This guide, published by the Billboard Liberation Front, offers a comprehensive, step-by-step manual for altering outdoor advertising. It details the various types of billboards, methods for choosing suitable targets, strategies for planning and executing “improvements,” including techniques for producing graphic overlays and ensuring security and safety.
This excerpt, published shortly after the 2020 U.S. Presidential election, presents a perspective rejecting both major political parties, arguing that neither offers genuine liberation from colonial oppression. Instead of relying on electoral politics, the text proposes a path towards being “ungovernable” through direct action and building alternative community structures. It outlines sixteen specific actions individuals and groups can take, such as forming affinity groups, developing practical skills, practicing mutual aid and defense, and challenging oppressive systems like capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. Ultimately, the document advocates for building autonomous organizing and resisting colonial authority on stolen land.
This guide presents a ten-step process for organizing and carrying out a blockade as a form of direct action against projects like the Line 9 pipeline. It opens with a brief overview of blockades, explores the rationale behind using them as a tactic, examines recent examples, and offers practical guidance on how to create an effective blockade. The zine comes out of the blockades against various oil pipelines in North America and as such it is heavily rooted in those experiences.
This source is a guide by Seeds for Change that discusses how to organize effective direct action. Tactics such as occupying a building, jamming a company’s phone line with calls, breaking machinery, disrupting an event, blocking vehicles, among other direct actions are described. The guide also emphasizes the importance of identifying targets, understanding different types of pressure, and various other planning and logistical steps.
This document serves as a concise guide for individuals aiming to establish a workers’ cooperative, a democratically run business owned and operated by its employees. It outlines the essential stages involved, from forming an initial group and developing a business plan to navigating legal structures, securing finances, and officially launching the cooperative. Ultimately, setting up and running a workers’ co-op is presented as a form of direct action where people collectively take control of their work lives to create a more just and ecologically conscious way of working.
This document, a guide from Seeds for Change, explores direct action as a means to achieve political goals, contrasting it with indirect methods. It showcases successful examples in Britain, demonstrating how diverse and disruptive tactics like blockades, occupations, and property damage are employed to exert pressure. It highlights key points for effective direct action, including sustained campaigns, clear aims, targeted pressure, identifying leverage, and the importance of organized communities and diverse roles.
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. It is noted in the guide that demonstrators can also employ tactics such as slowing traffic with bicycle blockades, banners, or even disabled vehicles, and engage the public through rallies, leaflet distribution, and symbolic actions. Furthermore, the text recounts an action that utilized public transportation and coordinated movement to reach and blockade a key bridge.
This is an eight-step guide by Crimethinc. detailing actions one can take during interactions with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The goal of the flyer is to educate individuals on their rights, empowering them to disrupt the plans of ICE and shift the power dynamics in encounters with law enforcement. The steps include knowing one’s rights, vetting information, assembling rapid response networks, organizing mutual aid, fighting criminalization, standing in solidarity with ICE detainees, connecting communities, and building a culture of resistance against ICE and state repression.
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 tactics, from slowdowns and work-to-rule strategies to more assertive actions like “marches on the boss” and organizing sick-outs. Emphasizing the critical role of solidarity among workers, the pamphlet includes historical examples of direct action campaigns that have achieved success.
This document is an excerpt from a worker’s guide that promotes direct action against employers. It critiques traditional resistance methods like strikes as ineffective, instead advocating for alternative tactics such as slowdowns, delivering excellent service to disrupt profits, adhering strictly to the rules, and fostering solidarity to compel employers to meet workers’ demands. The author (unknown) offers examples from various industries and historical periods to demonstrate how these methods can be effective, while also emphasizing the potential illegality of many of these actions.
This is a step-by-step guide published by CrimethInc. detailing how to stay safe in the streets when engaging in direct action. Information on how to dress appropriately, prepare oneself, organize, and engage with law enforcement is included in the document.
This is a full pdf of CrimethInc.’s book, Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook. This novel serves as a tactical handbook for direct action and includes images, step-by-step instructions, firsthand accounts, among other important resources.
This is a guide published by CrimethInc. on how to form an affinity group. Information on tactics, decision-making, organization, security, and more is included in the document.
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, relevant websites, and other important information is included in the document.
Wheatpasting is a low-effort and low-risk direct action technique used in social struggle to spread new ideas across large spaces. This is a step-by-step guide that includes ingredients and directions on how to create wheatpaste.
This is a detailed guide published by Montreal Counter-Information, an anarchist and anti-authoritarian news source, on how to conduct a street demonstration.
This is a guide that was distributed by anarchists during the 2012 student strikes and social conflicts in Montreal. The document provides step-by-step instructions on how to form crews, how to create paint bombs, how to occupy a space, how to conduct a street demonstration, as well as other important tactics.
This piece is a detailed guide on how to squat an unoccupied property. Information on how to find a place, claim squatters’ rights, gain adverse possession, and fix utilities within the space are described and illustrated in the document. Additional squatting resources are provided at the end of the piece as well.
“If we are to avoid urban sprawl, we must see through the illusion of scarcity and utilize what already exists. So dig a pry bar under the boards covering the window, crack it open and squat it.”
This is a step-by-step guide published by CrimethInc. on how to utilize lockboxes when conducting a blockade. Information on equipment, design instructions, planning stages, handling legal consequences, as well as other material is described and illustrated in the document.
This piece is a step-by-step guide published by CrimethInc. on organizing direct action. Common objectives of direct action, how to navigate the initial planning stages, what to do during and after the action, as well as other information is described and illustrated in the document.
This is an in-depth guide provided by Earth First! on safe methods to climb and rig rope structures needed in direct action situations. Knots to learn, equipment checklists, the psychological aspects of climbing, safe climbing steps, and more are described and illustrated in detail throughout the packet.