Field manual for organisers

The craft of winning campaigns.

A working library of campaign strategy, organizing, tactics and digital craft — distilled from the people who have run them, with worked case studies and the sources behind every claim.

  • 449Articles
  • 142Case studies
  • 4Languages
  • 3Curation tiers

Where campaigns are won or lost

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Strategy

Theory of change, power mapping and campaign planning — turning a demand into a sequenced, winnable plan.

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Organizing

Building the base — coalitions, distributed organizing and the people who actually do the work.

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Tactics

The repertoire — boycotts and strikes, direct action, dilemma actions and creative interventions.

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Digital

Online mobilisation and civic tech — plus the data-protection and digital-security craft to do it safely.

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Campaigns worth studying

Worked examples with the tactics, outcome and sources attached. See all 142 →

Sweden · 2018–Partial

Fridays for Future

One student's school strike became a planetary movement — distributed organising at scale, with no central command.

France · 1995Won

France, 1995 strikes

Two weeks of rolling public-sector strikes forced Prime Minister Juppé to withdraw his social-security reforms.

Chile · 1983–86Won

Chile, Protestas Nacionales

Monthly nationwide days of action broke Pinochet's claim to normalcy and opened the road to the 1988 plebiscite.

Germany · 1980–83Partial

German peace movement

Half a million marched against Pershing II. The missiles came anyway — but the movement seeded the Greens.

East Germany · 1953Defeated

June 17, 1953 uprising

A norms strike spread to 700+ towns and over a million workers before Soviet tanks crushed it — the bloc's first mass revolt.

United States · 1989Partial

Barbie Liberation Organization

Activists swapped doll voice-boxes on store shelves — a working dilemma-action routed through the toy supply chain.

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