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A Bulletin from the CrimethInc. ex-Workers Collective

Greetings friends! Since last we wrote you, there have been new upheavals in Russia and France, and we’ve published several new articles offering background and on-the-ground reports.

Last week, a veritable uprising broke out in France in response to the murder of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk. In this article, participants in the uprising explain it in the context of anti-racist and anti-colonial struggles in France dating back to the 1970s, and discuss the relationship of this uprising to the social movements of the past two decades.

In March, we reported on the previous round of protests in France, during which police nearly killed several people. One of them, Serge, remained in a coma for weeks after French police shot him in the head with a grenade in Sainte-Soline on March 25, 2023. Thankfully, Serge has recovered enough to release a message, which we have translated and published here.

In response to the same protest during which police grievously injured Serge and many other demonstrators, French interior minister Gérald Darmanin announced the state-ordered dissolution of the movement Soulevements de la Terre [“Uprisings of the Earth”] and had 18 people arrested on accusations of association with it. As usual, the state endangers the lives of those it supposedly protects, blames the victims of its attacks, and then sets out to silence the survivors. Please read this statement of solidarity with Soulevements de la Terre.

At the end of June, Yevgeny Prigozhin led his private military company Wagner in a short-lived mutiny against the Russian government. We immediately translated three statements about the mutiny from anarchist groups in Russia: the Movement of Irkutsk Anarchists, the Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists, and the editorial collective behind Autonomous Action.

Meanwhile, in the United States—defying scores of frivolous charges of “domestic terrorism,” activists and community members in Atlanta, Georgia just completed their sixth week of action against the proposed Cop City police militarization facility. The authorities intent to build Cop City despite popular opposition; the movement is determined to stop them despite unprecedented repression.

We have published an analysis exploring the strategic challenges facing the movement to stop Cop City, chronicling the actions of the movement and the reactions of the authorities throughout 2023. This picks up where our earlier articles detailing the history of the movement left off.

There is also a zine version of "Living in an Earthquake," which you can download here. Feel free to print these out and distribute them!

In setting out to stop the militarization of police, people in Atlanta are taking on an institution that has become increasingly central to governance all around the world, soaking up more and more resources of society as a whole. From Atlanta to France—abolish the police!

If you want to be informed when translations of our texts appear on our site in languages other than English, those are announced on our Telegram channel. You can subscribe here.

For example, our collection of Russian anarchist responses to the failed Wagner mutiny is available in ten languages—English, Russian, Bulgarian, Polish, Czech, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, and French. You can see all the material we have available in each of the 36 languages available on our site here.

In case you missed it—to celebrate the reprint of our classic gender poster, we also printed a remix of the poster, along with an essay discussing the way that popular conceptions of gender—and the reactionary violence directed against them—have shifted over the past twenty years.

Our British comrades have made an A2 format printing of the 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.

For now, everyone who orders from our online store will also receive a sticker version of the new poster.

Finally, in the department of capitalists admitting we were right all along… On the 24th anniversary of the international anti-capitalist mobilization of June 18, 1999, the headlining article in the New York Times openly declared what we have been saying for a quarter of a century: neoliberal globalization creates catastrophic wealth inequalities, wrecking the biosphere and generating extreme-right nationalism. If you want to read our analysis of modern capitalism rather than depending on corporate journalists for your understanding of exploitation, you could start with our book, Work.