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.

But letting state institutions clamp down on these platforms sets a bad precedent, which could endanger other means of encryption and communication in the future. If we let the state fight our battles for us, they will use the same approaches to repress us, too. It would be better to abandon, undermine, abolish, and replace Telegram and Twitter ourselves.

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary

O governo francês prendeu o CEO do Telegram, Pavel Durov, enquanto o governo brasileiro segue em frente com o bloqueio da rede anteriormente conhecida como Twitter.

Ambas as plataformas têm sido fundamentais para a organização da extrema-direita – por exemplo, a divulgação de alvos durante a recente onda de ataques fascistas na Grã-Bretanha. O Telegram afirma fornecer criptografia, mas, diferentemente do Tor e do Signal, se recusa a expor seu modelo ao escrutínio público.

O bilionário supremacista branco Elon Musk comprou o Twitter para devolver Donald Trump e vários neonazistas à plataforma. Embora Musk finja que o conflito com o judiciário brasileiro seja sobre “liberdade de expressão”, ele cumpre com entusiasmo as ordens de governos de extrema direita, como o governo da Índia, de suspender as contas dos organizadores de movimentos sociais. Ele baniu nossas páginas a pedido explícito de um fascista conhecido assim que assumiu o controle do Twitter. A sua prioridade é promover o fascismo – e não proteger o livre discurso.

Mas permitir que as instituições estatais reprimam estas plataformas abre um mau precedente, que pode pôr em perigo outros meios de encriptação e comunicação no futuro. Se deixarmos o Estado travar estas batalhas em nosso lugar, eles também usarão as mesmas estratégias para nos reprimir. Seria melhor abandonar e substituir nós mesmos o Telegram e o Twitter.

https://crimethinc.com/2022/11/25/elon-musk-derruba-crimethinc-no-twitter-atendendo-a-troll-das-extrema-direita

#Português

1 сентября 2020 года погиб Алексей Сократ Сутуга. В память о нем медиапроект CrimethInc подготовил предисловие к английской версии книги о погибшем - Socrates the Skinhead: The Life of a Russian Anti-Fascist

On 1 September 2020, Alexei Socrates Sutuga died. In his memory, the media project CrimethInc prepared a foreword to the English version of the book about the deceased - Socrates the Skinhead: The Life of a Russian Anti-Fascist:

https://ru.crimethinc.com/2024/04/24/we-too-remember-aleksei-sutuga-the-life-of-a-russian-anarchist-and-anti-fascist

In 1930, the German state of Thuringia was the first in which the Nazi Party won the elections. This week, the fascist party Alternative für Deutschland won the highest number of votes in Thuringia. The resurgence of fascism in Germany is reflected in a wave of Nazi street violence around the country.

Around the world, neoliberal regimes have brutally repressed anti-capitalist movements, creating a situation in which fascists can pretend to represent the only alternative. Fascism will continue to gain momentum until we create grassroots movements that can crush it while addressing the problems capitalism creates.

Background:

https://crimethinc.com/Germany2024