Conflict & security

A flashpoint action reading list

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

By Yalla Matame and Bellamy

Published: December 04, 2013, 11:12 am

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To follow the debate, see Yalla Matame's "What's the 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.

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

Crimethinc Ex-Workers’ Collective. "Rolling Thunder: Say you want an insurrection"

Potter, Will. Green Is The New Red

Puar, Jasbir. Terrorist Assemblages

Tiqqun. "How is it to be done?"

Do or Die #10. “Insurrectionary Anarchy: Organizing for attack”

AGAINST flashpoint action, Bellamy recommends:

Bookchin, Murray. "Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm"

De Cleyre, Voltairine. “Direct Action”

Imrie, Doug. “The 'Illegalists'”

Stirner, Max. The Ego and Its Own

Zerzan, John; "Why Hope?"

Yalla Matame

Yalla Matame is a queer woman of color who lives in a warehouse in Oakland, CA. Her political work focuses on prison abolition, radical art, feminism, queerness. She is a core collective member of the the anarchist counterinformation project for the Bay Area, FireWorks (under the guise of Gansett). She is currently working on starting a radical printing press to publish work by authors outside of the ivory tower.

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Bellamy

Bellamy lives in Oakland, California in a cooperative he co-founded. He is a white cis-male with vegan and anarchist perspectives. He has worked in community organizing around housing rights, domestic violence advocacy, and permaculture and urban gardening projects. He co-hosts Free Radical Radio (freeradicalradio.tumblr.com), a weekly broadcast on Berkeley Liberation Radio offering an anarchist analysis and commentary on both local and international events that highlights Bay Area events and activism.

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