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

Today, it has been 96 years since the execution of the anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Anti-immigrant bigotry played a significant part in determining the outcome of their trial. The court case became a rallying point for thousands around the world.

"Not only am I innocent of these two crimes, not only in all my life I have never stolen, never killed, never spilled blood, but I have struggled all my life, since I began to reason, to eliminate crime from the earth...

"I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian; I have suffered more for my family and for my beloved than for myself; but I am so convinced to be right that you can only kill me once but if you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already."

-Bartolomeo Vanzetti, addressing the court at their sentencing

On the last day of the Anarchy 2023 gathering in Saint-Imier, a massive chorus of anarchist choirs gathered in the main square of the village. Among other songs, they performed a song about Sacco and Vanzetti, here recorded by Joan Baez:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4xWbRBLj2I

The Wagner Mutiny has reached its inevitable conclusion with the reported deaths of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin.

Yet Vladimir Putin should not feel any more sure of his grip on power this month than Prigozhin did last month. The tighter the authoritarian regime, the more pressure waiting to explode.

In the meantime, this is a good time to revisit the perspectives of Russian anarchists on the Wagner Mutiny, written when it was still unclear how it would turn out:

https://crimethinc.com/WagnerMutiny

Civil war is the inevitable long-term consequence of totalitarianism. The alternative is the anarchist project of abolishing oppressive power from below.

The chorus of the song "Defeat" by the hardcore band Requiem is inspired by some of the final words of Bartolomeo Vanzetti:

"If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as now we do by accident. Our words—our lives—our pains—nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler—all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph."

Like all music released by CrimethInc., it is freely available here:

https://crimethinc.bandcamp.com/track/defeat

Recuerdos de Saint-Imier, de 1872 a 2023

https://es.crimethinc.com/2023/08/22/recuerdos-de-saint-imier-de-1872-a-2023-relatos-de-un-encuentro-anarquista-mundial

Con un mes de retraso, por fin volvemos de las vacaciones de verano con un informe de Anarchy 2023, un encuentro anarquista mundial en Saint-Imier, Suiza. Este festival celebró el 151 aniversario del congreso fundacional de la federación conocida como la Internacional Antiautoritaria, la continuación de la Asociación Internacional de Trabajadores, una de las organizaciones sindicales europeas más importantes del siglo XIX. La reunión de Saint-Imier, a la que acudieron unas 5.000 personas -la mayoría procedentes de Europa central, pero también de lugares tan lejanos como Chile y Australia-, pudo haber sido el mayor acontecimiento exclusivamente anarquista del año. A continuación ofrecemos diversos testimonios y valoraciones.

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