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# A flashpoint action reading list
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/flashpoint-action-reading-list/
- Published: 2013-12-04T11:12:15.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:04:23.000Z
- Description: Today Transformation published the first article in our debate on flashpoint action. Yalla Matame argued that flashpoints are a way of creating and radicalizing larger social movements. On 6th December we will publish Bellamy's response. Here is a reading list for the interested reader to find out
- Author: Yalla Matame
- Tags: Conflict & security, #Migrated, Politics & activism, transformative nonviolence, conflict, International politics, Police brutality, Violent resistance, Flashpoint action, Democracy and government, ideas, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:53

To follow the debate, see Yalla Matame's "[What's the point of flashpoint action?](http://www.opendemocracy.net/transformation/yalla-matame/whats-point-of-flashpoint-action)" Bellamy's response will be published on 6th December. 

- **FOR flashpoint action, Yalla Matame recommends:**

Bonanno, Alfredo M. [*The Insurrectional Project*](http://325.nostate.net/library/insurr-project.pdf?ref=opendemocracy.net).

Carter, David. *Stonewall: The riots that sparked the gay revolution.*

Crimethinc Ex-Workers’ Collective. "[Rolling Thunder: Say you want an insurrection](http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/rollingthunder/?ref=opendemocracy.net)"

Potter, Will*.* [*Green Is The New Red*](http://www.amazon.com/Green-New-Red-Insiders-Movement/dp/087286538X?ref=opendemocracy.net)

Puar, Jasbir. *Terrorist Assemblages*

Tiqqun. "[How is it to be done?](http://tiqqunista.jottit.com/how%5Fis%5Fit%5Fto%5Fbe%5Fdone%3F?ref=opendemocracy.net)"

[Do or Die #10](http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no10/?ref=opendemocracy.net). [“Insurrectionary Anarchy: Organizing for attack”](http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no10/anarchy.htm?ref=opendemocracy.net)

- **AGAINST flashpoint action, Bellamy recommends:**

Bookchin, Murray. "[Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm](http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist%5FArchives/bookchin/soclife.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)"

De Cleyre, Voltairine. “[Direct Action](http://www.spunk.org/library/writers/decleyre/sp001334.html?ref=opendemocracy.net)”

Imrie, Doug. “[The 'Illegalists'](http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/doug-imrie-the-illegalists?ref=opendemocracy.net)”

Stirner, Max. *The Ego and Its Own*

Zerzan, John; "[Why Hope?](http://anarchistnews.org/content/why-hope?ref=opendemocracy.net)"