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Earlier this week, we brought you an epic conversation with anarchist art collective INDECLINE, who have collaborated with Sleater-Kinney, Cursive, Deaf Club, Rise Against and many more indie luminaries. In addition to chatting us up, INDECLINE shared a list of essential reads for those currently fighting fascism or are curious about the war being waged across the globe.

Enjoy your weekend with one or more of these books:

• Jaques Ellul’s Propaganda

• Marshall McLuhan’s Understanding Media

• Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer

• Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism

• Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World

• Deleuze and Guattari’s Capitalism and Schizophrenia

• Gustave Le Bon’s The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

• Robert Jay Lifton’s Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism

• Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish

For even more on the resistance against fascism, go to The Bad Penny‘s On Tyranny archive. And don’t miss these recent installments of the series:

• Musician Joe Turmes, No Kings Organizer, Says What You Can Do to Help Resist Fascism

• Thalia Zedek Suggests ‘Artists Should Boycott Playing the United States’

• Too Much Joy Discuss the Existential Ruin That MAGA Has Inflicted Upon Us

• Locust’s Bobby Bray Says Bands Have ‘Responsibility’ to Tour Red States, Recalls Yeah Yeah Yeahs Solidarity

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