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How to overthrow corporate rule in 5 not-so-easy steps

No Corps | 15.12.2008 16:08 | Globalisation | Workers' Movements

Corporate globalization continues to ravage the planet and our lives

but there [b]is[/b] something-in fact 5 things-we can do about it!

In addition to making [b]every day[/b] Buy Nothing Day until 2009, see the four other things we can do to stop global corporate tyranny:

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Homepage: http://www.corporations.org/solutions/

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Step 1: sabot-age the hi-tech

15.12.2008 21:05

I can say this here because I've already said it to a known informer, but it is obvious anyway. High tech military gear is built in clean rooms. You can identifiy them easily because most of them have huge white nitrogen cooling tanks right outside. The most damaging thing for a clean-room is dirt. If you can smuggle or throw a bag full of dirt (such as fire-soot) into a clean room then you will cost the company more than anything else you are likely to be up for. Simply gaining entry without a bunny-suit will cost hem the price of a clean-up, but a vacuum-cleaner full of dust would be more costly than anything else you can easily do. Big white nitrogen tanks marked with 'Air Products', that is your target. Don't mess with the tanks themselves though unless you have been trained though, you will be frozen or burned.

There was such an action planned for Raytheon that was sold out by my 'friend', an admin with an independent media collective based in Scotland not unrelated to here. Grrr. Still, it is still a valid tactic and as far as I am concerned, public-domain.

Step 2: How to destroy any company

15.12.2008 21:29

Say you gain entry to an office, as happened in Raytheon Derry. How to cause most damage to the company ? Well, the Raytheon Derry crew went for physical damage to a mainframe, and that is laudible in my opinion as mainframes don't come cheap. It wasn't perfect though

From a business analyst point of view though, a companies value lies in the security of it's data. If someone on that action had been able to smuggle out and publish the data of that company, or even threaten such, the damage could have been truly 'unrecoverable'. We aren't there biggest threats, their competitors and investors are. Knowledge is still power and while you might not know what that schematic/spreadsheet/database means, someone will.

Step 3 - How to destroy a business without intellectual assets

15.12.2008 21:59

You wear them down with repeated tiny delays and costs. You put metal epoxy in their locks to force them to get a lock-smith every time they wish entry (super-glue nowadays comes with a super-glue melting agent).

Realise you can either spend years building up your own 'gravitas', such as CAAT did, to shame a companies ethicacy, or you can do so directly, locally.

Step 4 - protect the whistle-blowers

15.12.2008 22:02

Your best friends in such a venture are not the bright-eyed anarchists with positive attitudes that just turned up. You are best to recruit from inside a company any decent person who realises their employer is in the wrong- and you must sacrifice your own liberty to protect such peoples anonymity, not demand they sign up for your crappy little campaign. Protect the whistleblowers and infomants or they will dry up and be too rationally scared to help. I say that because I have never met an activist who appreciates the value of a mole.

Step 5 : Targetted murders

16.12.2008 00:44

In my experience, anarchists only kill or maim to save life, never indiscriminately or when better options are available. There are a few targets of anarchist assassination that are hard to argue with, most famously Hitler. So you should ask yourself, 'How would I react if Tony Blair tried to shake my hand?' Would you feel justified in trying to kill him ? If so, would you be smart enough or tough enough to actually do it? What about Brown or Claire Shorrt or Alan Fucking Sugar? If not then don't try, you are just making it harder for the rest of us. Don't try to fool yourself, killing Hitler is still murder and should be punished - but it was also certain self-sacrifice for those heroes that attempted it.

Orwell once said he could have sunk the British empire by killing a small number of technicians, and yet he never made such an attempt. He wasn't an anarchist, some of you should research the anarchists who did kill tyrants.

Re: step 1

16.12.2008 08:11

You might want to do some slightly more in-depth research than just looking for liquid nitrogen tanks or you could just as easily end up hitting a medical clinic.

If you do get inside a clean room, you can also do a lot of damage just turning machines on if they've not been properly cooled first.

Steve

thanks steve

16.12.2008 14:20

I was referring to how to identify a clean-room at a pre-established location consisting of multiple buildings, not randomly targetting every clean-room. I am sorry if I didn't make that clear.

Amd thanks for the tip

16.12.2008 16:13

"If you do get inside a clean room, you can also do a lot of damage just turning machines on if they've not been properly cooled first."

I know that, and I know just what equipment to turn on so I never thought to mention it, but it is a great tip. If you are a newbie in a clean-room trying to trash it, turn EVERYTHING on EXCEPT the coolant. Sorry for shouting, I am getting deaf.

During the most boring moments of my own apprenticeship I amused myself by emptying Liquid Nitrogen tanks that I was being paid to fil into the car park. The result was visually stunning, a field full of instant mist to neck-height fed by a bubbling burn of subzero liquid gas.

I once froze a snowman I had built using Liquid Nitrogen, sometime one December. Sometime in May a big delivery truck reversed into it and was broken. I mean the truck was broken, the snowman was there until summer. If nitrogen is a greenhouse gas then I apologise but at that point I hadnt even heard of AIDS. A nitrogen tank is a helluva good lock on point on route to the clean room. If I was a smart cop I wouldn't approach an activist locked on to a nitrgeon tank, especially not one encased in leather carrying an adjustable wrench.. Something doesn't have to be explosive to be dangerous,

BOFH

Pub

16.12.2008 16:19

We all know that these grand plans never go further than the table in the pub where they originate...

Lord Haw Haw

The revolution starts at closing time

16.12.2008 23:38

Lord Haw Haw,

The first tip is valid, as are some of the others. They haven't been mentioned in pubs to the best of my knowledge if that is what you are implying, but they have been told directly from to agents at peace camps by me who passed them to newspapers and police so your criticism could be justified in reality. I am about to do the same thing myself so no complaints.

Just because a good tactic has been circumvented in the past doesn't mean it isn't a good tactic. You really can't destroy capitalism unless you understand how companies and corporations work. I have a few better, or rather more detailed, tactics than that that I won't mention because I may use again, my little rant was merely designed to enliven a rather dull unpromoted article and encourage readers to think for themselves. There is a peppering of sense in those first five posts, I took my time writing them.

I am unsure why you would post under the name of a Nazi propagandist, a war-criminal. The person who sold out my last action (Step one) did that, so forgive me if I fail to see any irony. I drink with friends but I act alone, my social life remains unconnected to my actions. I mention that because that is probably the best tip I can give, something I can completely agree with you about. As a generql rule of thumb, the more activists you count as close friends the less effective an activist you are. I am sure that is the same across the political spectrum in todays society, even fascists face the threat of infiltration. So on your behalf let me add:

Step 6 - Don't socialise with the people you work with. Above all, keep your sex life separate from you actions.

cheers,

what a wankfest

17.12.2008 14:57

Jesus christ, what a load of toytown cock from someone who claims to understand capitalism.

Even worse than the liberal OP.

How embarassing.

anarchist

the end does not justify the means

18.12.2008 01:33

@ dp - "In my experience, anarchists only kill or maim to save life, never indiscriminately or when better options are available. "

Exactly the same words that every military or police force in the world uses.

How are you any different ?

???

re: protect the whistle-blowers

18.12.2008 01:48

@ dp - why should any corporate insiders choose and trust you in particular as a contact to leak information to ?

What can you offer them that the mainstream media, opposition politicians or

http://wikileaks.org cannot ?

Protecting the anonymity of confidential sources is a process with many pitfalls, given the forensic science and communications traffic data analysis and surveillance resources available to those in power.

Trust Me

justifying means

27.12.2008 16:02

"Step 6 - Don't socialise with the people you work with. Above all, keep your sex life separate from you actions."

culdnae agree more

ends

what a load of pish

27.12.2008 16:07

who are u kidding?

@dp

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