No Wall They Can Build, Episode 1: Introduction
The Ex-Worker Podcast Collective is kicking off the serialized release of our first full audiobook, No Wall They Can Build: A Guide to Borders and Migration Across North America. We’ve divided this...
View ArticleNo Wall They Can Build, Episode 2: Defining Terms, The Aftermath, and The...
Welcome to Episode 2 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment continues last week’s introduction by...
View ArticleNo Wall They Can Build, Episode 3: Mexico, Part I – The South
Welcome to Episode 3 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment begins exploring the conditions south...
View ArticleNo Wall They Can Build, Episode 4: The South, Part II – Guatemala, El...
Welcome to Episode 4 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This week’s installment continues the previous...
View ArticleNo Wall They Can Build, Episode 5: The Trip and The Product
Happy May Day, everyone! Welcome to Episode 5 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. Having discussed the...
View ArticleNo Wall They Can Build, Episode 6: The Border
Welcome to Episode 6 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment investigates the three-tiered border...
View ArticleNo Wall They Can Build, Episode 7: Designed to Kill, Part I – Who Benefits?
Welcome to Episode 7 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. The Border Patrol, with its swollen budget and lavish...
View ArticleNo Wall They Can Build, Episode 8: Designed to Kill, Part II – The Border...
Welcome to Episode 8 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment continues to explore the reality of...
View ArticleNo Wall They Can Build, Episode 9: The North
Welcome to Episode 9 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. The border doesn’t end at the border: the violent...
View ArticleNo Wall They Can Build, Episode 10: From East to West, Part I - Chaos and...
Welcome to Episode 10 of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. Over the past two months, we’ve explored the ins and...
View ArticleNo Wall They Can Build, Episode 11: From East to West, Part II: Solidarity,...
Welcome to Episode 11, the final installment of No Wall They Can Build, the Ex-Worker Podcast’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This episode concludes the...
View Article#65: Greek Anarchists Fight Back in Exarchia
On August 26th, riot police under orders from the newly elected right-wing government stormed and evicted four squatted social centers in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, in a serious...
View Article#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...
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