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How Leftists Can Win in 2025

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Here are the five books:

1. Blackshirts and Reds by Michael Parenti

2. Manufacturing Consent by Noam Chomsky

3. Econ: The User's Guide by Ha-Joon Chang

4. The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber & David Wengrow

5. Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? by Mark Fisher

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Taking Power Amidst the Turbulence (w/ Dylan Saba) | The Chris Hedges Report
Occupy Movement: Show Me Your True Face
Why the Russian Revolution Failed: When Rich Kids Do All the Socialism
Stupa: The Inside Story of Outsider Art (2025) ($5)
Mamdani and Democrats Score Big Wins & Conservatives Melt Down | the Daily Show
Challenging Monopoly Power: Why Local Business Is Better for People, the Planet, and Your Wallet with Stacy Mitchell
The People, United
The Secret Plan to Tank Zohran | Second Thought
"No Kings" Protests Defy GOP Expectations & Jon Gives Trump a Royal Inspection | the Daily Show
The Psychology of the Portland Green Frog
Zohran Just Reminded Me Why I Believe in Politics | Tennessee Brando
‘We Are the Majority’: Watch Mehdi’s Rousing Speech at the No Kings Protest in DC
The Teachers' Protest: How Norwegian Teachers Defeated Nazi Education (2020) ($6)
Boycott (2021)
Gen Z Protests: This Is Just the Beginning | Alice Cappelle
How To Boycott An Invasion | Matthew Cooke
Elephant Refugees (2020)
Beyond Standing Rock (2024)
What Will Socialism Look Like?
ICE Is Terrorizing Chicago. We Can Stand Up to Them | Kat Abughazaleh for Illinois
The Baldies: Anti-Racist Skinheads Fighting Nazis (2021)
Stonewall Uprising (2010)
Why Online Debate Culture Ruins Real Conversation (Goose Explains)
Rachel Carson (2017)
It's Time to Fight Back Against Trump's Fascist Regime (W/ Ralph Nader) | the Chris Hedges Report
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Leftists
Chris Hedges Live Q&A: Where Is America Going and Should You Leave?
The Energy is High for Revolution | Solarpunk Alana
A Leftist's Guide to Debating Capitalism
The DemFluencer-Industrial Complex Must Be Stopped
A Guide To Democratic Socialists of America
We're Breaking Up with Empire | Matthew Cooke
We Need a Civilian Climate Corps
Five Ways To Fight Trump's Fascism | Robert Reich
Amazon’s Secret Plot To Build a Data Center In the Desert
Fighting Fire with Fire: A Conversation with California Governor Gavin Newsom and Heather Cox Richardson
Articles by Tim Hjersted, Co-Founder of Films For Action
What Activists Can Too Easily Forget
What Is My Activism Really About? to Love, Serve and Remember
Instructions for Courageous Living in a Broken World
The Real Climate Scam Is Business as Usual — Here's How We Challenge It
It's Time to Abolish Private Health Insurance
65 Documentaries Inspiring the Transition From Empire to Earth Community
10 Ways to Fix America's Rigged Monopoly Game
When We Judge a Person Harshly With a Label or Dismissal, We Kill the Human Being Inside of Them
Why People Hate Socialism—and What It Actually Is
Our Job Is to Speak Out Against the War Crimes of Our Own Government and Its Allies
"Whiteness" Was a Term Invented by Elites to Suppress Multi-Racial Rebellions & Divide the Working Class. It's Time to Give It Up.
The Myth of Far-Left Extremism: How Common-Sense Ethics Are Framed as Radical
The Story That's Destroying the World
The Real Agenda Behind Mass Deportations
The True Purpose of Government Should Be Investing in People, Not Empire
To My Liberal Friends Who Support Israel's War: This Is Not What Defense Looks Like
What I Learned From Reading Osama Bin Laden's 2002 "Letter to America"
To See the World With Eyes Unclouded by Hate
Humans Are Not a Virus - the Virus Is a Cultural Ideology
Why Do so Many People Get Lost in Drugs Instead of Making a Life That You Don't Need to Escape From?
Ideological Hegemony: How Our Own Thoughts Became the Greatest Weapon of the Ruling Class
The Compassionate Activist Toolkit: The Ultimate Guide to Activism That Doesn't Reproduce The Status Quo
The Tyranny of the Majority Myth: How Elites Tricked Us Into Fearing Democracy
Raising Awareness: Why We Shouldn't Take It for Granted
The New Story Revolution: Over 75 Films & Articles About the Movement With Many Names
Is Capitalism Really the Best We Can Do? Actually, No.
All I Ask Is That You See My Humanity, Which Means Seeing the Humanity in All People
The Tragedy of Weaponized Hurricane Conspiracy Theories
One "Piece of the Oppressor" That I Have Discovered Within Myself
How Enemy Images Are Used to Manufacture Consent for Elite Agendas
When Our Children Become Killers, Gun Reform Isn't Enough. We Need to Redesign Our Society
Traditional Gender Norms Are Imprisoning All of Us - Let's Be Whole Human Beings
Profit Is Theft: It Sounds Absurd but Here's Why
There Is No One Right Way to Be an Activist
Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It
15 Films Inspiring and Illuminating the 'New Story' Revolution
Radical Kindness Is Liberating: A Guide to Engaging with Wisdom Online
A Surprising Strategy to Combat Hateful Ideologies: Offer Them More of What They Truly Want
The Privilege of Not Caring Cannot Exist When True Love Is There
On Ending Racism and the Need for Holding Simultaneous Realities
Looking Forward to the Day That Nationalism Is as Reviled as Racism
Family Philosophy: a Form of Privilege or Good Fortune That We Never Talk About
We All Suffer in This Love-Desert Society That We've Created - Is There an Alternative?
If We Want to End This World's Tragic Cycles of Violence, We're Going to Have to Do Something Extremely Radical
My Favorite Definition of Privilege
If Your Gut Response to #Blacklivesmatter Is #Alllivesmatter, Read This.
The Phantom Menace of “Equality of Outcome”
The War on Crime Is Really a War on the Poor – A Civilized Society Would Simply Abolish Poverty
Planet of the Humans Is the Media Literacy Exercise of the Year
Make Earth Great Again: a Manifesto for Ecological Democracy
Patron Documentaries
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
We Are Many (2020)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Dancing With The Cannibal Giant: New Stories for the Great Transition (2019)
Affluenza (1997)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death (2007)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
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