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.
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.
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To celebrate the reprinting of our anarchist cookbook Recipes for Disaster, we present a guide to installing unsanctioned mosaics in asphalt streets and parking lots:
https://crimethinc.com/asphaltmosaics
Some people know of these as the mysterious "Toynbee Tiles," the stuff of urban legend. Our researchers cracked the method two decades ago. Ever since then, we have been trying to make these as ubiquitous as spray-paint.
Will you help us?
https://crimethinc.com/asphaltmosaics
Some people know of these as the mysterious "Toynbee Tiles," the stuff of urban legend. Our researchers cracked the method two decades ago. Ever since then, we have been trying to make these as ubiquitous as spray-paint.
Will you help us?
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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.
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.
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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."
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."
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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.
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.
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Three years ago, protesters in Minneapolis demonstrated the power of direct action, catalyzing a countrywide movement. In this analysis, participants in the siege of the Third Precinct describe the strategy via which they defeated the police that had murdered George Floyd.
https://crimethinc.com/thirdprecinct
https://crimethinc.com/thirdprecinct
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At last, we present a full audio version of "The Forest In The City," covering two years of forest defense in Atlanta, Georgia.
https://crimethinc.com/exworker96
The government of Atlanta is attempting to destroy the Weelaunee Forest in order to build a vast training compound known as Cop City where police will train to suppress social movements. Because Cop City represents a tremendous financial incentive for police and their allies, they have begun to charge everyone who protests against it with domestic terrorism, a clear move towards outright fascism.
Listen here to hear how courageous activists have blocked the construction of the training compound for two years.
#StopCopCity
https://crimethinc.com/exworker96
The government of Atlanta is attempting to destroy the Weelaunee Forest in order to build a vast training compound known as Cop City where police will train to suppress social movements. Because Cop City represents a tremendous financial incentive for police and their allies, they have begun to charge everyone who protests against it with domestic terrorism, a clear move towards outright fascism.
Listen here to hear how courageous activists have blocked the construction of the training compound for two years.
#StopCopCity
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Brazilian artwork from 2020 in solidarity with the George Floyd Rebellion: "Fire to the racists"
https://crimethinc.com/2020/06/02/international-solidarity-with-the-minneapolis-uprising-demonstrations-graffiti-hacking-and-riots-on-six-continents
#Português
https://crimethinc.com/2020/06/02/international-solidarity-with-the-minneapolis-uprising-demonstrations-graffiti-hacking-and-riots-on-six-continents
#Português
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In May 2020, the police discovered that you can only brutalize and murder for so long before people stop putting up with it and take action in response.
Yet in the three years since then, the authorities have continued to rely on brute force to control an increasingly inequitable and volatile society. Democrat politicians have channeled more money towards police; police departments have hired PR firms to try to polish up their veneer of legitimacy.
But the whole situation is unsustainable, and it will surely come to a head again.
In that regard, the text we published in the first few hours of the George Floyd uprising remains relevant today:
https://crimethinc.com/2020/05/28/minneapolis-we-have-crossed-the-rubicon-what-the-riots-mean-for-the-covid-19-era
Yet in the three years since then, the authorities have continued to rely on brute force to control an increasingly inequitable and volatile society. Democrat politicians have channeled more money towards police; police departments have hired PR firms to try to polish up their veneer of legitimacy.
But the whole situation is unsustainable, and it will surely come to a head again.
In that regard, the text we published in the first few hours of the George Floyd uprising remains relevant today:
https://crimethinc.com/2020/05/28/minneapolis-we-have-crossed-the-rubicon-what-the-riots-mean-for-the-covid-19-era
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Erdoğan's victory in the Turkish elections is another gain for autocracy in the Mideast and worldwide. We have to study the roots of Turkish fascism, understand how it relates to the steady gains of authoritarians around the world, and strategize as to how to stop them everywhere. Voting is not enough.
https://crimethinc.com/2019/11/12/the-roots-of-turkish-fascism-and-the-threat-it-poses
https://crimethinc.com/2019/11/12/the-roots-of-turkish-fascism-and-the-threat-it-poses
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Today we observe the birthday of Louise Michel—schoolteacher, poet, fiction author, and popularizer of the black flag as the symbol of anarchism.
In the article "Heroines of the Revolution," the daily paper of the Paris Commune described her thus: "An energetic woman is fighting in the ranks of the 61st battalion. She has killed several police officers."
Nonetheless, a square is named for her in Paris today.
Read about her role in the Paris Commune:
https://crimethinc.com/arch18
Read about her role popularizing the black flag:
https://crimethinc.com/TheBlackFlag
In the article "Heroines of the Revolution," the daily paper of the Paris Commune described her thus: "An energetic woman is fighting in the ranks of the 61st battalion. She has killed several police officers."
Nonetheless, a square is named for her in Paris today.
Read about her role in the Paris Commune:
https://crimethinc.com/arch18
Read about her role popularizing the black flag:
https://crimethinc.com/TheBlackFlag
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