Red Prepper

Building Collective Resilience in an Age of Collapse

Eric Shonkwiler author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pluto Press

Publishing:20th Oct '26

£14.99

This title is due to be published on 20th October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Red Prepper cover

For decades, the right has monopolized the culture of preparedness, selling a fantasy of rugged individualism, hoarded rations, and fear. But before the rise of 24-hour grocery stores and just-in-time supply chains, prepping wasn't a political statement: it was just life.

Drawing on his background in emergency services and security, Eric Shonkwiler reclaims prepping from the paranoia of the doomsday industry and reframes it as a vital tool for collective resilience. Red Prepper is a survival guide for the modern activist, bridging the gap between personal safety and community action, teaching you how to build a "deep pantry," filter water during infrastructure failures, and organize your neighbors for mutual aid.

With the rise of fascism and the approach of economic and environmental collapse, Shonkwiler provides the grounded, practical skills you need to stop worrying and start building something better in the rubble.

'A brilliant intervention, opening a space that’s historically validated and ethical as well as eminently practical. Red Prepper argues that making ready to survive the imminent storms while working steadily to save the world must engage the principles of cooperation, solidarity, and community building—and he shows us, step-by-step, how to begin'

-- Bill Ayers, author of When Freedom is the Question Abolition is the Answer

ISBN: 9780745352589

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm

Weight: unknown

192 pages