Activism & Organizing

Alana Apfel
Birth Work as Care Work presents a vibrant collection of stories and insights from the front lines of birth activist communities.

Cynthia Kaufman
Written in an engaging and accessible style, Ideas for Action gives activists the intellectual tools to turn discontent into a plan of action.

Franklin Rosemont
A monumental work, expansive in scope, covering the life, times, and culture of that most famous of the Wobblies—songwriter, poet, hobo, thinker, humorist, martyr—Joe Hill.

Editors: Alexis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai’a Williams
Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer black feminists of the 1970s and ‘80s, this anthology centers around mothers of color and marginalized mothers' voices.

David Pilgrim
This book introduces readers to the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, a collection of more than ten thousand contemptible collectibles that are used to engage visitors in intense and intelligent discussions about race.

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
This short primer explores and describes the philosophy and underpinnings of the community rights movement—a movement of nonviolent civil disobedience based on municipal lawmaking.

Kris Hermes
This book shows how events in 2000 acted as a testing ground to develop repressive policing methods now used across the U.S., as well as providing a laboratory for radical, innovative, and confrontational forms of legal support.

Gabriel Kuhn
With the help of over a hundred full-color illustrations Playing as if the World Mattered makes the political history of sports tangible.

Editors: Josh MacPhee and Alec Dunn
There is a tendency to focus on the artwork produced within our shores or from English-speaking producers. Signal reaches beyond, bringing material from the world over.

Staughton Lynd · Illustrator: Mike Konopacki
Solidarity Unionism is critical reading for all who care about the future of labor.

Sam Mayfield, Green Valley Media, and E.W. Stetson
Wisconsin Rising documents the largest sustained workers’ resistance movement in American history.

Editors: Joshua Kahn Russell, Stephen D'Arcy, Tony Weis, Toban Black
This book offers a critical analysis of the impact of the tar sands and the challenges opponents face in their efforts to organize effective resistance.

Francis Dupuis-Déri • Translated by Lazer Lederhendler
This is a comprehensive view of the tactic and locates it within the anarchist tradition of direct action and includes recent actions at protests around the world.

David Hartsough with Joyce Hollyday
Waging Peace is a testament to the difference one person can make. Hartsough’s stories inspire, educate, and encourage readers to find ways to work for a more just and peaceful world.

Featuring interviews from key figures and lyrical analysis, Venceremos gives insight into how the New Chilean Song Movement’s revolutionary anthems came to be.

Dan Berger
The Struggle Within is an accessible yet wide-ranging historical primer about how mass imprisonment has been a tool of repression deployed against diverse left-wing social movements over the last fifty years.

Editor: Immanuel Ness
This book documents workers' struggles within an international scope. The tangible evidence here serves as a handbook for understanding the obstacles and opportunities for workers challenging neoliberal capitalism.

ASARO, Mike Graham de La Rosa, and Suzanne M. Schadl
Presenting, in full color, the work of ASARO covering global themes of corporate greed, genetically modified organisms, violence against women, and abuses of natural resources.

Editors: Bart van der Steen, Ask Katzeff, and Leendert van Hoogenhuijze
The City Is Ours paints a broad and complex picture of Europe's squatting and autonomous movements through local movement histories of eight different cities.

scott crow
A memoir of resisting indifference, rebuilding hope amid collapse, and struggling against the grain. This edition includes new discussions on disaster relief, infiltration and surveillance from the State, and new photos.

Prole.info
This volume combines two pamphlets from the frontlines of the class war. The texts from these anonymous workers offer cutting-edge class analysis and critiques of daily life accompanied by uncensored, innovative illustrations.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Walker C. Smith, and William E. Trautmann
The pamphlets reprinted here were first published in the 1910s amid great controversy edited here and with an introduction by Salvatore Salerno.

Editors: Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein
This book brings together voices from the movements (indigenous, campesinos, students, LGBT, unemployed, etc.) behind the change that swept Latin America at the turn of the 21st century.

Editor: Strike Debt
The Debt Resisters' Operations Manual is a handbook for debtors everywhere to understand how this system really works, while providing practical tools for fighting debt in its most exploitative forms.

Editor: Eric Larson
Through interviews and essays the activists that built Jobs with Justice show us why their economic vision matters after 25 years of solidarity organizing that has resulted in local, national, and international victories.