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It distills the core framework from Gene Sharp’s 1973 work, organizing analysis into power and struggle, methods of nonviolent action, and the dynamics of change. The text emphasizes how nonviolent techniques function, why historical examples are limited here, and how later editorial work and translations shaped the condensed editions for practical use by organizing groups.","HOW  \nNONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKS  \nGene Sharp The Albert Einstein Institution  \nCopyright © 2013 by Gene Sharp Layout and design by Eben Sorkin  \nAll rights reserved including translation rights. Printed in the United States of America. August 2013  \nThis document is not to be published or translated without written permission of the author. Inquiries about reprinting or translating this document should be addressed to the author at the address below.  \nThe Albert Einstein Institution PO Box 455  \nEast Boston, MA 02128, USA Tel: USA + 617-247-4882  \nFax: USA + 617-247-4035  \nE-mail: [Einstein@igc.org](Einstein@igc.org)  \n[Website: www.aeinstein.org](Website: www.aeinstein.org)  \n[ISBN 1-880813-15-7](ISBN 1-880813-15-7)[ ](ISBN 1-880813-15-7)[ISBN 978-1-880813-15-7](ISBN 978-1-880813-15-7)  \nTABLE OF CONTENTS  \nPreface  \nGene Sharp  \nBackground  \nJaime González Bernal  \nPart One  \nPOWER AND STRUGGLE  \nChapter One  \nThe nature and control of political power  \nChapter Two  \nNonviolent action: an active technique of struggle  \nPart Two  \nTHE METHODS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION  \nChapter Three  \nThe methods of nonviolent protest and persuasion  \nChapter Four  \nThe methods of social noncooperation  \nChapter Five  \nThe methods of economic noncooperation  \n(1) Economic boycotts  \nChapter Six  \nThe methods of economic noncooperation  \n(2) The strike  \nix  \nxv  \n1  \n3  \n17  \n21  \n25  \n29  \n31  \n35  \nChapter Seven  \nThe methods of political noncooperation 39  \nChapter Eight  \nThe methods of nonviolent intervention 43  \nPart Three  \nTHE DYNAMICS OF NONVIOLENT ACTION 47  \nChapter Nine  \nLaying the groundwork for nonviolent action 51  \nChapter Ten  \nChallenge brings repression 81  \nChapter Eleven  \nSolidarity and discipline to fight repression 97  \nChapter Twelve  \nPolitical jiu-jitsu 111  \nChapter Thirteen  \nFour ways success may be achieved 121  \nChapter Fourteen  \nThe redistribution of power 135  \nAlso by the same author 145  \nPREFACE  \nGene Sharp  \nThis small book offers the principal contents of the 902 pages of the original 1973 The Politics of Nonviolent Action to anyone who wants to learn the substance of how nonviolent struggle works.1 That is, how the nonviolent technique can operate in conflicts, even when strong opponents are willing and able to impose harsh repression.  \nThere are almost no historical examples presented in this abridged text. They can easily be found elsewhere.2  \nThis distilled text is amazingly faithful to the original lengthy complex analysis published in 1973. The full The Politics of Nonviolent Action did not appear ready-made that year. That book was the result of years of efforts to understand, describe, and present the technique of nonviolent action.  \nThat work was done as several distinct sections of the whole. These sections were: under-  \n1 Gene Sharp, The Politics of Nonviolent Action. Boston: Porter Sargent Publisher, 1973. Available at [http://www](http://www). [extendinghorizons.com](extendinghorizons.com).  \n2 See, for example, The Politics of Nonviolent Action and Gene Sharp, Waging Nonviolent Struggle: 20th Century Practice and 21st Century Potential. Boston: Porter Sargent Publishers, 2005.  \nHOW NONVIOLENT STRUGGLE WORKS  \nstanding of political power, methods of action, and dynamics of change. When put together these components reveal the essence of this technique. Not perfectly, for the final text left room for corrections and improvements. Not completely, for the knowledge of the operation of this technique was and is in a continual process of growth and development.  \nDepending on what sections are counted and at what stage of their development, The Politics of Nonviolent Action required about fifteen years. That does not count more than a year of editorial work with Dr. Marina Finkelstein at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, where I had been invited from Norway in December 1965 by Professor Thomas C. 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