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We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid.
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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

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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.
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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
Yesterday, in #Sudan, during nationwide demonstrations against the military coup that seized power on October 25, state forces repeatedly used live rounds, killing protesters.

https://cwc.im/Sudan2021

In this interview, Sudanese anarchists describe the situation.
This past year, 2021, concluded with our mail-order space in Olympia burning to the ground while everyone around the country came down with COVID-19.

Still, it was a hell of a lot better than last year.

https://cwc.im/YearinReview2021

Read our Year in Review report, "Surviving 2021."
The Uprising in Kazakhstan

https://cwc.im/Kazakhstan2022

A full-scale uprising has broken out in #Kazakhstan in response to the rising cost of living. Now Russia and Belarus have sent in troops.

In this interview, a Kazakh expatriate explores what drove people to revolt—and discusses the implications for the region as a whole.
January 6: First as Farce, Next Time as Tragedy?

https://cwc.im/January6

What if we knew that we would face the same situation that occurred on January 6, 2021 again, but with Trump and his supporters better prepared for it? How would we prepare?

By the Democrats' own account, Trump and his cronies are rallying their adherents to an explicitly anti-democratic program. Yet the Democrats’ only response is to try to use this talking point to gain an advantage in the next election.

If you believe that the Republicans are plotting to take power via undemocratic means, then limiting yourself to trying to outvote them is explicitly self-defeating. If the things that liberals are saying about January 6 are true—and there is reason to believe that they could be—then it stands to reason that everyone who is concerned about this should be learning about direct action and anti-fascist means of community defense.
Item by item, we are replacing everything that was consumed in the fire. These are the successors to the pins that were reduced to a single lump of melted metal. Next month, we should start getting the books in. We'll be back in action in no time.

Thanks to everyone who has helped us. 🔥🏴
Columbia’s Graduate Worker Union Struggle, 2004-2022

https://cwc.im/ColumbiaStrike

Last week, after over nine weeks on the picket line, striking graduate workers at Columbia won a rare victory. In this analysis, participants chronicle why they had to confront the union bureaucracy in order to take on the administration.

Their victory shows that workers who seek to assert their interests in the workplace must begin by fighting for self-determination and grassroots power within workplace organizing itself.
We've added a zine version of our interview about the uprising in Kazakhstan to our online zine library:

https://crimethinc.com/zines/uprising-in-kazakhstan

Please print these out and distribute them!

We hope to publish a follow-up report soon.
Kazakhstan after the Uprising

https://cwc.im/Almaty2022

Following up our coverage of last week’s uprising in Kazakhstan, and seeking to clear up widespread confusion about the events, we have translated an array of perspectives on the situation from various Russian anarchist sources and interviewed two anarchists from Almaty, the largest city in Kazakhstan and the place where the fighting became most intense.