Author Archives: Co-In MN

“…an apparent monthslong work slowdown that has resulted in a 51 percent drop in stops in the Fourth Precinct, along with a 45 percent drop in arrests. Through May 2, police records show that 8,504 arrests had been made across Minneapolis. That’s compared with a total of 11,879 arrests during the same period last year. […]

Counter insurgent strategies put into practice on the streets of Minneapolis. “Besides the police departments, the so-called protest leadership, community groups, and non-profit organizations have had months to hone their tactics and maneuvers. We knew this and yet we let our guard down.” [Read]

“The St. Louis area has a history of police being shot at, and police are very aware of that. The police know people are armed and willing to shoot. From the beginning of the uprising, rebels made this very clear: one of the first things to happen after they killed Mike Brown was shots being […]

Despite some significant differences in the language used compared to this project, there are some quite useful insights within this zine. “The Guerrilla Warrior doesn’t take control of space but negates control of space. She disrupts the application of power in space and continuously challenges the enemy to the (impossible) task of proving control of […]

Once again, specific to a particular locality (Austin, Texas). It is always important to analyze the histories of our neighborhoods, cities, and regions to better comprehend our current terrain. “Lamar envisioned not only the capitol, but an accompanying barrier of western forts to protect the interior of Texas from Comanche Indian raids. These raids were […]

“In addition to subverting the law, illegalist hostility is also a direct attack on the functioning of capital. Such an attack does not reject the means of production, although theft does reject the concept of production as possession, but through direct raids on the content of capital. As such, the illegalist tradition opens to a […]

A short, concise evaluation not of abstract, ideological opponents but of material enemies that we engage directly in conflict. “1) The police are everywhere present because they are everywhere disguised. 2) If the police function to manage disorder and are present everywhere, then so to is disorder. 3) In order to expose the police when […]

It’s hard to make counter-insurgency clearer than it is here. Historically, convincing certain segments of potential insurgents to police themselves has been the most effective way to stifle unrest. Somehow, this doesn’t discredit these organizations in the eyes of determined revolutionaries. “‘There was a significant push by government leaders and so-called African-American leaders for us […]

Although specific to Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area, this analysis of development can hopefully inspire similar inquiries in our respective areas. “Further development will not open space for meaningful social activity and will only constrict it. In the slew of development projects coming down the pipe, residents will be free to consume, travel […]

Although specific to London, this kind of thorough analysis can hopefully inspire others to take on similar tasks in their own respective areas. “If we want to bring some life and anarchy to the streets of London, it helps to understand the terrain we’re fighting on. This article looks at London’s role in global capitalism, […]

“[O]ne of the first actions undertaken by the French army after it conquest of Algiers in 1830 is the ‘administrativization’ of the old city, the dense and labyrinthine Casbah. They thus name the streets — the imaginaries of these names is also a colonial enterprise — and attributes a number to each house. Such an […]

“One of the reasons why the riots of April 27th were able to spread and to sustain themselves into the night is that, like other recent riots, they caught police off-guard. Heeding the call to “purge” that circulated on social media, large numbers of high-school kids turned out in the streets of Mondawmin to fling […]

“Most of the riot control units had been confined to the Downtown area. As the crowd moved through Downtown, and up East 4th St, a patron of a bar threw a drink at someone in the march and a fight broke out. The cops came storming in and arrested some of the people in the […]

This text was published on a website of military news run by veterans, and are openly partisans of order. Despite being authored by our enemies, it offers some insight into the logic of counterinsurgency waged in Ferguson, MO during the August 2014 rebellion and in similar situations elsewhere across the country. “Counter-Insurgency almost always involves […]

“The rioters, meanwhile, can mesh into the residential surroundings much easier, and new centers of rioting are formed in areas by as few as four or five people setting something on fire or breaking some windows, after which others gather. The rioters are highly mobile and not dependent on public transportation, which can easily be […]

“If we see friendship as dangerous, as a technique for undoing the processes of subjectification that make us legible to Empire, then we can begin to understand the tactics that Empire uses to keep us powerless. There is a global counter-insurgency being waged by apparatuses of control concerned by the way that we decadents and […]