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Anarchy - A Pamphlet

An essay on the nature and forms of government as opposed to the condition and future of mankind

Topics: anarchism, police, theory
Authors: Errico Malatesta
Publisher: Anarchist Black Cross Network
Sources: http://www.anarchistblackcross.org/

Anarchy Works - Crime

Paths towards peace and social justice without leveraging power dynamics, domination, or oppression

Topics: anarchism, militarism, police, prisons
Authors: Peter Gelderloos
Publisher: Rise Like Lions
Sources: http://riselikelions.info/

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/

Broken Barricades

Broken Barricades is a critical look at the 2006 uprising in Oaxaca, Mexico. Starting as a teacher's strike an occupation struggle against the corrupt Oaxacan State and it's police and death squads. And still the fight continues not only for political freedom and equality but for the many political prisoners locked up from those earlier events.

Topics: anarchism, history, police
Authors: Ana Nimo, Collective Reinventions
Publisher: 56a Infoshop
Date: May 2008
Sources: http://www.56a.org.uk/

Burning the Bridges They are Building

Anarchist Strategies Against the Police

Topics: anarchism, history, militarism, police
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Rise Like Lions
Sources: http://riselikelions.info/

CopWatch Handbook

An Introduction to Citizen Monitoring of the Police

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

Enemies We Know

Enemies unite experiences that generate the environment of terror that makes up daily life under Empire

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, democracy, feminism, police
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: The Institute for Experimental Freedom

Grand Jury Investigations

FBI Harassment and Your Rights: A compilation of essays to help activists deal with government repression.

Topics: anarchism, fascism, police, theory
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: No Compromise

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/

Law and Authority

Topics: anarchism, democracy, history, police, theory
Authors: Peter Kropotkin
Publisher: Zabalaza Books
Sources: http://zabalaza.net/

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

Nazis and the Police in Portland, Oregon

Topics: fascism, police
Authors: Anonymous
Date: January 2010
Sources: http://portlandindymeia.org/

Police are Enemies

They come expecting free coffee at my work. The same ones who detain and search my friends; the same ones who beat that girl back in the spring; the same ones who threaten us with prison one day for smoking weed and who will another day speed past us with because they don’t wish to wait for the light. They dress in our attire at a party, listening for important information; they wag their finger or their nightstick when we get out of hand; they help old ladies cross the street; they shoot dead someone who mouthed off to them—who conveniently had something shiny in his hand. They pave the concrete world in video cameras; they speak to me like they are my friend, they give me directions, and they discipline me anytime I stray from their directions. They are our enemy, the police.

Topics: democracy, police, posters, prisons
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Politics is not a Banana
Sources: http://www.politicsisnotabanana.com/, http://325.nostate.net, http://www.prole.info/, http://caringlabor.wordpress.com/

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/

Postscript on Societies of Control

Topics: anarchism, history, police, theory
Authors: Gilles Deleuze
Publisher: Friends

Revolutions in Reverse

Essays on Politics, Violence, Art, and Imagination

Topics: anarchism, capitalsm, democracy, fascism, militarism, police, theory
Authors: David Graeber
Publisher: Autonomedia
Sources: http://www.autonomedia.org/

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

Survival In Solitary

A manual written for and by people living in control units

Topics: fascism, militarism, police, prison
Authors: Anonymous
Editors: Bonnie Kerness, Holbrook Teter
Publisher: Quiver Press
Date: 2008
Sources: http://anti-politics.net/distro, http://afsc.org/resources/pdf/CJSurvivorsManual.pdf

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 Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand

Corporate Capitalism as a State-Guaranteed System of Privilege

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, introduction, militarism, police
Authors: Kevin A Carson
Sources: http://mutualism.org/

The New State Repression

Today's political repression differs fundamentally from the repression practiced around the world in the past. The most basic difference is on the level of stragy--the general approach of the state, the outlook of the ruling class. Their belief is that insurgency is not an occasional, erratic idiosyncrasy but a constant occurrence--permanent insurgency, which calls for a strategy of permanent repression as the full-time task of the security forces.

Topics: introduction, militarism, police, protests, surveillance
Authors: Ken Lawrence, Kristian Williams
Publisher: Tarantula Publishing and Distribution
Date: 2006
Sources: http://www.socialwar.net/

The Pyramid of Capitalism

Topics: capitalism, democracy, militarism, police, posters
Authors: Anonymous

The Riots in Greece and the Insurrections to Come

Following the police killing of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropolous in downtown Athens, Greece was wracked by weeks of unprecedented rioting. Anarchists and students, supported and often joined by significant swaths of the population, clashed with police, destroyed corporate and government property and occupied government buildings, trade union offices, and media outlets, not to mention universities. This zine contains a timeline, an analysis, and an interview with participants of the riot.

Topics: anarchism, history, police
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Rolling Thunder
Date: Spring, 2009

Under the Yoke of the State

Selected Anarchist Responses to Prisons an Crime, Vol. 1, 1886-1929

Topics: anarchism, police, prisons, theory
Authors: Albert Parsons, Alexander Berkman, Emma Goldman, Errico Malatesta, Louise Michel, Mollie Steimer, Peter Kropotkin, Ricardo Flores Magon, Rudolf Rocker
Editors: The Dawn Collective
Publisher: The Kate Sharpley Library
Date: 2003

We All Want Satisfaction

Imagine insurrection being an immediate break from the lives we were told we were supposed to have. Imagine that insurrection is an opportunity for such a break to become permanent. The state wants us to play politics, the economy wants us to play the game of survival; our lives are not games, we need to stop playing now.

Topics: anarchism, capitalism, media, police
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: The Chicago Branch of the Imaginary Party
Date: Summer, 2009

What Better Time than Now

Notes on Consciousness and Unity in US Cities and Prisons

Topics: democracy, police, prisons
Authors: Anonymous
Publisher: Chapel Hill Prison Books Collective
Sources: http://prisonbooks.info/

What to Do if You're Stopped by the Police

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