Frankrijk in vlammen

https://crimethinc.com/2023/03/30/frankrijk-in-vlammen-macron-probeert-de-beweging-tegen-de-pensioenhervorming-met-dodelijk-geweld-neer-te-slaan

Macron probeert met dodelijk politiegeweld een krachtige beweging tegen zijn pensioenhervorming de kop in te drukken. Zal hij slagen?

#Nederlands

In France, people continue to take the streets against the extension of retirement age, along with Macron's neoliberal government and capitalism itself.

Background:
https://crimethinc.com/FranceinFlames

Police have inflicted grievous injuries on hundreds of demonstrators in the course of this movement. In this footage from Paris today, activists demonstrate one means of restricting the activities of police officers in order to limit the harm they can cause.

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Post-Fire Sale!

https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/damages-sale

A year and a half ago, a catastrophic fire destroyed our mailorder space. Some goods survived this fire, however, including several boxes of books and journals that had been returned by stores and distributors or that were too damaged to be sold as brand new. Ironically, the damage that they had sustained protected them, as we didn't bother to keep them on hand for mailorder.

To clear space for more books, posters, stickers, and zines, we’re offering these less-than-perfect books and (long out of print) journals at fire sale prices, without the scent of flames attached.

The Bitter Harvest of Colonialism in Israel: Audio version

https://crimethinc.com/podcasts/the-ex-worker/episodes/92

In this episode, the Ex-Worker presents an audio version of an article assessing the recent attempts by Israeli President Benjamin Netanhayu to strip power away from the judiciary, a power grab that has precipitated the largest protest movement in modern Israeli history. As our correspondent from the region argues, however, the crisis has emerged out of a conflict between competing elites and their respective colonial models.

Tune in for an in-depth anarchist analysis of a complex and critical struggle for the future of the Middle East and beyond.

Is your boss—or the economy itself—forcing you to work this Saturday? Make them pay for it!

April 15 is Steal Something from Work Day!

https://crimethinc.com/stealfromwork

For an audio accompaniment to Steal Something from Work Day:

https://crimethinc.com/exworker84

The anarchists we correspond with in Sudan report that the Rapid Support Forces—a brutal Russia-backed militia that is attempting to carry out a coup—now control the presidential palace, Khartoum International Airport, and Marawi Military Airport, and clashes are still ongoing.

Over the past year and a half, powerful social movements have fought continuously against the military dictatorship in Sudan. According to the anarchists there, if the Rapid Support Forces succeed in taking power, the situation in #Sudan—which has already been severe—will be more akin to the regime of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Some background:

https://cwc.im/2021/12/31/sudan-anarchists-against-the-military-dictatorship-an-interview-with-sudanese-anarchists-gathering

https://crimethinc.com/2019/06/14/sudan-behind-the-massacre-in-khartoum-the-perpetrators-and-the-backstory

In Praise of Those Who Leak

https://crimethinc.com/StealfromWork2023

For Steal Something from Work Day 2023, we focus on a particular kind of workplace theft: the leak.

In the information age, knowledge is power. The circulation of classified information is integral to the repressive institutions that maintain the prevailing order.

The less that these institutions can trust each other and their own employees, the harder it becomes for them to respond rapidly and coordinate. If information is the blood in the bloodstream of the security state, persistent leaks coagulate that blood.

So here is our challenge to you, begrudging employee. The same capitalist economy that keeps you chained to your work station runs on the information that passes before your eyes every day.

At some point, something may cross your field of vision that could be useful to someone engaged in the struggle for a better world. If you see something—say something.

🏴

https://crimethinc.com/stealfromwork2023

Cheers to Yugoslavian film director Dušan Makavejev and hip-hop duo Test Their Logik.