Activism & Organizing
Explore histories of radical organizing as well as books with direct action-plans for change.
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216 titles
Active Distribution
From Animals to Anarchism (A6)
Kevin Watkinson & Donal O'Driscoll
This pocketbook challenges those involved in animal activism to sort their politics out if they truly believe in liberation, and at the same time does not let anarchists off the hook - demanding that they con
This pocketbook challenges those involved in animal activism to sort their politics out if they truly believe in liberation, and at the same time does not let anarchists off the hook - demanding that they con
$8.00
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Overcoming Burnout
Nicole Rose
This book is about overcoming burnout, linking the author's journey of recovery with wider systemic forces such as classism, sexism and power dynamics in groups, poverty, chronic illness and ableism, as well as grief and trauma fro
This book is about overcoming burnout, linking the author's journey of recovery with wider systemic forces such as classism, sexism and power dynamics in groups, poverty, chronic illness and ableism, as well as grief and trauma fro
$14.00
Black & Red
Seizure of State Power
Fredy Perlman & Michael Velli
Seizure first appeared as Part 3 of Michael Velli’s Manuel for Revolutionary Leaders (1972).
Seizure first appeared as Part 3 of Michael Velli’s Manuel for Revolutionary Leaders (1972).
$12.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer
Alexandra Bradbury, Mark Brenner & Jane Slaughter
This book has distilled generations of organizing know-how and will show you how to fight back where you work and win!
This book has distilled generations of organizing know-how and will show you how to fight back where you work and win!
$15.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Trainer's Guide STANDARD EDITION
Chris Brooks, Sonia Singh & Samantha Winslow
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
$45.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Trainer's Guide EDUCATORS EDITION
Chris Brooks, Sonia Singh & Samantha Winslow
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
$45.00
Labor Notes
The FMLA Handbook
Robert M. Schwartz
Highly readable and illustrated with numerous examples The FMLA Handbook explains the rights of employees under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
Highly readable and illustrated with numerous examples The FMLA Handbook explains the rights of employees under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
$20.00
Other Comrades
A Year Without Sundays: Images from the Literacy Campaign in Cuba
Catherine Murphy and Carlos Torres Cairo
In 1961, in Cuba, thousands of young men and women joined the National Campaign for Literacy. This book tells the lived experiences of the powerful act of teaching others how to read and write.
In 1961, in Cuba, thousands of young men and women joined the National Campaign for Literacy. This book tells the lived experiences of the powerful act of teaching others how to read and write.
$30.00
Autonomedia
Assault on the Impossible: Dutch Collective Imagination in the Sixties and Seventies
Marjolijn van Riemsdijk
The second Autonomedia title to concentrate on the Provo movement in the Netherlands, unique in the modern era for having radically reshaped the political foundations of an important Western nation virtually without vio
The second Autonomedia title to concentrate on the Provo movement in the Netherlands, unique in the modern era for having radically reshaped the political foundations of an important Western nation virtually without vio
$16.95
DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 07 (DVD)
Inside reporting from war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq; and domestic stories on the stepped up military recruitment of Latinos and the FBI’s use of paid informants to entrap Muslims.
$14.95
DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 06 (DVD)
Jeremy Scahill investigates Blackwater's role in the Nisur Square massacre, Greg Palast tracks American debt speculators to Liberia, Big Noise goes inside the resurgent white power movement in America, and we visit East St. Louis.
From $14.95
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Big Noise Dispatches 05 (DVD)
Ground breaking reports from the turmoil in the Middle East to the Midwest of the US.
From $14.95
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DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 04 (DVD)
Ground breaking reports from the turmoil in Iraq to convention protests and election fraud in the US.
From $14.95
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DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 03 (DVD)
Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, Big Noise Dispatches take you around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity.
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DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 02 (DVD)
From the front lines in Iraq, to the legal lynching in Jena, LA, to the growth of a new poor people's movement in the streets of Philadelphia and Nashville --Dispatches 02 takes you where the mainstream media cannot go.
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DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 01 (DVD)
Dispatches 01 collects 72 minutes of radical investigations, analysis and on the ground video from the Big Noise team working on four continents.
From $14.95
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Autonomedia
Provo: Amsterdam's Anarchist Revolt
Richard Kempton
This book narrates the rise and fall of Provo who staged political and cultural interventions into the symbolic and everyday spaces of Holland from 1962-1967.
This book narrates the rise and fall of Provo who staged political and cultural interventions into the symbolic and everyday spaces of Holland from 1962-1967.
$15.95
Labor Notes
Democracy Is Power
Mike Parker & Martha Gruelle
Democracy Is Power provides a blueprint for building a member-driven union and demonstrates what member control really looks like, and why it is crucial to labor's future.
Democracy Is Power provides a blueprint for building a member-driven union and demonstrates what member control really looks like, and why it is crucial to labor's future.
$15.00
Black & Red
The Story of Tatiana
Jacques Baynac
True history of the radical militant from upper class Tsarist Russia who has come to assassinate the interior minister.
True history of the radical militant from upper class Tsarist Russia who has come to assassinate the interior minister.
$12.00
Other Comrades
Tom Brown's Syndicalism
Tom Brown
Anarcho-syndicalist trade unionist, anti-fascist, engineer and founding member of the Syndicalist Workers Federation, Tom Brown presents an introduction to syndicalism, workers control and libertarian communism.
Anarcho-syndicalist trade unionist, anti-fascist, engineer and founding member of the Syndicalist Workers Federation, Tom Brown presents an introduction to syndicalism, workers control and libertarian communism.
$15.00
Black & Red
Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman's Fifty Years
Lorraine Perlman
A memoir with photos written by Fredy’s companion of 27 years.
A memoir with photos written by Fredy’s companion of 27 years.
$10.00
Black & Red
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism (Black & Red)
Fredy Perlman
People who are resisting oppression and wishing for autonomy are often misled, twisted, and turned into leaders and followers who oppress on the basis of abstract notions.
People who are resisting oppression and wishing for autonomy are often misled, twisted, and turned into leaders and followers who oppress on the basis of abstract notions.
$7.00
Black & Red
Some Winded, Wild Beast
Christina V. Pacosz
A daughter of Polish parents, the poet examines her heritage of growing up in Detroit.
A daughter of Polish parents, the poet examines her heritage of growing up in Detroit.
$10.00
Black & Red
Poland 1980-82: Class Struggle and the Crisis of Capital
Henri Simon
Henri Simon captures the drama, the hopes and disappointments of workers’ rebellions in Polish industrial cities in the early 1980s.
Henri Simon captures the drama, the hopes and disappointments of workers’ rebellions in Polish industrial cities in the early 1980s.
$10.00
Active Distribution
From Animals to Anarchism (A6)
Kevin Watkinson & Donal O'Driscoll
This pocketbook challenges those involved in animal activism to sort their politics out if they truly believe in liberation, and at the same time does not let anarchists off the hook - demanding that they con
This pocketbook challenges those involved in animal activism to sort their politics out if they truly believe in liberation, and at the same time does not let anarchists off the hook - demanding that they con
$8.00
Active Distribution
Overcoming Burnout
Nicole Rose
This book is about overcoming burnout, linking the author's journey of recovery with wider systemic forces such as classism, sexism and power dynamics in groups, poverty, chronic illness and ableism, as well as grief and trauma fro
This book is about overcoming burnout, linking the author's journey of recovery with wider systemic forces such as classism, sexism and power dynamics in groups, poverty, chronic illness and ableism, as well as grief and trauma fro
$14.00
Black & Red
Seizure of State Power
Fredy Perlman & Michael Velli
Seizure first appeared as Part 3 of Michael Velli’s Manuel for Revolutionary Leaders (1972).
Seizure first appeared as Part 3 of Michael Velli’s Manuel for Revolutionary Leaders (1972).
$12.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer
Alexandra Bradbury, Mark Brenner & Jane Slaughter
This book has distilled generations of organizing know-how and will show you how to fight back where you work and win!
This book has distilled generations of organizing know-how and will show you how to fight back where you work and win!
$15.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Trainer's Guide STANDARD EDITION
Chris Brooks, Sonia Singh & Samantha Winslow
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
$45.00
Labor Notes
Secrets of a Successful Organizer: Trainer's Guide EDUCATORS EDITION
Chris Brooks, Sonia Singh & Samantha Winslow
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
This guide shows how to put on a three-part training that teaches rank-and-file workers how to build power on the job, step by step.
$45.00
Labor Notes
The FMLA Handbook
Robert M. Schwartz
Highly readable and illustrated with numerous examples The FMLA Handbook explains the rights of employees under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
Highly readable and illustrated with numerous examples The FMLA Handbook explains the rights of employees under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993.
$20.00
Other Comrades
A Year Without Sundays: Images from the Literacy Campaign in Cuba
Catherine Murphy and Carlos Torres Cairo
In 1961, in Cuba, thousands of young men and women joined the National Campaign for Literacy. This book tells the lived experiences of the powerful act of teaching others how to read and write.
In 1961, in Cuba, thousands of young men and women joined the National Campaign for Literacy. This book tells the lived experiences of the powerful act of teaching others how to read and write.
$30.00
Autonomedia
Assault on the Impossible: Dutch Collective Imagination in the Sixties and Seventies
Marjolijn van Riemsdijk
The second Autonomedia title to concentrate on the Provo movement in the Netherlands, unique in the modern era for having radically reshaped the political foundations of an important Western nation virtually without vio
The second Autonomedia title to concentrate on the Provo movement in the Netherlands, unique in the modern era for having radically reshaped the political foundations of an important Western nation virtually without vio
$16.95
DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 07 (DVD)
Inside reporting from war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq; and domestic stories on the stepped up military recruitment of Latinos and the FBI’s use of paid informants to entrap Muslims.
$14.95
DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 06 (DVD)
Jeremy Scahill investigates Blackwater's role in the Nisur Square massacre, Greg Palast tracks American debt speculators to Liberia, Big Noise goes inside the resurgent white power movement in America, and we visit East St. Louis.
From $14.95
DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 05 (DVD)
Ground breaking reports from the turmoil in the Middle East to the Midwest of the US.
From $14.95
DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 04 (DVD)
Ground breaking reports from the turmoil in Iraq to convention protests and election fraud in the US.
From $14.95
DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 03 (DVD)
Against a tide of ignorance, isolation and cynicism, Big Noise Dispatches take you around the world to look war and crisis in the face, but also to witness a shared struggle for survival and dignity.
From $14.95
DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 02 (DVD)
From the front lines in Iraq, to the legal lynching in Jena, LA, to the growth of a new poor people's movement in the streets of Philadelphia and Nashville --Dispatches 02 takes you where the mainstream media cannot go.
From $14.95
DVDs
Big Noise Dispatches 01 (DVD)
Dispatches 01 collects 72 minutes of radical investigations, analysis and on the ground video from the Big Noise team working on four continents.
From $14.95
Autonomedia
Provo: Amsterdam's Anarchist Revolt
Richard Kempton
This book narrates the rise and fall of Provo who staged political and cultural interventions into the symbolic and everyday spaces of Holland from 1962-1967.
This book narrates the rise and fall of Provo who staged political and cultural interventions into the symbolic and everyday spaces of Holland from 1962-1967.
$15.95
Labor Notes
Democracy Is Power
Mike Parker & Martha Gruelle
Democracy Is Power provides a blueprint for building a member-driven union and demonstrates what member control really looks like, and why it is crucial to labor's future.
Democracy Is Power provides a blueprint for building a member-driven union and demonstrates what member control really looks like, and why it is crucial to labor's future.
$15.00
Black & Red
The Story of Tatiana
Jacques Baynac
True history of the radical militant from upper class Tsarist Russia who has come to assassinate the interior minister.
True history of the radical militant from upper class Tsarist Russia who has come to assassinate the interior minister.
$12.00
Other Comrades
Tom Brown's Syndicalism
Tom Brown
Anarcho-syndicalist trade unionist, anti-fascist, engineer and founding member of the Syndicalist Workers Federation, Tom Brown presents an introduction to syndicalism, workers control and libertarian communism.
Anarcho-syndicalist trade unionist, anti-fascist, engineer and founding member of the Syndicalist Workers Federation, Tom Brown presents an introduction to syndicalism, workers control and libertarian communism.
$15.00
Black & Red
Having Little, Being Much: A Chronicle of Fredy Perlman's Fifty Years
Lorraine Perlman
A memoir with photos written by Fredy’s companion of 27 years.
A memoir with photos written by Fredy’s companion of 27 years.
$10.00
Black & Red
The Continuing Appeal of Nationalism (Black & Red)
Fredy Perlman
People who are resisting oppression and wishing for autonomy are often misled, twisted, and turned into leaders and followers who oppress on the basis of abstract notions.
People who are resisting oppression and wishing for autonomy are often misled, twisted, and turned into leaders and followers who oppress on the basis of abstract notions.
$7.00
Black & Red
Some Winded, Wild Beast
Christina V. Pacosz
A daughter of Polish parents, the poet examines her heritage of growing up in Detroit.
A daughter of Polish parents, the poet examines her heritage of growing up in Detroit.
$10.00
Black & Red
Poland 1980-82: Class Struggle and the Crisis of Capital
Henri Simon
Henri Simon captures the drama, the hopes and disappointments of workers’ rebellions in Polish industrial cities in the early 1980s.
Henri Simon captures the drama, the hopes and disappointments of workers’ rebellions in Polish industrial cities in the early 1980s.
$10.00