New Zine: Red Flags: Before You Join That Org…

Cover of the zine "Red Flags: Before You Join That Org...". An illustration of a small crowd at a protest, with their speech bubbles combining into the title of the zine, as they observe vanguard party members distribute literature, hold signs, and attempt to lead them with a megaphone. The subheading reads "A Primer on Authoritarian & Vanguard Communist Groups & What You Can do Instead".

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Ever since October 7th, authoritarian communist groups and vanguard parties have had a fresh crisis to use for their predatory recruiting and fundraising. More experienced people know to avoid them, but this doesn’t matter much. They depend on recruiting newly radicalized people, energetic and inexperienced, and without existing connections to other radicals that could warn them off.

This zine is an intervention. Written for people newer to radical politics, it outlines red flags to look out for, provides some history of the most well-known authoritarian communist groups’ harmful behavior, and offers a few alternatives to joining them. Give this to the new people you’re seeing join movements, it could help them avoid lots of grief and serious harm.

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