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CrimethInc., also known as CWC, which stands for either "CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective" or "CrimethInc Ex-Workers Ex-Collective", is a decentralized anarchist collective of autonomous cells. CrimethInc. emerged in the mid-1990s in the United States, initially as the hardcore zine Inside Front, and began operating as a collective in 1996. It has since published articles and zines for the anarchist movement and distributed posters and books of its own publication. Due to the nature of the organization it is difficult to estimate the number of people who are regularly involved in CrimethInc activities.

CrimethInc cells have published books, released records, and organized national campaigns against globalization and representative democracy, and in favor of radical community organizing. Less-public splinter groups have carried out direct action (including arson and hacktivism), hosted international conventions and other events, maintained local chapters, sparked riots, and toured with multimedia performance art or anarcho-punk musical ensembles. The collective has received national media and academic attention, as well as criticism and praise from other anarchists for its activities and philosophy. Several sympathizers or associates have been convicted of crimes related to CrimethInc.

CrimethInc has an association with the North American anarcho-punk scene due to its relationship with artists in the genre and its publishing of Inside Front as well as more recently the contemporary anti-capitalist movement.