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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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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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In Praise of Chaos

From back cover: Anarchists are opposed to authority both from below and from above. They do not demand power for the masses, but seek to destroy all power and to decompose these masses into individuals who are masters of their … 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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Insurgent Ferocity: The Playful Violence of Rebellion

From back cover: “Rebellion is the aggressive, dangerous, playful attack by free­spirited individuals against society. Refusing a system of violence, refusing an organized, militarized form of armed struggle, allows the violence of insurgents to retain a high level of invisibility. … Continue reading →

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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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Liberation, Not Organization

From back cover: “I desire liberation , not organization. While most leftists would claim that the two go hand-in-hand , or at least that the second is necessary to achieve the first ( and for some the second might even … 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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Manifesto Against Schools by Armeanio Lewis

From back cover: “After being expelled I rushed home to write this essay. I didn’t think, I just wrote. I wrote how I was feeling, what I was thinking. I was nothing but a pure-being of anger and hatred. Arguably, … 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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My Iconoclastic Individualism

From back cover: “But when we are condemned to hear socialists more or less theorizing in order to impudently and ignorantly state that there is no incompatibility between Individualist and collectivist ideas…when we hear someone try to make an invincible … 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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No Hope, No Future: Let the Adventures Begin!

From back cover: “But this reality, however dismal, motivates my desire to make my life, through fierce revolt, as joyful and fulfilling as possible! My hopelessness does not paralyze me with fear or depression; I celebrate it with hysterical laughter … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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