“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.

In Russia, Ukraine, and the US, rulers who won't die in the trenches are preparing to throw away people's lives just to gain leverage in geopolitical competitions.

We should fight those who would make us die on their behalf, not each other.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/against-all-wars

"In response to the machinations of governments, we must identify and resist every effort to turn us against each other. We should build solidarity across national, ethnic, and religious lines while doing everything we can to topple authoritarian governments from Washington, DC to Moscow. Our hope is that revolutionary movements will break out on both sides of every border.

"Escalations in state violence are calculated to make this impossible—to substitute war for revolution. But in a world headed towards ever more diffuse wars, goaded on by nationalist strongmen, our best chance of survival is to build ties between combative social movements. Let us fight those who would make us die on their behalf, not each other."

The Russian state is once again the guarantor of oppression throughout the region, backing dictatorships in Belarus and Kazakhstan by military force—treating Russian lives as expendable, too.

Against all wars—against all governments.

Poster in Russian:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/protiv-vsekh-voyn

Ukrainian capitalists and politicians benefit from being able to deflect attention to the threat of Russia. But the only thing that could make war impossible would be revolutionary movements on both sides.

Against all governments.

Poster in Ukrainian:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/

The Russian state is initiating military exercises in Belarus, preparing to prop up Lukashenko's authoritarian government by force at the expense of ordinary Russians and Belarusians.

Against all wars—against all governments.

Poster in Belarusian:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/suprac-usich-vojnau

While German politicians wash their hands of war in Ukraine, anarchists in Germany, Russia, and Ukraine aim to build solidarity across national, ethnic, and religious lines against all wars and governments—it's our only hope of survival.

Poster in German:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/gegen-alle-kriege

In case you missed it:
A Demonstrator’s Guide to Understanding Riot Munitions

https://cwc.im/RiotMunitions

A guide to less-lethal police weaponry—including chemical weapons and impact munitions—and how to defend against and treat their effects.

It's never a bad time to read up on this stuff.

Curious why new labor struggles haven't really taken off, despite the conditions being so ripe for them?

Last month, the graduate worker strike at Columbia University was the biggest strike in the US. But to make the strike possible, they first had to confront and overthrow the union bureaucracy from within:

https://cwc.im/ColumbiaStrike

We're grateful to our comrades at Yfanet, a squatted social center in Thessaloniki, for this heartwarming expression of support in response to fire that destroyed our distribution hub.

Like many anarchist projects in Greece, Yfanet faces threats under the far-right "New Democracy" government. Please donate here to support them:

https://firefund.net/fabrikayfanet

Participants in our collective have visited their space repeatedly over the years.

Greece has lost dozens of inspiring social centers since 2019, including crucial migrant solidarity projects. The remaining spaces deserve international solidarity. 🏴

Congratulations to plaintiffs who have won $75,000 in settlements after Newnan police brutalized them to protect fascists!

https://atlsolidarity.org/second-victory-against-newnan-police-for-abusing-protestors/

Background on how police targeted an anti-fascist mobilization in Newnan, Georgia:

https://cwc.im/Newnan

The US government regularly engages in millions of dollars worth of crimes against activists:

https://cwc.im/texts/prizes

They don't have to break down our doors
Blindfold and gag us by force
To install mind control
Devices in our homes

We buy them on our own

—His Hero Is Gone, "Voluntary Amputation"

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After being banned from Facebook ourselves, we participated in the forthcoming @submedia documentary about Facebook, "The Social Empire":

https://thesocialempire.net

#facebook #socialmedia #surveillancecapitalism

Ukraine: Between Two Fires

https://cwc.im/Ukraine2022

An array of perspectives from anarchists in and around Ukraine about the looming threat of war and the agendas of the various geopolitical players, seeking to pose the hard questions about how movements can respond to state militarism.

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In hopes of providing crucial background on the current tensions between Russia, Ukraine, the United States, and other members of NATO, we present the trannoscript of an excellent interview with an anarchist in Ukraine, followed by another perspective contributed by a Ukrainian anarchist from Lugansk who is now located in Kiev.

We endorse this important message from the National Lawyers Guild Detroit and Michigan Chapter!

Learn about security culture:

https://cwc.im/texts/security

Learn about grand jury resistance:

https://cwc.im/resistgrandjuries

From cwc.im/contradictionary

As we restock everything we lost in the fire, we're now able to fill orders for our "Community Watch Area—Police Not Welcome" stickers once again.

Order here:

https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/stickers/products/police-not-welcome

As seen at the Third Precinct in Minneapolis. #ACAB

A beautiful hand-painted sign by Surmise Studio adapting our "Community Watch Area—Police Not Welcome" stickers.

As seen here:

https://twitter.com/surmise_cc/status/1491239689306927105

surmisestudio.com

The photograph shows Nikita Uvarov—arrested at age 14. The prosecutor is demanding that he serve 9 years in Russian prison.

The crime? He and two other 14-year-old anarchists put posters on a building belonging to the Russian secret police.

The Russian government has been in the news for its actions in Kazakhstan, Belarus, and Ukraine. Let's also remember how they treat Russians—for example, mobilizing an entire "anti-terror" campaign to persecute Nikita and his friends.

"If they give me a real term," Nikita has declared, "I will serve it with a clear conscience and dignity."

No child should have to face such a fate, certainly not on account of his politics. This is what we mean when we say "authoritarian."

Tomorrow, on February 10, Nikita Uvarov and two other kids his age will face sentencing.

https://avtonom.org/en/news/kansk-teenage-anarchists-will-be-sentenced-february-10th

Support website:

http://kanskdelo.com/en/

#Украина: Между Двуг Огней

Представляем несколько мнений насчёт напряжения между Россией, Украиной и США от анархистов в Украине и близлежащих регионах:

https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/03/ukraina-miezhdu-dvugh-oghniei-miestnyie-anarkhisty-o-nadvighaiushchieisia-ughrozie-voiny-1

Читайте материалы на русском языке на нашем сайте:

https://ru.crimethinc.com/languages/russkii

On this #ThrowbackThursday, in light of Theodore J. Kaczynski's (government designation: "The Unabomber") diagnosis with terminal cancer, a piece we put out in 1997 during his trial:
https://crimethinc.com/1997/09/11/the-unabomber

"We may or may not live to experience anarchy on a scale greater than our hard-won friendships, love affairs, projects, and uprisings. But in the meantime, the vision of that possibility can anchor and orient us in the present, informing our actions, the way a mariner navigates across the sea by the stars. Regardless of what happens tomorrow, when we are able to imagine a utopia, that utopia can gain traction on reality by enabling us to take actions we would otherwise not be capable of. The reality content of a future utopia is determined by the actions it enables us to take today."

https://cwc.im/wefight