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The CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective (CWC) is a decentralized anarchist collective composed of many cells which act independently in pursuit of a freer and more joyous world.
The CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective (CWC) is a decentralized anarchist collective composed of many cells which act independently in pursuit of a freer and more joyous world.
History is not something that happens to people - it is the activity of people. In every moment, in every decision and gesture, we make our culture, our life stories, our world, whether we take responsibility for this ourselves or ascribe this power to executives, politicians, pop stars, economic systems, or deities.
The Future is Unwritten in a society which glorifies their power and our passivity, all thought which challenges this passivity is thoughtcrime. Crimethink is the transgression without which freedom and self-determination are impossible - it is the skeleton key that unlocks the prisons of our age.
CrimethInc. is the black market where we trade in this precious contraband. Here, the secret worlds of shoplifters, rioters, dropouts, deserters, adulterers, vandals, daydreamers—that is to say, of all of us, in those moments when, wanting more, we indulge in little revolts - converge to form gateways to new worlds where theft, cheating, warfare, boredom, and so on are simply obsolete.
This webpage is one of many manifestations of the underground network through which we work to realize these daydreams, to take the reins of our lives and make our history rather than using the same energy to insist we are being made by it. If you have illicit ideas and intentions of your own to share, you're invited to join us here.
This subreddit is for all things CrimethInc.
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Where is the “Work”Audiobook?
On the Ex-worker Podcast and the Crimethinc site there are mentions of an audiobook version of Work being produced a couple years ago, but I can’t find it anywhere. Did it ever get produced? Does anyone know where to find it?
00:31 UTC
Seattle WTO 25-Year Anniversary Reading and Viewing List
Today marks 25 years since anarchists and other protesters shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. This was the public debut of what journalists dubbed the “anti-globalization movement”—in fact, a global movement against neoliberal capitalism.
This analysis explores the origins of that movement and what it can teach us today:
https://crimethinc.com/wtoepilogue
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For a strategic analysis of how anarchists and other rebels were able to successfully blockade the WTO summit, we recommend "Netwar in the Emerald City," included in our zine N30, which you can print here:
https://crimethinc.com/zines/n30-the-seattle-wto-protests
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For a spirited account from the front line in the streets on November 30, 1999, read "The Power Is Running":
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For footage of the events and a taste of the spirit of the time, watch the documentary "Breaking the Spell," produced by anarchists from Eugene, Oregon:
https://crimethinc.com/videos/breaking-the-spell
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In 1999, opposing neoliberalism was an extremist position. Decades later, Donald Trump appropriated this narrative and rode it to victory. This was only possible because of reformist currents in the original movement—and because we hadn't overthrown capitalism ourselves.
https://anarchistagency.com/trump-and-the-legacy-of-the-anti-globalization-movement/
Studying the WTO protests, we can learn how a relatively small number of people can act effectively when they organize horizontally and ambitiously—and grasp the stakes of today's fights.
The struggle continues. 🏴
18:27 UTC
Today we give thanks for Indigenous resistance all around the world. All of us stand to gain from putting an end to the violence of colonialism.
The posters are by the graphic arts collective Dignidad Rebelde.
https://portfolio.dignidadrebelde.com/portfolio-category/givingthanks/
08:49 UTC
Insurgent Survival: Reflections on the Fight Against Sweeps Targeting the Homeless in Austin, Texas
https://crimethinc.com/StoptheSweeps
In 2019, militants in Austin, Texas started an organization with the aim of defending homeless camps against sweeps—forced removals disguised as “cleanups” carried out by police and work crews. We explore the history of Stop the Sweeps and the strategic thinking behind it, seeking to distill lessons about autonomous organization that can aid revolutionaries in future struggles.
"The camp is an image of the future—a future in which increased economic precarity, climate crises, wars, and state repression produce new waves of displacement and migration, and new forms of repression and managerial governance arise in response."
20:03 UTC
Strategizing to Stop Mass Deportations
We've prepared a freestanding zine version of the appendix to "The Case for Resistance," exploring what it would look like to mobilize against Trump's promise to carry out "the largest mass deportation in US history."
https://crimethinc.com/zines/strategizing-to-stop-mass-deportations
Mass deportations will require massive logistics and infrastructure, which offer a host of opportunities for intervention.
“In 2017, a single mass occupation at JFK Airport in New York sparked occupations involving tens of thousands of people around the country. Tactics spread rapidly when they are inspiring. What can you and your community do, right now, to prepare to inspire nationwide resistance to the deportation machine?”
23:10 UTC
We've added our Gender Self-Determination sticker to our sticker archive, in case you want to download it to print your own. We've also been sending them out with mailorders!
https://crimethinc.com/stickers/gender-self-determination
"For every fascist who plans to attack drag queen story hour, there are three anti-fascists ready to defend it. For every boss who harasses you, there are ten workers who will back you up. For every judge who seeks to ban abortion, there are twenty collectives stockpiling Mifepristone and Misoprostol. For every cop who is paid to enforce transphobic legislation, there are a hundred gender outlaws determined to defy them. For every politician who tries to prohibit talking about gender in school, there are a thousand students charting their own paths beyond the binary. For every bigot who wants to etch their biases in stone, there is a movement that is already changing the world. For every person that takes one step towards freedom, there is another who finds the road to liberation a little easier."
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02:46 UTC
We've prepared a zine version of "The Case for Resistance," exploring what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/the-case-for-resistance
Please print and distribute these!
"The lesson is clear. We will only get what we win by our own efforts. The Trump era was not a historical anomaly. It’s not behind us. We are still in it, and we can only get through it by fighting."
21:14 UTC
In the course of three decades of activity, in additional to publishing books, we have released dozens of punk and hardcore records. We've finally put one of the missing ones online—the split LP featuring From the Depths and Next Victim, released in 2011.
https://crimethinc.bandcamp.com/album/from-the-depths-next-victim-split
You can download all of the records we've released free of charge at our bandcamp page.
02:03 UTC
The Ex-Worker podcast, episode #108: The Case for Resistance
https://crimethinc.com/exworker108
What we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term? How we can prepare to confront it?
“This is a pivotal moment, and everyone who isn’t cynically detached is sounding the alarm. Those of us who recognize the necessity of fighting had better find each other, identify the strengths and weaknesses of all the parties involved, recall the lessons of the past eight years, and strategize.”
06:17 UTC
We've reprinted 5000 more of the sticker version of our Gender Self-Determination design. We've already sent 10,000 of these stickers out with orders. Fight gender fascism!
You can order or download the poster version here:
https://crimethinc.com/posters/gender-self-determination-poster
"Between far-right street violence and a wave of new laws restricting education, self-expression, healthcare, and reproductive autonomy, bigots are attempting to take control of every aspect of our bodies and our sexuality. We can call this gender fascism.
"This is the local manifestation of a global surge of reactionary violence and state repression. Defending each other against this assault is not just marginal 'identity politics.' We are challenging some of the mechanisms that are central to the functioning of authoritarian power in the 21st century. From Mar-a-Lago to Moscow, despots and dictators tell us that normative gender roles are fundamental to the hierarchies they are trying to prop up. They’re probably right.
"If we want to win, though, we need a transformative framework to describe what we’re fighting for.
"Many advocates use language about preserving or extending rights when they explain why they oppose oppression.
"We propose a different framework: gender self-determination."
08:42 UTC
A chronology of resistance and direct action under the first Trump administration.
As we prepare for to confront Donald Trump’s second term, we can study the various struggles of the first Trump era in order to refine a sense of strategy and historic context.
02:57 UTC
The Case for Resistance: What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight 🏴
https://crimethinc.com/resist2025
We have prepared a full analysis discussing what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it.
If you're wondering how to resist, please consider these proposals.
03:53 UTC
The Ex-Worker Podcast, episode #107—The Eye of Every Storm: How have anarchists responded to Hurricane Helene? What lessons can they offer us about how to prepare for the disasters to come?
04:17 UTC
If we let Donald Trump and Stephen Miller expand the infrastructure of state violence, involving the military and building "vast holding facilities," they will not stop at deporting undocumented immigrants.
Once that infrastructure exists, they will turn it against one scapegoat after another. They will come after one "internal enemy" after another. Eventually, they will come for all of us.
All of us have a stake in resisting. It's our own lives at stake.
19:57 UTC
NEW EPISODE: Ola tells us about Grupa Granica's work supporting migrants/refugees/people-on-the-move at the Poland-Belarus border. We hear how border guards on both sides are abusing refugees, ping-ponging them across the border, and how Poland's PM plans to ‘temporarily’ ban the right of asylum
19:10 UTC
This photograph shows our Brazilian comrades tabling at the anarchist book fair in Porto Alegre last weekend with many of our publications in Portuguese, including our new poster design, "Capitalism is the dance of death."
https://crimethinc.com/posters/capitalism-is-the-dance-of-death
It's also available in Basque and Spanish!
If you ever need any of our publications in a language other than English, whether an article, a poster, a zine, a book, or something else, just look at its page on our site. Under the title, you'll see a list of the languages in which we offer it; just click on the one you need. Thanks to the tireless work of translators, we have material available on our website in four dozen different languages.
We announce all non-English versions of our projects as they appear on our Telegram channel ( t.me/ExWorkers ), as that is the most widely followed by non-Anglophones—and we don't want to overload those who follow our other platforms.
Abolish borders—and language barriers! 🏴
08:34 UTC
Get off X/Twitter! When you use X/Twitter, you grant a far-right billionaire the role of moderator in every discussion. You contribute to the illusion that X/Twitter is a public square, when in fact, it is a means of surveillance and control that directly serves an incoming authoritarian government.
22:43 UTC
We've prepared a zine version of "The Eye of Every Storm," in which an anarchist involved in longstanding disaster response efforts in Appalachia recounts the lessons they learned in the course of responding to Hurricane Helene and offers advice about how to get ready for the disasters to come.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/the-eye-of-every-storm-anarchist-response-to-hurricane-helene
Please print these out and distribute them in your community!
20:03 UTC
We've prepared a zine version of our text "History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy," exploring why the Democrats are responsible for Donald Trump's return to power and what we have to do to regain the initiative.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/history-repeats-itself-first-as-farce-then-as-tragedy
Please print these out and distribute them in your community!
19:07 UTC
The Eye of Every Storm: Anarchist Response to Hurricane Helene
crimethinc.com/HurricaneHelene
At the end of September 2024, Hurricane Helene laid waste to western North Carolina. In the following reflection, a local anarchist involved in longstanding disaster response efforts in Appalachia recounts the lessons that they have learned over the past six weeks and offers advice about how to prepare for the disasters to come.
At a time when misinformation, rising authoritarianism, and disasters exacerbated by industrially-produced climate change are creating a feedback loop of escalating crisis, it’s crucial to understand disaster response as an integral part of community defense and strategize about how this can play a part in movements for liberation.
21:47 UTC
20:14 UTC
Putting up stickers in your community, but having trouble reaching certain spots? Our colleagues at Municipal Adhesives have just the thing for you.
19:55 UTC
A few months ago, the conservative party came to power in Valencia, Spain with the support of the far right. One of their first acts was to eliminate climate emergency services. At the end of October, flooding exacerbated by climate change killed over 200 people in the region.
Massive numbers of people mobilized horizontally to respond to the flooding through mutual aid. Despite their ties to the conservative government, far-right groups have tried to hijack popular anger over the state's failures. This is the classic strategy of fascists and demagogues: create a crisis, then try to capitalize on it.
We salute the anarchists and anti-fascists in Valencia organizing against the flood, the government, and the far right.
Capitalism is the disaster! 🏴
Wreckage inflicted by the flooding in Valencia.
The sign in this photograph reads \"We clear out politicians like we clear our mud.\"
This logo reads \"We clear out fascism like we clear out mud.\"
05:52 UTC
How best can I help?
43M neurodivergent . I'm freaked out & furious about the political climate for obvious reasons. I don't have a lot of funds or influence, but I want to help people as best as I can. The trouble is that I don't know what I can do. How best can I help?
00:36 UTC
This is a good time to make sure that everyone in your broader community is using Signal. This flier offers QR codes to make it easy.
You can print out this design here:
https://cdn.crimethinc.com/assets/articles/2024/11/09/signal.pdf
You could use the blank space on the flier to add a third QR code directing people to a local announcements-only Signal thread to stay abreast of developments.
You can learn how to set one up here:
03:48 UTC
How to Organize an Assembly: Preparing to Respond in an Era of Disasters and Despotism
https://crimethinc.com/AssemblyHowTo
There are times when people who have counted on politicians and specialists to solve their problems suddenly realize that their only hope is to make contact with others like themselves and work together. But how do we connect with them—or at least connect them with each other? One answer is to host an open assembly.
Here, we offer a brief guide, along with some sample discussion questions you could use to talk through how to prepare for the second Donald Trump administration.
17:38 UTC
The fact that an aspiring autocrat has won an election does not oblige us to submit to him. No one should excuse being complicit in tyranny on the grounds that other people voted for it.
When it comes to fascism, no one has the right to obey.
People will scribble in a box for any number of reasons—misinformation, advertising, bigotry, fantasies of power—regardless of whether it is actually in their best interests.
It is what we do every day that determines what kind of society we live in, not how people vote every two or four years.
20:21 UTC
The Ex-Worker Podcast, episode #106: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
https://crimethinc.com/exworker106
Why the Democrats are responsible for Donald Trump’s return to power—and how this should inform how we strategize from here.
03:08 UTC
Stay calm, everyone.
15:19 UTC