Congratulations to the farmers in India who have won their struggle against the far-right nationalist government, using direct action to force Prime Minister Modi to repeal all three of the farm laws. An inspiring victory.

For background:

https://itsgoingdown.org/anarchism-mutual-aid-and-self-organization-from-the-george-floyd-uprising-to-indias-farmer-rebellion/

In addition to hundreds of thousands of police officers, who kill a thousand people a year—in addition to the court system that incarcerates millions—it also takes murderous vigilantes, working with the cops and courts, to maintain this oppressive social order.

It always has.

Kyle Rittenhouse is the new face of the Republican Party—he represents the future they desire.

Meanwhile, the Democrats remain committed to defending the legitimacy of the court system that exonerated Rittenhouse. They're complicit.

No one is coming to save us. Get organized.

How Farmers Defeated the Government of India

https://cwc.im/Farmers2021

An anarchist from India explores how the victorious movement against the anti-farmer laws embodies anarchist principles, showing that horizontal, decentralized direct action can vanquish authoritarian regimes.

Over the past five years, anarchists and anti-fascists have made an admirable effort to slow the escalation of violence.

Unfortunately, the Rittenhouse verdict may exacerbate matters.

Please learn about how to respond to gunshot wounds at demonstrations:

https://cwc.im/gunshotwounds

You can also learn about options for body armor:

https://cwc.im/bodyarmor

And how street medics can treat common injuries at demonstrations:

https://crimethinc.com/TreatingPoliceViolence

She is right.

https://twitter.com/lovebscott/status/1462834337250902019?s=21

Today, we're announcing a Kickstarter campaign to get two of our classic books back into print—Days of War, Nights of Love and the Contradictionary.

https://cwc.im/DaysContraReprint

We're preparing special limited editions of the books for supporters. If we can raise enough money to do long-lasting print runs of each, we will be able to make them freely available in high-quality digital editions forever. But we need your help!

Please help us spread the word!

In the 1670s, Metacomet’s coalition mounted one of the most successful efforts to resist European colonialism and genocide in the Northeast. Read more about Metacomet’s War and why many view #Thanksgiving as a National Day of Mourning:

http://cwc.im/Metacomet

#StolenLand

On November 27, 1884—Thanksgiving Day—anarchists in the United States marched with the black flag for the first time, according to the anarchist paper The Alarm, in a demonstration protesting poverty and explicitly calling for the forcible abolition of property and wage labor.

https://cwc.im/TheBlackFlag

Today, this colonial holiday still reveals the tremendous gulf between the haves and the have-nots.

What’s the point of watching anything if nobody’s doing?

So-called #BlackFriday is part of the vicious cycle of labor exploitation and consumption. In fact, it is our own lives that are being consumed.

"The forests and polar ice caps are consumed alongside the hours of our lives—the aches in our bodies when we come home from work parallel the damage occurring on a global scale."
-https://cwc.im/work

In place of abundance, the artificial scarcity of the marketplace—in place of the commons, the privatization of every aspect of the world around us, every facet of our lives. Robbed of our lives at work, we try to buy them back, and our exploiters profit on it.

Smash capitalism.

Today, Jack Dorsey stepped down as CEO of Twitter. Let's not be alarmist, but their policies may change.

Please urge your comrades to join our @Telegram channel here:
https://news.1rj.ru/str/ExWorkers

And follow our Mastodon account here:
https://todon.eu/@crimethinc

And sign up for email updates here:
http://crimethinc.com/

Thank you. Let's keep in touch with each other. Who knows what is ahead.

22 years ago today, demonstrators used direct action to shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle.

In this analysis, we explore what today's movements could learn from the creative and joyous networks that achieved that victory:

https://cwc.im/WTO22Years

To understand how global the movement was that shut down the World Trade Organization summit in 1999, read this timeline of buildup actions leading up to it—from Milan and Prague to Seoul, from Bangalore and Manila to Athens and Seattle.

https://crimethinc.com/2021/11/30/epilogue-on-the-movement-against-capitalist-globalization-22-years-after-n30-what-it-can-teach-us-today#appendix

#WeAreEverywhere

As the Supreme Court prepares the latest attack in a centuries-old assault on our bodily autonomy, we give thanks to all who have provided abortion access to those who needed it in defiance of the law and the patriarchal violence behind it.

One of the reasons abortion became legal in the first place was that underground networks like the Jane collective of the Chicago Women’s Liberation Union were already making it widely available in defiance of the law.

A zine about Jane:
https://azinelibrary.org/approved/jane-1.pdf

No court deserves this power over us. Let's extend solidarity to everyone who continues to resist.

Thanks to the assistance of hundreds of people, we have already met the goal to reprint our books! The campaign will continue for three more weeks for everyone else who wants to get copies of them:

https://cwc.im/DaysContraReprint

If we reach our stretch goal, we will add another element for all backers—a sticker in homage to our friend David Graeber, who passed away last year.

As David put it, “The principle of direct action is the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.”