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.

The eviction moratorium that protected thousands of families until today was not introduced out of the kindness of politicians' hearts, but chiefly for fear that mass evictions during the pandemic would generate mass resistance.

Learn about rent strikes:
https://cwc.im/rentstrike

Renters' organizing efforts in April 2020 helped force the government to introduce the federal eviction moratorium.

We have to keep fighting—to make them fear the consequences of throwing people out on the street.

Deschooling: Unlearning to Learn

https://cwc.im/unlearning

As students prepare to return to an increasingly dystopian learning environment, it’s a good time to revisit our assumptions about education itself. What is the purpose of our educational institutions? How deeply do the premises of those institutions shape the ways that we approach learning, even in our “free time”? How else might we go about developing and exploring our capacities?

Most of the things we make and do for money are patently irrelevant to our survival—and to what gives life meaning, besides.

https://cwc.im/workmythology

The anarchist critique of work is that activity dictated by the economy rather than our self-determined desires is bound to be alienating. Many people enjoy gardening, carpentry, and cooking for their own sake. Free activity could provide for all our needs—if not for the artificial pressures and scarcities imposed by capitalism.

The artwork is from a flier distributed by Solidarity Bookshop in Chicago in the 1970s.

No Gods, No Masters Degrees

https://cwc.im/NoMastersDegrees

A memoir of struggle from both outside and inside the institutions of learning, reflecting on how students can engage in class mutiny—weaponizing their access to resources to contribute to broader struggles against capitalism.

Are you a student preparing to go back to school? Read about how people like you set up an anarchist student organization:

https://cwc.im/uncontrollables

Organize a radical rush week! Prepare a campus disorientation guide! Get students connected to projects and networks! Go! Waving black flag

For a global perspective on what student organizing can look like, this interview traces the history of anarchist participation in the student movement in Chile from the dictatorship to the context immediately preceding the countrywide uprising of 2019:

https://cwc.im/chilestudents

Today marks seven years since a Ferguson police officer murdered Michael Brown, sparking a revolt that set the template for uprisings from Baltimore to Minneapolis.

https://cwc.im/lootingback

Thank you to all who have risked their freedom in the ongoing struggle against police. 🏴

Brazil: Only Revolt Can Bring Down Bolsonaro

https://cwc.im/Brazil2021

Ahead of the 2022 elections, Brazil is now reprising the same dramatic showdown that the United States faced in 2020. As the pandemic intensifies alongside corruption scandals and the unrestrained plundering of Indigenous lands, Jair Bolsonaro’s government faces pressure from the streets and the left wing of the state. But what will it take to unseat him and break out of the patterns that brought him to power?

We Carry a New World in Our Riots

https://cwc.im/SouthAfricaJuly2021…

Should we understand the looting that took place in South Africa in July 2021 as the consequence of a clash between factions of the ruling class or as an expression of revolt in response to desperate conditions?

Afghanistan: The Taliban Victory in a Global Context

https://cwc.im/Afghanistan2021

A veteran of the US occupation of Afghanistan discusses this defeat for the US imperial project, framing both the occupation and the Taliban in the context of a worldwide wave of authoritarianism.

For the record—we mobilized against the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 and the occupation of Iraq starting in 2003.

We oppose the Taliban and all authoritarian militarism, but we have always believed that only grassroots local resistance can defeat them.

Military intervention can't create peace, only suffering and instability. It always leads to more reactionary violence—from the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq to the Taliban victory this week.

Against state militarism—for a global network of autonomous resistance.

These posters are nearly two decades old. You can find them, and countless others, in our poster archive:

https://cwc.im/posters

America is an amnesiac, waking up from unconsciousness. Whose lands are these we’re living on, where did all this money in our wallets come from—and why are people trying to kill us? Can we work out our true identity before the end of the movie?
What is the meaning of this image burned into our brains, the twin towers that fall over and over? Oppressed by their ominous absence, we can only conceive of the world in dualities: terrorism or militarism, danger or safety, peace or war. Our own lives, our own questions, whatever those might be, are unimaginable.
Who built those towers, who trained the ones who brought them down? Who stands to gain from our fixation on them? What would it mean to reject the terms they offer us, to refuse our role in the story entirely and make for the horizon?