Louise Michel Square, at the foot of the hill of Montmartre, where Louise Michel participated in the events that catalyzed the Paris Commune on March 18, 1871. (In the background, the hill is surmounted by the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, built by reactionary religious authorities to "expiate the sins of the Commune.")

The sign for the park also displays our classic "Community Watch Area: Police not Welcome" sticker.

https://crimethinc.com/stickers/police-not-welcome-community-watch-area

Devletin Felaketleri: Türkiye ve Suriye’deki Depremler Hakkında

https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/16/devletin-felaketleri-turkiye-ve-suriyedeki-depremler-hakkinda-1

6 Şubat 2023 günü art arda meydana gelen iki depremin üzerinden henüz bir ay geçmedi. Ancak Türkiye halklarının gözünde aşikar olan, Türk devletinin bir ihmal devleti olduğudur. Afet kontrol önlemlerinin ihmali, bina deprem yönetmelikleri ve inşaat mevzuatlarının ihmali, afet altyapısının ihmali, kanunların ihmali, halen un ufak olmuş beton binaların altında kalmış Suriyeli mültecilerin, Kürtlerin, Alevilerin, işçilerin, kadınların ihmali, güvenli ve insanlığa yaraşır bir hayat yaşama hakkının ihmali. Bu büyük acının sorumlusu, bu ihmal düzeni sayesinde para ve rant ihtirası peşinde koşmaya devam edenlerdedir.

#Türkçe

Felaketên Dewletê: Li ser Erdhejên Tirkiye û Sûriyê

https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/16/felaketen-dewlete-li-ser-erdhejen-tirkiye-u-suriye

Piştî heftiyek li ser erdheja bêqam ya 6ê reşemeha sala 2023 derbasbûyî, diyare ji hemû gelên Turkiyê re ku dewleta Turk dewleteke xemnexwer e. Xemnexweriya tevdîrên sereke bo kontrolkirina bobelatê, bo danîna kod û rêznameyan, û çavdêriya qanûndar û kargêrî; xemnexweriya hevwelatî, penaber, karker, û zarokên ku hîn li bin kuç û kavilên erdhejê ve mayî ne; xemnexweriya binsaziya bevverabûna tengaviyê, xemnexweriya mafê jiyaneke aram û bi rûmet.

#Kurmancî

Hoje é o aniversário da eclosão da revolta que criou a Comuna de Paris em 1871.

crimethinc.com/Comuna150

Uma das protagonistas foi Louise Michel, uma das anarquistas mais famosas de seu tempo, que sobreviveu a uma década de exílio em uma colônia prisional no Pacífico Sul.

#Português

One source on the events of March 20, 2003 in San Francisco:

https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?noscript=%E2%80%9CSTAY_STRONG,_THIS_WAR_IS_LONG!%E2%80%9D_THE_BATTLE_OF_SAN_FRANCISCO

To be autonomous is not to administer an independent juridical zone the way the state does; rather, autonomy is a question of how much leverage all the participants in an environment have over what they are able to do and experience in it. In this sense, autonomy is not a property of a defined physical space, but rather a quality of a network of relations.

https://crimethinc.com/copfreezone

Desastres de Estado: Sobre los terremotos en Turquía y Siria

https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/16/desastres-de-estado-sobre-los-terremotos-en-turquia-y-siria-1

Frente al oportunismo y la violencia del Estado, nos inspira la movilización popular internacional con la que comunidades de todo el mundo han respondido al terremoto. Es el modelo de horizontalidad y solidaridad que necesitaremos para sobrevivir a lo que se perfila como un siglo de cataclismos. Pero para que nuestros esfuerzos tengan éxito, tenemos que entender tanto los terremotos como el Estado como aspectos de la misma catástrofe y actuar contra ambos.

Con ese fin, presentamos dos análisis de la situación en Turquía y Siria: el primero, de partidarios de los movimientos de liberación en las regiones de Kurdistán, de Bakur y Rojava; el segundo de los partidarios de la revolución en el oeste de Siria.

#Español

Yesterday, people around France took the streets against the pension reform, the government of Macron, and the humiliations of capitalism itself. Last night, there were reportedly 900 fires in Paris. This footage is from the City Hall of Bordeaux.

https://crimethinc.com/France2023

"For people to recognize collectively on a grand scale that for the great majority of us, work is pain: the authorities cannot permit that idea to take hold, for it would imply the destruction of the whole social edifice, without which they would be nothing. If our common condition is that we have no power over our lives and know it, then paradoxically, everything becomes possible again."

#manif23mar #Greve23Mars

Francja: Ruch przeciwko reformie emerytalnej — U progu powstania?

https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/22/francja-ruch-przeciwko-reformie-emerytalnej-u-progu-powstania

We Francji wybuchła nowa fala protestów przeciwko rządowi Emmanuela Macrona w odpowiedzi na niepopularną reformę emerytalną.

#Polski

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We have documented another sighting of the legendary "mud wizard," who became famous in January for tipping a police officer into the mud during the mobilization to defend #Lutzerath from a destructive open-pit mine.

Today's footage comes from a livestream of clashes in #Sainte-Soline, France, where ecological activists set several police cars on fire during a protest against an industrial mega-project. These clashes come amid intensifying unrest in France in response to Macron's government forcing through an unpopular pension reform.

Background on the mud wizard:

https://crimethinc.com/mudwizard

Background on the defense of Lützerath:

https://crimethinc.com/lutzerath

Background on the unrest in france this month:

https://crimethinc.com/France2023

The mud wizard has a twitter account, apparently:

https://twitter.com/MonchLutzi

"I am the nightmare of the police who destroy nature."

[We present here a translation of a statement from comrades in France whose friend was severely injured by police yesterday in Sainte-Soline.]

https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/22/france-the-movement-against-the-pension-reform-on-the-threshold-of-an-uprising#appendix

Communiqué about S., a comrade whose life is at risk following the demonstration in Sainte-Soline.

On Saturday, March 25, in Sainte-Soline, our comrade S. was hit in the head by an explosive grenade during the demonstration against the basins [a project of large water reservoirs for industrial farm irrigation]. In spite of his critical condition, the prefecture first intentionally prevented emergency services from intervening, then prevented them from transporting him to an appropriate care unit a second time. He is currently in neurosurgical intensive care. At this time, his life hangs by a thread.

The outburst of violence that the demonstrators suffered inflicted hundreds of injuries, including several serious physical injuries, as announced in the various reports available. The 30,000 demonstrators had come with the objective of blocking the construction of the mega-basins of Sainte-Soline, a project of water monopolization carried out by a small number of people for the benefit of a capitalist model that has nothing left to defend but death. The violence of the armed arm of the democratic state is the most striking expression of this.

In response to the window of possibility that the movement against the pension reform has opened, the police are mutilating people and even trying to assassinate people in order to prevent an uprising, to defend the bourgeoisie and its world. Nothing will weaken our determination to put an end to their reign. On Tuesday, March 28 and the following days, let’s strengthen the strikes and blockades, let’s take the streets, for S. and all those from our movements who have been wounded and locked up.

Long live the revolution.

Comrades of S.

PS: If you have any information about the circumstances of the injuries inflicted on S., please contact us at:

s.informations@proton.me

We want this communiqué to be spread as widely as possible.