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CrimethInc. is a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid.

We believe that you should be free to dispose of your limitless potential on your own terms: that no government, market, or ideology should be able to dictate what your life can be. If you agree, let’s do something about it.

https://crimethinc.com

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People in Atlanta have been without water for five days now because of infrastructure collapse.

Meanwhile, the city government is channeling more than $90 million dollars towards Cop City, just one of several ways that they are militarizing the police.

This makes their priorities clear enough. They're robbing you blind to pay the salaries of the mercenaries who impose this order on you. They don't care if you die of poverty or thirst, but they'll give you RICO charges or even shoot you if you try to do something about it.

https://crimethinc.com/AtlantaRICO

#StopCopCity

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As Joe Biden competes with Donald Trump to impose Trump's anti-immigrant policies, we once again urge you to read No Wall They Can Build, our book exploring the forces that compel people to cross borders, the obstacles that states put in their way, and how the ruling class benefits from this at the expense of ordinary people, both documented and undocumented.

https://crimethinc.com/borders

This book draws on a decade of solidarity work in the desert between Mexico and Arizona. It makes a case for why we should all dedicate ourselves to creating a world without borders. 🏴

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We've prepared a zine version of Peter Gelderloos's recent text exploring why the strategies that mainstream environmental movements are currently employing to halt industrially-produced climate change are failing and what we could be doing instead.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/ahead-of-another-summer-of-climate-disasters-lets-talk-about-real-solutions

Please print and distribute!

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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.

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Trump has been convicted of falsifying business records.

From our perspective, the outrageous thing is that some people 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

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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 recounting her time in exile there and her support for the uprising that took place against the French occupiers during her stay.

This story illustrates how regimes seek to 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.

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Bakunin spent the better part of a decade living in exile in Siberia, which in many ways was the Russian equivalent to what the so-called Americas were to Western Europe at the time. Both the Americas and Siberia were colonized around the same time and served the colonizers as resource extraction zones and places to offload restless populations; both of them were still populated by many Indigenous people in the mid-19th century. When Bakunin lived in Tomsk and Irkutsk, there were Indigenous people around him, as there were when he escaped from Siberia by traveling overland, later crossing the Americas as well.

Kropotkin also spent years traveling in Siberia—as a researcher, not as an exile. He also spent time with Indigenous people there.

It possible to find some writing by both of those thinkers that is conventionally Eurocentric in disappointing ways, and other writing that was impressively egalitarian (especially for its time). It's not immediately apparent to what extent their interactions with Indigenous people influenced their politics, but all of them interacted with Indigenous people. By contrast, Karl Marx (who much more explicitly endorsed the notion of human progress through fixed stages, with all its racist implications) never left Western Europe.

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We've prepared a zine version of our article 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!

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Four years ago today, demonstrators grieving the murder of George Floyd destroyed the Third Precinct in Minneapolis, showing the world what police abolition could look like in practice.

https://crimethinc.com/ThirdPrecinct

Immediately afterwards, politicians scrambled to promise to defund the police, if only activists would confine themselves to seeking change through the institutions of the state. None of those promises came true.

Instead, for four years, politicians of all stripes have engaged in a concerted effort to make us forget that moment of possibility, doing everything they can to equip the police with even more public 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.

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."

An exchange on Twitter in 2020, reading ‏ @crimethinc May 28 More The fireworks display outside afterwards in celebration, as the police surveillance cameras burn, is a beautiful and romantic moment, even in the midst of heartbreaking tragedies at what seems like the end of the world. Let's take care of each other. Stay safe out there. 🖤 @NYCAntifa May 28 More Replying to @crimethinc this is literally the crimethinc-iest tweet, like from a crimethinc text generator, but it's not hyperbole. 🖤🏴 3 replies3 retweets77 likes Reply 3 Retweet 3 Like 77

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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.

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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. The Israeli government has done all of these things on purpose.

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 bloodier than we can imagine.

https://crimethinc.com/GazaSolidarity

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First as tragedy, then as farce.

In 2017, when Donald Trump became president, anarchists in the Bay Area displayed a banner reading "Become Ungovernable" while shutting down San Francisco International Airport in protest of the Muslim Ban and a speaking event at the University of California at Berkeley featuring the infamous misogynist and Islamophobe Milo Yiannopoulos.

This week, the Libertarian Party displayed the same phrase (with the "a" circled, no less!) while hosting Donald Trump himself. The Libertarian Party represents the opposite of anarchism: they only endorse the kind of freedom that money can buy, whereas for us, real freedom is beyond price.

Our enemies have no ideas of their own, no vision, nothing to offer. All they have is what they dishonestly steal from us. We must, indeed, become ungovernable. 🏴🏴🏴

Background:

https://crimethinc.com/airportblockades

https://crimethinc.com/milo

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Since 1853, France has been occupying the islands of New Caledonia against the wishes of the Indigenous Kanak people. In the 1870s, the French government exiled the anarchist Louise Michel and many other participants in the Paris Commune uprising there.

In 1878, the Kanaks revolted against French oppression. Ataï, one of the leaders of the revolt, achieved several victories against the occupiers. After he was finally betrayed, the French colonizers cut off his head and brought it back to Paris. They refused to return it until 2014.

Today, colonialism continues in New Caledonia. The French government has just sent 1200 more police officers there from Paris to suppress the latest uprising.

Like Louise Michel, we support Indigenous struggles against colonialism. Get France out of New Caledonia.

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Although several people in New Caledonia have been murdered by police over the past days, a much larger number of Palestinian children have been senselessly murdered by the Israeli military.

The idea that a person's blood lineage or religion entitles them to force families off land that they have inhabited for centuries is really the definition of colonialism.

If you can see that in New Caledonia but not in Palestine, that can only indicate willful blindness.

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Many people were struck by this photograph that we circulated during today's protests against the deforestation that Elon Musk's Tesla plant is inflicting outside Berlin. Some even say that it seems like a sort of metaphor.

As partisans of neutral journalism, we believe that it is important to give both parties the opportunity to tell their side of the story.

In this photoessay, the cops present their side:

https://crimethinc.com/cops

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"Say it loud, say it clear—Elon is not welcome here!"

Defying local opposition, Elon Musk has been trying to expand the Tesla "Gigafactory" outside Berlin. Today, anarchists participated in a mass mobilization against the project. The organizers reported that some participants blocked the nearby airport used by Tesla, while 800 people reached the factory premises to actively "redesign" the Gigafactory.

The mobilization:

https://disrupt-now.org/disrupt-tesla

Background:

https://crimethinc.com/TeslaGermany

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Anarchists are in the corporate news again—as usual, being vilified for expressing solidarity with the oppressed and demonstrating the effectiveness of direct action.

This could be a good time to distribute material explaining the values and proposals at the core of anarchism. 🏴

We'll gladly send you copies of our outreach pamphlet, To Change Everything, for the costs of printing and shipping alone.

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/to-change-everything

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Ahead of Another Summer of Climate Disasters, Let’s Talk about Real Solutions

https://crimethinc.com/Climate2024

Peter Gelderloos explores why the strategies that mainstream environmental movements are currently employing to halt industrially-produced climate change are failing—and what we could be doing instead.

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Yes, we should not give up, by any means. And you're right, many of the people who are currently working to push society towards "green energy" are among those whose assistance we will need to bring about change in our society.

In a generous reading of Peter's article, he is not arguing that we should give up and prepare for the apocalypse, but rather that we need to be more ambitious about the changes we are pursuing. He is arguing that since industrial capitalism and the institutions that protect and enable it are responsible for the crisis, we should be seeking solutions that uproot them at their foundations.

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"Contrary to the promises of Israeli politicians, neither the apartheid policies of the Israeli government nor the brutality of the Israeli military have brought safety to anyone in the region. There is no way to stop to the bloodshed without putting an end to the colonial oppression of Palestinians.

"In any struggle, those who have the most power and access to resources have the most leverage in determining what form the conflict will take. The Israeli government has exponentially more arms and funding than any Palestinian group; across the course of decades, it has inflicted exponentially more casualties. Some of its staunchest supporters are Christian nationalists and neoliberals seeking leverage in the oil-rich Mideast. Any effort towards change in the region must begin by confronting their support."

You can print this poster out here:

https://crimethinc.com/posters/free-palestine

You can download a zine about how to make wheatpaste for postering here:

https://crimethinc.com/zines/field-guide-to-wheatpasting

A poster wheatpasted on a wall, reading "Free Palestine."

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We have prepared a zine version of our analysis, "Why the State Can’t Compromise with the Gaza Solidarity Movement."

https://crimethinc.com/zines/why-the-state-cant-compromise-with-the-gaza-solidarity-movement

Please print these out and distribute them.

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How can it be that immediately after Holocaust Remembrance Day, the Israeli military is preparing a ground invasion of Rafah? The invasion will cause the senseless deaths of tens of thousands of Palestinian children. Many figures in the Israeli government have emphasized that their chief goal is to render Gaza completely uninhabitable.

"The entire Gaza Strip should be emptied and leveled flat, just like in Auschwitz."

-David Azulai, head of the City Council of Metula

"The idea that an understanding of the genocide, that a memory of the holocausts, can only lead people to want to dismantle the system is erroneous. The continuing appeal of nationalism suggests that the opposite is truer, namely, that an understanding of genocide has led people to mobilize genocidal armies, that the memory of holocausts has led people to perpetrate holocausts. The sensitive poets who remembered the loss, the researchers who documented it, have been like the pure scientists who discovered the structure of the atom... Nationalists used the poetry to split and fuse human populations, to mobilize genocidal armies, to perpetrate new holocausts."

-Fredy Perlman, Jewish anti-Zionist and anarchist, one of the few members of his family who survived the Holocaust

https://crimethinc.com/GazaGenocide

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We, Too, Remember Aleksei Sutuga: The Life of a Russian Anarchist and Anti-Fascist

https://crimethinc.com/Socrates

Aleksei Sutuga grew up deep in Siberia, in Irkutsk—the city to which Mikhail Bakunin was once exiled, not to mention many other Russian rebels. Known to his friends as Socrates, Aleksei became involved in the Russian anarchist and anti-fascist movements. His life is the subject of a recently published book.

The interviewees recount how anarchism reemerged in Russia after the collapse of the Soviet Union. Sharing their memories of Socrates, they explore the relationship between hardcore punk, straight edge, veganism, anarchism, anti-fascism, and a variety of other forms of activism. They describe how Socrates and his comrades became locked in a brutal conflict—first with neo-Nazis, then with the Russian authorities.

At the invitation of our Russian comrades, we have contributed an introduction to this book, exploring why his story is important for people outside Russia.

A photograph of Socrates appearing via video link on a television screen from Butyrka prison at a hearing, 2012.
A photograph of Socrates in 2017, after his release from the penal colony in Angarsk.
A photograph of police harassing protesters who were supporting the defendants in the Network case after they were sentenced to between six and eighteen years in a penal colony apiece, taken on February 2, 2020.

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The Encampments Spread to Mexico

https://crimethinc.com/encampmentUNAM

On May 2, students from a number of schools and student organizations across Mexico City launched a Palestine solidarity encampment in the heart of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), within view of the Okupa Che, a 24-year-running anarchist squat that once served as the UNAM’s largest auditorium. They established the encampment as an expression of solidarity with the wave of university encampments taking place in the United States against the Israeli state’s genocide in Gaza. By the end of the encampment’s first day, it already involved fifty tents, a free kitchen, and the visual redecoration of the space around it with messages of solidarity with Palestine.

We conducted this interview in person with a well-connected participant.

A photograph of a banner at the Palestine solidarity encampment at UNAM. In Spanish, the text reads “Until what is essential becomes visible,” a reference to Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, and likely to graffiti that appeared during the uprising in Chile in 2019 depicting the Little Prince with the inscription “What is essential is invisible to the state.”

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Why the State Can’t Compromise with the Gaza Solidarity Movement—And What That Means for Us

https://crimethinc.com/Encampments2024

On April 17, students at Columbia University initiated an on-campus encampment in solidarity with Gaza. After the administration called in the New York City police department in a failed attempt to evict the encampment, students across the country established encampments and occupations of their own.

Why are the police being so heavy-handed? Why are the media contorting themselves into increasingly bizarre contradictions to condemn the protests? Why are the Democrats and the Republicans united in opposing these protests? And how is it that, in their haste to crack down, university administrations, politicians, and police appear to have forgotten the basic principles of protest management?

In this analysis, participants in the movement explore the strategic questions it confronts today.

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