Every year for over a decade, we have joined others around the world in observing April 15 as Steal Something from Work Day—a day to reflect on all the reasons workers steal from their workplaces.

You can find a wide range of material about this holiday here:

https://cwc.im/StealfromWork

What Work Steals from Us

https://cwc.im/StealfromWork2021

During the #COVID-19 pandemic, as many of us are compelled to work remotely, stealing from work has become more difficult than ever.

For Steal Something from Work Day 2021, we consider what this means for the future of humanity.

En español :

Lo Que el Trabajo Nos Roba: Día de Robar Algo en el Trabajo 2021

https://crimethinc.com/2021/04/15/lo-que-el-trabajo-nos-roba-dia-de-robar-algo-en-el-trabajo-2021

El Asesinato de Daunte Wright: Cooptación y Revuelta
Un Año después del Levantamiento por George Floyd, ¿Qué ha Cambiado?

https://crimethinc.com/2021/04/13/el-asesinato-de-daunte-wright-cooptacion-y-revuelta-un-ano-despues-del-levantamiento-por-george-floyd-que-ha-cambiado

Grecia: “Nuestro Odio a la Policía nos Unirá”

https://crimethinc.com/2021/04/07/grecia-nuestro-odio-a-la-policia-nos-unira

https://twitter.com/NickAtNews/status/1383257520840445953

Tonight police are brutalizing protesters in Minneapolis, Chicago, and elsewhere around the country to assert their right to keep murdering unarmed Black men with impunity.

http://cwc.im/DaunteWright

They are an occupying army—mercenaries who no longer pretend to protect or serve.

At tonight's press conference, Minnesota police officials sought to dictate the proper way to mourn those murdered by their officers.

Then the chief of state patrol explicitly appealed to supporters to "stand up and help" the police. We've seen what this means: Kyle Rittenhouse.

youtube.com/watch?v=cQSN9kAUwb4

They also allude to their strategy of channeling people into ineffectual protests. Yet no one would know the names of George Floyd, Daunte Wright, and so many others killed by police if not for the brave people who have rebelled.

More on counterinsurgency and how it works alongside paramilitary strategies to support state violence:

http://cwc.im/ParamilitaryCounterinsurgency

Québec City, April 2001: The Revolutionary Anti-Capitalist Offensive

20 years ago, anarchists from around North America converged in Québec City to oppose the neoliberal proposal for a Free Trade Area of the Americas—and to fight against capitalism itself.

https://cwc.im/QuebecFTAA

In this blow-by-blow account, a participant recounts the fiercest street battles of that generation, detailing the strategies that ultimately defeated the FTAA. The result makes for exciting reading, to say the least, but it also an important educational document that has much to offer today’s anarchists.

Spread the word to any students and student groups you know! Check out https://www.instagram.com/mnteenactivists for inspiration from their successful action yesterday.

The jury has arrived at a verdict in the Derek Chauvin case, but they delayed announcing it so the police and National Guard could establish total control of the Twin Cities ahead of this announcement.

In short: one individual cop might be found guilty, but the institution of police as a whole is just accumulating more and more power.

On the contrary, the problem is not just individual officers. The problem is the police state. Our rulers are investing tremendous power in the police, who will inevitably go on killing and oppressing.

What changed from the non-indictment of the officer who murdered Michael Brown to the guilty verdict in Derek Chauvin's case?

Only this: that a powerful movement stopped seeking reform through the institutions and took uncompromisingly to the streets.

https://cwc.im/demands

The Chauvin verdict indicates the strength of the movements against white supremacy and police violence.

But as long as we look to the courts for solutions, police will go on murdering people.

The police and National Guard crowding the streets of Minneapolis today confirm this.

Today is Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day—Մեծ Եղեռնի զոհերի հիշատակի օր.

To understand the deep roots of fascism in Turkey, we recommend this text, composed by Turkish anarchists:

https://cwc.im/TurkishFascism

We honor those fighting state violence in both Turkey and Armenia today.

As the Georgia Tech Police Department continuously claims to stand for LGBTQ+ rights and diversity on GT campus, student activists and local queers have refuted these disingenuous claims in a series of viral Twitter threads. On September 16, 2017, Scout Schultz, an Atlanta anarchist and head of the GT Pride Alliance, was killed by GTPD officer Tyler Beck, who still works on campus.

Following the killing of Schultz, a small revolt took place on campus, in which mourners clashed with police and burned a police cruiser. In the weeks that followed, Atlanta area police dragged queers and students out of classrooms, making arrests, and prompting some to take their own lives in a flurry of harassment and intimidation. As a humble contribution to this horrific sequence, we did our best to catalogue the repressive campaign beginning with Scout’s killing, which we encourage others to study and remember.

RIP
Scout Schultz
Dallas Punja
Kirby Jackson


https://crimethinc.com/2017/10/05/scout-schultz-remembering-means-fighting-mourning-a-queer-activist-and-anarchist-murdered-by-the-police

Berkeley, California 2017

Georgia Tech, September 2017.

A friend of Scout Schultz wrote this touching letter defending their memory, and affirming their radical antifascist commitments.

http://www.maskmagazine.com/the-rant-issue/struggle/remembering-scout-schultz

We’ve prepared a poster combining imagery and text from our forebears, crystalizing how earlier anarchists saw the relationship between resisting the existing order and building alternatives to it.

Here, we trace the history of each element of the poster:

https://cwc.im/DestructionandCreation

“Let us therefore trust the eternal Spirit which destroys and annihilates only because it is the unfathomable and eternally creative source of all life. The passion for destruction is a creative passion, too.”
-Mikhail Bakunin, "The Reaction in Germany"

When we talk about police abolition, people ask how we would "maintain order" without them. But we are not talking about abolishing police and leaving everything else the way it is.

Police are only "necessary" because without them, it would be impossible to maintain such tremendous disparities in wealth and power.

Police are just a symptom of a larger problem—and police abolition is only one step in a much larger transformation.

https://cwc.im/work

Today marks 29 years since the officers who beat Rodney King were acquitted. The uprising that broke out in Los Angeles in response was a precursor to the George Floyd rebellion.

The music of the uprising:

https://cwc.im/LA92

29 years of uprisings against police:

https://detritusbooks.com/products/we-fight-three-decades-of-rebellion-against-the-police

(This book, "We Fight," includes several CrimethInc. texts.)

You know you've made it as an anti-capitalist collective when the Wall Street Journal tries to smear the President of the United States by alleging that he borrowed his strategy from you.

Their article:

https://wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-art-of-the-non-deal-11619647864

The article they quote:

https://cwc.im/demands

The Wall Street Journal author is pursuing a classic strategy—when facing two opponents [e.g., Democrats and anarchists], attempt to identify them with each other and distinguish oneself.

In fact, Biden and the WSJ have more in common, both being proponents of capitalism and the state.

Ahead of May Day, we present "How the Unions Lost Their Teeth," a report from a labor union intern about what happened to the powerful labor unions of the mid-20th century and how we might approach labor struggles today.

https://cwc.im/shopfloor

#MayDay2021