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Not just Palestinians now. IDF (IOF) Soldiers now feel safe to assault even left-wing Jewish activists w/ the 1st soldier in the beginning saying in particular: "The whorehouse is gone. Ben-Gvir is going to enact order here." A stark reminder of the victory of the far-right in Israel's last election.
Ben-Gvir is a prominent Israeli far-right politician who leads the Jewish Power party, a successor of the Kahanist Kach party. If Netanyahu is able to form a government, Ben-Gvir, a settler - will be appointed "Minister of National Security," and given broad powers over the Occupation. He has promised to change rules of engagement & give IDF soldiers & Israeli police forces full immunity from consequences.
"People have become so used to seeing the evidences of authority on every hand that most of them honestly believe that they would go utterly to the bad if it were not for the policeman’s club or the soldier’s bayonet."
Lucy Parsons, The Principles of Anarchism
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/lucy-e-parsons-the-principles-of-anarchism
Art by the Aberdeen Local 1312, promoting "To Change Everything, An Anarchist Appeal"
https://crimethinc.com/tce
Twitter was not invented by hotshot entrepreneurs. It was modeled on TXTmob, a tool activists designed for the protests at the 2004 Republican National Convention.
Real innovation comes from participatory experimentation, not profiteering.
Billionaires ruin everything they touch.
https://crimethinc.com/TwitterBought
We salute those in Brazil who take direct action against fascism and capitalism in all their forms. The struggle continues. 🏴
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Trump administration officials promoted baseless conspiracy theories to manufacture a fake "domestic terrorist threat" for Trump's political gain.
On Donald Trump's instructions, the Department of Homeland Security launched an operation that ensnared countless protesters in a failed attempt to fabricate evidence of an "antifa" terrorist plot.
https://news.yahoo.com/homeland-security-admits-tried-manufacture-114500599.html
We knew this already, but here is evidence of it in the corporate media.
Comrades from the No Borders Team in Poland organize to support refugees from the Mideast and North Africa in defiance of racist border policies and police. They are raising money right now:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/no-borders-team-support-no-border-s-activists#/
Please help them—they are trying to do a tremendous amount of important work with very few resources.
You can read about some of their activities here:
https://crimethinc.com/2022/03/29/solidarity-in-an-age-of-war-and-displacement-anarchists-confront-the-weaponization-of-refugees-on-the-poland-belarus-border
This Halloween, strike terror into the hearts of the ruling class.
To change everything, start anywhere:
https://crimethinc.com/tce
Why we don't make demands:
https://crimethinc.com/demands
A step-by-step guide to direct action:
https://crimethinc.com/directactionguide
The secret is to begin.
https://crimethinc.com/begin
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https://fxtwitter.com/ErinInTheMorn/status/1585623772580745216
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ACAB
https://fxtwitter.com/TheAnt31915206/status/1584889483173896193
Appeals court temporarily halts Biden’s student debt cancellation scheme
➖ @theguardiannews ➖
"The hierarchies of slave plantation management have effectively been transferred to modern office buildings in both the private and public sectors. To this day, entire fields of study have been dedicated to "organizational management" and "workforce optimization." The hierarchies that exist today, whether in private or public organizations, stem from archaic forms of management designed to essentially make humans less human... Ultimately, these fields of study have developed the corporate culture that has become synonymous with capitalist society: extreme hierarchies, a total absence of autonomy, strict guidelines and rules, threats of disciplinary action, and complete submission to conformity. These organizational hierarchies have been placed everywhere - within most corporations, most companies, most schools, most non-profits, most NGOs, and most public agencies. Quite simply stated, they are a necessary component in maintaining the unnatural wealth and power inequities that are so rampant within the capitalist system. Without high levels of control to keep people in line, this system would inevitably collapse."
-Deconstructing Hierarchies: On the Paradox of Contrived Leadership and Arbitrary Positions of Power, Colin Jenkins.
Ahead of the Day of Mourning, and in response to colonial mythology about early Thanksgivings, we recommend learning about Metacomet’s War, an ambitious early effort to resist the colonial conquest of what came to be called North America.
https://crimethinc.com/Metacomet
Putin's invasion of Ukraine—Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter—Trump's 2024 campaign.
All of these show that autocratic power is not proof of genius, nor does it equip the autocrats to make strategic decisions.
https://crimethinc.com/tce#leaders
For an egalitarianism that can defend itself—for anarchy! 🏴
Abortion without Borders
How Feminists and Anarchists Defy Polish Anti-Abortion Laws
https://crimethinc.com/abortionwithoutborders
In Poland, abortion has been banned since 2020. Nevertheless, a network of anarchists and other feminists strives to ensure that those who need abortions can access them, legally or not.
What can activists in the US learn from them?
https://fxtwitter.com/tara_chara/status/1590974389000241153
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In fall 2020, the New York Times spread fear that street protests would cost Biden the election.
But when they actually crunched the numbers, they had to admit that more of those who cited the protests as a factor in their decision voted for Biden:
https://nytimes.com/2020/11/07/us/black-lives-matter-protests.html
This is important because liberals have tried to overwrite the popular memory of the George Floyd uprising with their own defeatist narratives.
But if not for the riots, most people would never have heard George Floyd's name, nor mobilized against police violence—nor been prepared to respond to a potential Trump coup.
The truth is, liberals like those at the New York Times are so anxious about losing control of the streets that they're willing to risk far-right victories.
But social change doesn't come from being passive. It comes from taking action together—and that even spills over into idle activities like voting.
Left Electoralism, Fascist Direct Action, and Anti-Fascist Resistance
https://crimethinc.com/BrazilElection2022
The clashes over the 2022 elections in Brazil offer a glimpse of a future in which the far right reorganizes while the institutional left continues to bet on a collapsing social order.
It is a mistake to count on the authorities to halt the resurgence of fascism, ceding the streets to the far right as a stage for action and recruiting. By the time this becomes clear to the institutional left, it will be too late to build a grassroots movement from scratch.
As the elections approach, it's a good time to emphasize the importance of continuous local organizing and direct action.
Beyond the Rube Goldberg machine of representative democracy, what can we do together?
https://crimethinc.com/votingversusda
Whoever is elected, let's be ungovernable.
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https://fxtwitter.com/theserfstv/status/1586811141493514240
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It Could Happen Here: The Black Cat Named Sabotage: Spooky Week #2
Starting from: 00:01:35
Episode webpage: https://omny.fm/shows/it-could-happen-here/the-black-cat-named-sabotage-spooky-week-2
Media file: https://chtbl.com/track/5899E/podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/e73c998e-6e60-432f-8610-ae210140c5b1/78d30acb-8463-4c40-a5ae-ae2d0145c9ff/c59a385d-3a17-4bb6-9ff9-af3a00242ac0/audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=bc7f369b-dce6-43c2-897e-ae2d0145ca12#t=95
A good visualisation of the difference between a million and a billion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YUWDrLazCg
https://fxtwitter.com/erininthemorn/status/1582492801190674432
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