#66: Defend Rojava! Part 1, The Turkish Invasion
An urgent crisis is unfolding in northern Syria, with implications for global geopolitics and revolutionary possibilities for years to come. In response to US troop withdrawal and a green light from...
View Article#67: Defend Rojava! Part 2, Understanding the Kurdish Resistance
As the crisis in Rojava deepens and political turmoil spreads across the world, it’s critical for us to understand how we got here. Who exactly are the Kurds, and why have so many thousands of them...
View Article#68: Defend Rojava! Part 3, The So-Called “Ceasefire” and What’s at Stake
The revolutionary social experiments in the Kurdish territories of northeastern Syria remain under attack. As SDF forces mount fierce resistance in Sêre Kaniyê and waves of outraged protest sweep the...
View Article#69: Defend Rojava! Part 4, More Interviews on Revolution and Solidarity
As the news breaks of a Russian-Turkish alliance determined to stamp out Kurdish autonomy, what’s at stake in the international fight to defend Rojava? This episode continues our exploration of the...
View ArticleThe Ex-Worker #70: Radio Evasión—dispatches from Chile Part 1
Beginning last Monday, October 14, high school students in Santiago, Chile kicked off a campaign of mass fare-dodging, or evasiones, in response to a 30 peso fare hike. The movement grew quickly and,...
View Article#71: Radio Evasión—Dispatches from Chile Part 2
Two weeks of revolt in Chile and there are no signs of it slowing down! In this Radio Evasión dispatch, we bring you up to speed on all the developments in the past week: the president’s attempts to...
View Article#72: Radio Evasión—Dispatches from Chile Part 3
DESCARGAR AQUÍ EL EPISODIO EN ESPAÑOL Has normality returned to Chile? NO! Social peace? Neither! The people don’t want peace without dignity. To borrow a phrase from the situationists, the people...
View Article#73: Radio Evasión—Dispatches from Chile Part 4
DESCARGAR AQUÍ LAS ENTREVISTAS EN ESPAÑOL Just days into the new year, masked encapuchados circle-pitted while burning the church of the Carabineros. That’s how fierce the Friday protests continue to...
View Article#74: Surviving the Virus—An Anarchist Introduction to Pandemic Life
The COVID–19 crisis presents both extreme dangers and opportunities. As our lives are threatened by a new virus, our freedom is menaced by authoritarians intent on using this opportunity to set new...
View Article#75: Rent Strike!
This April 1st, people around the world will go on strike and refuse to pay rent. In the midst of the pandemic, we are confronted not only with a virus, but with the murderous logic of the market....
View Article#76: Anarchist Nurses Speak Out on Survival and Resistance
Here at the Ex-Worker, we continue to navigate the COVID–19 crisis by seeking guidance and insight from three anarchist nurses who are working on the frontlines of the pandemic. First, we hear from an...
View Article#77: Minneapolis Uprising, Part 1—How to Abolish the Police
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police has sparked a nationwide rebellion against the police and global solidarity efforts. One of the most striking developments is the announcement on...
View Article#78: June 11th—Prisoner Solidarity, COVID-19, and Anti-Police Rebellion
Today we celebrate June 11th, an international day of solidarity with long-term anarchist prisoners. While this is the sixteenth year this date has been observed, 2020 presents an unprecedented...
View Article#79 – The *Real* Truth About Today’s Anarchists: The Ex-Worker Responds to...
Anarchists and anti-fascists in general, and CrimethInc. in particular, have been the focus of intense hostile government and right-wing attention and censorship efforts in recent weeks. The latest...
View Article#80 – Ill Winds From Ottawa
Opponents of vaccine mandates have established protest encampments in Ottawa and elsewhere around Canada, blockading several routes crossing the United States border. Far-right organizers and former...
View Article#81– Invasion and Resistance in Ukraine, Part I
As Russian tanks encircle Kyiv and hundreds of thousands of refugees flee, our hearts go out to our comrades in Ukraine resisting the Russian invasion—and to the Russian anti-war movement bringing the...
View Article#82: Invasion and Resistance in Ukraine, Part II
As the Russian invasion of Ukraine proceeds, anarchists on both sides of the border are mobilizing to resist. This episode collects a variety of statements and accounts from anti-authoritarians...
View Article#83: Anti-War Resistance in Russia
Even as Russian forces continue their brutal assault on Ukraine, a growing domestic uprising is challenging the empire from within. This episode of the Ex-Worker focuses on the anti-war movement in...
View Article#84: Steal Something From Work Day 2022
April 15th is Steal Something From Work Day! For over a decade, we’ve celebrated the everyday resistance that workers undertake to challenge their exploitation when the boss isn’t watching. Whether in...
View Article#85: Stop Cop City / Defend Weelaunee Forest, Part I: History and Analysis
The Ex-Worker is back! Episode 85 introduces the history behind the struggle to Stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia. For nearly two years, a coalition of anarchists,...
View Article#86: Stop Cop City / Defend Weelaunee Forest, Part II: Accounts and Solidarity
In this episode, we continue our coverage of the struggle to Stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia. While Episode 85 offered a history and analysis of the first phases of...
View Article#87: The Twitter Ban and the End of Social Media
In November, CrimethInc. was banned from Twitter by Elon Musk, part of a concerted campaign by right wing trolls and the world’s richest man to shift global political discourse to the right. Why is...
View Article#88: 2022 in Review—A Year to Endure
We’ve survived 2022—and with it, the ebb tide following the upheavals of 2019 and 2020. Both in the United States and around the world, this has been a year of challenges and reversals. In this...
View Article#89: The Battle of York, January 2002—Anti-Fascism, Then and Now
In this episode, we share an audio version of a recently published account from the history of anarchist struggles against fascism. On January 12, 2002, hundreds of neo-Nazis gathered in York,...
View Article#90: Solidarity with Alfredo Cospito, Italian Anarchist Prisoner on Hunger...
Italian anarchist prisoner Alfredo Cospito has been on hunger strike for over 100 days, demanding his release from the brutal regime of solitary confinement and severe restrictions known as “41bis.”...
View Article#91: Elections, Fascism, and Popular Resistance in Brazil
In Brazil, a three-way contest is unfolding between the far right in the streets, the institutional electoral left in the halls of power, and autonomous radical movements caught between them. When...
View Article#92: The Bitter Harvest of Colonialism in Israel
In this episode, the Ex-Worker presents an audio version of A Coup D’Etat In Israel? The Bitter Harvest Of Colonialism, originally published on March 27th. The article assesses the recent attempts by...
View Article#93: France in Flames: The Movement Against Macron's Pension Reform
In France, a powerful protest movement has erupted against the government in response to an attempt to raise the retirement age. Millions have gone on strike and poured into the streets in the most...
View Article#94: The Uprising in Peru
In December 2022, a wave of popular protests led by campesino and Indigenous movements swept across Peru, including a nationwide mobilization in the capital. In response, the government has decreed a...
View Article#95: Disasters of State: On the Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
On February 6, 2023, two powerful earthquakes hit southern Turkey and Northern and Western Syria, inflicting tremendous damage and killing tens of thousands of people. But there was nothing “natural”...
View Article#96: The Forest In The City: Two Years Of Forest Defense In Atlanta, Georgia
This episode continues the Ex-Worker Podcast’s coverage of the movement to Stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta, Georgia. In this episode, we present an audio version of The Forest...
View Article#97: Understanding the RICO Charges in Atlanta
Prosecutors in Georgia have charged activists protesting against a planned police militarization facility known as "Cop City" with violating the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO)...
View Article#98: From the Galilee to Gaza—A Voice From Palestine
As the Israeli military escalates its slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and societies around the world fracture and clash over the conflict, we want to amplify anti-authoritarian voices from within the...
View Article#99: Strategizing for Palestinian Solidarity
As the Israeli bombardment of Gaza intensifies, with over 10,000 deaths recorded to date, it is more urgent than ever for people everywhere to take decisive action to stop the war machine. In this...
View Article#100: In Memory of Dmitry Petrov
On April 19, 2023, a Russian anarchist named Dmitry Petrov was killed in battle near Bakhmut, Ukraine. In this episode, we offer a eulogy remembering Dmitry as an uncompromising anarchist fighter who...
View Article#101: Shutting Down the Port of Tacoma
On November 6, 2023, several hundred people showed up at the Port of Tacoma in Washington State to block access to a shipping vessel that was scheduled to deliver equipment to the Israeli military....
View Article#102: How They Stopped Work at Raytheon
On November 13, 2023, demonstrators in southern California blockaded a facility of Raytheon, a defense contractor, in solidarity with the Palestinians on the receiving end of the bombs that it...
View Article#103: The Return of the Ultraliberal Right in Argentina
A so-called “anarcho-capitalist” has just been elected president in Argentina. What does this mean for anarchists and the prospects for revolutionary change in South America? Spoiler alert: it’s not...
View Article#104: Living in an Earthquake—The Fight against Cop City Confronts...
At first, it appeared to be an ordinary forest defense campaign aimed at discouraging Atlanta city government from pouring money into an unpopular police training facility. But over the past two years,...
View Article#105: Don't Stop: Continuing the Fight Against Cop City
This episode offers an audio version of "Don't Stop: Continuing the Fight Against Cop City", published on December 12th. It traces the activities of the movement to Stop Cop City and defend the...
View Article#106: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
Donald Trump has won the 2024 election. In order to understand what we're up against, let's look at how we got here. In many ways, the Democrats are responsible for Donald Trump's return to power. Over...
View Article#107: The Eye of Every Storm
At a time when misinformation, rising authoritarianism, and disasters exacerbated by industrially-produced climate change are creating a feedback loop of escalating crisis, it's crucial to understand...
View Article#108: The Case for Resistance
This episode offers an audio version of "The Case for Resistance," laying out an analysis of what we can expect from Donald Trump's second term and how we can prepare to confront it. "This is a pivotal...
View Article#109: Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
This episode offers an audio version of "Sacrificial Violence and Retribution," exploring the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence...
View Article#110: It's Safer in the Front
This episode offers an audio version of "It's Safer in the Front," making the case that seeking safety by avoiding confrontation is not likely to be an effective strategy in a time of escalating...
View Article#111: Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace
This episode offers an audio version of "Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace," arguing that neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have...
View Article#112: From Minneapolis to Los Angeles: The Origins of the Wave of Resistance...
This episode offers audio versions of "Minneapolis to Feds: 'Get the Fuck Out'" and "Los Angeles Stands up to ICE: A Firsthand Report on the Clashes of June 6," which trace the origins of the angry...
View Article#113: Mutual Aid and Revolutionary Anti-Capitalism: Revisiting the Difference...
This episode offers an audio version of "Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism," exploring why the best way to understand mutual aid as an effort to create...
View Article#114: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression—How to Respond to the...
This episode offers an audio version of "Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression," exploring the implications of Donald Trump's executive order designating "Antifa" as "a major...
View Article#115: Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without—Three Perspectives
This episode offers an audio version of "Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without," discussing the uprising that broke out across Iran on December 28, 2025, triggered by economic distress...
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