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| Type | Decentralized collective |
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| Purpose | The "pursuit of a freer and more joyous world"[1] |
Membership | Voluntary association |
| Website | crimethinc.com |
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CrimethInc., also known as CWC, which stands for either "CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective" or "CrimethInc Ex-Workers Ex-Collective",[2] is a decentralized anarchist collective of autonomous cells.[3] CrimethInc. emerged in the mid-1990s,[4] initially as the hardcore zine Inside Front, and began operating as a collective in 1996.[5] It has since published widely read articles and zines for the anarchist movement and distributed posters and books of its own publication.[6]
CrimethInc. cells have published books, released records, and organized national campaigns against globalization and representative democracy in favor of radical community organizing. Less public splinter groups have carried out direct action (including arson and hacktivism), hosted international conventions and other events, maintained local chapters, sparked riots, and toured with multimedia performance art or anarcho-punk musical ensembles. The collective has received national media and academic attention, as well as criticism and praise from other anarchists for its activities and philosophy. CrimethInc. has an association with the North American anarcho-punk scene due to its relationship with artists in the genre and its publishing of Inside Front as well as more recently the contemporary anti-capitalist movement.
- ^ "CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective : Home". Crimethinc.com. Archived from the original on February 4, 2009. Retrieved 2008-04-07.
- ^ The CrimethInc Ex-Workers Ex-Collective Revolutionary Task Force on Terrorism. "After the Fall: Analysis of the Events of September 11th 2001". Crimethinc.com. Archived from the original on February 26, 2009. Retrieved 2007-10-31.
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- Gordon, Uri (27–28 May 2005). "Liberation Now: Present-tense Dimensions of Contemporary Anarchism". Thinking the Present : The Beginnings and Ends of Political Theory. University of California, Berkeley.
- Thompson, Stacy (October 2004). "Crass Commodities". Popular Music & Society. 27 (3): 307–322(16). doi:10.1080/03007760410001733152. S2CID 219728124. Archived from the original on January 1, 2008. Retrieved 2007-07-08.
- Ludwig, Mike (2007-07-30). "Melee breaks out uptown at end of anarchist confab". The Athens News. Archived from the original on September 28, 2007. Retrieved 2007-08-01.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
faqwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Thompson, Stacy (2004). Punk Productions: Unfinished Business. Albany: SUNY Press. p. 109. ISBN 0-7914-6187-4.
- ^ Brandt, Jed. "Crimethinc: In Love With Love Itself". Clamor. Archived from the original on March 19, 2008. Retrieved January 14, 2008.