In each of these disputes, Malatesta took a principled position, never substituting expediency for ethics.

As anarchists, we don't have heroes, nor do we name our schools of thought after bearded men. We see comrades like Errico Malatesta as our equals—as peers in a struggle spanning centuries. We're inspired by their efforts, we debate their ideas, and we pick up where they left off.

As we enter the final week of our fundraiser to reprint Days of War, Nights of Love and the Contradictionary, we'll share an entry from the Contradictionary each day.

Today's entry is about voting—and how it killed Edgar Allen Poe:

https://cwc.im/contra/vote

The fundraiser:

https://cwc.im/DaysContraReprint

Yesterday, our mail-order space was destroyed in a catastrophic fire in downtown Olympia, Washington. Thousands of our books, posters, and stickers were entirely consumed along with computers and equipment.

Read our full announcement and how to help:

https://cwc.im/burnt

This represents a tremendous setback to us. To resume operations, we will need to replace the books, posters, stickers, computers, printers, packing materials, furniture, and many other things, and to secure a new space.

It's especially rough that this occurs when we are on the cusp of completing a Kickstarter campaign to reprint two of our books. Fortunately, those books are still in the printing queue at the factory, so they will go out as promised.

We are determined to get back on our feet, but we're going to need help. Thank you so much to everyone who has helped us make it this far. If we can get through this, we promise to keep doing this work for decades to come.

Thanks so much to everyone who has stepped up to help us in our time of need. It's humbling. We will do all we can to honor your faith in us.

While we are recovering and reprinting everything, you can order our books from AK Press:

https://akpress.org/catalogsearch/result/?q=crimethinc

The kickstarter campaign to reprint Days of War and the Contradictionary is almost over. Thanks to everyone's generous support, we'll be able to do it! 🖤

Today's entry from the Contradictionary is about property:

https://cwc.im/contra/property

The kickstarter:

https://cwc.im/DaysContraReprint

Gabriel Boric will be the first Chilean president who identifies as a "libertarian socialist."

In this picture, we see him sitting with the right wing to announce “Agreement to Peace and a New Constitution.” Later, he voted for the “Anti-barricade, Anti-looting, Anti-mask, and Anti-land occupation” law, which increased the penalties for the direct actions that were central to the Chilean revolt.

For our part, we urge radicals not to look to the state for change, lest its failures discredit them:

https://cwc.im/ChileElection

In Chile, there is a longstanding history of the far right leveraging economic power when they don't hold political power. The solution is not for a left government to intensify policing—the police will be turned against activists as soon as the right regains political power.

There is no substitute for building real social power through grassroots organizing. That is the only kind of power that cannot be taken away by an election or a coup—as many people in Chile know all too well.

Remember what happened to Syriza in Greece. Stay in the streets.

We're in the final hours of the kickstarter campaign to reprint Days of War, Nights of Love and the Contradictionary.

It has been quite a roller coaster. Our office burned down, but the kickstarter has succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. We're grateful to everyone who has supported us.

http://cwc.im/DaysContraReprint

If you want to use this opportunity to get copies of these books—this is your chance, but hurry!

Report From the Field: Where Sugar Comes From

https://cwc.im/sugarbeets

In honor of the Kellogg's workers who concluded their strike this week, we present a narrative about the working conditions that laborers face in another industry served by the same union.

#work #antiwork

Thanks to all of your generous assistance and encouragement, we are going to be able to bounce back quickly from the fire that destroyed our mail-order space.

Here is our full report, complete with a gallery of support messages and a list of additional ways to contribute to our project:

https://cwc.im/likeaphoenix

🏴🖤

Greece: Still Fighting Against the Odds

https://cwc.im/GreeceDecember2021

After two years of repression and lockdown, anarchists took the offensive at the end of 2021 with fierce demonstrations against the murder of Nikos Sabanis and commemorating the revolutionary anniversaries of November 17 and December 6.

Still doubt that January 6, 2021 was a failed coup?

We recall how—at Fort Bragg on 9/18/2020—when Acting Defense Secretary Christopher C. Miller announced that from then on, Special Operations would report to him directly, he interrupted himself to say “This is an omen.”

In November 2020—as soon as his loss to Biden in the election was certain—Trump arranged to remove longtime officials from the Department of Defense and other agencies, replacing them with loyalists, restructuring the chain of command to concentrate power directly in his hands.

Trump installed Christopher Miller after firing Mark Esper on November 9. None of this was lost on Trump's supporters—read their comments on the video of Miller's speech:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FMSw44QvM_0

On 1/6/21, Miller waited more than three hours before deploying the National Guard.

Unicorn Riot has published a helpful overview of what is currently known about Trump's ill-fated plan to seize power on January 6:

https://unicornriot.ninja/2021/january-6-documents-reveal-plans-to-overturn-2020-election-as-military-questions-deepen/

Today, the Republican Party is the party of Kyle Rittenhouse and January 6. They have consolidated around those symbols.

As anarchists, we don't believe that the standing US government is fundamentally any more legitimate than a Trump dictatorship would be. Neither deserve the right to rule us.

But we should be prepared for Republicans to try to repeat this stunt—and for Democrats to do nothing. Like it or not, both will impact us.

For more on this subject, you could read our analysis of the events of January 6:

https://cwc.im/January6DC

And our remarks regarding why it is crucial not to let Republicans gentrify revolt or confuse the issue of what counts as a real insurrection:

https://cwc.im/RealAnarchy