Today marks 150 years since the Paris Commune began when soldiers refused to fire on women laborers, instead turning their guns on their commanding officers.

Read the story here, drawn from the memoirs of the anarchist Louise Michel:

https://cwc.im/arch18

#UnfinishedBusiness

Before May Day became a labor holiday, anarchists and other labor organizers rallied on March 18, the anniversary of the beginning of the Paris Commune.

For example, in 1877, Peter Kropotkin participated in a rally in Berne, fighting police with flagpoles and brass knuckles.

Kropotkin is remembered today for his work as a scientist and organizer, above all for popularizing the concept of mutual aid as a factor in evolution and social relations. Few recall that he was also the equivalent of a black bloc anarchist.

Citation:
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/first/linternationaled03guiluoft.pdf

18 years ago, the US invaded Iraq in the name of putting an end to terrorism [securing oil reserves], leading to hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties and paving the way for the rise of the Islamic State.

They function like a protection racket: everything they do increases the dangers they pretend to be protecting us from.

Against all governments—against all wars.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/against-all-wars

Continuing our tradition of circulating punk anthems against the military dictatorship in Myanmar, here is a new track by Cacerolazo, a collective including the Myanmar punk band Rebel Riot:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=NNOwIvsNfD4

Solidarity to rebels in Myanmar—for a worldwide front against all forms of authority.

In honor of the 100-year anniversary of the #Kronstadt rebellion this month, today anarchists renamed Lenin Park in Helsinki, christening it Kronstadt park.

More about the uprising:
cwc.im/Kronstadt

Announcement in Finnish:
https://takku.net/article.php/20210327190013552

La Commune 1871

https://cwc.im/LaCommune1871

For the 150-year anniversary of the revolutionary Paris Commune, we revisit the experimental film Peter Watkins made summoning the spirit of the Commune—a bold challenge to the role of media and an example of historical memory as a weapon.

We've embedded the film here as well, in order to keep it widely available. We invite you to watch and discuss it, to reflect on the events of the real Paris Commune, and to participate fiercely and bravely in the struggles of our own time.

The focus on Derek Chauvin's trial in Minneapolis is just the latest step in an ongoing concerted effort to make us forget the events of summer 2020, to make us forget everything that we can do together to stop police violence directly.

https://cwc.im/endpolice

The courts will never deliver justice. The trial is only a matter for national conversation in the first place because of the #GeorgeFloydRebellion.

The youth of Minneapolis showed us how to abolish the police.

In the early 2000s, a filmmaking collective set out to tell the story of the Kronstadt rebellion, involving arguably the largest cast of trans actors in the history of cinema.

We interviewed the director about the resulting masterpiece, Maggots and Men.

https://cwc.im/MaggotsandMen