As everyone watches to see what will happen in the Turkish elections today, we remember the Gezi Park Uprising, ten years ago this month.

Turkey deserves better than the autocrat Erdoğan! Elections alone will not suffice to win the freedom we all long for. Solidarity to all those in struggle.🏴

https://crimethinc.com/Gezi2013

À la mémoire de Dmitry Petrov
Biographie incomplète et traductions de son œuvre

https://crimethinc.com/2023/05/03/a-la-memoire-de-dmitry-petrov-biographie-incomplete-et-traductions-de-son-oeuvre-1

Lorsque Dmitry a été tué, ses camarades ont révélé qu’il avait participé à certaines des initiatives anarchistes les plus importantes de la Russie du XXIe siècle, notamment en tant que cofondateur de l’Organisation de Combat Anarcho-Communiste. Nous donnerons ici un aperçu de ses efforts comme un instantané des deux dernières décennies de lutte dans le monde post-soviétique, en concluant par une traduction d’un de ses textes : « La mission de l’anarchisme dans le monde moderne ».

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A CrimethInc. sticker sighted in the Caucasus Mountains, in the country of Georgia.

https://crimethinc.com/stickers/you-cant-kill-an-idea

We are everywhere!

We've reprinted our classic manual for direct action, Recipes for Disaster.

You can order a copy here:

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/recipes-for-disaster

400 pages of tactics and strategy! 62 chapters! 82 instructional illustrations!

This book covers everything from Affinity Groups to Wheatpasting, including Black Blocs, Blockades, and Supporting Survivors of Domestic Violence. The contents range from collective organizing structures and mutual aid projects to skills for confrontational street action.

A year after the Uvalde shooting, neither Republican calls for more guns nor Democrat demands for gun control have served to address the epidemic of mass shootings in the US. The problem runs deeper than either party admits.

https://crimethinc.com/TheirGuns

Republicans don’t want to hinder gun access, because they see white vigilantes as essential to preserving the prevailing social order. Democrats want the state to have a monopoly on force, because they believe that this is the best way to preserve that same social order. Democrats have done everything they can to rehabilitate the image of police.

But as we saw in Uvalde, the role of police is not to protect—it is to control. Police don't prevent crises—they just determine who suffers in them.

What would the parents in Uvalde have needed to be able to address the shooting themselves, in defiance of the police? What grassroots institutions, what resources and skills? How can we foster those?

It’s horrifying, but we really have no better option.

In the new episode of our podcast, supporters of the movements for liberation in the regions of Bakur and Rojava and supporters of the revolution in western Syria discuss the impact of the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria—and the ways that the governments of those countries have worsened the consequences of the tragedy while taking advantage of it to accumulate power for themselves.

https://crimethinc.com/exworker95

"We have to understand both the earthquakes and the state as aspects of the same catastrophe and take action against both of them."

Three years have passed since Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd. While politicians encouraged protesters to seek redress through the "justice" system, nothing could bring back his life, nor the lives of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, or any of the other people murdered by police in a structurally racist system.

The conviction of the officers who murdered George Floyd was an exceptional case aimed chiefly at pacifying an outraged population. Over the past three years, police have continued to murder Black and Brown people at the same pace.

What will it take to stop the police from killing?

https://crimethinc.com/endpolice

This is the question we must all ask today.