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CrimethInc., also known by other names, such as CWC ("CrimethInc. ex-Workers' (or Workers') Collective") or Crimethinc, is considered more of a mindset than an organization by the active participants in the ongoing CrimethInc. experiment. They are profoundly anti-capitalist (as well as anti-authoritarian), yet maintain an online store, with critical looks at culture, politics, life, work, and radical ways of living one's life.

It was initially associated with the North American anarcho-punk scene, but since has expanded into nearly all areas of the current global resistance to empire. The name itself, however, is a reference to "Crimethink" in Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Among their best-known publications are the books Days of War, Nights of Love, Evasion, Recipes for Disaster: An Anarchist Cookbook and the pamphlet Fighting for Our Lives (of which, to date, they have printed 350,000 copies), the hardcore punk/political zine Inside Front, and the music of several hardcore punk bands, of which the most notable is Catharsis. The group is also connected to other collectives/organizations that share some of their ideas (notably Curious George Brigade which has written a number of publications including Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs) The group also maintains several websites which promote their ideas.

Their book, Days of War, Nights of Love contains a number of purposeful distortions marked and noted as such—for instance, they glorify Italian fascist Gabriele D'Annunzio as an "anarchist" or misattribute quotes to famous figures.

CrimethInc's politics are in themselves ever-changing. As well as the traditional anarchist opposition to the state and capitalism, they have at various times advocated straight edge lifestyle, including veganism, the total suppression of gender roles, violent insurrection against the state, turning one's life into a series of moments, and the refusal of work.

Books

• Days of War, Nights of Love - Crimethink For Beginners (2000)
• Recipes for Disaster - An Anarchist Cookbook (2005)
• Off the Map - A tale of Wanderers.
• Evasion (2001)
• Stone Hotel - Poems From Prison by Raegan Butcher (2004)
• Rusty String Quartet - Poems by Raegan Butcher after his release (2005)
• Anarchy in the Age of Dinosaurs - by fellow-travellers Curious George Brigade
• Fire & Lightning - IvoryBell
• In Search of the World: A Traveller's Almanac- IvoryBell

Zines / Papers

• Inside Front
• Harbinger
• D.I.Y Guide
• D.I.Y. Guide II
• The Ex-Worker
• Crimethinc Worker Bulletin 47 & 74
• Hunter/Gatherer
• Fighting For Our Lives
• Rolling Thunder

Video

• PickAxe & Breaking The Spell-CrimethInc. Forward Motion Pictures
• Why I Love Shoplifting from Big Corporations-SubmediaTV.com
• Join the Resistance, Fall in Love.-SubmediaTV.com

Music Bands

• Aluminum Noise
• Blacken the Skies
• Catharsis
• Countdown to Putsch
• Face Down in Shit
• Gehlen Org
• Ire.
• Newborn
• Requiem
• Sandman.
• The Spectacle
• Timebomb
• Umlaut
• Zegota

See also

• Post-left anarchy
• Don't Just Vote, Get Active
• Situationist Movement

External links

• http://www.crimethinc.com/
• http://www.crimethinc.net/
• http://www.crimethinc.info/
• http://www.crimethincx.tk/
• http://www.deoxy.org/tcrime.htm
• ROAD Collective Crimethinc Supporter. Ontario Anarchist Networking
• CrimethInc. Ten Year Report