CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

Happy birthday to Gaetano Bresci—who risked his life to rescue Errico Malatesta from an assassination attempt, then gave his life to inflict consequences on the king of Italy for ordering the slaughter of hundreds of workers. Read about his story here: https://cwc.im/Bresci

In reference to the elections of 2021 and the referendum in Minneapolis— Reformism functions to replace the memory of what people achieved together with government policy initiatives that can only be implemented from above. https://cwc.im/AbolishMPD Let no one overwrite the grassroots victories of 2020 with the legislative failures of 2021. We remember. We seek to carry out abolition from below, not to petition for solutions from above.

How (Not) to Abolish The Police—A Guide from Minneapolis https://cwc.im/AbolishMPD There has been lot of talk about police abolition over the past year and a half. But very different proposals coincide under this language. The coming years could see the phasing out of police departments—and in their place, an array of other agencies, activists, psychiatrists, and neighborhood watch organizations enforcing the same social order under a different name.

Nothing scares the daylights out of our rulers like the specter of anarchy—the abolition of all the means by which they hold power. A history of October 31 as a day of rebellion: https://illwill.com/devils-night An introduction to anarchism: https://cwc.im/tce #HappyHalloween

The networks Facebook offers aren’t new. What’s new is that they seem external to us. We’ve always had social networks, but no one could use them to sell advertisements—nor were they so easy to map. https://cwc.im/texts/enclosure The rebranding of Facebook as Meta as they seek to expand into the world of Virtual Reality is another step in this process of alienation—the colonization of our relationships and imaginations.

The military coup in Sudan is, in part, a result of repressive global immigration policies—not to mention arms profiteering. Resistance committees in Khartoum are the only obstacle to massacres and tyranny. Their struggle must be ours. Some background: https://cwc.im/Sudan For updates: https://twitter.com/SudanzUprising

To keep up with demand, we've reprinted our anarchist primer To Change Everything, bringing the total number of English copies in circulation over 200,000. You can order copies here: https://store.crimethinc.com/products/to-change-everything It's available on our site in 31 languages: https://cwc.im/tce

For another perspective on the Hungarian uprising, we recommend this annotated photoessay presenting the poem “Noretorp Noretsyh”—by the anarchist Kenneth Rexroth—as a series of graffiti installations: https://cwc.im/rexroth