“The One the State Missed”: Karl Garside, Animal Liberationist, 1966–2025

A Life Lived Freely in Defiance

https://crimethinc.com/KarlGarside

From sabotaging hunts and abattoirs to exposing cruelty through covert investigations, Karl Garside was among Britain’s most prolific Animal Liberation Front militants, dedicating over 40 years to the fight for total liberation.

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security

Fighting Back, Staying Free

https://crimethinc.com/opsec

How do police and federal agents identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder this kind of repression? In this anonymously submitted text, one affinity group explores how they address these questions.

Once upon a time, only those who intended to engage in high-risk confrontational protest activity had to concern themselves with surveillance and security. Today, surveillance and policing are becoming much more invasive and arbitrary. Even if you never violate any law, the state may nonetheless seek to make an example of you. Everyone who might participate in a demonstration at some point should familiarize themselves with the security protocols that radicals have developed over the years.

Today, it has been 25 years since we received the first printing of our first book, Days of War, Nights of Love.

It remains a powerful testament to what people are able to accomplish when they imagine life beyond the constraints of capitalism and hierarchy.

https://crimethinc.com/books/days-of-war-nights-of-love

Struggling to finance the project, we debated whether to make 1000 copies or 1500. One collective member finally resolved the debate by declaring that he would pay for the additional 500 himself, whatever it took, and give them out on street corners if need be.

We sold out of the whole printing in a month. It funded many subsequent projects, including our free primer, Fighting for Our Lives.

President Grover Cleveland made "Labor Day" an official holiday in order to sap momentum from May Day, the day of revolutionary resistance that anarchists established in 1886.

But efforts to reform capitalism have failed. The gulf between the wealthy few and the rest of us is wider than ever today. We need a revolution.

Let's not simply ask for more crumbs from the table—let's fight for the abolition of capitalism and work itself.

http://crimethinc.com/antiwork

"When we say anti-work, we don’t mean an abstract political position disapproving of work; we mean a practice that actively abolishes the necessity to work, the way that anti-matter annihilates matter."

Keep the pressure on them! Border Patrol recruitment events in September:

https://careers.cbp.gov/s/connect-to-recruiter/event-calendar

-9/3 Laredo, TX (Job Fair)
-9/5-7 Big Bear, CA (Tough Mudder)
-9/5-7 Scottsdale, AZ (Rodeo)
-9/6-7 Glen Jean, WV (Spartan Trifecta)
-9/6 Philadelphia, PA (Spartan Stadion)
-9/10 Devils Lake, ND (Job Fair)
-9/12 Charlotte, NC (College Career Fair)
-9/12-13 Greensboro, NC (Rodeo)
-9/12-14 Queen Creek, AZ (Gun Expo)
-9/13-14 Snohomish, WA (Spartan)
-9/15-16 Provo, UT (Law Enforcement Expo)
-9/16-17 College Station, TX (College Career Fair)
-9/17 Indio, CA (Job Fair)
-9/18 Shalimar, FL (Job Fair)
-9/18 El Paso, TX (Veterans Job Fair)
-9/18 Tampa, FL (Law Enforcement Hiring Event)
-9/19-21 Huntington Beach, CA (Fitness Festival)
-9/19-21 Loudon, NH (NASCAR Race)
-9/24 Houston, TX (College Career Fair)
-9/26-28 San Diego, CA (Air Show)
-9/27 Fort Carson, CO (Tough Mudder)
-9/30 Corpus Christi, TX (College Career Fair)
-10/7 Amarillo, TX (Job Fair)
-10/8 Houston, TX (Career Fair)

Tips Berpakaian bagi Para Pemberani yang Keren

https://crimethinc.com/2008/10/11/tips-berpakaian-bagi-para-pemberani-yang-keren

Terlepas dari persoalan apakah kamu terlibat dalam aktivitas ilegal atau tidak, melindungi privasimu saat berpartisipasi dalam protes publik merupakan hal yang penting.

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Apa Itu Budaya Keamanan?

https://crimethinc.com/2004/11/01/apa-itu-budaya-keamanan

Budaya Keamanan (selanjutnya disebut Security Culture) adalah serangkaian tradisi yang dihidupi bersama oleh suatu komunitas yang anggotanya memiliki kemungkinan untuk dijadikan target oleh pemerintah dan kelompok fundamentalis, suatu tradisi yang didesain untuk meminimalisir resiko.

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The trial of Jair Bolsonaro and his allied generals begins today for their plot to stage a coup d'état in January 2023 after losing the election to Lula da Silva. In addition to a business-funded uprising that stormed the government headquarters in Brasília on January 8, 2023—emulating Trump on January 6—his political and military allies plotted to kill Lula, his vice-presidential candidate, and members of the Brazilian Supreme Court.

This is the first time in Brazil that a political leader and military generals have gone to court for a coup d'état or attempted coup. The country has endured several coup attempts and two dictatorships—the last of which lasted until 1985—and none of the military officials responsible for disappearances, torture, and deaths have been tried and punished.

https://crimethinc.com/January8Brazil

This time, the international press and politicians are calling attention to "the maturity of Brazilian democracy" in trying Bolsonaro for his political crimes and making him ineligible to run for office so he doesn't return to power with impunity as Trump did. But it's symptomatic that Brazilian institutions only moved to act when the lives of their high-ranking members were at risk, not when Bolsonaro weaponized the COVID-19 pandemic against the poor, favela populations, and Indigenous peoples and turned entire cities into testing grounds for COVID-denialism, causing more than 716,000 senseless deaths, as attested by a parliamentary commission that investigated his crimes against the population.

We cannot expect these institutions to protect us. Historically, they have sided with coup plotters and murderers and only act to protect themselves. Our only hope is to organize a popular force capable of defending itself beyond the spectacles of media trials.

https://crimethinc.com/VirusofPopulism

Today, we are remembering David Graeber, who passed away five years ago.

“Nothing could conceivably be more violent than to tell us—and particularly our young people—we are forbidden to even dream of a peaceful, caring world.”

crimethinc.com/ShockofVictory

A imprensa e políticos internacionais estão chamando a atenção para "a maturidade da democracia brasileira" ao julgar Bolsonaro por seus crimes políticos e torná-lo inelegível, para que não retorne ao poder impunemente, como fez Trump. Mas é sintomático que as instituições brasileiras só tenham agido quando as vidas de seus membros de alto escalão estavam em risco, não quando Bolsonaro usou a pandemia de COVID-19 como arma contra os pobres, as populações de favelas e os povos indígenas e transformou cidades inteiras em campos de testes para o negacionismo da COVID-19, causando mais de 716.000 mortes, como atestou uma comissão parlamentar que investigou seus crimes contra a população.

Não podemos esperar que essas instituições nos protejam. Historicamente, elas se aliaram a golpistas e assassinos e agem apenas para se proteger. Nossa única esperança é organizar uma força popular capaz de se defender para além dos espetáculos dos julgamentos midiáticos.

https://pt.crimethinc.com/Brasil8Janeiro

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