Throughout the pandemic, workers have been treated as expendable resources for the sake of corporate profiteering.

Cheers to every worker who quits, sabotages, organizes, or uses other tactics to resist the capitalist death cult.

https://cwc.im/deathcult

Workers have been quitting in droves in 2021. This can be an effective pressure tactic on employers—volatility in the workforce can force them to offer better terms.

Of course, to be able to risk quitting, we have to build support networks and other means of collective survival.

https://cwc.im/workmythology

If you call yourself an abolitionist, but you support the police and prisons of Russia, Syria, Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, or China…

Then you're not really an abolitionist.

If you oppose police and prisons everywhere, you might be—an anarchist.

http://cwc.im/cops

Genoa 2001: Memories from the Front Lines

https://cwc.im/GenoaG8

Twenty years ago today, at the peak of a movement against capitalist globalization, hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Genoa, Italy to oppose the summit of the eight most powerful governments in the world—the G8. The demonstrations in Genoa represented the high-water mark of an era of global protest, in which both confrontational tactics and police repression reached their apex. In a new era of uprisings, we stand to learn a lot from studying previous cycles of resistance. This narrative history recounts the mobilization in Genoa through a series of firsthand accounts.

The demonstrations against the G8 summit in Genoa 20 years ago exemplified the strategy of convergence—in which anti-capitalists worldwide concentrated their forces for spectacular attacks on multinational institutions like the G8, WTO, and IMF.

http://cwc.im/GenoaG8

It's important to understand how the root system of long-running social and cultural spaces contributed to the success of these mass mobilizations, creating opportunities for people to undergo a shared political evolution, build ties, and innovate new tactics and discourses.

Today's black bloc tactics, widespread from Chile and Hong Kong to the United States, derive in part from the movements that came together in Genoa in 2001. How can we develop a more robust root system?

It’s Bigger than Cuba

https://cwc.im/July11Cuba

To explore the causes and implications of the wave of protests that broke out in Cuba on July 11, we present two interviews with Cuban anarchists and a statement from an anarchist initiative in Cuba.

We have heard a wide range of explanations for last week’s protests in Cuba. Right-wing proponents of capitalism blame the Cuban government, charging that the protests stem from the failures of one-party socialism. Self-proclaimed anti-imperialists blame the United States government, alleging that these protests indicate covert US intervention. Others blame US sanctions on Cuba, suggesting that these are chiefly to blame for creating the economic conditions that sparked the protests.

Each of these narratives contains a grain of truth, but all fall short of grasping the whole. If we do not wish to simply project our own assumptions onto the events, the first thing we should do is to ask Cubans how they understand what is happening.

Congratulations to those in São Paulo who burned the statue of Borba Gato, a 17th-century perpetrator of colonial violence.

To quote our comrades in Brazil, "If monuments still honor slavers and rapists, it is because the system they built is still standing." Let's take it down.

https://cwc.im/statues

Tonight, after many months of protest, the president of #Tunisia suspended the parliament—widely regarded as a hotbed of corruption—and dismissed the prime minister.

For background, we recommend this analysis by Tunisian anarchists, from last February:

https://cwc.im/Tunisia2021

These events indicate the strength of the popular movement against the old political class in Tunisia.

But looking on from afar, it's impossible not to recall how the military helped topple Morsi in Egypt—and then retained power.

The important thing is to build grassroots strength, not to seek—or accept—solutions from above.

On this day, July 29, 121 years ago, the anarchist Gaetano Bresci assassinated King Umberto of Italy to impose consequences for the slaughter of hundreds of poor workers.

You can read the story in full here, including Tolstoy's and Malatesta's perspectives:

https://cwc.im/bresci

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The federal eviction moratorium expires today. The fact that it was in place for over a year shows how senseless evictions are in the first place. Aren't wealth disparities in the US bad enough already?

Here's a poster promoting eviction defense to use in your community:
https://cwc.im/NoEvictions

Let's fight back and defend each other.