A zine outlining the problems in the left in Ireland which feel applicable to many people’s experiences with the left globally and historically.
Zine via Pandemonium Distro
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Good Cop Radicals: How the University & Nonprofits Make Counterinsurgents Out of Middle Class Leftists
Quote from back of zine:
“To the white middle class fascism is new. But to the Global Majority fascists are colonisers turned outside in. Insurgent solidarity is turning to those who have been withstanding and beating them back for hundreds of years and throwing down like they do.”
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Collectives: Anarchy Against The Mass
This short zine provides a basic introduction to collectives and how they challenge the dominant notions of “mass” based politics and society. It argues that the goal of a collective is replication of its form—encouraging others to start their own collectively-run efforts—rather than persuading everyone to join one big collective. It’s a good read for people starting an anarchist collective.
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Anarchists Against Counter-Revolution
Quote from the zine:
“There has been a disturbing trend within anarchism in the last few years. It could be called the right wing of anarchism, liberal anarchism, anarchism in name only, or reformism. Whatever it is called, people who believe that they are anarchists have taken positions that side with colonizers, nation-states, and western hegemony.”
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America in Flames: Historic Uprisings Against Slavery
Excerpt from zine:
“Slave rebellions and resistance were means of opposing the system of chattel slavery in the United States. There were many ways that most slaves would either openly rebel or quietly resist due to the oppressive systems of slavery. According to Herbert Aptheker, “there were few phases of ante-bellum Southern life and history that were not in some way influenced by the fear of, or the actual outbreak of, militant concerted slave action.” Slave rebellions in the United States were small and diffuse compared with those in other slave economies in part due to “the conditions that tipped the balance of power against southern slaves—their numerical disadvantage, their creole composition, their dispersal in relatively small units among resident whites—were precisely the same conditions that limited their communal potential.” As such, “Confrontation in the Old South characteristically took the form of an individual slave’s open resistance to plantation authorities,” or other individual or small-group actions, such as slaves opportunistically killing slave traders in hopes of avoiding forced migration away from friends and family.”
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How to Organize an Insurrection
From the zine:
“We humbly present one of the first inside reports from participants in the upheavals that shook Greece after the police murder of 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in the anarchist neighborhood of Exarchia on December 6. This is only the first set of answers to come in from our Greek comrades. We hope shortly to receive further perspectives from other elements of the Greek uprising, so we can provide a comprehensive background on the context and dynamics of the revolt.”
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Thoughts On An Offensive Shoplifters Movement
Text from back of zine:
“What shoplifting also entails is the immediate expropriation of the means of life – survival goods, yes – but also the frivolous and luxury items that improve our quality of life and as such improve the quality of life of those around us. Struggles in the legal sphere, particularly union struggles, are done through an intermediary, a totally mediated process that there is little say in, and the results of it are often far off. When we shoplift there is no mediation, it is simply us doing what we need to do, when we need to do it, and how we need to do it. The struggle is totally in our hands, and the payoff is immediate.”
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On Sabotage As One of the Fine Arts
Text from back of zine:
“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 that has done no more than reinforce the system, due to its centralist, hierarchical and militarist character). Today, what is proposed is not the creation of an armed organization of this type, but widespread attack by small affinity groups, uncontrollable by any higher organization, that come together and dissolve like the lunar tides. The tides that are born of the awareness of how bad things are and of the worsening that awaits us due to events”
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Guerrilla Warfare: an anarchist strategy for armed resistance in the belly of the beast
Excerpt from the zine:
“The aim of this zine is not to convince you of the necessity of armed struggle. While it can be read standalone, it is intended as a sequel to our previous zines, Paving the Way for the Enemy’s Victory and Towards a New, Anarchist Gun Culture, which build towards this zine and attempt to develop an extremely lacking, often only surface-level conversation around armed struggle and the role and potential of guns in our movements. The purpose of this zine is to lay out the answer we have settled on for the question, how do we win, in an armed struggle? In other words, it addresses the second point on our list. It is intended as an introduction to a strategy of asymmetric warfare, extremely powerful if well-understood and correctly wielded, developed based on a deep review of history and military science and specifically with our current context in the united states in mind.”
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Towards a New, Anarchist Gun Culture
Excerpt from the zine:
“What we could call the ‘mainstream’ armed left in the united states, in practice, follows a very specific model that it has shamelessly inherited from the armed american right. Key to this model is sitting around waiting, waiting for ‘shit to hit the fan’ (or SHTF, as they like to call it), spending their time training and buying shit under the guise of ‘increasing their capabilities,’ so that when ‘the time comes,’ they’ll be ready. As the author of An Anarchist Anti-Gun Manifesto puts it, ‘Still, they are convinced of their own radicality because they armed themselves, they have primed themselves to defend the marginalized (potentially including themselves), the most radical thing one can do.’ And as the author continues, ‘But the genocide isn’t coming, it’s here.’”
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