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The section provides articles on strategy to assist you in making your campaigns more effective. They include case studies of social movements and information about the current resistance environment. Visit the Resources Page for links to organizations that provide both online and in-person training on strategy and tools for designing and evaluating your campaigns and actions.

What Pope Leo’s Anti-War Stand Means For Catholic Troops

April 15, 2026 Center on Conscience and War. Strategize! conscientious Objector, GI Resistance, Iran, Religion, Wars and Militarism

We appear to be in uncharted territory as His Holiness Pope Leo XIV, leader of the largest branch of the world’s largest religion, has repeatedly and clearly labeled Operation Epic Fury an immoral war. He has called on its participants to “lay down your weapons,” a call heard by more than 250,000 U.S. service members who are Catholic. At the Center on Conscience and War, we are already working with several soldiers who called us in the wake of Pope Leo’s statements, specifically citing his intervention as their motivation to file as a Conscientious Objector–the only legal option soldiers have to refuse participation.

The Big Idea: Guerrilla Theater

April 14, 2026 J. Patrick Patterson, In These Times. Strategize! Guerilla Theater, History, Protests, Ruling Class

Absurd, ridiculous fun. It’s Abbie Hoffman throwing dollar bills onto the floor of the New York Stock Exchange to watch the scramble in 1967. It’s the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army bouncing into “clownarchy” to protest the Iraq War in 2003, confusing authorities and inviting mockery of their repression. It’s the Portland Frog Brigade wearing inflatables outside an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility to protest raids and deportations. It’s creating irresistible images to cut through the spectacle of modern life.

What Do Authoritarians Fear Most?

April 13, 2026 Sarah van Gelder, Truthout. Strategize! Mutual Aid, popular power, Ruling Class, Solidarity

Even before Donald Trump launched a war on Iran, his presidency had heightened the strain on millions of people in the United States struggling with high prices and precarious work. Now, as the U.S. and Israel escalate their violence in the Middle East, pressures at home are intensifying. Higher prices at the gas pump make the war-related surge in energy costs visible to all. Less apparent are disruptions to global fertilizer supplies resulting from the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Combined with widespread drought and the impacts of tariffs, the fertilizer shortage could cut food supplies, worsening the affordability crisis and spreading food insecurity.

Abolitionist Feminism

April 12, 2026 Sarah Jaffe, Dissent Magazine. Strategize! Abolition, Feminism, Marxism, Patriarchy, Working Class

With her 2011 book The Problem with Work, political theorist Kathi Weeks helped kickstart a theoretical renaissance of work-critical socialist feminism. Now she’s back with a new volume blending that critique of labor with prison and family abolitionism. Weeks takes the work of Shulamith Firestone, Donna Haraway, and Angela Davis as her starting point for a consideration of what it means to be an abolitionist today. Abolition Archives, Feminist Futures is an argument for the importance of Marxist feminism, and a call for structural thinking and collective action in the face of so much pressure to think and act on an individual scale.

There’s A Wave Of Attacks On The Ruling Class

April 12, 2026 J. P. Hill, New Means. Strategize! Class Struggle, Class war, Iran, Israel, Strait of Hormuz, US Hegemony, US Imperialism

People have reached a breaking point. American consumer sentiment is terrible, registering at the lowest level ever recorded this week. Gas prices just jumped more in March than they have in any month since 1967. The Iran War was historically unpopular from the beginning, and now the massive economic ripple effects are starting to hit home. And this is just the beginning. The Strait of Hormuz still isn’t open, despite a range of Trump administration lies to the contrary. That means 20-30% of the world’s oil simply isn’t moving. Fertilizer shortages will take months to hit, but they’re likely to hit upwards of 40% of U.S. farmers.

How Environmental Laws Are Shifting Focus From Humans To Nature

April 12, 2026 Ericka Schelby, Resilience. Strategize! Ecocentrism, Environmental Law, international cooperation, Nature

The need to protect populations from environmental harm or contamination is not new. Whenever human welfare was imperiled, those in power within most ancient civilizations passed laws to address these issues. History is replete with examples of this. For instance, there is evidence of the Indus Valley Civilization (c. 3000–1300 BCE) adapting to climate change, and early imperial China enacting protective laws, showing they were not “indifferent to environmental concerns.” In 2550 BCE, Mesopotamia achieved the world’s first water treaty between city-states—the agreement is now housed in the Musée du Louvre in Paris.

The Twilight Of Western White Power Will Usher In The Dawn Of A New Global Civilization

April 11, 2026 Margaret Kimberley, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Iran, Israel, Israeli Imperialism, United States, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

I predict that the US will be physically expelled from the region. It is becoming quite clear to the vassal states that have aligned themselves with the US, Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, that the US was unable to defend them, and not only unable to defend them, but that they the US, made decisions that clearly appear to prioritize the defense of Israel over them. And so being in alignment with the US, allowing for US bases to exist on in their territory as a result of not only them not being able to be defended, but making them a target. And so there is a real rethinking, if you will, taking place among some of those states.

Sudanese ‘Resistance Theater’ Animates A Future Without War

April 11, 2026 Lital Khaikin, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Culture of Peace, Genocide, Sudan, Theater

When a homeland is decimated by war and life must be repeatedly rebuilt anew, how does one find the way back to purpose? Since the start of the war in Sudan, Sudanese theater director and artist Rabee Al-Hassan has brought theater to survivors of war and displacement across the country. He uses a kind of participatory theater that he calls “resistance theater,” which gives voice to many issues that remain taboo under oppressive laws and authorities in Sudan. Resistance theater confronts themes of human rights, social justice and equality, as well as despair, fear and post-war trauma.

The Strait Of Hormuz, Gate To The Great Sea

April 10, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Strategize! Global Economy, Global South, Iran, Strait of Hormuz, Wars and Militarism

In the thirteenth century, the great Arab geographer Yaqut al-Hamawi described the Sea of Persia (فارس) as ‘a branch of the Great Sea’. In his compendium, Mu’jem al-Buldaan (Dictionary of Countries), he wrote that through the Sea of Persia would ‘pass the ships of India, Oman, and Basra’. Hormuz was not the name of that sea but of a ‘great mart of trade to which merchants resort from India and other lands’. Centuries later, those waters would be called the Strait of Hormuz: a fifty-four–kilometre passage between the Sultanate of Oman’s Musandam Peninsula and the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Dialectics, Iran And The Long Durée Of Anticolonial Revolution

April 9, 2026 Erica Caines, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! Class war, colonization, Iran, Revolution, Wars and Militarism

Dialectical and historical materialism cannot be understated as critically important in understanding the “war on Iran”. The framework is indispensable for moving beyond the phenomena of geopolitics (sanctions, military posturing, diplomatic tensions) to grasp the essential phenomena: the structural contradictions of imperialism in its current, neocolonial phase. By examining the nation-state as an enclosure, the process of primitive accumulation, and the dialectic between the dictatorship of capital and the dictatorship of the proletariat, we can see the war on Iran not as a discrete conflict between nation-states, but as a critical battle in the ongoing class war that shapes the entire imperialist world-system.

Rethinking Resilience In A Time Of Polycrisis

April 9, 2026 Jem Bendell, Resilience. Strategize! Adaptation, collapse, Inflation, New Normal, Transformation

I’ve often said that a rising cost of living is the obvious way that most people will experience the creeping collapse of industrial consumer societies. In the decade prior to 2026, that was already happening due to market capture by monopolistic capital, corrupt monetary policies, and the damage to production from ecological depletion and climate destabilisation. Now it’s also happening due to avoidable conflicts, such as in Ukraine and the Gulf. That is not to downplay any one tragic situation; but by pointing to the rising prices which then necessitate a change in our living standards, emotional states, and life goals, I am trying to help more of us to see how collapse is not a sudden event in the future.

The Quiet Casualties Of War: Americans At Home

April 8, 2026 Kenneth A. Carlson, Scheer Post. Strategize! Austerity, Inflation, Trauma, Wars and Militarism

By the time most Americans encounter war, it arrives not with the thunder of artillery but with the quiet click of a gas pump. The price rolls upward in glowing red numbers. A family of four hesitates in the grocery aisle, comparing brands of eggs and milk. Parents postpone vacations. A small business owner rethinks hiring another employee. No bombs fall here; no air raid sirens pierce the night. Yet the costs ripple through American life all the same. In this quieter sense, we too are casualties of Donald Trump’s war on Iran. War has always traveled far beyond the battlefield.

Jonathan Kozol And The Struggle Against US Apartheid

April 7, 2026 Michael K. Smith, Counter Punch. Strategize! Apartheid, Education, History, Racism, United States

Although bookshelves groan under the weight of tracts about U.S. racism, no one’s writings on the topic are more unsettling than Jonathan Kozol’s. He is among our greatest and most eloquent dissenters. He writes not from studied objectivity but with an impassioned conviction that sears the conscience and haunts the soul. His books, once read, stay with you; his insights, once seen, can never again be unseen. Horrors we once attributed to happenstance or personal failure are revealed by Kozol for what they are: our society’s deliberate punishment of innocent poor people, whose very existence reminds us of moral failures we prefer to imagine do not exist.

No Kings In America, Real Resistance In Rome

April 6, 2026 Michael Leonardi, Counter Punch. Strategize! Antiwar Movement, Democrats, Italy, Liberal class, No Kings, US Empire

The “No Kings” slogan sounded promising when it exploded across the United States in 2025: a mass rejection of authoritarianism, unchecked executive power, and the cult of the strongman. But like so many liberal-led mobilizations in the Trump era, the U.S. version has revealed itself as carefully managed theater — heavy on performative outrage, light on principle, and deliberately blind to two of the greatest crimes of our time: Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the illegal U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. The contrast with the Italian “No Kings and Their Wars” mobilization in Rome could not be starker.

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