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

Today, housing activists once again occupied buildings on Friedrich-Engels-Straße in Cologne that belong to the Russian state—including 80 apartments that have been empty for years.

The police, of course, are protecting the property rights of the Russian government, with no concern for refugees or others who lack housing.

#ACAB—all cops are structurally enmeshed in the perpetuation of all forms of oppression.

Some background on today's occupation of the buildings in Cologne that belong to the Russian government. Activists already attempted to occupy them twelve days ago.

Against all cops, against all governments, against all landlords, against all wars.

Our text "Ten Lessons from Syria," drawing on the war in Syria and the invasion of Ukraine, is the first article to be available on our site in Basque:

https://crimethinc.com/2022/03/07/ukraniako-gerra-hamar-aholku-siriatik-siriako-erbesteratuek-euren-esperientziak-inbasioaren-aurkako-erresistentzia-nola-lagundu-dezaketen-partekatzen-dute

This brings the total number of languages in which we offer material to 42.

If you can help us with translations into any language, please contact us here or via contact@crimethinc.com.

While the EU welcomes Ukrainian refugees with open arms, thousands of people displaced by other wars have been trapped between Belarus and Poland, callously used as pawns in a struggle between governments.

We spoke with the anarchists of No Borders Team, who are defying the border guards to support them.

http://cwc.im/NoBordersTeam

The first phase of the anti-war movement in Russia is drawing to a close, suppressed chiefly by brute force. We discuss the stakes of these protests, share reflections from Russian anarchists about why they hit a wall, and present translations of articles by Russian anarchist and feminist groups exploring why they oppose the war and how they intend to move forward from here.

https://cwc.im/AntiwarRussia2022

In the age of disinformation, irony is dead. It's very dangerous to make false assertions of our own, even in jest.

Therefore, for April 1, we recommend "Put the Bots in Charge"—a set of demands composed entirely via predictive text generated on the basis of our early book Recipes for Disaster.

https://cwc.im/bots

The bots will have their say!

And After the War?

cwc.im/AftertheWar2022

How will the outcome of the war shape the prospects for social struggle in Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia?

We've translated a text from Russia exploring the perils of identifying with the Ukrainian government, emphasizing the responsibility liberals share for the situations in Russia and Belarus today, and discussing the opportunities and obstacles facing revolutionary movements in the region.

The war in Ukraine is a step towards a world of permanent militarization, in which the Israeli model of militarized policing will become the norm and brute force will be the chief means of resolving political differences. Massive refugee populations displaced by wars and economic and ecological crises will be segregated according to national and ethnic hierarchies—received into welcoming homes, crowded into internment camps, or pushed back into the borderlands to die.

In response, anarchists seek to establish solidarity between anti-war, anti-nationalist, and anti-state movements across all borders and lines of difference. Rather than identifying with any government or capitalist coterie (and pointing to the misdeeds of some to excuse the misdeeds of others), we aim to build the capacity to interrupt war and exploitation via grassroots action. Anticipating the challenges that social movements throughout the region will face after this war could help us to set our priorities.

cwc.im/AftertheWar2022