Homes Not Jails: An Anarchist Guide to Housing

From C4SS by Logan Marie Glitterbomb

As someone who has been homeless on multiple occasions, housing is an issue that I find to be extremely important. The typical view of how to help people achieve and maintain housing is one of homeless shelters, transitional housing, welfare programs, public housing, landlords, predatory bank loans, mortgages, evictions, and artificial scarcity. So how do we move away from this towards something that better meets our needs as a society made up of people who all need shelter?

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An Anarchist's Guide to No Country for Old Men

From Transmetropolitan Review

One of the few contemporary writers he liked and knew well was Edward Abbey, author of The Monkey Wrench Gang, which, despite it’s many flaws, was highly influential among anarchists in the United States, given it encouraged industrial sabotage in defense of the earth.

An Anarchist’s Guide to Erewhon

From The Transmetropolitan Review

If the reader will excuse me, I’ll say nothing of the circumstances which led me to leave my native country; the narrative would be tedious to you and painful to myself. Needless to say, I found myself at the base of tall, foreign mountains, brown and black and gray, sparsely speckled with small plants of the darkest green. Beneath these titanic mountains ran a great causeway, a freeway, commonly known to the locals as the 210, or the Foothill Freeway.

How to Host a Haunted House

From CrimethInc.

A Guide for Anarchists with a Video Walkthrough

In the following account, a participant describes how people involved in an anarchist social center set up a haunted house last October as a fundraiser to support defendants facing RICO charges as a consequence of repression targeting the movement to Stop Cop City. This is an excellent example of how creative efforts can add a joyous element to political outreach and legal support.

Review: Practical Anarchism: A Guide for Everyday Life

From Freedom News by Uri Gordon

OMG it’s an anarchist self-help book! No, not an ironic one for burnt-out activists. This is a guide to rethinking everyday life for readers with no priors. Each chapter in Practical Anarchism starts with a few bullet points (‘you aren’t your job’; ‘study can take place anywhere’; ‘rethink the arrangement of our lives’) and ends with FAQ (‘do I have to be polyamorous?’; ‘can I have my own toothbrush’?)

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