Ways to make a difference

[JammyDodger]

I thought this could be a list we could all add, kind of a tactics type thread.

This should be a list of ideas, ways of finding out about campaigns and petitions, actions we can take as individuals, ways to help spread the message, resources for free printable online resources (flyers etc), building collective strength where organisations are not present, web resources, how to's and other ways to help get the change/revolution/fight won.

Even very obvious ideas welcome, perhaps you have noticed actions by comrades or your party or group that had results, spread the wealth of your knowledge so we can forge ahead to the spreading of wealth to all.

I intend to make a booklet of these ideas that will be available via a free pdf download to print, I want to make this info available to comrades worldwide.
So that even if a person lives in the back of beyond he can make a difference,

Even if you think the idea is silly, please reveal, every little helps and even if it is silly, there is no harm in getting a second opinion.

Ive been wondering what I can do and for now this is the project im on, getting the finished article done once there is a good crop of info will take me a few days, but it will be in the public domain as long as the net exists, a new weapon in the fight.

What difference it will make, ive no idea but we will not know until its tried, and at the very least we will all stand to learn something new from each other.

Thanks for any input.:)
And bring the revolution:)

Cheers, Steve.

[JammyDodger]

I will make a start, sign up to an internet forum that is not remotly especially, connected to Communism or socialism, but still connected to a subject you like, so it does not seem like work and you will be able to enjoy it (a history forum, news forums, the forum of the southwest wiltshire gay and lesbian kickboxing team if such a thing exists etc)

Talk about the subject you are interested in and make friends, but also play the token communist in the room, put links in your signature and perhaps a quote or two.
Learn more about your other interest, and maybe pick up a convert or two.

Plus to this=No real personal threat, free if you already have the net, enjoyable as you will still be persueing your personal interests, any threads you start or conversations you turn towards socialism will get many readers, and you may impact someones mind, even if you cant get out and about this is one way to spread the message.

Down side= Will take up time, results may be dissappointing.

[redguard2009]

I do that anyway.

I prefer being the communist in the room in the more real sense. I wear my hammer & sickle on my sleeve (literally) and always take the time to inundate people with my politics.

I do stuff for my party when I can.

[Pogue]

Community and workplace organising!

[JammyDodger]

Community and workplace organising!

Can you expand on that in a kind of how to?

[The Ungovernable Farce]

Can you expand on that in a kind of how to?
As I see it, it's not (at least most of the time) a question of us going out and creating a difference, it's more about looking for the situations where people are already in struggle (which isn't at all hard, since people's needs bring them up against the logic of capitalism every day), and then getting involved in supporting them, arguing that they should be using the most militant and effective tactics possible, and so on. Getting involved in something like, for example, the Lewisham Bridge school occupation (http://defendeducationlewisham.wordpress.com/2009/04/23/lewisham-bridge-parents-occupy-school-in-bid-to-get-school-reopened/) is much more important than distributing even the best-written most persuasive communist propaganda imaginable.

[MarxSchmarx]

Teaching a grown up how to read. More likely than not they are more than appreciative of the class struggle. How else will they ever be able to engage the "best-written, most persuasive communist propaganda imaginable"?

[CommunityBeliever]

When and if you do have children teach them to be communists too. If you meet people that are interested in politics show them what we are all about. We need all the support we can get for when the revolution goes down.