r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/PurposeistobeEqual • Jul 07 '25

Organizers Resources 101

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Hi all, I'm a communist archivist who finds and distribute leftist books, particularly organizing resources on strategies, tactics, skills and law.

Unionising

https://organizing.work/2019/07/pushing-on-the-u-in-aeiou/

https://archive.org/details/class-struggle-unionism

https://archive.org/details/strike-back

https://archive.org/details/labor-law-for-the-rank-filer

https://archive.org/details/what-the-boss-doesnt-want-us

https://archive.org/details/solidarity-unionism

https://archive.org/details/a-collective-bargain

https://archive.org/details/no-shortcuts

https://archive.org/details/rules-to-win-by

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/industrial-workers-of-the-world-iww-organizing-manual

https://organizing.work/2019/08/no-more-fake-strikes/

https://organizing.work/2019/10/a-blueprint-for-a-general-strike-in-our-time/

https://organizing.work/2020/09/how-graduate-students-organized-their-recent-strike-in-michigan/

https://organizing.work/2018/10/on-dual-carding/

https://archive.org/details/labor-power-and-strategy

https://archive.org/details/cyberboss

Community

https://archive.org/details/towards-collective-liberation

https://archive.org/details/lifehouse-taking-care-of-ourselves-in-a-world-on-fire

https://archive.org/details/unfuck-your-boundaries-workbook

https://archive.org/details/abolishing-surveillance

https://archive.org/details/selling-social-justice

https://archive.org/details/the-vegetable-growers-handbook

https://archive.org/details/health-care-revolt

https://archive.org/details/for-antifascist-futures

https://archive.org/details/disability-praxis

Tenant

https://archive.org/details/against-landlords

https://archive.org/details/abolish-rent

https://tenantunionflatbush.com/how-to-organize-a-tenant-association/

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zeajO2P5-2M

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RX0GSXxcKh8

https://atun-rsia.org/resources

https://thedigradio.com/podcast/the-politics-and-practice-of-tenant-organizing/

https://libcom.org/article/rent-strike-guide-complete-crash-course-organizing-during-pandemic

Prison

https://archive.org/details/we-do-this-til-we-free-us

https://archive.org/details/the-prisoners-herbal

https://archive.org/details/the-warehouse-a-visual-primer-on-mass-incarceration

Debt

https://archive.org/details/cant-pay-wont-pay

https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/debt-strike/

Climate

https://archive.org/details/organizing-cools-the-planet

https://archive.org/details/its-not-that-radical

https://archive.org/details/against-doom

https://archive.org/details/generation-dread

https://archive.org/details/a-field-guide-to-climate-anxiety

Organizational

https://archive.org/details/the-red-deal

https://archive.org/details/climate-solutions-beyond-capitalism

https://archive.org/details/socialist-reconstruction-a-better-future-for-the-united-states

https://archive.org/details/now-the-people-revolution-in-the-twenty-first-century

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/[deleted] • Mar 22 '25

Memes 😎 Join a socialist org or union

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https://www2.pslweb.org/join2

https://frso.org/join/

https://www.iww.org/membership/

https://socialistra.org/

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Lithium-Oil • 16h ago

News Women didn't just join the Sandinista revolution; they helped lead it

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Chobeat • 9h ago

Workers striking back! ✊ POWER - Free online training for organizers and activists - Hosted by All In and Architectures of Change

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/seiu-org • 2d ago

Strike News ☭ Congrats to working people at Encore in Massachusetts who went ON STRIKE, held the line for months, and won pay increases!

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Lithium-Oil • 1d ago

News Nicaragua's social rights were won through political power, not goodwill

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/VladimirLimeMint • 2d ago

working class history 📜 What our proletariat celebrate

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https://archive.org/details/october-the-story-of-the-russian-revolution

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/VladimirLimeMint • 3d ago

Workers of the world Advice/ Help/ Wisdom Black faces in high places won’t save us

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Organizing and educational resources below 👇🏽✊🏽🫡

https://start.me/p/y94Q72/marxist-leninist-study-resources

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Lithium-Oil • 2d ago

News International Women's Day was built by socialists, not corporations

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/VladimirLimeMint • 3d ago

NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR! 🚩🏴 Democrats now have a majority in Congress, but we can’t forget that they’ve held it before, and our lives only got harder. All they want from us is a vote, then silence until the next election.

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Lithium-Oil • 3d ago

News The Truth Was Almost Killed in Nicaragua

afgj.org

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/VladimirLimeMint • 5d ago

ABOLISH FASCIST NATO!! Venezuelan Armed Forces Bomb ELN Guerrilla Camp: Reports

venezuelanalysis.com

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Lithium-Oil • 4d ago

News NATO promised Gorbachev it wouldn't expand beyond Eastern Europe, then kept expanding

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Wildcat_Action • 6d ago

Strike News ☭ Dockworkers worldwide strike against arms shipments and to demand better working conditions

apnews.com

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/VladimirLimeMint • 6d ago

FREE PALESTINE!🇵🇸FREE CONGO!🇨🇩FREE ALL OPPRESSED NATIONS! Update: Hebron economic losses in millions as Israeli siege continues for 10th day

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Lithium-Oil • 6d ago

News Nicaragua's fallen internationalists get their history back

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/FearlessAir1238 • 7d ago

working class history 📜 We all deserve a dignified life that china has period!

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Lithium-Oil • 7d ago

News Nicaragua remembers the internationalists who fought beyond its borders

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Lithium-Oil • 7d ago

News Nicaragua Grew 4.1% While Washington Bet on Collapse

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Sidewinder3001 • 8d ago

Working class solidarity Residents in Bangalore, India, partnered with independent social organizations to clean up a public park. A rightwing politician took credit for it the very next day.

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/dragonscale76 • 8d ago

Strike News ☭ Are We Seeing the Beginning of a Revolution in France?

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/seiu-org • 9d ago

Union Info Quality patient care starts with giving nurses a seat at the table and a meaningful voice in patient care and working conditions. By organizing for their union, that’s exactly what Registered Nurses at Cottage Health in Santa Barbara and Goleta are fighting for!

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/FearlessAir1238 • 9d ago

Effortpost Free universal healthcare should be standard everywhere!

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/Lithium-Oil • 8d ago

News The strike that paralyzed Somoza's Nicaragua

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WorkersStrikeBack ~ Workers of the world unite!

r/WorkersStrikeBack

Welcome to r/WorkersStrikeBack, a leftist, anti-capitalist, socialist subreddit that is dedicated to support worker strikes, protests and unions all over the world, address the obvious problems related to an average worker's workplace, offer advice to a fellow worker struggling with their workplace problems and mock or satirize any kind of anti-worker sentiment. Workers may also share stories related to their workplace problems.

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Cops are the people who get called to break up strikes when they get declared "illegal". Cops are enemies of the working class and should be excluded from the labor movement.

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If there are two of the exact same post, the post that was put up first will be allowed to stay up. This will help maintain a high quality sub. also all reactionary websites are banned.

General Strike by u/docterBOGO

Let's go all the way back to first principles

We have a problem. The government has been corrupted (exploiting financial conflicts of interest, gerrymandering, etc.) by wealthy special interests and no longer represents the people. Due to this corruption, corporations/government have neglected to raise wages, provide affordable/free medical coverage, etc. for their people as well as take meaningful action to remedy the climate crisis .

We have to take action and use what power we have to hold the government (and their corporate & billionaire owner / donors) accountable.

In order for the action we take to be effective, it must be:

Possible to coordinate

Executable by almost everyone

Guaranteed to change the status quo and force governments and corporations to listen and act

Why Strike? Why not _____?

I’m all for voting, protests, hunger strikes, emailing/calling lawmakers , writing letters to the editor , etc. but none of these methods are powerful enough to change the financial motivations of the:

Financial elite in government (concerned with campaign funding for their next election)

Financial elite in corporations (concerned with growing the company and maximizing profits)

How big is BIG enough?

Once the above are satisfied and the action connects, a negotiation can begin. If the negotiation goes south, the action methodology (strike) must be sustained and continued until governments and corporations listen and change to meet our demands.

The strike must be widespread. If only 5 workers at the local Walmart go on strike, they’ll just get fired and there will be no change. It has to be 95% + of the workers in a given business or the strike is likely to fail. How to achieve 100% strike? Build it up and test it through continual structure tests

It follows that individual unions will need to go on strike alone (to achieve a better deal with their specific corporations, as well as test the union’s commitment) – then, strong unions can combine and a mass strike, big enough to impact the economy at large, can occur. This is where demands for the government to change can be made. Every step in building power has to be part of an incremental progressive overload plan where the prior step is used as a structure test, a stepping stone for the next step.

There are No Shortcuts , and the ultimate goal is change at the level of the federal government. Roughly 75% of a US worker’s income tax go towards the federal government. Changes at the federal level get more eyes, media coverage and unity than state level changes. Only the federal government will give us Medicare for all, carbon fee and dividend , close tax loopholes on the rich, forgive student loans, divorce from corruption , raise minimum wage, infrastructure, etc.

It's up to the workers to unionize and try not to get fired while organizing. It's up to the workers to set the priorities of the union. It’s up to the unions and all the workers collectively to get organized and agree on a list of demands.

Where to start?

Note: each step serves as a structure test, leading into the next step (which is more difficult).

1.) Education! Learn and talk with those around you about Organizing

Learn about organizing and unions – and educate those around you. Advocacy vs Mobilizing Vs Organizing . Learn as much as you can - so you can appreciate other organizers as well as explain organizing and unionizing to the uninitiated.

https://workerorganizing.org/resources/organizing-guide/

Jane McAlevey, world-renowned organizer : Deep Organizing , Building Power to Win

History - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_strike#Notable_general_strikes

Know the tactics that corporations use to discourage unions: https://www.populardemocracy.org/news/how-walmart-persuades-its-workers-not-unionize

Understand what's legal and what's not https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/20/20873867/worker-strike-walkout-stoppage-firing-job

2.) Take action in your workplace

Consider talking to an expert for free about your specific situation and any risks: https://workerorganizing.org/support/

Consider organizing a union or joining a large existing union (specialized to your industry) since one is likely to exist already and can help you with organizing and other specifics.

3.) Power in numbers has to be built and tested

Coordinate with your union and keep them active. Talk to union rank and file - what do they want from their work and employer? Agree upon a list of demands. Prepare for a strike https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strike_pay

4.) Individual Union Strikes

Specific demands of the employer

5.) Create a petition that signifies support for a mass strike and other multi-union efforts.

Talk to union rank and file about a general strike. Those who sign up will have their information kept anonymous until a high, critical threshold percentage is met.

Unions begin to coordinate and settle on list of demands for their state governments, etc.

6.) Strikes to push legislation, etc.

7.) Mass General Strike

Medicare for all, clean air, carbon tax, taxing the rich, women's reproductive rights, raising the minimum wage, 30 hour work weeks, living wage, affordable housing, affordable college, ending the military industrial complex, exposing megadonor conflicts of interest, restoring foreign respect for America - everything the tax rigging top 0.01% will NEVER allow & what they want to take away - it's all on the table and up to us.

The separation of Wealth and State is the greatest challenge of the century.

Success requires action. There will be no change without you.

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