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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The Cochabamba Water Wars: An Interview with Oscar Olivera (2011)

The Bolivian Water Wars were a series of protests and civil unrest against the privatization of water and rising water rates in the city of Cochabamba, primarily in 2000. This interview was conducted in 2011 with Oscar O…

Outlaws of Amerika – Vietnam War

The Weather Underground group discusses the bombing at Harvard’s Center for International Affairs in October 1970 in this communique

Manifest of “Occupy Museums” (n.d.)

This is a declaration by the activist group Occupy Museums, stating the direct actions they have taken to expose a cultural system of inequality and exploitation within the American and International art world. Inspired…

The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism (Audre Lorde, 1981)

In this piece from Audre Lorde, a renowned intersectional feminist/activist, she offers the use of anger as a unifying force for women across the lines of race. White women struggled to understand the consequences of rac…

Women’s Collective Action Limitations (Tilly, 1981)

Louise A. Tilly’s ” Paths of Proletarianization: organization of Production, Sexual Division of Labor, and Women’s Collective Action”, was published in 1981 as a study of working-class women’s role in industrializing Fra…

Ten-Point Program (1966)

Published in 1966 by the Black Panther Party, written by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, “The Ten Point Program” was a statement of their goals and organization. Intended to be ten points which would guide the everyday…

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…

Violence and Class Consciousness in Revolutionary Struggle – L’Ouvrier Communiste (1930)

This document, written in 1930 by L’Ouvrier Communiste, a French political publication linked to the communist movement of the early 20th century, examines the relationship between violence and the development of class…

One Fine Day by Klaas Bense (2011)

The following video is an excerpt that follows Maria Jesus Sanhueza, a student protester during the 2006 Penguin Revolution in Chile.

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…

A15 Athens Economic Blockade for Palestine Statement (2024)

This is a statement from a group in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance. They argue that traditional forms of protest are no longer sufficient and therefore support a global economic blockade, citing their action…

Democracy is Nothing if it is not Dangerous by Carl Oglesby (1965)

Carl Oglesby was the president of SDS from 1965 to 1966. He gave this speech in response to an editorial that criticized the SDS for “welcoming” communisits.

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.

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…

Letter Protesting Marcos’ Visit – Philippine Solidarity Network and Coalition Against the Marcos Dictatorship (1982)

This document is a letter from the Philippine Solidarity Network and Coalition Against the Marcos Dictatorship requesting support for opposing the state visit of the President of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos. The le…

Occupy Egypt: From Cairo to Wall Street

Jawad Nabulsi tells his personal experience of the Occupy movements in Egypt, taking place in Tahrir Square. He frames himself as well as his brother as people who did not need to partake in the movement, but were capabl…

Free Puerto Rico! – New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism (1986)

This document is a May 1986 newsletter published by the New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and Socialism, focusing on Puerto Rico’s ongoing fight for independence from the United States. It highl…

Lesbians in Revolt (1972)

In 1972, author Charlotte Bunch articulated lesbianism was a political choice that fundamentally threatened male supremacy by challenging the idea that men were crucial to the existence of women. In her essay “Lesbians i…

Surrounding the Spanish Parliament: Occupy Congress & The M15 Movements

In this video, Maria Carrion reports live from Madrid on the increased anger of Spaniards as they’re driven to hunger and poverty due to the bank repossessing their homes, while the tenants still have to pay the debt, wh…

Communique 4 From The Weather Underground(1970)

This communication from the Weather Underground was published on Sept 15, 1970 and explains how they helped political prisoner Dr. Timothy Leary escape.

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