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Identity Crisis: Identity, Politics and Anti-Politics (An Excerpt from Queer Ultra Violence Bash Back! Anthology)

This text was retrieved from Bash Back! is Dead; Bash Back Forever! which is part of a larger anthology called Queer Ultraviolence. We find these texts to be an exceptionally valuable contribution to queer nihilist theory and practice, and so … Continue reading

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The Parade of Rebellion Against Indonesia: A Conversation Between Warzone Distro and Anarcho-Nihilist Insurgents in So-Called Indonesia

On September 3rd 2025 we (Warzone Distro) were asked by some friends from the colonized territory of so-called Indonesia to relay perspectives from the battleground of what they call The Parade of Rebellion Against Indonesia. The Parade of Rebellion Against … Continue reading

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The Union of Egoists

From back cover: “The union is often referred to as some crystallized structure or organization. This is at complete odds with Stirner’s actual writings on union, association, and relations between individuals in “The Unique and Its Property”. Stirner does not … Continue reading

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Black Flame: Self-Liberation Against Societal Conformity

From back cover: “Authority subjugates the individual, instilling in him a selfless ideal. An egoist, under any authority, is a dissident, a free-thinker who refuses to follow authority based on his self- interests.” -Max Stirner Black Flame_Self-Liberation Against Societal Conformity … Continue reading

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Against Community Building, Towards Friendship

From back cover: “The idea of community is held in such high regard by anarchists that it’s eerily reminiscent of USA liberals paying fealty to the “sacred ground” of their nation’s capitol. Community is something consecrated and unassailable to anarchists. … Continue reading

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An Anarchist Critique of Democracy

From back cover: “…majoritarianism of any sort means the repression of individual liberties and the curtailment of direct action in favor of deferred decision-making…Anarchists believe in unmediated relations between free individuals, the absence of any coercive or alienating forces in … Continue reading

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Against the Romance of Community Policing

“Community is the terrain of intervention for police, shaped by police. It does not preexist police and it does not provide a bulwark against police power. It cannot achieve its apparent cohesiveness without the police power. It cannot be joined … Continue reading

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Baedan: Queers Gone Wild (An excerpt from Baedan: A Journal of Queer Nihilism issue 1)

Text from back cover: ““ If we can determine anything from our project of queer negativity, it is that capitalism has an unlimited capacity to tolerate and recuperate any alternative politics or artistic expression we could imagine. It is not … Continue reading

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Weaponizing Sobriety: Feral Anarchy Against Intoxication Culture

From back cover: “As an anarchist, I refuse to tranquilize the chaos of my jouissance with inebriation. I exalt life vehemently against the pacifying qualities of marijuana, the cancerous addiction of tobacco, and the “correctional” anesthesia of psychiatric medications. The … Continue reading

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Anarchy Against Civilization

Text from back cover: “As radicals (from the latin radix­root) we seek to examine and challenge root causes. The anarchist tradition has historically identified capitalism as a root cause. Fortunately, we as anarchists are not bound to tradition. Certainly capitalism … Continue reading

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Civilisation & Collapse

Text from back cover: “This is not a suggestion to flee to civilisation and cower in isolation, tending vegetable patches and practising primitive skills in “peace” – it is a proposal to take the initiative to better position ourselves tactically, … Continue reading

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Dangerous Foundations: An Argument Against the “Identity” in Identity Politics

A well-written, thorough critique of identity and a proposal for its total abandonment. Dangerous Foundations Anti-Identity pdf

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Decomposing the Masses: Towards Armed Individuality

From back cover: ““The strategy of creating a mass society or system of order is a strategy of discouraging individuality, chaos, and uniqueness. This strategy includes presenting a one-dimensional view of individualism that is defined by capitalism. But for individualism … Continue reading

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Deserting the Digital Utopia: Computers Against Computing

Text from back cover: “The Internet has often been compared to the Wild West: a largely unregulated space rich in opportunities, in which people may experiment with new relations. Most commentators miss the full implications of this metaphor. The Wild … Continue reading

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Desire Armed: Anarchy and the Creative Impulse

Text from back cover: “My freedom is not a promise for the future, but a way to continuously confront the world where I exist now, taking possession of my life with all my might, in conflict with everything that stands … Continue reading

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Drawing First Blood

From back cover: “Every attempt to free humanity en masse is bound to fail because collective self-determination is a contradiction in terms. There is no such thing as the common good, for there is no good that is common to … Continue reading

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Essentialism and The Problem of Identity Politics

Text from the zine: “Essentialism is the idea that there exists some detectible and objective core quality of particular groups of people that is inherent, eternal, and unalterable; groupings can be categorized according to these qualities of essence, which are … Continue reading

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Fragment: Violence

From back cover: “Outside of the UK many of the comrades have a much closer relationship to “violence” and “criminality” through bank robberies, organising attacks, fierce demos, stealing, fraud, counterfeiting etc. and added to that possibility the experience of clandestinity … Continue reading

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In Defense of Smoke and Fire

Originally published in Wild Fire no. 4, an anarchist prison solidarity newsletter. This essay is part of an ongoing conversation between anarchist prisoners on tactics. wildfire.noblogs.org Sean Swain is an anarchist held captive in the Ohio prison system. For more … Continue reading

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How To Form an Affinity Group

Another excellent zine on affinity groups, what they are and how to form one. How To Form an Affinity Group pdf

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I Am Also A Nihilist

Text from back cover: “I don’t care whether it is Nordic or Oriental, nor whether or not is has a historical, political, practical tradition, or a theoretical, philosophical, spiritual, intellectual one. I call myself a nihilist because I know that … Continue reading

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Insurrection Anarchist Magazine Issue #4

An insurrectionary anarchist periodical which provides essays and clandestine actions, critical of leftism and formal organizing. Insurrection Anarchist Magazine pdf

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Leftism 101

This zine collects two excellent essays by Lawrence Jarach: “Leftism 101” from Back to Basics: The Problem of the Left put out by the Green Anarchy collective and “Anarchists, Don’t let the Left(overs) Ruin your Appetite” from Anarchy: A Journal … Continue reading

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Let’s Become Dangerous: For the Diffusion of the Black International by Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

Text from the zine: “No, our burned banks are not a way of protest or a token of friendship and solidarity with the “poor person” who does nothing and sits on his couch. It is a way to express our … Continue reading

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Lone Wolves Are Not Alone

From back cover: “It is all those conspiratorial anarchists illegalists who made the anarchist insurrection their only home land. It is those who chose to stay away from the glory of the dead ideologies and bureaucracy of the social anarchism … Continue reading

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Mapping the Fire: International Words of Solidarity with the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire

Text from the zine: “The following texts were translated and edited by the imprisoned members of the Conspiracy of Cells of Fire and by the comrades of Contra Info. We warmly thank them therefore, as well as the comrades A,M … Continue reading

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Negate Politics, Affirm Cuteness

A zine against “growing up”, politics and workerism. Negate Politics pdf

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Never Work!

Text from back cover: “When Guy Debord of the Situationist International graffi tied the slogan “Never Work!” onto the walls of a Parisian street in 1953, he struck a blow in solidarity with the radical current of left communism which … 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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