HOUDINI Magazine's Weeks as Decades Reading List
When it's socialism or barbarism and you already live in the barbarism.
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- Erik Houdini - 8 Points of Houdinism — the lock picker's ethoes, essential reading
- Nechayev - Catechism of a Revolutionary — ruthless, icy blueprint for dedication
- Prairie Fire - Weather Underground — ideological napalm from a bygone underground, essential reading
- V.I. Lenin - What Is to Be Done? — strategy bible for real-world revolution moves, essential reading
- George Jackson - Blood in My Eye — the most important book in this list, essential reading
- Malcolm X - By Any Means Necessary — power, pure and undiluted
- comité invisible - The Coming Insurrection — poetic revolution planning manual
- Thomas Sankara - The revolution cannot triumph without the emancipation of women — radical feminism meets anti-imperialism, essential reading
- Fred Hampton - Power Anywhere There's People — short, sharp truth from a murdered visionary, essential reading
- Red Army Faction - Urban Guerilla Concept — wild west German cell warfare theory
- Insurrectionary Anarchy; Organizing for Attack — raw anarchist gospel, less philosophy more firebomb
- Mao Tse Tung - On Guerilla Warfare — foundation text for asymmetrical warfare
- Che Guevara - On Guerilla Warfare — straight from the man with the beret
- Lenin - On Guerilla Warfare — Bolshevik angle on small group combat
- General Giap - People’s War, People’s Army — Vietnam’s rebel mastermind laying it out
- Robert Taber - The War of the Flea — the definitive flea vs. dog lesson, essential reading
- Carlos Marighella - Minimanual of the Urban Guerrilla — short, indepth guide for urban combat
- Clausewitz - On War — old-world war philosophy that was required reading for the Red Army
- SACP - How to Master Secret Work — double life instructions, opsec guide
- Joe Burns - No More Fake Strikes — calling out performative activism
- Tabitha de Bruin - Kanesatake Resistance (Oka Crisis) — a tale of guerilla resistance from First Nations people
- IWW - Workers' Organizing Guide — labor is entitled to all it creates
- 198 Methods of Nonviolent Action — the *other* form of sabotage
- William E. Trautmann - Direct Action and Sabotage — there's a reason the black cat stands for sabatoge
- Luxemburg Collective - Direct Action Handbook — clean, well-written how-to rebel guide
- Anonymous - Basic Blockading — start here if you’re new to blockades
- Anonymous - Blockade, Occupy, Strike Back — taking escalation to the next rung, essential reading
- Dermot Sreenan - The 1931 Barcelona Rent Strike — historic example of collective leverage
- Crimethinc. - Direct Action Guide — punk anarcho action manual
- Crimethinc. - Riot Munitions Guide — survival manual for when the gas canisters start flying
- Critical Resistance - Surviving Solitary Confinement — mental armor for prison hell
- Practical Security for Campus Activists — how not to get burned
- Claire Wolfe - RATS! Protecting Yourself From Snitches — essential manual
- Leave No Trace - Common Sense Guide to Forensics — digital/physical anti-forensics
- How to Defend Yourself During Police Interrogation — learn before you talk, essential reading
- RANT Collective - Organizing in Prison — for when the walls close in
- TM 31-210 - US Army Improvised Munitions Handbook — ugly, dangerous, extremely practical
- How to Shoot Down A Drone — drone warfare is the present, not the future
- How To Paint With a Fire Extinguisher — spray and pray, tag your local recruiter's office
- Do No Harm Coalition - Street Medic Training — save your comrades when the rubber bullets hit
- Maxwell Houdini - Blood Should Stay in the Body: Tourniquet Tips — simple, life-saving zine
- Art of Manliness - DIY First Aid Kit — the war needs medics too
- Miyamoto Musashi - Book of Five Rings — timeless warrior headspace, essential reading
- 48 Laws of Power - Rundown — dirty moves manual for modern life
- 12 Rules for Radicals — simple wisdom for subversion that sticks
- Citizens Handbook - Organizing Rules — the meta-rules that govern real movement-making
- Marcus Aurelius - Meditations — making your mind strong to handle the worst of it