Dismantling Power: the Zapatista Indigenous Presidential Candidate's Vision to Transform Mexico From Below

"Patricio's candidacy and radical vision for Mexico challenges conventional politics and marks a new phase for the Zapatista and indigenous struggle in the country."

Benjamin Dangl

14 Reflections on the 2017 DSA Convention

In order for the Democratic Socialists of America’s 2017 Convention to be successful, three major tasks needed to be accomplished this past weekend. 1. Members needed to develop meaningful relationships with comrades from around the country. 2. Members had to participate in...

Michael Stivers

Defend the Sacred: Living Earth - Cooperation With All Beings

Sabine Lichtenfels speaking at "Defend the Sacred - Envision a Global Alternative" in Tamera (7th August).

29 min

Letter From a Birmingham Jail (1963)

My Dear Fellow Clergymen:

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Defend the Sacred - What Is Sacred Activism?

Martin Winiecki speaks about 'What is Sacred Activism?' in the opening speech (6th of August 2017) of the international gathering 'Defend the Sacred - Envision a global alternative' in Tamera.

12 min

A Turning Point on the Left? Libertarian Socialist Caucus Debuts at Democratic Socialist Conference

The Democratic Socialists of America, a traditionally progressive socialist organization founded in 1982, has seen its membership increase from roughly 5,000 to 25,000 members in the past year following the Bernie Sanders campaign and the subsequent election of Trump. Now...

Adam Weaver

You Are Being Watched: Movement Defense Against State & Corporate Surveillance

Ours is an age of historically unprecedented state and corporate surveillance. Our society's growing addiction to social media, smart phones and other forms of digital communication has ushered in a more interconnected society, but one that is almost entirely dependent on the...

34 min

Struggling Against All Odds: A Review of Plutocracy III: Class War

Tim Goulet reviews the third installment of the radical working-class history documentary Plutocracy by filmmaker Scott Noble.

Tim Goulet

Our Activism Must Be Focused on Serving the People

Our organizing can't just speak to the everyday crises of people's lives under capitalism. It has to intervene in them.

R.L. Stephens

But What about the Psychopath?

If something bites you, it is inside of your clothes. —Swahili proverb I have argued that change will come not from overcoming the powers-that-be, but through their transformation. I have stated that we are fundamentally the same being l

Charles Eisenstein

The State of Our Feminist Movements

In today's global landscape, challenges inside and outside our feminist movements have sharpened, but so have we. So it's time to ask: what is the state of our collective movements today?

2 min

James Baldwin, Remembered on His 93rd Birthday

James Baldwin was a writer and political activist from Harlem, New York. He explored issues that challenged U.S. empire, racism and homophobia.

teleSUR

Naomi Klein: the Worst Is Yet to Come With Trump, so We Must Be Ready for Shock Politics

This is Part 2 of Amy Goodman's conversation with bestselling author and Intercept senior correspondent Naomi Klein about her book, "No Is Not Enough: Resisting Trump’s Shock Politics and Winning the World We Need."

22 min

Is Property Destruction an Effective Tactic? The Suffragette Movement Reveals Important Lessons for Today

“Suffragette” tells a gripping story drawn from the direct action wing of Britain’s woman suffrage movement. Because it spotlights one tactic – property destruction – the film raises the question of effectiveness. Leader Emmeline Pankhurst’s argument for escalating with arson...

George Lakey

A Manual for a New Era of Direct Action

Movement manuals can be useful. Marty Oppenheimer and I found that out in 1964 when civil rights leaders were too busy to write a manual but wanted one. We wrote “A Manual for Direct Action” just in time for Mississippi Freedom Summer. Bayard Rustin wrote the forward. Some...

George Lakey

Are We Doomed? Let’s Have a Talk.

We're not all ready to have the same conversation, but perhaps that's a good place to start

Richard Heinberg

How Seattle Voted to Tax the Rich

Seattle further cemented its reputation as one of the most progressive cities in the U.S. last week, when its City Council passed a law to tax the rich, sponsored by socialist City Councilmember Kshama Sawant along with Councilmember Lisa Herbold. The law places a 2.25% tax...

Adam Ziemkowski and Rebekah Liebermann

Accidental Anarchist (2017)

Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save us all. But working inside the system he came to see its failures, deceits and ulterior motives. He felt at first hand the corruption of power. After the Iraq war Carne became...

86 min

Month of Rolling Resistance Reclaims Power From Dirty Frackers

Lancashire County Council and local residents said NO to fracking. The government overturned that decision and allowed fracking firm Cuadrilla to drill at a site on Preston New Road near Blackpool. Now local residents, councillors and concerned citizens are taking direct...

10 min

James Cromwell's Fiery Final Interview Before Jail for Taking a Stand Against Fracking

Oscar-nominated actor James Cromwell has reported in upstate New York after he was sentenced to a week behind bars for taking part in a nonviolent protest against a natural gas-fired power plant. Cromwell says he’ll also launch a hunger strike. He was one of six activists...

14 min

How Swedes and Norwegians Broke the Power of the ‘1 Percent’

While many of us work to create a better world, it’s worthwhile to consider other countries where masses of people succeeded in nonviolently bringing about a high degree of democracy and economic justice. Sweden and Norway, for example, both experienced a major power shift in...

George Lakey

Marginalized People Don't Need Politeness, They Need Power

There’s an ever-percolating fight happening in left-of-center spaces about the tactics of the “call out” and shaming culture. This fight is rarely productive. Critics of those tactics argue they are counterproductive; defenders counter that these critics are really just...

Freddie deBoer

One Graph Shows How Morally Outraged Tweets Stay Within Their Political Bubble

Thousands of people around the world have excitedly made a forceful political point with a well-honed and witty tweet. All it takes is 140 characters to make a pithy argument, and man it feels good to get a few retweets.

Olivia Goldhill

On Left Activism: Breaking Up Is Easy, but Sticking Together? That's the Real Test of One's Ideals

There is good reason for people on the left to have divisiveness on their minds. In the news and on social media, the leftists that are shown most often are those that are ranting and raging at each other, calling each other out over this badly-phrased thought or that...

A. E. Elliott

The Pitfalls of Radical Feminism

Fighting capitalism remains the only path toward women’s full liberation.

Erica West

Councilors Take Direct Action Against Fracking, "You've Left Us No Choice"

Lancashire residents and councilors took part in a 13-person lock-on at fracking company Cuadrilla's flagship fracking site at Preston New Road. The action is part of the Rolling Resistance, a month of taking creative action against Cuadrilla and the fracking supply chain...

3 min

Beneath Dramatic G20 Clashes, a Deep Demand for a Better World

Tens of thousands descend on Hamburg, challenging policies put forth by Trump-type nationalists and Europe's neoliberals elites

Jessica Corbett

A Marxist Critique of Identity Politics

A Q&A with Asad Haider, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, on an ideology fracturing the left.

Kelton Sears

The NFL Can’t Handle the Political Radicalism of Colin Kaepernick

By directly challenging white supremacy, racism and imperialism, Colin Kaepernick is making himself a household name for all the right reasons. And the NFL, its billionaire owners and the corporate errand boys of sports journalism simply cannot stand it.

Eric Draitser

Why We Should Stop Using the Word "Activist"

Contesting power isn’t a hobby or a subculture—it’s a collective project pervading all facets of our lives.

Jonathan Matthew Smucker

Naomi Klein: We Must Kill Our 'Inner Trump'

The author of 'No Is Not Enough' says we must tackle our “inner Trump” in order to create a better world. Part of a 20min interview with OpenDemocracy, which you can watch in full here.

2 min

Worth Dying For - How Berta Cáceres' Murder Sparked a Backlash in Honduras

Berta Cáceres, winner of the International Goldman Prize for the Environment and possibly the most well-known land rights activist in the world, was murdered in her home a year ago. Berta's message to the world was that no one is beyond reach. Far from silencing her and her...

25 min

After the Rain: Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement 20 Years After the Handover

Two decades after the UK handed it back to China, President Xi Jinping is in Hong Kong for the first time to celebrate the anniversary. The ‘one country, two systems’ principle was designed to preserve democratic freedoms in the wealthy former colony. After troubled years of...

9 min

Meet The Protectors Who Built a Fortified Camp to Stop Oil Drilling

Oil companies estimate that 100 billion barrels of oil lie beneath the south of England. But a new breed of activists is opposing any drilling. Claire Marshall has been living with some of the protesters, who built a large wooden fort on a proposed drill site at Leith Hill in...

12 min

How Vast Amounts of Land Have Been Stolen From Black Americans

“It was almost as if the earth was opening up and swallowing Black farmers.”

Julian Cola

Bay Area Nonprofit Transforms Businesses Into Worker-Owned Cooperatives

There's been a lot of talk about where the Baby Boomer generation will live as they age. Several interesting, sharing-based housing alternatives such cohousing and senior villages have emerged as potential options. But what about all the businesses that Baby Boomers own? What...

Cat Johnson

Ending Racism Requires Us to Take Up Class Struggle, To Shift the Material Conditions That Gives Race Practical Meaning

Pierre Fulton was black. He was poor. He had struggled his entire life. He had been in trouble with the law as a youth. Armed robbery, drug distribution, and gun possession were all on his record. It was now 2015 and Pierre was thirty. He had turned his life around. He got a...

R.L. Stephens

Peter Joseph on The New Human Rights Movement - w David Pakman

Thanks to David Pakman. Get the book: http://www.thenewhumanrightsmovement.com

24 min

100 Days Of 45 (2017)

A mesmerizing compilation of clips from every single day of the 45th President's first 100 days. Like the films Alex is forced to watch in A Clockwork Orange - this breakneck, experimental documentary is a barrage of the media chaos that reshaped our reality. Each day ticks...

63 min

Be the Change in the Messed up World - Rob Greenfield at Tedx

Individual actions can amount to change at a large scale. In his talk, Rob explains how this applies to environmentally friendly living. His extreme activism initiatives, such as the “Trash Me” campaign he ran in New York in 2016, are meant to awaken our consciousness on the...

18 min

Organizing in 'Small Town USA'

On March 8, a crowd of over 50 protesters in Geneva, New York, (population 13,261) occupied the office of Republican Congressman Tom Reed. The occupation was part of a women’s strike organized in connection with International Women’s Day by the Geneva Women’s Assembly.

Liberation Staff

The Trap of Righteousness

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. —Goethe

Charles Eisenstein

We Don't Have Time to Hate

This sermon was given at the ECM in Lawrence, KS in April 2015.

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan

Juneteenth: Praise the Lorde, Audre Lorde

Happy father’s day to the fathers, and to our fathers’ fathers, and their fathers’ fathers, and all the way back to Grandfather Sky. Past there to before there were fathers, because all was just ONE.

Tai Amri Spann-Ryan

This Trump Pipeline Prank Should Win an Activism Oscar

President Trump loves pipelines, and he says everyone else does too. So he shouldn't have a problem with one being built through one of his buildings, right?

2 min

Hawaii's Homeless Community Taking Matters Into Their Own Hands

With barely enough shelter to house even 11% of the homeless people on its main island, Hawaii lawmakers struggle for solutions amid rising costs of living and low wages. But one group of homeless Hawaiians has taken matters into their own hands, forming a highly organized...

5 min

La Zad - The Largest Autonomous Zone in Europe

Decades ago, there was a local campaign of resistance against the construction of a second airport near the city of Nantes, in western France. This resistance culminated in the establishment of a self-organized autonomous zone, known as the ZAD. Over 40,000 people take part...

28 min

The Message: We Need Juneteenth Today

On Sunday, June 18th, 2017, Tai Amri Spann-Ryan gave a powerful and moving sermon at the Lawrence, KS Unitarian Fellowship in celebration of Juneteenth and the on-going struggle for liberation. The talk audibly left the crowd speechless for several seconds afterward. It is...

23 min

Moving the Giants

In 1991, arborist David Milarch had a near-death experience that inspired a personal quest to reforest our planet. He would harvest the genetics of the world's oldest trees, initiate tree-planting efforts to combat climate change, and help restore the planet’s health...

11 min

Colin Kaepernick Is Being Blackballed by Billionaire NFL Owners. Here's Why.

Colin Kaepernick took a courageous and principled stand last season by kneeling during the national anthem before NFL games. This was done in response to a society that continues to systematically, culturally, and institutionally devalue black lives. This devaluation is...

Colin Jenkins

How Ta-Nehisi Coates Mystifies Racism and Obscures the Material Ways We Can End It

Liza Bramlett was a slave. She lived on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta, during the 19th century. White men raped her repeatedly throughout her life. They traded her body amongst themselves in exchange for calves and piglets. In the end, Liza gave birth to 23...

R.L. Stephens

Liberation Theory: a Working Framework

Liberation is both the undoing of the effects and the elimination of the causes of social oppression. The achievement of human liberation on a global scale will require far-reaching changes at the institutional level and at the level of group and individual interactions...

Ricky Sherover-Marcuse

A 5 Step Plan to Resist Trump's Shock Doctrine

Shock. It’s a word that has come up a lot since November— for obvious reasons. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about shock. Ten years ago, I published “The Shock Doctrine,” an investigation that spanned four decades from Pinochet’s U.S.-backed coup in 1970s Chile to...

9 min

Sea Shepherd are Taking Direct Action to Safeguard Marine Life

In their mission to stop fishing of the endangered totoaba fish, the Sea Shepherd crew finds other animals caught up in fishing nets.

4 min

Why Corbyn Won

The Tories may still be in power at the end of the night, but Jeremy Corbyn won today. Yes, I know this is shameless spin, but hear me out: the last few weeks have vindicated the approach of the Labour left and its international cothinkers under Corbyn. This is the first...

Bhaskar Sunkara

How Peer-To-Peer (P2P) Politics Can Change the World, One City at a Time

The Commons is maturing politically, its methods and principles becoming more visible and its participants winning municipal elections in a variety of European cities. How did this happen, and what happens next? First, a look at our present political context, and then some...

Stacco Troncoso & Ann Marie Utratel

This Election Could Be My Last; It Will Change All Our Destinies and I'm Treating It Like My First

The 94-year-old campaigner fought in the Second World War and says he still wants to defend his country

Harry Leslie Smith

Seize The Moment: This Is Our Chance to Corbynize This Trumped Up World

The world needs an actual popular elected response to US aggression against the world’s poor and the earth’s climate.

David Swanson

The Anarchist Revolt Against the Ideology of Not Voting Is Finally Taking Shape

Anarchists have traditionally opposed voting for a variety of ideological reasons. For many, not voting is held as a badge of honor - a way of signaling one's commitment to anarchist theory. I've often thought that this belief in not voting almost represents a sort of reli

Tim Hjersted

Films For Action — A Social Change-Oriented Alternative to Medium

Films For Action is a library for all the best social change films on the internet, cataloged in one place. But because there is so much to cover, and films can’t cover it all — we also curate a ton of articles too. So this is our invitation to all of the social change...

Films For Action

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