- articles about online resources for union activists.
173. The Law of Subtraction
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2010
     We live in a high pressured, busy, success driven, in search of perfection and not excellence type of world. Learn how to prioritize to make room for the things your really want.
174. The Law of Subtraction
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     Seven easy steps to make more time in your life.
175. This Group Has Successfully Converted White Supremacists Using Compassion. Trump Defunded It.
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2017
     Life After Hate is a Chicago-based nonprofit that does path-breaking work. Founded by former white supremacist leaders in 2011, it studies the forces that draw people to hate and helps those who are willing to disengage from radical extremist movements. In June, the Department of Homeland Security revoked a grant to the nonprofit, telling The Huffington Post that it wants to focus on funding groups that work with law enforcement.
176. Time or Task- You Choose How to Get Things Done
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2010
     When it comes to adding things to the To Do list think in terms of describing your goal as a time or a task. Remember we can’t do a project. We have to break it down in to smaller manageable pieces.
     
177. Traite du Savoir-Vivre for the Occupy Wall Street Generations
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2011
     Once upon a time, twenty thousand people descended on Wall Street, the capitol of capital, occupied it nonviolently, and won exactly what they demanded. This is not a fairy tale. It really happened. This is the story of how it happened.
178. A Troublemaker's Handbook
     How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2005
     An organizing manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
179. A Troublemaker's Handbook 2
     Resource Type: Book
     A manual for workers who want to take control over their lives at work. In hundreds of first-person accounts, workers tell in their own words how they organized and struggled to do that.
180. Two Struggles, One Story
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2013
     Mkhuseli “Khusta” Jack and Oscar Olivera met face to face and shared their stories of strategic organizing with the scholars and professors of the School of Authentic Journalism.
181. The Tyranny of Structurelessness
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1970
     Contrary to what we would like to believe, there is no such thing as a "structureless" group. Any group of people of whatever nature that comes together for any length of time for any purpose will inevitably structure itself in some fashion. The structure may be flexible; it may vary over time; it may evenly or unevenly distribute tasks, power and resources over the members of the group. But it will be formed regardless of the abilities, personalities, or intentions of the people involved.
182. Uncivil Obedience
     The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1991
     How to push for social change without breaking the law.
183. Untying the Knot
     Resource Type: Book
     
184. The Urban Question and Organizing
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1979
     
185. Urban Struggle and Organizing Strategies
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1979
     The object of this paper is to examine the potential of urban struggle as a vehicle for promoting fundamental change in capitalist societies. This will be done by contrasting two organizing approaches to urban conflict and by evaluating their impact ideologically and economically on capitalist structures.
186. US Civil Rights-Era Leader Mary King Says Successful Social Movements Expand Space for Other Struggles
     Paper Penned by King Helped to Spark Modern Women's Movement
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2013
     Mary King played an important role in helping to advance the struggle for women's rights.
187. Vanguard, Vanguard, Who's Got the Vanguard?
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1972
     A critique of Leninist vanguard-party theories and practice, especially as manifested in the new left groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Published in the May 1972 and August 1972 issues of Liberation magazine.
     
188. VIP: Very Inventive Procrastinator
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2010
     Many of us think we have conquered procrastination and have become efficient workers. This may be true for some of us, but when it comes to procrastination we may have just become a little more creative. You may just be a V.I.P. # Very Inventive Pro
189. Voices of Experience
     Five Tales of Community Economic Development in Toronto
     Resource Type: Book
     
190. We can learn to live free (Clark)
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1979
     Give the human race a little credit. We can surely learn to live free, neither dominant nor submissive.
191. What a Way to Run a Railroad
     An Analysis of Radical Failure
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1985
     How can the high failure rate of radical projects, in the media and elsewhere, be understood? This book analyses the reasons why many of the key organisations and projects in this sector, which grew up during the 1970s boom in cultural politics, either collapsed or moved into a state of permanent crisis. In attempting to come to terms with this 'history of failure' the key concepts of this movement -- collectivity, internal democracy, participation -- are critically re-examined, and an argument is presented as to how and why radical projects also need to redefine their priorities and take on board questions of efficiency, financial control and marketing if they are to survive.
192. What is an organizer?
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1993
     Discusses the organizer's role in democratic organizations.
193. What is Organizing?
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2018
     Morgan reviews the history of Organizing in the USA and provides advice to activists on how to organize in an inclusive, constructive, way.
194. What to do with a tin of beans? Food banks, the left and the movement
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 2013
     Acts of collective practical solidarity are a springboard to participation in campaigning against austerity and the Tory war on the poor.
195. When Hate Groups Come to Town
     A Handbook of Model Community Responses
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1986
     A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
196. Who Advocates Spontaneity?
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1973
     The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
     
197. Why the Leninists Will Win
     Resource Type: Article
     Published: 1977
     Clark argues that the failure of the libertarian left to take organizing seriously makes it likely that capitalism will be overthrown by Leninists who will preside over a social system as undemocratic as the old.
198. Wobblies & Zapatistas
     Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 2008
     Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
199. Working for Peace
     A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1985
     A survey of the attitudes and tools that can be used in working for peace.
200. Working Lives
     Vancouver 1886-1986
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1986
     

Experts on Organizing in the Sources Directory

1. Marxists Internet Archive