In this first volume of Full Spectrum Resistance, we studied why resistance movements are necessary, the core factors that make movements effective, and also how resistance movements can recruit, organize, and stay safe.
In the second volume of Full Spectrum Resistance, we’ll explore more stories of successful resistance, and learn from movements around the world.
How did a group of Greek anarchists take over a television station during a period of country-wide upheaval? How did a blind teenager build one of the most powerful resistance movements in Nazi-occupied France? How did liberation movements in Vietnam defeat far wealthier and more powerful invaders? And how did a small group of Indigenous women bring a decisive end to an unwanted garbage dump that a community fought against for decades?
We’ll use those stories to investigate, in practical terms, the critical capacities that successful movements must build. How do they communicate with supporters and each other? How do they gather the intelligence they need to beat bigger opponents? How do they understand and resist systems of counterintelligence and repression that those in power will use to try to crush effective movements? And how do groups and organizations raise money and supply themselves for the long fight?
Finally, we’ll bring together every key idea and theme in this book to understand how movements take effective action, and how they combine these key capacities to build the strategies and campaigns that allow them to win.
See you again in Volume Two: Actions and Strategies for Change.
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