1. The Activist Cookbook
   A Hands-on Manual for Organizers, Artists and Educators who want to get their message across in powerful, creative ways
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1997   Published: 1999
   
2. The Activist's Handbook: A Primer
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2001
   A guide to activism and campaigning strategies.
3. Activist's Handbook
   Resource Type: Internet WWW site
   Articles for activists on organizing.
4. Ah-Hah! 
   A New Approach to Popular Education
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1983
   AH-HAH seminars are designed to organize groups of comman interests, especially workers, to come to a common understanding.
   
5. Another world is possible if... 
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2004
   Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
6. Anti-fascism isn’t working
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2009
   What all the current anti-fascist approaches have in common is that they miss the real danger. This doesn’t lie in the BNP taking power, in the possibility of concentration camps or any of the other scare stories we’ve been hearing recently. It lies more immediately in the far right colonising the anti-mainstream vote and developing party loyalty, thereby blocking the development of an independent working-class politics capable of defending our conditions and challenging neoliberalism.
7. Autonomy: Creating Spaces for Freedom
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   First Published: 2003
   
8. The Barefoot Channel
   Community Television as a Tool for Social Change
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1990
   How you or you group can use local community TV station to get your message out.
9. Beyond Social Democracy
   The City and Urban Socialism
   Resource Type: Book
   
10. Beyond the Fragments 
    Feminism and the Making of Socialism
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1979   Published: 1980
    A call for various fractions of the left to unite and work for a socialism through grass-roots activism.
    
11. Beyond the Politics of Place: New Directions in Community Organizing
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    A look at community organizing and its evolution with a focus on groups comprised of people of colour.
12. Bridging the Class Divide and Other Lessons for Grassroots Organizing
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996   Published: 1997
    A guide to grassroots organizing with a focus on bridging the gap between middle class organizers and affected members of lower class communities.
13. Calling All Radicals 
    How Grassroots Organizers Can Help Save Our Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Thompson argues that we can reclaim our democracy through grassroots organizing.
14. Choices
    A Family Global Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Choices is aimed particularly at parents who want to instil social awareness in their children, and who are looking for ideas, activities, and ways of initiating discussion.
15. Clandestinity: Resisting State Repression
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    
16. Clearness
    Processes for Supporting Individuals and Groups in Decision-Making
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
17. The collective decides...
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1991
    
18. Community organizing
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    A process by which people living in proximity to each other are brought together in an organization to act in their shared self-interest.
19. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1994
    A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
20. Connexions Library: Organizing Focus Page 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Selected articles from the Connexions Online Library.
21. The Extraordinary Myles Horton
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
22. Fighting for Hope 
    Organizing to Realize Our Dreams
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Detailed information and advice on how to organize a group for social change.
23. First Contract
    Women and the Fight to Unionize
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Looks at the "personal side" of the struggle of working women to organize themselves into unions and win first contracts.
24. Get Active
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A guide to organizing and carrying out campaigns on social and environmental issues, prepared by Greenpeace Australia.
25. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada.
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    See also CX3147.
    
26. Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King's Last Campaign
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    A history of the sanitation worker strike in Memphis.
27. Going Public: An Inside Story of Disrupting Politics as Usual
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2002
    An introduction to the Industrial Areas Foundation and their method of organizing.
28. Harlan County USA
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1976
    A documentary film about the miners' strike in Harlan County, Kentucky in 1973.
    
29. How Can We Step Outside the Box?
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    To sustain our efforts and help them to grow, we need a solid core of relationships and ideas that confirm the best of what we know and do against the pressure of capitalist ideas and values. Building an organization of our own, an organization not dominated by capitalist ideas or by anti-worker ideology or by creeps, is how we step outside the box of corporate and elite domination.
30. How People Get Power
    Organizing Oppressed Communities for Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1970
    A book about community organizing, written for organizers.
31. How the Rural Poor Got Power: Narrative of a Grassroots Organizer
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    The author's experiences as an activist in rural Minnesota.
32. How to be organized In spite of yourself
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    
33. The International Workingmen's Association, General Rules
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1864
    Rules of the First International, adopted at its founding congress in 1864.
34. I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A study and history of the legacy of community organizing in Mississippi.
35. LabourStart
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A major site with information about labour activities throughout the world.
36. Let the People Decide: Neighbourhood Organizing in America
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    A history of neighbourhood-based community organizing in the United States.
37. Let Them Call Me Rebel: Saul Alinsky, His Life and Legacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A biography of Saul Alinsky and the evolution of his ideas on organizing.
38. Locked Out! One Wife's Story of the Staley Struggle
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1997
    
39. Looking at the Conference
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    Ashley Chester comments on the Popular Education Conference.
40. Making Their Voices Heard
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986   Published: 1987
    An account of international solidarity work in El Salvador.
41. Marx and Makhno Meet McDonald's 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2005
    Over the last several years, a revolving network of militants in Paris, France, have developed a strategy and tactics for winning strikes by marginal, low-paid, outsourced and immigrant workers against international chains, in situations where the strikers are often ignored by unions to which they nominally belong, or are actually obstructed by them.
42. Marxists Internet Archive 
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    Large archive of the writings of Marx and Engels and of others in the Marxist tradition. Searchable.
43. The Medical Cannabis Victory: A Textbook Case of Organizing and Resistance
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Shifting from mere activism and advocacy to a referendum strategy also forced significant swathes of drug policy reform movements to enter a new phase: that of community organizing. Referenda in most states require the collection of signatures, which means advocates had to get out of the circle jerk cycle of endless meetings and internal debate and go out there, door to door, to recruit from the general public. Once they got the proposed laws on the ballot that meant campaigning for votes. This marked a paradigm shift in what had been a self-marginalized reform movement: a wake up call.
44. Moving Toward A New Society.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    
45. Myles Horton
    Insights from organizer Myles Horton
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1990
    
46. Naming the Moment
    Political Analysis for Action: A Manual for Community Groups
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A given moment - this moment - is unlike any other moment in time. Howe can we understand what it offers so that we can make the best use of it? How have people used moments in the past to push toward greater social justice?
47. News and Letters
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
48. The Newsletter
    Periodical profile
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    Newsletter published in 1973 and 1974 by the New Tendency, a loose collaboration of indepedent leftists based in Toronto, Windsor, Winnipeg, and Kitchener-Waterloo. Articles dealt with workplace issues, labour unions, workers autonomy and related topics. A total of five-and-a-half issues were published.
    
49. Notebook of an Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    
50. On Organization
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1972
    
51. On Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Discusses the democratic organizational forms appropriate to libertarian socialist organizations.
    
52. On Spontaneity and Organisation
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971   Published: 1975
    On the relationship of spontaneityand revolution.
    
53. Organising Things
    A Guide to Successful Political Action
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984
    A comprehensive guide to practical political action, packed with information and handy checklists.
54. Organize! Organizing for Social Change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996   Published: 2001
    A guide on community organizing with with attention to specific tasks such as hosting meetings, public speaking and making partnerships with other activist groups.
55. The Organizer's Manual
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    
56. Organizing in a Small Town
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1976
    Experiences in organizing in a small town in Ontario in the early 1970s.
57. Organizing "The Poor" - Against The Working Class
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1971
    
58. Out of the Driver's Seat
    Marxism in North America Today
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1974
    Outlines the political perspective of the Windsor-based Labour Centre in the wake of divisions in the Centre in 1974. Issues explored include the nature of the working class, women in the working class, gay rights, and students rights.
    
59. Planning As Learning: The Education of Citizen Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1994
    Phd thesis focusing on the learning undertaken by members of citizens' groups involved in land use planning.
60. A Political History of Agrarian Organizations in Ontario 1914-1940
    with special reference to Grey and Bruce Counties
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1974
    
61. Power: Building it Without Taking it
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2003
    
62. Rank and File 
    Personal Histories of Working Class Organizers
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1973   Published: 1974
    A collection of stories and recollections from labour movement organizers
63. The Red Menace 
    A libertarian socialist newsletter
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1975   Published: 1980
    Articles on topics such as socialism, Marxism, anarchism, work, popular education, organizing, wages for housework, Leninism, bureaucracy, hierarchy, jargon, prostitution, obscenity, science fiction, and terrorism.
    
64. Resource Manual for A Living Revolution 
    A Handbook of Skills & Tools for Social Change Activists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1977   Published: 1985
    A manual for people who are concerned or angered by the deterioration of our society and who, because they have some sense that their efforts can have an effet for change, are looking for tools to transform it. It is a working reference for those who are prepared to act to create a better life for themselves and others.
    
65. Reveille for Radicals 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1946   Published: 1969
    Alinksy connects his theoretical notions on radicalism to practical movements and events.
66. Revolutionary Organisation and Open Letter to IS
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
    A 1972 pamphlet incorporating two previously published texts, 'Revolutionary Organisation' (1961) and 'An Open Letter to I.S.' (1968). They are presented as "a contribution to the serious discussing now taking place, within the ranks of revolutionaryies, as to what kind of organisation is necessary."
    
67. Rules for Radicals
    A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1971
    Alinsky's Rules for Radicals provides perspectives, principles and lessons for realistic radical organizers.
    
68. Social centre
    Connexipedia: Article in Wikipedia
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    They are buildings which are used for a range of disparate activities, which can be linked only by virtue of being not-for-profit.
69. Some ideas about organizing from Citizens for Local Democracy
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Suggestions about starting a local group which will focus on issues of local democracy.
70. Some Thoughts on Organization
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1978
    What type of organization should anarchists, libertarian socialists and libertarian Marxists be working towards?
71. Sounds of dissent The politics of music
    New Internationalist August 2003
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2003
    The role of music in politics. Discusses how music has changed the world, and the pioneers in the world of political music.
72. Spontaneitat und Organisation
    Resource Type: Book
    
73. Spontaneity and Organisation
    From “Anti-Bolshevik Communism”
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    Although Lenin counted on, he simultaneously feared, spontaneous movements. He justified the need for conscious interferences in spontaneously-arising revolutions by citing the backwardness of the masses and saw in spontaneity an important destructive but not constructive element. In Lenin’s view, the more forceful the spontaneous movement, the greater would be the need to supplement and direct it with organised, planned party-activity. The workers had to be guarded against themselves, so to speak, or they might defeat their own cause through ignorance, and, by dissipating their powers, open the way for counter-revolution.
74. Spontaneity and Organization: Some Comments
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    A contribution to a symposium on Jeremy Brecher's book Strike!
    
75. Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2003
    An overview of contemporary organizing strategies and philosophies with case studies.
76. The Story Inside: How Amnesty Does Its Work
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    
77. "Sure, Stick It In"
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    One has to recognize when the movement is all there, ready to go, and just needs a little impetus.
78. Take a STAND Canada. An Interview on the Darfur advocacy group’s path to success with director Ben Fine
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2006
    An interview on the Darfur advocacy groups's path to success with director Ben Fine.
79. Techsoup
    Resource Type: Internet WWW site
    A technology resource centre for non-profits.
80. A Troublemaker's Handbook 
    How to Fight Back Where You Work -- And Win!
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    An organising manual for workers dealing with both major issues and everyday problems in the workplace.
81. The Tyranny of Structurelessness 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1970
    Unstructured groups may be very effective in getting women to talk about their lives; they aren’t very good for getting things done. It is when people get tired of “just talking” and want to do something more that the groups flounder, unless they change the nature of their operation.
    
82. Uncivil Obedience
    The Tactics and Tales of a Democratic Agitator
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    How to push for social change without breaking the law.
83. Untying the Knot
    Resource Type: Book
    
84. The Urban Question and Organizing
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    
85. Vanguard, Vanguard, Who's Got the Vanguard
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1972
    A critique of Leninist vanguard-party theories and practice, especially as manifested in the new left groups of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
    
86. We can learn to live free (Clark)
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1979
    Give the human race a little credit. We can surely learn to live free, neither dominant nor submissive.
87. What a Way to Run a Railroad
    An Analysis of Radical Failure
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    
88. What It Takes to Build a Movement
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Activism = self-expression; organizing = movement-building.
89. When Hate Groups Come to Town
    A Handbook of Model Community Responses
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1986
    A handbook for dealing with hate groups in communities across North America, dealing with the nature of such groups and how they work and how communities can band together to combat them.
90. Who Advocates Spontaneity? 
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1973
    The working class can come to understand its power to act only by acting.
    
91. Why the Leninists Will Win
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 1977
    Clark argues that the failure of the libertarian left to take organizing seriously makes it likely that capitalism will be overthrown by Leninists who will preside over a social system as undemocratic as the old.
92. A winning formula
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    First Published: 2009
    Intelligent community-based campaigning exposes the BNP for what it is, as well as providing a defence of civil society.
93. Wobblies & Zapatistas 
    Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
94. Working for Peace
    A Handbook of Practical Psychology and Other Tools
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985
    

Experts on Organizing in the Sources Directory

1. International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (CLC)
2. Marxists Internet Archive
3. National Union of Public and General Employees