Infoshop.io: Direct Action

A Day When Nothing is Certain

Writings on the Greek Insurrection

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Editors: TPTG
Date: 2009
Sources: http://athens.indymedia.org/?lang=en, http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog, http://greeceriots.blogspot.com/

A Love Letter to an Anonymous Stone Thrower

Till we find each other on the barricades

Topics: art, direct-action
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Filth and Glitter

A Practical Guide to Anarchist Organization

This text is a draft of a very practically orientated manual for anarchists who wish to get organised, directed to absolute beginners and isolated individuals.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action
Authors: Andrew Flood
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/zababooks, http://struggle.ws/ap/organise.html

A Rebel Worker's Organizing Handbook

A set of tips and advice guides for organising in your workplace. From basic principles and getting started to making demands, taking action.

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/

ABCs of Anarchy

A children's book covering the basics of Anarchy.

Topics: anarchism, colonialism, direct-action, parenting
Authors: Brian Heagney
Sources: http://www.brianheagney.com/

Abstract Hacktivism - The Making of a Hacker Culture

In the nineteenth century, the motor replaced the clockwork as the universal model of knowledge. In a similar vein, new media technologies are currently replacing the motor as the dominant ‘conceptual technology’ of contemporary social thought. This development, Otto von Busch and Karl Palmås argue, has yielded new ways of construing politics, activism and innovation.

Topics: direct-action, media, theory
Authors: Karl Palmås, Otto von Busch
Publisher: Open Mute
Date: 2006
Sources: http://www.openmute.org/

Accomplices Not Allies - Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex, An Indigenous Perspective

The ally industrial complex has been established by activists whose careers depend on the 'issues' they work to address. These nonprofit capitalists advance their careers off the struggles they ostensibly support. While the exploitation of solidarity and support is nothing new, the commodification and exploitation of allyship is a growing trend in the activism industry.

Don't wait around for anyone to proclaim you to be an accomplice, you certainly cannot proclaim it yourself. You just are or you are not. The lines of oppression are already drawn.

Topics: capitalism, colonialism, direct-action, indigenous
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Indigenous Action Media
Date: 5/02/2014
Sources: http://www.indigenousaction.org/

An Anarchist Organizing Manual

A collection of essays on organizing local direct action affinity groups.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Date: May 5, 2001
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/zababooks

Anarchist Agitation and Community Building

The ideas presented in this essay are not all-encompassing, but are intended as a starting point from which to move the principles of anarchism, and par- ticularly anarchist-communism, out of the theoretical realm and into the reality today of the working-class struggle against the exploitative system of capitalism and the State that defends it.

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action
Authors: Ronald A. Young
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Date: September 1, 2001
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/zababooks, http://www.infoshop.org/, http://www.alliedresistance.org

Anti-Mass - Methods of Organizing for Collectives

An underground strategy without a revolution- ary form of organisation can only emerge as a new class society. To destroy the system of oppression is not enough. We must create the organisation of a free society. When the underground emerges, the collective will be that society.

Topics: anarchism, class, democracy, direct-action, theory
Authors: Anonymous

Aorta Anti-Oppressive Meeting Facilitation

Ineficient and ineffective meetings can leave people feeling drained, exhausted or discouraged, rather than inspired and energized. Good meetings help build strong, effective organizations and successful projects. Here are some foundational tips and suggestions that can have big impacts on your meetings!

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, relationships
Authors: Esteban Kelly, Jenna Peters-Golden, Kiran Nigam, Lydia Pelot-Hobbs, Tyrone Boucher
Publisher: Aorta Collective
Date: Spring 2014
Sources: http://aortacolletive.org/

Aufheben - Class Re-composition in Argentina

This pamphlet was produced to make available information about the massive working class revolts in Argentina in 2001-2. These struggles were probably the most important action of the global proletariat in recent years. In time what happened in Argentina will come to be seen as an event of similar importance to May 1968 in France when 10 million workers went on wildcat strike for three weeks.

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Treason Press
Date: 2006
Sources: http://treason.metadns.cx/

Becoming Riot

Some Accounts and Analysis Regarding the 2008 Republican National Convention

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Date: 2008
Sources: http://www.mkeanarchy.bravehost.com/

Behind Our Masks We Are You

We want the things you want, but today, not tomorrow. We think the things you think, but we act on them, too. We run the same risks you run, but we'll be damned if we'll run them for nothing.

Topics: anarchism, art, direct-action, introduction, posters
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: CrimethInc
Sources: http://www.crimethinc.com/

Blocs, Black and Otherwise

This zine compiles two texts by CrimethInc that provide an excellent introduction on how to participate in and organize black blocs.

The first is 'Blocs, Black and Otherwise' that appeared in Profane Existence #43 and CrimethInc’s Recipes for Disaster. Additionally, second piece titled 'Fashion Tips for the Brave' is included.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, protests
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Sprout Anarchist Collective
Sources: http://sproutac.org/

Bounty Hunters and Child Predators - Inside the FBI Entrapment Strategy

You don't have to do anything illegal to get framed by the government. You just have to end up in a situation in which it’s possible to make it appear that you could have considered doing something illegal

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, fascism, police
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: CrimethInc
Sources: http://www.crimethinc.com/

Build Those Collectives

A workshop pamphlet on how to build a collective, an what to do with it when it's built.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action
Authors: Moose and Inza
Date: 2003
Sources: http://www.anarco-nvc.net/buildcollectives.html

Building

A DIY Guide to Creating Spaces, Hosting Events, and Fostering Radical Communities

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, introduction
Authors: Neil Campau
Publisher: DoDIY.org
Date: 2012
Sources: http://dodiy.org/

COINTELPRO

COINTELPRO was the FBI's secret program to undermine the popular upsurge which swept the country during the 1960s. Though the name stands for 'Counterintelligence Program,' the targets were not enemy spies. The FBI set out to eliminate 'radical' political opposition inside the US. When traditional modes of repression (exposure, blatant harassment, and prosecution for political crimes) failed to counter the growing insurgency, and even helped to fuel it, the Bureau took the law into its own hands and secretly used fraud and force to sabotage constutionally prorected political activity.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, introduction
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Unidentified Anarchist Publishing

Claim No Easy Victories

A History and Analysis of Anti-Racist Action

Topics: direct-action, fascism
Authors: Rory McGowan
Publisher: Anti-Racist Action
Sources: http://antiracistaction.org/

Class Struggle during the Gulf War

From the very start the Western media has grossly misrepresented these uprisings. The uprising in the South, centred on Basra, was portrayed as a Shia Muslim revolt. Whereas the insurrection in the North was reported as an exclusively Kurdish Nationalist uprising which demanded little more than an autonomous Kurdish region within Iraq. The truth is that the uprisings in both the North and South of Iraq were proletarian insurrections.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: prole.info
Sources: http://prole.info/

Class Struggles in South Africa

A South African Anarchist Pamphlet

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Zabalaza Books, Bikisha Media Collective
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/zababooks, http://struggle.ws/inter/groups/bikisha/main

Collective Process - Overcoming Power

This is a handbook on group process for egalitarian collectives. Its focus is on the often unrecognized negative dynamice that can occur when people try to work collectively.

Topics: direct-action, relationships
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: The Common Wheel Collective

Confronting Empire

Analysis of contemporary capitalism and ways to fight it in the U.S.

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, democracy, direct-action
Authors: Anonymous
Sources: http://www.zinelibrary.net

CopWatch Handbook

An Introduction to Citizen Monitoring of the Police

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, militarism, police
Authors: Seattle CopWatch

Dangerous Spaces

Violent Resistance, Self-Defense, and Insurrectional Struggle Against Gender. NOTE: Much of the content in this zine may be triggering.

Topics: direct-action, feminism, hender, lgbtiq
Authors: We'll Show You Crazy, Bitches
Publisher: Untorelli Press
Date: 2012
Sources: http://untorellipress.noblogs.org/

Digital Security for Activists

Even if you don’t personally need privacy, practicing secure communication will ensure that others have the ability to freely organize and agitate.

Topics: direct-action, surveillance
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: The Riseup Collective
Sources: http://zine.riseup.net/

Direct Action

Towards an understaning of a concept

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, theory
Authors: Harald Beyer-Arnesen
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/, http://www.syndicalistorg/

Direct Action Survival Guide

Tools to master when considering direct actions. This guide covers affinity groups, personal and group health, police and jail questions, first aid, and preparation.

Topics: direct-action, health, introduction, protests, surveillance
Authors: Scott Weinstein
Date: 2003

Dissent is Patriotic

Topics: direct-action, posters
Authors: Anonymous

Don't Talk to Police or the FBI

The cops and the FBI are not your friends, they are agents of the fascist police state we are opposing.

Topics: direct-action, militarism, posters, protests
Authors: Anonymous

Elements of a Barricade

A history and review of many styles of barricade

Topics: direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Date: 2012

Everyone to the Streets

Texts and Communiques from the Greek Uprising. Riots in response to cop murders are not so unusual, but the response to the fatal shooting of Alexis Grigoropolous on 6th December 2008 rapidly rapidly developed into a much wider movement which expressed itself in an incredible variety of activities, from looting shops and attacking police stations to occupying radio stations, and led to a general questioning of many different aspects of capitalist society.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: 56a Infoshop
Date: 2009
Sources: http://www.56a.org.uk/, http://www.alphabetthreat.co.uk/, http://www.occupiedlondon.org/blog/, http://www.libcom.org/tags/greece-unrest

Excited Delirium

A protestor's guide to less-lethal police weaponry including an introduction to taser-proof jackets. Covers stun guns, tasers, stingers, stun shields, CS gas, CN gas, CR gas, pepper spray, riot guns, sprays, rubber balls, baton rounds, pepperballs, flash bangs, batons, pain rays, LRADs, water cannons, electrified water cannons, dazzlers, and incapacitators.

Topics: direct-action, introduction, militarism, protests
Authors: Anonymous

Exist

Anarchism in a nutshell

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, introduction
Authors: Anonymous

Find Each Other

Topics: direct-action, posters
Authors: Anonymous

Globalization, Origins, History, Analysis, Resistance

This pamphlet was prepared for and distributed at the protests against the WTO meeting in Sydney November 2002 and slightly modified in December 2003.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Treason Press
Date: December, 2003
Sources: http://treason.metans.cx/

Health and Safety at Militant Actions

Some tips and suggestions to help ensure personal and collective well-being in the face of police violence (and other aversities)

Topics: direct-action, health, police
Authors: Adrianne 'Ace' Allen, Brian Dominick, Catherine Dardaris, Justin Dewyea
Publisher: On the Ground
Date: 2001
Sources: http://www.action-medical.net/

How Nonviolence Protects the State

In lucid and accessible prose, Gelderloos invites activists to consider diverse tactics, systematically debunking the notion that non-violent activism is the only acceptable or effective method of struggle.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, theory
Authors: Peter Gelderloos
Publisher: Ceros Press

In the Spirit of Total Resistance

A spark of anarchist rebellion

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, theory
Authors: Arthur J. Miller
Publisher: Pirate Press Oly
Date: 2004
Sources: http://olymedia.mahost.org

It's Easy to Attack

A Sharpening of the Anarchist Struggle in Barcelona

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Rise Like Lions Press
Date: 2009

Koukoulofori

Stories, Lessons, and Inspiration from the Greek Anarchist Movement

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: North Carolina Piece Corps

Labor Organizing

Some basic steps to organizing a union

Topics: anarchism, direct-action
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Pirate Press Olympia
Date: 2006
Sources: http://bari.iww.org/organize/steps1.html

Letter to the Anarchist Galaxy

We believe that only when actions are anonymous can they really be appropriated by everyone. We believe that putting a stamp on an attack is moving the attack from the social to the political field, to the field of representation, delegation, actors and spectators. And, as has often been said before in this kind of debate, it’s not enough to proclaim the refusal of politics: its refusal implicates coherence between means and aims, and the claim is a political instrument just like the membership card, the program, the declaration of principles.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, theory
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Untorelli Press
Sources: http://untorellipress.noblogs.org/

Looking for Color in the Anti-War Movement

Seeing racism as a separate, secondary issue is an old problem in the U.S. peace movement, which does not al- ways realize that it must be anti-racist as well as anti-war. Today, with the ‘Permanent War’ becoming all too perma- nent, that realization is all the more crucial. Do people really think the expanding U.S. empire will be stopped by white folks alone?

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, race
Authors: Elizabeth 'Betita' Martinez
Publisher: Colours of Resistance

Malcolm X, The Man and His Ideas

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, race
Authors: George Breitman
Date: 1965
Sources: http://zinelibrary.net/

Mayday and Anarchism

Remembrance and resistance from Haymarket to now

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Editors: Anna Key
Date: 1986, 2004

Methods of Struggle

Anarcho-Syndicalist Tactics. The following text was written to help people discover, remind themselves, or popularize the various syndicalist methods of struggle.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, theory
Authors: Anonymous
Date: 2010
Sources: http://www.libcom.org/

Miner Conflicts, Major Contradictions

A history of the 1984-1985 British Miner's Strike

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: One Thousand Emotions
Date: 2006

N30

The Seattle WTO Protests, a memoir and analysis, with an eye to the future

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, theory
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: CrimethInc
Sources: http://www.crimethinc.com/, http://infoshop.org/

NSA Surveillance and the Case of Sherman Austin

Former political prisoner and former webmaster of Raisethefist.com , Sherman Austin talks about NSA wire-taps and FBI “anti-terrorism” surveillance used against him shortly after 9/11.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, police, surveillance
Authors: Sherman Austin
Editors: Akwala
Publisher: Pirate Press Olympia
Date: February 23, 2006

Navigating Crisis

Notes on responding to crisis situations

Topics: direct-action, health
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: The Icarus Project
Sources: http://theicarusproject.net/

Notes on the Arab Spring

2 Essays on the Recent Rebellions across North Africa and the Middle East

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous

Oh Sit Down

Accounts of sitdown strikes and workplace occupations in the UK and around the world

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, squatting
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: LibCom
Date: June 2009
Sources: http://www.libcom.org/

Olive-Drab Rebels and Harass the Brass

The morale, discipline, and battleworthiness of the U.S. Armed Forces are, with a few salient exceptions, lower and worse than at any time in this century and possibly in the history of the United States. By every conceivable indicator, our army that remains in Vietnam is in a state approaching collapse, with individual units avoiding or having refused combat, murdering their officers and non-commissioned officers, drug-ridden and dispirited where not near mutinous. Elsewhere than Vietnam the situation is nearly as serious.

Topics: direct-action, history, militarism
Authors: Kevin Keating, Matthew Rinaldi
Publisher: Firestarter Press
Date: 2004

On Activism, Democracy, and Other Obstacles to Revolution

'What’s it all about, comrade?' outlines the general diference between the activist/voluntarist models of social revolution and historical materialist models. Here’s to making theory a threat again.

Topics: anarchism, democracy, direct-action, history, theory
Authors: Monsieur Dupont
Publisher: An Autonomous Committee
Date: January 2010
Sources: http://libcom.org/tags/monsieur-dupont/

One Four Seven

Some Notes on Tactics and Strategy in Durham's Recent Anti-Police Marches

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Sources: http://trianarchy.wordpress.com/

Organizations versus Getting Shit Done

It's one thing to 'organize,' it's another to form an organization. For over a decade, post-leftists have criticized the organization in unflinching terms. The response has been muted. Everyone knows organizations are problematic, but nowhere are the terms clear. In this essay, William Gillis breaks down the often unspoken utility of organizations, their inherent nature, as well as their dangers and limitations.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, introduction, relationships
Authors: William Gillis

Our Culture, Our Resistance

Our Culture, Our Resistance: People of Color Speak Out on Anarchism, Race, Class and Gender is the first compilation of writings by people of color covering the concepts of anarchism, race, class and gender. The purpose of this book is to contribute to the ongoing dialogue among people of color and others as we strive toward freedom.

Topics: anarchism, class, direct-action, gender, race
Authors: Ashanti Alston, Bruce Little, Ernesto Aguilar, Greg Lewis, Heather Ajani, Not4Prophet, Tiffany King, Victoria Law, Walidah Imarisha, soo na
Editors: Ernesto Aguilar
Date: September 11, 2004
Sources: http://www.illegalvoices.org

Our Culture, Our Resistance, Volume 2

Our Culture, Our Resistance: People of Color Speak Out on Anarchism, Race, Class and Gender is the first compilation of writings by people of color covering the concepts of anarchism, race, class and gender. The purpose of this book is to contribute to the ongoing dialogue among people of color and others as we strive toward freedom.

Topics: anarchism, class, direct-action, gender, race
Authors: Ewuare Osayande, Kapila, Puck, Ramiro 'Ramsey' Muniz, Romas Moniz, Shawn McDougal, Suneel Mubayi, Victoria Law
Editors: Ernesto Aguilar
Date: September 11, 2004
Sources: http://www.illegalvoices.org

Out of Order

Queer and Trans Youth Resistance

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, gender, lgbtiq
Authors: Anonymous
Date: 2009

Policing on the Global Scale

On the relationship between current military operations, crowd control techniques, the technologies of surveillance and control and their increasing intrusion into our daily lives.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, militarism, police, surveillance
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Venomous Butterfly Productions
Date: February 2003
Sources: http://www.socialwar.net/

Preoccupied

The logic of occupation

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: The Inoperative Committee
Date: January 2009

Reclaim the Cities

From protest to popluar power

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, theory
Authors: Cindy Milstein
Publisher: Institute for Social Ecology
Sources: http://social-ecology.org/

Remember the Dead, and Fight Like Hell for the Living

A Story of May Day

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, history
Authors: Llowell Thomas
Publisher: Kansas Mutual Aid Collective
Date: May Day, 2002
Sources: http://www.infoshop.org/, http://www.alliedresistance.org/

Resignation is Death: Responding to the Negation of Anarchy

Struggle on! And never forget to think and build, as you act, so that you do not struggle in vain! And to those throughout North America, who are smothered under the weight of the left and identity politics, do not let pretensions of theoretical sophistication civilize or pacify your rebel spirit nor strangle your abilities to find accomplices in the fight for liberation!

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, theory
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Black Banner Distro
Date: 2016
Sources: http://blackbannerdistro.wordpress.com/

Resistance to the 1991 Gulf War

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, militarism
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Treason Press
Sources: http://treason.metadns.cx

Security Culture

A Handbook for Activists. This is a handbook for the Canadian activist who is interested in creating and maintaining security awareness and culture in the radical movements.

Topics: direct-action, police, protests, surveillance
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Tao.CA
Date: 2001
Sources: http://tao.ca/

Security Survival Skills

What they are, why we need them, an how to implement them

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, militarism, police
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Collective Opposed to Police Brutality
Date: August, 2001

Seize the Means of Purrduction

It's time

Topics: direct-action, posters
Authors: Anonymous

Solidarity and Revolt Across Borders

Letters from prisoners, solidarity statements and action chronologies from France and other countries (January 2008 to March 2009)

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, prisons
Authors: Anonymous
Sources: http://abcvancouver.wordpress.com, http://tarnac9.wordpress.com, http://cettesemaine.free.fr

Street Harassment

A feminist's guide to analysis and direct action

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, feminism
Authors: Cathy Ramos de la Aguilera

Strike

A Guide To Walking Out

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, introduction, protests
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Solidarity Federation
Sources: http://solfed.org.uk/?q=local/north-london

Student Power for Accessible Organization

Students for a Democratic Society Organizing Guide

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, schooling
Authors: Anonymous
Sources: http://newsds.org/

Ten Points on the Black Bloc

A brief discussion of Black Bloc tactics employed at the 2010 Olympic Games protests

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, police
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Rise Like Lions
Date: 2010
Sources: http://riselikelions.info/

The Art and Science of Billboard Improvement

A Comprehensive Guide to the Alteration of Outdoor Advertising

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: The Billboard Liberation Front

The Call

The youth are waiting, day after day. They wait for their time; as do the workers, even the old. They all ways, those who are discontented and who reflect. They are waiting for a force to arise, something they will be part of; a kind of new international that will not make the same mistakes as the previous ones. They wait for a chance to get rid of the past once and for all--for something new to begin. We have begun.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, introduction, protests, theory
Authors: The Invisible Committee
Editors: Liam Sionnach
Publisher: The institute for experimental freedom
Date: December, 2007

The Complete Manual of Pirate Radio

This pamphley is intended for everyone who has a message to communicate but no means with which to do it. This piece will provide the information necessary to obtain that means.

Topics: direct-action, pirate-radio
Authors: Zeke Teflon

The DIY Occupation Guide

Topics: capitalism, direct-action, squatting
Authors: Anonymous
Date: 2012

The Divorce of Thought from Deed

A Compilation of Writings on Social Conflict, White Supremacy, and the Mythology of Free Speech at UNC

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, fascism, fascism, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: North Carolina Piece Corps

The Economy is in Crisis, May it Die

A free market perspective

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, theory
Authors: Kevin A Carson
Sources: http://mutualist.org/

The Korean Working Class

From Mass Strike to Casualization and Retreat, 1987-2007. Portugal (1974­76) as well as in Brazil (1978­83) since the mid­1970’s, the Korean working class in the late 1980’s destroyed the foundations of a decades­old military dictatorship with remarkable mass strikes in the years 1987­ 1990.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Loren Goldner

The Kurdish Uprising

Kurdistan's Nationalist Shop Front and its negotiations with the baathist / fascist regime (plus an account of the worker's councils)

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Firestarter Press
Date: May 2003

The Marini Trial

Italian State Repression of Anarchist Revolt and Anarchist Responses

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Venomous Butterfly Publications
Date: December, 2003

The Megaphone Book

A zine on communication & media strategy for kick-ass activists.

Topics: direct-action, media
Authors: Anonymous
Date: 2008

The Nihilist Recuperation

A couple of communiques against communiques from Barcelona

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Subversion Press
Date: 2013
Sources: http://subversionpress.wordpress.com/

The Power of the Powerless

An essay that fueled the removal of Stalinist rule in Czechoslovakia and had a profound impact on the rest of Eastern Europe as well

Topics: colonialism, direct-action, fascism, history, introduction, theory
Authors: Vaclav Havel
Date: 1978

The Really Really Free Market

Instituting the Gift Economy. There's no such thing as a free lunch under capitalism. For anarchists, there's no other kind.

Topics: capitalism, direct-action, sustainability
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Irvine Radical Infoshop
Sources: http://irvineinfoshop.wordpress.com

The Role of Revolutionary Organization in Class Struggle

A South African Anarchist Pamphlet

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, class, direct-action
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/

The Seattle General Strike

An Account of What Happened in Seattle and Especially in the Seattle Labor Movement, During the General Strike, February 6 To 11, 1919. These writings, by various people at different times, have been brought together to help us to remember the past and create the future.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anna Louise Strong, Fred Nelson, J.N. Belanger, John Mckelvey, May Young, Sam Frazier
Publisher: Left Bank Books
Date: 2009

The Seattle General Strike of 1919

From coast to coast went the report that a revolution was imminent in Seattle. A General Strike had been called in sympathy with the shipyard workers, and no one knew what would come of it. Both before and after the strike, government officials in Washington and other prominent persons, declared that Bolshevism had attempted to make its first appearance in the Northwest.

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Pirate Press International
Date: 2002

The Shock of Victory

The biggest problem facing direct action movements is that we don't know how to handle victory.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, introduction, protests, theory
Authors: David Graeber

The Spanish Revolution

The following pamphlet is a short introduction to the Spanish revolution of 1936-39. However, to do this it has been necessary to give a brief account of the history of the Spanish labour movement before and after the revolution. Although a large number of books and articles have been written on the history of Spanish anarchism and the revolution, there are no cheap pamphlets available on the subject and it seemed appropriate to publish this work on the 50th anniversary of the outbreak of the revolution - 1986 - to remedy this situation.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Solidarity Federation
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Date: 1986
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/

The Stockade Stood Burning

Rebellion at the Convict Lease in Tennessee's coalfields, 1891-1895. Something happened in Tennessee, something almost unimaginable to the mine owners and politicians of that state. When the companies tried to intimidate their workers by bringing in convict labor to take over their jobs, the workers responded by storming the stockades, freeing the prison- ers, and loading them onto freight trains bound for Nash- ville and Knoxville and places far away...The Tennessee convict war was one of the largest insurrections in American working-class history. And yet, unfolding at exactly the same time as the more publicized labor wars in Homestead, Pennsylvania, and Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, it was largely ignored.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, prisons
Authors: Sweet Tea
Publisher: North Carolina Piece Corps

The Strike in Gdansk

August 14-31, 1980

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Editors: Anrezej Tymowski
Publisher: Don't Hold Back
Date: 1980

The Struggle is Our Inheritance

A history of radical Minnesota. Substantive, radical change is only accomplished with a firm understanding of the past, and it is with this in mind that the RNC Welcoming Committee has labored to produce this text. Minnesota has a rich history of radical struggle and, as history does, it informs our movement today. We have powerful examples of the tenacity of the human spirit- in the land we love, and amongst the people we live with and those who came before- and this zine is meant to educate people about that heritage.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Date: July, 2007

The Student Movement of 1968

If 1968 was anyone's year, it was the year of the students. From Peking to Prague to Paris to Berkeley, students sparked the movements which marked 1968, and more than any other group, it was their international practice which made the New Left a global movement.

Topics: class, direct-action, history, surveillance
Authors: George Katsiaficas
Publisher: Radical Praxis
Date: 1987
Sources: http://radicalpraxis.tripod.com

The Tragedy of Spain

In this year we commemorated the uprising of the Spanish people against the Fascist powers, who, in collaboration with the Catholic Church and the military, were preparing the overthrow of the Spanish republic in 1936. This pamphlet deals with the resistance by the independent labour movement led by the CNT-FAI and with the attacks directed against them by, among others, Stalinists, which eventually led to Franco’s army seizing power.

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, fascism, history
Authors: Rudolf Rocker
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://www.zabalaza.net/

The Uniqueness of Anarchism in Argentina

Historical roots (1880-1930)

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Yaacov Obed

The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

Born into poverty and plagued by it her entire life, educated by nuns in a convent school, chronically ill, the survivor of a nearly successful assassination attempt, and dead at a tragically early age, Voltairine de Cleyre doesn't seem a likely candidate to become what Paul Avrich called 'a greater literary talent than any other American anarchist.' But de Cleyre was undeniably one of the most important anarchist thinkers in the US or any other country. Greatly admired by her contemporaries for her brilliant writing and tireless schedule of public speaking, her ability to approach the most complex issues with a mixture of common sense, passion, and clarity makes her works as relevant today as they were a century ago.

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, feminism, history, relationships
Authors: Criss Crass, Sara Baase, Sharon Presley, Voltairine de Cleyre
Publisher: AK Press
Date: 2004

The Watts Riot, 1965

The decline and fall of the spectacle-commodity economy

Topics: capitalism, class, direct-action, history, race
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Firestarter Press
Date: 2003

This is Not a Love Story

Armed Struggle Against the Institutions of Patriarchy

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, feminism
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: After the Fall Press and Distro
Date: 2009

Three Days that Shook the New World Order

The Chicago surrealist group's statement on the 1992 L.A. Rebellion

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: One Thousand Emotions
Date: March, 2006

Three Meter Revolt

Applied revolutionary wave-dymanics. Learn how to setup a low power FM broadcast station

Topics: direct-action, pirate-radio
Authors: Anonymous

Voting vs Direct Action

A short guide to direct actions that can have a great impact than those that leverage illusions of power through democracy and voting.

Topics: anarchism, democracy, direct-action, introduction
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: CrimethInc
Date: 2004
Sources: http://crimethinc.com/

We Demand Nothing

From China to Paris, Australia to Athens, New York to San Francisco, Johann Kaspar explains why revolts worldwide have increasingly given up on the desire to demand something.

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, introduction
Authors: Johann Kaspar
Publisher: The Institute for Experimental Freedom

What to Do if You're Stopped by the Police

Topics: direct-action, police, protests
Authors: ACLU

Wilful Disobedience

Anarchist analysis and theory: Selections from colume 2, numbers 1-6

Topics: anarchist, class, colonialism, direct-action, history, theory
Authors: Alfredo M. Bonanno, Massimo Passamani, Wolfi Landstreicher
Publisher: Venomous Butterfly Publications

Words And Letters

A Regional Journal of Anarchist Discourse. This issue contains: 'On Networks, Names and Transparency', 'A Three Part Strategy for Our Region', 'Notes on the Greek Insurrection', 'On Exclusivity and the Ongoing Revolution', 'Call and Response: The Insurrection to Come', 'Anarchist Vignettes', and 'Reflections on the Gaza to Greece March'

Topics: anarchism, direct-action, history, periodicals
Authors: Anonymous
Date: Spring, 2009

Worker-Student Action Committees

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, direct-action, history, schooling
Authors: Freddy Perlman, Roger Gregoire
Date: May, 1968

Your Politics Are Boring As Fuck

Make politics relevant to our everyday experience of life again. All political activity must be joyous and exciting in itself. To accomplish those first two steps, entirely new political approaches and methods must be created. Enjoy yourselves!

Topics: anarchism, direct-action
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Irvine Radical Infoshop
Sources: http://crimethinc.com, http://infoshop.org/, http://irvineinfoshop.wordpress.com