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We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid.
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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.
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
In 1886, the anarchists Albert and Lucy Parsons led 80,000 people through Chicago in the first modern May Day Parade: “Eight-hour day with no cut in pay!”

350,000 workers around the US went on strike at 1200 factories—70,000 in Chicago, 45,000 in New York, 32,000 in Cincinnati.

On May 3, 1886, police shot into a labor protest in Chicago, killing two.

On May 4, police attacked another rally, someone threw a bomb—and the rest is history.

This is why laborers have rights—not the benevolence of bosses and politicians.

Learn more:

https://cwc.im/maydayhistory
Following May Day, we recommend Work, our analysis of how capitalism has changed over the past 100 years.

As the compromises that stabilized capitalism through the 20th century break down, it's becoming harder to defend fixed positions in the economy. But if we want to do away with the system in its entirety, we just might have the chance.

https://cwc.im/Work

Let's topple the whole thing.
“Everywhere, the pandemic has intensified disparities in wealth, power, and access to the means of survival, while serving as an excuse for increasing state repression. In learning from and extending solidarity to those who face state and paramilitary violence in Latin America—much of which is supported and directed by the United States and other governments and capitalist institutions—we are confronting the same global forces that threaten our own freedom and well-being.”

https://crimethinc.com/2021/05/05/colombia-has-lost-its-fear-a-nationwide-uprising-continues-in-the-face-of-state-violence
“The narco-state is killing us”
Colombia: protesters are using makeshift shields amid protests against new taxes and healthcare privatization schemes.
Colombia: If COVID-19 doesn’t kill us, the perverse government will.
Colombia: “corruption and oppression are destroyed by rebellion”
Colombia Has Lost Its Fear

https://cwc.im/ColombiaRevolt

In Colombia, a nationwide uprising continues in the face of brutal state violence. This translation from the city of Cali details why people are risking their lives to take on one of the most violent governments in Latin America.