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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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While we are sharing posters on the theme of capitalism and death, we should include "Capitalism Is a Death Cult," from 2020.
09:05 UTC
New Poster: Capitalism Is the Dance of Death
20:01 UTC
"Fell in Love with Fire" — Five years in the making, this hour-long film explores the uprising in Chile from October 2019 to March 2020, showing how everyday people sustained six months of rebellion by creating networks of self-determination and mutual aid.
21:06 UTC
As Halloween approaches, there is still time to organize a haunted house—whether to raise funds, raise morale, or send an educational message. Here, you can read a guide for anarchists, complete with a report and video walkthrough from a #StopCopCity haunted house.
https://crimethinc.com/hauntedhouse
In the following account, a participant describes how people involved in an anarchist social center set up a haunted house last October as a fundraiser to support defendants facing RICO charges as a consequence of repression targeting the movement to Stop Cop City. This is an excellent example of how creative efforts can add a joyous element to political outreach and legal support.
18:19 UTC
Anarchist demonstrators display a banner reading “PUNKS FOR ROJAVA” while they take on the army under martial law at the opening of the uprising that began five years ago today.
20:04 UTC
Five years ago today, students collectively refusing to pay exorbitant subway fares in Chile clashed with police, catalyzing a revolutionary movement that shook the country to its foundations, dramatically transforming life over the six months that followed.
You can learn all about it in episodes 70-74 of our podcast, the Ex-Worker:
19:37 UTC
It Could Be Fun (short anarchy video)
06:02 UTC
I ask this with sincerity: what are your examples? Again, I am genuinely curious since I want to come closer to the truth. You guys are the ones who will be the best at finding these instances than I could given that you often refer to supposed "natural monopolies". 🙂
13:36 UTC
"Ya Ghazze Habibti—Gaza, My Love" Zine
We now offer a zine version of "Ya Ghazze Habibti—Gaza, My Love," in which an anarchist from occupied Palestine reviews the history of Zionist colonialism and Palestinian resistance, makes the case for an anti-colonial understanding of the situation, and explores what it means to act in solidarity with Palestinians.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/ya-ghazze-habibti-gaza-my-love-understanding-the-genocide-in-palestine
20:24 UTC
The Civil Fleet Podcast (Ep63): Denny tells us about his journey from Kashmir, through Fortress Europe to Italy, how he was mistreated by the authorities, supported by activists, and how looking after a dog helped his mental health - Find The Civil Fleet Podcast on all podcast apps and YouTube
17:17 UTC
With the election looming, both the far right and the Democrats will be jockeying to capitalize on the catastrophe that Hurricane Helene inflicted on western North Carolina.
In fact, the bulk of the relief efforts in these communities are being spearheaded by ordinary people who oppose both political parties, such as the anarchists who have been stocking this mutual aid depot.
In every crisis like this, the social inequalities that capitalism produces compound the problems, state mercenaries and bureaucracy hinder people from helping each other, and the hatred that fascists promote serves to distract from the real beneficiaries of the tragedy.
The fight against capitalism, the state, and fascism really is a struggle for survival.
02:09 UTC
Ya Ghazze Habibti—Gaza, My Love: Understanding the Genocide in Palestine
https://crimethinc.com/Gaza2024
After slaughtering more than 42,000 Palestinians, including 16,500 children, the Israeli military is now invading Lebanon and threatening to go to war with Iran.
In this in-depth account, an anarchist from occupied Palestine reviews the history of Zionist colonialism and Palestinian resistance, makes the case for an anti-colonial understanding of the situation, and explores what it means to act in solidarity with Palestinians.
"The best way out of this mess might be a revolutionary alliance of freedom movements throughout the region, and hopefully the world—a Liberation International that would stand proudly against the reactionary international led by the US and the authoritarian international involving Iran."
11:39 UTC
Memento Mori: We Endlings
Today marks eight years since the passing of Toughie, last of the Rabbs’ fringe-limbed tree frogs.
https://crimethinc.com/endlings
The term for a creature that is the sole survivor of his species is "endling." This neologism has only recently become necessary in our language. What can endlings tell us about ourselves and the future of our species?
18:02 UTC
We will be tabling at the Seattle Anarchist Book Fair September 28-29 and at the Bay Area Anarchist Book Fair on October 6!
Come stock up on books, zines, posters, stickers, and more!
Seattle:
Bay Area:
https://www.instagram.com/bayareaanarchistbookfair/
You can always order from us directly:
03:00 UTC
“Live Free, Ride Free, Fuck NYPD” A Report from a Mass Fare Evasion in New York City
https://crimethinc.com/RideFreeNYC
On Sunday, September 15, New York City police officers shot live rounds at random into the L train at the Sutter Avenue station at the border of Brownsville and East New York, Brooklyn. They were pursuing a Black man who had allegedly skipped the $2.90 fare. They shot him and two unfortunate bystanders—one in the arm, one in the head.
On Wednesday, September 18, hundreds of people gathered at Union Square to carry out a mass fare evasion in response to this heinous attack.
21:35 UTC
Anarchists on the Wave of Protest in Indonesia
In August 2024, a wave of protests rocked Indonesia, ostensibly in response to political machinations aimed at anointing a successor to President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi. Very little information has circulated about these protests in the English-speaking world. To get a sense of the deeper issues at play, we reached out to anarchist participants in different parts of Indonesia.
https://crimethinc.com/Indonesia2024
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“Never trust government.” A protest in Bandung on August 22, 2024.
00:29 UTC
The Israeli government is doing its best to escalate a military conflict with Hezbollah. In addition to threatening the lives of countless ordinary people, this also undermines the possibility of positive social change throughout the region.
In 2019, a grassroots uprising broke out against the sectarian parties that rule Lebanon, including Hezbollah. Movements like this on both sides of every nationalist conflict represent the only real hope for peace worldwide.
For background on the uprising, read this interview with Elia Ayoub:
https://crimethinc.com/LebanonUprising
Hezbollah derives much of its perceived legitimacy in Lebanon from the threat of Israeli violence. Israeli aggression will only consolidate its hold. To understand why, consult this new text from Elia Ayoub (https://todon.eu/@ayoub@spore.social):
https://www.hauntologies.net/p/hezbollah-10-things-you-need-to-know
Nationalists seek to impose their conflicts on everyone as the only imaginable horizon of possibility. This is one of the many reasons we must put an end to Israeli colonial violence throughout the region.
06:19 UTC
Rebellious souls in Russia have sent us a photograph of this banner hanging over the train tracks in the Leningrad region. It reads "ПРИЗНАЙСЯ, ЧТО ХОЧЕШЬ ВОССТАНИЯ!"—"Say You Want an Insurrection," the title of our classic text discussing insurrectionary anarchism.
While the title has an ironic aspect in English on account of the association with a certain song by the Beatles, in Russian, it comes across more like "Admit it: you want to revolt!"
Along with the photograph, we received this message:
"Rebellion is a time when fear turns into joy. This time is not in the past and does not wait in the future. Rebellion lives in the present. The rebellion of ungovernable lives against the military death machine, of unbridled diversity against xenophobia and patriarchal cynicism, of everything strange against the general fatigue, apathy, and boredom.
"The uprising speaks in each of us in the transcendent languages of rage and love. Our distant friends, we are beside you, we are among you. isn't it time for us to admit, together, that we want the same—many and different—uprisings!"
It is heartening to know that even under conditions of intense repression and autocracy, the desire to revolt thrives.
20:42 UTC
This week, there are demonstrations in New York City after police attacked a person they accused of dodging the fare on the subway. Multiple police opened fire, shooting the suspect, each other, and several other people who happened to be in the station.
It's senseless to have police randomly shooting people to enforce a $2.90 fare. Make the subways free as a step towards the abolition of capitalism and police.
19:47 UTC
Thirteen years ago today, a thousand demonstrators descended on Wall Street, occupying Zuccotti Park and kicking off what came to be known as the Occupy movement. Revisiting that moment, we can see how dramatically the terrain of social movements has changed as our society has polarized.
The organizers of Occupy Wall Street proposed to create a movement that could bring all society together against the ruling order and the few who profit from it, mobilizing under the slogan “We are the 99%.” Today, the divisions that cut through our society have only deepened, rendering it more difficult to imagine social change. Now, the capitalist order is not stabilized by the illusion of general consent, but rather by the looming threat of violent conflict.
Yet if anything, this only renders it more important to learn from and experiment with the legacy of the Occupy movement today.
https://crimethinc.com/Occupy2024
People with rainbow flags march behind a banner reading \"Occupy Wall Street.\"
21:26 UTC
As the news cycle focuses on the latest apparent assassination attempt, the real story here is that arms profiteers have flooded the United States with weapons—while social crises have intensified—to such an extent that even billionaires like Donald Trump are experiencing the consequences.
There have already been hundreds of mass shootings in the United States in 2024. Trump is just getting a small taste of how the rest of us live. The difference is that the rest of us don't have the Secret Service and millions of dollars in security to protect us.
As usual, the ruling class create a threat to us, profit on it, then pretend to be the chief victims. The solution is not more police repression, nor more state-imposed gun control (since that would only be enforced via more police violence). We have to organize collectively and horizontally to defend ourselves against arms profiteers, police, and politicians.
05:45 UTC
From September 11, 2001 to the genocide in Gaza—your leaders won't protect you, but they can get you killed.
The attacks that took place on September 11, 2001 left much of the US population more stunned than bellicose. Yet politicians had prepared a flood of new legislation and military interventions in advance for precisely such an opportunity. They initiated a new round of colonial wars and crackdowns on domestic dissent.
More than a million people died as a consequence of the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the resulting turmoil. The rise of the Islamic State and, later, the disorganized withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan showed how little these operations achieved their professed objectives. Yet by creating this disaster, George W. Bush managed to ride the coattails of war to another term as president.
Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli government has pursued a similar course, taking advantage of the opportunity to destroy Gaza and butcher tens of thousands of Palestinians. This will not make anyone safer in the region—neither Palestinians nor Israelis nor anyone else. It is calculated to create an ongoing crisis that will keep the most chauvinistic Israeli politicians in power at everyone else's expense.
Today as in 2001, our leaders will not protect us, but they can get us killed.
Stop the genocide in Palestine.
10:06 UTC
Today is the birthday of Dmitry Petrov, a Russian anarchist who was killed last year while resisting the invasion of Ukraine. Dmitry spent his life fighting authoritarianism; his story offers a snapshot of two decades of anarchist activity in the post-Soviet world.
You can read about him here:
In the words of Dmitry's father,
"Brothers and sisters! I am writing about my son. He is my flesh and blood. He is my best friend. And my main opponent. A gifted scholar. A talented author. A brave man. Willing to go all the way. For what he stands for and what he believes in. He’s my hero.
"When talking about him, my wife and I don’t use the past tense. Just the present. And the future. He is perhaps the only absolutely whole person I know. He always and in everything follows the dictates of his conscience and the ideas that unite us. At the same time, he is not only an ideological and straightforward person. He is not only a gifted scientist who studied the Russian North 'in the field' and Kurdistan in the desert. And not only the author and editor of many articles and several books.
"One should read his recent texts and see that he is a strategist of the movement that today opens new horizons... To discover new things. To be free to define yourself in a world that does everything it can to prevent it. To be able to make the right choices. To be clear about your values and act on them. To love those close to you. And love those far away. But also to pay attention."
A plaque honoring the memory of Dmitry Petrov, designed by the artist N.O. Bonzo.
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10:43 UTC
We are outraged by the murder of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi by Israeli occupying forces in the West Bank. It calls to mind the murder of Rachel Corrie, another US citizen who was in Palestine doing solidarity work, by Israeli forces in Gaza in 2003.
The names of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi and Rachel Corrie are widely known, but no one knows all the names of the tens of thousands of Palestinians who have been senselessly murdered over the last several months for the sake of racism and colonialism. This illustrates the dehumanization and erasure of Palestinians, which is an affront to the humanity of all people.
One of the witnesses of the murder of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was the anarchist Jonathan Pollak. As he points out, this is just the latest following a series of seventeen intentional murders that the Israeli forces have carried out during demonstrations targeting the residents of this particular town, Beita, since 2021. We are only hearing about it because this time, they murdered a US citizen.
May the courage of those who have endured oppression and the bravery of those who risk their lives in solidarity move us all to do what it takes to create a world without genocidal violence.
You can read Jonathan's perspective on the genocide in Palestine here:
20:18 UTC
On a lighter note, we draw your attention to this review of Europe's Fusion Festival, penned by a CrimethInc. agent for Montreal's new hardcore punk underground publication, The Counterforce.
You can read it here:
https://the-counterforce.org/fusion-festival-xxv-scene-report/
08:51 UTC
In 1930, the German state of Thuringia was the first in which the Nazi Party won the elections. This week, the fascist party Alternative für Deutschland won the highest number of votes in Thuringia. The resurgence of fascism in Germany is reflected in a wave of Nazi violence around the country.
Around the world, neoliberal regimes have brutally repressed anti-capitalist movements, creating a situation in which fascists can pretend to represent the only alternative. Fascism will continue to gain momentum until we create grassroots movements that can crush it while addressing the problems capitalism creates.
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