CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

"From a young age, we are told that work is what provides for our needs. "Yet everyone who has served as an employee—or who has labored, self-employed, at the mercy of the market—has had a very different experience: work steals from us. "It steals the hours of our days, the time we would like to spend with our families and friends and lovers, the energy we would otherwise direct towards pleasurable, creative, unselfish pursuits. It steals our imaginations: even today’s most innovative employees and entrepreneurs are still inventing inside the very narrow frame of what can compete in the market rather than, for example, what might bring joy to human beings.

Fast workers die young—slow down and live! A message to workers at Twitter facing Elon Musk's new regime and to all workers everywhere. The pressure to turn a profit is killing you, just as industrial capitalism is killing all of us. Resist and survive. http://crimethinc.com/antiwork

Aborto senza frontiere In Polonia, l’aborto è quasi completamente vietato dal 2020. Tuttavia, una rete di femministe e [soggettività] anarchiche si adoperano nel garantire che chi ha bisogno di abortire possa accedervi, legalmente o meno. Ora che l’aborto è stato vietato in molti [degli Stati] degli Stati Uniti, le persone in Nord America possono trarre vantaggio dall’esperienza di coloro che hanno già affrontato questa situazione per anni. Per scoprire come lu attivistu polaccu utilizzano l’azione diretta e l’aiuto reciproco per mantenere l’aborto accessibile, abbiamo intervistato lu partecipanti di questa rete. https://crimethinc.com/2022/11/14/aborto-senza-frontiere-come-le-femministe-e-anarchiche-sfidano-le-leggi-polacche-contro-laborto-1 #Italiano

Cheers to everyone on strike in the University of California system. Remember, the strikers at Columbia University were only able to win because they had already defeated the union bureaucracy that sought to stop them from confronting the administration. Their victory shows that workers who seek to assert their interests in the workplace must begin by fighting for self-determination and grassroots power within workplace organizing itself. A full history of Columbia’s Graduate Worker Union struggle, 2004-2022: https://crimethinc.com/ColumbiaStrike

Angesichts der steigenden Preise und explodierenden Nebenkosten wollen wir noch mal auf unsere historische und strategische Analyse vom Mietstreik verweisen: http://cwc.im/mietstreik #Deutsch

Abortion without Borders How Feminists and Anarchists Defy Polish Anti-Abortion Laws https://crimethinc.com/abortionwithoutborders In Poland, abortion has been banned since 2020. Nevertheless, a network of feminists and anarchists strives to ensure that those who need abortions can access them, legally or not. What can activists in the US learn from them?

Art by the Aberdeen Local 1312, promoting "To Change Everything, An Anarchist Appeal" https://crimethinc.com/tce

PM Press UK (https://pmpress.org.uk/) has made stickers featuring some of our designs. You can find all of our sticker and poster designs in our online library, with which to make your own: https://crimethinc.com/stickers https://crimethinc.com/posters If you see any of our material in action, post photos!

Восстание в Иране Феминистское возрождение и начало конца режима https://crimethinc.com/2022/09/28/vosstaniie-v-iranie-fieministskoie-vozrozhdieniie-i-nachalo-kontsa-riezhima-1 Иранские и курдские феминистки исследуют историческую важность текущей волны восстания, сил, которые привели её в движение и возможный горизонт этих событий. #Русский

Twitter was not invented by hotshot entrepreneurs. It was modeled on TXTmob, a tool activists designed for the protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention. Real innovation comes from participatory experimentation, not profiteering. Billionaires ruin everything they touch. https://crimethinc.com/TwitterBought

Cos’è la cultura della sicurezza? https://crimethinc.com/2004/11/01/cose-la-cultura-della-sicurezza-1 La cultura della sicurezza è un set di abitudini condivide da una comunità di cui i membri potrebbero essere presi di mira dal governo, ed è pensata pr minimizzare i rischi. Quindi, la cultura della sicurezza è la pratica di stabilire un insieme di aspettative condivise per ridurre al minimo i rischi. #Italiano

Il miliardario e gli anarchici https://crimethinc.com/2022/10/28/il-miliardario-e-gli-anarchici-tracing-twitter-from-its-roots-as-a-protest-tool-to-elon-musks-acquisition-1 Qui ripercorreremo la storia di Twitter dalle sue origini come strumento di protesta per gli attivisti fino all’acquisizione da parte di Musk, tracciando una storia dell’acquisizione capitalistica del microcosmo Internet. #Italiano

We'll be tabling this weekend at the Boston Anarchist Book Fair! Come by our table and help yourself to an array of books and zines.📚 November 12-13, 10 am to 5 pm each day, at the Democracy Center, 45 Mt Auburn, in Cambridge. http://bostonanarchistbookfair.org #BABF22

Miliardář a anarchisté Po stopách Twitteru od jeho kořenů jako protestního nástroje až po akvizici Elonem Muskem https://crimethinc.com/2022/10/28/miliardar-a-anarchiste-po-stopach-twitteru-od-jeho-korenu-jako-protestniho-nastroje-az-po-akvizici-elonem-muskem Podívejme se na Twitter od jeho počátků jako protestního nástroje pro aktivisty až po Muskovu akvizici a načrtněme historii kapitalistického ovládnutí internetu na tomto příkladu. #Čeština

Électoralisme de gauche, action directe fasciste et résistance antifasciste https://crimethinc.com/2022/11/06/electoralisme-de-gauche-action-directe-fasciste-et-resistance-antifasciste-elections-bresiliennes-de-2022 Les élections brésiliennes de 2022 donnent à voir un aperçu du futur alors que l’extrême droite se réorganise pendant que la gauche institutionnelle continue à miser sur un ordre social en train de s’effondrer. #Français

Od demokracji do wolności https://crimethinc.com/2016/04/29/od-demokracji-do-wolnosci-3 Od przełomu wieków obserwujemy lawinę nowych ruchów obiecujących wprowadzić prawdziwą demokrację, w przeciwieństwie do pozornie demokratycznych instytucji, które opisują jako wykluczające, przymusowe i alienujące. Czy istnieje wspólny mianownik dla wszystkich tych rodzajów demokracji? Który z nich jest tym prawdziwym? Czy którykolwiek z nich może zapewnić inkluzywność i wolność, które utożsamiamy z tym słowem? Im bardziej zacięte walki wstrząsają dzisiejszymi demokracjami, tym bardziej wzrastają stawki tej dyskusji. Jeśli nadal będziemy próbować zastąpić panujący porządek bardziej partycypacyjną wersją jego samego, będziemy kończyć w punkcie wyjścia, a inni, którzy podzielają nasze rozczarowanie, będą skłaniać się ku bardziej autorytarnym alternatywom. Potrzebujemy struktur mogących spełnić obietnice, których demokracja nie dotrzymała. #Polski

Please support Russian anti-war protesters! Here is a fundraiser for them: https://avtonom.org/en/news/support-russian-anti-war-prisoners-0 And here is some background on the current situation for anti-war protesters in Russia: https://crimethinc.com/RussiaMobilization “The only way this war could have been averted—and likely the only way it can be stopped now without tremendous loss of life on both sides—would be if a powerful and internationalist anti-war movement broke out in Russia, destabilizing Putin’s government... If the war drags on indefinitely, or is concluded by the brute force of nationalist militarism, that will drive people on all sides of the conflict into nationalist and militarist camps for decades to come. But if the war in Ukraine comes to an end as a result of the rebellion and solidarity of ordinary people, that could set a precedent for more rebellion, more mutiny, more solidarity."

Today marks 100 years since Arseny Avraamov's "Symphony of Sirens" in Baku, described in our first book, Days of War, Nights of Love (https://crimethinc.com/days_of_war). "On this day intrepid Russian experimental composer Arseny Mikhailovich Avraamov ascended to the roof of a tall building and directed a concert of factory sirens, steam whistles, artillery, and everything else in the city of Baku capable of making loud noise; for the climax of the piece, the entire fleet of the Caspian Sea joined in with their foghorns." You can hear a recreation of the symphony here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cz2MoALz8I8

In fall 2020, the New York Times spread fear that street protests would cost Biden the election. But when they actually crunched the numbers, they had to admit that more of those who cited the protests as a factor in their decision voted for Biden: https://nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/black-lives-matter-protests.html This is important because liberals have tried to overwrite the popular memory of the George Floyd uprising with their own defeatist narratives. But if not for the riots, most people would never have heard George Floyd's name, nor mobilized against police violence—nor been prepared to respond to a potential Trump coup. The truth is, liberals like those at the New York Times are so anxious about losing control of the streets that they're willing to risk far-right victories. But social change doesn't come from being passive. It comes from taking action together—and that even spills over into idle activities like voting.