Squatters handbooks
- Barcelona: Despegando Squatting Manual (2020)
- France: Le squat de A à Z (2019)
- UK: Squatters Handbook (2016, fourteenth edition)
- Australia: Squatters Handbook – online (old) from Australia – this one is newer
Zines
- To squat… is to struggle (Paris, 1984) – PDF to print | PDF to read online
- A Brief History of Squatting in Brighton (2011)
- Cracking the System – A zine about squats and social centres in Europe inspired by the april2008 initiative
- House Magic Issue4 / Issue3 / Issue2 / Issue1
- ‘Houses occupation -Liberation? – Text for the London squatters conference (1977)
- Living without Permissions, about the eviction of the squat in the 9th Street in New York
- Making Space – zine made from a 2018 exhibition in Sheffield about UK squatting
- Sexism in Homes Not Jails (Berkeley) – An Interview with Anders Corr and Judy Kolloch, (1993)
- Rupture (old) Rupture (new)– Zine for and about free parties, squats and social centres
- Rupture 2020 autumn
- Squall no.10, summer ’95 – Three articles about squatting in the Netherlands
- Squat the World – A story of squat evictions in New York City (1995)
- Squatters of London Action Paper (SLAP!) – issue1 / issue2 / issue3
issue4 ? / issue5 / issue6? / issue7 / issue 8 / issue 9 / issue 10 - Survival Without Rent (USA)
- Thirty years of Squatting – Steve Platt (1998) BROKEN LINK 2012 :[
- Trespass Journal Issue 1 /
Issue 2 /
Issue 3 - Using Space – “a zine about social centres, squats and alternative modes of living” one / two / three / five / six / seven /eight /nine / ten / eleven (A4 readonscreen), eleven (print A5) / twelve? / thirteen (A4, print as brochure for A5) / fourteen / fifteen
- What’s This Place? A pamphlet about UK social centres
- Groene Voltage a pamphlet about a social centre in Rotterdam plus cover
Legal
- Home Office UK Consultation on squatting 1991 plus cover
- Liberty – response to UK govt. consultation 1992
- House of Commons (UK) Briefing on squatting – 1994
- House of Commons (UK) Briefing on squatting – 2009
- House of Commons (UK) Briefing on squatting – 2011
- 2011 You Gov poll on squatting in UK
- Ministry of ‘Justice’ UK “Advice for dealing with squatters” 2011
- Ministry of ‘Justice’ UK “Options for dealing with squatting” Consultation 2011
- Simon Community – response to UK govt. consultation 2011
- Shelter – response to UK govt. consultation 2011
- SQUASH – response to UK govt. consultation 2011
- Squatters network of Brighton – response to UK govt. consultation 2011
- Crisis – Squatting a homelessness issue 2011
- Ministry of ‘Justice’ UK summary of responses to consultation 2011
- SQUASH – Briefing to House of Lords 2011
- SQUASH – Report on Cost of criminalisation in UK 2012
Books
- +KAOS Ten Years of Hacking and Media Activism – Austistici/Inventati
- Anarchy in a Cold War – Kurtis Sunday
- Cracking the Movement – Agentur Bilwet .. Amsterdam squatter history and the movement’s relation to the media
- Cracking Under Pressure – Narrating the decline of the Amsterdam squatters movement – Owens
- Fighting for Spaces Fighting for our Lives – edited by Squatting Everywhere Kollective
- JaKra (EN/NL) Issue 1
- Making Room – Cultural Production in Occupied Spaces – Squatting Europe Kollective (SqEK)
- Migration, Squatting and Radical Autonomy – Squatting Europe Kollective (SqEK)
- No Trespassing! Squatting, Rent Strikes and Land Struggles Worldwide – Anders Corr
- Securitization of Property Squatting in Europe – Manjikian (scanned) manjikian-Introduction / manjikian-Ch1 / chap2 (too large to upload!) / manjikian-ch3 / manjikian-ch4 / manjikian-ch5 / manjikian-ch6
- Space for Urban Alternatives? CHRISTIANIA 1971-2011 (various) – cover, text, timeline
- Squatting the Grey City
- Squatting – The Real Story – various (1980)
- Squatting in Europe – Radical Spaces, Urban Struggles – Squatting Europe Kollective (SqEK)
- The City is Ours – Squatting and Autonomous Movements in Europe from 1970s to the presents – Steen, Katzeff, Hoogenhuijze
- The Architecture of Appropriation
- The Free – Great fiction – “Adventure/Thriller.. Maxie rebels and runs away, with the anarcha feminists, squatters and gays.. Capitalism is going bottoms up. The climate is revolting.. our heroes live through the social and permaculture revolution, and the dawn of a money-free world…”
- The Squatters Movement in Europe: Commons and Autonomy as Alternatives to Capitalism – Squatting Europe Kollective (SqEK)
- The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Social Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life (George Katsiaficas) – covers the period 1968-1996: Intro /Chapter1 / Chapter2 / Chapter3 / Chapter4 / Chapter5 / Chapter6 / Chapter7 / Chronology
Academic articles
- Aguilera, T. Anarchist Squatting and Land Use in the West. Direct Action and the Critique of Real Estate
- Corr, A. Anarcho-spatialism: Towards an Egalitarian Land Tenure
- Dadusc, Deanna The Micropolitics of Criminalisation: Power, Resistance and the Amsterdam Squatting Movement
- Dee, E.T.C. Moving towards criminalisation and then what? Examining dominant discourses on squatting in England
- Dee, E.T.C. The Production of Squatters as Folk Devils:
Analysis of a Moral Panic that Facilitated the
Criminalization of Squatting in the Netherlands - Finchett-Maddock, L. An Anarchist’s Wetherspoons or Virtuous Resistance? Social Centres as MacIntyre’s Vision of Practice-based Communities
- Martinez, M. The Struggle for Social Autonomy: Squatting in Europe
- Martinez, M. Socio-legal frameworks of Squatting in Spain
- Mikkelsen, F. & Karpantschof, R. Youth as a Political Movement: Development of the Squatters’ and Autonomous Movement in Copenhagen, 1981–95
- Pruijt, H. Is the institutionalization of urban movements inevitable? A comparison of the opportunities for sustained squatting in New York City and Amsterdam
- Pruijt, H. Squatting in Europe
- Pruijt, H. The Logic of Urban Squatting
- van de Hor, T. Building Castles in the Sky: An Ethnography of the Shared Culture of Squatting in Rotterdam and the Criminalization of Squatting in the Netherlands (masters dissertation)
- Ward, C. The hidden history of housing
- Wates, N. Tolmers Tale End Unpublished article – January 1984
- Webber, H. A Domestic Rebellion: The Squatters’ Movement of 1946
Other
- Avisartikler om okkupasjoner i Oslo, 1999
- Collected newspaper articles on urban reclamation in Harlem, New York
- Brochures (French)
- Bucher (German)
- Leesvoer (Dutch)
Note – as much as possible these sources are actually hosted on squat.net – send us stuff for the archive!
