CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

The billionaires want us to spent our lives on a treadmill of exploitation and consumption—producing a profit for them in the workplace, then buying back the products of our labor in our leisure time so they get us coming and going. No wage, and nothing we could buy on the market, could make it worth giving up the precious hours of our lives and turning the world over to their destructive control. We only do those things because we have not yet worked out how to defend ourselves. But the hour is becoming late, indeed. https://crimethinc.com/work #BlackFriday (sic)

Размышляя о движении «Захвати Уолл-стрит» тринадцать лет спустя https://ru.crimethinc.com/2024/09/17/razmyshliaia-o-dvizhienii-trinadtsat-liet-spustia Тринадцать лет назад тысяча демонстрантов вышла на Уолл-стрит, оккупировав парк Зукотти и запустив то, что стало известно как движение «Захвати» (Occupy). Рассматривая эти события сегодня, мы видим, насколько изменился ландшафт социальных движений на фоне поляризации общества. Организаторы движения «Захвати Уолл-стрит» стремились создать движение, которое объединило бы всё общество против правящего порядка и тех немногих, кто от него выигрывает, мобилизуясь под лозунгом «Мы – 99%». Сегодня разногласия, разделяющие наше общество, только углубились, что делает социальные изменения ещё сложнее. Однако это только подчёркивает важность наследия движения «Захвати». #Русский

On November 27, 1884—in defiance of that day's Thanksgiving festivities—anarchists in the United States marched with the black flag for the first time, in a demonstration protesting poverty and explicitly calling for the forcible abolition of property and wage labor. This was documented in the anarchist paper The Alarm. 🏴 https://crimethinc.com/theblackflag Today, this colonial holiday still reveals the tremendous gulf between the haves and the have-nots.

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/

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."

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?” 🏴

We've added our Gender Self-Determination sticker to our sticker archive, in case you want to download it to print your own. https://crimethinc.com/stickers/gender-self-determination We've also been sending them out with mailorders!

We've prepared a zine version of "The Case for Resistance." https://crimethinc.com/zines/the-case-for-resistance In this analysis, we explore what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. 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."

Vários de nossos livros expostos na Feira Anarquista de São Paulo no fim de semana – incluindo Trabalho, Receitas para o Desastre e Dias de Guerra, Noites de Amor. Você pode baixar ou encomendar todos os livros CrimethInc em português aqui: https://pt.crimethinc.com/books #Português

If people thought about real issues and needs instead of manufactured desires, the economy would collapse and we'd have total anarchy. That moment can't come soon enough. https://crimethinc.com/workmythology Comic courtesy of the great Bill Watterson.

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.

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.”

Preparando tudo para a Feira do Livro Anarquista em São Paulo com nova remessa de Receitas para o Desastre e zines Gaza Mon Amour. https://crimethinc.com/books/receitas-para-o-desastre #Português

"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."

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. You can order or download the poster version here: crimethinc.com/posters/gend... Fight gender fascism!

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. https://crimethinc.com/thetrumpyears This is a chronology of resistance and direct action under the first Trump administration.

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 of 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 review these proposals.

El ojo de cada tormenta Respuesta anarquista al huracán Helene https://crimethinc.com/2024/11/13/el-ojo-de-cada-tormenta-respuesta-anarquista-al-huracan-helene Un anarquista de los Apalaches que participa en la respuesta al huracán Helene habla de lo que han aprendido y de cómo prepararse para las catástrofes venideras. #Español

We've produced a zine version of our text "Anarchist Techno Attacks," revisiting the history of Reclaim the Streets—a viral model for the joyous transformation of urban space that emerged in the 1990s from the intersection of ecological resistance movements and the rave scene. https://crimethinc.com/zines/anarchist-techno-attacks-a-brief-history-of-reclaim-the-streets

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? https://crimethinc.com/exworker107 Thanks to Audible Anarchism for their contribution to this. ⛰️🫀🏴