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Fire and Ice: Lessons from the Battle of Los Angeles
An anonymous text, published at Ill Will (14/06/2025) A printable zine version can be downloaded here. I think I’ll stay on this earthquake fault near this still-active volcano in this armed fortress facing a dying ocean & covered w/dirt while … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-nationalism, immigration, nationalism, rebellion, united states
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Don’t Let LA Stand Alone: A Message to the Gathering Resistance
From It’s going down, 13/06/2025 Over the past week, tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Los Angeles, fighting to defend their neighborhoods and family members from ICE, facing off with the National Guard to demand those imprisoned … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-fascism, anti-nationalism, direct action, immigration, nationalism, rebellion, united states
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New Order?
From Side Car/New Left Review (10/04/2025) New Order? Steve Maher & Scott Aquanno On 2 April, Donald Trump announced the imposition of sweeping tariffs on countries across the world, hitting allies and enemies alike with massive trade barriers, in what amounted to … Continue reading
Disposable
From Side Car/New Left Review (11/04/2025) Disposable JoAnn Wypijewski I’ve seen disposable razors on mountaintops outside San Diego. I’ve seen plaid flannel shirts caught on the branches of low trees, trembling in the breeze near Bisbee. I’ve watched a pink … Continue reading
Government by executive order: A lesson in contemporary authoritarianism
If Trump’s electoral success is due in part to the far right’s ability to create a lifeworld shaped around his persona, the left must pursue a countervailing project. Its aim should be to transform the world people organically experience through … Continue reading
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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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, anti-statism, Gustav Landauer, united states, Walter Benjamin
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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
Report from Los Angeles as Mutual Aid Hubs Mobilize in the Face of Historic Wildfires
From It’s Going Down (15/01/2025) Grassroots journalist Alissa Azar reports on the unfolding ecological disaster in Los Angeles and how mutual aid groups are mobilizing in response. On Tuesday, January 7th, people in Los Angeles County, California began receiving a high wind … Continue reading
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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Tagged anarchism, anti-capitalism, anti-fascism, ecology, technology, united states
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Victor Artola: Los Angeles, or the End of Assimilation
From Ill Will (14/06/2025) As we entered the fifth month of the second Trump era, the explosive social movements that marked the close of the 2010s seemed like a distant memory. The fifth anniversary of the burning of the Third … Continue reading →