"The authors offer original research on cadres in NGOs, transnational networks, urban and village arenas, and among '"indigenous"' and multi-ethnic populations. By exploring the frictions and shifts in allegiance, they capture the dynamics of "'relational work"' that shapes a social movement. "Brokering a Revolution fills an important gap in the literature on the CPP (Communist Party of the Philippines)--our knowledge of how the CPP actually ''does it' within concrete, real-time locales."--" --Joel Rocamora.