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We have translated two statements from clandestine anarchist groups in Russia about the mutiny of the Wagner company and what it means for the future of the country. One is the Movement of Irkutsk Anarchists; the other is the Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists. You can read them here: https://crimethinc.com/WagnerMutiny

Vladimir Putin has some nerve to say that Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebellion is "pushing the country toward anarchy and fratricide." Torturing and assassinating dissidents was fratricide. Invading Ukraine was fratricide. Anarchy is the opposite of fratricide, the opposite of civil war: it is the condition that prevails when people do not compete to rule each other. Totalitarianism always leads to bloody conflicts for power.

As tensions escalate between the Wagner private military force and the official Russian military, one can't help but think of the civil war that erupted in Sudan between the army and the Rapid Support Forces (described here: https://crimethinc.com/Sudan). This is where militarization leads. As governments and corporations are relying more and more on brute force to suppress social unrest and channeling more and more resources towards police and private security towards that end, they are creating the conditions for horrific civil wars on an ever-widening scale. This gives us another lens through which to read the events of January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC (see https://crimethinc.com/January6). It also drives home the importance of the fight to #StopCopCity and block the militarization of the police.

What's more, the Dekalb County District Attorney has withdrawn from 42 cases involving people accused of participating in the efforts to #StopCopCity. The Georgia state Attorney General is still pursuing charges. This shows that fractures are finally opening up in the halls of power between Republicans and Democrats over how aggressively to prosecute those who protest against channeling a vast proportion of public resources into police militarization.

Today, Georgia Bureau of Investigation Director Michael Register annoucned that he is stepping down, being demoted to a job in Cobb County. Michael Register took over as the GBI Director last August. He has presided over controversial efforts to frame forest defenders and abolitionists as "domestic terrorists," doling out blanket terrorism charges for as little as sitting in a tree or posting on social media. Working with GBI in January, Georgia State Patrol killed one forest defender, and GBI hastened to cover up the circumstances of the murder. Yet this sadistic authoritarianism has not secured Michael Register the prestigious career he desired. crimethinc.com/LivinginanEarthquake #StopCopCity #DefendtheAtlantaForest

The funny thing about these fake "American PATRIOT" bot accounts spreading fear about CrimethInc. publications is that you can tell they are in Russia because they are linking to the Russian version of http://crimethinc.com, which automatically comes up—if you're in Russia. And yes, as anarchists, we want those who desire to take estrogen to be able to do so, regardless of transphobic police and legislators. If you want to learn how to yourself, you can start here: https://crimethinc.com/estrogen

Living in an Earthquake: The Fight against Cop City Confronts Unprecedented Repression https://crimethinc.com/LivinginanEarthquake Ahead of the sixth week of action against a proposed police training facility in Atlanta, this analysis explores the strategic challenges facing the movement to stop Cop City, chronicling the actions of the movement and the reactions of the authorities throughout 2023. In setting out to stop the militarization of police, people in Atlanta are taking on an institution that has become increasingly central to governance, soaking up more and more resources of society as a whole. This is an important document of one of the fiercest struggles of the Biden era, exploring questions that will soon become pressing everywhere. #StopCopCity #defendtheAtlantaForest

“Nie jesteśmy męczennikami” Wiadomość od Serge, który przeżył usiłowane morderstwo ze strony francuskiej policji https://crimethinc.com/2023/06/21/nie-jestesmy-meczennikami-wiadomosc-od-serge-ktory-przezyl-usilowane-morderstwo-ze-strony-francuskiej-policji Poniżej znajduje się tłumaczenie pierwszej wiadomości od Serge’a od czasu, gdy francuska policja ciężko raniła go wraz z wieloma innymi osobami podczas protestu w Sainte-Soline 25 marca 2023 roku. Serge spędził miesiąc w śpiączce po tym, jak policjant postrzelił go granatem w głowę. Z niepokojem śledziliśmy jego sytuację i z ogromną ulgą informujemy, że wyzdrowiał na tyle, aby przekazać to, co następuje. #Polski

“We Are Not Martyrs”—A Message from Serge, Who Survived Attempted Murder at the Hands of French Police https://crimethinc.com/Serge A translation of the first message from Serge since French police grievously injured him along with many other people during a protest in Sainte-Soline on March 25, 2023. Serge spent a month in a coma after a police officer shot him in the head with a grenade. We are tremendously relieved that he has recovered enough to release this message. Yesterday, French police arrested 18 people accused of association with Soulevements de la Terre (“Earth Uprisings”), one of the movements that participated in the protests in Sainte-Soline. Today is the date that French interior minister Gérald Darmanin set for the state-ordered dissolution of the Soulevements de la Terre. As usual, the state endangers the lives of those it supposedly protects, blames the victims of its attacks, and then takes steps to silence the survivors.

In yesterday's headlining article, the New York Times admitted what we have been saying for a quarter of a century: capitalist globalization creates catastrophic wealth inequalities, wrecking the biosphere and generating extreme-right nationalism. https://crimethinc.com/work For decades, they were the foremost proponents of global capitalism, even as the consequences were obvious to everyone on the receiving end of all that wealth and resource extraction. Don't let them reinvent themselves as the experts who are qualified to solve this problem. https://crimethinc.com/wtoepilogue

"On June 18, 1999, thousands of demonstrators converged at the Liverpool Street train station. Organizers distributed masks in four different colors and the participants broke up into four different marches in order to divide and confuse police... "The marches converged on the London International Financial Futures Exchange (LIFFE), where they hung banners, set off a fire hydrant to symbolize the liberation of the river beneath London’s streets, adorned the walls with graffiti, disabled surveillance cameras, and set up sound systems for DJs and punk bands to perform. A raucous afternoon of dancing, exuberance, and street fighting followed, during which participants bricked up the front of the LIFFE building, broke in and trashed its ground floor, and nearly succeeded in destroying the London Stock Exchange itself." https://crimethinc.com/2017/06/18/flashback-to-june-18-1999-the-carnival-against-capital-a-retrospective-video-and-comic 🏴

For the moment, everyone who orders from us will also receive a handful of the sticker version of our new poster. https://store.crimethinc.com/

British comrades have made a run of our new gender poster remix. The proceeds will be divided between the Anarchist Federation's "HRT for all and for free" fundraiser and the Trans Liberation Front, a Bristol-based direct action group in support of trans, intersex, and GNC people. If you are in the UK, you can order them here: https://seditionist.uk/distro/visuals/posters-visuals/gender-self-determination-poster-a2/

We've already received both of these posters back from the printers and begun filling orders! You can order the classic Gender Subversion poster here: https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/posters/products/gender-subversion-kit And the new Gender Self-Determination poster here: https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/posters/products/gender-self-determination-poster For background on the legacy of the original poster, and why we made a new version: https://crimethinc.com/GenderPoster2023

We've reprinted our classic gender subversion poster—and, to mark the occasion, we've also printed a new remix in homage to the original, celebrating collective resistance to the threats ranged against trans, queer, and nonbinary people. You can order the classic poster here: https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/posters/products/gender-subversion-kit You can order the new version here: https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/posters/products/gender-self-determination-poster Here, we offer a deep dive into the legacy of the original poster, exploring the tension between gender abolition and gender self-determination: https://crimethinc.com/GenderPoster2023

No "Dia dos Namorados" criados pela família Dória, uma reflexão sobre amor, triângulos amorosos na vida dos Bakunins, de Malatesta, Severino di Giovanni e América Scarfó, Émile Armand e outros. cwc.im/anarcodrama #diadosnamorados #poliamor #amorlivre #anarquia #anarquistas #Português

This is June 11—the global day of action expressing solidarity with long-term anarchist prisoners. You can read about the history of this day here: https://crimethinc.com/June11 Today, our thoughts are with Marius Mason. Our passion for freedom is stronger than their prisons. Support Marius: https://supportmariusmason.org/ 🏴🏴🏴

To remember those events as they were, we invite everyone to read the reports we published about the uprising of 2013 and the subsequent protests against mega-events (the World Cup and the Olympics), the evictions of poor communities, the increase in incarceration, and the criminalization of protest organized by the PT and intensified by the right wing that came to power later. https://crimethinc.com/JuneBRI https://crimethinc.com/JuneBRII https://crimethinc.com/fightinginbrazil https://crimethinc.com/podcasts/the-ex-worker/episodes/7

This week marks 10 years since the June 2013 uprisings in Brazil. What started as small protests in a few cities against rising transit fares spread into a nationwide popular revolt against the cost of living under capitalism. The uprising of 2013 was initiated by autonomous and anti-capitalist movements. A decade later, however, leftist parties—including the ruling PT, the Workers Party—along with corporate media and pundits are trying to frame that uprising as the supposed origin of the extreme right that came to power in 2018 with Jair Bolsonaro. This is a new phenomenon: for the first time, the traditional left is not trying to co-opt the uprising, but rather to associate street protest and autonomous mobilization with fascism in a dishonest attempt to blame the oppressed for the reaction of the oppressors.

Wherever we are situated in this society, our future boils down to two options: accept our fate and try to reduce the harm to our bodies and the environment on a piecemeal basis—or actively resist in order to interrupt the disaster and implement our own solutions. If we resign ourselves to the future implied by catastrophic climate change, widespread pollution, and ecological collapse, sooner or later, the disaster will come for us. If we do not accept the destruction of our lives, our land, our food, and everything that connects us with each other and the biosphere as a whole, we have to fight to regain control over the conditions of our lives and the decisions that determine our survival. In a world of police, prisons, surveillance cameras, we will have to wear masks that conceal who we are so we can fight for what we really want. https://crimethinc.com/posters/one-way-or-another