The Struggle Is Always Worth It, coming December 2026!
I’m excited to announce that the pre-order for my edited collection, The Struggle Is Always Worth It, is live. The book features contributions from 13 authors in the US and Latin America, and argues that even when we “lose,” something tangible is created when we get together to fight for our liberation.
This book is meant to be read by those that hesitate to join in the emotionally risky experience of hoping and working for a world better than this one. It’s meant for anyone who was part of a movement and left disillusioned by the collapse and failure to achieve goals. It’s meant for anyone who is still hanging on for dear life in the struggle and could use a sermon. With first person essays and photos, the book dives into these conversations in an approachable and engaging way.
The Struggle Is Always Worth It Table of Contents:
Introduction, “We Are Seeds”
October Krausch
I. None of us are free until we’re all free. Interconnections between struggles.
1. Stopping the World to Make Time for Ourselves: The Feminist Strike in Argentina
Liz Mason-Deese
2. Environmental Justice Must Be Abolitionist and Abolition Must Be Green
David N. Pellow
3. Holding Space for Ourselves: Future-casting for Black Liberation in Minneapolis
Miski Noor
II. Honoring our feelings. Emotions of struggle.
4. Grief and Impatience in and against this Hellscape
Nate Holdren
5. Here, a poem
Vincent “Tank” Sherrill
6. From Leftist Orthodoxy to Decolonizing Our Minds: An Interview with Karla Lara on the last 40 years of Central American Resistance Movements
Karla Lara, interviewed and translated by October Krausch
III. Conjuring a better world. Struggles for the imagination.
7. Ten Years on from the Escuelita Zapatista, a photo essay
Micaela Ryan and Fernando Vicente Prieto
8. Imagining a New World: Learning Decolonization through Transnational Exchanges
Chelsey Dyer
9. We Can’t All Be Alive at the Same Time: On Music, Solidarity, and Imagination
Cyrus Pireh
IV. Liberation through learning. Study as struggle and struggle as study.
10. Tending Our Relations of Solidarity: Organizing Stories for Justice in Education
Erin Dyke
11. Reflections on Five Years of Abolitionist Organizing: Relationships are the Foundation
Cam Calisch and Jarvis Benson
12. Finding Freedom in the Struggle: Popular Education and the Practice of Freedom at a School in Buenos Aires
October Krausch
