Social media accounts associated with Antifa are circulating a guide that instructs members on how to create incendiary devices designed to destroy infrastructure cables.
Journalist Andy Ngo posted on X that “Antifa accounts are sharing a guide on how to make incendiary devices that will burn cables used in infrastructure, like on train tracks. Antifa and anarchist extremists believe that domestic terrorist attacks must be used to destabilize and destroy the state.”
Accompanying Ngo’s post was a screenshot of an article titled “Burning Cables for Beginners,” which was shared by the X account “Anarchist Federation News.”
The article containing a detailed guide also includes a disclaimer advising against printing the directions. It states, “We’ve chosen not to make this text available as a PDF because we believe that if an arson guide is distributed in printed form, some people will inevitably keep it in their homes or in movement spaces, which the police would be happy to find during a repressive operation. In addition, a printed guide collects forensic traces from anyone who has interacted with it, so if the police recover a copy, they can, with some work, determine who has read it.”
Antifa militants have increased their acts of destruction since President Donald Trump took office once again. Most recently, Antifa members were seen setting multiple fires at the University of Washington’s campus in Seattle last week.
A group of black bloc Antifa was seen occupying the Interdisciplinary Engineering building at the university and blockading the doors. Activists also blocked streets with bike racks and set dumpsters on fire. When the fires were initially ignited and began growing, neither police nor firefighters were on the scene.
