WTO Anniversary Reading List Today marks 25 years since anarchists and other protesters shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. This was the public debut of what journalists dubbed the “anti-globalization movement”—in fact, a global movement against neoliberal capitalism. This analysis explores the origins of that movement and what it can teach us today:
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Epilogue on the Movement against Capitalist Globalization
22 years after the victory against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, what can we learn from the networks that gave rise to that movement?
 *** For a strategic analysis of how anarchists and other rebels were able to successfully blockade the WTO summit, we recommend "Netwar in the Emerald City," included in our zine N30, which you can print here:
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N30: The Seattle WTO Protests
 *** For a spirited account from the front line in the streets on November 30, 1999, read "The Power Is Running":
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The Power is Running: A Memoir of N30
On November 30, 1999, tens of thousands converged in Seattle to shut down the World Trade Organization summit. This narrative recounts one particip...
 *** In 1999, opposing neoliberalism was an extremist position. Decades later, Donald Trump appropriated this narrative and rode it to victory. This was only possible because of reformist currents in the original movement—and because we hadn't overthrown capitalism ourselves.
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Trump and the Legacy of the Anti-Globalization Movement
Really, Mr. Trump, it’s been surprising to hear some of the language you’ve been using in your Presidential campaign: globalization is a bad th...
 Studying the WTO protests, we can learn how a relatively small number of people can act effectively when they organize horizontally and ambitiously—and grasp the stakes of today's fights. The struggle continues. 🏴
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The billionaires want us to spent our lives on a treadmill of exploitation and consumption—producing a profit for them in the workplace, then buying back the products of our labor in our leisure time so they get us coming and going. No wage, and nothing we could buy on the market, could make it worth giving up the precious hours of our lives and turning the world over to their destructive control. We only do those things because we have not yet worked out how to defend ourselves. But the hour is becoming late, indeed.
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Work
After so much technological progress, why do we have to work more than ever before? How is it that the harder we work, the poorer we end up compare...
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The Case for Resistance: What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight
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The Case for Resistance
In this analysis, we explore what to expect from Donald Trump's second term and how we can prepare to confront it.
 We have prepared a full analysis of what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you're wondering how to resist, please review these proposals. image
The photograph shows our Brazilian comrades tabling at the anarchist book fair in Porto Alegre last weekend with many of our publications in Portuguese, including our new poster design, "Capitalism is the dance of death."
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Capitalism Is the Dance of Death
From Greece to the Amazon, environmentalists and volunteer firefighters are risking their lives to protect ecosystems threatened by urban expansion...
 It's also available in Basque and Spanish! If you ever need any of our publications in a language other than English, whether an article, a poster, a zine, a book, or something else, just look at its page on our site. Under the title, you'll see a list of the languages in which we offer it; just click on the one you need. Thanks to the tireless work of translators, we have material available on our website in four dozen different languages. We announce all non-English versions of our projects as they appear on our Telegram channel (
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
We are a rebel alliance—a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action—a breakout from the prisons of our age. We strive to rei...
 ), as that is the most widely followed by non-Anglophones—and we don't want to overload those who follow our other platforms.
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Make the walls of your community a forum for expression! Show everyone in your community that resistance to capitalism and authoritarianism are widespread! You can download or order posters from us here:
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CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective: Your ticket to a world free of charge
CrimethInc. is a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the princ...
 To put them up, you can use spray adhesive, wallpaper paste, or mix your own wheatpaste:
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A Field Guide to Wheatpasting
A complete guide to mixing and applying wheatpaste to put up posters. Make the walls speak!
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Get off X/Twitter now! It's not strategic to try to hold territory on a platform where the algorithms are designed to systematically center authoritarian narratives and cryptocurrency schemes. At this point, the participation of those who are not in favor of authoritarianism only serves to preserve the illusion that X/Twitter is a public square, when in fact it is a means of social control. With Elon Musk playing a role in the incoming Trump administration, it is a safe bet that X/Twitter will be providing intelligence directly to federal agencies for the purposes of monitoring and attacking dissent. Musk is already looting everything on the platform for his AI ventures. Millions are joining Bluesky, but Mastodon is a more decentralized and autonomous option. Set up Signal loops. Get in the habit of meeting regularly in person.
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Canary in the Coal Mine: Twitter and the End of Social Media
Is there life after social media? Will reactionary billionaires determine all we can imagine and do, or will we establish other forms of connection?
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We've also prepared a zine version of "The Eye of Every Storm," in which a local anarchist involved in longstanding disaster response efforts in Appalachia recounts the lessons that they have learned in the course of responding to Hurricane Helene and offers advice about how to prepare for the disasters to come.
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The Eye of Every Storm
At the end of September 2024, western North Carolina and the surrounding states experienced 30 inches of rainfall over two days when an unnamed sto...
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A few months ago, the conservative party came to power in Valencia, Spain with the support of the far right. One of their first acts was to eliminate climate emergency services. At the end of October, flooding exacerbated by climate change killed over 200 people in the region. Massive numbers of people mobilized horizontally to respond to the flooding through mutual aid. Despite their ties to the conservative government, far-right groups have tried to hijack popular anger over the state's failures. This is the classic strategy of fascists and demagogues: create a crisis, then try to capitalize on it. We salute the anarchists and anti-fascists in Valencia organizing against the flood, the government, and the far right. The sign in the attached images reads "We clear out politicians like we clear our mud"; the logo reads "We clear out fascism like we clear out mud." The photograph shows Valencia City Hall smeared with mud and graffiti calling the right-wing mayor a murderer. Capitalism is the disaster! 🏴
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