Andrew Lee
@xandrewleex.bsky.social
land x home x resistance x popular power
author: Defying Displacement (AK Press, 2024)
instruggle.substack.com
author: Defying Displacement (AK Press, 2024)
instruggle.substack.com
You can be a N@zi congressional staffer or a socialist mayoral candidate, but some still treat anarchism like a dirty word. I break down anarchism as a tradition, strategy, and set of a practices in my latest piece: instruggle.substack.com/p/anarchism
November 26, 2025 at 3:17 PM
You can be a N@zi congressional staffer or a socialist mayoral candidate, but some still treat anarchism like a dirty word. I break down anarchism as a tradition, strategy, and set of a practices in my latest piece: instruggle.substack.com/p/anarchism
"In the wake of my adoptive family fallout, I was left with a lingering scepticism about the concept of family in general.
And then I met my cousin."
On adoption, family, empire, and belonging:
psyche.co/turning-poin...
And then I met my cousin."
On adoption, family, empire, and belonging:
psyche.co/turning-poin...
November 19, 2025 at 5:26 PM
"In the wake of my adoptive family fallout, I was left with a lingering scepticism about the concept of family in general.
And then I met my cousin."
On adoption, family, empire, and belonging:
psyche.co/turning-poin...
And then I met my cousin."
On adoption, family, empire, and belonging:
psyche.co/turning-poin...
The only way out of our current crises is mass mobilization through community organizing. But what even is it, and how can we get started? My latest piece breaks down a liberatory, participatory vision of community organizing for real collective power. instruggle.substack.com/p/what-is-co...
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The only way out of our current crises is mass mobilization through community organizing. But what even is it, and how can we get started? My latest piece breaks down a liberatory, participatory vision of community organizing for real collective power. instruggle.substack.com/p/what-is-co...
A guide on best practices to respond to ICE terror available at instruggle.substack.com/ice
November 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A guide on best practices to respond to ICE terror available at instruggle.substack.com/ice
For Metropolitics, I analyzed our multi-year fight against the gentrification of Philadelphia Chinatown, the campaign's apparent defeat, and its subsequent total victory. metropolitics.org/An-Unexpecte...
October 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
For Metropolitics, I analyzed our multi-year fight against the gentrification of Philadelphia Chinatown, the campaign's apparent defeat, and its subsequent total victory. metropolitics.org/An-Unexpecte...
"Charlie Kirk wasn’t a martyr for political moderation and bipartisan understanding. He was a partisan brawler who wanted to humiliate and crush his enemies. His legacy is making political discourse in the United States cruder, meaner, and more cruel."
instruggle.substack.com/p/charlie
instruggle.substack.com/p/charlie
September 17, 2025 at 4:03 PM
"Charlie Kirk wasn’t a martyr for political moderation and bipartisan understanding. He was a partisan brawler who wanted to humiliate and crush his enemies. His legacy is making political discourse in the United States cruder, meaner, and more cruel."
instruggle.substack.com/p/charlie
instruggle.substack.com/p/charlie
Trump's deployment of the National Guard for anti-unhoused quality-of-life policing in DC has dragged us into a frightening new era of military gentrification. Read more at instruggle.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Trump's deployment of the National Guard for anti-unhoused quality-of-life policing in DC has dragged us into a frightening new era of military gentrification. Read more at instruggle.substack.com
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August 4, 2025 at 3:46 PM
I'm celebrating one year writing instruggle.substack.com. Subscribe for analysis, resources, and reports on fighting for a better world.
"We are witnessing the emergence of the material basis for transnational solidarity of a new type, one conducted not between national parties but between global cities in struggle against a common foe."
Read more at instruggle.substack.com/p/internatio...
Read more at instruggle.substack.com/p/internatio...
July 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
"We are witnessing the emergence of the material basis for transnational solidarity of a new type, one conducted not between national parties but between global cities in struggle against a common foe."
Read more at instruggle.substack.com/p/internatio...
Read more at instruggle.substack.com/p/internatio...
How can we orient ourselves before the next mass rebellion? I shared some thoughts and prompts in my latest piece at instruggle.substack.com/p/capacity
July 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
How can we orient ourselves before the next mass rebellion? I shared some thoughts and prompts in my latest piece at instruggle.substack.com/p/capacity
Wrote a free guide on collective self-defense from police munitions including tear gas, pepper spray, and bean bag rounds. Share, study, stay safe.
instruggle.substack.com/p/defense
instruggle.substack.com/p/defense
July 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Wrote a free guide on collective self-defense from police munitions including tear gas, pepper spray, and bean bag rounds. Share, study, stay safe.
instruggle.substack.com/p/defense
instruggle.substack.com/p/defense
Zohran's win in the NYC mayoral primary is historic but not unprecedented. In fact, he'll actually be the third socialist mayor of America's largest city in my lifetime. What does that mean for our movements? For more, check out my latest article at instruggle.substack.com/p/zohran
June 30, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Zohran's win in the NYC mayoral primary is historic but not unprecedented. In fact, he'll actually be the third socialist mayor of America's largest city in my lifetime. What does that mean for our movements? For more, check out my latest article at instruggle.substack.com/p/zohran
"I refuse to criticize the violence of kids throwing rocks while ignoring the violence of the men in body armor pointing grenade launchers at their heads."
Read The Paradox of Nonviolence at instruggle.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-nonviolence
Read The Paradox of Nonviolence at instruggle.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-nonviolence
June 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
"I refuse to criticize the violence of kids throwing rocks while ignoring the violence of the men in body armor pointing grenade launchers at their heads."
Read The Paradox of Nonviolence at instruggle.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-nonviolence
Read The Paradox of Nonviolence at instruggle.substack.com/p/the-paradox-of-nonviolence
The only things to say to the police, at a protest or at any other time. I am obviously not a lawyer--talking to your local National Lawyers Guild chapter or legal defense collective for better advice--but when in doubt, remain silent!
June 12, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The only things to say to the police, at a protest or at any other time. I am obviously not a lawyer--talking to your local National Lawyers Guild chapter or legal defense collective for better advice--but when in doubt, remain silent!
"Get a crew of folks down to start causing trouble, and remember–you're not alone. We are part of a tradition of resistance spanning continents and generations. And we will win."
From my interview with mk zariel at debatemebro.substack.com/p/interview-...
From my interview with mk zariel at debatemebro.substack.com/p/interview-...
June 11, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"Get a crew of folks down to start causing trouble, and remember–you're not alone. We are part of a tradition of resistance spanning continents and generations. And we will win."
From my interview with mk zariel at debatemebro.substack.com/p/interview-...
From my interview with mk zariel at debatemebro.substack.com/p/interview-...
Keep yourself safe, whether you're participating in, documenting, or simply observing a protest.
June 10, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Keep yourself safe, whether you're participating in, documenting, or simply observing a protest.
Clout comes and goes but criminal charges are forever
June 9, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Clout comes and goes but criminal charges are forever
With the military deployed to pacify the (current) Los Angeles uprising, I made an accessible list of guides and resources for fighting back, from the front lines and beyond. Please share, modify, study, and prepare. Available FREE at instruggle.substack.com/p/resources
June 8, 2025 at 6:26 PM
With the military deployed to pacify the (current) Los Angeles uprising, I made an accessible list of guides and resources for fighting back, from the front lines and beyond. Please share, modify, study, and prepare. Available FREE at instruggle.substack.com/p/resources
June 2, 2025 at 3:53 PM
One of the few points of domestic political consensus is building laboratories, at great public expense, for law enforcement to practice the art of killing us more effectively. Cop City is a playground reserved for the rehearsal of death. Read more: instruggle.substack.com
May 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
One of the few points of domestic political consensus is building laboratories, at great public expense, for law enforcement to practice the art of killing us more effectively. Cop City is a playground reserved for the rehearsal of death. Read more: instruggle.substack.com
The far-right turn of tech oligarchs is no surprise to those who've witnessed their business model up close. Read more about why Big Tech loves the far right at instruggle.substack.com.
May 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The far-right turn of tech oligarchs is no surprise to those who've witnessed their business model up close. Read more about why Big Tech loves the far right at instruggle.substack.com.
The cruelty isn't the point. Terror is. Read more: instruggle.substack.com/p/cruelty-is...
May 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
The cruelty isn't the point. Terror is. Read more: instruggle.substack.com/p/cruelty-is...
"Feeling morally superior at the cruelty of our opponents it easy. Doing something about it is hard." My latest piece on the Trump administration's weaponization of political terror as public policy: instruggle.substack.com/p/cruelty-is...
May 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
"Feeling morally superior at the cruelty of our opponents it easy. Doing something about it is hard." My latest piece on the Trump administration's weaponization of political terror as public policy: instruggle.substack.com/p/cruelty-is...
"We, those who continue the fight for liberation, are part of a long, unbroken chain of struggle that empire has been unable to extinguish despite its best efforts." From my latest, on the current wave of political repression as the Third Red Scare. Read more at instruggle.substack.com.
May 5, 2025 at 4:52 PM
"We, those who continue the fight for liberation, are part of a long, unbroken chain of struggle that empire has been unable to extinguish despite its best efforts." From my latest, on the current wave of political repression as the Third Red Scare. Read more at instruggle.substack.com.
My latest piece looks at the prospects for protest under right-wing authoritarianism. Today more than ever, direct action gets the goods. Read more: instruggle.substack.com/p/the-end-of...
April 28, 2025 at 6:48 PM
My latest piece looks at the prospects for protest under right-wing authoritarianism. Today more than ever, direct action gets the goods. Read more: instruggle.substack.com/p/the-end-of...