How can activists change the world? Experts offer seven strategies

The new book Practical Radicals takes inspiration from successful social movements to identify tactics that pay off

In their new book, Practical Radicals: Seven Strategies to Change the World, Deepak Bhargava and Stephanie Luce offer what they say are winning strategies, history and theory for a new generation of activists".

Bhargava and Luce - professors at the City University of New York's School of Labor and Urban Studies - emphasize that strategies can be taught to build successful movements. In their book, they detail seven tactics that have been successfully used to change the world: base-building, disruptive movements, narrative shift, electoral changes, inside-outside campaigns, momentum, and collective care.