Tomorrow will mark three years since the outbreak of the 2020 uprising in Belarus, when tens of thousands of people took the streets demanding the fall of Alexander Lukashenko's regime. Anarchists played an essential role in these events, being one of the only organized networks still active under his totalitarian rule.

The eventual crushing of the revolt helped pave the way for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Here, you can read an analysis of the uprising from anarchist participants:

https://crimethinc.com/2021/06/30/belarus-when-we-rise-a-critical-analysis-of-the-2020-revolt-against-the-dictatorship

Nine years ago today, in Ferguson, Missouri, Darren Wilson murdered Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager—one of hundreds of cases every year in which a white police officer kills a young Black man in the United States.

Michael Brown's community responded immediately. For a week and a half, an ungovernable revolt raged in on the streets of Ferguson as angry residents and their supporters used a variety of tactics including arson, property destruction, looting, and gunfire to keep police at a distance and impose consequences for the murder. This set a precedent for subsequent rebellions around the country, culminating with the countrywide upheaval in response to the murder of George Floyd.

To understand the events of 2020 better, we can revisit the uprising in Ferguson and the practices and discourses that emerged in those days.

https://crimethinc.com/FergusonTimeline

Sull’espulsione del campo profughi autogestito di Lavrio, Grecia

https://crimethinc.com/2023/07/24/sullespulsione-del-campo-profughi-autogestito-di-lavrio-grecia-come-si-intersecano-le-guerre-della-turchia-contro-i-curdi-e-dellunione-europea-contro-i-migranti-1

Il 5 Luglio 2023, il governo greco ha sgomberato il campo profughi curdo di Lavrio, in Grecia. Il campo esisteva da molti decenni ed era un importante centro di organizzazione nell’Europa sud-orientale. Le guerre della Turchia contro i curdi, del governo greco contro gli spazi autonomi e dell’Unione Europea contro i migranti si sono intersecate in questa operazione. Nell’analisi che segue, Beja Protner mostra le connessioni tra le varie forme di oppressioni sistemiche coinvolte.

#Italiano

Speaking of book fairs, on August 19-20, we will participate in the third Belo Horizonte Anarchist Book Fair with materials in both English and Portuguese!

The bookfair is organized by the occupation Kasa Invisível and by COMPA (Coletivo Mineiro Popular Anarquista). It will take place in the Espaço Comum Luiz Estrela occupation and in the Vila Aparecida Social Center—including debates, book launches, film screenings and a large literary fair.

To learn more, attend, or register your collective to participate, visit:

www.instagram.com/feiraanarquistabhhttps://feiraanarquistabh.noblogs.org

Nota 3ª Feira do Livro Anarquista de Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil

Dias 19 e 20 de agosto, acontecerá a 3ª Feira do Livro Anarquista de Belo Horizonte e nossos colaboradores estarão lá com alguns de nossos melhores materiais disponíveis em inglês e muitos em português!

A Feira é organizada pela ocupação Kasa Invisível e pelo COMPA – Coletivo Mineiro Popular Anarquista e contecerá na ocupação Espaço Comum Luiz Estrela e no Centro Social Vila Aparecida, abrigando debates, lançamentos de livros, exibição de filmes e uma grande feira literária.

Para saber mais, visitar ou inscrever seu movimento ou coletivo, visite:
www.instagram.com/feiraanarquistabhhttps://feiraanarquistabh.noblogs.org

#Português

Tonight we give thanks that six years ago, on August 12, 2017, courageous people from around the southeastern United States gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia to prevent fascists from building a united street movement. At that time, few outside the anarchist and anti-fascist movements really understood the threat that the fascists gathering in Charlottesville represented. Afterwards, it was clear to all.

This was a costly victory—one person gave her life, and many others suffered life-threatening injuries. But if people had not confronted the fascists that day, they might have gained considerably more numbers and power, killing and injuring many more people.

Here, you can read an interview with an anarchist who participated in countering the fascist mobilization that day:

https://crimethinc.com/squaringoff

L’apprentissage des flammes

https://crimethinc.com/2023/08/09/lapprentissage-des-flammes-quelques-enseignements-depuis-les-revoltes-en-france-1

En juin 2023, dans la ville de Nanterre, en banlieue parisienne, la police a brutalement assassiné un adolescent du nom de Nahel Merzouk, poursuivant ainsi un modèle de violence post-coloniale dirigé contre une partie de la population française traitée comme des citoyen.ne.s de seconde zone. En réponse, des milliers de personnes dans les banlieues de Paris et d’autres villes françaises se sont révoltées pendant plusieurs jours, attaquant les mairies et les commissariats de police, pillant les magasins et se défendant contre la police. Dans la réflexion suivante, un participant aux mouvements de ces dernières années revient sur la révolte de juin 2023 et les mouvements qui l’ont précédée, en explorant les limites qu’ils ont atteintes et en s’interrogeant sur ce qu’il faudrait pour qu’ils aboutissent à une transformation révolutionnaire.

#Français

Una pellicola:

We Are Now
Sottotitoli in Italiano

La storia di una zone armata libera dalla polizia

https://crimethinc.com/videos/we-are-now-italian-subnoscripts

#Italiano

Fascists have been impersonating us. If you receive a message like this, check what address it is from and report it in our chat. Never give personal information to anyone you don't know and trust.

Generally speaking, this channel exists for public announcements. If you receive a personal message from someone purporting to be "the CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective" incarnate, it is probably a trick.

Death to fascism! 🏴

This Wednesday in Pittsburgh, don't miss this presentation about the 2019 uprising in Chile—all that it accomplished and how that momentum was eventually redirected into a doomed electoral process.

If you can't attend, you can read about the history here:

https://crimethinc.com/2022/09/20/from-uprising-to-plebiscite-street-victories-electoral-defeats-perspectives-from-chile-on-the-constitutional-plebiscite

Our comrades at the anarchist PR project Agency have announced a media grant in memory of Jen Angel, a longtime anarchist organizer who passed away in February:

https://www.anarchistagency.com/jen-angel-anarchist-media-grant/

To learn about Jen, you could start with our eulogy:

https://crimethinc.com/jenangel

Even police officers who are supposed to wear body cameras regularly turn them off, leave them behind, or arrange for other officers who don't wear them to do their dirty work, as in the murder of Tortuguita in Atlanta last January.

At the same time, police departments are demanding that politicians channel additional taxpayer funds to police officers in return for them using body cameras.

Our entire society is being held hostage by these violent mercenaries. Not everyone is at risk of being murdered by police, but everyone is being robbed. The solution is not to pay them to wear body cameras (except when they don't want to). It is to cut off their access to our resources.

https://crimethinc.com/bodycams

#StopCopCity
#AbolishthePolice