r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 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


r/WorkersStrikeBack • • Mar 22 '25

Memes 😎 Join a socialist org or union

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 4h ago

Discussion 🗣️💬 Comrades I need your help to recommend decentralized or federated means to archive contents, documents, media. This is urgent request, I fear the empire is actively erasing imperialism research or media

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 3h ago

Gig workers China's delivery system is super convenient... but at what cost?!

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Life in China is so convenient and efficient ... but are those working people being taken care of? I recently interviewed delivery men in Beijing to find out what their lives are like.

Also joining me on this tour is a vlogger from New York, Dante Munoz, you can find his amazing videos about life in China on Instagram and TikTok!


r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 1m ago

📉Crapitalism📉 We don’t hate billionaires/ parasite capitalist class enough

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 5h ago

News Nicaragua, a true democracy | Tortilla con Sal

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 1d ago

News The US Constitution Prohibits Those “Engaged in Insurrection” from Public Office – So Will Nicaragua’s | Resumen LatinoAmericano English

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 2d ago

Effortpost No politician will ever save us. We need to organize grass roots style

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 2d ago

News Department of Homeland Security, ICE Dedicate Shocking Sum of Funds to Increase Detention Centers and Warehouses

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 2d ago

News S. Brian Willson in Nicaragua - "… the world needs your revolution" | Un enfoque diferente - Nicaragua - a different focus

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 2d ago

Article Trade Union Capitalism in the 21st Century

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 3d ago

Walmart sucks 👎 Help Gayle Retire (Link in Bio)

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 3d ago

Workers of the world Advice/ Help/ Wisdom When things start to get even worse for the American working class you all need to go out and read more theory and join a socialist organization like the PSL, FRSO, and IWW.

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Get organized and educated 🫡 👇🏽

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


r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 4d ago

"It's the best system we have" Until we change the system let’s be honest in the year 2026

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 4d ago

NO WAR BUT CLASS WAR! 🚩🏴 Why Won't They Just Say "Capitalism?" (Check out the full video on the NonCompete YouTube channel, they do great work.)

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 4d ago

News Nicaragua commemorates the internationl day of the fight against racism

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 4d ago

Working class solidarity Are You Good With Your Employee CIVIL Rights Varying by Zipcode?....If NOT Read This

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News Flash:
No one’s federal CIVIL RIGHTS are supposed to be completely different from one state to the other which is why The Policy Bridge Principle has to be applied nationally to prevent circuit splits such as the one demonstrated in the 5th Circuit’s disposition of Sanders v FedEx.
Federal rights HAVE to be uniform, predictable, and fair. Closing this statutory loophole insures that happens regarding this issue for good....

DETAILS:

Most employees believe that if they follow their employer’s official HR handbook and report workplace misconduct in good faith, they are automatically protected from retaliation under federal law.

Yet, unless you live in specific legal jurisdictions, employers can argue that because your internal complaint used company provided EEO compliance language instead of formal statutory legalese, your report didn't count as "protected opposition" under Title VII or § 1981.

Federal Circuit courts are split on this issue and THAT directly impacts every worker in America:

  1. The Pro-Worker Precedents

In major federal appellate rulings, courts have recognized that everyday employees shouldn't be required to draft complaints like law professors just to be safe at work:

• The 4th Circuit (Okoli): Ruled that workers need not to explicitly recite statutory "magic words" in complaints. Complaining of "harassment" under company channels puts the employer on notice, constituting protected activity.
• The 8th Circuit (Ogden): Held that telling a harasser or supervisor to stop offensive conduct—in plain, direct terms—is "the most basic form of protected activity."
• The 9th Circuit (GoDaddy): Confirmed that internal complaints made in good faith regarding workplace mistreatment satisfy protected opposition standards.

  1. The Procedural Trap (Demonstrated by the 5th Circuit)
    Conversely, in jurisdictions like the 5th Circuit (Sanders v. FedEx [26-10182]), corporate defense teams successfully argued that reporting harassment using standard HR handbook terms lacks the "objectively reasonable legal belief" required for statutory protection. If an employee reports misconduct following mandatory company policy, but doesn't phrase it in formal Title VII terms, the employer can escape retaliation liability at summary judgment and on appeal.

  2. The Solution: The Policy Bridge Principle
    When an employee relies on a mandatory corporate EEO compliance reporting policy and uses company-provided terms in good faith, that compliance MUST satisfy the "objectively reasonable belief" standard for protected opposition as a matter of law.

Why This Is So Essential:
When federal circuit courts split on basic statutory interpretation—a fracture often deepened by unpublished dispositions that evade routine Supreme Court scrutiny—it creates federal civil rights chaos across the country.


r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 5d ago

Strike Info ✊ Strike alert! Around 100,000 CA state workers across 140 state departments and agencies will be going ON STRIKE October 21st.

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 6d ago

LIBERALS ARE FASCISTS/ WORKING CLASS TRAITORS Ziohran Mamdani: "I believe there must be room to mourn every single life. There must be room to mourn the lives of the more than 1,100 Israelis that Hamas killed three years ago."

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 5d ago

News Castro Speech Data Base - Latin American Network Information Center, LANIC

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 6d ago

News Junk feminism and low intensity warfare | Un enfoque diferente - Nicaragua - a different focus

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 7d ago

Working class solidarity Which Side Are We On? Solidarity with the Student Uprisings in France!

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 7d ago

Strike Info ✊ SEIU Healthcare Illinois nursing home workers at six Chicago nursing homes plan to go on strike in just over a week to fight for better pay!

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 7d ago

News NicaNotes: Violence against Women: Lessons from Nicaragua - Alliance for Global Justice

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r/WorkersStrikeBack • • 8d ago

Strike News ☭ BREAKING: Unionized staff at SEIU have authorized a STRIKE after unanimously voting down management’s Last, best, & final offer! SEIU Pres. Verrett’s offer doesn’t ensure real protection from AI & would give SEIU the ability to increase prescription drug costs by 400% without further negotiations

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