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

As we restock everything we lost in the fire, we're now able to fill orders for our classic "Capitalism Is a Pyramid Scheme" poster once again.

You can order them in bulk here:

https://store.crimethinc.com/

"To stay stable, the economy has to draw in more and more resources—colonizing new continents, workforces, and aspects of daily life…"

Today, we remember Aragorn!, a tireless polemicist and partisan of anarchist infrastructure.

Please read Leona's and Klee's eulogies and Aragorn's text "Locating An Indigenous Anarchism," all of which are available here:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/various-authors-black-seed-issue-8

Here is our elegy for him:

https://cwc.im/aragorn

Love and Will: In Search of a Cosmology

https://cwc.im/LoveAndWill

Can we imagine what love means on a scale that extends beyond the human and even the biological—as a kind of relationship that can be found in various forms throughout the cosmos?

Could doing so help us to break out of the destructive relationships that pass as love, today?

Ill Winds from #Ottawa

https://cwc.im/Ottawa2022

In this extensive report, our Montréal correspondent explores the unfolding anti-mandate protests in Canada, reviewing the agendas of the various forces that are vying for power and reflecting on the risks and opportunities in a situation in which the far right has gained the initiative.

#Ukraine—War and Anarchists

https://cwc.im/UkraineWar

Anarchists from Ukraine explore the 2014 Maidan protests, the ascendancy of fascists, civil war, and the threat of war with Russia.

This is a crucial historical document posing difficult strategic questions. We urge everyone to read and discuss it.

#Украина война и анархисты

https://crimethinc.com/2022/02/15/voina-i-anarkhisty-pierspiektivy-libiertariiev-v-ukrainie…

Анархисты из Украины исследуют протесты Майдана 2014 года, рост ультраправых в Украине и угрозу войны с Россией.

Это важный исторический документ, ставящий сложные стратегические вопросы. Мы призываем всех прочитать его.

Mendacious Republicans want to appropriate the Kronstadt uprising.

The Kronstadt rebels were rebel Bolsheviks, anarchists, and other socialists—as documented here:

https://cwc.im/KronstadtRebels

To learn about the uprising, start by reading their daily paper:

https://cwc.im/Kronstadt

If the Kronstadt rebels were alive today, they would be fighting beside us against the rapacious capitalism and virulent nationalism of Madison Cawthorn and his cronies.

Cawthorn represents tyranny and oppression. His willful dishonesty rivals the worst excesses of Stalinism.

“It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognized itself.”

Andre Breton was born on this day in 1896. His political and artistic output was uneven, but we highly recommend this essay of his about the meaning of the black flag:

https://crimethinc.com/2021/06/14/every-flag-is-black-in-a-fire-featuring-louise-michel-andre-breton-and-jean-genet#andre-breton-the-colors-of-freedom

Our hearts go out to our comrades in Portland and everyone else who experiences gun violence.

A demonstrator’s guide to body armor:

https://cwc.im/BodyArmor

A demonstrator’s guide to responding to gunshot wounds:

https://cwc.im/GunshotWounds

Our love and gratitude to street medics.