Tag Archives: anti-capitalism

Viewpoint: Will Trump’s Tariffs Be Good for Auto Workers?

From Labour Notes (02/04/2025) During the 2019 General Motors strike, while my fellow workers and I were pounding the pavement, something inspirational was happening south of the border: Mexican auto worker Israel Cervantes, along with many others at a GM … Continue reading

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Against the behemoth

The scandal that is Donald Trump’s administration – from the gutting and/or paralysing of federal government agencies, justified in the name of eliminating and controlling government waste of public monies due to indulgent, corrupt government workers and government policies, to … Continue reading

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The Day the Émigrés Struck Back

From the CrimethInc. collective (05/02/2025) Remembering the General Strike of May Day 2006 In 2006, students around the United States engaged in spontaneous walkouts protesting the repression of undocumented people, culminating on May Day in the first great general strike to take … Continue reading

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Good Night, Tech-Right: Pull the Plug on AI Fascism

From It’s Going Down (26/01/2025) On January 20th, at a ceremony attended by both far-Right and neo-fascist leaders from around the globe and some of the richest tech billionaires in the world, including the heads of Apple, Google, Facebook, TikTok, Twitter, and Amazon, … Continue reading

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Address to those who would rather abolish harmful phenomena than manage them

The ecologists play the same role, on the terrain of the struggle against harmful phenomena, that the trade unionists play on the terrain of workers struggles: mere intermediaries interested in the preservation of the contradictions whose regulation they assure; smooth-tongued … Continue reading

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: Misery amidst plenty (VI)

Abundance has always existed, but nowhere has it existed abundantly: either because everyone did not enjoy it or because, when everyone did enjoy it, they did not do so all of the time. No doubt abundance really lived can only … Continue reading

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Encyclopédie des Nuisances: A cartography of alienation (I)

… the reality that we start from is ignorance. This appears to us to be a human faculty whose exercise must be truly familiar and an everyday experience for all our contemporaries; thus, it is a more solid and more … Continue reading

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Reflecting on Occupy Wall Street, Thirteen Years Later

From the CrimethInc. collective (17/09/2024). Thirteen years ago, a thousand demonstrators descended on Wall Street, occupying Zuccotti Park and kicking off what came to be known as the Occupy movement. Revisiting that moment today, we can see how dramatically the … Continue reading

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Franco “Bifo” Berardi: Hipercapitalism and Semiocapital

Caliban: You taught me language, and my profit on’tIs I know how to curse. The red plague rid youFor learning me your language! Shakespeare, The Tempest Historical colonialism: extractivism of physical resources The history of colonialism is a history of systematic depredation of territory. The object of colonisation is the resource-rich physical places that the colonialist West needed for its accumulation. … Continue reading

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Charlottesville, Revisited—2017 to 2024

From the CrimethInc. collective (11/08/2024). What Can a Moment of Peril Tell Us about Our Own Dangerous Times? Seven years ago, anarchists and other anti-fascists converged in Charlottesville, Virginia to oppose the “Unite the Right” rally. The organizers of the … Continue reading

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