Infiltration of Political Movements Is the Norm in America

Not only have infiltration budgets increased in the post-9/11 world, but restrictions on spying have been weakened and court review has become rarer. Beyond governmental infiltration, undercover agents are often dispatched by private corporations and political organizations.

Outside Support for Insurgent Movements

This article explores how outside powers support an insurgency, focusing on four types of actors: states, diasporas, refugees, and other insurgencies. It also examines the pitfalls and limits of outside support and assesses why such support is so hard to stop.

Guerrilla Sustainment and Applied Lessons of Soviet Insurgent Warfare

Turbiville emphasizes three distinct types of supply sources guerillas can use: local or prepositioned supplies, captured supplies, and supplies provided from external sources.”

Info Tech of Ancient Democracy

This flood needed managing, and mostly it was the institutions of the state that managed it, chiefly through their structure and conventions. But inevitably they had a little help from the gadgetry; for where there are voluminous information flows, as we postmoderns know only too well, there are technologies built to channel them. Here are a few that helped channel the flow of deliberation and decision in ancient Athens.

Logistical Anarchism

Battles are won or lost before they are even fought. Preparation is key. There must be a material capacity (resources, skills, experiences, etc.) to achieve tangible victories; we need to be realistic in assessing our capacities. People must see results and have reason to believe that their own organizing and active participation within social struggles will improve their lives in meaningful ways. Ritualized movement activity cannot do this; if we organize for protests we’ll only get protests.

Revolutionary Discipline with Vince Emanuele

some of that is life can beat you down, some of that is we’re living in one of the most fucked up economic periods on US history, and all this other stuff, I mean, all that’s true, but another large part of that is, and this from seeing people at least anecdotally, and I’d like to see a study on this, but just how many people sort of fell away because they couldn’t maintain certain level of discipline, like I have it in my head that this is what I’m doing for the rest of my life.