What is privilege? Privilege is being vaccinated in the US while thousands die of #COVID19 in India and Brazil.
It seems like an advantage—but it just means that new variants can develop elsewhere, and ultimately make their way back to threaten people in the US, too.
There's no such thing as "using your privilege for good." Disparities in power and access to resources are inherently destructive—they ultimately harm everyone. In the final analysis, we can't benefit at others' expense.
It seems like an advantage—but it just means that new variants can develop elsewhere, and ultimately make their way back to threaten people in the US, too.
There's no such thing as "using your privilege for good." Disparities in power and access to resources are inherently destructive—they ultimately harm everyone. In the final analysis, we can't benefit at others' expense.
140 years ago, Errico Malatesta and his fellow anarchists understood that privation anywhere endangers humanity everywhere. As they mobilized mutual aid projects to respond to the outbreak of cholera in Europe, they identified the spread of cholera as the result of the colonial impoverishment of India:
https://cwc.im/cholera
https://cwc.im/cholera
CrimethInc.-klassikko Taistelu elämiemme puolesta on nyt painettu suomeksi!
http://cwc.im/JohdantoAnarkismiin
Taistelu elämiemme puolesta (alkuperäisteos Fighting for our lives) on ytimekäs 24 sivun johdantoteksti anarkismiin, joka ei kiusaa lukijaa sivistyssanoilla tai namedroppailulla. CrimethInc. levitti kirjoitusta aikanaan ilmaiseksi jopa 650 000 kopiota.
Anonyymi toveri päätti viedä keskeytyneen käännösprojektin päätökseen, A-ryhmä sai sen luettavakseen ja totesi, että kirjoitus on edelleen ajankohtainen, lähes 20 vuotta alkuperäisen englanninkielisen laitoksen ilmestymisen jälkeen. Siispä päätimme ottaa painoksen, ja levittää sen ilmaiseksi.
Oman kappaleesi voit hakea Helsingissä Mustan kanin kolosta (Hämeentie 26), postitse voi tilata postimaksua vastaan Tasajaolta tasajako(at)protonmail.com. Isompia määriä voi tilata A-ryhmältä (a-ryhma AT protonmail.com) tai Oulun anarkistiliitolta.
Käännös on myös luettavissa kokonaan CrimethIncin sivuston suomenkielisestä osiosta.
http://cwc.im/JohdantoAnarkismiin
Taistelu elämiemme puolesta (alkuperäisteos Fighting for our lives) on ytimekäs 24 sivun johdantoteksti anarkismiin, joka ei kiusaa lukijaa sivistyssanoilla tai namedroppailulla. CrimethInc. levitti kirjoitusta aikanaan ilmaiseksi jopa 650 000 kopiota.
Anonyymi toveri päätti viedä keskeytyneen käännösprojektin päätökseen, A-ryhmä sai sen luettavakseen ja totesi, että kirjoitus on edelleen ajankohtainen, lähes 20 vuotta alkuperäisen englanninkielisen laitoksen ilmestymisen jälkeen. Siispä päätimme ottaa painoksen, ja levittää sen ilmaiseksi.
Oman kappaleesi voit hakea Helsingissä Mustan kanin kolosta (Hämeentie 26), postitse voi tilata postimaksua vastaan Tasajaolta tasajako(at)protonmail.com. Isompia määriä voi tilata A-ryhmältä (a-ryhma AT protonmail.com) tai Oulun anarkistiliitolta.
Käännös on myös luettavissa kokonaan CrimethIncin sivuston suomenkielisestä osiosta.
We Are Now short trailer.mp4
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We Are Now: The Story of an Armed No-Cop Zone in Atlanta
https://cwc.im/WeAreNow
On the night of June 12, 2020, police officers murdered Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, at a Wendy’s in Atlanta, Georgia. This took place immediately following the high point of the countrywide uprising in which people responded to the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and countless other Black people around the United States. In response, a new wave of protest and revolt broke out across Atlanta, in which the Wendy’s burned to the ground. Armed Black demonstrators occupied the site of the Wendy’s, mourning for Rayshard Brooks and seeking to create spaces of Black empowerment.
Ahead of the anniversary of the George Floyd uprising, we present We Are Now, a film centering the voices of participants in the occupation of the Wendy’s. We hope that this will help to pass on the memories of some of the forms of courageous resistance to white supremacy and policing that took place in 2020.
https://cwc.im/WeAreNow
On the night of June 12, 2020, police officers murdered Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old Black man, at a Wendy’s in Atlanta, Georgia. This took place immediately following the high point of the countrywide uprising in which people responded to the murders of George Floyd in Minneapolis, Breonna Taylor in Louisville, and countless other Black people around the United States. In response, a new wave of protest and revolt broke out across Atlanta, in which the Wendy’s burned to the ground. Armed Black demonstrators occupied the site of the Wendy’s, mourning for Rayshard Brooks and seeking to create spaces of Black empowerment.
Ahead of the anniversary of the George Floyd uprising, we present We Are Now, a film centering the voices of participants in the occupation of the Wendy’s. We hope that this will help to pass on the memories of some of the forms of courageous resistance to white supremacy and policing that took place in 2020.
“Instead, We Became Millions”—Inside Colombia’s Ongoing General Strike
https://cwc.im/ColombiaGeneralStrike
In the face of brutal state repression, the general strike in Colombia has persisted for 23 days, setting crucial precedents for what it means to strike in the 21st century.
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This is a 21st-century strike. In a country where the majority worked precarious jobs in an informal economy, now devastated by the pandemic and government restrictions, this strike is less about not going to work than about actively shutting everything down. Blockades have halted commerce in many cities, but they serve a double role: these points are also where people gather and experiment with new ways of living together and caring for one another, outside of dictates of capitalism and the state.
Murals, dances, barricades, nurses, steaming pots of food, shields, and conversation are all equally important to this uprising. People combine courageous expressions of joy and care with an iron determination to fight.
https://cwc.im/ColombiaGeneralStrike
In the face of brutal state repression, the general strike in Colombia has persisted for 23 days, setting crucial precedents for what it means to strike in the 21st century.
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This is a 21st-century strike. In a country where the majority worked precarious jobs in an informal economy, now devastated by the pandemic and government restrictions, this strike is less about not going to work than about actively shutting everything down. Blockades have halted commerce in many cities, but they serve a double role: these points are also where people gather and experiment with new ways of living together and caring for one another, outside of dictates of capitalism and the state.
Murals, dances, barricades, nurses, steaming pots of food, shields, and conversation are all equally important to this uprising. People combine courageous expressions of joy and care with an iron determination to fight.
This week, we mourn the loss of George Floyd and the thousands of other people whose lives have been stolen by police killings.
We can honor their memory by fighting to put an end to the institutions that treat human beings this way.
https://cwc.im/endpolice
We can honor their memory by fighting to put an end to the institutions that treat human beings this way.
https://cwc.im/endpolice
This is a good week to make the signs in your neighborhood more articulate.
Acquire plastic yard signs, stencil your message on them, drill holes in them, and follow the instructions in the diagram.
For more like this:
https://cwc.im/Recipes
https://kolektiva.social/@municipaladhesives
Acquire plastic yard signs, stencil your message on them, drill holes in them, and follow the instructions in the diagram.
For more like this:
https://cwc.im/Recipes
https://kolektiva.social/@municipaladhesives
CrimethInc.
Recipes for Disaster
Recipes for Disaster is a tactical handbook for direct action, extensively illustrated with technical diagrams and firsthand accounts. It combines decades of hard-won knowledge about everything from collective organizing and antifascist action to squatting…
A year ago, demonstrators in Minneapolis brought the murder of George Floyd to everyone's attention by laying siege to the Third Precinct. In this analysis, some of the participants outline how they ultimately succeeded in forcing the police to withdraw.
https://cwc.im/ThirdPrecinct
https://cwc.im/ThirdPrecinct
The Hot Potato Changes Hands
https://cwc.im/ChileElection
The corporate media are heralding the Chilean elections as a victory for “independent” politics—but what will this mean for the autonomous movements that gave the left politicians momentum in the first place? Our correspondent in Chile explores the irreconcilable tension between the politics of representation and the politics of direct action.
This is the latest development in a story that has been going on for years, from the “Pink Tide” that brought left politicians like Lula to power in Brazil to the victory of Syriza in Greece following the movements of 2011. Yet left parties have struggled to deliver on their promises, and even more extreme right-wing politicians have succeeded them—Bolsonaro in Brazil, New Democracy in Greece. How can social movements navigate the situation arising from left electoral victories, so as to ensure that their prospects are not tied to the fate of political parties and governments?
https://cwc.im/ChileElection
The corporate media are heralding the Chilean elections as a victory for “independent” politics—but what will this mean for the autonomous movements that gave the left politicians momentum in the first place? Our correspondent in Chile explores the irreconcilable tension between the politics of representation and the politics of direct action.
This is the latest development in a story that has been going on for years, from the “Pink Tide” that brought left politicians like Lula to power in Brazil to the victory of Syriza in Greece following the movements of 2011. Yet left parties have struggled to deliver on their promises, and even more extreme right-wing politicians have succeeded them—Bolsonaro in Brazil, New Democracy in Greece. How can social movements navigate the situation arising from left electoral victories, so as to ensure that their prospects are not tied to the fate of political parties and governments?
In the year since the George Floyd uprising, both far-right reactionaries and liberal Democrats have sought to conceal the fact that together, we have the power to abolish the police and make a new world.
We remember this moment—exactly one year ago tonight. May we never forget.
https://twitter.com/crimethinc/status/1266213711167045632
We remember this moment—exactly one year ago tonight. May we never forget.
https://twitter.com/crimethinc/status/1266213711167045632
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CrimethInc.
The fireworks display outside afterwards in celebration, as the police surveillance cameras burn, is a beautiful and romantic moment, even in the midst of heartbreaking tragedies at what seems like the end of the world. Let's take care of each other. Stay…
The Revolt in Haifa: An Eyewitness Report
https://cwc.im/HaifaRevolt
An anonymous participant documents the May 2021 revolt in Haifa and the surrounding area, and the ensuing far-right violence and repression—exploring the tension between horizontal resistance and state power.
"What we desperately need right now is a joint insurrection, co-resistance, involving Jews and Arabs and all the people of this land, against all the authorities that keep us down and prevent us from seeing each other as fellow human beings. In the spaces of revolt, we must create autonomous liberated territories in which we could construct new ways of seeing each other and the world around us—to reinvent living, sharing a space as equals."
https://cwc.im/HaifaRevolt
An anonymous participant documents the May 2021 revolt in Haifa and the surrounding area, and the ensuing far-right violence and repression—exploring the tension between horizontal resistance and state power.
"What we desperately need right now is a joint insurrection, co-resistance, involving Jews and Arabs and all the people of this land, against all the authorities that keep us down and prevent us from seeing each other as fellow human beings. In the spaces of revolt, we must create autonomous liberated territories in which we could construct new ways of seeing each other and the world around us—to reinvent living, sharing a space as equals."
Mikhail Bakunin was born on this day in 1814.
“To love is to desire the liberty, the complete independence, of another person; the first act of true love is the complete emancipation of the object of our love; one can truly love only a perfectly free being, independent not only of all the others, but even and especially of the one who loves him, by whom he is loved and whom he loves himself—here is my profession of political, social and religious faith.”
-Mikhail Bakunin, March 29, 1845, in a letter to his brother Paul.
“To love is to desire the liberty, the complete independence, of another person; the first act of true love is the complete emancipation of the object of our love; one can truly love only a perfectly free being, independent not only of all the others, but even and especially of the one who loves him, by whom he is loved and whom he loves himself—here is my profession of political, social and religious faith.”
-Mikhail Bakunin, March 29, 1845, in a letter to his brother Paul.
Have you seen these stickers around your neighborhood? If not, you can deal with the situation here:
https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/stickers/products/police-not-welcome
https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/stickers/products/police-not-welcome
For those who imagine that all that is necessary to fix everything is for the left to win the elections, we recommend studying the experiences of the Workers' Party (PT) in Brazil, Syriza in Greece… and Salvador Allende in Chile.
This analysis from Chile gets into the details:
https://cwc.im/ChileElection
This analysis from Chile gets into the details:
https://cwc.im/ChileElection
As Brazil nears a half million #COVID19 deaths, sadists are moving the Copa America there:
https://twitter.com/RedeInfoA/status/1399824991651352580
Regarding authoritarianism and virus denialism in Brazil:
https://cwc.im/VirusofPopulism
Why the World Cup was a disaster for people in Brazil even before the pandemic:
https://crimethinc.com/2014/06/12/feature-why-riot-against-the-world-cup
https://twitter.com/RedeInfoA/status/1399824991651352580
Regarding authoritarianism and virus denialism in Brazil:
https://cwc.im/VirusofPopulism
Why the World Cup was a disaster for people in Brazil even before the pandemic:
https://crimethinc.com/2014/06/12/feature-why-riot-against-the-world-cup
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After Colombia and Argentina cancelled the Copa America in their countries, at a time of new waves of #Covid19 in Latin America, #Conmembol confirmed on Monday that the mega event will be held in Brazil. #CopaAmerica2021 #NaoVaiTerCopa #CopaAmericaAquiNao
Though both Trump and the Democratic party worked to change the subject from abolishing the police to electoral politics—a year ago, Newsweek reported that the burning of the Third Precinct was more popular than any of the candidates in the 2020 election.
https://cwc.im/Uprising2020
https://cwc.im/Uprising2020
Take two: Here is our revised report on why public officials were not able to evict George Floyd Square—the autonomous zone at the site where Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd in May 2020.
https://cwc.im/GeorgeFloydSquare
Now with more of the gritty details.
#GeorgeFloydSquare
https://cwc.im/GeorgeFloydSquare
Now with more of the gritty details.
#GeorgeFloydSquare
Dos textos en español:
La Revuelta en Haifa: Informe de un Testigo Ocular
https://crimethinc.com/2021/05/29/la-revuelta-en-haifa-informe-de-un-testigo-ocular
Un escrito anónimo remitido desde la Palestina Ocupada, que documenta y analiza los sucesos acaecidos el pasado mes en Haifa y el área circundante.
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Chile: La Papa Caliente Cambia de Manos
https://crimethinc.com/2021/05/28/chile-la-papa-caliente-cambia-de-manos-pero-que-significa-la-victoria-electoral-para-los-movimientos-autonomistas-1
El fin de semana del 15 y 16 de mayo de 2021, los votantes en Chile eligieron a los delegados que asistirán a la convención que compondrá una nueva constitución para el país. La derecha fue decisivamente derrotada en estas elecciones. Los medios tradicionales han anunciado este resultado como una victoria de la política “independiente”—pero ¿qué significado tendrá esto para los movimientos autonomistas que dieron impulso a los políticos izquierdistas en primer lugar?
La Revuelta en Haifa: Informe de un Testigo Ocular
https://crimethinc.com/2021/05/29/la-revuelta-en-haifa-informe-de-un-testigo-ocular
Un escrito anónimo remitido desde la Palestina Ocupada, que documenta y analiza los sucesos acaecidos el pasado mes en Haifa y el área circundante.
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Chile: La Papa Caliente Cambia de Manos
https://crimethinc.com/2021/05/28/chile-la-papa-caliente-cambia-de-manos-pero-que-significa-la-victoria-electoral-para-los-movimientos-autonomistas-1
El fin de semana del 15 y 16 de mayo de 2021, los votantes en Chile eligieron a los delegados que asistirán a la convención que compondrá una nueva constitución para el país. La derecha fue decisivamente derrotada en estas elecciones. Los medios tradicionales han anunciado este resultado como una victoria de la política “independiente”—pero ¿qué significado tendrá esto para los movimientos autonomistas que dieron impulso a los políticos izquierdistas en primer lugar?