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While we need a massive “big tent” resistance against this horrendous man and moment, we also need a sustained and independent mass movement against America’s bipartisan wars, its bipartisan military-industrial complex, and its bipartisan marriage to corporate power and...
Christopher D. Cook
60 min
ESSAYS FROM THE HEART #2: SEEING BEAUTIFUL. A deeply personal and reflective cross-cultural journey unpacking the quiet yet powerful forces shaping women’s relationship with beauty. Through authentic, vulnerable sharing and immersive storytelling, the film unravels the...
No Kings is historically good at mobilizing. Radicals and revolutionaries need to be historically good at compatibly organizing.
Michael Albert
Jeffrey Epstein was a horrifying but oddly “talented” specimen of humanity. He had some combination of “qualities” that facilitated his assembling an
Michael Albert
Why do people spend so much time analyzing and documenting the seemingly never-ending horrors taking place throughout the world at the hands of Trump & Co, but not nearly as much time proposing what to do about them or fighting back?
Vincent Emanuele
61 min
Why was Noam Chomsky - the scourge of the american elite - BFFs with Jeffrey Epstein, the personification of the worst aspects of that elite?
60 min
The book V for Vendetta posits a battle for the soul of the country between Anarchism and Fascism, freedom and oppression. But what if revolution doesn't happen the way we think it does?
29 min
Decoding the politics and ideas of one of the year's biggest movies.
My fellow tenants and I were able to win rent relief and repairs in our building. Maybe you can, too.
Cynthia Barlow
We need movements that can hold complexity, sustain relationships, keep people in the struggle and invite more in, not chew them up and spit them out. Radical consciousness is not enough. We need to match it with radical tools. Here is my attempt to pass some of those tools on.
Millie Boella
Mandatory conscription makes war easier, not harder.
Ron Jacobs
This statement will be seen by some merely as an act of loyalty. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have grappled, struggled deeply, over this situation, while seeking to remain faithful to the truth. It is in the service of truth–the very thing Noam Chomsky wanted us...
Bev Stohl
4 min
Throughout history, those in power have relied on a familiar tactic: divide people against one another and often against their own best interests so they don’t look upward. Whether along lines of race, class, gender, immigration status, sexuality, ability, identity, or...
Rasmus Hästbacka of the syndicalist union SAC highlights leading ideas of syndicalism and their usefulness in contemporary class struggle.
Rasmus Hästbacka
25 min
In this DIRECT ACTION 101 episode, I talk through lessons that can help any organizer do better work in their community. Stay tuned for more in this series in 2026.
Cut the military budget in half. Bloated war spending remains a sacred cow for far too many.
Eric Blanc
Global South unites against US-Israeli war on Iran, condemning imperialist aggression. Innocent lives lost, families displaced. When will the cycle of violence end? Join the fight for peace and justice.
Brett Wilkins
“There is a time when silence is a lie, when silence is complicity, and when silence betrays our troops, our country, and ourselves. We owe it to our troops, as well as to other potential victims of this war, to speak the truth."
Norman Solomon
Parenti stands out as uniquely courageous and unapologetic in directly confronting capitalism, US imperialism, and the manifold corruptions and inequities of society’s powerful.
Christopher D. Cook
47 min
In US-blockaded Cuba, ingenious mechanics and inventors revive old machines to survive during a time of scarcity.
12 min
As federal immigration agents descended on Minneapolis last month, residents deployed mutual aid to protect their neighbors. From 3D-printed whistles and eye wash attachments that flush out chemical irritants, to community screen printing to memorial bike rides, the city is...
56 min
As inequality gets worse and worse, hostility for elites is at all time highs, and huge majorities of voters want higher taxes on the ultra-wealthy to pay for social programs. All the conditions are perfect for the left to be overwhelmingly dominant as a social and electoral...
With millions of Americans’ resistance still limited to consumer choices plus attending an occasional protest, we’re leaving a lot of potential people power on the table. If even a fraction of these individuals became active participants in campaigns and organizations, our...
Eric Blanc
Swedish social democracy produced one of the most humane societies in history. That wouldn’t have happened without a militant labor movement and a working-class political party.
Nick French
A commons world is decentralised, stable and unified, not statist, growth-obsessed and 'left’. I’d like to persuade the left away from statist ‘solutions’, and yes, to recruit the 'right' as well – why not?
Dave Darby
50 min
With little hope of the genocide in Gaza subsiding, dock workers in major Italian port cities have organized strikes and large demonstrations to halt arms shipments to Israel. These actions are a direct response to the refusal of international institutions and governments...
As the fight against the administration's anti-immigrant offensive continues, here are four lessons we can draw from the experience.
Sou Mi
These policies are fully within the new mayor's power and would visibly improve daily life in New York without waiting on Albany.
TheLastFarm
Eight years ago, the Ecosystem Restoration Communities (ERC) movement began with a simple but powerful belief: that everyday people everywhere could restore the land beneath their feet and, in doing so, restore hope for our shared future.
Ecosystem Restoration Communities Staff
“Revolution is not a paradise on earth. It is a constant process of change, with obstacles and shortcomings,” Felix Weber, a member of the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, told me. “The difference is that people here don’t pull back from the obstacles but try to overcome...
Shane Burley
An addendum to "An Ideal Blueprint: The Original Black Panther Party Model and Why It Should be Duplicated" by Colin Jenkins (2014), posted by Films For Action
United Panther Party – U.S.
We can fight child sexual abuse using a block-and-build strategy rooted in economic, racial, and gender justice.
Chanelle Gallant, Shannon Perez-Darby
58 min
I've talked about it here and there for years, but this is my actual attempt to talk, definitively, about Tankies.
19 min
When an occupying authority appears to outman and outgun all resistance, what methods might one employ to resist such an “alien” invasion?
The left has absorbed right-wing frameworks that undermine our efforts, often making our spaces inaccessible and unwelcoming to new people, writes Chris Crass. Liberation culture encourages us to become and be the leaders we needed, or wish we had, when we were new.
Chris Crass
These overlooked offices control the budgets, databases, and cooperation that make the terror possible—or impossible.
Kelly Dietrich
“We need to make sure that we have an ultimate response to that which, I believe, has to be a true national strike,” he said.
Brad Reed
Why the popular anarchist critique gets strategic resistance backwards—and what actually threatens power
Tim Hjersted
83 min
In Direct Action 101: Episode 9, we break down the basics of security culture—a set of essential practices that help activists, organizers, and communities stay safe while resisting state power. From COINTELPRO to Stop Cop City, this episode explores how governments surveil...
Concrete ways to resist when marching isn’t your role.
Jackie Summers
Nonviolent resistance movements are not only more likely to succeed than their violent counterparts — they also tend to achieve success more quickly.
Stockholm University Communications Office
How to stay alive when the fight arrives at your door.
Jackie Summers
Minnesota shows what’s possible—here’s how we turn that spark into the kind of disruptive power that can actually stop ICE
Eric Blanc
8 min
Nepal has emerged as the blueprint for Gen Z activism worldwide. While covering youth movements, AJ+’s Anna Kook noticed that from Madagascar to Indonesia, organizers are looking to Nepal for inspiration on how to use social platforms to challenge power and mobilize their...
A forgotten network of radicals helped teach King how to organize—and how to link civil rights to economic redistribution for all
Eric Blanc
Americans can learn from the anti-Nazi leaflet “10 Commandments for Danes” by denying ICE everything it needs to function.
Rivera Sun
Values keep movements honest, while a material approach gets results, and there’s a time and place for both.
Mehran Khalili
As Minneapolis leads a heroic fightback against ICE, our national unions must follow their example by organizing toward a general strike.
Mike Pappas, Daniel Nath
Despite the specious swapping out of fascist ICE leaders seeking to quell public fury, the gutted, steadfast denizens of Minneapolis continue to show up in frigid weather to demand "ICE Out" and "Stop Killing Us." Honoring their righteous struggle, Friday sees the city...
Abby Zimet
4 min
“You Said You Wanted a Fight” is built around a simple idea: one of the most effective tools of power is making people forget how often collective struggle and solidarity have already worked.
8 min
Reel by Black Power Manifestation /A.A.N/ Bpppgh with Eric Garland
Power anywhere where there’s people. Power anywhere where there’s people. Let me give you an example of teaching people. Basically, the way they learn is observation and participation. You know a lot of us go around and joke ourselves and believe that the masses have PhD’s...
Fred Hampton
The first battle is the battle of the spirit.
Tim Hjersted
This call is very much in the history of how general strikes have emerged in this country since the mid 19th century.
Eugene Puryear
Dear American Citizens,
Grans-United
Firearms may feel like instruments of resistance, but they do not create the collective capacity required to confront either state or corporate power. Organized labor—strikes, boycotts, mass noncompliance, & withdrawal of labor—by contrast, operates at the level Friedrich...
Rachel Hoopsick
The problem wasn't the method of resistance. It was the near-total absence of sustained, mass-scale resistance of any kind.
Tim Hjersted
Elections, labor, mutual aid, and local organizing wins in 2025 point to strategies that can work in the coming year.
Sarah van Gelder
186 min
This is me thinking out loud, carefully and practically, about how real political change actually happens — based on history, organising in Brixton since I was imprisoned, and a lot of experience inside movements that worked… and some that didn’t.
Here are 5 calls to action you can take now to help protect our neighbors.
Qasim Rashid
The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes.
Chris Hedges
15 min
In moments like this, fear pushes people toward anger, and anger pushes nations toward mistakes they can’t undo.
We need to examine nonviolent resistance critically. But dismissing it based on misconceptions about how it functions, or romanticizing armed struggle while ignoring its failures, leaves movements unprepared for the work ahead.
Tim Hjersted
The history of social strikes demonstrate that, no matter what tyrants may do, ultimately the people have the means to defeat them.
Jeremy Brecher, Alex Caputo-Pearl & Jackson Potter
53 min
From South Korea to Serbia to the Philippines, people power uprisings have toppled authoritarian regimes — armed with nothing but conviction and solidarity.
If nonviolence required tyrants to grow a heart, we'd be finished, because violence is exactly what they're begging for. History shows we beat them by withdrawing pillars of support until they're forced to concede.
Tim Hjersted
16 min
This video discusses how to approach life's inevitable difficulties through the lens of Stoicism, emphasizing that pain and suffering are unavoidable and have always been a part of the human experience. Focusing on what is within one's control is crucial for navigating...
Trump thought Minnesotans would be pushovers and great “performance fodder” as televised victims of his version of macho violence. He was wrong.
Mary Papenfuss
My friends, stay informed. Stay engaged. Be aware. Don’t fall into apathy. But please, don’t let the bad news kill you. We need you here to help twist the plot.
John Pavlovitz
24 min
Martin Luther King Jr. was more than a civil rights leader. He was a Christian witness who understood the true cost of following Christ in a world ruled by injustice, violence, and corrupt power.
118 min
In this episode, Peter Joseph addresses the release of the Integral White Paper, as the core focus, and critiques the pervasive vagueness of alternative economic discourse, arguing that terms like socialism, communism, and Marxism function as empty abstractions that obscure...
80 min
An observational documentary following total liberation activism in Denmark, one of the world’s best democracies, where a group of activists is met with an unfiltered police response.
The Democratic establishment shuns the progressive populism that’s vital to effectively counter bogus right-wing populism. And so, the fight to defeat the fascistic GOP and the fight to overcome the power of corporate Democrats are largely the same fight.
Norman Solomon
20 min
Once, unions shook nations and promised a better future for working people. Some even sought radical social transformation. But today, their once booming voice has felt more like a whisper. Their mass mobilisation has retreated into passive bureaucracies. All while their...
Nina Turner's insight cuts to a crucial distinction in movement work: there's a difference between trying to win arguments and trying to build power. But I'd take it further—the deepest purpose of activism isn't even primarily about changing minds or mobilizing the...
Tim Hjersted
The January 3 attack on Venezuela culminated in the kidnapping of President Nicolás Maduro, and his wife, Cilia Flores. The LTS in Venezuela, together with the CRP-CI internationally, calls for active mobilization to defeat Donald Trump’s imperialist military onslaught and...
Milton D'León
14 min
We can abolish ICE by the end of January. We can shut down any more talk of invading other countries. And we can force the immediate release of the Epstein files. By demanding congress filibuster to shut down the government until our demands are met.
55 min
Today is the federal holiday that honors Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. He was born January 15, 1929. He was assassinated April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was just 39 years old. While Dr. King is primarily remembered as a civil rights leader, he also...
While U.S. imperialism escalates sanctions, military threats, and interventionist pressure, the Islamic Republic is brutally repressing popular resistance to preserve clerical rule. Only the independent self-organization and mobilization of the Iranian working class, youth...
Left Voice
We need a new model to fight ICE — including having local prosecutors indict its agents for murder, assault, and false arrests based on evidence.
Steven Donziger
We need to build independent economic bases where we live.
Patrick Mazza
The numerous attempts by activists in flotillas, to break the siege on Gaza, are a potent reminder that hope comes through acts of resistance and that we must never accept the status quo.
Chris Hedges
Confronting the brutality of the ruling dictatorship and the designs of U.S. and Israeli imperialism are the dual tasks of the uprising, according to Tudeh.
C.J. Atkins
This article presents 3 statements from Iranian workers’ organisations. As one group writes, "Long live the workers’ strikes! No to Zionism, no to monarchy, no to imperialism. Yes to class organisation, yes to the working-class revolution."
Leftcom
We taxpayers fund ICE, the Border Patrol, and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem’s salary (and her two jets). Without congressional action by the end of January, funding for ICE will lapse.
Sarah Van Gelder
Elections matter, but history shows they are not enough. Real democracy is built through organized civic power between elections.
Sharon Kyle
Following the ICE murder of Renee Good and an assault on the state by federal immigration forces, a labor-community coalition is calling for residents to refuse to work, shop or go to school on January 23.
Amie Stager & Sarah Lazare
It’s virtually impossible to predict what lies ahead for Iran and its people. But if President Donald Trump decides to take military action against Iran’s current regime, nothing good will come out of it.
C.J. Polychroniou
Most people agree we need to organize — but few talk concretely about how. This guide draws on a century of Swedish labor organizing to offer a practical framework for building real collective power at work.
Rasmus Hästbacka
Pundits and politicians mocked universal childcare as a socialist fantasy—now many of them are silent as it becomes a practical reality.
Qasim Rashid
Ordinary people can run society — but only if we build the structures to let them.
Roger Hallam
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.
Chris Hedges
17 min
Most Americans are taught a sanitized version of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The man with a dream. The peaceful marcher. The national holiday.
ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.
Eric Blanc, Claire Sandberg, and Wes McEnany
9 min
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9 min
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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. knew the political consequences of speaking out against the Vietnam War − and he did it anyway.
Hajar Yazdiha
Labor can’t claim to be on the side of workers while remaining neutral on the question of imperialism.
James Dennis Hoff
The CPR-FI categorically and vehemently condemns the military attack perpetrated by the United States against Venezuela. This is direct, deliberate, and criminal imperialist aggression against an oppressed country and constitutes a flagrant violation of Venezuelan...
Current for Permanent Revolution - Fourth International (CPR-FI)
Zohran Mamdani is now mayor of New York City, and the Left’s old ways of relating to elected officials won’t cut it. We need a “mass governance” approach.
Sumathy Kumar and Gianpaolo Baiocchi