Extremist Sabotage Manual Site “Warrior Up” Resurfaces with Renewed Call to Attack U.S. Infrastructure
Executive Summary
After a five-year absence, the radical eco-extremist website Warrior Up has re-emerged online, publishing a new library of detailed arson and sabotage instructions targeting critical infrastructure. Now featuring updated guides such as “Burning Cables for Beginners” and “A Recipe for Leaving No Trace,” the site encourages lone actors and radical cells to attack industrial systems, electricity grids, and vehicles with low-cost, anonymous tools. Intelligence observers warn the site’s return may catalyze a wave of anti-tech, anti-state violence amid rising domestic instability.
Analysis
Warrior Up—a notorious anarchist website originally linked to the anti-civilization fringe of the environmental movement—has relaunched as of May 14, 2025, with a sharpened focus on infrastructure disruption. The new iteration is not merely a revival of archival material but an active call to action for individuals to “sabotage the megamachine,” including updated methods for delayed ignition, targeting electric substations, and destroying signal relay boxes.
One of the most concerning additions is the freshly published “Burning Cables for Beginners”, described as a translated and modernized version of past Earth Liberation Front arson manuals. The guide offers updated fire-setting techniques using easily obtainable materials from hardware or grocery stores, explicitly designed for anonymity and forensic countermeasures. Users are instructed to access and store content using Tails, a privacy-focused operating system, and to avoid printing physical copies to evade law enforcement evidence collection.
Other pages detail
Vehicle arson tutorials, recommending vaseline-soaked cotton balls and firestarter cubes for efficient sabotage;
Railway signaling destruction techniques, including step-by-step device construction;
Power pylon sabotage cases, drawn from recent attacks in France, with technical advice on bolt removal and explosive placement;
Mapping projects targeting U.S. infrastructure, extracted from past anti-tech zines such as Anti-Tech Quarterly and Garden.
The site also includes a contact form and encrypted email through Autistici, a platform often used by international anarchist networks. The administrators solicit anonymous submissions, and the language of the site leans heavily into ideological justifications for industrial sabotage, referencing Mario Savio and quoting previous ELF communiqués.
In a broader context, the relaunch coincides with rising eco-anxiety, anti-state sentiments under the Trump administration, and a growing digital ecosystem for extremist technical knowledge sharing. Counterterrorism analysts are expected to monitor whether Warrior Up’s content migrates to closed platforms or spurs copycat operations.
