Berkeley, California

Today, it's been 10 years since Occupy Wall Street kicked off, bringing anti-capitalist ideas to the mainstream in the US.

In this twitter thread, we explore the history of Occupy:

https://twitter.com/crimethinc/status/1438803505121316864

If you're not sure why anyone would be critical of capitalism, start here:

https://cwc.im/work

Max Chafkin claims that In a secret meeting in 2019, Mark Zuckerberg made a deal with Jared Kushner that Facebook would not fact-check political speech in the run-up to the 2020 election—and in exchange, the Trump administration would not regulate Facebook:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/peter-thiel-silicon-valley-contrarian-max-chafkin.html

This tracks with our experience. In 2020, Facebook claimed to be banning militia groups, but instead, they banned us and several other anarchist publishers:

https://cwc.im/BannedonFacebook

After the ban went into effect, militia groups used Facebook to mobilize armed vigilantes to Portland and Kenosha, where one of them shot three people.

It's no exaggeration to say that Facebook is trying to create a brainwashed populace for the sake of tyranny.

On the second week of October 2011, the Occupy Wall Street movement spread across the US and even the world. After NYC protesters agreed to a basic ethos of horizontalism, direct action, and self-organization, they managed also to withstand multiple attacks by the NYPD on their demonstrations and encampment. This movement emerged on the heels of struggles in the UK, in California, North Africa, Spain, and Wisconsin.

https://cwc.im/Nightmares

In the months and years following Occupy, many sincere activists and opportunists alike sought to recreate some of its bright enthusiasm and innovation. Today, it is likely that the same will occur in the aftermath of the 2020 George Floyd protests. Instead of memorializing what has been accomplished or bemoaning what has disappeared, it can be helpful to revisit the general sequences and contexts immediately preceding these moments, as we are more likely to recognize parallels in the previous chapters of rising action than in the peaks of revolt, which can often feel timeless and without parallel to participants and spectators alike.

Oakland, California, March 4, 2010

From Toppling Statues to Liberating Spaces

https://cwc.im/TopplingStatues

How do we ensure that what grows up in place of the statues of Columbus that people toppled last year will fulfill the emancipatory ambitions of those who toppled them?

This article from The Intercept provides the previously concealed details about how Facebook equates anarchist publishers with armed militia groups—and how Facebook's policies disproportionately target already marginalized demographics.

https://theintercept.com/2021/10/12/facebook-secret-blacklist-dangerous/

"She told me that she didn’t call herself an anarchist because she didn’t feel that she deserved to—she didn’t do enough. I asked her if it was OK for us to call her one. She said she’d be honored."

https://cwc.im/LeGuin

Happy birthday, Ursula Le Guin.

Today is the anniversary of the beginning of the Hungarian uprising of 1956—a good day to revisit our text "There’s No Such Thing as Revolutionary Government."

https://cwc.im/government

You can’t abolish class society without abolishing the asymmetry between ruler and ruled. That means abolishing the state.

For another perspective on the Hungarian uprising, we recommend this annotated photoessay presenting the poem “Noretorp Noretsyh”—by the anarchist Kenneth Rexroth—as a series of graffiti installations:

https://cwc.im/rexroth

To keep up with demand, we've reprinted our anarchist primer To Change Everything, bringing the total number of English copies in circulation over 200,000.

You can order copies here:

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/to-change-everything

It's available on our site in 31 languages:

https://cwc.im/tce

The military coup in Sudan is, in part, a result of repressive global immigration policies—not to mention arms profiteering.

Resistance committees in Khartoum are the only obstacle to massacres and tyranny. Their struggle must be ours.

Some background:

https://cwc.im/Sudan

For updates:

https://twitter.com/SudanzUprising

Sighted: CrimethInc. posters wheatpasted on the walls of Dunedin, New Zealand—perhaps their southernmost appearance besides the time someone at the South Pole ordered our books.

Capitalism is a ripoff:
https://cwc.im/posters/capitalism-is-a-rip-off

…is armed robbery:
https://cwc.im/posters/capitalism-is-armed-robbery

…is organized crime:
https://cwc.im/posters/capitalism-is-organized-crime

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The networks Facebook offers aren’t new. What’s new is that they seem external to us. We’ve always had social networks, but no one could use them to sell advertisements—nor were they so easy to map.

https://cwc.im/texts/enclosure

The rebranding of Facebook as Meta as they seek to expand into the world of Virtual Reality is another step in this process of alienation—the colonization of our relationships and imaginations.