Extremists Share Zine Highlighting and Glorifying Their Attacks Against Infrastructure
Executive Summary
A new zine published on the anarchist platform CrimethInc. offers a comprehensive retrospective on the movement to “Stop Cop City” in Atlanta, celebrating acts of sabotage and vandalism as exemplary resistance. Framed as a historical analysis and strategic guide, the 30,000-word manifesto reflects on militant tactics used from 2021 to early 2025, from setting construction machinery ablaze to coordinated attacks on corporate infrastructure across the U.S. and abroad. It praises the movement’s embrace of sabotage, non-cooperation with law enforcement, and international solidarity with causes like Gaza and animal liberation. The zine also critiques “moderate” activists, liberal allies, and traditional protest models, favoring confrontation and decentralization. It ties the fate of “Cop City” to wider anti-policing, anti-capitalist, and anti-state objectives while openly advocating for a radical escalation of tactics in the face of growing repression under the second Trump administration.
Analysis
The zine, Cop City Is Everywhere, reads like both a chronicle and a how-to manual for radical direct action. It lionizes a campaign that began with forest encampments and ended with coordinated arsons, black blocs, sabotage of police recruitment events, and attacks on insurance providers linked to law enforcement infrastructure. The authors frame the struggle as a defining confrontation between grassroots resistance and state-backed repression. With frequent references to international revolutionary dates and figures, the piece invokes a global insurgent tradition.
Militant actions are not only documented in painstaking detail but explicitly valorized. A chronological appendix lists dozens of acts including arsons, sabotage of surveillance equipment, destruction of police vehicles, vandalism of banks, disruption of public events, and international solidarity attacks in Europe and Latin America. Throughout, the tone is defiant: those accused of terrorism and sabotage are lauded as heroes, and calls for nonviolence or legal avenues are rejected as distractions or betrayals.
The movement’s failure to halt Cop City’s construction is acknowledged—but rather than dissuading further resistance, the authors use it to advocate for deeper radicalization. They argue that such failures should teach future activists to abandon mass-movement aspirations and embrace small-scale, high-impact sabotage cells. The document identifies police, corporate developers, and state actors as the enemy, and declares the destruction of “infrastructure of domination” as both morally necessary and tactically effective.
The zine’s release aligns with broader unrest around Gaza solidarity protests and a stated desire to merge those causes. It also attempts to place the Atlanta movement as a spiritual successor to the George Floyd uprising, positioning it within an ongoing trajectory of “revolutionary struggle” against the U.S. government.
