The Ex-Worker

by CrimethInc. Ex-Workers’ Collective · · ·

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!

On August 26th, riot police under orders from the newly elected right-wing government stormed and evicted four squatted social centers in the Exarchia neighborhood of Athens, Greece, in a serious attack on both precarious migrants and the anarchist...
Welcome to Episode 11, the final installment of , the ’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This episode concludes the book with personal reflections about the author’s own journey in and out of the desert...
Welcome to Episode 10 of , the ’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. Over the past two months, we’ve explored the ins and outs of irregular migration across the US/Mexico border. Where does it leave us? As...
Welcome to Episode 9 of , the ’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. The border doesn’t end at the border: the violent regime of citizenship constrains and ruins lives throughout the north, as a chilling...
Welcome to Episode 8 of , the ’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment continues to explore the reality of border policy by taking a closer look at the agency that enforces it, describing the...
Welcome to Episode 7 of , the ’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. The Border Patrol, with its swollen budget and lavish technologies, clearly has the technical capacity to stop most, if not all, traffic...
Welcome to Episode 6 of , the ’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment investigates the three-tiered border and the process of crossing it, focusing on the places where the most deaths...
Happy , everyone! Welcome to Episode 5 of , the ’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. Having discussed the political and economic forces that drive migration north, this week’s installment examines how...
Welcome to Episode 4 of , the ’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This week’s installment continues the previous episode’s exploration of the conditions south of the border that drive migration north by...
Welcome to Episode 3 of , the ’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment begins exploring the conditions south of the border that drive migration north by exploring the recent history and economy...
Welcome to Episode 2 of , the ’s serialized audiobook exploring borders and migration across North America. This installment continues last week’s introduction by Defining Terms—just what do we mean by the border, migrants, refugees, solidarity...
The Collective is kicking off the serialized release of our first full audiobook, . We’ve divided this riveting first person account of life and death in the borderlands into eleven chapters, and over the next three months, we’ll be releasing...
is back! Over the next three months, we will be releasing an audio version of CrimethInc.’s 2018 book, , divided into eleven episodes released every week. In this short episode, we reflect on the evolution of the Ex-Worker podcast as a project, and...
It’s our last episode of the season! We have a big report on the in France, and how it shows the need to move beyond the loyal opposition of centrism versus fascism. We say fuck some, fuck the border a lot, fuck even more, fuck , fuck , fuck ,...
In our second to last episode of 2018, we bring you reports from the anti- fascist counter-demonstrations against right-wing rallies in and . We also bring you a from anti-fascists who have recently been in North Carolina. Mutual Aid...
On the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht, liberals and centrists are once more playing right into fascists’ hands. Our feature this episode is a reading of the recent CrimethInc. op-ed about the outrageously liberal demonstrations over Trump firing...
We kick off the episode with a discussion about and . After a roundup of resistance to capitalism and the state, our feature this episode is about Trump’s deployment of thousands of troops to “defend the border” and to push back on this latest...
No news is good news. 60% of wildlife has been since 1970. Mexican police in the migrant caravan on the border with Guatemala. Ever since Trump openly a last week, there has been an . We interview an anarchist who works at the Tree of Life...
We have a flurry of headlines from around the globe, with the migrant caravan from Honduras breaking through the Mexico-Guatemala border, , , , and . Water protectors have been hard at work opposing the , and Panama City landlords have begun ....
Our features for this Hotwire are interviews about the Proud Boys attacks in and , and we have an interview about autonomous relief after , which is also seeing organizing from neo-confederate fascists. We have a whirlwind of headlines from around...