The below is an excerpt of a crowdsourced and under construction document that participants of our Intro Course have helped compile, the purpose of which is to help guide action and next steps toward integrating anticapitalist praxis into our work and lives.

What are some ways we can join existing anticapitalist organizing efforts? Any specific groups or orgs?

Socialist/Communist Orgs: Party for Socialism and Liberation, Communist Party USA, Democratic Socialists of America
Anti-War: CODEPINK, Black Alliance for Peace 
Anarchist: Black Rose/Rosa Negra, Anarchist Black Cross
Tenant Organizing: ATUN (national tenants union) 
Mutual Aid: Food Not Bombs
Environmental:
Union/Labor: UNITE-HERE, Red Canary Song, Hacking//Hustling
Abolition: Critical Resistance, Project NIA
Feminist:
National Liberation: Nodultol, Anakbayan, Palestinian Youth Movement  
Food Justice:
Solidarity Economy/Co-operative: New Economy Coalition, art.coop

What are anticapitalist tools/tactics that we have at our disposal right now? 

Note: as ‘tools’ many are not inherently anticapitalist and some more than others must be intentionally and strategically aligned into broader anticapitalist projects to be productive.

  • Strikes (rent, labor, general, wildcat)

  • Divestment Campaigns/Strategies

  • Labor Organizing & Unions (incl. union realignment)

  • Community Organizing

  • Tenant Unions

  • Mutual Aid (community pods; community fridges, non-commercial exchange/bartering, etc)

  • Co-Operatives (Workers, Food, Housing, Artist, Land, etc)

  • Direct Action (sit-ins, street blockades, counter-economics, protests, civil disobedience)

  • Political Education

  • Radical Art Practices & Cultural Work

  • Inheritance equity/wealth redistribution (ie Resource Generation)

  • Intentional communities, communes

  • Use of public/”third” Spaces ie. libraries, parks, etc

What are some ways we can further our study of anticapitalism?

  • Creating/finding a study group (reading, note taking/reports, researching footnotes)

  • Facilitate an event or offering with A4A or in your local community

  • Join leftist press newsletters (Verso, Haymarket, AK, Pinko Mag, Leftwingbooks.net)

  • News/Journals/Magazines/Blogs (In These Times, Spectre Journal, Left Voice, Lux Mag, Hammer and Hope, Black Agenda Report)

  • Encyclopedia resources (Marxists.org, Wikipedia Holes, Stanford Plato)

  • YouTube channels (Richard Wolff / Democracy at Work, Laura Flanders, The Marxist Project, Red Plateau, etc) 

  • Podcasts (Revolutionary Left Radio, Red Nation Podcast, Millennials are Killing Capitalism, The Dig, By Any Means Necessary, David Harvey’s Anti-capitalist Chronicles)

  • Praxis/Doing

  • Researching/analyzing anticapitalist art