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.

For background on anarcha-feminists in Kazakhstan, here is a photograph from the demonstration in Almaty on March 8, 2021 for International Women's Day. It was described as the most massive women's march since Kazakhstan became independent in 1991.

Читайте наше освещение восстания в Казахстане на русском:

https://ru.crimethinc.com/2022/01/06/vosstaniie-v-kazakhstanie-intierviu-i-otsienka-sobytii-1

Включая интервью с анархо-феминистками, которые пережили события в Алматы:

https://ru.crimethinc.com/2022/01/12/kazakhstan-poslie-vosstaniia-otsienka-sobytii-ot-rossiiskikh-anarkhistov-svidietielstva-iz-piervykh-ruk-ot-anarkhistok-v-almaty-1

Пожалуйста, распространяйте в русскоязычной части интернета! Солидарность всем!

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In the dead of winter, at the apex of a new wave of the pandemic, New York state is going to resume evicting people from their homes.

Landlords are hoping that our compassion and solidarity have eroded since 2020—that we will look away as people die.

In this case, as in some others (#colonialism), property ownership is just an alibi for profit-driven murder.

https://cwc.im/NoEvictions

When Cutting Class Is a Matter of Life and Death

https://cwc.im/Walkouts2022

The wave of student walkouts looming around the US is the front line of the fight against a future in which human life is held cheap and we take mass casualties for granted.

Solidarity to the students. 🏴

Choose Your Own Adventure—J20 Protest Simulator

https://cwc.im/J20Simulator

For tomorrow's #J20 anniversary, we recommend this educational learning tool based on the experiences one could have participating in the black bloc against Trump’s inauguration and the ensuing court cases.

Post your scores!

Today we give thanks that, 5 years ago, on the first day of Donald Trump's presidency, several hundred brave people converged at Logan Circle in DC to take on 28,000 cops—and fascists like Richard Spencer—in order to confront Trump's inauguration and demonstrate the tactics that millions would eventually be compelled to adopt against the Trump administration:

https://cwc.im/J20Analysis

Had the prosecutor set a precedent for conspiracy convictions in the ensuing cases, however, the Trump era would have gone much differently. Arguably, the most important battle was fought in the courts:

https://cwc.im/J20legal

As we wrote when the first round of J20 defendants were found innocent:

"What would constitute real justice for the J20 defendants? If we understand justice as retribution—poetic justice—the police, prosecutors, the judge, and all the other state officials who are implicated in the past ten months of intimidation would be subjected to the same treatment they have inflicted. The police officers would be rounded up and imprisoned; the detective who lied to the grand jury would have his own life ruined by calumny he was powerless to counteract; the prosecutors would be publicly humiliated and forced to face the possibility of spending the rest of their lives in prison. Donald Trump would walk across the desert on a broken ankle, pursued by helicopters and armed men with dogs, before dying of dehydration, terrified and alone, within miles of hospital facilities—as he has forced others to do in hopes of rejoining their families."

https://cwc.im/J20verdict

We're grateful for the efforts of everyone who does their part to discourage openly fascist groups like Patriot Front from recruiting.

https://itsgoingdown.org/antifascist-action-against-pf-dc-communique/

"While members of Patriot Front strutted awkwardly along the National Mall in Washington D.C., antifascists were able to take advantage of their logistics chokepoints, thanks to intel provided by infiltrators inside the fascist organization. Their transportation troubles that day were not simply due to poor planning or wayward drivers: they were a direct result of coordinated strikes on rented trucks and personal vehicles by anonymous antifascists."

"The antifascist movement remains the only material force pushing back against these groups actively targeting our communities and openly calling for mass State repression, murder, and genocide."

“We are often defeated. However, no matter how often beaten, we cannot forget the joy we felt during the fight. The pleasure of stretching our will power. The pleasure of trying out our own strength. The pleasure of seeing a manifestation of real comradely emotions among comrades. The pleasure of seeing the world clearly divided into friend and foe. And above all of these various pleasures, the pleasure of seeing faintly and gradually our own future and society’s future. The pleasure of seeing an improvement in our own personalities.”

-Ōsugi Sakae, 1920

We're just now getting started shipping out the orders that have come in since a fire destroyed our mail-order space last month.

Thanks for your patience with us, and thanks to all who have supported us!

https://cwc.im/likeaphoenix

Many of the books and posters are still out of print. We'll be replacing them over the coming months.