Appendix 4: Survival rules

Submitted by Steven. on January 19, 2007

A few suggestions about survival rules.

(i) Never leave anyone behind.

(ii) Never talk to the police. If arrested don’t make a statement. You can almost guarantee they will say “your friends have told us x,y,z so you might as well admit your part”. Say nothing. When the heat is off, next day hopefully when nobody has said anything, things won’t look so bad.
See No comment: The defendant's guide to arrest for more information

(iii) It is better to do one serious thing then get right away from the area and live to fight another day.

(iv) Empty your pockets in the morning. If arrested while carrying a bit of dope, a small penknife or an address book your life can get much more complicated. Carry enough cash to get taxis in an emergency.

(v) Keep yourself fit, and sober.

(vi) Four people who know what they are doing can be much more effective than four hundred useless paper-sellers. So, try to find a small group of people you can trust not to run away or blab when things get heavy, and stick with them.

(vii) Try to prepare in advance – tactics, local geography, emergency phone numbers, etc. As Joe Thomas used to say “...the best spontaneous revolutionary actions are always in fact well planned beforehand”!

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2 years 8 months ago

Submitted by asn on February 18, 2024

But many in the so called…

But many in the so called anarcho milieu in Sydney - are more anarcho-Stalinists - heavily informed by the Stalinist legacy and ways of the Trot groups and identity politics and middle class leftist outlook associated with oppression mongering/guilt tripping- they have a very warped and depraved concept of anarchism (1)- any group they have would be in line with the above and have certainly a very anti-intellectual orientation - its all about performing rituals and ceremonies around micro bureaucracies and mindless activism informed by oppression mongering and Left sub cultural fads - Rebel Worker/ASN certainly doesn't have an anti-intellectual orientation - there has been a mountain of historical/theoretic and strategic pieces published in it for decades - see www.rebelworker.org and check out article in latest RW edition and on Libcom "From Corporate Bureaucratic Unionism to Direct Action Grass Roots Unionism: Activity and Strategy for Australia Today"
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See Discussion on Libcom.org: New Orgs In Sydney and also Report on the Workers Control Conference about the middle class/Student social base of many in the leftist and Anarcho milieu in Sydney on Archive Section of RW web site.