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We fell in love in the wreckage, shouted out songs in the uproar, danced joyfully in the heaviest shackles they could forge; we smuggled our stories through the gauntlets of silence, starvation, and subjugation, to bring them back to life again and again as bombs and beating hearts; we built castles in the sky from the ruins of hell on earth...

Check out www.crimethinc.com for more info, and the music section for some of the sounds of sedition our friends at CrimethInc have issued.

Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink for Beginners. $15
Paperback book. 286 pages. ISBN 0-9709101-0-X.
The book that started it all. Since its first publication in 2000, Days of War, Nights of Love has quite literally kick-started a whole new generation of troublemakers, misfits, disobedients and delinquents with its incendiary passion and unreasonable demands. Boasting a format that is truly beyond description, it contains articles, essays, stories, interviews, posters, artwork, maps, myths, realities, fantasies, historical accounts, declarations, manifestos, and exclamations aimed at the revolution of your world. Read it and weep, then move onwards and upwards to its sister text Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook (see below) and let's get down to fucken business!

"Less of a novel and more of an exploded manifesto, Days of War, Nights of Love might be just what we need. It is the type of book you'd thumb through in the store and actually want to buy (or steal)... Topics range from anarchy to hierarchy, work to sex, alienation to liberation and technology, but every page turns with a passion for a freer life... When you make it to the end, the personal testimonials about not working and the closing art pieces become an aria of voices urging you to close the book and live. Glorious, even for the most cynical reader. What more can we ask from a book?" - Clamor Magazine

Evasion. By Anonymous. $15
Paperback book. 288 pages. ISBN 0-9709101-1-8.
An autobiographical narrative of transience, crime and freedom, where the author and his co-conspirators evade not just arrest, but the boredom and resignation of modern civilized life. No book is more likely to provoke you to quit your job, eat garbage, break free and never look back.

". . . then life began, and since then we remember each dumpster, abandoned house, and foot-chase by retail security. At night, after running around, plotting and scheming, our checklist items all crossed out, we paused to think,'What to do tomorrow?' and the answer was always, 'As we please . . .'"

Expect Resistance: A Field Manual. $15
Paperback book. 346 pages. ISBN 0-9709101-1-8.
"Expect Resistance is not one but three books, each of which may be read as a complete work unto itself. The first book, printed in standard black ink, continues the inquiry into modern life and its discontents begun in Days of War, Nights of Love. Just as that book included improved versions of texts originally published between 1996 and 1999, this book draws on CrimethInc. material from 2000 to 2004, painstakingly refined and augmented with a great deal of new content. The second book, in red ink, is a composite account, related by three narrators, of the adventures and tribulations that inevitably ensue when people pursuing their dreams enter into conflict with the world as it is. Together these comprise a third book, an exploration of the complex relationship between ideals and reality. Expect Resistance is a field manual for a field on which all manuals are useless, a meditation on individual transformation and collective resistance in disastrous times, and a masterpiece that raises the bar for radical publishing."

Fighting for our Lives. free!
Newsprint magazine. 24 pages.
CrimethInc's infamous tract on the joys of anarchy is still available! One of the very best short introductions to "the revolutionary idea that no one is more qualified than you are to decide what your life will be", this is ideal for enclosing with the mix-tape you're making that rebellious niece of yours, or for throwing at your parents when they won't stop hassling you to get a job or do your homework, or for just sitting down and being reminded why we live these crazy lives, and fight these battles that can sometimes seem un-winnable.

Inside Front #13. $10
Newsprint magazine + CD. 160 pages.
The epic "final" issue of Inside Front (there was actually a "Reunion Issue" that came later, but sadly copies of this can no longer be found in any quantity anywhere on planet Earth). Inside Front, you may or may not be aware, was the print birth place of CrimethInc, and was also the finest hardcore punk zine of all time bar none - perhaps even a contender for finest zine of all time bar none. This issue, for instance, has 160 pages of high-quality writing on the following subjects, to name a few: escaping the cages of gender, introduction to non-monogamous relationships, outrageously bizarre and ambitious projects you can undertake with your friends besides starting another hardcore punk band, dumpster diving, capoeira, death and mortality, anti-capitalist demonstrations around the world, plus what is to my mind the only reviews section to ever appear in a punk zine (though it's not just punk that's reviewed) that is actually a joy to read... and as if all that wasn't enough, this issue of IF also comes with a 14 band compilation of some of the very best DIY hardcore punk you could ever shake your fist to!

Inside Front #12. $10
Newsprint magazine + 6". 140 pages.
Issue 12 of Inside Front, first released in May 1999, comes with the legendary 6" record by Finnish maniacs Umlaut, and contains a lengthy and fascinating retrospective on Refused, an accesible introduction to Situationism, an interview with Third World hardcore warriors Point of No Return and Self Conviction, Greg Bennick's incredible 'Shattering the Illusion of Perfection' column, scene reports from beyond the punk scene all over the world, reviews well worth reading (no, really!), and lots more.

Inside Front #10. $8
Newsprint magazine + 7". 88 pages.
Now perhaps i was out of the loop somewhat in 1997, but i don't recall all that many hardcore punk zines coming out with 6 page spreads in support of the Unabomber, do you? In fact, I think Inside Front may have been the only one - a fact which speaks volumes about how far beyond the scene politics and meaningless bullshit of regular hardcore punk publications IF actually was. This issue also has writings on the prison industrial complex, commodity culture, the endless possibilities of militant unemployment, and interviews with Systral, Culture and Stalingrad. AND it also comes with a 7" by DIY hardcore band Outlast.

Inside Front #9. $7
Newsprint magazine + 7". 72 pages.
From the formative early days of CrimethInc (1996) comes Inside Front #9. Rants on work, televison, prison, and, of course, hardcore punk, a how-to on DIY touring, part 1 of Greg Bennick's wonderful column on his travels through India, and interviews with euro-metallers Congress and Timebomb. Comes with a 7" sampler from Good Life Recordings (my how things change!) featuring Congress, Liar, Regression and Shortsight.

Off the Map. By Hib and Kika. $7
Paperback book. 146 pages. ISBN 0-9709101-3-4.
A punk rock vision quest told in the tradition of the anarchist travel story, Off the Map is narrated by two young women as they discard their maps, fears, and anything resembling a plan, and set off on the winds of the world. Wandering across Europe, the dozens of vignettes are the details of the whole - a squatted castle surrounded by tourists on the Spanish coast, a philosophizing businessman on the highways of France, a placa full of los crustos in Barcelona, a diseased foot in a Belgian train squat, a glow bug on the dew-covered grass of anywhere - a magical, novel-like folktale for the end of the world.

Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook. $20
Paperback book. 624 pages. ISBN 0-9709101-4-2.
3 years in the making, Recipes for Disaster is the long-awaited follow-up to the CrimethInc collective's first book, Days of War, Nights of Love. This 624 page manual compliments the romance and idealism of that earlier work with practical information and instruction. Over 30 collectives collaborated in testing, composing and editing the book's 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. If you're looking for a tactical handbook for revolutionary action, look no further.

Rolling Thunder: An Anarchist Journal of Dangerous Living - #4. $10
Spine-bound magazine. 104 pages.
The fourth and best yet issue of Rolling Thunder! The centerpiece of this one is a full-color photoessay chronicling the popular uprising during which the people of Oaxaca, Mexico wrested control of their city from the government for a period of months. Continuing that theme, other feature articles cover the defense and eviction of South Central Farm in Los Angeles, the Really Really Free Market as a model for reclaiming public space from capitalism and bureaucracy, the resurgence of squatting in Buffalo of all places, the university occupation movement in France, and the ins and outs of urban exploration. The remainder of the issue includes a comprehensive guide to supporting prisoners and defendants, the lyrics to “The Big Rock Candy Mountain” as interpreted by acclaimed comic artist Nate Powell, a gallery of ready-to-use stencils, and plenty of the edgy artwork and poignant prose you’ve come to expect.

Rolling Thunder: An Anarchist Journal of Dangerous Living - #3. $10
Spine-bound magazine. 112 pages.
This issue offers coverage of the recent wave of anti-anarchist repression, a retrospective on the work of notorious graffiti artist(s) BORF, international reports from last Mayday’s pro-immigrant rallies, analysis of the Bush regime’s strategy to promote terrorism worldwide, and a comprehensive discussion of the struggle against domestic violence. It also features a how-to guide for funneling resources out of universities, a history of queer direct action, and the usual eyewitness accounts and adventure stories—including a spy’s-eye-view of factory farming and a narrow escape from the flaming Pentagon on September 11, 2001.

Rolling Thunder: An Anarchist Journal of Dangerous Living - #2. $10
Spine-bound magazine. 104 pages.
The lengthiest articles in the second issue of Rolling Thunder are an analysis of last summer’s protests against the G8 meeting in Scotland, a retrospective on squatting and resistance culture in northern Europe, and an in-depth discussion of subcultural marginality and refusal that is to dropping out what the first issue’s sixteen-page feature article was to protest activism. The last of these is rounded out by an inside report on the workings of current labor unions, a memoir of gender mutiny, and an account of how to establish a squatted community center; other highlights include an intimate reflection on the patterns by which abusive relationships perpetuate themselves and a primer on communications technology for direct action.

Wasted Indeed: Anarchy & Alcohol. FREE
A5 zine. 8 pages.
For those who tragically missed out on the final issue of Inside Front a few years back, the finest DIY anarcho-punk zine the world has ever seen, this is a small zine version of one of the excellent articles that appeared therein. It's an anarchist polemic not so much against alcohol - although it is that - as for a culture of resistance capable of providing its own seditious intoxication. Highly recommended reading for anarchists who drink, anarchists who don't, and anyone else besides.

"We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it. "Life sucks - get drunk" is the essence of the argument that enters our ears from our masters' tongues and then passes out of our own slurring mouths, perpetuating whatever incidental and unnecessary truths it may refer to - but we're not falling for it any longer! Against inebriation - and for drunkenness! Burn every liquor store, and replace them with playgrounds!"

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