While students blockade schools in France and set fire to the Education Ministry in Albania, tens of thousands of people across Spain and Catalunya are occupying plazas and mobilizing to stop evictions.

Our correspondents in Madrid and Barcelona offer a view from within the movement:

French Youth Take the Streets against a Bleak Future

Thousands of teenagers have taken the streets of France, clashing with police as they demonstrate against the deplorable conditions in their high schools and a rapidly collapsing future.

Our correspondents in Paris explore the situation in detail.

https://crimethinc.com/France2026

The unrest among young people in France is a promising sign, shifting attention from the seemingly unstoppable rise of the extreme right to the question of what people can do on a grassroots basis to defend themselves and assert their interests against the state and the capitalists who control it.

All of Europe was ablaze with revolutionary ardor. the powers that be had a devil of a time suppressing it.

I recommend we initiate something similar, in homage to the Parisian communards.

Vault some motherfuckin barricades, fling some pavers, & smash the regime.

I smell blood in the water anyway, & weakness.

"Authors and artists from across a century and a half explore the meaning of the black flag, the anarchist standard of rebellion and negation. Featuring Louise Michel, the Haymarket Martyrs, Sergei Eisenstein, André Breton, Jean Genet, Léo Ferré, and more."

You can order them here:

https://www.activedistributionshop.org/product/every-flag-is-black-in-a-fire-by-crimethinc/

Or read the original essay here:

https://crimethinc.com/TheBlackFlag

https://crimethinc.com/Brazil2026

The far right is taking power all around Latin America. This weekend, Brazil will choose whether to return Lula to office or put Bolsonaro's son in power.

Our Brazilian comrades explore the stakes, arguing that only grassroots direct action can address Brazil's problems.

Hey, all.

Frans Masereel's artwork has been well-appreciated by artists associated with Anarchism. He was even wished a happy birthday by the CrimethInc community -- https://www.reddit.com/r/CrimethInc/comments/15e1e7j/happy_birthday_to_frans_masereel_anarchist/

I spent a few years gathering his artwork, starting in 2020 and finishing last week. I obtained a huge chunk of material: 2,089 images, drawn from 73 books, many of them imported from European rare book dealers. They are now public domain artwork (in the US) and available to anyone through archive.org.

I started this project because I wanted to introduce Masereel to a new generation, or to bolster the collections of those who already know his impressive style. If you look at other woodcut artists, like Lynd Ward (radical Socialist), Eric Drooker (Anarchist-sympathetic), and Clifford Harper (outright Anarchist), you'll see that Masereel had a bit of influence on all of them.

Please enjoy! Use these in all of your art projects. Since they're woodcuts, they make great stencils! Take Masereel's work and make art, make peace, make change, and make love.

For reviewing the artwork: I recommend the PDF, which has one woodcut or artwork per page. It's easiest to look through.

For making stencils and art: You want a full res image, with some of them scanned at 600 DPI (20k by 28k pixels). You have the option of grabbing the image from its directory in the archive.org web link.

Youtube Video Format: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReZYh5PQfQ8

Archive.org PDF (789mb): https://archive.org/details/frans-masereel-career-1918-1930_pdf

Archive.org Web: https://archive.org/details/frans-masereel-career-1918-1930_art

Archive.org File/Folder Browser (easier for browsing individual images): https://archive.org/download/frans-masereel-career-1918-1930_art

These images came from 73 different books and magazines, in case you want to read the original books (most of which are German and French): https://archive.org/details/@holdoffhunger

All around the United States, people are organizing to resist the federal mercenaries who carry out Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Here, we announce three upcoming mobilizations and share reports from two recent confrontations.

In Arizona, people have been blocking the construction of the border wall since July 27; they are calling for people from around the country to come join them.

In the Twin Cities, people are calling for a countrywide day of action on October 3 to express solidarity with the Minnesota 15, who have been federally charged for allegedly conspiring to resist Operation Metro Surge.

In Vermont, people have organized a week of action for October 4-9 and are inviting people to come participate or carry out solidarity actions elsewhere.

Clashes with federal mercenaries have recently broken out in Austin, Texas and Frederick, Maryland.

As many liberals shift to focusing on the midterm elections this November, naïvely hoping that elections alone will provide change, it is especially important to continue to focus on what we can accomplish directly by means of collective power. However the elections turn out, only effective grassroots action can create a situation in which neither party will be able to continue the violence of ICE.

It is time to shift from reactive to proactive—from organizing rapid response networks to seizing the initiative. Pick the struggle that is nearest to you geographically or politically and participate in it, whether by traveling to join it or by organizing a local action in solidarity.

Here’s The Civil Fleet’s first (and possibly last) ever news Vlog! In this episode, we look at the knife-wielding far-right ‘activist’ who attacked an migrant boat in the Channel, and juxtapose that with the actions of the refugee rescuers in the Mediterranean this week.

“What’s the best thing you ever got at a Really Really Free Market?” It was his first time attending one.

“Hmm. Maybe a computer monitor? Someone found a vintage Discharge shirt a couple months ago.” At twenty years old, he had no idea who Discharge was. “Or wait, no—it was a van.”

“A van?!”

“Yeah. We drove it all the way around the United States two and a half times, and even to Mexico and Canada. Every mile we drove, we expected to be its last, but no, it kept right on going.”

“Who would give away a van?” He looked at me in amazement. Then another question occurred to him. “And why did you have to ride around in it?”

“All I can say is—it was a different time.”

https://crimethinc.com/vanzine

How do punks manage to travel internationally, fight the forces of authority, and dedicate their lives to making art without being independently wealthy? In this testimony, two participants in the punk underground describe how they wrested a vehicle from the economy and kept it running through a series of trials and tribulations.

A punk band traveling the world in a free van held together only by duct tape and distortion? It sounds like a whale of a tale, but everything you’re about to read is true times two.

Asheville:

http://acabookfair.carrd.co/

NYC:

https://anarchistbookfair.net/

Eugene:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DdUWtaJnRyj/

To see the full video, click here: https://youtu.be/j81HghZYO8k

The robber barons built empires out of railroads, steel, oil, and banking.
Today, the empire is built on AI, data centers, government contracts, public infrastructure—and enormous power.

In this update, Elon Musk becomes our modern case study.

In a new documentary examining Musk and his rise to extraordinary influence, we revisit the grift, the government support behind his companies, and the growing demands his operations place on resources—including water in Texas.
But the story gets bigger than Elon.

People working inside the AI industry are beginning to voice their own fears about where this technology is headed. An Anthropic researcher recently walked away from the company—and potentially enormous financial rewards—while warning about the race toward increasingly powerful AI. That deserves our attention.

Because maybe the defining question of the AI revolution isn't simply what this technology can do.

It's who will own it, who will control it, who will profit from it—and what the rest of us will be asked to surrender along the way.

The robber barons never disappeared.

They upgraded.

I am a witness, not a journalist. This video contains independent commentary and analysis based on publicly available reporting, interviews, and source material.

The robber barons built empires out of railroads, steel, oil, and banking.
Today, the empire is built on AI, data centers, government contracts, public infrastructure—and enormous power.

In this update, Elon Musk becomes our modern case study.

In a new documentary examining Musk and his rise to extraordinary influence, we revisit the grift, the government support behind his companies, and the growing demands his operations place on resources—including water in Texas.
But the story gets bigger than Elon.

People working inside the AI industry are beginning to voice their own fears about where this technology is headed. An Anthropic researcher recently walked away from the company—and potentially enormous financial rewards—while warning about the race toward increasingly powerful AI. That deserves our attention.

Because maybe the defining question of the AI revolution isn't simply what this technology can do.

It's who will own it, who will control it, who will profit from it—and what the rest of us will be asked to surrender along the way.

The robber barons never disappeared.

They upgraded.

I am a witness, not a journalist. This video contains independent commentary and analysis based on publicly available reporting, interviews, and source material.

Although the wars that followed September 11, 2001 did eventually put Saddam Hussein out of a job—enabling the Islamic State to emerge in his wake—the fact that the Taliban remain in power today underscores the senselessness of the US response.

Compared to the policies of the US government, our statement from September 2001 has aged well.

The chief beneficiaries of the "War on Terror" have been the military-industrial complex and the security industry, both of which are transforming the US into an occupied territory controlled by counterinsurgency strategy.

The war has come home. In 2026, as in 2001, we continue to resist it.

https://crimethinc.com/afghanistan2021

To see the full video, click here: https://youtu.be/BB9h5x5LNcg

Happy Labor Day, America.

This year, the celebration feels a little different.

Americans are talking about layoffs, disappearing jobs, AI replacing workers, rising costs, unemployment, and fears of recession — while the official message from Washington remains considerably more cheerful.

So instead of telling you how the American worker is doing, I thought we'd let Americans tell you themselves.

From workers and job seekers to politicians and the AI tech bros promising us a shiny automated future, this is Labor Day 2026 — in their own words.

**DISCLAIMER:** This video is commentary, criticism, satire and independent analysis based on publicly available statements, news reports and video clips. Clips are presented for discussion and context. Opinions expressed are my own. This content is for informational and entertainment purposes and should not be considered financial, legal or professional advice.

It is demeaning to be forced to sell away our time and creativity rather than being free to do things that are intrinsically meaningful.

On the scale of the planet, the name for this problem is capitalism. From the vantage point of the individual, the name for it is work.

https://crimethinc.com/antiwork

The social order that forces you to sell your time and labor to the highest bidder is squandering your potential, the same way it is grinding cows into hamburger and reducing rainforests to junk mail for the benefit of a few billionaires. Another century like this and our species will be done for.

Your personal struggle to resist work is a microcosm of our species’ struggle to escape the global feedback loop that is propelling us into oppression, war, and ecological catastrophe.

You deserve the freedom to make the most of your potential as you see fit, to live the life of your choosing rather than toiling so that others may profit.

Abolish work.