To understand the situation in Ukraine, we recommend this video in which Alexis Daloumis interviews over a dozen anarchists and anti-authoritarians from Ukraine, Poland, and elsewhere around the region.

They discuss "de-Nazification," Donbas, NATO, and other topics.

https://freedomnews.org.uk/2022/04/19/ukraine-war-video-dispatch-north-eastern-european-anarchists-respond-to-the-russian-narrative

We've almost finished restocking everything we lost in the fire!

We have the reprints in of our book From Democracy to Freedom:

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/from-democracy-to-freedom

In an increasingly authoritarian world, it's easy to imagine that the alternative to authoritarianism is simply "more democracy." But in both state structures and social movements, the institutions of democratic governance preserve the instruments through which authoritarians wield power. This book traces democracy from its classical origins to its current ascendancy, exploring the difference between government and self-determination.

For #EarthDay, read about the struggle to defend a precious stretch of forest in Atlanta, where the government and the corporations that control it aim to build a police training compound and a massive film industry set.

https://cwc.im/CityintheForest

Defend the beauty of the world.🏴

These four anarchists in Belarus have been sentenced to years in prison for alleged association with https://twitter.com/Pramenofanarchy—a media collective not unlike our own.

Fight state repression everywhere—it could be us next.

Read here about how to support them:

https://twitter.com/Freed0mIsARight/status/1517467582554832896

#FreedomIsARight #AnarchistPrisoners
#FreeBelov #FreeSolovei #FreeRubashko

Блоки – Чёрный и прочие

https://ru.crimethinc.com/2003/11/20/bloki-chiornyi-i-prochiie-1

Вы, возможно, слышали о знаменитом Черном Блоке, почтенной, если не престарелой, анархистской традиции собираться толпой любителей прямого действия и, всем одевшись в черную одежду и маски, вступать в разной степени конфронтации. Эта тактика принесла им несколько крупных побед за последние десятилетия, ну и провалилась бессчетное количество раз. Из-за специфических характеристик, которые сегодня ассоциируют с тактикой Чёрного Блока, можно не заметить долгую историю тактики «блоков» и широкий спектр возможных применений, которые она находила в истории.

Модные советы для смелых

https://ru.crimethinc.com/2008/10/11/modnyie-soviety-dlia-smielykh

В наше время, вне зависимости от того, занимаетесь ли вы чем-то незаконным, полезно будет сохранять анонимность при участии в протестах. Государственные органы составляют подробное досье на всех, кого они сочтут подозрительными; если вы не хотите, чтобы они вторгались в вашу частную жизнь, вам не стоит давать себя идентифицировать в моменты пользования вашим предполагаемым правом на свободу слова. Ставки еще выше, если вы не наделены привилегией гражданства или вы боитесь, что ваш работодатель не оценит ваши политические взгляды. В свете уголовных преследований после недавних протестов, активистам следует обратить на это еще большее внимание.

E DEPOIS DA GUERRA?

Como o resultado da guerra moldará as perspectivas da luta social na Ucrânia, Bielorrússia e Rússia?

http://cwc.im/DepoisDaGuerra

Um camarada na Rússia explora os perigos de rebeldes que se identificam com o Estado ucraniano e a cumplicidade dos liberais russos.

Quando um bilionário mimado pode comprar o direito de dizer o que é um discurso legítimo ou liberdade de expressão, lembramos a tods de acompanhar projetos como o nosso em várias outras plataformas.

Aqui estão algumas opções:

https://crimethinc.com/2020/12/22/sobrevivendo-a-repressao-nas-midias-sociais-bloqueio-no-instagram-e-como-continuar-nos-acompanhando#sobrevivendo-a-repressao

The fact that a single spoiled billionaire can buy the right to determine what counts as legitimate discourse is a good reminder to make sure that you are following projects like ours on a variety of platforms besides Twitter—and besides Telegram, too, just in case!

Here are some of your options:

https://crimethinc.com/2020/12/21/surviving-the-social-media-crackdown-the-instagram-ban-and-how-to-keep-following-us#surviving-the-crackdown

For May Day 2022, we've prepared a zine version of our history, "The May Days: Stories of Courage and Resistance," reviewing some of the exciting moments in the centuries-old legacy of May Day:

https://crimethinc.com/zines/the-may-days

Please print these out and distribute them this Sunday!

🏴🏴🏴

We recommend this interview by ABC Belarus with Evgeniy Rubashko, one of the many anarchist prisoners in Belarus:

https://abc-belarus.org/?p=14912&lang=en

He recounts how Food Not Bombs radicalized him, describes the horrific torture he experienced during his arrest, explains how Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince has helped him to survive in prison, and recommends an array of excellent Russian poetry and literature.

Congratulations to forest defenders in Atlanta, Georgia, who have won a victory in their struggle to preserve a forest from police who aim to destroy it in order to build training facility and film set.

For a full history of this inspiring movement:

https://cwc.im/CityintheForest

Here is the full statement about the victory from participants in the movement:

https://stopreevesyoung.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/UnnoscriptdPR.pdf

Fight capitalism! Keep the earth inhabitable!

La solidarité à l’ère de la guerre et des déplacements de populations

https://crimethinc.com/2022/03/29/la-solidarite-a-lere-de-la-guerre-et-des-deplacements-de-populations-les-anarchistes-face-a-linstrumentalisation-des-refugiees-a-la-frontiere-entre-la-pologne-et-la-bielorussie

La Biélorussie instrumentalise les réfugié·es pour faire pression sur l’Union européenne, laquelle répond avec brutalité. Nous avons échangé avec des anarchistes qui organisent la solidarité sur place.

30 years ago, Los Angeles rose up in response to the acquittal of the police who brutalized Rodney King, setting a precedent for the George Floyd Rebellion. In this photograph, a demonstrator uses a burning palm tree to set fire to an American flag over the 101 freeway.

https://cwc.im/LA92

A historic gang truce in South Central LA played a crucial part in setting the stage for this uprising. Fight the police—not each other.

May Day celebrates the fecundity of the earth, self-organized resistance, and a vision of a future in which all of us can fulfill our potential on our own terms without exploitation or oppression.

To this day, it remains a flashpoint of struggles around the world. Just as the biosphere renews itself every spring, we renew our struggles for liberation from all forms of domination, all destructive patterns and constrictive relations.

Here, we'll share a few scenes from May Day throughout the ages.

https://cwc.im/maydayhistory

🏴🔨📢❤️‍🔥🏴

People have celebrated the end of winter for millennia—it wasn’t until industrialization forcibly disconnected us from the land base that May Day came to be observed as a labor holiday.

Peter Linebaugh begins his history of May Day by recalling this:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/peter-linebaugh-the-incomplete-true-authentic-and-wonderful-history-of-may-day#toc5

In 1627 and 1628, Thomas Morton and other rebels who rejected slavery outraged their Puritan neighbors by observing May Day with their Indigenous hosts:

"They also set up a Maypole, drinking and dancing aboute it many days together... like so many fairies, or furies rather..."