The Syrian Cantina: Organizing in Exile

https://cwc.im/SyrianCantina

As millions are driven into exile from #Afghanistan to #Ukraine, this interview explores how refugees can continue their political organizing in new lands and contexts, how locals can assist them, and the meaning of international solidarity.

This Thursday, at 7 pm Berlin time, we will co-host a video presentation with comrades from Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia about how people are experiencing and resisting the invasion in each of those countries and what solidarity could look like elsewhere around the world.

More information and the link for the livestream will appear here:

https://solidarityagainstinvasion.noblogs.org/

Join us and bring your questions!

"Beauty must be defined as what we are, or else the concept itself is our enemy."

As we slowly replace all the items that were destroyed in the fire that consumed our warehouse, we have reprinted our classic "Beauty" posters.

You can order them here:

https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/posters/products/beauty-subversion

Incidentally, the only other language we have this poster available in on our site is Ukrainian.

Tomorrow, at 7 pm Berlin time, speakers from Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia will discuss the effects of the invasion and how people are resisting it.

These are the livestream links:

https://kolektiva.media/w/7dBA55ZbSUbzFBrRURPBcp

https://youtube.com/watch?v=E0-M_voH-Bc

That's 2 pm Eastern on the east coast of the US.

This Friday, March 18, at 8 pm, at Digital Debris video gallery in Los Angeles, California:

Fall in Love with Fire: videos from the last idealistic revolt before COVID-19 and the first idealistic revolt of the pandemic age.

Limited seating.

Watch We Are Now online here:

https://crimethinc.com/2021/05/19/we-are-now-the-story-of-an-armed-no-cop-zone-in-atlanta-a-documentary-film

"Every Storm Begins with a Single Raindrop"

https://cwc.im/TekoserRafiq

This eulogy honors the lives of Lorenzo Orsetti and Ahmed Hebeb, who were killed during the last days of the fighting against the Islamic State in March 2019.

Taking place now: "Global Solidarity against the Invasion"—A panel discussion featuring speakers from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus. Tune in here:

https://youtu.be/E0-M_voH-Bc

For those who missed the video presentation, "Global Solidarity: Against the States and the Militarization of the Planet," including speakers from Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, you can watch a recording of the discussion here:

https://cwc.im/GlobalSolidarity2022

151 years ago today, soldiers sent to disarm Parisian workers joined them instead, deposing their officers and setting off the rebellion that became known as the Paris Commune.

Read the story from the vantage point of Louise Michel:

https://cwc.im/arch18

Le combat continue.

If you need educational materials about the invasion of Ukraine and the anti-war movement in Russia, these two zines are now available in English, Russian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

https://cwc.im/russiantiwar

https://cwc.im/ukrainezine

Download the PDFs, print and distribute.

The artist who designed the Russian version of our book, Work, has taken his own life. We know him by his pseudonym, Pavel Korshunov. Persecuted in Russia, then denied asylum in Ukraine, he faced a painful immigration process in Poland. Like all human beings, he deserved a life in which he could make full use of his creative gifts.

State repression, militarism, and border bureaucracy make a deadly combination. Let no one excuse Putin's tyranny and imperialism, nor EU border regimes, nor pretend that they only harm people on one side of the conflict.

"The other day, our friend, who created covers for many of our books, signed himself with the pseudonym Pavel Korshunov, committed suicide. He left Russia a few years ago, fleeing repression and torture, ended up in Ukraine, unsuccessfully tried to get asylum there and was forced to flee to Poland after the start of the war. The realization of the beginning of a new legalization process and the previous negative experience turned out to be unbearable for him.

"There is a lot of bitterness and anger in us right now. We hate the state for forcing people into hiding under the threat of torture and prison. We hate the state because it breaks the psyche of our comrades. We hate the state because it has created borders that are not easy for many of us to cross. For the fact that within these boundaries we are obliged to spend our efforts on obtaining documents, instead of just living and creating. Because it starts a war, playing with our lives and destinies.

"Please live. Don't let the state finish us off."

That is a rough translation of the statement from his comrades, the anarchist publishing cooperative Radical Theory and Practice:

https://news.1rj.ru/str/rtpbooks/877

The Russian Anarchist Labor Site that Terrifies the Bosses

https://cwc.im/AntiJob

Antijob hosts a “blacklist of employers,” offering a venue for workers in Russia to report on their workplace conditions and strike back at their bosses. We interviewed them about labor resistance in Russia, organizing under repressive conditions, and the invasion of Ukraine.

A photograph of a sticker reading “Antijob.net—blacklist of employers”; a shirt reading “Labor against work”; and another shirt reading “No salary—eat the bosses.”

cwc.im/AntiJob

As more and more political organizers are driven into exile around the world, let's help them to continue their work in our communities.

Please read this guide to supporting the political activity of refugees, by participants in the Syrian Revolution:

https://cwc.im/supportrefugeeorganizing