CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

Today, on the two-year anniversary of a train crash in Greece that killed 57 people, a general strike took place to protest the complicity of the authorities in the conditions that caused the accident. Many hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Athens. After the speeches ended, tens of thousands of people engaged in conflict with the police all afternoon, including anarchists, students, and others. The train crash was the result of the same kind of capitalist kleptocracy that is afflicting people in the United States and elsewhere around the world. The more power the capitalist class concentrates in their hands, the more the rest of us will be exposed to danger in train and airplane crashes, pandemics, climate disasters, and other catastrophes. This is inevitable when there are vast disparities in wealth and power. Like those in the streets of Athens, we must become capable of defending ourselves. For background on the reigning right-wing government in Greece: https://crimethinc.com/Exarchia

We've produce a zine version of "Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace": https://crimethinc.com/zines/become-an-anarchist-or-forever-hold-your-peace "Anarchists seek to bring about a situation in which no politician or billionaire, elected or not, could ever be in a position to cut off essential resources to millions of people with the flick of a pen. This is a profounder commitment to freedom, equality, and the well-being of the general public than one can find within the halls of any government."

The Ex-Worker podcast: It’s Safer in the Front https://crimethinc.com/exworker110 Seeking safety by avoiding confrontation is not likely to be an effective strategy in a time of escalating political conflict. In this audio zine, we present a series of anecdotes from the original rise of fascism in Germany to various anarchist mobilizations spanning the 21st century, all of which bear out the seemingly counterintuitive slogan "It’s safer in the front."

This Saturday, March 1, people will gather at Tesla outlets around the world to demonstrate against Elon Musk's efforts to consolidate autocracy. This is an opportunity to point to the origins of authoritarianism in the capitalist economy. Here is a flier design you can print and distribute: https://crimethinc.com/posters/depose-trump-depose-musk

One year ago today, Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire at the gate of the Israeli embassy in Washington, DC as an act of protest against the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. The scale of the tragedy in Gaza exceeds anything we can understand from the United States. Aaron was determined not to passively accept it. Today, in Aaron's memory, let us pledge ourselves once more to solidarity with Palestinians—to fight against genocide, ethnic cleansing, and all forms of colonialism. In this memorial, we share Aaron’s summary of his anarchist politics, with testimony from his friends. https://crimethinc.com/AaronMemories "I am an anarchist, which means I believe in the abolition of all hierarchical power structures, especially capitalism and the state… I believe that any hierarchical power structure is bound to reproduce class dynamics and oppression. Thus, I want to engage in egalitarian forms of organizing that produce horizontal power structures based on mutual aid and solidarity."

“The Only Immigrant Trying to Steal My Job Is Elon Musk” https://crimethinc.com/busdriver A bus driver describes how the cuts that Elon Musk is carrying out in the federal government are affecting ordinary public transit workers.

Those from the English-speaking world who make excuses for Putin—or imply that all regimes are identical, regardless of whether they initiate colonial invasions or have their critics extrajudicially disappeared—render a service to oligarchs and autocrats like Donald Trump who aim to create an even more oppressive global order. For these reasons, we honor those in Russia, Ukraine, and everywhere else around the world who have risked their lives to fight against Russian imperialism while seeking to organize towards a future without governments or militarism of any kind. Some more citations: https://crimethinc.com/2022/03/21/antijob-the-russian-anarchist-labor-site-that-terrifies-the-bosses-an-interview https://crimethinc.com/2022/08/22/russia-the-anarcho-communist-combat-organization-an-interview-with-a-clandestine-anarchist-group https://pramen.io/ru/2025/02/anarhisty-vilnyusa-prisoedinyayutsya-k-aktsii-v-podderzhku-ukrainy-23-fevralya/

The invasion of Ukraine has offered Putin a strategy for controlling—and reducing—the restless part of the Russian population that might otherwise participate in revolutionary upheavals. Upwardly mobile young people have fled the country, while hundreds of thousands of poorer young men have lost their lives.

When the Russian military initiated a full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, it signaled the return of colonial militarism to center stage as capitalism entered a new period of crisis. Today—worse still—Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are conspiring to form an authoritarian international unifying the autocrats against those they oppress and exploit. Those who follow protest movements in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and nearby know that Putin has played a central role in suppressing dissent of all kinds throughout the region. Russian anarchists are routinely tortured with electricity. Children go to adult prisons for putting up fliers. Some citations: https://crimethinc.com/AntiWarRussia https://crimethinc.com/FSBtorture https://crimethinc.com/2018/03/26/why-the-torture-cases-in-russia-matter-how-the-tactics-that-the-russian-state-uses-against-anarchists-could-spread https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/02/07/terrorist-garri-potter

アナキストになるか、さもなくば永遠に口を噤むか https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/21/anakisutoninaruka-samonakubayong-yuan-nikou-wojin-muka ドナルド゠トランプとイーロン゠マスクが自分達の全体主義権力の追及に米国政府を従わせている中、彼等の敵対勢力は彼等の無法を非難しつつも、防衛的姿勢を崩していない。しかし、裁判所も法律も独裁政治への転落を止められない。大勢の人々が自ら進んで具体的な抵抗行動を組織し、水平的で参加型の直接行動を起こさねばならない－－つまり、アナキストにならねばならないのだ。 #日本語

For eight years, liberal politicians and pundits have counted on legal strategies to stop Donald Trump. Now that Trump has gained control of the executive and legislative branches of government and is consolidating control of the judicial branch, this isn't just naïve—it's counterproductive. It is past time to stop legitimizing the means they will use to repress resistance and focus on strategies that make use of the power we have when we act together, directly. https://crimethinc.com/becomeananarchist

Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace https://crimethinc.com/becomeananarchist As Donald Trump and Elon Musk subordinate the United States government to their pursuit of totalitarian power, their opponents remain in a defensive posture, accusing them of lawlessness. But neither courts nor laws will suffice to halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of resistance, to take direct action on a horizontal and participatory basis—in other words, to become anarchists.

Capitalism is Organized Crime https://crimethinc.com/posters/capitalism-is-organized-crime The real gangsters don’t have to get their hands dirty—they have police and courts and prisons to do their dirty work for them. They don’t have to run drugs or guns or illegal gambling rings—they run everything else. They can afford to let us choose between politicians, so long as the political system itself enforces their privileges. Some of us can join their ranks if we’re enterprising enough, as long as we participate in their racket and play by their rules. Rivalries play out between different gangs, but nothing threatens gang rule. If a mafia took over our entire society, would it be any different?

"When we say anti-work, we don’t mean an abstract political position disapproving of work; we mean a practice that actively abolishes the necessity to work, the way that anti-matter annihilates matter. In other words, an activity aimed at doing away with all the mechanisms that serve to concentrate power—from debt to intellectual property rights and the prison-industrial complex. All the things that force us to keep putting our noses back to the grindstone when there are so many other things we’d prefer to be doing." https://crimethinc.com/antiwork

In the not-too-distant past, before everyone became so reliant on the internet, we mass-produced print versions of everything we published. Here, you see some of the stock of issue 4 of our paper, Harbinger, and its centerfold. We distributed 50,000 of them in 2001. https://crimethinc.com/journals/harbinger/4

Enamorarse del fuego Un documental sobre el estallido de 2019 en Chile https://crimethinc.com/2024/10/21/fell-in-love-with-fire-enamorarse-del-fuego-un-documental-sobre-el-estallido-de-2019-en-chile Cinco años en la fabricación, este documental de una hora explora el levantamiento que barrió Chile desde octubre de 2019 hasta marzo de 2020. #Español

In den USA wird gerade im ganzen Land vor Tesla-Läden gegen den Faschismus protestiert. 🔥 Zum 1. März wird dazu aufgerufen vor sämtlichen Tesla-Standorten im Land zu protestieren. Den Aufruf dazu (Englisch) und ein Poster gibt's hier: https://de.crimethinc.com/posters/depose-trump-depose-musk Auch in Deutschland hat Tesla Standorte.

La marcia degli studenti a Los Angeles https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/13/la-marcia-degli-studenti-a-los-angeles-un-resoconto-dalle-strade Un breve resoconto delle manifestazioni di questo mese a Los Angeles. #Italiano

For Presidents Day, rather than celebrating George Washington, we invite you to learn about how the people that he enslaved or indentured sought to escape from captivity, and about the Native Americans who defended themselves against his attacks. A real struggle for freedom. https://crimethinc.com/Washington *** You can download this text as a zine here: https://crimethinc.com/zines/escaping-washington-for-freedom Or order it online from A Boulder on the Tracks here: https://aboulder.com/product/escaping-washington-for-freedom/

"Picture a self-education society without instructors, ranks, or lesson plans. Teenagers will teach themselves to play drums by watching other teenagers play drums. They won’t learn about politics in dusty tomes, but by publishing zines about their own experiences and corresponding with people on the other side of the planet. Every time well-known musicians perform, musicians who are just getting started will perform, too. Learning won’t be a distinct sphere of activity, but an organic component of every aspect of the community. "Get everyone together in a space premised on horizontality, decentralization, self-determination, reproducible models, being ungovernable, and so on and let them discover the advantages for themselves." - Punk—Dangerous Utopia: Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism https://crimethinc.com/punkutopia 🏴 🏴 🏴