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"Yes, they tore up the streets with jackhammers, but the police couldn’t see or hear them doing so because the jackhammers were concealed beneath the skirts of stilt-walkers and drowned out by techno music." What turn-of-the-century anti-capitalist movements can teach us about the importance of joyous, creative resistance: https://crimethinc.com/wtoepilogue

Today, our thoughts are with those impacted by Hurricane Idalia. We will post resources for mutual aid efforts as we receive them. Read about anarchist relief efforts in response to Hurricane Florence, five years ago: https://crimethinc.com/Florence Read about how capitalism and colonialism exacerbate natural catastrophes, and how communities can create truly resilient infrastructure for all: https://crimethinc.com/Louisiana2021

As Hurricane Idalia hits Florida, following record-setting heat waves and forest fires from Greece to Canada to Hawaii, remember: The corporate profiteers and politicians who are forcing climate catastrophe on us have names and addresses. Don't let them get away with it. https://crimethinc.com/directactionguide 🏴🏴

As Hurricane Idalia hits Florida, following record-setting heat waves and forest fires from Greece to Canada to Hawaii, remember: The corporate profiteers and politicians who are forcing climate catastrophe on us have names and addresses. Don't let them get away with it. https://crimethinc.com/directactionguide 🏴🏴

Cheers to the protester who interrupted Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey today with a banner reading “FREY DOES NOT CONCEDE UNLAWFUL BEHAVIOR BY THE MPD, REOPEN ALL CASES!” Earlier this summer, Frey co-signed a document reading: “...the city does not concede that there is a pattern or practice of unlawful behavior by the Minneapolis Police Department.” Even the Department of Justice, itself a bastion of police violence, has declared that "The Minneapolis Police Department and the City of Minneapolis engage in a pattern or practice of conduct in violation of the US Constitution and federal law." As anarchists, we are not surprised when police violate laws, nor that politicians from across the political spectrum support them in this. Police, laws, and government itself are all instruments of white supremacy and domination. Only grassroots resistance can stop them. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDPOR0NzuxA More background: https://crimethinc.com/AbolishMPD

Students! As you return to class this month, this is the perfect time to form an anarchist student organization! You could organize social gatherings, speaking events, film screenings, concerts, protests, and more. We're counting on you to make contact with others like you and radicalize your peers! The future depends on you! Here's an example of how one anarchist student organization got going: https://crimethinc.com/uncontrollables And if you need inspiration, look at what anarchist students in Chile do! https://crimethinc.com/chilestudents

TODA BANDEIRA FICA PRETA QUANDO QUEIMA! A Bandeira Preta — Emblema da Rebelião, Negação e Esperança https://cwc.im/BandeirasPretas Na coleção a seguir, uma gama de autoras e artistas refletem, ao longo de um século e meio, sobre o significado da bandeira negra, o estandarte anarquista da rebelião e da negação. 🏴🔥🏴🔥🏴🔥🏴 #Português

Copies of our Gender Self-Determination Poster wheatpasted around town somewhere out there in Middle America. You can get copies of this poster in bulk here at almost no cost: https://store.crimethinc.com/products/gender-self-determination-poster Wheatpasting is easy. Here's how: https://crimethinc.com/wheatpasting Make the walls speak!

Gender and Sexuality in Saint-Imier: A Memoir https://crimethinc.com/sexinstimier Filling out our coverage of the worldwide anarchist gathering that took place in Saint-Imier, Switzerland in July, one participant explores political practices and discourse around gender and sexuality during the gathering and in the contemporary anarchist movement as a whole. Content warning: moderately scandalous.

This weekend, at the Seattle Anarchist Book Fair, there will be a presentation drawing on our coverage of the uprising in Chile in 2019, exploring what made it so powerful and how it was eventually channeled into electoral politics. https://seattleanarchistbookfair.noblogs.org/ "For nearly a month, the most powerful force in Chile was a patchwork of horizontal assemblies focusing on what the participants could do in their neighborhoods. When the government caved in and conceded to one of the countless demands circulating in the streets—a new constitution—these assemblies were gradually replaced with conversations about what they could get someday from a government in the future. The constitutional process was the first step to taking power out of people’s hands and reconstituting the state." To learn more: crimethinc.com/ChilePlebiscite

Recuerdos de Saint-Imier, de 1872 a 2023 https://es.crimethinc.com/2023/08/22/recuerdos-de-saint-imier-de-1872-a-2023-relatos-de-un-encuentro-anarquista-mundial Con un mes de retraso, por fin volvemos de las vacaciones de verano con un informe de Anarchy 2023, un encuentro anarquista mundial en Saint-Imier, Suiza. Este festival celebró el 151 aniversario del congreso fundacional de la federación conocida como la Internacional Antiautoritaria, la continuación de la Asociación Internacional de Trabajadores, una de las organizaciones sindicales europeas más importantes del siglo XIX. La reunión de Saint-Imier, a la que acudieron unas 5.000 personas -la mayoría procedentes de Europa central, pero también de lugares tan lejanos como Chile y Australia-, pudo haber sido el mayor acontecimiento exclusivamente anarquista del año. A continuación ofrecemos diversos testimonios y valoraciones. #Español

The chorus of the song "Defeat" by the hardcore band Requiem is inspired by some of the final words of Bartolomeo Vanzetti: "If it had not been for these things, I might have lived out my life talking at street corners to scorning men. I might have died, unmarked, unknown, a failure. Now we are not a failure. This is our career and our triumph. Never in our full life could we hope to do such work for tolerance, for justice, for man's understanding of man as now we do by accident. Our words—our lives—our pains—nothing! The taking of our lives—lives of a good shoemaker and a poor fish-peddler—all! That last moment belongs to us—that agony is our triumph." Like all music released by CrimethInc., it is freely available here: https://crimethinc.bandcamp.com/track/defeat

The Wagner Mutiny has reached its inevitable conclusion with the reported deaths of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin. Yet Vladimir Putin should not feel any more sure of his grip on power this month than Prigozhin did last month. The tighter the authoritarianism, the more pressure waiting to explode. In the meantime, this is a good time to revisit the perspectives of Russian anarchists on the Wagner Mutiny, written when it was still unclear how it would turn out: https://crimethinc.com/WagnerMutiny

On the last day of the Anarchy 2023 gathering in Saint-Imier, a massive chorus of anarchist choirs gathered in the main square of the village. Among other songs, they performed this

Today, it has been 96 years since the execution of the anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Anti-immigrant bigotry played a significant part in determining the outcome of their trial. The court case became a rallying point for thousands around the world. "Not only am I innocent of these two crimes, not only in all my life I have never stolen, never killed, never spilled blood, but I have struggled all my life, since I began to reason, to eliminate crime from the earth... "I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical; I have suffered because I was an Italian, and indeed I am an Italian; I have suffered more for my family and for my beloved than for myself; but I am so convinced to be right that you can only kill me once but if you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already." -Bartolomeo Vanzetti, addressing the court at their sentencing

Memories from Saint-Imier, 1872 to 2023 https://crimethinc.com/StImier2023 In July 2023, some 5000 anarchists gathered in Saint-Imier, Switzerland for a week of events comemmorating the anniversary of the establishment of the first international anti-authoritarian labor federation. Here, we explore that history and present a variety of accounts and appraisals from anarchists who came from around the world to participate this year.

El Aprendizaje de las llamas En junio de 2023, en la ciudad de Nanterre, un suburbio de París, la policía asesinó brutalmente a un adolescente llamado Nahel Merzouk, continuando con un patrón de violencia poscolonial dirigido a un sector de la población francesa tratado como ciudadanxs de segunda clase. En respuesta a este asesinato, miles de personas de los barrios periféricos de París y otras ciudades francesas protagonizaron varios días de batalla campal, atacando ayuntamientos y comisarías, saqueando comercios y defendiéndose de la policía. En la siguiente reflexión, un participante en los movimientos de los últimos años echa la vista atrás a la revuelta de junio de 2023 y a los movimientos que la precedieron, explorando los límites que alcanzaron y considerando lo que les haría falta para lograr una transformación revolucionaria. #Español

Even police officers who are supposed to wear body cameras regularly turn them off, leave them behind, or arrange for other officers who don't wear them to do their dirty work, as in the murder of Tortuguita in Atlanta last January. At the same time, police departments are demanding that politicians channel additional taxpayer funds to police officers in return for them using body cameras. Our entire society is being held hostage by these violent mercenaries. Not everyone is at risk of being murdered by police, but everyone is being robbed. The solution is not to pay them to wear body cameras (except when they don't want to); it is to cut off their access to our resources. https://crimethinc.com/bodycams

Elon Musk bought Twitter with the express intention of destroying a platform that he regarded as an obstacle to the aspirations of far-right billionaires like himself. Now he is announcing that the block function will be discontinued. The only imaginable reason to remove the block function is to enable bigots to make the platform uninhabitable for everyone else. Here's the backstory on how Twitter became a battleground: https://crimethinc.com/TwitterBought We are in a war with the forces of oligarchy and bigotry. We have to build communications infrastructure that they can never take over.

Our comrades at the anarchist PR project Agency have announced a media grant in memory of Jen Angel, a longtime anarchist organizer who passed away in February: https://www.anarchistagency.com/jen-angel-anarchist-media-grant/ For background on Jen, you could start with our euology: https://crimethinc.com/jenangel