The Ex-Worker

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!

The Ex-Worker is a society podcast hosted by CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective, with 173 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective hosts The Ex-Worker, a society show with 173 episodes published.

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  #115: Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without—Three Perspectives

  Jan 9, 202644 minS0

  <p>This episode offers an audio version of "Iran: An Uprising Besieged from Within and Without," discussing the uprising that broke out across Iran on December 28, 2025, triggered by economic distress and escalating to call for the toppling of the government. It includes three analyses exploring the tensions within the uprising between grassroots movements and monarchist groups courting the support of the United States and Israel.</p>   -------SHOW NOTES------   <p>Table of Contents:</p> Introduction {0:41} Report on the Current Wave of Protests in Iran {2:57} Iran Protests Amid a Siege by Internal and External Enemies: A Report on the Recent Mass Uprising {6:53} I...

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

  Sep 23, 202525 minS0

  <p>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."</p> -------SHOW NOTES------ Table of Contents 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...

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

  Jun 20, 202524 minS0

  <p>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.</p> -------SHOW NOTES------ <p>Table of Contents</p> 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} <p>Mutual Aid Means Resistance {19:33}</p> <p>This episode offers an audio version of "Mutual Aid, the Commons, and...

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  #112: From Minneapolis to Los Angeles: The Origins of the Wave of Resistance to ICE

  Jun 17, 202527 minS0

  <p>This episode offers audio versions of "Minneapolis to Feds: 'Get the Fuck Out'" and "Los Angeles Stands up to ICE: A Firsthand Report on the Clashes of June 6," which trace the origins of the angry response to federal raids that spread across the United States in early June 2025.</p> <p>-------SHOW NOTES------</p> Table of Contents Introduction {0:34} Minneapolis to Feds: "Get the Fuck Out" {0:41} Account I: The Raid {8:11} Account II: The Response {11:51} Los Angeles Stands up to ICE {17:58} First Action, High Noon {19:48} Second Action, 4 pm {22:59} Third Action, 10 pm {24:35} <p>This episode offers audio versions of "Minneapolis to Feds: 'Get...

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  #111: Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace

  Mar 18, 202522 minS0

  <p>This episode offers an audio version of "Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace," arguing that neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of resistance, to take direct action on a horizontal and participatory basis—in other words, to become anarchists.</p> <p>-------SHOW NOTES------</p> <p> </p> Table of Contents Introduction {0:36} Tyranny Is the Opposite of Anarchism {1:12} A Three-Sided Conflict {3:45} No Law Will Give You Freedom {8:32} Remember How We Got Here {12:02} Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace {15:50} <p>...

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