Insurgency Against Identity by Haraami
Author: Ruine des Kapitals
Tiqqunism and Antitiqqunism
Translated by Bash Back News
Sustaining the Riot
Justin A Lang for the Institute of Anarchist Studies.
Breaking out of the Ghetto
Two texts from Insurrection magazine, issue 4.
Stop the Metaverse, Save the Real World
Stephanie Wakefield & Glenn Dyer on the movement to stop Cop City.
Organization and Spontaneity
By Kimathi Mohammed.
Windsweep
By Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, presented at “Ante-Politics: Self-Defense of the Surround” during the Undercommons and Destituent Power conference.
Tomorrow Was Shahrivar 1401
Notes on the Iranian Uprisings by Iman Ganji and Jose Rosales
Case Sensitive
Why We Shouldn’t Capitalize “Black” by Nicholas Whittaker.
Insurgent Histories and the Abolitionist Imaginary
Saidiya Hartman in ArtForum, 2020.
We Are All Nonbinary
A Brief History of Accidents by Kadji Amin, recently published in the Representations journal.
Notes for a New Insurrection
Marcello Tarì’s preface to the second edition of 19 & 20 by Colectivo Situaciones.
The Dilemma of Homecoming
A chapter of Yuk Hui’s The Question Concerning Technology in China
Yes, And
Results from the North American Contagious Antagonisms Inquiry 2007-2012, by the Society for the Advancement of Criminal Sciences (North American Dept).
A Sound Held In Common
Rafael Lubner in Bellona’s inaugural “Autonomy” issue in 2021.
Mysticism In The Flesh
Fred Moten’s influential “Blackness and Nothingness (Mysticism in the Flesh)” first published in 2013.
Autonomous Resistance To Slavery and Colonization
Two essays by Russell Maroon Shoatz. Idea taken from an older Not Yr Cister Press zine of the same name, although this version has omitted the publisher’s introduction addressed to the anarchist milieu.
RIP Maroon.
The Reality Of Destitution is the Destitution of Reality
Jose Rosales for Unworking (2021).
The Earthly Community
By Achille Mbembe , published October 2021 at e-flux.
In The Wake Of An Erosion
Published June 2021 at The New Inquiry by the Liaisons collective. Revised and expanded by the author for inclusion in The Abolition of Law.
Spirituality and Combat
A conversation with Marcello Tarì and Matt Peterson originally published in e-flux.
Revolution and Destituent Power
Transcript of an anonymous talk recorded in early 2020.
Refusing Completion
A Conversation with Fred Moten, Stefano Harney, and Stevphen Shukaitis, first published at e-flux.
Violence and Other Non-Political Actions in the New Cycle of Revolt
Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen reviews Marcello Tarì’s There Is No Unhappy Revolution, translated for Mute magazine.
Two Letters From Kolkata
What Is An Insurrection?
Destituent Power and Ontological Anarchy in Agamben and Stirner, by Saul Newman.
Illegalist Foucault, Criminal Foucault
Stealing Away In America
From “Stealing Away In America” by Zoé Samudzi in conversation with Vicky Osterweil in Jewish Currents.
A Letter From Minneapolis
From “Warning: A Letter To Minneapolis” by Liaisons published in The New Inquiry.
Building & Fighting
Intergalactic reflections on destituent power. ‘History Is No Longer On Our Side’ and ‘A Presentation Of To Our Friends In Chiapas.’
For The Ones To Come
Chapter seven from the Invisible Committee’s Now.
Regard For One Another
Rizvana Bradley interviews Saidiya Hartman for the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Let’s Destitute The World
Chapter four from the Invisible Committee’s Now.
For The Insurrection To Succeed, We Must First Destroy Ourselves
By Alex Trocchi, 2011. Excerpted from Revolt and Crisis in Greece.
What Is Pop Fascism?
This text appeared in lundimatin #195 on June 10th, 2019. Marcello Tarì is an independent researcher living between France and Italy. Translated for It’s Going Down.
Ecstasy & Warmth
Originally published at The Occupied Times by Automnia
The People Want The Fall Of The Regime
“Next Stop: Destitution” by Lundi Matin translated by Ill Will Editions. “Haiti in Revolt: An Overview and Analysis of Six Months of Revolt” by Black Autonomy Network. “Sudan, Revolution til the End” by Lundi Matin translated by Ediciones Inéditos.
I’ll Always Remember The Sixth Of December
A Report from Athens, Greece on the Ten-Year Anniversary of the Murder of Alexis from CrimethInc. Plus “A December to Remember, a December to Forget” by Pavlos Roufos for Commune.
Civil War Revisited
The concluding chapter from Sasha Durakov’s The Savage Peace.
…Or Revolution?
A chapter from Sasha Durakov’s The Savage Peace.
Every Body Hates The Police
Chapter six from the Invisible Committee’s Now.
Reading Now
This is an exercise in the sharing of ideas, of visions; a partial translation, summary, and a commentary and exemplification, or simply a montage, of some of the ideas found in the Invisible Committee’s Now. From autonomies.org
Gender Abolition in the 21st Century
Originally published by Jules Joanne Gleeson at Blind Field Journal.
Dispatches from Charlottesville
A collection of articles written in the aftermath of the Charlottesville conflict between fascists and anti-fascists on August 12th which left one dead. This pamphlet is published in memory of Heather Heyer.
The Wisdom Of Rioters
This text originally appeared on the French website Lundi.am. Translated by Ill Will Editions.
A Short Introduction To The Politics Of Cruelty
This piece was published as the introduction to the first issue of the Hostis journal.
The Devil’s Night
On The Rebellious Spirit of Halloween
Originally published by Mask Magazine, October 2015. Revised and expanded by the author, October 2017.
(Toner-friendly PDF here)
Tomorrow Is Cancelled
“Tomorrow is Cancelled” is the first chapter of Now, forthcoming by the Invisible Committee.
Translated without permission of the authors by Autonomies.
(Alternative PDF here)
The Terrible Things We Do To Each Other
Lecture liberated from the pages of Vortext, the Unconscious Organ of the Experimental Committee, originally published by Crimethinc.
Friendship & Crime
Chapter VII of Beyond Predicates, War by the Institute for Experimental Freedom.
Spreading Disorder
Two essays by A.G. Schwarz.
An Interview With Zig Zag
The following is an interview with Gord Hill (Kwakwaka’wakw nation), who frequently writes under the pseudonym Zig Zag. The interview was originally published in the 12th issue of Fire To The Prisons (Spring 2015).
Countering Insurgency
In late July, 2016, subMedia conducted an interview with Tom Nomad on the recent RNC counter-demonstrations in Cleveland, and the political environment in the US in the wake of police shootings in Dallas and Baton Rouge.
Against The Romance Of Community Policing
By Stuart Schrader. Adapted for A World Without Police from this post
Activism, Civil War, & Insurrection
From Opaque Editons
In light of the recent shooting in Dallas, this text seems even more crucial to understanding the current moment.
From Insurgencies No. 2 by the Institute for the Study of Insurgent Warfare.
Agency Against Pipelines
“Agency Against Pipelines” was originally published in the second issue of Wreck, an anarchist publication based out of Vancouver, Occupied Coast Salish Territories.
Critical Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution
Originally published as The Most Important Thing: Two Speaking Tours & The Syrian Revolution” by The Hamilton Institute.
In Defense of Fire & Smoke
Another Response in the Ongoing Debate on What Constitutes Reformist Tactic
By Sean Swain
From Wildfire #4
Do Riots Work?
Spotlight on Cleveland
Several months ago, Cleveland police attacked a crowd that attempted to unarrest a young teen outside of a Black Lives Matter conference. The resulting standoff highlighted increasing tensions in a city that had already been brewing with anger at the police following the murder of Tamir Rice and the acquittal of Michael Brelo, a 31 year-old white patrolman who stood atop the car of two unarmed African-American motorists and fired into their vehicle 15 times, after other officers had already riddled it with bullets. In this interview, author and anarchist strategist Tom Nomad discusses how the last few months in Cleveland have played out and the dynamics leading up to the upcoming Republican National Convention (RNC).
A Glimpse at Nihilism
From The Warzone of North Kurdistan
Against Democracy
Translated anonymously from Spanish, and recreated with many of the design choices of the original book. We publish this translation in solidarity with those facing repression in Spain in connection with the text.
The book you hold in your hands is a small contribution from the Coordinated Anarchist Groups to the fight against democracy, which is the most widespread contemporary form of political domination as the primary and most sophisticated expression of the State.
Dispatches From Rojava
The travel diary of “El Errante,” (later revealed to be Paul Z Simons) an anarchist from the United States who recently visited the Rojava region. A more thorough report-back from his trip can be found here.
The French State of Emergency
Three texts from CrimethInc. on the November 13th attacks in Paris and the following state of emergency.
Nine Theses On Insurgency
The opening text from the first journal of Insurgencies by ISIW that discusses the need to abandon activism, which is defined by symbolism, conceptual terrains of engagement and a politics of complaint. Instead, it suggests a realignment towards insurgency, embracing material engagement with our enemies and focusing on strategy as opposed to abstract political theory.
Nice Shit For Everybody
“We see the stores in the bourgeois parts of town (& the newly-gentrified ones too) and say that we want that shit and even more. … Is this commodity-fetishism? Yes, of the worst kind. Mainly, it’s the kind that does not want to maintain capitalist social relations, but one that seeks to destroy them.”
Happy Holidays! Don’t mind the indulgent ligatures.
Decolonize The New World
Communiques and action call-outs from the Decolonize The New World convergence in the Bay Area, 2012.
At Daggers Drawn
One part of this society has every interest in continuing to rule, the other in it all collapsing as soon as possible. Deciding which side one is on is the first step. But resignation, the basis of agreement between the parts (improvers of the existent and its false critics) is everywhere, even in our own lives—the authentic place of the social war—in our desires and resoluteness, just as in our little daily submissions.
With all this it is necessary to draw daggers, to finally draw daggers with life.
The Devil’s Night
UPDATE: Revised and expanded version here, October 2017.
From Mask Magazine
Before plastic fangs and fake blood, October 31st was a day of rebellion; the history of Halloween spans five hundred years and two continents, featuring pagan rebels in the Medieval British Isles, the European witch hunts, Irish migration to the States, and even widespread arsons in Detroit in the 1980s.
Today Libya, Tomorrow Wall St
To Our Friends Chapter Eight
Omnia Sunt Communia
To Our Friends Chapter Seven
Our Only Homeland, Childhood
To Our Friends Chapter Six
Against White Supremacy
Two reports from the ‘Run the Klan Out of Town’ counter-demonstration in South Carolina in July. One from Final Straw Radio, the other from Mask Magazine.
Please support two anti-racists facing repression from the event:
An Enduring Passion For Criminality
From Hostis Journal issue one.
Against Assemblies
Two texts from people involved in the Aylesbury Estate occupation and originally published on the occupation’s blog.
From Rabble LDN
Another Word For White Ally Is Coward
The fear that we would like to critique here is the fear of forming one’s own opinion, the fear of developing one’s own analysis and then acting upon it. We do find fault in this fear of the White Ally. To be a White Ally is to stop thinking for one’s self, to blindly follow a leader based on no other criteria than their identity. At least this is what is demanded of us by those who would make us into Allies.
From Anti-State STL
Old design here.
Power Is Logistic. Block Everything!
Chapter three from To Our Friends by the Invisible Committee
(Updated 2022)
They Want to Oblige Us to Govern. We Won’t Yield to That Pressure.
Chapter two of To Our Friends by the Invisible Committee.
Merry Crisis And Happy New Fear
Chapter one of To Our Friends by the Invisible Committee.
Out Past Dark
By FireWorks
New Oakland Mayor, Libby Schaaf has drawn scorn from liberals and civil-libertarians for her implementation of a “protest curfew” in Downtown Oakland. The curfew comes after the mayor bowed to pressure from Downtown businesses and developers after several months of riots. But the curfew is only part of a new wave of repression: from more FBI agents coming to town, the continuation of the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), to the increasing policing of everyday life. While those on the right howl for blood as young people continue to take the streets in the face of evictions, low-paying jobs, and continued racist police terror, those on the Left are just as quick to divide the “good protesters” from “the bad ones.”
The Seemingly Quixotic, but Remarkably Effective, Journey of a Small Band of Extreme Islamists And Why It Seems As If They Are Winning, When They May Not Be
Analysis of ISIS and the strategic insights we can gain from our political enemies, by the Institute for the Study of Insurgent Warfare.
Rites of Passage
Liebig 14 Evicted & Beyond the Ruins of the Creative City
In coordination with a short series of presentations on Berlin squatting, we published the following two zines. The final presentation will be hosted at La Idea in Oakland, CA on May 2nd.
Liebig 14 Evicted
Some notes on the eviction of a former squatted house from Berlin, originally published in 325 #9, 2011.
Reflections on an Eviction – For the Joyful Militants, originally published on the Liebig 14 website, 2013.
Beyond the Ruins of the Creative City
Berlin’s Factory of Culture and the Sabotage of Rent
Let’s Disappear
As thousands of people gathered in Frankfurt, Germany, to celebrate the inauguration of the new European Central Bank building, hundreds paper copies of an extract from “To our friends” by the Invisible Committee were given out.
(Updated 2022)
A Meticulous Process of Inquiry
Police Killing in the Fields
Analysis of Actions and Interventions Against Police Murder in Salinas, CA
Written by the Direct Action Monterey Network.
Four Years Later: An Interview on the Middle East
In collaboration with Fire to the Prisons, here is an interview with Tom Nomad on the state of the Middle East since the Arab Spring uprisings four years ago. This interview appears in the latest issue, Spring 2015.
Living and Fighting
Compiled from various translations, originally appeared as a chapter of “This Is Not A Program,” Tiqqun #2, 2001
Fuck Off Google
“It’s becoming clear that Facebook is not so much the model of a new form of government as its reality already in operation. The fact that revolutionaries employed it and still employ it to link up in the street en masse only proves that it’s possible, in some places, to use Facebook against itself, against its essential function, which is policing.”
Excerpt from «To Our Friends»
English translation coming April 2015
That’s War
Smashed Up
Archipelago
Affinity, Informal Organization and Insurrectional Projects
Originally published in journal ‘Salto, subverion & anarchy” #2
November 2012, Brussels
Note: This zine was inspired by “Nothing is Finished” which was not available online at the time. It is now available from Untorelli here.
The Thin Blue Line is a Burning Fuse
Originally published November 25th, 2014, the day after a grand jury decided not to indict police officer Darren Wilson for the murder of Michael Brown.
Available online at cwc.im/bluefuse
Two Texts From The Latest UC Occupations
The Coming Insurrection (Excerpt)
L’Insurrection qui vient (The Coming Insurrection) was originally published in France, 2007. It is also the principle piece of evidence in an anti-terrorism case directed against several individuals who were arrested on November 11th, 2008, mostly in the village of Tarnac. They have been accused of “criminal association for the purpose of terrorist activity” on the grounds that they were to have participated in the sabotage of overhead electrical lines on France’s national railways. They are also accused of authoring this text.
For more information, visit: http://tarnac9.wordpress.com/
The following is an excerpt from The Coming Insurrection that we feel is most portable, in that it is shorter, easier to read (and to print) and also more universally relevant in its content.
You Can’t Shoot Us All
On the Oscar Grant Rebellions
Oakland, July 2010
A recreation of an already existing zine that was previously unavailable online. 
The Killing Fields
Long before Edward Snowden revealed the secrets of the NSA and the federal government, another man revealed that the CIA was directly responsible for flooding the US with cocaine in the 1980s. His name was Gary Webb. In 1996, after publishing his three part article “Dark Alliance: The Story Behind The Crack Explosion” in the San Jose Mercury News, Gary was subjected to criticism, censorship, and was forced to quit his job. His employers at the Mercury News retracted the story and destroyed the CDROMS that had been created by the paper to spread the basic information of the CIA’s conspiracy. Despite his thorough and professional research, the mainstream media ignored his findings and Gary remained unemployable until his suicide on December 10th, 2004. This article is dedicated to his memory and to all those who died in the drug wars.
Published anonymously on Indybay on September 24th, 2013
Where Do We Meet Face To Face?
Killing King Abacus
Summer 2001
Guns, Cars, Autonomy
The following is a transcript of a conversation between two friends shortly after the insurgency in Ferguson, Missouri. Bart was there and Nikola wasn’t, but both have participated in anti-police uprisings in the last several years on the West Coast and in the Midwest. We’re publishing this in an effort to explore the complexities of recent events in the United States, but also to contribute to the ongoing discussions and attacks against the existing order, everywhere.
Originally published in Avalanche #3, November 2014.
(Updated 2016)
