Here you will find documents arguing for the effectiveness of – or giving detailed descriptions to practicing – various Disruptive tactics. If you wanted to know how to build a barricade, run a consciousness raising group, or sabotage a pipeline, this is the place for you.
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The Masses’ Struggle is the Beginning of the People’s Armed Struggle! (1977)
In 1973, a military coup forcefully removed democratically elected President Salvador Allende, replacing him with military dictator Augosto Pinochet. Under his military all left-wing movements were repressed and ended th…
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Lockdowns and Blockades – CrimethInc. (2025)
This guide from CrimethInc. describes a range of resistance and disruption tactics, from using lockboxes to physically block spaces and movement to constructing barricades with materials like junk cars, wood, and metal.…
Black Politics: A Journal of Liberation (1968)
This collection of excerpts from Black Politics: A Journal of Liberation (Vol. 1, 1968) offers insights into the Black Power movement during a pivotal year. The document covers a variety of topics, including discussi…
Complete Guide To Ending The Fur Industry (2020)
The Animal Liberation Front (ALF) is an animal rights group that was form in 1975, with the intention to end animal cruelty and exploitation. ALF is a nonviolent group, operating primarly underground by raiding plants wi…
The People’s Church – The Young Lords (1969)
Account of the Young Lords occupation of a seldom used church to create space for free children’s breakfast program, a liberation school, and a people’s day care center.
A Storm and a Prophecy – Subcomandante Marcos (1992)
The first written essay by Subcomandante Marcos serving as “tour guide” to the state of Chiapas, desecrated by years of extractive neoliberalism. Written a year and a half before the Zapatista uprising, it outlines all…
The Occupied Museum – Noah Fischer (2014)
In this piece, Noah Fischer, a founding member of the Occupy Museums movement, examines the group’s efforts to address economic inequality in the art world and promote alternative models of economic exchange. Emerging fr…
How to Sink Whalers, Driftnetters, and Other Environmentally Destructive Ships – Earth First! (n.d.)
This is an in-depth guide provided by Earth First! on how to sink whalers, drift netters, and other environmentally-destructive ships. Necessary tool lists and chronological steps to undertake with diagrams included are…
May Day Belongs to the People of the World – Student and Youth for a People’s Peace (1971)
This piece is a call to action for individuals to join in the civil disobedience measures that will be taking place beginning on May 1, 1971 and continuing until a peace treaty is implemented by the Nixon Administration.…
Affective Organizing: Collectivizing Informal Sex Workers in an Intimate Union
AMMAR (Asociación de Mujeres Meretrices de Argentina), the Argentinean sex workers’ union, has used a strategy of “affective organizing.” Drawing on a participatory project developed with and involving sex worker…
Launching Statement of the ‘Solidarity Committee with Mahalla Workers’ (2007)
This is a launching statement of the ‘Solidarity Committee with Mahalla Workers,’ formed on September 25, 2007, to express their support for the workers’ strike at the Mahalla Spinning and Weaving Company in Egypt. The s…
Revolution: Program or Communization? – Agitations (n.d.)
This translated text explores the concept of “communization” as a revolutionary strategy, contrasting it with what it labels “programmatism,” the earlier 20th-century approach focused on the proletariat seizing state…
BUGA-UP: Billboard Utilizising Graffitists Against Unhealthy Promotions (1979-early/mid 1980s)
BUGA-UP is a organization formed in Australia to protest cigarette and other unhealthy advertisments, through cultutal jamming, specifically by vandalizing billboards.
The Mandate for 1992: Resistance – Bobby Castillo (1992)
This piece was published in the 1992 program of the International Tribunal of Indigenous Peoples and Oppressed Nations in the USA. Bobby Castillo, the author of the mandate as well as the coordinator of the International…
Occupy Wall Street – Students (2011)
This document declares the occupation of student, university spaces during Occupy Wall Street.
Guidelines and Press Statement by Earth Liberation Front (2007)
the initial press statement and guidelines for ELF
Manifesto of the Industrial Workers of the World (1905)
The Industrial Workers of the World is a worker-led union advocating for and working towards direct action, democracy in the workplace, and unionism. This manifesto explains the power of collective membership since capit…
Syntagma Square Assemblies
In May 2011, the movement of popular assemblies erupted as a disruption to society. Begun through a Facebook call to express indignation, this movement morphed quickly into a mass occupation. This assembly delegitimized…
Extinction Rebellion Occupation of Insurance Firms – Extinction Rebellion (2024)
This is a news article by Extinction Rebellion (XR) detailing the occupation of the offices of five major insurers within the City of London by various XR protesters. Activists occupied the lobbies of the firms and calle…