Defining The Enemy

Here you will find documents of disruptive struggles that identify the structural cause(s) of oppression and present systemic solutions to smashing them. While some see a single enemy, many others present multiple.

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Be Gay Do Crime – Mary Nardini Gang (2019)

This excerpt, from the introduction of a book titled “Be Gay Do Crime” by Mary Nardini Gang, reflects on ten years of queer, anarchist, criminal, and mystical resistance. It details the origins of their movement in Mil…

How to Throw a Squatted Dance Party – Anonymous (2018)

This is a step-by-step anonymous guide published on CrimethInc.’s website detailing how to throw a squatted dance party. Information on gear, location, how to promote the event, handling the authorities, among other im…

CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone) Demands – 2020

The Demands of the police-free Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone established in Seattle, USA on 8 June during the height of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Uprising. These included the abolition of the city’s police department an…

bell hooks – Feminism is for Everybody (2000)

bell hooks is a feminist, professor, and activist. In 2000, she published “Feminism is for Everybody”. Key to her politics and feminist philosophy is that the overarching “enemy”/structure to dismantle is the “white supr…

Revealing Division: The Philadelphia Shirtwaist Strike, the Jewish Community and Republican Machine Politics, 1909-1910

Immigrant women worked in sweatshops that fined them for being late, charged them for their own supplies, harassed them by contractors, and paid as little as 50 cents a day. In 1909, 7,000 walked off their jobs.

Manifesto of Female Revolt (Rivolta Femminile) (1970)

The manifesto challenges both private life and the authority of dominant institutions. It calls for women to break away from political groups that expected feminism to stay subordinate to class-based agendas.

Valerie Solanas’s S.C.U.M. Manifesto (1967)

Valerie Solanas’s manifesto is a radical feminist call for the extermination of society’s biggest nuisance: men.

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 by Karl Marx

These manuscripts were complied posthumously after Marx’s death in 1932. They analyze a variety of topics, including (in this excerpt) estranged labor, private property, communism, and the power of money in a bourgeoise…

“We are an honorable people – can you say the same?” (1973)

This document was written by the Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy in 1973. It states their solidarity with the occupation of Wounded Knee. It is written for the United States government. It addresses the destruction and…

How to Fire Your Boss: A Workers’ Guide to Direct Action – Industrial Workers of the World (1968)

This pamphlet, first released by the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) in 1968 and revised in 2022, promotes direct action as a powerful tool for workers to secure better conditions at work. It outlines a range of ta…

Five Centuries of Resistance in Argentina – Kendra Fehrer and Brad Will (2004)

This piece describes the direct action tactics used by the Ava Guaraní indigenous peoples of Argentina and their allies against Tabacal Sugar, a subsidiary of the Seaboard Corporation. Tabacal Sugar owns the ancestral l…

A Kind of Memo (1965)

Widely regarded as one of the first documents of the emerging feminist movement, this essay by Casey Haden and Mary King reflects the experiences that they had as volunteers in the Students Non-Violent Coordinating Commi…

Women’s Day Off ( Iceland, 1975)

The Women’s Day Off on October 24, 1975 was a monumental moment in Icelandic (women’s) history. The collective argument was that the women did work. paid and unpaid, but invisible from the infrastructure that held Icel…

Ania Loomba’s “Dead Women Tell No Tales”

Representations of the sati-widow from the colonial era to the postcolonial period uncover deep fractures in the colonial, patriarchal, nationalist, and feminist systems that tried to define her.

Workers, Students! – Paris (May 1968)

This document, written during the events in Paris during May 1968, calls for students and workers to continue the resistance, continue the occupations, and keep their power.

Black Liberation Will Put a Stop to the Klan, the Nazis & Killer Cops – John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (n.d.)

This source discusses the ongoing struggle against white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and Nazis. It highlights acts of resistance, such as Black and anti-Klan demonstrators who fought the Klan and police in…

Update from the Treetops – (2009)

The article, written by an unnamed farmer participating in the occupation, describes the “tree-village” that has formed in a Humboldt County, California forest. The logging company Green Diamond has permits to destro…

The Written Resistance #5 – National Students for Justice in Palestine (2024)

This is the fifth edition of the newsletter written by a compilation of individual authors and published by the National Students for Justice in Palestine. The edition offers perspectives and reflections on the tactics a…

Che Guevara: “Mobilizing the Masses for the Invasion” (1961)

“Mobilising the Masses for the Invasion” was a speech given to workers prior to the Bay of Pigs invasion by Che Guevara in 1961. The speech heavily focused on Latin American solidarity against US impealism. Che Guevara w…

Organize the Unorganized – Trade Union Educational League (1926)

The Trade Union Educational League was founded in late 1920. It was supported by the Communist Party USA and a majority of members were also members of the Communist Party USA. Its goal was to build a union and workers 

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