Recipes for Disaster

Recipes for Disaster

Author	Anonymous
Cover artist	PFMAG
Country	United States
Language	English
Subject	Direct action
Genre	How-to, cookbooks, handbooks
Publisher	CrimethInc.
Publication date	December 2004
Pages	624
ISBN	0-9709101-4-2
OCLC	173082607
Preceded by	Days of War, Nights of Love
Followed by	Expect Resistance

Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook is an anarchist book released by the CrimethInc. collective in December 2004. It provides information on and strategies for direct action useful to activists and dissenters. There are sections on forming affinity groups, organizing demonstrations, stenciling, black blocs, sabotage, squatting, and more personal topics like mental health and "Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence". It was written over a span of three years by dozens of radical collectives from all over the world working together.

The title alludes to The Anarchist Cookbook, a controversial book from 1971. CrimethInc. denounces the earlier book, saying it was "not composed or released by anarchists, not derived from anarchist practice, not intended to promote freedom and autonomy or challenge repressive power--and was barely a cookbook, as the recipes in it are notoriously unreliable. At best, it was a fraud, a spoof; at worst, an attempt to undermine the legitimacy of anarchist practice, and cause readers to injure themselves. The recent movie by the same name is equally embarrassing, not so much to anarchists as to the industry that produced it."^[1]

The work was positively reviewed in Fifth Estate (spring/summer 2005) and Clamor (spring 2006, #36), as well as by Kirsten Anderberg.^[2]

Contents

The book contains chapters with the following headings:

Affinity Groups Antifascist Action Asphalt Mosaic Banner Drops and Banner Hoists Behavioral Cut-ups Bicycle Collectives Bicycle Parades Painting by Bicycle How to Make a Bicycle into a Record Player Billboard Improvement (see also: Billboard Liberation Front) Blocs, Black and Otherwise (see also: Black Bloc) Blockades and Lockdowns Classroom Takeover Coalition Building Collectives Corporate Downsizing Distribution, Tabling, and Infoshops Dumpster Diving Effigies Evasion Festivals Food Not Bombs Graffiti Guerrilla Performances Health Care Hijacking Events Hitchhiking Infiltration Inflatables Legal Support

Marches and Parades Independent Media Mainstream Media Mental Health Musical Instruments Newspaper Wraps Nonmonogamous Relationships Parties Portrait Exchange Reclaim the Streets How to Build a Rocket stove Sabotage Screenprinting Security Culture Sex Shoplifting Smoke bombs Solidarity Spell Casting Squatting Stenciling Stickering Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence Surviving a Felony Trial Thinktanks Torches Undermining Oppression Unemployment Utilities Wheat pasting

See also

• Steal This Book

References

1. Taylor, Craig (September 27, 2004). "Interview with The Guardian, September 2004". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 11, 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2009.
2. "Reviews of Recipes for Disaster". CrimethInc.com. CrimethInc. Archived from the original on February 11, 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2009.

External links

• "Book Review: Recipes for Disaster" - Steve Hise's review for Portland Indymedia