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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.

It’s Open Season On Public Sector Workers

November 5, 2025 Les Leopold, Scheer Post. Strategize! Democrats, Federal Workers, Government Shutdown, Trump Administration

First Trump and Musk take a chainsaw to their ranks, then the Democrats, in effect, lock out those who still have jobs. Approximately 100,000 government employees have lost their jobs since Trump took over. If that wasn’t bad enough, now the Democrats, trying to show that they really aren’t wimps, have shut down the government. Seven hundred and thirty thousand public sector employees are working without pay while another 670,000 have been furloughed. Working people of all shades, shapes, and sizes are suffering collateral damage.

What Futures Are Possible?

November 5, 2025 Richard Heinberg, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, Earthship, Sustainability, Transformation

People have been forecasting the future for as long as they’ve had language. Premodern ideas of what’s to come often featured either a catastrophic end of the world or an eventual paradisiacal condition of peace and plenty. This was true both for many, though not all, Indigenous peoples and for followers of the world’s missionary religions (i.e., Christianity and Islam, and to a lesser degree Buddhism). For some cultures, the arc of time was imagined as a progression from ancient virtue to present corruption and eventual ruin or salvation; for others, time was cyclical, with multiple Golden Ages and periods of decline.

Venezuela’s Militias And The Civil-Military Union

November 4, 2025 Ria Evelyn, Venezuelanalysis. Strategize! Bolivarian Revolution, Civilian Militia, Liberation, Venezuela

The ideological basis of our militias is rooted in anti-colonial struggle. Resistance to Spanish conquest in the 16th century was led by Aboriginal peoples. The form of social organisation of our indigenous peoples was not a pyramid-type hierarchical order with a single chief – we had many chiefs – so Spanish colonisers found they could not dismantle the entire social, political and military structures of our society by killing the head of a pyramid. Our chiefs organised resistance, including the great indigenous leaders Great Cacique Guaicaipuro and Great Cacia Uriquia, forming liberation movements which continued until the independence era.

Venezuela: On Maximum Alert… But Without Alarmism

November 4, 2025 Clovaldo Hernandez, Resumen English. Strategize! Civilian Militia, US Imperialism, Venezuela, Wars and Militarism

Today, in any Venezuelan city, one might suddenly see a military convoy carrying equipment and weapons generally only seen during national celebrations such as June 24 or July 5. Yet what stands out most is not the vehicles or the weaponry, but the people operating and accompanying them: a diverse mix of soldiers and civilians. This is not the classic mobilization of professional troops or conscripts seen in most parades or training maneuvers. Alongside the officers and enlisted personnel march militia members—civilians with some military training—as well as recently enlisted citizens, many of them still in civilian clothes, experiencing for the first time what it is like to ride in a combat vehicle or a Chinese-made Beiben 6×6 truck.

Climate Justice At The University: Integrating Struggles For Liberation

November 4, 2025 Semine Long-Callesen, Resilience. Strategize! climate crisis, Fossil Fuels, Higher Education, Student Activism

Universities are not simply places for learning and research but are also centers of power and influence that can shape society. This idea about the power of higher education is cemented over and over again in the panel conversation between Fernando Racimo, Associate Professor of Molecular Ecology and Evolution at the University of Copenhagen and Jennie Stephens, Professor of Climate Change at the National University of Ireland Maynooth. They met at the Center for Applied Ecological Thinking at the University of Copenhagen to discuss the state of university institutions in the context of the urgent climate crisis.

Dockerworker Strikes In Solidarity With Gaza Have A Long Legacy

November 3, 2025 Peter Cole, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Dockworkers, International Solidarity, Italy, Palestine, Ports, Strikes

In the weeks leading up to the latest ceasefire, protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza widened and deepened across the world. In early October, in some of the largest demonstrations in the two years since the war began, millions took to the streets in Amsterdam, Istanbul, Rome, Jakarta, Tokyo, London, Athens, Melbourne, Los Angeles, Paris, Chicago, Berlin, Stockholm and Santiago. The Global Sumud Flotilla, an attempt to break Israel’s illegal blockade of Gaza, particularly captivated global attention. In September, roughly 500 people from 47 countries set sail from Barcelona on 50 vessels carrying humanitarian aid. Flotilla participants included humanitarian aid workers, clergy, elected officials, veterans, doctors, lawyers and artists — Greta Thunberg among them.

Civil Society Should Be Resisting Trump’s Authoritarianism

November 2, 2025 Amy Hagopian, Mondoweiss. Strategize! Higher Education, Human Rights, Public Health, Retaliation, Trump Administration

This November, I’ll be standing outside the American Public Health Association’s annual meeting in Washington, D.C., holding a sign that reads: “Ask me why I’m not allowed inside the APHA meeting.” After more than two decades as a member — serving as editorial board chair of the American Journal of Public Health, as an elected section chair, and as a governing councilor — APHA revoked my membership in September, stripped me of my elected leadership position, and banned me from attending meetings for two years. My offense? In November 2024, I participated in a protest at APHA’s Minneapolis meeting. Three dozen of us donned red latex gloves — signifying “blood on our hands” — and walked through the exhibit hall.

The Only Sane Response To A Dystopian World Is To Have Radical Imagination

November 2, 2025 Caoimhe Butterly, Hot Press. Strategize! Gaza, Genocide, Global Sumud Flotilla, Humanitarian Aid, International Law

At sunrise in Gaza, fifteen years ago, a group of fishermen prepared their nets to set sail. Restricted to six nautical miles from shore by the recently imposed and illegal Israeli naval blockade, members of the Abu Bakr family, a fisherfolk clan from Al Shaati refugee camp, spoke of the sea as giver and taker of life. It was weeks after the Cast Lead bombardment had stopped, a brief pause post massacre. We had accompanied Gazan ambulance services, working alongside committed and courageous paramedics as they responded to the devastation. A small, disparate group of international volunteers, trying to act as humble, hoped-for deterrence to the systematic targeting of Palestinian healthcare workers and bombing of ambulances.

Global South Cooperation Needed To Counter Hegemonic Disinformation

November 2, 2025 Tim Anderson, Orinoco Tribune. Strategize! Collaboration, Global Hegemony, Global South, Independent media, Media

Systematic disinformation is employed by the hegemonic powers to destabilise, divide, and weaken independent peoples and nations. It serves to disempower entire populations, justify suffocating sieges, proxy wars, invasions, and occupations, and to disqualify resistance. The problem: hegemonic propaganda is broad, deep, and well integrated. The Anglo-American enemy has lost its advantages in technology, industry and commerce, but maintains them in finance and propaganda. The dollar/SWIFT dictatorship still rules, and media, communicational, and ideological Anglo-American hegemony remains firmly in place, through well-developed networks.

How Mass Haredi Opposition Could Reshape Israel

November 1, 2025 Abed Abou Shhadeh, Middle East Eye. Strategize! GI Resistance, Israel, Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF), Orthodox Jews

The massive rally of the Haredi community in Israel on Thursday was not merely another episode in the long-running conflict between secular and religious Israelis. It revealed something deeper: a tectonic shift driven by dramatic demographic change, internal fractures within the Haredi community, and the unravelling of a political bargain that for decades linked the state’s ruling coalitions to Haredi parties. For decades, the political architecture that sustained Haredi political power rested on a simple transactional logic: in return for predictable Knesset support, Haredi parties secured budgets, institutional autonomy, and protections for religious life. Under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s long tenure, that arrangement - fed by growing state resources and generous allocations to Haredi education and social systems - became entrenched.

Palestine Solidarity In US Labor Will Come From The Rank And File

October 29, 2025 Derek Seidman, Truthout. Strategize! Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Unions

As Israel’s genocide in Gaza intensified in late 2023, a small number of U.S. labor unions began calling for a ceasefire. Others soon joined in, and many also started calling for a halt of military support to Israel. For many union members, statements didn’t go far enough, so they formed new national networks or pushed their unions to divest from Israel. Some even went on strike. Pro-Palestine organizing within U.S. unions is not new, but the breadth of criticism of Israel’s actions and sympathy with Palestinians coming out of the labor movement may have signaled a shift away from U.S. labor’s historic support for the Zionist movement and the State of Israel

Michigan’s Labor Revival

October 29, 2025 Ben Solis, Michigan Advance. Strategize! Healthcare workers, Labor Movement, Michigan, Service Workers, Unions

Michigan now has a more receptive environment for labor organizing and collective bargaining following the repeal of Right to Work laws within the past few years, and previous failures to retain unions in the private sector, according to a new report from Wayne State University’s Labor Workshop. One area of potential labor growth is in the health care sector, with a recent uptick of union organizing petitions. But the report also noted new challenges and political strain are on the horizon, including budget cuts, unfair labor practices and new anti-labor laws considering signals from federal and state leaders.

Catherine Connolly Wins: An Historic Victory For The left In Ireland

October 28, 2025 Paul Murphy, Europe Solidaire. Strategize! 2025 elections, Catherine Connolly, Elections, Ireland, The Left

The combined forces of the political and media establishment threw everything they could at Connolly to try to stop the momentum behind her campaign. “Smear the bejaysus out of her”, as Ivan Yates [1] suggested, was the strategy deployed. Her trip to Syria, her employment of a Republican convicted of a gun crime, her comments in opposition to US, French and British imperialism, as well as her previous work as a barrister, were all endlessly scrutinised and picked over. The red thread running through the majority of the smears was the fact that she is out of touch with the political and media establishment in her defence of neutrality and opposition to aligning more and more openly with NATO.

Why We Need To Talk About Adaptation

October 28, 2025 Rupert Read, DeSmog. Strategize! Adaptation, climate crisis, COP30, net zero

I’m delighted to be writing today as the co-author of a new report called ‘We need to talk about adaptation’. This report is co-produced by the Climate Majority Project and the Glacier Trust (a leading adaptation-action NGO, mainly active in the global South). What we did together is investigate how much the biggest environmental organisations are talking about (and what they are doing about) climate adaptation now, in 2025. And here is the interesting bit: the same analysis was conducted in 2020. So we were able to compare then with now.

The Need For Revolutionary Pan-Africanism

October 27, 2025 Nicholas Mwangi, People's Dispatch. Strategize! Africa, History, Kwame Nkrumah, Marcus Garvey, Pan Africanism, Regional integration, Socialism, W.E.B. Dubois

October 2025 marks eighty years since the historic Fifth Pan-African Congress convened in Manchester, United Kingdom, in 1945. This congress became a revolutionary turning point in the global struggle against colonialism and imperialism. It brought together a remarkable group of African and Caribbean thinkers, workers, trade unionists, and political leaders, including Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah, Caribbean-born US-based communist leader George Padmore, Trinidadian historian CLR James, Kenyan freedom fighter Jomo Kenyatta, Jamaican Pan-Africanist Amy Ashwood Garvey, and ITA Wallace-Johnson, who collectively articulated a new vision of African liberation and self-determination.

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