A Radical Podcast

On February 15, A Radical Guide sat down with organizers from General Strike U.S. to talk about what it takes to build a movement that holds together — through uncertainty, across distance, and toward something bigger than any single action.

General Strike U.S. is a decentralized grassroots movement organizing toward a nationwide general strike. They work through local chapters focused on mutual aid, strike preparedness, and community engagement, anchored by the “Strike Card” — a pledge that activates once participation reaches 3.5% of the U.S. population, a threshold historically tied to successful nonviolent movements. It’s a long-game strategy, and it demands the kind of organizing that keeps people together while building toward collective power.

Daii organizes with the Michigan Chapter, bringing a Detroit-rooted commitment to self-reliant communities and collective resilience. Eliza Blum facilitates the NYC Chapter and comes out of SEIU and the Fight for $15 campaign, where she learned to channel grassroots energy into collective action.

Together they share what their chapters are doing on the ground, how they’re building solidarity across a national network, and what they’ve learned about sustaining movements through uncertainty. We dig into what survival looks like when you’re doing mutual aid with limited resources, how chapters stay connected and accountable to each other, and how local organizing fits into a strategy for mass collective action.

A Radical Guide is a movement partner of General Strike U.S.

If movements reject hierarchical power, what do they build in its place?

In Episode 3 of A Podcast for Radicals, we explore prefigurative politics—the principle that we create the world we want through how we organize today. The future society isn't something we build after winning; it's something we practice now.

We examine how worker cooperatives, community land trusts, consensus decision-making, and mutual aid networks embody liberation in the present.

We look at real-world movements putting this into practice: Cooperation Jackson building economic democracy in Mississippi, and Argentina's recuperated workplaces, where workers have run factories without bosses for over twenty years.

We also confront what happens when these alternatives face attack—and how radical language gets co-opted by forces working against liberation.

In this episode:

→ Prefigurative politics: what it means and why it matters

→ How specific practices embody the vision of liberation

→ Cooperation Jackson's model of interlocking cooperatives

→ Argentina's worker cooperatives and current attacks

→ The difference between genuine anarchism and "anarcho-capitalism"

→ What repression teaches us about building alternatives

This episode is part of the "Means and Ends in Radical Action" series from A Guide for Radicals.

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What makes authority legitimate? And what does it mean to reject the logic of power?In this episode, we explore why radicals reject hierarchical domination, the difference between "power over" and "power with," and how movements practice horizontal organizing at a massive scale.We draw on the anarchist tradition - Bakunin, Kropotkin, Malatesta - to understand why revolutionary movements that centralize power often reproduce the domination they claimed to oppose. And we examine what legitimate authority actually looks like: mutual, temporary, and voluntary.The episode features Brazil's Landless Workers' Movement (MST), which coordinates 1.5 million participants across 23 states through collective leadership, consensus decision-making, and structural gender equity - all without a permanent leadership class.In this episode:→ The anarchist critique of hierarchy→ "All Power to the People" - what it actually means→ Power over vs. power with→ What makes authority legitimate (and illegitimate)→ The MST and Zapatistas as models of horizontal organizingThis episode is part of the "Means and Ends in Radical Action" series from A Guide for Radicals.Resources:📖 Read the full chapter: https://www.radical-guide.com/a-guide-for-radicals/🌐 Explore more: https://www.radical-guide.comSupport our work:https://www.radical-guide.com/ways-to-support/If this content resonates with you, consider supporting A Radical Guide. Your contributions help sustain our projects and support ongoing efforts for justice, mutual aid, and collective liberation.And remember: Follow ideas, not people.#RadicalPolitics #Anarchism #HorizontalOrganizing #MST #PowerToThePeople #MeansAndEndsSupport A Radical Guide: https://www.radical-guide.com/ways-to-support/

Can hierarchical methods produce liberatory outcomes? Episode 1 of Means and Ends in Radical Action explores why anarchist movements insist that how we organize must reflect what we're fighting to build.We break down four specific ways organizing methods shape what movements can create:

👉Methods develop capacities

👉Methods transform consciousness

👉Methods create precedents

👉Methods build material bases.

This episode examines the core anarchist principle: the revolution must prefigure the society it aims to create.

ABOUT THIS SERIES

Means and Ends in Radical Action is part of A Podcast for Radicals, exploring how movements navigate the relationship between organizing methods and outcomes. Based on A Guide for Radicals.

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In Part 2 of this State of the World Forum “Code Red” segment, Jason Bayless is asked how to connect the dots across so many urgent issues.

His response centers on liberation as a question communities return to, and a practice rooted in relationship with each other and the living world.

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Jason Bayless speaks at the State of the World Forum panel “The State of Our World: Code Red” on animal cruelty as a lived “code red” condition—one tied to the systems shaping ecological collapse and normalized violence.

This is Part 1 of a two-part segment.
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Content note: discussion of animal cruelty.

Peter Kropotkin exposed how capitalists used "survival of the fittest" to justify exploitation. 120 years later, we're fighting the same battle.

This episode explores mutual aid not as charity or activism, but as our biological reality - and why understanding this changes everything about how we organize.

In this episode:

• The 1800s debate between Kropotkin and Social Darwinists that shaped how we see human nature
• How industrial capitalists used "natural selection" to justify child labor and poverty wages
• Why Project 2025 targets mutual aid networks and criminalizes public care
• Reading from Chapter 6 of A Radical Guide's "Resist Project 2025" booklet
• Understanding cooperation as an evolutionary strategy, not a political position
• How communities create alternatives that make authoritarian systems irrelevant

The same ideology that justified factory exploitation now justifies letting people die without healthcare. But communities practicing mutual aid aren't doing charity - they're expressing the same cooperative force that builds forests and keeps thirty-seven trillion cells in your body working together.

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The closing session, The P.I.T, wraps up the day’s international workshops with thanks and collective gratitude.

Throughout the event, we heard from organizers, writers, artists, and movement builders across the world — sharing lessons on anarchism, collective care, food sovereignty, degrowth, zero fare transportation, anti-authoritarian publishing, radical art, and mutual aid. From poetry to panels, each session added to a shared practice of connecting struggles, imagining alternatives, and building collective power.

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair has gathered thousands of anarchists, supporters, and curious folks since 2007 on Lenape land, creating space to learn about anarchist traditions, philosophy, praxis, and anti-capitalist struggle.

This series was presented in collaboration with Floresta TV and A Radical Guide:

• Floresta TV emerged from a call by Indigenous Peoples to record, share, and expand sustainable, collective, and peaceful culture in today’s digital world.

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This session features Felipe Corrêa and Victor Khaled, coordinators of the Institute for Anarchist Theory and History (IATH) (itha-iath.org) and militants of the Libertarian Socialist Organization (OSL) in Brazil.

The talk begins with an exploration of the concept of anarchism, based on Corrêa’s book Black Flag, recently translated and published internationally. From there, the panel traces the resurgence of anarchist militancy in Brazil after the end of the military dictatorship in 1985.

Drawing from Khaled’s theoretical and practical work, they examine the struggles for public transportation in Brazil, especially during the June Protests of 2013, when the Zero Fare agenda became nationalized. Since then, Brazil has become the country with the highest number of Zero Fare cities in the world.

The session closes with a reflection on the role of anarchists in these movements — how anarchist militancy can strengthen struggles for Zero Fare, the Right to the City, and the building of mass, self-managed popular power.

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair has gathered thousands of anarchists, supporters, and curious folks since 2007 on Lenape land, creating space to learn about anarchist traditions, philosophy, praxis, and anti-capitalist struggle.

This series is brought to you in collaboration with Floresta TV and A Radical Guide:

Floresta TV emerged from a call by Indigenous Peoples to record, share, and expand sustainable, collective, and peaceful culture in today’s digital world.

A Radical Guide connects, amplifies, and unites liberation movements — preserving histories, amplifying present struggles, and fostering collective action.

Learn more and explore:

https://www.radical-guide.com

https://anarchistbookfair.net/2025-bookfair/

https://www.floresta.tv/en

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This session brings together mutual aid organizers for a virtual panel and teach-in on how to organize a weekly mutual aid space in your neighborhood. Panelists share practical experiences, lessons, and tools for building local networks of care and resistance.

The session also includes the announcement of a new movement initiative to support the creation of community-led mutual aid distributions in every neighborhood across NYC.

The NYC Anarchist Book Fair has gathered thousands of anarchists, supporters, and curious folks since 2007 on Lenape land, creating space to learn about anarchist traditions, philosophy, praxis, and anti-capitalist struggle.

This series is brought to you in collaboration with Floresta TV and A Radical Guide:

Floresta TV emerged from a call by Indigenous Peoples to record, share, and expand sustainable, collective, and peaceful culture in today’s digital world.

A Radical Guide connects, amplifies, and unites liberation movements — preserving histories, amplifying present struggles, and fostering collective action.

Learn more and explore:

https://www.radical-guide.com

https://anarchistbookfair.net/2025-bookfair/

https://www.floresta.tv/en

#MutualAid #Anarchism #CommunityCare #NYCAnarchistBookFair #Liberation

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