Online Reading Library
This online archive includes essays, stories, accounts, and other texts that have appeared under the CrimethInc. insignia over the past quarter of a century. It is extensive, but by no means comprehensive.
Some of these texts are available as PDFs in our Tools section. You’ll find zines, magazines, papers, and posters on a wide range of topics, ready for you to print them out and distribute them to everyone in your path. You can also download back issues of journals we have published, including Rolling Thunder, Harbinger, and Inside Front.
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Sample Reading Lists
Strategy and Analysis
- The Case for Resistance: What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
- Gender Subversion Today: A Reprint and a Remix of Our Classic Poster
- Balance Sheet: Two Years against Cop City
- Canary in the Coal Mine: Twitter and the End of Social Media
- Anti-Work: From “I Quit” to “We Revolt”—Strategizing for 21st-Century Labor Resistance
- Anarchist Resistance to the Trump Inauguration: Understanding the Events of January 20, 2017
- Take Your Pick: Law or Freedom—How “Nobody Is above the Law” Abets the Rise of Tyranny
- La ZAD: Another End of the World Is Possible—Learning from 50 Years of Struggle at Notre-Dame-des-Landes
Theory and Critique
- Against the Logic of the Guillotine: Why the Paris Commune Burned the Guillotine—and We Should Too
- The Mythology of Work
- There’s No Such Thing as Revolutionary Government: Why You Can’t Use the State to Abolish Class
- Why We Don’t Make Demands
- We Fight because We Like It: Maintaining Our Morale against Seemingly Insurmountable Odds
- From Democracy to Freedom
- Deserting the Digital Utopia: Computers against Computing
- For All We Care: Reconsidering Self-Care
- Accounting for Ourselves: Breaking the Impasse Around Assault and Abuse
Current Events
- The Siege of the Third Precinct in Minneapolis: An Account and Analysis
- The City in the Forest: Reinventing Resistance for an Age of Climate Crisis and Police Militarization
- Germany: The Fight against the Tesla Gigafactory
- “It Is an Honor to Be Suspended for Palestine”: Dispatches from the Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University
- Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Woman, Life, Freedom): The Genealogy of a Slogan
- Afghanistan: The Taliban Victory in a Global Context—An Anti-Imperial Perspective from a Veteran of the US Occupation
- Three Months of Insurrection: An Anarchist Collective in Hong Kong Appraises the Achievements and Limits of the Revolt
- The Threat to Rojava: An Anarchist in Syria Speaks on the Real Meaning of Trump’s Withdrawal
- Don’t Try to Break Us–We’ll Explode: The 2017 G20 and the Battle of Hamburg
History
- Every Flag Is Black in a Fire: The Black Flag—Emblem of Rebellion, Negation, and Hope
- The Kronstadt Uprising: A View from within the Revolt
- A Tale of Two General Strikes: Updating the General Strike for the 21st Century
- The Anarchists versus the Plague: Malatesta and the Cholera Epidemic of 1884
- June 30, 1876: Peter Kropotkin Escapes from Prison
- The May Days: Stories of Courage and Resistance—Snapshots from the History of May Day
- “Addicted to Tear Gas”: The Gezi Resistance, June 2013—Looking Back on a High Point of Resistance in Turkey
- The Battle for Ungdomshuset: The Defense of a Squatted Social Center and the Strategy of Autonomy
- Escaping Washington for Freedom: Let’s not Celebrate George Washington, but the Slaves Who Escaped Him
How To
- Tools and Tactics in the Portland Protests: From Leaf Blowers and Umbrellas to Lasers, Balloons, and Power Tools
- A Collection of Action Resources
- A Step-by-Step Guide to Direct Action: What It Is, What It’s Good for, How It Works
- What Is Security Culture?
- Producing Transdermal Estrogen: A Do-It-Yourself Guide
- A Demonstrator’s Guide to Riot Munitions And How to Defend against Them
- A Demonstrator’s Guide to Responding to Gunshot Wounds: What Everyone Should Know
- How to Survive a Felony Trial
- The Sunbird: How to Start an Announcements-Only Thread on Signal
Arts and Media
- Punk—Dangerous Utopia
- Fell in Love with Fire: A Documentary about the 2019 Uprising in Chile
- We Are Now: The Story of an Armed No-Cop Zone in Atlanta
- A Poem by Kenneth Rexroth, Painted across the Rooftops of the World
- Police: An Ethnography—A Photoessay about Armed Obedience
- J20 Protest Simulator: Choose Your Own Adventure in the Streets and Courts of Washington, DC
- The Secret World of Duvbo: A Magical Story about a Perfectly Ordinary World
- Insurrection is Not a Game: Designing the Game "Bloc by Bloc"
- Put the Bots in Charge: Towards the Abolition of Human Authorship
- The Spiral of Police Violence: A Work of Art Criticism
Narratives
- It’s Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny
- Memories from Saint-Imier, 1872 to 2023: Accounts from a Worldwide Anarchist Gathering
- The Craziest Walk Ever: The View from in Front of the Burning Pentagon on September 11, 2001
- Québec City, April 2001: The Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Offensive—Anarchists Confront the Summit of the Americas
- I Was a J20 Street Medic and Defendant: How We Survived the First J20 Trial and What We Learned along the Way
- Looting Back: An Account of the Ferguson Uprising
- The Power is Running: A Memoir of N30—Shutting Down the WTO Summit in Seattle, 1999
- UNControllables: The Story of an Anarchist Student Group—and How to Organize Your Own
In Memoriam
- Memories of Aaron Bushnell
- In Memory of Klee Benally
- Let’s Be Done with Waiting: A Film in Memory of Alfredo Maria Bonanno
- In Memory of Dmitry Petrov: An Incomplete Biography and Translation of His Work
- We Remember Jen Angel
- Luisa Toledo Sepúlveda: The Mother of Combative Youth
- The Shock Of Victory: An Essay by David Graeber and a Short Eulogy for Him
- Aragorn!—Elegy for an Antagonist: On Hostility and Its Limits
- We Will Remember Freedom: Why It Matters that Ursula K. Le Guin Was an Anarchist
Classics
- The Secret Is to Begin
- To Change Everything
- Fighting for Our Lives: An Anarchist Primer
- The Contents of Your Daily Life
- Do You Have Ideas, or Do Ideas Have You?
- One Dimensional Man in the Three Dimensional World
- Product Is the Excrement of Action
- There Is a Difference between Life and Survival
- Ultimatum
- Forward!
- Join the Resistance: Fall in Love
- There is a Secret World Concealed Within this One