This book is not for fascists

The 1971 title "The Anarchist Cookbook" gives Anarchism a bad name. The Anarcho-Syndicalist Cookbook will be a counterpoint, with useful recipes for communicating securely, direct action, whistle blowing, organizing workplaces, and meaningful resistance to exploitive hierarchies.

We seek to build and participate in a syndicate for the purpose of writing a book about anarcho-syndicalism and putting those values into practice. Book writing has a known set of challenges, so figuring out the mechanics of being a democratically organized book publisher may be the larger value of this project.

The good news is that we already have the means of production relevant for this project. GitHub, Keybase, Reddit, and other websites are already workable platforms for the basic problems of sharing text, confirming identity with reasonable certainty, holding a vote, and maintaining a document with auditable version control.

All edits and contributions submitted as git patches will considered. Every contributor is free to maintain their own branch. For the editor's convenience, git will be used to facilitate democratic participation. If enough people participate and this becomes unwieldy we can consider other ways of organizing ourselves that fits the model of writing a book collectively. Unless anonymity is requested, all work will be attributed to the authors and editors.

For now, please see org/recipe_list.mkd for ideas about how to contribute and org/contribution_guidelines.mkd

We intend to release this work under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. HTML and PDF versions will be available on my website. We do not intend to publish physical copies unless doing so in a carbon-neutral way is possible.