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Back to the Future: The Return of the Ultraliberal Right in Argentina
https://crimethinc.com/Argentina2023
Last week, the extreme right won electoral victories in the Netherlands and Argentina. The global reactionary wave that brought Donald Trump to power did not subside with his electoral loss in 2020.
In this reflection, an Argentine anarchist explores why Javier Milei won the election and situates Milei's politics in historical context. Although Milei's "anarcho-capitalist" rhetoric may seem new, this is just the latest chapter of a story that is very old in Argentina: the combination of cutthroat capitalism with ruthless state violence.
the Zapatistas have released a communique about their new reorganized structure
read it in full here
For years, fascists have tried to use entryist strategies to establish a foothold in anti-war movements. Now they are ramping up their efforts, seeking to capitalize on the sequence of tragedies that has unfolded in Palestine since October 7.
We have to shut them down everywhere they rear their heads. This flier is from Atlanta in 2020, but is even more relevant today.
https://itsgoingdown.org/neo-nazi-groups-are-attempting-to-worm-their-way-into-rallies-against-the-war-on-gaza/
We’ve prepared a poster expressing support for Palestinians who are currently threatened by ethnic cleansing.
https://crimethinc.com/posters/free-palestine
“Contrary to the promises of Israeli politicians, neither the apartheid policies of the Israeli government nor the brutality of the Israeli military have brought safety to anyone in the region. There is no way to stop to the bloodshed without putting an end to the colonial oppression of Palestinians.
“In any struggle, those who have the most power and access to resources have the most leverage in determining what form the conflict will take. The Israeli government has exponentially more arms and funding than any Palestinian group; across the course of decades, it has inflicted exponentially more casualties. Some of its staunchest supporters are Christian nationalists and neoliberals seeking leverage in the oil-rich Mideast. Any effort towards change in the region must begin by confronting their support.”
In a new filing in federal court, the government of Atlanta aims to shut down even the possibility of a referendum on the police militarization facility known as Cop City, arguing that the citizens of the city have no right to break off the city government's contract with the Atlanta Police Foundation.
Ordinarily, democracy functions as a sort of theater in which the authorities manage people's perceptions of what the general public desires. In this case, however, the authorities in Atlanta are so determined to channel millions of dollars to the police that they are prepared to do without any illusions about democracy or anything like it.
Background on the movement to #StopCopCity:
https://crimethinc.com/LivinginanEarthquake
Something that got left out of the video is that the barrier segments also have blades on their ends. These blades also spin and are designed to main and or kill anyone who tries to pass between the barrier's segments.
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For the 54-year anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion, please read our reflection on those events, "Stonewall Means Riot Right Now."
https://crimethinc.com/2020/06/28/stonewall-means-riot-right-now-what-the-queer-uprisings-of-1969-share-with-the-george-floyd-protests-of-2020
Yesterday, Wednesday 06/28:
A man walked into a “gender studies” classroom at the University of Waterloo in Canada and went on an apparently anti-Queer stabbing spree; stabbing the professor and 2 students.
Please circulate this call for solidarity with Soulèvements de la Terre in response to repression in France:
https://lundi.am/Appel-international-de-soutien-aux-Soulevements-de-la-Terre
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"Macron’s government has taken an unprecedented step in the repression of social and environmental movements. On June 21, the government decreed the dissolution of Earth Uprisings, which involves over 140,000 supporters and over 150 local groups. This was accompanied by waves of arrests of activists across France...
"We propose to continue making Earth Uprisings visible in public space: in front of social centers, through inscriptions on walls, with banners and parties, rallies and direct actions, and other actions adapted to our contexts.
"For the global uprisings of the earth, and in solidarity with all who face repression around the world, we are calling for solidarity on June 28 in a variety of ways. Dozens of rallies will be held across France, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Catalonia..."
Vladimir Putin has some nerve to say that Yevgeny Prigozhin's rebellion is "pushing the country toward anarchy and fratricide."
Torturing and assassinating dissidents was fratricide. Invading Ukraine was fratricide. Anarchy is the opposite of fratricide, the opposite of civil war: it is the condition that prevails when people do not compete to rule each other. Totalitarianism always leads to bloody conflicts for power.
https://itsgoingdown.org/materials-and-resources-to-defend-pride/ Excellent read.
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This is why I believe that everyone needs to watch Ghosts of Karabakh or another documentary that interviews civilians that lived through a war at least once in their lives.
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We've reprinted our classic gender subversion poster—and, to mark the occasion, we've also printed a new remix in homage to the original, celebrating collective resistance to the threats ranged against trans, queer, and nonbinary people.
You can order the classic poster here:
https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/posters/products/gender-subversion-kit
You can order the new version here:
https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/posters/products/gender-self-determination-poster
Here, we offer a deep dive into the legacy of the original poster, exploring the tension between gender abolition and gender self-determination:
https://crimethinc.com/GenderPoster2023
Wherever we are situated in this society, our future boils down to two options: accept our fate and try to reduce the harm to our bodies and the environment on a piecemeal basis—or actively resist in order to interrupt the disaster and implement our own solutions. If we resign ourselves to the future implied by catastrophic climate change, widespread pollution, and ecological collapse, sooner or later, the disaster will come for us.
If we do not accept the destruction of our lives, our land, our food, and everything that connects us with each other and the biosphere as a whole, we have to fight to regain control over the conditions of our lives and the decisions that determine our survival. In a world of police, prisons, surveillance cameras, we will have to wear masks that conceal who we are so we can fight for what we really want.
https://crimethinc.com/posters/one-way-or-another
U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/15/abortion-surveillance-dataminr/
Area 51 & the Geography of a Secret
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pf64nBAfujk
Cop City Protesters Tried to Plant Trees. Atlanta Police Beat Them for It.
https://theintercept.com/2023/11/15/cop-city-protest-police-atlanta-tear-gas/
Should anyone claim that “ethnic cleansing” is too strong a phrase to describe what the Israeli government is trying to do in Gaza, we direct you to this document, just leaked from the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence. It explicitly recommends the forcible permanent transfer of the entire Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip to the Sinai peninsula.
This is the textbook definition of ethnic cleansing—on a scale of millions of people.
https://www.mekomit.co.il/%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%a1%d7%9e%d7%9a-%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%9c%d7%90-%d7%a9%d7%9c-%d7%9e%d7%a9%d7%a8%d7%93-%d7%94%d7%9e%d7%95%d7%93%d7%99%d7%a2%d7%99%d7%9f-%d7%9b%d7%99%d7%91%d7%95%d7%a9-%d7%a2%d7%96%d7%94-%d7%95/
Oh, and it gets worse! There are signs warning about the hazard this barrier presents, but they only face into the US, not into Mexico, despite it being dangerous on both sides.
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Translation (from Spanish to English):
"This is an urgent warning. The governments of Texas and of the United States are constructing a floating barrier in the middle of the Río Grande. This row of buoys has a net underneath it (think of a fishing net). This net has been fitted with weights to prevent people from lifting it or swimming underneath it. The balls spin and are slippery for people that try to climb over them. This floating border wall is designed to kill and presents a lethal risk for everyone who intends to cross the river. Wherever you are, please spread this urgent message to prevent deaths from crossing the Río Grande. Thank you."
Please circulate this call for solidarity with Soulèvements de la Terre in response to repression in France:
https://lundi.am/Appel-international-de-soutien-aux-Soulevements-de-la-Terre
Scroll down for English.
"Macron’s government has taken an unprecedented step in the repression of social and environmental movements. On June 21, the government decreed the dissolution of Earth Uprisings, which involves over 140,000 supporters and over 150 local groups. This was accompanied by waves of arrests of activists across France...
"We propose to continue making Earth Uprisings visible in public space: in front of social centers, through inscriptions on walls, with banners and parties, rallies and direct actions, and other actions adapted to our contexts.
"For the global uprisings of the earth, and in solidarity with all who face repression around the world, we are calling for solidarity on June 28 in a variety of ways. Dozens of rallies will be held across France, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Catalonia..."
“There is no greater fallacy than the belief that aims and purposes are one thing, while methods and tactics are another… The means employed become, through individual habit and social practice, part and parcel of the final purpose; they influence it, modify it, and presently the aims and means become identical.”
― Emma Goldman, My Disillusionment In Russia
She was born on on this day 154 years ago: June 27, 1869
We have translated two statements from clandestine anarchist groups in Russia about the mutiny of the Wagner company and what it means for the future of the country. One is the Movement of Irkutsk Anarchists; the other is the Combat Organization of Anarcho-Communists.
You can read them here:
https://crimethinc.com/WagnerMutiny
In yesterday's headlining article, the New York Times admitted what we have been saying for a quarter of a century: capitalist globalization creates catastrophic wealth inequalities, wrecking the biosphere and generating extreme-right nationalism.
https://crimethinc.com/work
For decades, they were the foremost proponents of global capitalism, even as the consequences were obvious to everyone on the receiving end of all that wealth and resource extraction. Don't let them reinvent themselves as the experts who are qualified to solve this problem. It's up to us to draw on centuries of struggle against colonialism and capitalism in order to create an escape route for all humanity out of this self-destructive social order.
https://crimethinc.com/wtoepilogue
https://youtu.be/4G0Etjsi6oc I brought this one up because it's free to watch on YouTube
Note tho that YouTube thinks it's too graphic and has restricted it to 18+
Spicy take incoming:
The overwhelming majority of people who say stuff like "Oh, yeah? You have guns to fight the fascists? How about the government nuking your house?" would never say that shit if they have legitimately lived through a war.
You do not go champing at the bit for someone you don't like being blown to bits if you've had that happen to someone you know.
This week marks 10 years since the June 2013 uprisings in Brazil. What started as small protests in a few cities against rising transit fares spread into a nationwide popular revolt against the cost of living under capitalism.
The uprising of 2013 was initiated by autonomous and anti-capitalist movements. A decade later, however, the ruling PT, the Workers Party—now that they are back in an alliance with the center and sectors of the right wing—along with corporate media and pundits are trying to frame that uprising as the supposed origin of the extreme right that came to power in 2018 with Jair Bolsonaro. This is a new phenomenon: for the first time, the traditional left is not trying to co-opt the uprising, but rather to associate street protest and autonomous mobilization with fascism in a dishonest attempt to blame the oppressed for the reaction of the oppressors.
https://fxtwitter.com/elmforkJBGC/status/1650338395636334594
Elm Fork JBGC is raising money for a bail fund after a really nasty cop riot in Fort Worth, TX today (police attacked a group of people defending a drag event). If you could pitch in some money, that'd be great.