The day after the tragedy in Charlottesville, protesters in Atlanta attempted to topple a Confederate monument like the one that fascists rallied around in Charlottesville. In Durham, they succeeded—setting an infectious precedent.
https://crimethinc.com/StatuesDown
Don't wait on the state to do what you can do yourself.
https://crimethinc.com/StatuesDown
Don't wait on the state to do what you can do yourself.
Although the person who murdered Heather Heyer and critically injured many other people is in prison today, his attack—thanks to the efforts of the far right in general and to centrist apathy—set a precedent for increasingly frequent vehicular attacks. The risks and the stakes of street action have both gone up since 2017.
https://crimethinc.com/VehicularAttacks
https://crimethinc.com/VehicularAttacks
It's no coincidence that when Joe Biden announced his candidacy for president, he did so with a video centering footage from Charlottesville. But he wasn't in Charlottesville that weekend. To Democrats, the rise of fascism is chiefly a means to seek votes.
Just like Trump, centrists want to present themselves as the only ones who can control the violent conflicts that cut through our society. But if we count on them to do so, they will also crush movements for liberation.
It's up to us to defeat fascism and build a better world.
Just like Trump, centrists want to present themselves as the only ones who can control the violent conflicts that cut through our society. But if we count on them to do so, they will also crush movements for liberation.
It's up to us to defeat fascism and build a better world.
"We anarchists understand that if all we accomplish are short-term agreements with the capitalists that actually control the state, Sri Lanka's problems will only continue."
These interviews with anarchists in Sri Lanka chart the course of the movement:
https://illwill.com/dispatches-from-sri-lanka
These interviews with anarchists in Sri Lanka chart the course of the movement:
https://illwill.com/dispatches-from-sri-lanka
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Tonight—8/13—sunset—8 pm
at (the heroically reconquered) Peoples Park, Berkeley
A 🌌night🌌 at the 📽movies📽 with the CrimethInc. Ex-Worker’s Collective, featuring…
—We Are Now (2020 police-free autonomous zone documentary)
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—Chile: from chaos to constitution slideshow
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—lost gems from the anarchist television vaults
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Bring blankets, friends, and be ready to DEFEND FREE SPACE
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at (the heroically reconquered) Peoples Park, Berkeley
A 🌌night🌌 at the 📽movies📽 with the CrimethInc. Ex-Worker’s Collective, featuring…
—We Are Now (2020 police-free autonomous zone documentary)
🔥🚓🔥
—Chile: from chaos to constitution slideshow
🔥🚓🔥
—lost gems from the anarchist television vaults
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Bring blankets, friends, and be ready to DEFEND FREE SPACE
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We've prepared a zine version of "Beneath the Concrete, the Forest," our collection of accounts from the defense of the Atlanta Forest. This is an inspiring snapshot of a thriving movement against police, gentrification, and ecocide.
https://crimethinc.com/forestzine
Please print and distribute!
https://crimethinc.com/forestzine
Please print and distribute!
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Once upon a time, in another century, we used to release records for politicized hardcore bands like Zegota and Catharsis. You can download those here, free:
https://crimethinc.bandcamp.com
This December, Catharsis will be playing a memorial show in memory of John Rivera, a fixture in the North Carolina hardcore scene. This show is taking place at the express wish of John, who passed away earlier this month.
Rest in Peace.
https://crimethinc.bandcamp.com
This December, Catharsis will be playing a memorial show in memory of John Rivera, a fixture in the North Carolina hardcore scene. This show is taking place at the express wish of John, who passed away earlier this month.
Rest in Peace.
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Six months into the invasion of Ukraine, we present an interview with the Anarcho-Communist Combat Organization, a clandestine group promoting anti-war sabotage in Russia.
https://crimethinc.com/BOAK
Over the months since the first wave of anti-war protests were crushed, resistance has assumed new forms.
In this interview, they describe how they see their predecessors in the history of anarchist movements, how the situation in Russia deteriorated to such an extent that it was possible to invade Ukraine, and what kind of organizing is possible under the prevailing conditions. We also asked them to go into detail about their operational protocol, in case this may one day be useful for anarchists elsewhere who may be compelled to adopt similar strategies as state repression intensifies around the world.
https://crimethinc.com/BOAK
Over the months since the first wave of anti-war protests were crushed, resistance has assumed new forms.
In this interview, they describe how they see their predecessors in the history of anarchist movements, how the situation in Russia deteriorated to such an extent that it was possible to invade Ukraine, and what kind of organizing is possible under the prevailing conditions. We also asked them to go into detail about their operational protocol, in case this may one day be useful for anarchists elsewhere who may be compelled to adopt similar strategies as state repression intensifies around the world.
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Россия: Боевая Организация Анархо-Коммунистов
https://crimethinc.com/2022/08/22/rossiia-boievaia-orghanizatsiia-anarkho-kommunistov-intierviu-s-podpolnoi-anarkhistskoi-ghruppoi
Подпольные атаки по всей России были направлены на железные дороги, военкоматы, автомобили, принадлежащие фанатикам войны, а также на российскую государственную пропаганду в пользу войны. Одна из групп, продвигающих подобные действия, известна как Боевая Организация Анархо-коммунистов.
В этом интервью они рассказывают о том, как они видят своё наследие в региональной истории анархистских движений, как политическая ситуация в России ухудшилась настолько, что стало возможным подавление общественных движений и вторжение в Украину, и какой тип организации возможен в сложившихся условиях.
https://crimethinc.com/2022/08/22/rossiia-boievaia-orghanizatsiia-anarkho-kommunistov-intierviu-s-podpolnoi-anarkhistskoi-ghruppoi
Подпольные атаки по всей России были направлены на железные дороги, военкоматы, автомобили, принадлежащие фанатикам войны, а также на российскую государственную пропаганду в пользу войны. Одна из групп, продвигающих подобные действия, известна как Боевая Организация Анархо-коммунистов.
В этом интервью они рассказывают о том, как они видят своё наследие в региональной истории анархистских движений, как политическая ситуация в России ухудшилась настолько, что стало возможным подавление общественных движений и вторжение в Украину, и какой тип организации возможен в сложившихся условиях.
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On the thirtieth anniversary of her death at the hands of police, we present a poster in memory of anarchist and People’s Park defender Rosebud Abigail Denovo, complete with a history of People’s Park and an account from the defense of the park this month.
https://crimethinc.com/Rosebud
https://crimethinc.com/Rosebud
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As Biden grabs headlines for debt forgiveness, it's a great time to read David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 Years.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/statesofdamage/syllabus201516/graeber-debt_the_first_5000_years.pdf
Graeber argues that capitalism is founded on "the sacred principle that we must all pay our debts"—a principle that is enforced chiefly on the poor.
Debt itself is a social construct that enables the wealthy to accrue more and more social power at the expense of poor, while forcing all of us to put ourselves constantly at the disposal of an economy that is wrecking our lives and the biosphere itself.
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/special/statesofdamage/syllabus201516/graeber-debt_the_first_5000_years.pdf
Graeber argues that capitalism is founded on "the sacred principle that we must all pay our debts"—a principle that is enforced chiefly on the poor.
Debt itself is a social construct that enables the wealthy to accrue more and more social power at the expense of poor, while forcing all of us to put ourselves constantly at the disposal of an economy that is wrecking our lives and the biosphere itself.
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"Cancel all student loan debt? But that would be unfair to all those people who struggled for years to pay back their student loans!"
Let me assure the reader that, as someone who struggled for years to pay back his student loans and finally did so, this argument makes about as much sense as saying it would be "unfair" to a mugging victim not to mug
their neighbors too.
-David Graeber, "Debt"
Let me assure the reader that, as someone who struggled for years to pay back his student loans and finally did so, this argument makes about as much sense as saying it would be "unfair" to a mugging victim not to mug
their neighbors too.
-David Graeber, "Debt"
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