As new crackdowns emerge on the stock market to insulate hedge funds and capitalists from innovative disruptions to the system, we look back to our reflections immediately on the heels of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement:

“The same technology that helped capitalists outflank the resistance of the 1960s has produced new forms of revolt, from file-sharing to viral riots. Without the advance endorsement of Anonymous, for example, Occupy Wall Street might never have gotten off the ground. We can expect to see a worldwide authoritarian backlash against the internet-spread and twitter-savvy revolts of 2011.
Much of this clampdown will take the form of direct surveillance and censorship. We take for granted that those are chiefly employed in places like Syria and Tunisia; in fact, most of the censorship technology those governments use comes from Silicon Valley—and was first applied right here in the US.”

https://crimethinc.com/2012/01/18/2012-the-empire-has-no-clothes-whats-at-stake-in-the-new-year

Republicans are pretending that it's "not capitalism" for the wealthy to make the rules benefit them.

But capitalism always concentrates wealth in the hands of a privileged class who use it to hoard power.

That's how it works:
cwc.im/work

Down with fake revolts.

The power of Wall Street is the logical outcome of a profit-driven system.

It is grotesque buffoonery—if not outright anti-Semitism—for Republicans to protest their own favorite system on the grounds that it is bringing "elites" to power.

Abolish capitalism and the state.

January 28, 2012: During a standoff with police, a participant in Occupy Oakland demonstrates the proper meaning of armchair anarchism.

Used properly, just about anything can be a weapon.

http://cwc.im/Contradictionary

Not that we begrudge anyone their comfort, mind you!

If capitalism were really the most efficient way of meeting people's needs, we probably wouldn't be having so much trouble producing and distributing enough #COVID19 vaccines.

Of course, we also wouldn't be facing mass evictions—or widespread poverty—or climate catastrophe.

http://cwc.im/deathcult

“Here’s how it works: Fascist groups promote racist, sexist, and nationalist violence. Individual bigots carry it out—attacking people in the streets, shooting people in churches, stabbing
people on trains. The authorities use these attacks as an excuse to increase control, promising to protect a fearful population. But the greatest threat is not individual fascists: it is the state itself. It is the state that deports and imprisons millions, that suppresses dissent. When a more reactionary government takes power, it will use all the resources and legitimacy that the previous one obtained to carry out even more violence. Only grassroots resistance can stop the rise of fascism.” — Crimethinc

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of punk in the worldwide renaissance of anti-authoritarian politics that occurred in the late 20th century, from Poland to the Philippines and Latin America.

https://cwc.im/punk

Against all dictatorships—and all militaries.

The picture is from a twitter thread reporting on resistance to the military coup in Myanmar:

https://twitter.com/the_ayeminthant/status/1358325966452510722

Puerto Rico: The Road to Decolonization

https://cwc.im/PuertoRico2021

In Puerto Rico, the grassroots response to #COVID19 has built upon the response to Hurricane Maria, the uprising of 2019 that toppled the governor, and centuries of resistance to capitalism and colonialism.

From the 2011 Revolution to the Revolt of 2021—New Stirrings in North Africa

https://cwc.im/Tunisia2021

Tunisia is experiencing its largest grassroots revolt since the so-called Arab Spring, with implications for all North Africa.

Anarchists in Tunisia explore what has changed—and what remains the same.

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We’ve just reprinted To Change Everything, our anarchist outreach project. As the dust settles from the Trump era, this is a good time to articulate and popularize a critique of authoritarian power.

https://cwc.im/TCEreprint

We'll gladly send you copies for the price of postage alone. You can order them here:

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/to-change-everything

To Change Everything is available online in a total of 31 languages:

https://tochangeeverything.com/