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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How to Submit an Anonymous Communiqué and Get Away With It (2024)

A communiqué is a report on direct actions that is typically shared either online or in print publications. This is a guide on how to submit an anonymous communiqué online. Key terms, step-by-step instructions, relevan…

Statement by the Leader of Iran’s Green Movement – Mir Hossein Mousavi (2023)

The Iranian Green Movement, also known as the Persian Awakening or the Persian Spring, came to existence after the June 12, 2009 Iranian Presidential Election, in which activists demanded the removal of Mahmoud Ahmadinej…

Women! Join Our Celebration of Independence – Bread and Roses (n.d.)

This document is a call to action, urging women to join a movement led by Bread and Roses, a socialist women’s liberation group, on International Women’s Day in Boston, Massachusetts. The flyer presents a declaration of…

Protest the Infirmary! (Gainesville Women’s Liberation, 1997)

This protest leaflet is from the Gainesville Women’s Liberation movement and is part of a wider effort at the University of Florida to increase women’s sexual autonomy through disrupting the mainstream tactics of the hea…

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…

Raise Three Fingers for Democracy (2021)

This website was created by Myanmar artists as a way to unify the global art community in support of the protesters in Myanmar

The Women’s Rights Movement in the US: A New View (1968)

In this article, author Shulamith Firestone looks to analyze the perception of the Women’s Rights Movement in the United States by tracing its development across generations. Mainly, she wants to answer the question of w…

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…

Throwing Like A Girl by Iris Marion Young (1980)

This feminist essay by Iris Marion Young draws on works from Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty to look at differences in feminine and masculine movement and how that movement is embodied and how it affects the…

On the Principles of Non-Collaboration – Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (n.d.)

The Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) was founded in 1977 as a coalition of anti-imperialist Puerto Rican and Chicano-Mexicano activists in the United States. This document by the MLN outlines the group’s stance ag…

The Vagina on Trial (1971)

Kathleen Barry’s essay unpacks both the physical consequences that a woman faces when she endures rape, and the psychological effects that are the result of every woman’s knowledge of the threat of rape. She includes an…

Indonesia: PT Istana: A Factory Occupied and Producing Under Workers’ Control – Jorge Martin (2016)

This document is a written account by Jorge Martin, the International Secretary of Hands Off Venezuela, of his November 2008 visit to PT Istana, an occupied and now worker-run factory in North Jakarta, Indonesia. The sto…

Communique From Some Warriors in South Dakota (1975)

This document, written by Native American Warriors from South Dakota, was addressed to Prairie Fire, the Weather Underground, and all third world and anti-imperialist allies. The Native American Warriors called on these…

The Affluent Society-Galbraith 1958

In 1958, Harvard economist John Kenneth Galbraith published The Affluent Society, a book examining America’s post- World War II economy, centered around rising consumerism. Here, the need to address the reality of capita…

Anarchist Techno Attacks: A Brief History of Reclaim the Streets – CrimethInc. and the Ex-Workers Collective (2024)

This document, published by CrimethInc. and the Ex-Workers Collective, explores the history and impact of Reclaim the Streets actions, which combined anarchist principles with techno music and direct action. These events…

Students for a Democratic Society Statement on Vietnam (1965)

The 1965 SDS statement, delivered by Paul Potter at the end of a Washington march, argued that U.S. involvement in Vietnam contradicted American democratic ideals and supported an imperialistic regime rather than defendi…

Bicycling Program (1972)

Two community members in Oakland, California recognized the need for reliable modes of transportation in their community. In the newspaper article, they are introducing a program that would fix bicycles so that the commu…

No More Miss America (1968)

On September 7, 1968, a coalition of women’s liberation groups planned various demonstrations against the annual Miss America Pageant in Atlantic City. These demonstrations aimed to challenge the pageant’s objectificatio…

Everybody’s Protest Novel by James Baldwin (1949)

“Everybody’s Protest Novel” is an essay written by James Baldwin that criticized protest fiction, specifically Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin, as something that perpetuates the status quo so that humanity beco…

The White Man’s Burden: Historical Origins of Racism in the United States by Winthrop D. Jordan (1974)

Professor Jordan uses anecdotes from a multidue of sources to answer the question of: what were the attitude of white men toward black people during the first two centuries of European and African settlement in what beca…

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