CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

Five years ago today, the Russian anarchist Aleksei Sutuga passed away as the consequence of a tragic accident that occurred as a result of his choosing, once again, to stand up for others. His friends remember him as "a big, strong, reliable, kindhearted guy from Siberia, an anti-fascist, an anarchist, a real hero of the working class who knew how to listen, think, make decisions, and act." 🖤 We, too, remember Aleksei Sutuga. https://crimethinc.com/Socrates

Keep the pressure on them! Border Patrol recruitment events in September: https://careers.cbp.gov/s/connect-to-recruiter/event-calendar -9/3 Laredo, TX (Job Fair) -9/5-7 Big Bear, CA (Tough Mudder) -9/5-7 Scottsdale, AZ (Rodeo) -9/6-7 Glen Jean, WV (Spartan Trifecta) -9/6 Philadelphia, PA (Spartan Stadion) -9/10 Devils Lake, ND (Job Fair) -9/12 Charlotte, NC (College Career Fair) -9/12-13 Greensboro, NC (Rodeo) -9/12-14 Queen Creek, AZ (Gun Expo) -9/13-14 Snohomish, WA (Spartan) -9/15-16 Provo, UT (Law Enforcement Expo) -9/16-17 College Station, TX (College Career Fair) -9/17 Indio, CA (Job Fair) -9/18 Shalimar, FL (Job Fair) -9/18 El Paso, TX (Veterans Job Fair) -9/18 Tampa, FL (Law Enforcement Hiring Event) -9/19-21 Huntington Beach, CA (Fitness Festival) -9/19-21 Loudon, NH (NASCAR Race) -9/24 Houston, TX (College Career Fair) -9/26-28 San Diego, CA (Air Show) -9/27 Fort Carson, CO (Tough Mudder) -9/30 Corpus Christi, TX (College Career Fair) -10/7 Amarillo, TX (Job Fair) -10/8 Houston, TX (Career Fair)

President Grover Cleveland made "Labor Day" an official holiday in order to sap momentum from May Day, the day of revolutionary resistance that anarchists established in 1886. But efforts to reform capitalism have failed. The gulf between the wealthy few and the rest of us is wider than ever today. We need a revolution. Let's not simply ask for more crumbs from the table—let's fight for the abolition of capitalism and work itself. http://crimethinc.com/antiwork "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."

Today, it has been 25 years since we received the first printing of our first book, Days of War, Nights of Love. It remains a powerful testament to what people are able to accomplish when they imagine life beyond the constraints of capitalism and hierarchy. https://crimethinc.com/books/days-of-war-nights-of-love Struggling to finance the project, we debated whether to make 1000 copies or 1500. One collective member finally resolved the debate by declaring that he would pay for the additional 500 himself, whatever it took, and give them out on street corners if need be. We sold out of the whole printing in a month. It funded many subsequent projects, including our free primer, Fighting for Our Lives.

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security Fighting Back, Staying Free https://crimethinc.com/opsec How do police and federal agents identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder this kind of repression? In this anonymously submitted text, one affinity group explores how they address these questions. Once upon a time, only those who intended to engage in high-risk confrontational protest activity had to concern themselves with surveillance and security. Today, surveillance and policing are becoming much more invasive and arbitrary. Even if you never violate any law, the state may nonetheless seek to make an example of you. Everyone who might participate in a demonstration at some point should familiarize themselves with the security protocols that radicals have developed over the years.

Industrially-produced climate change is burning the world down around our ears, and Trump's mercenaries are taking advantage of the situation to terrorize and disappear the very people who are trying to protect us. Border Patrol are the enemies of all humanity. They pose a direct threat to all of us. https://crimethinc.com/borders

«El que se le escapó al Estado»: Karl Garside, liberador de animales, 1966-2025 Una vida vivida libremente en desafío https://crimethinc.com/2025/07/20/-karl-garside-liberador-de-animales-1966-2025-una-vida-vivida-libremente-en-desafio Desde sabotear cacerías y mataderos hasta denunciar la crueldad mediante investigaciones encubiertas, Karl Garside fue uno de los militantes más prolíficos del Frente de Liberación Animal en Gran Bretaña, dedicando más de 40 años a la lucha por la liberación total. #Español

“The One the State Missed”: Karl Garside, Animal Liberationist, 1966–2025 A Life Lived Freely in Defiance https://crimethinc.com/KarlGarside From sabotaging hunts and burning abattoirs to exposing cruelty through covert investigations, Karl Garside was among Britain’s most prolific Animal Liberation Front militants, dedicating over 40 years to the fight for total liberation.

Thirty-three years ago today, police killed Rosebud, one of countless people who defended People's Park over the years, maintaining an autonomous zone in the center of Berkeley in defiance of developers and capitalists. We review Rosebud's story and the history of People's Park here: https://crimethinc.com/Rosebud

The United States has become an authoritarian country akin to Chile, where (US-backed) dictatorship and democracy have alternated without significant differences. Accordingly, as students return to school, we can look to the Chilean student movement for inspiration. https://crimethinc.com/chilestudents

Poster: "For Spirits..." As long as socially constructed gender norms have existed, there have been those who would not or could not conform to them, and those people have been a force for everyone's liberation. We have prepared a new poster drawing on centuries-old art and poetry to celebrate this. https://crimethinc.com/posters/for-spirits The text is from John Milton, writing in Paradise Lost: For Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both And works of love or enmity fulfill. The artwork is by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite. For further discussion of gender, gender abolition, and gender self-determination, you could start here: https://crimethinc.com/GenderPoster2023

As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin wrap up their meeting in Alaska—two autocrats representing the two colonial powers that have occupied and sold that land without regard for its native inhabitants—this is a lucid statement from Indigenous Alaskans about what the invasion and occupation of Ukraine has to do with the colonial oppression of Alaska. https://www.nativemovement.org/nm-blog/2025/8/14/no-deals-with-war-criminals-on-alaska-soil

»Es geht nicht nur um das Schicksal einer bewaffneten Gruppe, sondern um ein politisches Projekt, das die Parameter des Kampfes im gesamten Nahen Osten neu definiert hat.« Der Versuch einer Einordnung und Analyse erschienen auf crimethinc.com

Die Selbstauflösung der PKK verstehen. https://de.crimethinc.com/2025/07/13/die-selbstauflosung-der-pkk-verstehen-was-bedeutet-das-fur-den-nahen-osten Am 12. Mai 2025 gab die Kurdische Arbeiterpartei (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê, PKK) nach mehr als vier Jahrzehnten bewaffnetem Kampf gegen die türkische Regierung ihre Auflösung bekannt. Dies geschah unmittelbar nach einem Aufruf des inhaftierten PKK-Führers Abdullah Öcalan, die Organisation aufzulösen. Am 11. Juli nahmen PKK-Kämpfer*innen an einer Zeremonie teil, die die Entwaffnung symbolisierte. Was bedeutet dies für die kurdischen Befreiungsbewegungen und für den Nahen Osten im Allgemeinen? #Deutsch

Catharsis: “Hope against Hope” Il nuovo album di una band hardcore che non scende a compromessi https://crimethinc.com/2025/08/01/catharsis-hope-against-hope-il-nuovo-album-di-una-band-hardcore-che-non-scende-a-compromessi-1 È passato molto tempo dall’ultima volta che abbiamo pubblicato un disco, ma a mali estremi, estremi rimedi. Per combattere l’ondata di autoritarismo e disperazione, il principale gruppo hardcore del North Carolina, Catharsis, ha registrato un nuovo album completo, “Hope Against Hope”. 🏴 #Italiano

Now it has been eight years since anarchists and other anti-fascists assembled in Charlottesville to block the rise of a fascist street movement. The few hundred anti-fascists who gathered in Charlottesville in 2017 were outnumbered, underprepared, and terrified. In the end, however, their courage proved more powerful than fascist hatred. This is important to remember today, when we face a new threat on a much greater scale, and it is difficult to imagine how to meet the moment. This is not the first time we have confronted what feels like impossible odds. https://crimethinc.com/Charlottesville2024

Catharsis—the hardcore band whose new LP, "Hope against Hope," we released one week ago—will be performing in the Southeast this weekend: 8/8 Durham, NC: The Pinhook 8/9 Asheville, NC: Sly Grog 8/10 Atlanta, GA: Eyedrum For information about the album and the shows: https://crimethinc.com/HopeAgainstHope

The fascists are in power now. If we do not fight them like they are fascists, they will systematically destroy everything that is precious in the world. https://crimethinc.com/saferinthefront

Border Patrol agents raided a Home Depot in Los Angeles today, kidnapping over a dozen people in what they called "Operation Trojan Horse." They borrowed this tactic from Patriot Front, a neo-Nazi group that rents box trucks to transport its members to marches. Now that the fascists hold state power, they are using the same tactics on a larger scale. But as frightening as is to have state fascists in military gear carrying out surprise assaults on our streets, remember—this tactic has been producing diminishing returns for non-state fascists. The less popular they become, the more rapidly they have to move and the more vulnerable they are to mass resistance. Watch for an opportunity and treat them like the scum they are. https://crimethinc.com/stopice

خوانشی از خودانحلالی پ.ک.ک. و پیامدهای آن برای خاورمیانه https://crimethinc.com/2025/07/13/khwnshy-z-khwdnhlly-pkhkh-w-pymdhy-an-bry-khwrmynh آن‌چه در معرض تهدید قرار دارد، فقط سرنوشت یک گروه مسلح نیست، بلکه امکان‌پذیری یک پروژه‌ی سیاسی است که پارادایم‌های مبارزه در خاورمیانه را بازتعریف کرده است. #فارسی