This resource was developed by Ella Baker School of Organizing.
“Exploiting genuine resentments about the cost of living, the housing crisis and insecure employment prospects (and dishonestly blaming migrants and minorities for all ills), these narratives of division are growing. However, they can and must be stopped. By organising together in our communities we can start to address the root causes of people’s frustration and resentment, that the far-right are parasitic on.”
The Narratives of Division training includes:
- An introduction session
- Starting a local initiative
- Mapping division within your community
- Bridging division through stories of ‘us’
- Battle of Cable Street
- Theory of change
- Transformative conversations
- Building a strong local democratic tradition
- Strategic choice for change makers
- Winning in the face of provocations
- Narratives of division and class
Download the training materials here!
About the author
Ella Baker School of Organizing is re-establishing and re-politicising the culture of activist education and training to encourage transformative union and community organising for a more democratic, more equal and more sustainable world. To do this, they are developing imaginative new training materials based on concrete examples of struggles in the UK. They are working to build a volunteer network of trained facilitators who can deliver training to local community, political and trade union groups. “In summary we want to develop fantastic training material, train community activists in how to use them, and then network those trained organisers, so they can learn from each others experience.”
