White Resistance Manual Explained

The White Resistance Manual is a white supremacist handbook which is similar to The Anarchist Cookbook. It promotes the founding of small independent white supremacist cells, and it is also an instruction manual on how to perform illegal activities such as weapon-making and terrorism, in addition to violent guerrilla warfare against the government.[1] [2] The book was popular on neo-Nazi websites until it attracted media and law enforcement attention, causing many sites to take it down. Anarchist activist Sherman Austin said of the book:

There’s something on the Internet called the White Resistance Manual. It’s pretty much for white supremacists…to carry out a large-scale guerilla campaign through means of assassination, threats, obtaining funds through fraud, everything from firearms to explosives. I’ve seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet.[3]

Possession of the manual is illegal in the United Kingdom.[4]

Footnotes

  1. Web site: Lenz . Ryan . 2011-01-25 . Investigators: White Power Guerrilla Manual Behind Attacks on Police . 2024-06-14 . . en-US.
  2. Web site: 2019-09-20 . The 'White Resistance Manual': A White Supremacist Ideological, Strategic, and Tactical Guidebook . subscription . 2024-06-14 . . en.
  3. http://zmagsite.zmag.org/Apr2005/frank0405.html "Muzzled Activist in the Age of Terror"
  4. News: Exeter Synagogue arsonist Tristan Morgan kept in hospital. BBC News. July 5, 2019. June 7, 2020. He had previously admitted arson and two terrorism-related charges. These were for encouraging terrorism by publishing a song entitled White Man to live-streaming website Soundcloud and possessing a copy of the White Resistance Manual..