Books, Journals and Excerpts

Campaign Tactics

Learn all about tactics for your campaigns including how to adapt their tone for different events and explore different examples.

Illustration titled 'Ladder of Engagement'. There are four levels in a triangular shape with people doing different actions. The bottom level is a person texting with someone, the the 3rd level is a person talking with two other people, the 2nd lelvel is a person talking on a loudspeaker and the top level is a person chained with other people at a protest.

Building Leadership Capacity: The Ladder of Engagement

Learn how organisers recruit and build the leadership capacity of others with the Ladder of Engagement.

A sign board on a street in Atlanta with people riding past on bicycles. On the board is a black and white photo of a woman called Ella Baker. On the board it reads '"Legendary leader Ella Baker moved to Atlanta in 1957 to help form the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Bayard Rastin and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She departed from the organization in 1960 and devoted herself to the student-led organization, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. (Library of Congress, Prints and Photograph Division, NAACP Papers.)'.

Building Movement Capacity and Structure: Ella Baker and the Civil Rights Movement

Take inspiration from this Civil Rights Movement story about how to build movement capacity and structure. Learn about Ella Baker and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee SNCC.

Book cover reading United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia with an image of unionists marching.

Rebels In The Workforce: Women Worker’s Resistance in the Nineteenth Century

Tom O’ Lincoln’s 2005 book United We Stand: Class Struggle in Colonial Australia chronicles the development of capitalism following invasion and the rise of unions and other organisations in response. The following excerpt from a 2024 edition published by Interventions discuss women’s resistance to workplace exploitation during a period of rapid industrialisation.

An Arrow pointing up features a person by themselves and as the arrow moves up the person gathers more and more people and at the end there is a group of people holding barbells up in the air representing there is strength and power in numbers.

Replace Endless Actions with Campaigns

Keep doing the same actions and not getting anywhere? Learn about replacing endless actions with campaigns and have a bigger impact.

A diagram of the 'The Upside-down triangle'. An upside down triangle is held up by 3 logs on each side coming out of the ground. With out the logs holding it up it would fall.

Pillars Of Support – The Upside Down Triangle

Learn about movements, power and the Pillars of Support also known as the Upside-Down Triangle from Daniel Hunter.

How to Win Campaigns: Communications for Change

How to Win Campaigns is a practical guide for creating & running successful campaigns. Written for the new campaigner and the experienced.

What Makes People Tick: The Three Hidden Worlds of Settlers, Prospectors and Pioneers

A book by Chris Rose (author of How to Win Campaigns) in which he puts forward a model of how to use psychology when creating compelling campaign messages.

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.

1/6: The Graphic Novel: What if the Attack on the U.S. Capitol Succeeded?

1/6 The Graphic Novel is a comic about the US Capitol attacks in 2021. It asks what if the insurrection had been successful?

Book cover - Text reads 'The Neutrality Trap: Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change'. Black and white image of a group of protestors. One is speaking into a megaphone.

The Neutrality Trap : Disrupting and Connecting for Social Change (Book)

The message at the heart of The Neutrality Trap is that, when it comes to the important social issues that face us today, avoiding conflict is a mistake.

Books to Read if you are Interested in Activism, Social Change and Justice

A comprehensive and broad range of books to read if you are Interested in activism, campaigning, organising, social change and justice.

The Power of Music for Social Change: Tips on Using Live Music to Promote Action

A plan and recommendations for musicians on using live music to promote action for social change from Face the Music Collective.

(Dis)solution Magazine

(Dis)solution is an Australian online and print journal published in Naarm/Melbourne. It is born out of a need for radical, critical thought and expression, particularly from emerging writers, artists and activists which challenges the catastrophic, ecocidal structures of the 21st century.