The tensions Maurice Mitchell highlights in ‘Building Resilient Organizations’ operate differently in base organizations. The solutions will be different, too.

Four organizing leaders talk about unity and struggle with centrist allies, building our progressive and left alignment, and what can stand in the way.

The activists who took over the city hall of Catalonia’s capital have changed one of Europe’s preeminent cities for good, while also confronting the limits of being in power. 

This is a problem organizers and organizations confront every time they elect an ally to office: How can labor, community, and other peoples’ organizations keep politicians to their commitments after the election?  Here’s how we did it.

Highlights of the successes of a corporate accountability campaign led by black grassroots organizations in holding corporations accountable for their actions and addressing systemic racial injustices.

This summer’s labor fights are an important opportunity for an increasingly militant labor movement to win critical battles. 

Aditi Juneja argues that national issue-based organizations, pro-democracy organizations, and funders should expand their work to support grassroots organizers and create a long-term vision for a movement for a more democratic country.

By understanding how mainstream political culture co-opts elected officials, grassroots groups can help them resist.

People’s movements are challenging oligarchic power and holding out a powerful vision of robust political and economic democracy to replace it, but our power so far remains marginal, and we are nowhere near ready to govern.

Ten years ago, Philadelphia’s Media Mobilizing Project launched a campaign to force Comcast to provide service to working-class residents. It was a learning experience in “inside game” organizing that continues to shape the city’s progressive movements.