For this week's podcast we're joined by one of the participants in the CrimethInc. project for a wide-ranging conversation. We discuss CrimethInc's longevity across the last 30 years, and the unique historical perspective that affords the project. We talk about its roots in the punk and DIY countercultures, and its gradual evolution into an anarchist think tank. We reflect on CrimethInc's various approaches to public outreach, from publishing to speaking tours to convergences, as well as its recent experiences with deplatforming. We end by discussing the growing popularity of both democratic and authoritarian forms of socialism as competing responses to the current political crisis.

READINGS:

--To Change Everything - 2015: https://crimethinc.com/tce

--Resisting ICE in Chicago - 2025: https://crimethinc.com/2025/11/20/reflections-on-resisting-ice-in-chicago-the-view-from-broadview

--Anarchists at the No Kings Rallies - 2025: https://crimethinc.com/2025/10/20/anarchists-at-the-no-kings-rallies-reports-from-around-the-country

CrimethInc. is a rebel alliance — a secret society pledged to the propagation of crimethink. It is a think tank producing ideas and action, a sphinx posing questions fatal to the superstitions of our age. CrimethInc. is a banner for anonymous collective action. It is not a membership organization, but a mouthpiece for longings that extend throughout the population at large. CrimethInc. is an international network of aspiring revolutionaries extending from Kansas to Kuala Lumpur. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the principles of self-determination and mutual aid.