New shit just in! Includes Crimethinc. restocks.


Give Me Back #5
64 pages, full size, newsprint, $2
Give Me Back is a DIY punk music magazine out of Washington DC. Featured in issue #5 are: PYGMY LUSH, DEAD FRIENDS, KIMYA DAWSON, NEXT VICTIM, and painter and album illustrator Sean Mahan. Plus various contributor columns, many of them written by some of our favorite zinesters. These include Keep Loving Keep Fighting, Avow, HPV, and America? zines. Give Me Back also has sections of zine and album reviews. At $2, this is an awesome deal.


Expect Resistance
346 pages, 5.5" x 8.5" x .79", $15
Expect Resistance is not one but three books, each of which may be read as a complete work unto itself. The first book, printed in standard black ink, continues the inquiry into modern life and its discontents begun in Days of War, Nights of Love. Just as that book included improved versions of texts originally published between 1996 and 1999, this book draws on CrimethInc. material from 2000 to 2004, painstakingly refined and augmented with a great deal of new content. The second book, in red ink, is a composite account, related by three narrators, of the adventures and tribulations that inevitably ensue when people pursuing their dreams enter into conflict with the world as it is.

Together these comprise a third book, an exploration of the complex relationship between ideals and reality. Expect Resistance is a field manual for a field on which all manuals are useless, a meditation on individual transformation and collective resistance in disastrous times, and a masterpiece that raises the bar for radical publishing.


Rolling Thunder #5
106 pages, full size, $10
This issue focuses on different ways of conceptualizing strategy, exploring the ways anarchist efforts can be repressed, assimilated, and neutralized only to reappear in new forms. It opens with a study by David Graeber of the successes and stumbling blocks of direct action movements over the past thirty years, followed by a special report distilling lessons from the recent wave of federal repression known as the Green Scare. Two features give the inside story on anarchist mobilizations overseas via interviews, personal narratives, and 16 pages of full color photos: an examination of the riots following the eviction of Denmark’s beloved social center Ungdomshuset, and a full review of last summer’s G8 protests in Germany. The issue is rounded out by a subject’s analysis of the medical study industry as a case study in modern day precarious labor, a spotlight on anarchist organizing in Modesto, California, and reviews of controversial works by anti-art duo Brener and Schurz. As always, 100% ad-free.


Rolling Thunder #6
106 pages, full size, $10
The theme of Rolling Thunder #6 is experimentation: the processes by which radicals invent and refine new approaches. To this end, it features an evaluation of the model activists have used to target the animal testing corporation HLS, discussing whether it could be effective in other contexts; a photoessay documenting the efforts of Swedish anarchists who, unable to defend a squat, built a social center from the ground up; a consideration of the role proper support plays in cultivating communities of resistance; a report from student strikes and riots in Colombia; and an analysis of the past decade of anarchist organizing in NYC. In addition, the issue includes an investigation of the function of gift shops in maintaining global empire, historical accounts of Bakunin’s daring escape from Sibera and the riots that killed off the hated poll tax in Britain, and lots more. As usual, there are 16 pages of full color, plenty of fun tidbits, and no advertisements.


Rolling Thunder #7
114 pages, full size, $10
In this issue, anarchists are covered coordinating mass mobilizations against the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, provoking major clashes; the global economy collapsed; Greece experienced an anarchist-organized insurrection in response to a police murder; and at the beginning of 2009, Oakland was shaken by similar unrest. The coverage pushes beyond the surface of events to offer insight into the organizing structures and historical background, fleshing out timelines and analyses with personal narratives and cutting-edge cartography. In addition to all this, the issue includes an exploration of the relationship between the punk subculture and the anarchist movement, complemented by interviews with bands and collectives from beyond the white punk ghetto, and ends with a primer on small-town organizing using Winona, Minnesota as a case study. No advertisements; 24 pages in full color.


Rolling Thunder #8
106 pages, full size, $10
Balancing out the previous issue’s focus on breaking news, Rolling Thunder #8 steps back to reflect on the priorities and relationships that can make resistance effective and infectious. The centerpiece of this issue is a critical examination of the strengths and shortcomings of contemporary insurrectionist theory and practice, spanning 24 pages and a wide range of lines of inquiry. Elsewhere herein, one can find a guide to crafting constructive accountability processes, a survey of the past four decades of anarchist activity in Chile, and a report from San Francisco exploring the broader context of anarchist organizing leading up to and following the Oakland riots covered in Rolling Thunder #7. Amidst these is a retrospective by a member of the legendary clandestine anti-prison group Os Cangaceiros, distilling the lessons of years of underground struggle. All this is rounded out by inspiring accounts, entertaining anecdotes, magical realist fiction, and much more. No advertisements; 16 full-color pages.


Posters: Crisis is Business as Usual; Iraq Anti-Enlistment
22"x14", $6 for a set of 6 with the posters listed previously; $2 each

Crisis is Business as Usual: A large 22"x14" two-color poster printed on white book paper, made to be deployed in a variety of environments—appropariate since the "financial crisis" has reached into just about every nook of modern 1st-world life. Everyone is asking "Why?" and "How?", let's put the answers where people can see them with this simple design and huge headline, printed only on one side for easy wheatpasting.

Iraq Anti-Enlistment: A large 22"x14" two-color poster that the creators hoped was to become dated and irrelevant; unfortunately, it is now feared that it will remain timely for years to come. In hopes of shortening those years, a bold design was used and printed only on one side for easy wheatpasting—post them everywhere potential recruits and deserters might see them. A fairly comprehensive list of resources and groups related to conscientious objection, G.I. rights, and anti-recruitment resistance can be found at Objector.org.