Cross Cultural Solidarity

History; in the Service of Solidarity

Books Every Organizer Should Read

Saul D. Alinsky: Rules for Radicals: A Practical Primer for Realistic Radicals.

Becky Bond & Zack Exley: Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything.

Andrew Boyd & Dave Oswald Mitchell: Beautiful Trouble: A Toolbox for Revolution.

Linda Burnham, Max Elbaum, & Maria Poblet: Power Concedes Nothing: How Grassroots Organizing Wins Elections.

Erica Chenoweth & Maria Stephan: Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict.

Mark Engler & Paul Engler: This Is an Uprising: How Nonviolent Revolt Is Shaping the Twenty-First Century.

Kazu Haga: Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm.

Myles Horton: The Long Haul.

Leah Hunt-Hendrix & Astra Taylor: Solidarity: The Past, Present, and Future of a World-Changing Idea.

L.A. Kauffman:

George Lakey: How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolent Direct Action Campaigning.

James Lawson: Revolutionary Nonviolence: Organizing for Freedom.

Ian Haney López: Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America.

Eric Mann: Playbook for Progressives: 16 Qualities of the Successful Organizer.

Jane F. McAlevey: No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age.

Matthew Miller & Srdja Popovic: Blueprint for Revolution: How to Use Rice Pudding, Lego Men, and Other Nonviolent Techniques to Galvanize Communities, Overthrow Dictators, or Simply Change the World.

Mike Miller: Community Organizing: A Brief Introduction.

Mike Miller & Aaron Schutz: People Power: The Community Organizing Tradition of Saul Alinsky.

Charles M. Payne: I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle.

Barbara Ransby: Ella Baker And The Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision.

Jonathan Smucker: Hegemony How-To: A Roadmap for Radicals.

Zeynep Tufekci: Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest.

Laura Visser-Maessen: Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots.