CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective

“Este hotel es un centro de detención” https://crimethinc.com/2025/04/09/este-hotel-es-un-centro-de-detencion-un-relato-desde-la-primera-linea-de-la-lucha-contra-las-deportaciones-en-francia-1999 Un relato desde la primera línea de la lucha contra las deportaciones en Francia en 1999.

Today is the birthday of the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin. A Russian comrade of ours prepared this photoessay and virtual tour of his birthplace and family home, Priamukhino, including the museum documenting his life and the lives of his relatives and friends—since it's not easy to visit Russia these days. https://crimethinc.com/Priamukhino

Louise Michel was a 40-year-old schoolteacher when the Paris Commune broke out. She fought in the front lines, was sentenced to life in exile, supported an anti-colonial uprising during her imprisonment in New Caledonia, and dedicated her life to anarchist resistance. Today is her birthday. Revolution is another word for the profound ways that we can change our lives to come to grips with the struggles of our times. https://crimethinc.com/MichelCaledonia

Five years ago today, after Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, demonstrators forced them to abandon the Third Precinct and set it on fire—a profound act of solidarity and faith in the possibility of social change. This account describes how they did it: https://crimethinc.com/thirdprecinct Not long after, a Newsweek poll found that fully 54% of those questioned believed the burning of the Minneapolis Police Precinct was justified after George Floyd’s killing. At that time, Joe Biden was polling around 46% and Donald Trump at 38%. Never let them tell you resistance can't be popular.

Anarchists in the Movement against Police and White Supremacy From the Los Angeles Riots to the George Floyd Uprising To observe the five-year anniversary of the burning of the Third Precinct at the beginning of the George Floyd Revolt, we've prepared a timeline tracing the trajectory of anarchist contributions to uprisings against the police from the Rodney King riots of 1992 to the 2020 uprising in Minneapolis. https://crimethinc.com/antipolice2025

Donald Trump's plan to waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to throw a military parade on his birthday this June is not just the whim of an aging autocrat. It is intended to send the message that we now live in an authoritarian dictatorship. Every mercenary who serves him is an enemy of all humanity.

We honor the life of Sebastião Salgado, who passed away yesterday. Our Brazilian comrades introduced us to his photography twenty-five years ago. You may have seen it in some of our efforts since then. Again and again, in illuminating social struggles around the world, Salgado took the side of the oppressed.

Iran: Lan prekarioak bizitza prekarioa esan nahi du https://crimethinc.com/2025/05/19/iran-lan-prekarioak-bizitza-prekarioa-esan-nahi-du-rajaee-portuko-hondamendiak-nola-erakusten-du-balutx-gutxiengo-etnikoen-aurkako-erasoa Rajaee portuko hondamendiak agerian uzten du gutxiengo etnikoen gaineko presio ekonomiko eta politikoak funtsezko papera duela kapitalismoan. #Euskara

Iran: Trabajo precario significa vida precaria https://crimethinc.com/2025/05/19/iran-trabajo-precario-significa-vida-precaria-como-el-desastre-del-puerto-de-rajaee-ejemplifica-el-ataque-a-las-minorias-etnicas-baluch El desastre del puerto de Rajaee revela cómo la presión económica y política sobre las minorías étnicas desempeña un papel fundamental en el capitalismo. #Español

In the past 24 hours, Israeli forces have reportedly murdered at least 93 people in Gaza. Israeli soldiers were caught on video shooting at foreign diplomats in the occupied West Bank. Hundreds of thousands in Gaza are on the brink of starving to death. Let's keep things in perspective. https://crimethinc.com/Gaza2024

Once again, we’ve sold out of another printing of the Contradictionary, our Bestiary of Words in Revolt. In order to help fund the next printing, we are offering a few copies of our limited edition extra fancy printing of the book, the Unicorn Edition. https://store.crimethinc.com/products/contradictionary-a-bestiary-of-words-in-revolt-unicorn-edition Like a photonegative of the original, the Unicorn Edition features a white faux leather cover (yes, it's vegan). The title is stamped in holographic rainbow foil. While our stock holds out, we'll be including our “Act Like You Are Already Free” sticker on holographic vinyl, an homage to our friend David Graeber. This is a way you can help us to fund all the other projects we are working on, should you so desire. We are an all-volunteer project without any outside funding. We make all of our work available for free or, where that is impossible, for break-even prices.

The analysis of this Baloch feminist collective in Iran helps explain the profit motive behind the state assault on immigrants everywhere around the globe. https://crimethinc.com/Rajaee "Precarity serves as a tool for disciplining and controlling labor, one that is becoming more intensely utilized by the day. Precarious laborers cannot protest; their names are not recorded anywhere, they are not identified, and as a result, they are more easily exploited and excluded." "In the Global South, states have fundamentally served as instruments for capitalist development. Informal and precarious labor is not a peripheral phenomenon; it is at the very heart of global capital accumulation." "What is called the center/periphery divide on the global scale persists within nation states as well. In Iran, the periphery takes the form of the Baloch, the Kurds, and the Arabs. This marginalization is the precondition for the existing order; it is what makes exploitation possible." "Capitalist social relations do not just produce exploitation. They also divide and stratify the working class: man/woman, rural/urban, agricultural/industrial, formal/informal, permanent/precarious. Those who are subordinated in all of these categories stand at the epicenter of capital’s violence."

This June's Pride events represent an important opportunity to mobilize our communities against gender fascism. One small thing you can do is order our gender self-determination poster in bulk (25 copies for $3!) to distribute or paste up around your neighborhood. https://crimethinc.com/posters/gender-self-determination-poster If you want to go out postering, you can consult a recipe for wheatpaste here: https://crimethinc.com/wheatpasting

Solidarity with everyone accused of assaulting ICE agents. Even the innocent ones.

Three days after tornados ravaged the Midwest, killing over two dozen people and inflicting over a billion dollars of damage on St. Louis, there is another tornado warning in the region tonight. Ahead of another summer of climate disasters, this is a good time to build the relationships, resources, and mutual aid structures that will be vital in times of crisis. This report from anarchists who organized a mutual aid hub after Hurricane Helene hit Appalachia details some of the ways you can prepare. https://crimethinc.com/HurricaneHelene

Iran: Precarious Work Means Precarious Life The Rajaee Port disaster shows how economic and political pressure on ethnic minorities plays a fundamental role in capitalism all around the world. Originally published in Persian by Dasgoharān, a Baluch feminist collective in Iran. https://crimethinc.com/Rajaee

L’occupazione di Sha’ban al-Dalou: Un resoconto dall’Università di Washington https://crimethinc.com/2025/05/09/loccupazione-di-shaban-al-dalou-un-resoconto-dalluniversita-di-washington In questo resoconto anonimo, i partecipanti all’occupazione dell’edificio di ingegneria dell’Università di Washington analizzano le proprie ragioni e ricostruiscono dettagliatamente gli eventi. Si tratta di una mossa coraggiosa, che arriva mentre l’esercito israeliano si prepara a iniziare un nuovo capitolo per eliminare la popolazione palestinese di Gaza. #Italiano

ICE are not invincible. Police are not invincible. In this footage from May 5, students at the University of Washington and their supporters force back police officers, protecting an occupation of the engineering building in protest against the complicity of Boeing in the arms trade and in solidarity with those experiencing genocide in Gaza. https://crimethinc.com/UW2025

Today, the 61 people facing trumped up RICO charges for opposing the construction of Cop City, a police militarization facility in Atlanta, assembled for a court date. All around the country, people dropped banners expressing solidarity with them. These pictures show banners in Chicago, Minneapolis, and New Orleans. The fight is far from over. To keep up with the cases: https://weelauneethefree.org/ For background on the fight to #StopCopCity: https://crimethinc.com/CopCity2025 "The arrival of the second Trump era has vindicated the decision to focus on resisting police militarization. Every repressive policy that Trump decrees will be imposed by police and other state mercenaries."

We are everywhere: the back of a street sign in Longyearbyen, Svalbard—the world's northernmost settlement with a population over 1000—shows anti-fascist and anarchist stickers from around the world, including our own brain-grenade. https://crimethinc.com/stickers/you-cant-kill-an-idea