*More in [[5. Additional Readings and Clips]]* # Books (Or audiobooks) - toxic exposures - How to sell a poison - How to blow up a pipeline - against the grain. The dawn of everything - the collapse of Western Civilization. Of you from the future, 2014 - Remember Buffalo Creek - The farm bill: a citizens guide - Article: stop trying to vote with your fork - frostbite: how refrigeration changed our food - the ministry for the future - Book - Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes and Mariame Kaba - They thought they were free: the Germans 1933-1945. Milton Mayer. (Can be found on Libby with audio and readable versions) - Let this radicalize you (Kelly Hayes) - Surviving autocracy (Masha gessen) - Parable of the Talents - Everyone who is gone is here - Erasing history (Jason Stanley) - Fahrenheit 451 - Are prisons obsolete (Angela Davis) - Cobalt red (Siddharth kara) - Except for Palestine: the limits of progressive politics - The color of law - Care work: dreaming disability justice - Stonewall (martin duberman) - How to kill a city (moskowitz) - Undue burden: life and death decisions in post roe america - Poverty by America (Matthew Desmond) - How good is it I have no fear of dying - As long as grass grows - The uninhabitable earth: life after warming - Caste: the origins of our discontents - Nature's silent message (Scott Stillman) - The communist manifesto (if You want to understand the roots of revolutionary thought, anti-capitalism, and why this short book is still shaking governments centuries later) - Animal farm (if You want to understand how revolutions fail and power corrupts, told through talking animals, but hits harder than most political theory) - Things that cannot be said (if You're curious about the raw, unfiltered conversations on empire, surveillance, war, and what it really means to speak truth to power.) - Emergency sex (if You want the messy, heartbreaking, and human side of the UN, this memoir is chaos, trauma, and idealism all at once.) - Slaughterhouse five (offers an anti-war perspective that's both deeply human and darkly absurd.) - The female eunuch (calls on women to reclaim their agency and resist the roles that have been prescribed to them for centuries.) - Steppenwolf (A powerful testament to the struggles of the individual against societal pressures.) - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century - **Summary**:** A guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism, from a “public intellectual unafraid to make bold connections between past and present”** - [The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_9a151b5568aa4fe4aed4201432f95831.pdf) - [Bakunin on Anarchism](https://files.libcom.org/files/Bakunin%20on%20Anarchy%20%281971%29.pdf) - [The Second World War: A Marxist History](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_e15c09497a624aa3a9b82c5478a09aa2.pdf) - [Monopoly Capital: An Essay on the American Economic and Social Order](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_1d4f6660f6074bacb10452b4a9883a6e.pdf) - [An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States](https://people.tamu.edu/~b-wood/GovtEcon/Beard.pdf) - [The Food Wars](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_9aef03b6dc9b416e9bb7b8b6d4d5b857.pdf) - [ABC of Anarchism](https://files.libcom.org/files/AlexanderBerkman-ABCofAnarchism.pdf) - [Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_c236b2c5b0f348459ad880b18f4a16c6.pdf) - [Killing Hope: U.S. Military and CIA Interventions Since World War II](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_60eb9be960084f3c87f4d5f2a29f5158.pdf) - [Taming Democracy: "The People," The Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_222f42699bf049d88ea6286786bbad67.pdf) - [Schooling in Capitalist America: Educational Reform and the Contradictions of Economic Life](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_5cba35d651d9413f83317330d9ddf8d1.pdf) - [Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_24e64bd7f1a94760b1653214ed478c20.pdf) - [Strike!](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_10ef536a193640fab11b0c12cca3a892.pdf)  - [Rebel Rank and File: Labor Militancy and Revolt from Below during the Long 1970s](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_b2d3975f9e7b4e1dbd829d0612667276.pdf) - [The Economics of Global Turbulence](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_d8082112b5dd4ca38c7b304dc6bfa20a.pdf) - [Marxist Theories of Imperialism: A Critical Survey](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_96261aad9b264ff9b5ee6f3eb71b44b3.pdf) - [Imperialism and World Economy](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_aaa65d1df36046e4900eb42a9c13313f.pdf) - [Taking the Risk out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_de6752789cc14b61a1b91e85a2d1ae3e.pdf) - [23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_495b479bb27b4b79a06020c3d1e90d74.pdf) - [Understanding Power](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_b6f8ea7ba8d1461a9591662ac8705ba6.pdf) - [Deterring Democracy](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_e2dca44557434a1995646cf469954abc.pdf) - [Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_90ab10a3fad640c5b8b0a430a24ce223.pdf) - [Chomsky on Anarchism](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_e05caa7921d4496f8b6c49ecce9e1412.pdf) - [The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_ce45d08147b94e54b7450653ebef334a.pdf) - [Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the U.S. Working Class](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_b11195c8e21f493ba5bf8919aa5028f6.pdf) - [Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_049369d8fd114693bfaef72103fbcb55.pdf) - [Planet of Slums](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_449f49f8f3e640a1b0ad9eb20deabd50.pdf) - [Who Rules America? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_8149da15f8534ec09ecd854f8ad30e86.pdf) - [Labor in America: A History](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_540d294ba99a480b8deccec5987e6996.pdf)  - [The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_34fee070bddf48f9b28423ebcb0afc6b.pdf) - [Naked Imperialism: The U.S. Pursuit of Global Dominance](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_d9f158fa498148f0a8229d5b15434778.pdf) - [The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_074f3761141c4afbb8606043e9c7c013.pdf) - [Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_3fdd2ff671864f2db578d730940824bd.pdf) - [Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_91eed40d1fbc4bca86198b16303da78b.pdf) - [The Exception to the Rulers: Exposing America's War Profiteers, the Media that Love Them and the Crackdown on Our Rights](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_f43705df877a43cc81df479b883a9c38.pdf) - [Debt: The First 5,000 Years](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_94a5115d4ef74397a49736aec5d11d0c.pdf) - [Fascism and Big Business](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_43137fcdb19e4e66b57f734e6df4770b.pdf) - [Anarchism: From Theory to Practice](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_e302fbde074b45bdae40969b34910a25.pdf) - [No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_21b1ce78ae3946bf948d494a5772b272.pdf) - [The ABCs of Political Economy: A Modern Approach](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_0c88e4a2d4844a56af4504d474e3db37.pdf) - [A People's History of the World](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_e6c0cb5c9f3d48f79ecfa8149370335d.pdf) - [The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_0b6f10a7568c4e7aa0692a637c3dee7f.pdf) - [The Other America: Poverty in the United States](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_66c3bbb90285463ea5ca3fde126598d3.pdf) - [A Brief History of Neoliberalism](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_5b66010c1d1c413eac01530413b9151d.pdf) - [The Enigma of Capital, and the Crises of Capitalism](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_e3ed5822aac4483e8c70f1e106b270f5.pdf) - [Wall Street: How It Works and for Whom](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_9cae012d9f2a459dbbb2e7c255fc80ac.pdf) - [Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_e98747984fa144408aeea5f21907f978.pdf) - [The Politics of Genocide](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_7ab911b79800481dadaa52a34ee879a3.pdf) - [The World Turned Upside Down: Radical Ideas during the English Revolution](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_11f19bb9cb8d445fa5120085b851f28c.pdf) - [The Invisible Committee, The Coming Insurrection](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_9cb22e04c2784746b031af19aa32db3e.pdf) - [The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_78f27aeffd7f459cae8769b1a320cffa.pdf) - [A Socialist History of the French Revolution](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_4dde3f5b883c44d8a5aa92eef8422ab3.pdf) - [Communism in Central Europe in the Time of the Reformation](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_aeedbc6809bc44129a222ace5fd737d6.pdf) - [The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_6d73d7a2a34b4fa6b985c954c9f10c66.pdf) - [This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_34fb755e16c740bc834aa02061217c8c.pdf) - [The Triumph of Conservatism: A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_896e7a5990e542e39b87bfb843cf5047.pdf) - [The Conquest of Bread](https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-the-conquest-of-bread) - [The State: Its Historic Role](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_1fee28a242594a7dbc4135250d8903af.pdf) - [The French Revolution: From Its Origins to 1793](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_bf564d39758d4632b4052535388377ad.pdf) - [Jesse Lemisch, On Active Service in War and Peace: Politics and Ideology in the American Historical Profession](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_121aa51a6bbe4641bdd60a951430febd.pdf) - [Peter Linebaugh and Marcus Rediker, The Many-Headed Hydra: Sailors, Slaves, Commoners, and the Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_e6771bb140f5466198ff80955c5e8177.pdf) - [The Destruction of Reason](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_41f9850bb8394182886693ebc92c6d47.pdf) - [Labor Law for the Rank and Filer: Building Solidarity while Staying Clear of the Law](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_7924644b24c344ccacec4813454bae17.pdf) - [The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need to Know](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_b40f4b5fb0c64a288a74588fea9b9038.pdf) - [At The Cafe: Conversations on Anarchism](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_e7eb98adff1b4e07ae36e9fc77796d15.pdf) - [Late Capitalism](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_919aa8b97b9a49649a758ec5542f2542.pdf) - [Marxist Economic Theory](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_50e22ecbdbda48e987042da1d21038cf.pdf) - [The Meaning of the Second World War](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_85e338b32f944e68bfd7baf017d9c18d.pdf) - [How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_55e4e03a32e845b193c46acac2cf525d.pdf) - [Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, The German Ideology](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_40dc8186d89b44e2a87691169aa50b82.pdf) - [The Marx-Engels Reader](https://sandiegodsa.org/Marx/karl-marx-friedrich-engels-the-marx-engels-reader.pdf) - [In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of U.S. Global Power](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_a96e4f47c1c64de0bce7a31f92fe6555.pdf) - [ Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_07f5ec26ee6646bdb5c5a1f3a9902b16.pdf) - [Marxism and Politics](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_14845d22eae045718a9e6bfd26ac1c24.pdf) - [he State in Capitalist Society](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_8c40f8c5a4d34971a71f6e1d41d06986.pdf) - [Workers' Control in America: Studies in the History  of Work, Technology, and Labor Struggles](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_4aca43dfa32d47e59686afc10be96b00.pdf) - [The Ralph Nader Reader](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_5f923272870e40449544482af0a957b6.pdf) - [Progress Without People: New Technology, Unemployment, and the Message of Resistance](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_8ab9636c63384e49bee91c9f6b854f3b.pdf) - [Empiricism and Its Evolution: A Marxist View](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_9de86398b995435da3e44b68e74899b2.pdf) - [Michael Parenti, Democracy for the Few](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_10671590466d47d6bd96d0e1827e8344.pdf) - [Confessions of an Economic Hit Man](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_56675bd4ce6d436c8394e36302462a76.pdf) - [Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_6df4c1c494864ca0b93907a4ad3bc5c7.pdf) - [Capital in the Twenty-First Century](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_f8313018f9dd4bb5bcc06d90998cefcc.pdf) - [Poor People's Movements: Why They Succeed, How They Fail](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_e45d9290c18a4faf81f17b0ee0ec358a.pdf) - [The Great Transformation: The Political and Economic Origins of Our Time](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_0f0e94b4eba845f2918e897cae56ec9e.pdf) - [Rudolf Rocker, Anarcho-Syndicalism](https://files.libcom.org/files/Rocker%20-%20Anarcho-Syndicalism%20Theory%20and%20Practice.pdf) - [Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_5a72e1f764814fd09b1728f8eb0f5894.pdf) - [The Cunning of History: The Holocaust and the American Future](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_4d1549d2a0d246e280d057b6ee1cd1f0.pdf) - [The Democrats: A Critical History](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_7bbaabb312b8491b8abdf204c71df8a7.pdf) - [The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_c418bf4ea5f946a6a7c369e104414f5a.pdf) - [Subterranean Fire: A History of Working-Class Radicalism in the United States](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_549256971308410b99ffb9962271c093.pdf) - [Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_47423c6073eb433da1281cd88ffcc84a.pdf) - [Eric Williams, Capitalism and Slavery](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_2cb18ba1c5e6497a9d38fb6d5c36c9cc.pdf) - [The Origin of Capitalism: A Longer View](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_26fc2d5672064acd820f41f9c5f650fc.pdf) - [Worker Cooperatives and Revolution: History and Possibilities in the United States](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_2109ebc1c25a4cba896fa5382d71c0b3.pdf) - [Howard Zinn, The Politics of History](https://docs.wixstatic.com/ugd/9b146c_c98c6135dd104393bb63ecbbb3b76301.pdf) - [The Checklist to End Tyranny](https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Peter-Ackerman-%E2%80%93-The-Checklist-to-End-Tyranny.pdf):"It is generally assumed that tyrannies persist because they possess a monopoly on the use of force. While violence against their citizens can be decisive for a time, there is a better explanation: Tyrannies persist as long as citizens fail to understand how—without needing to resort to violence—they can undermine the tyrant’s base of support and force him from power. Oppressed populations using nonviolent tactics—such as strikes, boycotts, mass protests, and other forms of disrupting societal order—are often the most powerful drivers of their own liberation." - [Indivisible](https://indivisible.org/resource/guide): A practical guide to democracy on the brink - [The Black Belt Thesis](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/198278086-the-black-belt-thesis): The Black Belt thesis: An interview with Timothy V. Johnson - [Pro-democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations](https://dash.harvard.edu/entities/publication/0597ef24-c69f-4c49-9377-06e732a9a5b9) - [A dynamic model of nonviolent resistance strategy](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9328538/) - Why Socialism (Albert Einstein) - [The New Designer](https://direct.mit.edu/books/book/5612/The-New-DesignerRejecting-Myths-Embracing-Change): Rejecting Myths, Embracing Change. How to develop an ethical design practice and build a better world. - [From Counterculture to Cyberculture](https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo3773600.html "From Counterculture to Cyberculture"): Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism  - So You Want to Talk About Race: A 2018 non-fiction book by Ijeoma Oluo. Each chapter title is a question about race in contemporary America. Oluo outlines her opinions on the topics, as well as advice about how to talk about the issues." - Teamster Rebellion: The tale of the confrontation between the ruling class of Minneapolis and rank and file General Drivers Local 574 in the summer of 1934 - [Palestine, Israel, and U.S. Empire](https://soundcloud.com/liberation-news/sets/palestine-israel-and-the-us-empire): From the division of the Middle East by Western powers and the Zionist settler movement, to the founding of Israel and its role as a watchdog for US interests, to present day conflicts and the prospects for a just resolution—this narrative is firmly rooted in the politics of Palestinian liberation. - Secret Money Domination - [A People’s History of the United States](https://archive.org/details/peoples-history-of-the-united-states-by-howard-zinn) (622 pages) **Summary**: A different side of history from the more traditional "fundamental nationalist glorification of country". Zinn portrays a side of American history that can largely be seen as the exploitation and manipulation of the majority by rigged systems that hugely favor a small aggregate of elite rulers from across the orthodox political parties. - [The Protest Playbook](https://theradicalfederalist.substack.com/p/the-protest-playbook-how-to-win-real?triedRedirect=true): How to Win Real Change, Not Just Headlines - [Radical Federalist Field Glossary](https://theradicalfederalist.substack.com/p/radical-federalist-field-glossary): A living record. For those who refuse to collapse on cue. - [Simple Sabotage Field Manual](https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Simple_Sabotage_Field_Manual) - [Confronting Carbon Inequality](https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/handle/10546/621052/mb-confronting-carbon-inequality-210920-en.pdf) (12 pages) **Summary**: Despite sharp falls in carbon emissions in 2020 linked to the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis – which is driven by the accumulation of emissions in the atmosphere over time – continued to grow. This briefing describes new research that shows how extreme carbon inequality in recent decades has brought the world to the climate brink. It sets out how governments must use this historic juncture to build fairer economies within the limits our planet can bear. - [ The History of May Day](https://www.marxists.org/subject/mayday/articles/tracht.html) - [A Ticking Clock on American Freedom: It’s later than you think, but it’s not too late.](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/america-trump-authoritarianism-global/682528/) From The Atlantic - [DOGE Was Bad. Schedule F Will Be Worse](https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/04/trump-civil-service-schedule-f/682609/). An executive order will convert 50,000 government employees into de facto political appointees who serve only at the president’s pleasure. From The Atlantic - [Twenty lessons on Tyranny](https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-read-by-john-lithgow) John Lithgow reads Timothy Snyder’s “Twenty Lessons,” which give advice for fighting and surviving tyranny. Full transcript included. Snyder writes: “I first published these lessons more than eight years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century” - The Echo Machine: How Right-Wing Extremism Created a Post-Truth America: Covers how disinformation and misinformation leads to a more fragmented political environment, and provides possible solutions to combat echo chambers. - [[Democracy Awakening Notes on the State of America.pdf]]: Covers the time from the New Deal to now and helps contextualize current politics with comparisons over the last 150 years - [How Democracy Wins](https://www.ifyoucankeepit.org/p/why-collective-action-is-the-only): Why collective action is the only way. History shows how democracy wins - [The Lantern Letters from PolRev. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow?](https://thelanternletters.substack.com/p/here-today-gone-tomorrow): Here's the first part of three examining Democracy, Fascism, and how what is happening now compares to authoritarian regimes in the past. Folks think we're crying wolf but we know better. Here's why." - [Why it is important to not coordinate with the police](https://neighborhoodanarchists.org/why-it-is-important-to-not-coordinate-with-the-police/): If you’re considering engaging or working with the police, it might feel like you’re helping your event to be safer, but instead you’re making it easier to control, disrupt, or endanger your event. - [Simple Sabotage Field Manual CIA 1944](https://archive.org/details/simple-sabotage-field-manual-cia-1944) - [Stop Project 20205 Comic](https://stopproject2025comic.org/) Comics that educate you on the policies on Project 2025 and how it will negatively affect us all. [Available as a PDF.](https://stopproject2025comic.org/) Hell, “it’s more than fifty times as long as the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution…combined.” - [CANVAS Core Curriculum: A Guide to Effective Nonviolent Struggle](https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/guide-effective-nonviolent-struggle-2/) - The Obscured Principles by Dorian Caine. - Poverty for profit by Ann Kim - Invisible Armies: An Epic History of Guerilla Warfare from Ancient Times to the Present by Max Boot ### **Anti-Fascist Books** Over the last few years, there was been a wealth of books published covering different periods of anti-fascist history. Here are some that we’d recommend: - [Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook](https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565063/antifa-by-mark-bray/) by Mark Bray - [Against The Fascist Creep](https://www.akpress.org/against-the-fascist-creep.html) by Alexander Reid Ross - [American Antifa: The Tactics, Culture, and Practice of Militant Antifascism](https://www.routledge.com/American-Antifa-The-Tactics-Culture-and-Practice-of-Militant-Antifascism/Vysotsky/p/book/9780367210601?srsltid=AfmBOoqQlXohNGqgQDdD6TIooObWsY78tUiclurAwHmri9tglX1mSJ66) by Stanislav Vysotsky - [Militant Antifascism: 100 Years of Resistance](https://www.akpress.org/militant-anti-fascism.html) by M. Testa - [The 43 Group](https://thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/the-43-group/) by Morris Beckman - [Battle for the East End: Jewish Responses to Fascism in the 1930s](https://inpressbooks.co.uk/products/battle-for-the-east-end-jewish-responses-to-fascism-in-the-1930s) by David Rosenberg - [Beating The Fascists: The Untold Story of Anti-Fascist Action](https://www.calton-books.co.uk/books/beating-the-fascists/?srsltid=AfmBOooG0cxRrqpgLWKrWNx3KsiFAEERkzD2sN9j-kjudEXmav2WzNEF) by Sean Birchill - [No Retreat: The Secret War Between Britain’s Anti-Fascists and the Far Right](https://theblanket.library.indianapolis.iu.edu/noretreat.html) by Sean Hann and Steve Tilzey - [We Go Where They Go: The Story of Anti-Racist Action](https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1295) by Shannon Clay, Lady, Kristin Schwartz, and Michael Staudenmaieri - [The Antifa Comic Book](https://arsenalpulp.com/Books/T/The-Antifa-Comic-Book) by Gord Hill - [It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History](https://pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1467) edited by Moe Bowstern, Mic Crenshaw, Alec Dunn, Celina Flores, Julie Perini, and Erin Yanke - [40 Way To Fight Fascists Street-Legal Tactics For Community Activists](https://deathtofascism.com/files/40ways.online.2020.pdf) (32 pages) - [Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners](https://crimethinc.com/books/days-of-war-nights-of-love): we hope you will use this as a tool in your own efforts—not just to think about the world, but also to change it. This book is composed of ideas and images we’ve remorselessly stolen and adjusted to our purposes, and we hope you’ll do exactly the same with its contents. - [Recipes for Disaster](https://crimethinc.com/books/recipes-for-disaster): An Anarchist Cookbook: If you’re looking for a tactical handbook for revolutionary action, look no further. The sequel to Day of War, Nights of Love, it has 62 sections, which range from __Affinity Groups, Coalition Building,__ and __Mental Health__ to __Sabotage, Squatting,__ and __Wheatpasting__. These are illustrated with extensive technical diagrams and first-hand accounts, and prefaced with a thorough discussion of the diverse roles direct action can play in social transformation. - [Collection of books, banned or otherwise](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-JVBsvET0uDB_TBGiY_u8UBeSwWts4uM) - [The Anarchist Cookbook](https://archive.org/details/theanarchistcookbookwilliampowell/page/n1/mode/2up) (542 pages):  - [Microcosm Publishing](https://microcosmpublishing.com/): Distributes USA-printed books to the marginalized population. The company seeks to prioritize hiring special needs employees.  - [How to Afford Your Damn Meds](https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/15643) ($4.95): A Burned-Out Nurse's Guide: Got a prescription you can't afford to fill? Ever had to choose between your medications and groceries? Have you scrimped on dosages in order to squeak through to the end of the month? Kenra's a registered nurse, and she's written this helpful, affirming guide to empower American patients by providing actionable steps to take in their quest to afford their meds in our dumpster fire of a healthcare system. Some of the steps are basic reminders of your own agency and advocacy; others are arcane systemic workarounds not widely known to the general public.  - [An Urban Field Guide to the Plants, Trees, and Herbs in Your Path](https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/45009) ($6.95): Catalogs dozens of the herbs you can expect to find on walks around your neighborhood or in the woods, and explains where they came from, whether they are endemic to North America, brought here by settlers, or migrated here by other means.  - [How to Raise Money for the Amazing Causes You Care About](https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/54684) ($7.99): Whether you work at a nonprofit, serve on a board, or just wish to support good things happening in your community, this zine will help you strategize for connecting with key donors, developing compelling storytelling, capturing new contributions, articulating your big vision, and more. Professional fundraiser Nicole Gulatz accompanies her wisdom with instructive graphics and reflective activities, setting you up for your own fundraising success.  - [Household Hiding Places & How to Make Them](https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/1272) ($7.99): Safely stash your valuables or anything else you'd like to keep away from prying eyes with the help of this handy guide. Featuring practical guidance on construction, concealment, tools and materials, and using "dead space" to your advantage, here you'll find a detailed question and answer format to help you—and only you—find what you need. Whether you're worried about intruders or getting snatched up by the state, this zine gives you the practical tips, tricks, and strategies you need to create a hiding haven in order to keep yourself and your stuff safe.   - [Anarchist Survival Guide for Understanding Gestapo Interrogation Mind Games: Stay Free by Shutting the Fuck Up](https://microcosmpublishing.com/catalog/zines/13) ($4.95): This succinct guide to withstanding police questioning is a must for anyone who's in danger of being targeted by the police, by virtue of race, class, disability, housing status, or political activity or affiliation. Learn what to expect during an arrest and interrogation, and how to stay out of prison, avoid falling for tricks, and how not to rat out your friends.