Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook
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Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook was released by the anarchist collective CrimethInc in December of 2004. It provides information and strategies useful to activists. There are sections on forming affinity groups, organizing demonstrations, stenciling, black blocs, sabotage, squatting, and more personal topics like mental health and "Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence." It was written over a span of three years by dozens of radical collectives from all over the world working together.
The title alludes to The Anarchist Cookbook, a controversial title from 1971. CrimethInc denounces the earlier book, saying it was "not composed or released by anarchists, not derived from anarchist practice, not intended to promote freedom and autonomy or challenge repressive power--and was barely a cookbook, as the recipes in it are notoriously unreliable." The following is an alphabetical list of all topics covered in the 624 page book:
- Affinity Groups
- Antifascist Action
- Asphalt Mosaic
- Banner Drops and Banner Hoists
- Behavioral Cut-ups
- Bicycle Collectives
- Bicycle Parades
- Painting by Bicycle
- How to Make a Bicycle into a Record Player
- Billboard Improvement (see also: Billboard Liberation Front)
- Blocs, Black and Otherwise
- Blockades and Lockdowns
- Classroom Takeover
- Coalition Building
- Collectives
- Corporate Downsizing
- Distribution, Tabling, and Infoshops
- Dumpster Diving
- Effigies
- Evasion
- Festivals
- Food Not Bombs
- Graffiti
- Guerrilla Performances
- Health Care
- Hijacking Events
- Hitchhiking
- Infiltration
- Inflatables
- Legal Support
- Marches and Parades
- Independent Media
- Mainstream Media
- Mental Health
- Musical Instruments
- Newspaper Wraps
- Nonmonogamous Relationships
- Parties
- Portrait Exchange
- Reclaim the Streets
- How to Build a Rocket stove
- Sabotage
- Screenprinting
- Security Culture
- Sex
- Shoplifting
- Smoke Bombs
- Solidarity
- Spell Casting
- Squatting
- Stenciling
- Stickering
- Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence
- Surviving a Felony Trial
- Thinktanks
- Torches
- Undermining Oppression
- Unemployment
- Utilities
- Wheat pasting