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.

Today is the anniversary of the historic demonstrations against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank that took place in Washington, DC on the weekend of April 16, 2000.

In this photograph, anarchists charge the police in Washington, DC with two sections of fencing at the high point of that day's events.

You can read a history of the whole mobilization against the IMF and World Bank here:

https://crimethinc.com/A16

Far-right nationalists like Donald Trump later attempted to appropriate the rhetoric of the reformist elements of the movement against capitalist globalization, but the core of the movement was always dedicated to abolishing all forms of hierarchy. Nationalists have never done anything to halt the ravages of capitalism—they only seek to pit people against each other in order to distract from violence that the ruling class is inflicting on all of us. Globalize resistance, not capitalism!

In France, the movement against Macron's pension reform continues to take the streets, defying intense police violence.

https://crimethinc.com/exworker93

This new episode of the Ex-Worker podcast offers a full account of the first phase of the movement.

Who are the Rapid Support Forces, the paramilitary forces who have provoked an escalating civil war with the Sudanese government?

Known as the Janjawids, these mercenaries accumulated arms, funds, and recruits as shock troops in conflicts throughout the region. Sudanese dictator Omar Al-Bashir was one of their chief funders. They began by crushing a rebellion in the western region of Darfur and went on to play a role in violence in Yemen and elsewhere. In 2019, after demonstrators successfully toppled Al-Bashir, the Rapid Support Forces carried out a massacre to regain control of the capital, #Khartoum.

We documented their rise in this text:

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

Now the Rapid Support Forces are fighting against the Sudanese military, at great cost to ordinary people in Sudan.

The militarization of a society does not benefit anyone in the long run, not even the rulers.

#Sudan

According to our Sudanese contacts, clashes are continuing in #Sudan after an attempt to call a 24-hour truce in the civil war between the military and the Rapid Support Forces broke down within the first hour.

This video footage shows the market on fire in the city of Khartoum Bahri, located north of the capital, Khartoum.

Anarchists in Sudan have played a consistent role in the demonstrations against the military dictatorship that took power in October 2021. As the country descends into a nightmare of militarized violence, they represent an alternative future, a possibility that must not be lost. You can read an interview with them here:

https://crimethinc.com/Sudan2021

Conçu pour tuer
La vérité sur les politiques frontalières
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https://crimethinc.com/zines/concu-pour-tuer

"Je travaille depuis plusieurs années pour un groupe humanitaire offrant son support aux migrant-es qui entreprennent la traversée du désert afin de franchir la frontière Mexicano-État-Unienne; périple au cours duquel des centaines d’entre eulles perdent la vie chaque année..."

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Today, following a favorable decision in the Italian Constitutional Court yesterday, Alfredo Cospito ended his incredible 180-day hunger strike. This is bittersweet, as he has sustained permanent damage after so much time without sustenance. But his hunger strike exerted considerable pressure against the solitary confinement regime of the Italian prison system. We honor his courage and we are grateful that he is still among the living.

Background:

https://crimethinc.com/alfredocospito

Québec City, April 2001: The Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Offensive

https://crimethinc.com/2021/04/19/the-revolutionary-anti-capitalist-offensive-anarchists-confront-the-summit-of-the-americas-april-2001

22 years ago today, at the high point of the so-called “anti-globalization” phase of the worldwide anti-capitalist movement, anarchists from all around North America converged in Québec City to oppose a transcontinental summit intended to establish a “Free Trade Area of the Americas” (FTAA).

In this narrative, a participant in the showdown in Québec City offers a blow-by-blow account of the epic street battles of April 20-21, including selections from contemporary anarchist media coverage.

In the end, the FTAA was defeated—here's how it happened.

"In astronomy, necroplanetology is the study of planets that are being destroyed, or of the wrecked debris that indicates the previous existence of a planet. A terrestrial necroplanetology would recognize Cop City as an assault on something unique and irreplaceable. Not only is our own planet being destroyed—the planet that bore us, that gives us life, the only planet that could be our home—but the same process is eroding our capacity to imagine any relationship to the Earth other than the violence represented by Cop City."

https://crimethinc.com/2023/02/28/balance-sheet-two-years-against-cop-city-evaluating-strategies-refining-tactics

This article details how grassroots mutual aid groups in Sudan have provided supplies to hospitals, coordinated evacuations for besieged civilians, and endeavored to prevent civilians from being swept up in the civil war.

As state militarism intensifies worldwide, resistance = survival.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/22/sudan-resistance-activists-mobilise-as-crisis-escalates