A certain publisher has reprinted their classic manual for direct action, Recipes for Disaster.
You can order it here:
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400 pages of tactics and strategy! 62 chapters! 82 instructional illustrations! Everything from Affinity Groups to Wheatpasting!
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"Get off X/Twitter now!"
"It's not strategic to try to hold territory on a platform where the algorithms are designed to systematically center authoritarian narratives and cryptocurrency schemes."
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"Sacrificial Violence and Retribution"
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"Just about every day, more than fifty people are shot and killed in the United States."
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"This year, the challenge will be to fight as hard as we must while preserving the parts of ourselves that are imaginative, that are tender, that can not only desire a better world but believe it into being."
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"Assembled at his inauguration, we see the oligarchs who lined up to bring Donald Trump back to power. Capitalism has always meant rule by billionaires, but it is especially noxious that this particular billionaire has returned to office by pretending to oppose "the elite."
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"Elon Musk made the Nazi salute twice at Trump's inauguration."
"Musk bought Twitter to reinstate Nazis. He supports the German fascist party AfD. He has spread antisemitic "replacement" rhetoric."
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"If you feel despair, if you feel defeated, if you catch yourself dissociating or focusing on what our oppressors are doing rather than on what you can do yourself—that is territory that the enemy has claimed within you."
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"Yesterday, for the seventh time, a fixed electoral process returned the despot Aleksandr Lukashenko to power in Belarus. Last time he held an "election," in 2020, an uprising nearly toppled his government:"
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"Thirteen years ago today—during a demonstration in Oakland, California, one participant demonstrates the proper meaning of "armchair anarchist." 🏴
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"It's Safer in the Front"
"Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation."
"But this is not always the most effective strategy."
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Just in time for his presidency, President Musk has changed his avatar to a white-supremacist hate symbol, his screen name to a 4chan slogan neo-Nazis favor (“kek”) and his bio icon to crossed swords.
Are these also gamer symbols? Yes. Does he know they’re far more? Yep—you bet.
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"We've prepared a zine version of our text, "How to Organize an Assembly: Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism."
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"Please print these out and distribute them!"
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"The Eye of Every Storm: Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene"
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"At the end of September 2024, Hurricane Helene laid waste to western North Carolina."
"We've prepared a zine version of our text exploring why the Democrats are responsible for Donald Trump's return to power and what we have to do to regain the initiative."
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"Please print these out and distribute them in your community!"