Today marks seven years since Heather Heyer lost her life while standing up to fascists in Charlottesville. We honor Heather’s courage and the courage of all the others who knowingly put themselves in harm’s way that day for the sake of protecting others.

In 2024, the site of the attack remains a place of memory, mourning, and calls to resist.

https://crimethinc.com/Charlottesville2024

We are heartbroken report the untimely passing of Luciano Pitronello, known as Tortuga, an anarchist from the territory dominated by the Chilean state.

Here, you can read some of Tortuga's writing and some recollections of him:

https://crimethinc.com/TortugaVive

In 2011, at age twenty-two, Tortuga was severely injured during an attempt to carry out an attack on a Santander bank in Santiago. The explosion resulted in Tortuga losing one hand and suffering severe damage to his other hand as well as his eyes, skin, and lungs. At first, it was unclear to what extent he would recover.

Demonstrating admirable determination, he survived the ordeal and exceeded expectations in the extent of his recovery.

In 2012, Tortuga was acquitted of terrorism charges and released from prison. After his release, he helped to establish and maintain the self-managed social center and autonomous library Sante Geronimo Caserio.

Two days ago, while Tortuga was working in Santiago, he came into contact with electrical cables and was killed by an electrical shock. This tragedy illustrates that the most dangerous thing is not resistance—it is ordinary life at the mercy of capitalism. We honor all of the ways that Tortuga contributed to the struggle for a better world, not least the example that he set in confronting hardship.

You can also listen to an interview with Tortuga here:

https://crimethinc.com/podcast/30

برای رهایی فلسطین و مردمان خاورمیانه
بیانیه‌ای از گروه روژا

در بیانیه پیش‌رو، گروه روژا ادعا می کند مسیر حمایت از آرمان فلسطین جز از طریق ضدیت با جمهوری اسلامی و ضدیت با محور کذایی مقاومت نخواهد گذشت

#فارسی

"We are opposed to a system based on authoritarianism."

These are some of the stickers that Tortuga drew by hand after the explosion that claimed one of his arms and severely damaged his eyes and his other hand.

https://crimethinc.com/TortugaVive

In memoria di Luciano Pitronello, conosciuto anche come Tortuga

https://crimethinc.com/2024/08/14/in-memoria-di-luciano-pitronello-conosciuto-anche-come-tortuga

Nel 2011, all’età di ventidue anni, Tortuga è stato gravemente ferito durante un tentativo di attacco a una banca. A causa dell’esplosione, Tortuga perse una mano e riportò gravi danni all’altra mano, agli occhi, alla pelle e ai polmoni. Dimostrando un’ammirevole determinazione, è sopravvissuto alla dura prova e ha superato le aspettative per quanto riguarda la velocità e la gravità della sua guarigione.

Due giorni fa, mentre Tortuga lavorava a Santiago, è entrato in contatto con dei cavi elettrici ed è rimasto ucciso da una scarica elettrica. Questa tragedia dimostra che la cosa più pericolosa non è la resistenza. Piuttosto, la cosa più pericolosa, quella che uccide più persone, è la vita ordinaria alla mercé del capitalismo. Rendiamo onore a tutti i modi in cui Tortuga ha contribuito alla lotta per un mondo migliore.

#Italiano

Students! As you return to school, this is a great time to think about forming an anarchist student organization!

Here, you can read about how others like you did just that, and how you could, yourself:

https://crimethinc.com/uncontrollables

Queer Wanderings through the Other Germany and the Anti-Nazi Underworld

https://crimethinc.com/QueerWanderings

A thriving gay underground existed in Germany before the rise of the Third Reich. Some of the participants went on to carry out some of the fiercest resistance to the Nazis.

As fascism is on the rise today, we revisit this history, seeking tactics and inspiration for our own troubled times.

As demonstrators gather outside this week's Democratic National Convention in Chicago to protest the Democratic Party's continuing support of genocide in Gaza, it's a good time to revisit earlier anarchist mobilizations against the conventions.

In the years 2000, 2004, and 2008, anarchists around the United States converged on both the DNC and the RNC, asserting an anti-capitalist and anti-state position in political discourse and exerting pressure against the capitalist and militarist agenda that both parties share. These mobilizations helped establish countrywide networks and precedents. For example, the organizing against the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in 2008 produced the St. Paul Principles, a framework legitimizing a diversity of tactics, which helped resolve conflicts between pacifists and proponents of direct action.

A full history and evaluation of the 2008 mobilization:

https://crimethinc.com/texts/rncdnc

There is a direct line of historical transmission from the convention protests to the George Floyd Uprising of 2020. A year of organizing for the 2008 mobilizations under the umbrella of Unconventional Action produced chapters around the country. UA in the Bay kept organizing after the conventions, and participated in the revolt when Oscar Grant was murdered, setting a precedent for the movement against police and white supremacy that burst into the public consciousness in 2014.

https://crimethinc.com/FergusonTimeline

Six years ago tonight, anarchists, students, and other opponents of white supremacy surrounded the Confederate monument at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill with banners, then tore it down, setting a precedent that led to the toppling of dozens of white supremacist monuments in 2020.

https://crimethinc.com/Monuments

Direct action gets the goods!

Dezastrul deja a ajuns

Anarhiștii din sudul Braziliei vorbesc despre inundațiile din mai 2024

https://crimethinc.com/2024/06/25/dezastrul-deja-a-ajuns-anarhistii-din-sudul-braziliei-vorbesc-despre-inundatiile-din-mai-2024-1

Declarațiile anarhiștilor din sudul Braziliei despre cum capitalismul și statul au exacerbat inundațiile din 2024 și rolul acțiunii directe în solidaritate.

#Română

Vortext and Terror Incognita

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/vortext-and-terror-incognita

A decade ago, in the wake of the Occupy movement and a new wave of interest in queer and insurrectionist anarchism, we published this two-zine set as a venue for experimental thinking and the creative arts. To bring the whimsy of 2012 into dialogue with the calamities of the present, we've prepared a new limited printing of them.

Terror Incognita is a three-part argument for rejecting all fixed conceptions of identity in favor of a bold departure into the unknown. It challenges conventional notions about consent, violence, sexuality, desire, and freedom, pushing the discourse about these subjects far outside familiar territory.

Vortext is a joyous, absurdist, and outré rampage between the poles of philosophy, literature, and performance art. It has a strong personality. Whatever you're imagining, it's weirder than that.

Together, they make for a total of 148 pages of reading.