Organize!

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Organize! links local organising with global struggles to make a better world. In over 20 chapters written by a diverse range of organisers, activists, academics, lawyers, artists and researchers, this book weaves a rich and varied tapestry of dynamic strategies for struggle. From community-based labour organising strategies amongst immigrant workers to mobilising psychiatric survivors, the authors reflect critically on the tensions, problems, limits and gains inherent in a diverse range of organising contexts and practices.

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"This superb collection needs to find its way into the hands of every activist and organizer for social justice. In a series of dazzling essays, an amazing group of radical organizers reflect on what it means to build movements in which people extend control over their lives. These analyses are jam-packed with insights about antiracist, anticolonial, working-class, and anticapitalist organizing. Perhaps most crucially, the authors lay down a key challenge for all activists for social justice: to take seriously the need to build mass movements for social change. Don't just read this exceptionally timely and important work--use it too."
--David McNally, author of Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance

"To understand the world, you have to try to change it. That's what the authors of this fine set of essays and meditations have taken to heart. The result Some of the best insights on power, organizing, and revolution to be found."
--Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing

Author Bio

Aziz Choudry is an assistant professor in international education at McGill University. He is the coeditor of Learning from the Ground Up. Jill Hanley is an assistant professor of social work at McGill University. She is the cofounder of Montreal's Immigrant Workers Centre. Eric Shragge is a community and public affairs professor at Concordia University. He is the coauthor of Contesting Community. They are the coauthors of Fight Back: Workplace Justice for Immigrants. They all live in Montreal.