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The Ex-Worker

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective

Society & Culture

Frequency: 1 episode/26d. Total Eps: 173

Welcome to the Ex-Worker: an audio strike against a monotone world! This twice-monthly podcast explores a wide range of anarchist ideas and action. In each episode, we take an in-depth look at a different topic, introducing various manifestations of the struggle for liberation, and round it off with news, reviews, profiles of current anarchist projects, upcoming events, and more. If you're curious about anarchist visions of freedom—or if you dream of a world off the clock—tune in!

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#114: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression—How to Respond to the Criminalization of "Antifa"

Tuesday, September 23, 2025 • Duration 25:06

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 terrorist organization" and how we can prepare our communities to endure whatever comes next. It also includes an audio version of "When the Police Knock on Your Door: Your Rights and Options."

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Introduction {0:40}
Don't be intimidated {5:53}
Make the most of your strengths {7:42}
Prepare for federal visits and raids {9:12}
Be transparent about repression {10:33}
Redundancy means resilience {11:18}
Coordinate to support each other {12:26}
Discredit the police and courts {13:28}
Fracture the political class {15:05}
Take the offensive{17:02}
Refuse to divide {17:47}
When the police knock on your door {18:40}

This episode offers an audio version of "Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression," published by CrimethInc. on September 18, 2025, and "When the Police Knock on Your Door: Your Rights and Options," published by CrimethInc. on August 24, 2017. The online versions include a variety of footnotes and hyperlinks offering more information.
Thanks to Margaret Killjoy of Strangers in a Tangled Wildnernessfor reading this episode.
To learn more about why avoiding confrontation is rarely the best way to deal with rising authoritarianism, read "It's Safer in the Front: Taking the Offensive against Tyranny." You could also listen to it here.
To learn more about security culture, consult our classic guide on the subject. You can download and print out an introductory poster about security culture here.
To learn more about your rights in interactions with law enforcement officials, read "If an Agent Knocks" by the Center for Constitutional Rights, "You Have the Right to Remain Silent" by the National Lawyers Guild, and "If the FBI Approaches You to Become an Informant" by CrimethInc. You can read narratives from activists who endured grand jury subpoenas in a variety of ways here.
For more background on the use of racketeering charges against defendants in the Stop Cop City RICO case, you could read this introduction and this update. You can learn about how the J20 defendants beat their charges here.
To learn about how to strategize for and carry out direct action, begin with this step-by-step guide. You can also read "A Demonstrator's Guide to Operational Security."

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#113: Mutual Aid and Revolutionary Anti-Capitalism: Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity

Friday, June 20, 2025 • Duration 23:49

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 participatory commons in which everyone can contribute and there is no fundamental division between organizers and beneficiaries.

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Table of Contents

Introduction {0:30}
Is It Mutual Enough? {1:34}
Beyond Individualism {5:13}
The Ones with the Problem Are Themselves the Solution {9:18}
The Social Is the Material {13:14}
Change from Below {15:17}
Mutual Aid Means Resistance {19:33}
This episode offers an audio version of "Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism," published by CrimethInc. on June 6, 2025. The article version includes a variety of hyperlinks offering more documentation about the events referred.
To keep abreast of the prevailing discourse about the difference between mutual aid and charity, you could begin with Dean Spade's "Solidarity Not Charity." By contrast, this text presents some of the criticisms of the ways that the framework of mutual aid is used and misused.
You can read read Peter Kropotkin's Mutual Aid: A Factor in Evolution here. You can read about Peter Kropotkin's influence of the origins of Alcoholics Anonymous . You can read AA founder Bill Wilson's text "Benign Anarchy and Democracy," which is quoted in this episode, .

#104: Living in an Earthquake—The Fight against Cop City Confronts Unprecedented Repression

Thursday, December 28, 2023 • Duration 01:47:07

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, the fight against Cop City has escalated into one of the fiercest struggles of the Biden era, pitting a wide range of courageous people against a united front of politicians, prosecutors, and police. In their desperate efforts to deflect popular resistance and force through the project, police and prosecutors have pressed trumped-up domestic terrorism charges against almost every defendant arrested since last December; they have killed one forest defender; they have charged those engaged in legal support for the arrestees. In the following account and analysis, published on June 21st as "Living in an Earthquake: The Fight against Cop City Confronts Unprecedented Repression," participants in the movement in Atlanta trace its trajectory from the fifth Week of Action that began on March 4, 2023 through the City Council vote of June 5. {December 28, 2023}

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Table of Contents:
- Introduction {0:37}
- Preface {2:21}
- Living in an Earthquake {3:28}
- February 2023 {5:59}
- The Fifth Week of Action {8:33}
- Retaking Weelaunee People's Park {9:19}
- The South River Music Festival: A Flower Between Two Abysses {11:49}
- The March on the Cop City Construction {16:01}
- Role Reversal {20:15}
- The Raid on the South River Music Festival {22:12}
- The Defense of the Music Festival {26:19}
- A Pyrrhic Victory? {32:31}
- Jumping to Conclusions {33:20}
- Defense {36:25}
- Urban Encampments {38:54}
- The Limits of Deterrence {43:51}
- Time and Space {46:14}
- Controlling Risk {48:21}
- The Aftermath {52:45}
- The Week of Action Continues {55:09}
- Without a Shadow of Doubt {57:07}
- The Conclusion of the Fifth Week of Action {1:03:14}

The Hotwire #13: J20 trials begin, worldwide anti-fascism, squatting for the win in Chicago

Wednesday, November 15, 2017 • Duration 36:23

Today is the beginning of the J20 inauguration protester trials in DC. There are some important developments in the case, so we interview Sam from DC Legal Posse about what's going on and how to support the defendants. We also interview a Polish anti-fascist from Warsaw about this weekend's 60,000 person far-right march that was littered with Nazi slogans. The folks at the IRL squat in Chicago called us to talk about resisting their eviction and squatting as a window to a world outside of capitalism. Stay tuned until the end for exciting calls for upcoming action camps and decentralized days of action. {November 15th, 2017}

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Table of Contents:
- Introduction {0:00}
- Headlines {1:45}
- Ultranationalist march in Poland {9:50}
- IRL squat in Chicago {18:00}
- J20 updates{25:50}
- Next Week's News {30:50}
J20 support resources:
- J20 Legal Defense Fund
- Sub.media's Defend J20 Resistance info video
- Twitter
- Fed book

The Ex-Worker #59: Surviving a Grand Jury

Monday, November 13, 2017 • Duration 59:12

In this episode, we share the first-person stories of three comrades on the frontlines of grand jury resistance. As the state escalates repression through a new grand jury investigation in North Carolina against longtime anarchist Katie Yow, this episode offers perspectives from those who have successfully fought a grand jury summons. Tune in to demystify the process of how and why to resist testifying at a grand jury. For more information on her case and to support Katie, check out https://ncresiststhegrandjury.com/ and to learn more about resources available for those resisting and their supporters, check out https://saynothing.noblogs.org/grand-jury-resources/.

For more information on how to stay strong during state repression, see our article How to Survive a Felony Trial.

To hear more about North Carolina Grand Jury Resistance and other cases of ongoing state repression, listen to this episode of The Hotwire. {November 13th, 2017}

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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Grand Jury Resisters Past and Present {00:00}
- What is a Grand Jury {01:17}
- A Knock on the Door {4:51}
- Breathing Fire {19:35}
- Facing the State {24:19}
- Life on the Run {35:11}
- Trees and Mirrors—Surviving Solitary {38:31}
- Release {45:53}
- Back from the Underground {50:47}
- Conclusion: We Can Survive This {54:45}
- Support NC Grand Jury Resister Katie Yow {56:16}
- Statement from Katie Yow {57:17}
On November 21, at 8 pm Eastern Time, we will broadcast our third live video presentation, in which an experienced legal support worker will explain what grand juries are, how they work, and how to resist them—then answer any questions you have. View the video or via . Tune in to learn about the grand jury process, its legacy of repression, and how you can support resistance to grand juries.

The Hotwire #12: White masculine mass shooting in Texas, down with daylight saving, J20 updates

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 • Duration 32:03

This week we have a greater amount of animal liberation actions to report on than usual. We interview Sam from DC Legal Posse about the first J20 trials beginning next week, and what people can do to support the defendants. After the mass shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas on Sunday, we explore whether it makes sense to designate white men as the "real terrorists." We also interview an anarchist in Brazil about the Operation Érebo repression campaign against anarchists there. Anarchists from throughout history travel forward in time to warn us about the horrors of state socialism and about the dangers of standardized time itself!. {November 8th, 2017}

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Table of Contents:
- Introduction {0:00}
- Headlines {1:40}
- Texas Shooting and White Masculinity {6:15}
- Daylight Saving {9:30}
- Anarchist Media Jingles {16:40}
- Repression Roundup {18:00}
- Next Week's News {27:38}
Upcoming anarchist book fairs:
Boston Anarchist Book Fair November 11–12 775 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA

The Hotwire #11: Fascists fail in Tennessee, Catalan independence interview, No Justice No Pride

Wednesday, November 1, 2017 • Duration 33:39

This week we bring you two interviews: one with a southern anarchist who went to Tennessee to oppose the failed "white lives matter" rally on Saturday, and another with an anarchist in Catalonia about developments and reflections on the independence process there. Our headlines and repression roundup take us around the world, from anti-capitalist queer and trans action in DC to general revolt in Haiti to sweeping anti-anarchist repression in Brazil and even back in time to the Russian Revolution! Listen until the end for announcements of upcoming anarchist book fairs and calls to action. {November 1st, 2017}

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Table of Contents:
- Introduction {0:00}
- Headlines {2:00}
- Fascists fail in Tennessee {9:35}
- Catalonia {14:25}
- Repression Roundup {23:00}
- Welcome home Dane Powell {24:18}
- Anti-anarchist Operation Érebo in Brazil {25:55}
- Next Week's News {27:15}
Upcoming anarchist book fairs:
Boston Anarchist Book Fair November 11–12 775 Commonwealth Ave Boston, MA

The Hotwire #10: Anti-fascism in Gainesville, J20 trials, anarchist Kurds against capitalist wars

Wednesday, October 25, 2017 • Duration 34:07

In this Hotwire we have three different interviews about the alt-right's defeat in Gainesville. As democratic confederalist Kurdish forces in Rojava are beating back ISIS, the nationalist, capitalist Kurdish Regional Government in Iraq is threatening civil war with the Iraqi military. In response, Kurdish anarchists speak out against war and the state. The discovery of Santiago Maldonado's body in Argentina has sparked the fiercest clashes with police that the South American country has seen in years. Some good news: the first J20 political prisoner is about to be released; but hundreds more are awaiting trial and facing years in prison. Listen until the end for announcements of anarchist bookfairs, anti-fascist action, and east coast CrimethInc. speaking events this week. {October 25, 2017}

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Table of Contents:
- Introduction {0:00}
- Headlines {2:10}
- Anarchists in Kurdistan {7:10}
- Catalonia {10:05}
- Anti-fascists win the day in Gainesville {11:55}
- Jingles {24:55}
- Repression Roundup {25:55}
- Next Week's News {28:30}
Alerta! This Saturday, October 28, anti-fascists are mobilizing against white supremacists in Murfreesboro, TN.

The Hotwire #9: Puerto Rico—breaking with the state, J20 trials approach, ducks of the east

Wednesday, October 18, 2017 • Duration 34:00

In this Hotwire we share the anti-fascist call from Florida to oppose Richard Spencer in Gainesville on October 19. We discuss the upcoming J20 trials in which nearly 200 protesters are charged with conspiracy for protesting the inauguration, as well as the outcome of the burning cop car case that just concluded in Paris. Considering the bullshit repression and liberal lawsuits in the wake of #Charlottesville, we make the case about why anti-fascism must mean anti-statism. We also borrow part of a great interview with Puerto Rican anarchist Frank Lopez on mutual relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Maria. Stay tuned until the end because we have some important calls to support political prisoners, calls to support forest defenders in Oregon, political prisoner birthdays, announcements for upcoming anarchist book fairs, and the repression roundup. {October 18, 2017}

The Hotwire #8: #FuckColumbusDay, fascists return to Charlottesville, McCormick prison uprising

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 • Duration 31:52

This week we bring you a slew of reports from anti-Columbus Day actions across so-called North America. We also fill you in on an inspiring prison uprising that took over McCormick prison in South Carolina. Prisoners even got on the roof! The political crisis in Catalonia continues, this week with violent fascist and pro-Spanish reaction. White supremacists descended on Charlottesville again this weekend, and there are some upcoming calls to anti-fascist action in the south, so listen until the end. Plus, we got all of our regular features like political prisoner birthdays, announcements for upcoming anarchist book fairs, and the repression roundup. {October 11, 2017}

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Table of Contents:
- Introduction {0:00}
- Headlines {1:53}
- #FuckColumbusDay {6:40}
- Charlottesville Anti-Fascism Interview {12:20}
- The Opioid Crisis and White Despair {15:58}
- Repression Roundup {20:55}
- Prisoner Birthdays {24:55}
- Next Week's News {25:47}
Upcoming anarchist book fairs:
- The sixth annual anarchist book and propaganda gathering in Santiago, Chile will take place on October 14 and 15.

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