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Looking for articles, books, case studies, tips about social change and activism? You’ve found the right place – The Commons Social Change Library.

12 Basic Guidelines for Campaign Strategy

12 basic guidelines and ideas about campaign strategy by Chris Rose. These guidelines are so fundamental that they are often overlooked.

You’re not Failing, Social Change can Be Slow

You’re not failing social change can be slow. Here are resources to explore around time, slow change and the concept of failure.

Cover of a book with title 'Between Us How Cultures Create Emotions' by Batja Mesquita. The title sits in front of a collage of many different colourful squares with silhouettes of peoples heads.

Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions – Book Review

Book review of “Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions” which examines how human feelings are influenced by the cultures we live in.

How do we Encourage Activists to Celebrate Wins and come back from Losses?

How do we encourage activists to celebrate wins, and come back from losses using rest and reflection? Insights and learnings from Global Grassroots Support Network GGSN.

Cover of the Cosmo-local handbook which reads "Cosmo-local work: Organisational practices for equitable and sustainable living."

Cosmo-local Work: Using Commons Based Practices for Equitable and Sustainable Living

Excerpts from the Cocmo-local work handbook discuss key concepts regarding a form of Commoning and includes a case study about a project which openly shares information and produces technological solutions for small scale, organic agriculture.

$Workbook cover - Title reads 'Right-Sized Belonging: Six Practices For Organizers'. A dark forest green quilt with 8 colorful earth-tone patches assembled around the center. The center of the quilt is an overhead of a light-skinned southeast asian person with dark brown hair sewing using a white sewing machine. Around them are 8 patches they have quilted, symbolizing concepts and skills of “nested belonging”, “right-sized belonging”, “anchoring your purpose”, “approaching problems with collective governance”, “setting boundaries & expectations”, “understanding trauma & build emotional skill”, “increasing conflict resilience”, and “connecting to a broader movement ecosystem” (in length descriptions below for each quilt patch). The edges of the quilt are embellished with thin eggshell threading of different fractals found in nature, including in spiderwebs, mountain formations, dandelions, butterflies, solar systems, and snowflakes. How natural belonging is if we look at its evidence in patterns of nature!$

Right-Sized Belonging: Six Practices For Organizers

A website and toolkit of 6 suggested practices for organizers and organizations to implement in their own spaces to create belonging.

Empowering Leaderful Organizing: Competencies & Tools

Empower your groups and movements with an A – Z list of training tools for organizing and activist work by Leaderful Organizing.

Democracy Undone: The Authoritarian’s Playbook

How populist nationalist leaders across various democracies are employing a playbook involving fear exploitation, institutional undermining, truth erosion, and more to erode democratic values and consolidate power.

A group of protestors stand in front of a banner that reads 'Close Pine Gap.' There is a black cockatoo on the banner. Another sign at the foot of the protestor reads 'Pine Gap Hard wired into US war crimes'. Four out of the five protestors are wearing anti war tshirts.

Prophetic Witness Against the War Machine [The Peace Pilgrims and Pine Gap]

The story of the Peace Pilgrims nonviolent protest and arrest in 2016 at Pine Gap, an American military base in the Northern Territory, Australia.

Resourceful and Impactful Capacity Building

Learn about impactful capacity building approaches from the Global Grassroots Support Network GGSN Community.

a group of protestors being arrested. One of them is holding a sign that says in capital letters 'WE ARE NOT THE CRIMINALS'. The NOT is underlined in red.

Climate Activists in Australia are Learning How to Protect their Protest Rights

Australian climate activists have successfully navigated years of increasing protest criminalization, revealing strategies for all to follow.

Australia’s History of Workers’ Rights, Strikes and Campaigns

Learn about the history of Australian workers rights, strikes & campaigns from resources at the Australian Trade Union Institute ATUI Library.

Insights into Indigenous Solidarity, Creativity and Social Justice with Laniyuk & Te Raukura O’Connell Rapira (Commons Conversations Podcast)

A Commons Conversations Podcast featuring an interview with Laniyuk and Te Raukura O’Connell Rapira about Indigenous Solidarity, Creativity and Social Justice.