Monthly Archives: September 2017

Nihilist Anarchy, Insurrection, & Anti-Civilization

Text from back cover: “The total liberation that I am speaking about could be nothing less than aggressive and in total conflict with the existent. The earth and the non­human animals as well as the human animals are parts of … Continue reading

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Non-Western Anarchisms: Re-Thinking the Global Context

Text from the zine: “The purpose of this paper is to help anarchist / anti-authoritarian movements active today to reconceptualise the history and theory of first-wave anarchism on the global level, and to reconsider its relevance to the continuing anarchist … Continue reading

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Off The Leash

Text from back cover: “Feeling the need for revolt in their bodies, those of an individualist­ nihilistic bent never needed to justify their insurrection in terms of ‘the Will of the People’, ‘History’ or ‘Justice’; and have always been quite … Continue reading

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On the poverty of “Joyful Militancy”

From back cover: ““Their notion of “troubled joy” that they implicitly allude to in such roundabout ways, comes off sounding  somewhat like a ruined orgasm (but not in a kinky way), cut short by thoughts of white guilt and internalized … Continue reading

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Old Habits Die Hard: At Daggers Drawn with “Inhabit”

From back: “They speak of collective power; no power can support itself without the voluntary servitude of those it dominates. Power is a social relationship, a social hierarchical organization model, a way of life­management. Reformism acts on detail, quantitatively. It … Continue reading

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Opening Doors: A primer

A step-by-step comprehensive guide to squatting. Opening Doors pdf

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Overcoming The Psychology of High School

Text from back cover: “It is self­evident that high school – as one of the institutions of capital – seeks to transform individuals into productive automatons. How it does this isn’t quite as clear. Sure, the same manipulative techniques are … Continue reading

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Piece Now, Peace Later: An Anarchist Introduction to Firearms

A detailed guide on firearms and training. Piece Now Peace Later pdf

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Post-Left Anarchy: Leaving the Left Behind

Text from back cover: “Post­-left anarchists reject all ideologies in favor of the individual and communal construction of self­-theory. Individual self­-theory is theory in which the integral individual in context (in all her or his relationships, with all her or … Continue reading

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Post-Left Anarchy (Short Intro)

Text from the zine: “Why has there been such a long history of conflict and enmity between anarchists and the left? It is because there are two fundamentally different visions of social change embodied in the range of their respective … Continue reading

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Prison Break: An Anarchist Blueprint for Hedonism

From back cover: “Love and support to those who dropped out of school and faced life with nothing more than a lock­pick set and a backpack. Love and support to those who riot within the prisons of asylums and “correctional” … Continue reading

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Primitive Toothcare: A DIY Guide to Uncivilized Oral Hygiene

Text from the zine: “The omnipresence of cavities wherever the heinous putrefaction of Western Civ has reached has given rise to the dental profession. Dentistry is fucked up for too many reasons to list here. It has all the problems … Continue reading

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Pure Black: An Emerging Consensus Among Some Comrades?

“The term “black” anarchist has been thrown around recently in a number of international milieux and journals. Indeed during the last few years of my travels throughout North and South America and Europe I have noted repeated attempts to define, … Continue reading

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Questioning (the authority of) Psychiatry

In 1961, a young psychiatrist by the name of Thomas S. Szasz initiated a one-man insurgency against his own profession. After years of being a practicing psychiatrist, he became an outspoken dissident, hell-bent on dynamiting the foundations of psychiatry. “Why … Continue reading

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Really Though, Not All “Black” People Give A Fuck About “White” Dreads

Text from back cover: “Just ‘cus people share the same institutionalized form(s) of oppression don’t automatically mean they share the same visions and objectives on how to destroy it. These are important differences that shouldn’t be flattened. While these groups … Continue reading

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Reclaim Your Mind

Text from back cover: “As far as we know, we only have one life on this planet. Why should we waste it trying to adapt ourselves to the always more demanding expectations of this insane society when there is so … Continue reading

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The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement

This zine highlights the history of the Deacons for Defense, an armed and determined group of black people in the heart of white supremacist terror. Deacons_For_Defense pdf

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Revolutionary Solidarity: A Critical Reader for Accomplices

A collection of essays that thoroughly critique identity politics, ally politics and other forms of liberalism found in anarchist circles. Revolutionary Solidarity pdf

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Sabotage As One of the Fine Arts

Text from back cover: “Sabotage is thus an action that serves as a propellant against the unreality that oppresses us. A practice that has not gone unnoticed by ideological recuperation, which has transformed it into “terrorism” (the professionalization of sabotage … Continue reading

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Safety is an Illusion: Reflections on Accountability

Text from back cover: “People in relation to each other create healthy or unhealthy exchanges. There is no absolute for “fucked up,” “healed,” or “safe” ­ it changes with time, life circumstance, and each new love affair. It is with … Continue reading

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Scandalous Thoughts: A Few Notes On Civil Anarchism

From back cover: “To negate the role of individual action in favour of a vague conception of the “class struggle” of yesteryear is a dangerous fiction. Certainly, since it is also the project of the State to destroy the volition … Continue reading

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Small Town Organizing for Anarchists

This zine contains a wealth of helpful suggestions for anarchists living in small towns who want to create anarchy. Topics covered include finding other anarchists, deciding on what projects to work on, figuring out how to relate to liberals, and … Continue reading

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Smashing the Petri Dish: Abbreviated Inquiry Into Abandoning the Concept of Culture

From back cover: “For many, to abandon culture seems a project too daunting, shocking, and counter to what we may have always believed. But when we talk of undoing the entirety of civilization, are there questions too colossal to ask … Continue reading

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Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism

This zine lays out the basic principles of insurrectionary anarchism: attack, autonomous self-organization, rejection of management, illegality, informality, the synthesis of individualism and communism, and immediacy. Some Notes on Insurrectionary Anarchism pdf

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Squatter’s Handbook “Political” Squatting Tips

A very easy to read DIY guide to squatting. Squatter’s Handbook pdf

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Subversive Anarchy Past and Present

The illegalist current is an offshoot of individualist anarchism. Refusing to be exploited, forced to work for some rich tyrant, instead the illegalist chooses to rob them. It’s an anti-work ethic for individual autonomy to be realised in real life … Continue reading

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Total Destroy #3 A Milwaukee Anarchist Periodical

Text from back cover: “In a police report describing a black bloc at the Republican National Convention, one ever-so eloquent officer claimed that he observed a group of over one hundred anarchists “doing being totally out of control”. While we … Continue reading

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Tearing Down the Prison of Civilization

From back cover: “Industrial civilization demolishes every form of life in its way, its activities spread mainly in the so called “underdeveloped” countries in which its creation will return under the form of tons of garbage. Deforestation, nitrates in seas … Continue reading

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Terror Incognita

Terror Incognita challenges conventional notions about consent, violence, sexuality, desire, and freedom, in hopes of pushing the discourse about these subjects far out of familiar territory. Terror_Incognita pdf

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The Abolition of Work

Text from the zine: “No one should ever work. Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you’d care to name comes from working or from living in world designed for work. In … Continue reading

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The Cops in Our Heads: Some Thoughts on Anarchy and Morality

From back cover: “Anarchy is not the goal of revolution; it is the situation which makes the only type of revolution that interests me possible —an uprising of individuals to create their lives for themselves and destroy what stands in … Continue reading

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The Phoenix Project: Initiatives of Combative Anarchy, 2013-2014

A collection of the first 14 communiqués of the Phoenix Project, an anarchist initiative of informal attacks against power. Text from this zine: “For us, there is no middle ground. They who declare openly their anarchist intentions are facing a … Continue reading

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The Limits of Contemporary Anti-oppression Theory and Practice (A critique of Privilege Theory and Cultural Essentialism)

Text from back cover: “Communities of color are not a single, homogenous bloc with identical political opinions. There is no single unified antiracist, feminist, and queer political program which white liberals can somehow become “allies” of, despite the fact that … Continue reading

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The Reproduction of Daily Life

Text from the zine: “The everyday activity of slaves reproduces slavery. Through their daily activities, slaves do not merely reproduce themselves and their masters physically; they also reproduce the instruments with which the master represses them, and their own habits … Continue reading

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The Smart Phone Society

Text from zine: “If you define a cyborg society as one in which human relationships are mediated and shaped by technology, then our society certainly seems to meet this criterion, and our phones play a starring role. But our relationships … Continue reading

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The Sun Still Rises (Conspiracy of Cells of Fire)

Text from back cover: “We believe that the concept of the anarchist urban guerrilla isn’t a separate identity one assumes only while engaging in armed attack. Rather, we feel it’s a matter of merging each person’s private and public life … Continue reading

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Resist the Grand Juries: Fight The Green Scare

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Security Culture: a handbook for activists

Text from the zine: “This handbook (created in 2001) is the third edition of what we has been an evolving and growing document dealing with security issues and canadian activism. We would like to say a big thanks to the … Continue reading

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Tech Tools for Activism

Text from the zine: Slightly out-of-date but excellent reference point for computer security and activity. tech_tools_for_activism pdf

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Together: Booklet to Form Affinity Groups

Booklet that discusses affinity groups. Put together by anarchists in Germany. Together Booklet on Forming Affinity Groups pdf

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