Disruption

Disrupt (v) : to interrupt (an event, activity, or process) by causing a disturbance or problem; to drastically alter or destroy the structure of (something)

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Tactics of Disruption

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 Written Resistance #4 – National Students for Justice in Palestine (2024)

This is the fourth edition of the newsletter, compiled by various authors and published by National Students for Justice in Palestine. The edition features a range of articles documenting student activism across several…

CAM Mapuche Statement (2023)

In a direct statement from CAM, they held a general meeting to discuss their organization’s updated goals and even there, they faced resistance from the Chilean government. They resisted against them successfully enough…

Sabotage – Emile Pouget (1908)

A pestiferous epidemic, becoming to the body social of capitalism more dangerous and incurable than cancer and syphilis are to the human body

Weather Underground – Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism (1970)

The accidental explosion of a Greenwich Village townhouse during a bomb-making session in 1970 left the Weather Underground– a radical left organization formed in 1969– distraught. In an attempt to reunify under their…

Choke Points: Mapping an Anticapitalist Counter-Logistics – Degenerate Communism (2014)

Essay arguing for the material and theoretical logic behind the disruption of the circulation of capital. A mapping of the logistical infrastructure of California with assessment of its major choke points

We Hold the Rock – Indians of All Tribes (1969)

This document was produced by the same group that wrote the Alcatraz Proclamation. In this piece, the occupiers demanded ownership of Alcatraz Island in the name of the Indians of All Tribes. They described the many inju…

Third Statement on Uprisings in Turkey (2013)

This statement, written by Devrimci Anarşist Faaliyet (DAF – Revolutionary Anarchist Action), discusses the ongoing occupations in Gezi Park and Taksim Square, particularly the police violence against them.

DEFENDING THE CAMP (2024)

This document, “DEFENDING THE CAMP,” published by CrimethInc., is a report from participants in the Gaza solidarity encampment at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It recounts the initial days of the protes…

Blockade Personal Accounts – Earth First!ers (1983)

This piece consists of personal accounts of three Earth First!ers during their various blockades over the course of a two week period. The blockades occurred in order to stop the continued destruction of the Bald Mountai…

Vietnam War or McNamara’s War? – 1964

The Social General Strike – Stephan Naft (1905)

The social general strike will completely interrupt production in the whole country, stop communication and consumption for the ruling classes long enough to totally disorganize the capitalistic society

Press Release from The New School Students for Justice in Palestine

Over the past weeks at various universities across the United States, students have erected encampments to demand action to end Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip. These protests have arisen on the campuses of some of the…

Workers! Students! – Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire (1968)

Jeunesse Communiste Révolutionnaire, a French Trotskyist organization, wrote this piece, describing the transition from a student revolt into a general strike of workers contesting capitalist society during the May 1968…

The ‘GlobalMay Manifesto’ of the International Occupy Assembly (2012)

This is a manifesto written by an international Occupy assembly, a part of the larger Occupy movement. It presents a powerful critique of the current global system, asserting that it prioritizes profit and competition ov…

On Pilgrimage – Dorothy Day Against the Vietnam War

Dorothy Day expresses her sorrow and outrage against the Vietnam War and calls to Christians and Catholics to band together against it

Anatomy of an Industrial Struggle (1976-1978)

This article was written by Garry Hill who worked at the Tonsley Park Chrysler plant in Australia in 1976 during the workers’ struggles – that he actively participated in.

Work: Democratize, Decommodify, Remediate – 2020

Ferreras, Méda, and Battilana, Covid-19 inspired Manifesto subsequently published in 43 Newspapers in 36 countries, calling for a revival of the workers councils, the decommodification of labor, and the disruption of en…

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…

Occupy Oakland: The Port Shutdown – Jack Gerson (2012)

Gerson discusses the transition of Occupy Movement from occupation of Public Squares to Port Blockades and the disruption of global commodity circulation.

A Terrorist Call for “Building a Red Army” (1970)

Between 1970 and 1998, the Anti-Fascist, Anti-Capitalist, Anti-Imperialism, Communist leftist militia The Red Army Faction was labeled as a terrorist organization in first West Germany, and then unified Germany. In this…
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