Lake Effect Collective

TOWARD THE NEXT INTIFADA collects all of the writings of Basel al-Araj translated to English. He was someone whose “idea of knowing was actually trying”—an invaluable model as we all work through the exigencies of the present moment. Under “resources”: lakeeffect.noblogs.org

"Even if the surge model of immigration enforcement were to end, there should be no doubt that the flood of agents will continue nationally, with such proliferation’s palpable result being that every struggle anywhere... will become, at least in part, a struggle against ICE."

NOW LIVE on our site, NEO-FASCIST SHOCK THERAPY analyzes the current state of deportations in relation to the historical border regime and ongoing state fascistization, with an eye towards potential outcomes and what might be necessary for resistance. lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2026/03/0…

"Revolutionary goals will succeed or fail depending on whether millions of working people decide that the benefits of a potential future society outweigh the misery and drudgery of remaining in this one. They won’t even consider the decision if we can’t articulate whats possible"

"Ultras in the anti-ICE movement, ourselves included, did not speak up enough in the first place to communicate our own objectives, or double down enough when encountering conservative, 'back-to-normal' politics within the so-called 'big tent'..."

Happy New Year! NOW LIVE on our site, CHIPOCALYPSE NOW details a year in the struggle against ICE and Border Patrol in Chicago. lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/12/3…

📗 The second version of DEFEND OUR NEIGHBORS, DEFEND OURSELVES: COMMUNITY SELF-DEFENSE FROM LOS ANGELES TO CHICAGO is now live on our site as a post, and in zine-form under our resources tab. For printing: lakeeffect.noblogs.org/files/2025/11/… For reading digitally: lakeeffect.noblogs.org/files/2025/11/…

📗 NOW LIVE on our site under our resources tab, COMMUNITY SELF-DEFENSE FROM LOS ANGELES TO CHICAGO lays out a process for inquiry and implementation of proactive place-based infrastructure in the fight against ICE. lakeeffect.noblogs.org/files/2025/10/… (Happy Halloween)

We hope their past experiments and struggles in anti-authoritarian political organization and discussion might be thought-provoking in this political moment. Up now on our website is their 2008 political education book, along with other documents on political organization.

Some former members (and friends we admire) of Bring the Ruckus - a revolutionary anarchist cadre organization active in the 2000's - sent us a selection of their internal documents to circulate widely. lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/05/2…

we’ll be helping screen interrebellium, a new documentary about the 2019 Estadillo Social in Chile, this friday at 7pm! Stop by if you’re free

A CONSPIRACY OF DUNCES is a portrait of the Trump administration's DOGE clique - the idiots and ghouls in charge and the class forces that animate them. "While we don’t have readymade class self-consciousness, neither do our enemies." lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/1…

SEMI-AUTOMATIC SUBJECTS surveys the history of race and economic structures in the US to detail an objective relationship between white workers' proletarianization and the terror enacted by them in response, and opportunities for rupture from that dynamic. lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/1…

Marcha el 8 de Marzo contra las fronteras y contra las deportaciones! El punto de reunión sera Division y Milwaukee. Abrigate, tráete un amigo, y por favor ponte una mascarilla!

Demonstration on March 8 at 2 PM against borders and deportations! Meet at Division and Milwaukee. Bundle up, bring a friend, and please wear a mask!

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this just made my day

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THURSDAY'S RAGS uses a response to friends at @resist_empire to work through the nascent political horizons of street militancy. It argues our task isn't just to stage confrontations or send messages - it's to teach people they can win. lakeeffect.noblogs.org/post/2025/02/0…

now updated with this! if you have any more stuff in english, let us know! (dms should be open now, sorry they were closed before) x.com/thundergoat22/…

(it’s possible there’s stuff out there we couldn’t find, or that people have translations of their own that they want included. if that’s the case, send them to us at lakeeffect@riseup.net or dm us here!)

TOWARD THE NEXT INTIFADA collects all of the writings of Basel al-Araj translated to English. He was someone whose “idea of knowing was actually trying”—an invaluable model as we all work through the exigencies of the present moment. Under “resources”: lakeeffect.noblogs.org

@thundergoat22 thanks!

@scuttle_chicago I can't dm your account, but there's also these three short pieces that were translated in 2023: focaalblog.com/2023/12/12/arp…