Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook

The 2004 direct action handbook published by the CrimethInc. collective, whose contributors are deliberately unnamed as a matter of principle.

Original byline

CrimethInc. collective

Published

2004

Form

Other works

Authorship

Deliberately anonymous byline

Reason for anonymity

Political risk

Copyright

In copyright

The authorship story

Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook was published in 2004 by the CrimethInc. ex-Workers Collective, a decentralized anarchist network that publishes anonymously on principle: texts are credited to the collective, not to individuals, both for security and as a rejection of authorial property. The book compiles tactics for protest and direct action in a deliberate answer to the older Anarchist Cookbook. The collective byline is the documented record, and the individual contributors are deliberately anonymous. In line with this site's standards, that choice is reported and respected, not investigated.

Questions readers ask

Related works

• Pseudonym

  Rolling Thunder

  Published 2005 · other

  An anarchist journal of eleven issues, 2005 to 2014, published by the CrimethInc. collective with deliberately unnamed contributors.

• Later revealed

  A Warning

  Published 2019 · other

  The 2019 book credited to Anonymous, a senior Trump administration official. Miles Taylor revealed himself as the author in 2020.

• Pseudonym

  Gesta Hungarorum

  Published 1200 · other

  The oldest surviving Hungarian chronicle, written around 1200 by an author who signed only 'P. dictus magister', known ever since as Anonymus.

• Pseudonym

  Jack Pots

  Published 1900 · other

  A 1900 collection of poker stories published under the byline Eugene Edwards, believed by card scholarship to be another pseudonym of the unidentified S. W. Erdnase.

More works like Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook