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A Virtual Tour of Priamukhino, the Bakunin Family Estate and Museum https://crimethinc.com/Priamukhino To observe the 210th birthday of the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, we present a 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. Owing to the unfortunate conditions prevailing in Russia today, it is not easy for many of us—including many Russians—to visit. This is a misfortune, because Priamukhino has served as a gathering place for anarchists since the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Trump has been convicted of falsifying business records. From our perspective, the outrageous thing is that some liberals are more concerned with whether he violated the law in a business transaction than with the concrete harm he has inflicted on human beings. The fact that so much of the damage he has done was legal shows the worthlessness of the law itself, which is usually used against poor people and to suppress movements against oppression, genocide, and climate change. This particular court outcome will not buy our allegiance to a fundamentally repressive legal system. As we said in 2018, "Trump’s goons have been kidnapping your neighbors, preparing to block your access to abortion, openly promoting white nationalism, calling the targets for lone wolf assassins who send mail bombs and shoot up synagogues—and your chief concern is whether what they’re doing is legal?" https://crimethinc.com/2018/11/09/take-your-pick-law-or-freedom-how-nobody-is-above-the-law-abets-the-rise-of-tyranny

何故国家はガザ連帯運動に妥協できないのか、それは私達にとって何を意味するのか https://crimethinc.com/2024/05/03/he-gu-guo-jia-hagazalian-dai-yun-dong-nituo-xie-dekinainoka-sorehasi-da-nitotutehe-woyi-wei-surunoka 4月17日、コロンビア大学の学生がガザに連帯してキャンパス内でテント村を始めた。大学当局がニューヨーク市警を呼んだがテント村を排除できず、全米中の学生達がそれぞれ独自のテント村や占拠を開始した。以下の分析で、運動参加者達が、運動が現在直面している戦略的諸問題を探求する。 #日本語

Louise Michel in New Caledonia https://crimethinc.com/MichelCaledonia In honor of Louise Michel’s birthday and the ongoing anticolonial resistance in New Caledonia, we offer a narrative describing her time in exile there. This story illustrates how regimes force their own subjects into service in colonial projects. It is worth remarking that, like Mikhail Bakunin, Peter Kropotkin, and many other 19th-century anarchists, Louise Michel only came to formally identify as an anarchist after spending time with Indigenous people. While many of her colleagues nonetheless retained Eurocentric notions about “progress” and “civilization,” Louise Michel wholeheartedly sided with Indigenous resistance to French colonialism. Consequently, she is remembered more warmly today than most French settlers in New Caledonia.

Mέρα Πρώτη: Στο πανεπιστήμιο του Τέξας Όστιν φοιτητές καταλαμβάνουν το γκαζόν https://crimethinc.com/2024/04/25/mera-prote-sto-panepistemio-tou-texas-ostin-phoitetes-katalambanoun-to-gkazon Στις 24 Απριλίου, φοιτητές, καθηγητές και μέλη της πανεπιστημιακής κοινότητας συγκεντρώθηκαν στο campus του Austin του Πανεπιστημίου του Τέξας για να διαδηλώσουν ενάντια στη συνενοχή της πανεπιστημιακής διοίκησης στη συνεχιζόμενη γενοκτονία στη Γάζα. Φοβούμενες μια επανάληψη των αναταραχών που έλαβαν χώρα στο Πανεπιστήμιο Columbia και στην υπόλοιπη χώρα, οι αρχές της πανεπιστημιούπολης κινητοποίησαν έναν τεράστιο αριθμό αστυνομικών δυνάμεων ως απάντηση. Ωστόσο, παρά τις συλλήψεις και τη βία, οι διαδηλωτές τελικά υπερίσχυσαν και ξεπέρασαν την αστυνομία. Στην έκθεση που ακολουθεί, οι συμμετέχοντες περιγράφουν τι έμαθαν. #Ελληνικά

We've prepared a zine version of our zine about how to start an announcements-only thread on Signal, and how organizers in Austin established one called The Sunbird to coordinate solidarity actions with Palestine. https://crimethinc.com/zines/the-sunbird Print and distribute at will!

As we wrote in 2020, "Remember this moment. Later, there will be misinformation campaigns, conspiracy theories, rumors to distract us from our agency. But right now, we are seeing what we can accomplish together when we stand up to our oppressors. Don't let anyone tell you we can't change the world."

Four years ago, demonstrators grieving for George Floyd burned the Third Precinct in Minneapolis, showing the world what police abolition could look like. https://crimethinc.com/ThirdPrecinct Immediately after, politicians promised to defund the police—if only activists would confine themselves to seeking change through state institutions. None of those promises came true. Instead, for four years, politicians of all stripes have engaged in a concerted effort to erase that moment of possibility, doing everything they can to equip police with even more funding and perceived legitimacy, even as the police go on murdering with impunity. In a society wracked by extreme disparities in wealth and power, police are essential to governance itself. The politicians can't afford to do without them. But neither capitalism nor police nor politicians are beneficial to the rest of us.

The Sunbird: How to Start an Announcements-Only Thread on Signal https://crimethinc.com/sunbird As billionaires have clamped down on social media, secure group messaging platforms have moved to the fore as spaces for discussion and organizing. In this interview, organizers in Austin, Texas describe how they established Sunbird, a Signal account that runs an announcements-only thread to enable participants in the Palestine solidarity movement to share news and coordinate horizontally. This model represents an alternative to centralized, top-down leadership frameworks, showing how a movement can scale up without losing its decentralized, egalitarian character. Includes a step-by-step guide to establishing an announcements-only Signal thread yourself.

Murdering tens of thousands of civilians, most of them women and children. Rendering 1.7 million more homeless. Commanding the refugees to crowd into tents in a designated “humanitarian zone,” then bombing it, killing dozens at a time. These are the official policies of the Israeli government. Think how many more Palestinians the Israeli military might have already slaughtered if not for the pressure brought to bear against them, chiefly as the result of grassroots protests. This is why we have to keep organizing and taking action in solidarity with Palestinians. If we let this kind of brutality become normalized, the future will be unthinkably bloody. https://crimethinc.com/GazaSolidarity