Books from the front lines of people power.
Rigorous studies and first-hand accounts of strategic nonviolent resistance — written by the organizers, scholars, and activists who live it. Every book in our catalog is free to download.
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— Adam McKay, writer and director of Don’t Look Up and The Big Short, from the Foreword
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— Sami Awad, Palestinian activist, author, and Co-Director of Nonviolence International
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— Hardy Merriman, page 22
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How Guatemalans Defended Their Election
— Mack and Sarti, p. 20
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— Quote from Sofija, Serbian student activist, p. 7
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— Tim Whyte, Secretary General, Mellemfolkeligt Samvirke/ActionAid Denmark
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Soup Throwers and Super Gluers: Inside Europe’s Climate Uprising — THE TOUR
Two weeks, six stops, three goals: inspire, connect, and equip.
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New release: Soup Throwers and Super Gluers
The first inside account of the movement that made civil disobedience impossible to ignore — written collectively by twelve organisers from the A22 Network.
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The Catalog
A decade of Special Reports, Monographs, and books on how ordinary people build power — now joined by memoirs written by activists, for activists.
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Soup Throwers and Super Gluers
Chloé Bertini, Cécile Bessire, Harley F. Brewer, Thibaut Cantet, Carla Hinrichs, Henning Jeschke, Pierre Taieb

Going Behind the Sun
Ahmed Maher

Authoritarianism is a Systemic Risk
Hardy Merriman

Deciders
Luis Mack, Carlos Sarti

Anatomy of the Plenum
Marko Škorić, Jovana Čikić, Jovana Škorić, Aleksej Kišjuhas

Towards a People’s Peace
Hardy Merriman, Ola Ibrahim, Gino Govender, Hanyea Mohammed, Véronique Dudouet, Steward Muhindo, Shreen Saroor

All Rise
Marcin Mrowicki

Prison Hunger Strikes in Palestine
Malaka Mohammed Shwaikh, Rebecca Ruth Gould

We Need People Power to Address a World in Peril
Hardy Merriman

New Blood
Nawa V. Sitali, Thompson Kamuhuza Luzendi, Nalishebo Sinyama, Muleta Kapatiso, Mary Mwaba, Andrew Machila, Given Musanya Kapolyo, Chimwemwe Zakeyo Mwansa

Fostering a Fourth Democratic Wave
Hardy Merriman, Patrick Quirk, Ash Jain

Resource Mobilization in Palestinian Nonviolent Campaigns
Mahmoud Soliman
Starting with New Blood, we develop books through collective writing: activists from the same movement, writing their own history together. Writers stay at the center, because the meaning in these stories belongs to the people who lived them.
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