The Ex-Worker

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 and anti-authoritarian movements. In response, Greek anarchists have organized assemblies and demonstrations, while solidarity efforts have poured out...

Welcome to Episode 11 , the final installment of No Wall They Can Build , the Ex-Worker Podcast '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 and the unavoidable links that bind all of us across all borders. To become a real force for change, those who w...

Welcome to Episode 10 of No Wall They Can Build , the Ex-Worker Podcast '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 the crises produced by climate change and economic exploitations intensify across the world, revolutions turn in...

Welcome to Episode 9 of No Wall They Can Build , the Ex-Worker Podcast '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 story of a narrow escape from death makes clear. Yet this ongoing migration constitutes, against all odds, a powerfu...

Welcome to Episode 8 of No Wall They Can Build , the Ex-Worker Podcast '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 atrocities that its agents perpetrate and their mindsets to justify it. The Border Patrol is merely one of the la...

Welcome to Episode 7 of No Wall They Can Build , the Ex-Worker Podcast '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 across the border, yet their behavior seems to be at odds with their stated objective. This installment investigat...

Welcome to Episode 6 of No Wall They Can Build , the Ex-Worker Podcast '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 occur—southern Arizona and South Texas. The story of Arivaca, a small community of ranchers and hippies, shows how state...

Happy May Day , everyone! Welcome to Episode 5 of No Wall They Can Build , the Ex-Worker Podcast '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 people get from Central America to the US/Mexico border. The routes vary in risk and cost, and are stratified...

Welcome to Episode 4 of No Wall They Can Build , the Ex-Worker Podcast '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 surveying the situation in the three countries of the "Northern Triangle." Guatemala's malnourished, heavily indig...

Welcome to Episode 3 of No Wall They Can Build , the Ex-Worker Podcast '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 of Mexico. As NAFTA's "free trade" policies impoverished and displaced millions, border militarization altered...

Welcome to Episode 2 of No Wall They Can Build , the Ex-Worker Podcast '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 workers , and other key phrases? To begin the long section describing movement From South to North , The After...

The Ex-Worker Podcast Collective is kicking off the serialized release of our first full audiobook, No Wall They Can Build: A Guide to Borders and Migration Across North America . 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 them in weekly installments each Wednesday. Today, you'll hea...

The Ex-Worker is back! Over the next three months, we will be releasing an audio version of CrimethInc.'s 2018 book, No Wall They Can Build: A Guide to Borders and Migration in North America , 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 set the scene for the forthcoming audiobook. In the year and a...

It's our last episode of the season! We have a big report on the Yellow Vests movement in France, and how it shows the need to move beyond the loyal opposition of centrism versus fascism. We say fuck Thanksgiving some, fuck the border a lot, fuck border patrol even more, fuck the government , fuck pipelines , fuck Wal-Mart , but thanks so much to all our wonderful listeners. Stay anarchy. {Novembe...

In our second to last episode of 2018, we bring you reports from the anti-fascist counter-demonstrations against right-wing rallies in Philadelphia and Portland . We also bring you a humble, frank letter from anti-fascists who have recently been doxxed in North Carolina. Mutual Aid efforts—organized and spontaneous—are popping up in response to the Camp Fire and to defend the migrant caravan in Ti...

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 "Take Your Pick: Law or Freedom; How 'Nobody Is above the Law' Abets the Rise of Tyranny," about the outrageously liberal demonstrations over Trump firing Jeff Sessions. We also interview an anarchist who was at the...

We kick off the episode with a discussion about anarchism and voting . 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 how it is in most people's interest to push back on this latest precedent of using the military against civilian populations. We remember recently deceased anarchists...

No news is good news. 60% of wildlife has been wiped off the planet since 1970. Mexican police kill a man in the migrant caravan on the border with Guatemala. Ever since Trump openly declared himself a nationalist last week, there has been an escalation of far-right violence . We interview an anarchist who works at the Tree of Life synagogue where an anti-Semite massacred 11 people on Saturday , a...

We have a flurry of headlines from around the globe, with the migrant caravan from Honduras breaking through the Mexico-Guatemala border, indigenous comrades and their allies building prayer lodges in the path of the line 3 pipeline , London antifascists successfully blocking an anti-Muslim march , anarchists rioting in Barcelona after being evicted from their squat , and accounts of Chilean polic...

Our features for this Hotwire are interviews about the Proud Boys attacks in New York City and Portland, Oregon , and we have an interview about autonomous relief after Hurricane Michael , which is also seeing organizing from neo-confederate fascists. We have a whirlwind of headlines from around the world, with breast-baring feminists burning barricades in Argentina, squatters from Ireland to Germ...

An anarchist from Brazil fills us in on Bolsonaro, where he came from, and the dangers his presidency poses to social movements. We talk about how it's not just killer cop Van Dyke in Chicago, or sexual assaulter Brett Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court—it's the system, and we propose full on ungovernability to render law and order irrelevant. We have roundups on anti-Columbus Day actions, anti-pipeli...

Alanis is back! And she reads our feature this episode, an audio version of the recent CrimethInc. text Kavanaugh Shouldn't Be on the Supreme Court. Neither Should Anyone Else. We also interview an anarchist in Portland, Oregon about the #PatrickKimmons actions at the intersection where police killed him. Winter, one of the anarchists in jail defending Germany's Hambach Forest in the last couple o...

Our feature this episode is an interview with an anarchist involved in one of the more spectacular autonomous relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Florence —Operation Airdrop. We follow it up with some discussion about the role of anarchist politics in doing autonomous, mutual aid relief work. We also interview someone involved in the new occupation outside campus security on Portland State Uni...

The world is a dangerous place in 2018- Botham Jean is murdered in his own home by a Dallas cop and police are actively raiding the rebel encampment in the Hambach Forest . There's inspiring strike resistance in Central and South America where striking dockworkers in Chile caused thousands of dollars in damage and a general strike in taking place in Costa Rica . Hurricane Florence took Wilmington...

It's 17 years and a day after 9/11 and Iraq is still in shambles , so we rip apart liberals for thinking George W. Bush is somehow "cute" . 2001 pops up again when we compare the current economic crisis in Argentina to the wave of worker-led factory takeovers and anarchist media that resisted the last economic meltdown there. We call for anarchists to incorporate a critique of nationalism itself i...