December 10, 2024 by William C. Anderson The UnitedHealthcare CEO's assassination is a good time to observe the history of class warfare, grievance, and the classic anarchist militancy of "the propaganda of the deed" "Who is it that provokes the violence? Who is it that makes it necessary and inescapable? The entire established social order […]
Category: Analysis
Some zines on threats, novelty, and targets
Here are some zines that have been floating around for a while in the flesh but have not been available on the internet.The Social and Survival: On Becoming a Threat – Philly-based critique of anarchist subculture. Appeared as an article in Anathema Vol. 8 Iss. 2 [screen reading] [print] The Fatigue of Novelty: Disruptive Control […]
It All Goes or It All Stays The Same
November 7, 2024 Reading PDF https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/aMv2k5I8-vkQ8XhLPvLG61zh/ Printing PDF https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/otsYQo73TP-PSFZMPmHCQIjR/ Greek version https://athens.indymedia.org/post/1632334/ What day is it It is September 2024. The genocide waged by Israel, the United States, and their allies against the Palestinian people has continued unabated for nearly a full calendar year. Official counts of the dead approximate 40,000 murdered so far, yet […]
Some Initial Thoughts On Unity Of Fields
[I am writing as an insurrectionary anarchist in the u$a and speaking to that context] Unity Of Fields is a counter-info project that emerged in August of 2024. They describe their project as "a militant propaganda front against the US-NATO-zionist axis of imperialism." It used to be Palestine Action US and has since changed its […]
Time and Being
Everything has its cost: our time, once spent, can be bought back neither by king nor trillionaire. We give up our time for what we do not want; 10-20 years for a house, 5-10 for a car, 50-100 hours per month for food, then phone bills, utilities, holiday gifts, shopping shopping shopping. We lose years […]
To the International Anarchist Movement: Three Security Proposals
This text is addressed to the international anarchist movement, which we'll define as the sum of individuals fighting for anarchist ideas around the world. This movement is in conflict with its natural enemies — the State, fascist groups, and so on — and must protect itself if it is to survive in this conflict. In […]
Amtrak service between NYC and New Haven suspended due to transformer fire
An Amtrak transformer fire broke out near a Con Ed substation on the railroad's Hell Gate Line Tuesday afternoon, suspending Amtrak travel in both directions along the Northeast Corridor between Penn Station and New Haven. The fire, reported at a substation at Bronxdale and East Tremont Aves. in the Bronx, ignited around 2:30 p.m., causing […]
Anathema Volume 10 Issue 2 – Philadelphia, PA
October 25, 2024 Volume 10 Issue 2 (PDF for reading 8.5×11) Volume 10 Issue 2 (PDF for printing 11×17) In This Issue: What Went Down The Secret Is To Really Complain Cherelle Parker Is An Image From The Future Where Is The Anti-War Movement? Imperial Wargaming Don't Vote? Palestinian Solidarity & Anarchist Interventions In Philly […]
Towards Another Uprising
At the end of 2010 an individual act of despair in the town of Sidi Bouzid ignited a daring, enraged, and joyful upheaval that travelled through North Africa into the Middle East and beyond. People defied the oppressive systems they had been immersed in for generations and came together in the streets to topple the […]
Not Liking Someone Doesn't Mean They're a Cop: On Bad-jacketing
Read the full text, including visuals, online as a PDF. Find the full text ready for printing as an imposed PDF. Since the commencement of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, millions around the world have taken to the streets in support of Palestine against the genocidal Zionist entity. We are, globally, in an unprecedented moment of anti-imperialist […]
Hurricane Helene Disrupts Critical Chip Mining Operations in North Carolina
Companies mining high-purity quartz in Spruce Pine, North Carolina, have paused operations in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. The quartz is a critical component of the chip-making process — and it's only found in Spruce Pine. The two mining companies in the area, Sibelco and The Quartz Corp, confirmed that flooding, power outages, and employee […]
Colorado Broadband Outages Being Blamed on Vandalism, Fires
On Sunday, Denver-area broadband customers from multiple companies experienced outages that the companies are blaming on fires and vandalism. Chris Schroll lives in Parker and was impacted. His service is back but he received an email from BAM Broadband that said in part: "We have been given more information from our upstream carrier regarding the […]
The Cell Phone and Its Double
Cellular phones are common targets for digital surveillance, along with all the software and applications they enable. These phones can be purchased anonymously — in person, in cash, with a covid mask and hat, and with a car parked far away — meaning only surveillance footage of the purchase is available once you walk out […]
Construction's manufacturing boom: Mapping the biggest facilities underway in the US
Updated August 22, 2024 Spending in the manufacturing sector has ballooned since the CHIPS Act was signed into law in August 2022. Projects underway include everything from plants focused on chip fabrication and electric vehicle batteries to consumer goods and cars. Here, Construction Dive rounds up the biggest of these projects announced since August 2022, […]
A Response to "Heavy Machinery Sabotaged at Haddington Golf Course"
August 21, 2024 A note on sabotage of heavy machinery: please don't waste your time messing with fuel or filtration systems. The idea of adding something to a fuel tank is (unfortunately) a widely known sabotage technique that the average person might think of, but it is most likely ineffective on modern vehicles or heavy […]
A Friend of Mine or a Friend of Ours? – An Essay On Vouching
[READ] [PRINT] Vouching means different things to different anarchists. For some, to vouch for a person means the vouchee is felt to be trustworthy and competent enough for an action. For others, vouching means that the voucher has concrete evidence of the trustworthiness and competence of the vouchee, and is willing to stake their reputation […]
A Friend of Mine or a Friend of Ours? – An Essay On Vouching
Vouching means different things to different anarchists. For some, to vouch for a person means the vouchee is felt to be trustworthy and competent enough for an action. For others, vouching means that the voucher has concrete evidence of the trustworthiness and competence of the vouchee, and is willing to stake their reputation on that […]
searching for answers after vandalism at popular golf course – Evansville, IN
Twice in two weeks, officials are looking for answers after vandalism at McDonald Golf Course on Morgan Avenue. The putting green on hole number three was damaged over the weekend. About two weeks ago, there was damage to a practice green. Officials say both times, the greens had tracks they believe came from an ATV. […]
The Unemployment Problem
Get a Job! On the Usefulness of Jobs and Small Businessess for Illegalist Anarchists Anarchists sometimes need money: we need to pay our cell phone bills; buy bus tickets to the hopout; get enough money to buy the squat that we're about to get evicted from. Some things are just hard to steal, like guns, […]
Map of Weapons Manufacturers in Michigan
Found on Unsalted Counter Info
From A Matter Of Principle To A Matter Of Tactics
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From a Matter of Principle to a Matter of Tactics
Anarchists who want to take action, when confronted with the choice of tactics, often default to large mass actions, like black bloc. Imagination is ceded to tactical hegemony; autonomy diminishes; creativity recedes; resistance is franchised with stale, processed, prepackaged ideologies and tactics; questionable organizational methods like spokes-councils and democratic decision making give a participatory veneer […]
Power Punch – An Essay on Antifascism
[PDF DOWNLOAD] Power Punch An Essay on Antifascism By Stiff A note to readers: The following opinions and analyses are largely my own. However, the finer details described here are inspired and informed by dozens of conversations with antifascists residing in various regions of the so-called US. I encourage readers to integrate these […]
Revisiting Social Revolution in the Aftermath of 2020
June 26, 2024 "Our task as anarchists, our main preoccupation and greatest desire, is to see the social revolution come about: a terrible upheaval of men and institutions which finally succeeds in putting an end to exploitation and establishing the reign of justice. For we anarchists the revolution is our guide, our constant point of […]
Additional Thoughts on May Day and the PSU Occupation – Portland, OR
This piece is a little bit late to the party, but after reading the other reportbacks published locally and participating in discussions with dear friends and close strangers, we still felt that some ideas were in need of sharing. We don't wish to recap the events of May Day but hope to contribute some thoughts […]
Surveillance Countermeasures
In the past decades, the surveillance capabilities of State actors have greatly diversified, thanks in part to new technological developments such as video surveillance, mobile phones and DNA sampling. Despite this, physical surveillance — the direct observation of people or activities for the purpose of gathering information — is still widely used by State actors, […]
Evergreen Divested?! Well, No.
The news is everywhere now, The Evergreen State College has divested from Israel! But what is being repeated is a flat out lie. Evergreen has not divested, but the negotiators of the camp capitulated and signed a nonbinding agreement to form disappearing task forces to make suggestions in a timeline of months and years. This […]
A Little Mathematics of Radical Action
Actions can be done alone or with others. A popular view among radicals is that acting alone is pointless; we should get together in big groups and organizations to do something meaningful. To do otherwise is to do nothing: don't steal alone, don't do sabotage alone, don't do fraud alone. Actions by one sum to […]
MAY DAY REPORTBACK AND REFLECTION – Portland, OR
On May 1st in downtown Portland, 50-60 people gathered in a black bloc at the edge of the Palestine Solidarity March, which was comprised of several hundred people. Inspired by the combative student protests all over the country, our goal was simple: disrupt business as usual; bring the war home. There is no peace in […]
Report from A15 at the Port of Olympia, WA
An international call went out for a coordinated economic blockade for a free Palestine for April 15th. While many people probably decided to go north to Seattle, where they blockaded the Sea-Tac international airport, a small group of us got together and decided to plan what we could to here in Olympia. It's cool and […]
Tragedy, Sacrifice, and Radical Politics
Our friends will die. So will we. Our deaths are inevitable. The questions of when and how we die, however, are uncertain. Silenus, the tutor of Dionysus, teaches us to die as soon as possible, given that we've already been born. If we accept his tutelage, immediate suicide is the best course of action. Camus […]
The Death of Walid Daqqah
Reports in English are beginning to spread indicating that Walid Daqqah (وليد دقة), a Palestinian political prisoner born under the Zionist regime of the early 1960s, has died of medical neglect & mistreatment. More than a dozen Palestinians have died in Israeli colonial prisons since 7 October. Despite increasingly urgent calls & broadening coalitions demanding […]
DNA you say? Burn everything to burn longer: a guide to leaving no traces
[READ] [WEB] [PRINT] Note from the No Trace Project: We hope that this translation will help English-speaking anarchists to better understand and protect themselves against the dangers of DNA. We added many footnotes, either to add information or to explain our disagreements with the original text, especially in the […]
Abolition Media's Authoritarian Entryism
Abolition Media, a popular counter-info site in the American anarchist space has had an interesting editorial presence since its founding. The site has focused almost solely on armed struggle and militant direct action while ignoring less risky anarchist praxis often covered by established anarchist media operations like It's Going Down and Crimethinc. Because of Abolition […]
How to submit an anonymous communiqué and get away with it
[PRINT] [READ] A communiqué, also sometimes called a reportback or hit report, is a report on (typically) illegal direct actions that is shared online via counter-info sites or in print publications. Mainstream media may suppress reporting about certain tactics or the reason for choosing a target may be unclear, so submitting a […]
Runaway ram in Mount Laurel, NJ
February 23, 204 A ram that escaped from a property in Mount Laurel was corralled by police Friday morning after having spent several days wandering the South Jersey township. The male bighorn sheep was captured on a residential property following "a fairly extensive foot pursuit," police said. The animal since has been reunited with its […]
Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors
https://flo.uri.sh/visualisation/16818696/embed The locations of microphones used to detect gunshots have been kept hidden from police and the public. An analysis of leaked coordinates confirms arguments critics have made against the technology. The gunshot-detection system ShotSpotter has for years drawn criticism from activists and academics who believe the company behind the system, SoundThinking, places its microphone […]
Reminder: Riseup Snitched
Posted on March 2, 2024 People use rise up under the impression that they wouldn't cooperate with law enforcement but 8 years ago they buckled under pressure and handed over info to the FBI. (The warrant canary worked and tipped some people off but riseup's later public statements undermined that) We don't all know how […]
Map Of The Major Producers Of Weapons For Isreal in the U.S.
New resource map shows facilities confirmed to be actively producing weapons for Israel: Found on Social Media u.osmfr.org/m/1019524/ Take action and SHUT DOWN these facilities. Found on Social Media
Zine – Analysis: Developing Action Capacity: A Path
Developing Action Capacity: A Path No Trace Project Zine PDF DOWNLOAD
MAY THE ANTAGONISM GENERALIZE
It is late November, 2023. For the last seven weeks, the world has watched as the Israeli state has (with massive aid from the U.S. and most European governments) continued its decades long escalation of colonial violence against the Palestinians. Using the October 7th attack by Hamas militants as justification, the Israeli state has demonstrated […]
Reportback From an Autonomous Demo to Disrupt Black Friday in Solidarity with Palestine
submitted anonymously all pictures borrowed from Alex Garland In the afternoon of Black Friday, roughly 100 people gathered in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood to disrupt capitalist tradition and call for an end to the ongoing genocide in Palestine. An autonomous call to mobilize to "Block Black Friday" began circulating in anarchist and radical circles the […]
Participant Reflections on Block Cop City
Introduction Make no mistake. Block Cop City was a defeat. Nobody gained entry to the site, in spite of what organizers said. Construction on the project, while halted for two days, continues today. The state used its power to ensure that the construction site would be safe. But it wasn't a failure. It wasn't crushed. […]
Lawrenceville business Ernst Concrete whose trucks were burned says it's not pouring concrete foundation for 'Cop City' – Stone Mountain, GA
November 18, 2023 – "Ernst Concrete would like to correct some of the inaccurate information that is being circulated in the media," the company said in a statement. "Ernst Concrete is not the concrete foundation company for the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center. At the request of one of Ernst Concrete's local customers, Ernst Concrete […]
LA interstate 10 closed due to massive fire – Los Angeles, CA
The massive fire that forced the indefinite closure of parts of Interstate 10, a major traffic artery in Los Angeles, was set intentionally, California Gov. Gavin Newsom said Monday. A preliminary investigation found there was "malice intent," Newsom said at a news conference, adding it was "done and set intentionally." An investigation is still ongoing […]
Anti-political and a-political attack
We are concerned with differentiating two types of attack, anti-political and a-political. To do this we separate them along two primary attributes, whether the attack is consequentialist or non-consequentialist and what qualities of the political are contained in the attack (the methods, goals, and consequences). By attack we mean a non-governmental use of force on […]
Cars as Cameras: A short overview of Tesla surveillance features and lessons for attack
Most expect to be captured on video when walking through downtown streets, which are often littered with traditional types of security cameras, such as the dome cameras, bullet cameras, or the newer remote controlled PTZ (Point, Tilt, Zoom) cameras. Previously, this was less expected in residential neighborhoods, which now have an increasing amount of home […]
Walmart Considers Building Police Substation Inside Of Store – Atlanta. GA
An Atlanta Walmart superstore that was temporarily shuttered due to suspected arson is reopening next year. When it does, it may have an Atlanta Police Department substation inside. The Vine City location is eyeing a reopening in mid-2024. Walmart said that there was "no single reason" behind this decision and that this decision isn't new […]
Two Reflections from a Comrade in Texas Prisons About the Cop City Struggle
September 30, 2023 [The following words were written by a comrade and longtime revolutionary prisoner and organizer on the inside of Texas' prison system, and evolved out of an ongoing correspondence with an anarchist anti-prison organizer on the outside.] XXXXX, What's up bro!? I got your note with the cop city materials, cam str8 to […]
One in custody after shooting at police because Columbus police have access to security cameras on the property
Around 2:10 a.m. Friday September 22nd, officers were on the 700 block of Canonby Place at the Southpark Apartments when they reported hearing nearby gunshots. Officers obtained video a short time later that showed the person was firing at the officers. Police arrested a suspect, who is charged with assault on a police officer, according […]