Strategize!
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.
There are periods in history… epochs, distinctive periods in time marked by notable events, that in many instances signal change. Columbus stumbling upon the Americas where Indigenous peoples had been living for thousands of years. The French Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the invention of the semiconductor, WWII, the Civil Rights era, etc.
In many instances, one may not realize that they’re living in the historic moment. It’s only upon reflection that you realize the significance of the time. There are other periods, I call them Oppenheimer moments, where you know that you are in the moment.
Federal Workers Can Defeat Musk’s Coup
February 11, 2025
Eric Blanc, Labor Politics.
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Austerity, DOGE, Elon Musk, Federal Workers
Who can stop Elon Musk? Even though it’s illegal for him to seize control of federal agency finances to slash the workforce, a Republican Congress is unlikely to assert its legally mandated prerogatives. Nor has any serious opposition emerged from the Democratic Party. And while the courts have paused some of this power grab, there’s no guarantee that our hyper-conservative Supreme Court will seriously oppose it. Moreover, Musk’s wrecking crew can impose a huge number of cuts while legal proceedings wind their way through the courts.
South Africa’s Long Road To Land Reform
February 11, 2025
Jonis Ghedi-Alasow, People's Dispatch.
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colonization, Hunger, Inequality, Land Reform, Land Rights, South Africa, White Supremacy
On January 23, 2025, South Africa enacted an Expropriation Act, updating the methods for land expropriation for the first time in fifty years.
The new Act allows for land expropriation for public purposes and interests whilst introducing the possibility of zero compensation for expropriated land. Consequently, the Act’s scope has been broadened since its 1975 version. Land can still be expropriated for public purposes, such as constructing roads, an uncontroversial and universally accepted practice.
The expansion of the scope to include public interest, however, also enables the Act to address a long-standing issue of land reform.
The United Kingdom Must Push Back Against Trump’s ICC Plan
February 10, 2025
The Canary.
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International Criminal Court (ICC), International Law, Israel, Palestine, United Kingdom (UK), US Sanctions
Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will sanction the International Criminal Court (ICC), placing financial and visa sanctions on individuals and their immediate family who assist ICC investigations against Israelis and Americans.
The Executive Order comes after last week’s efforts to pass a bill entitled the ‘Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act’ in Congress. The bill hit a stumbling block when it received 54 votes in favour and 45 against, falling short of the 60 votes required for it to go ahead to a final vote.
Instead, Trump has issued an Executive Order to implement the sanctions.
Unionized Grocery Workers Are A Sleeping Giant
February 10, 2025
Isaac Soto, Caitlyn Clark, and Jacob Eshom, Portside.
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Colorado, Grocery Workers, Krogers, Labor Movement, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs
In the first six months of 2025, grocery contracts covering over 130,000 union workers are set to expire. The contracts span five states, a dozen local unions, and several employers — namely the grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons.
Kroger’s last, best, and final offer included abysmal wage increases, with thousands of workers offered $0.25 or less in the first year of the contract. It failed to address worker concerns over understaffing, low wages, two-tier discrimination, shorter wage steps, and protections from automation.
Grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons’ $24.6 billion mega-merger was blocked in court after a coalition of UFCW and Teamster locals, including UFCW Locals 7, 324, 770, and 3000, organized a powerful “Stop the Merger” campaign.
Socialism Or Barbarism: A Statement Of Fact
February 9, 2025
Matt Willgress, Morning Star.
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Capitalism, Donald Trump, Socialism, US Imperialism
Engels once said that capitalist society “stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.”
Commenting on these remarks during World War I, the great socialist Rosa Luxemburg said: “What does ‘regression into barbarism’ mean to our lofty European civilisation? Until now, we have all probably read and repeated these words thoughtlessly, without suspecting their fearsome seriousness. A look around us at this moment shows what the regression of bourgeois society into barbarism means. This world war is a regression into barbarism. The triumph of imperialism leads to the annihilation of civilisation.”
We Are Stronger Than We Think
February 9, 2025
Maria J. Stephan, Waging Nonviolence.
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Federal Workers, Nonviolence, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs
The Trump-Musk administration has moved rapidly, ruthlessly and often illegally to consolidate authoritarian control and empower billionaires at the expense of ordinary people. In an administrative coup guided by Project 2025, the White House has sought to dismantle the separation of powers and deny critical services, punishing working people at home and abroad.
Making good on his promises of revenge and retribution, Trump has sicced the Justice Department and IRS on perceived enemies, notably those who believe in a more diverse, equitable and inclusive America.
Healthcare Workers Must Organize Collectively To Fight Trump’s Attacks
February 7, 2025
Mike Pappas, Left Voice.
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Health Care, Healthcare workers, Solidarity, Worker Rights
We are a little over a week into the second Trump presidency, and it is clear: his administration’s policies are a direct assault on health and well-being. From freezing critical research funding and blocking access to Medicaid, to expanding ICE’s reach into hospitals and rolling back environmental protections, these attacks will cost lives.
As we have discussed, trans and nonbinary people will face increased barriers to care, immigrants will be deterred from seeking medical attention, and entire communities will be left at risk of untreated illnesses and potentially preventable outbreaks.
Why Climate Defiance Is Doubling Down On Disruption
February 6, 2025
Davin Faris, Waging Nonviolence.
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climate crisis, Direct Action, MAGA, Washington DC
On a brutally cold morning last December, shortly before I was arrested for the first time, a hundred of us gathered beside the National Mall in Washington, D.C. I came from campus in the dark with a couple of friends. As others congregated on the grass, we made awkward introductions. It was an eclectic bunch: teachers, tech workers, lawyers, tradespeople, students and full-time activists, some of whom I recognized from past demonstrations.
When we reached a critical mass, Maxwell Downing, an organizer with Climate Defiance, split us up by risk level.
A Guide For Federal Employees Under Siege
February 5, 2025
Kristofer Goldsmith, On Offense.
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Anti-fascism, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Federal Workers, Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Worker Rights
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been inundated with messages from concerned federal employees. Many of you have reported disturbing developments involving Elon Musk and his inner circle—including private contractors from Musk's companies allegedly accessing sensitive Office of Personnel Management (OPM) servers and locking federal employees out of their systems. These actions raise serious legal and ethical concerns, and we must confront them strategically.
I understand your fear and frustration. You’re being targeted because authoritarian leaders know that professional public servants—those of you who uphold the rule of law—are the greatest obstacle to their agenda.
Inflation Poses Unique Challenges For Worker Co-Ops
February 5, 2025
Kenzie Love, Grassroots Economic Organizing.
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Finance and the Economy, Inflation, Wages, Worker Cooperatives
Inflation is top of mind for many Canadian small and medium-sized businesses (SMEs) these days. A recent survey of Canadian SMEs found 90 percent of them had been impacted by inflation, and another survey of 500 Canadian accountants revealed inflation as the most significant financial threat to Canadian SMEs. With the vast majority of Canadian worker co-ops being SMEs, it’s reasonable to assume that they’re also feeling these pressures. But delving deeper into the issue suggests that while worker co-ops face some of the same challenges as conventional businesses regarding inflation, how they respond is likely to be different.
Putting Nature At The Center
February 5, 2025
Richard Heinberg, Resilience.
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Biodiversity, climate crisis, Environment, Extinction
Life may be unique to Earth. Even if single-celled organisms can readily evolve in conditions that exist on millions or billions of other planets, we have no actual evidence that complex, multi-cellular life exists anywhere else in the vastness of space.
Bacteria appeared on our planet roughly 3.7 billion years ago; by 2 billion years ago, the tree of life was branching into what would become a stunning web of creatures, huge and tiny. Plants, animals, and fungi proliferated, formed relationships, and produced ecosystems. The result was a planet full of life, and one whose atmosphere, temperature, chemical composition, and weather are all largely shaped by the side effects of the strategies that organisms use to thrive.
The Encampment Movement Leads The Way Under Trump
February 3, 2025
Ethan Eblaghie, Mondoweiss.
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Campus Movement, Collective Liberation, Donald Trump, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Repression, Trump Administration
On January 20, Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term as President of the United States. As the country reels from his inauguration and the sweeping executive orders of his first week in office, American progressives are left grappling with the implications of a new Trump Administration, and how our organizing projects might come under renewed assault by a hard right Republican trifecta that controls both houses of Congress and is well positioned to enact its legislative agenda.
Many organizations are rightfully concerned about the repression and lawfare that Trump’s return to the White House threatens.
Betrayed By Green Capitalism, We Can Build A Livable Future
February 3, 2025
Peter Gelderloos, In These Times.
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Capitalism, climate crisis, Environment, Green Capitalism
In one way of measuring it, the mainstream framework to address the climate crisis has been a huge success. Promoting green energy, electric vehicles, conservation zones, carbon credits, carbon capture, and other new technologies has made billions of dollars for companies like Tesla, Google, NextEra Energy, British Petroleum, Saudi Aramco, Tongwei Solar, McKinsey & Company, and BlackRock. Governments have gained power through increased interventions in economic planning, and authoritarian regimes from China and India to Canada and the U.S. now have a new justification to carry out land theft against Indigenous and rural populations.
Panama: Self-Determination And National Popular Unity
February 2, 2025
Abdiel Rodríguez Reyes, Orinoco Tribune.
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Donald Trump, Manifest Destiny, Monroe Doctrine, Panama, Panama Canal, Self-Determination, Sovereignty, US Imperialism
The peoples have the right to decide their own collective destiny as established by the Bandung Conference in 1955 and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966, which was not gratuitous but a product of the struggle of the peripheral countries for their decolonization. Amid this reality, the United States never gave up extending the Monroe Doctrine to the present day. Making the situation worse, imperial irredentism becomes explicit with President Donald Trump. The Panamanian people’s distrust of the political elite at this juncture is being reproduced in the collective imagination in a marked disinterest in Trump’s imperial irredentism.