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Sacrificial Violence and Retribution
From the CrimethInc. Collective (23/12/2024) In the following analysis, we explore the responses to two different extrajudicial killings as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are coming to the fore in our society right now. In … Continue reading
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Tagged State and Capital, State and terror, united states, Violence
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For Nikki Giovanni (1943-2024)
and if ever i touched a life i hope that life knowsthat i know that touching was and still is and will alwaysbe the truerevolution Nikki Giovanni, When I Die (1972) … a poem is pure energyhorizontally containedbetween the mindof … Continue reading
History Repeats Itself: First as Farce, Then as Tragedy
From the CrimethInc. collective (06/11/2024). Why the Democrats Are Responsible for Donald Trump’s Return to Power Donald Trump has won the 2024 presidential election. That means that we will have to fight many of the battles of 2017-2020 all over again. But … Continue reading
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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Tagged anti-capitalism, Occupy, Occupy Wall Street, revolution, united states
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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
For James Baldwin: “Telling it like it is”
If the hope of givingis to love the living,the giver risks madnessin the act of giving. Some such lesson I seemed to seein the faces that surrounded me. Needy and blind, unhopeful, unlifted,what gift would give them the gift to … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-racism, black anarchism, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, united states
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Why Stop at Removing Biden?
From the CrimethInc. Collective (07/11/2024). The Center Cannot Hold It would seem like a heavy-handed metaphor if it weren’t our actual reality. A doddering patriarch, representing the collapsing centrist political project, refuses to step aside even as it becomes certain … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, anti-statism, democracy, united states
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The Gaza Solidarity Movement
Why the State Can’t Compromise with the Gaza Solidarity Movement, And What That Means for Us From the CrimethInc. collective (03/05/2024) … On April 17, students at Columbia University initiated an on-campus encampment in solidarity with Gaza. After the administration called in the … Continue reading
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Tagged insurrection, israel, palestine, solidarity, State terror, united states
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Breaking Borders: Report On Anarchist Organizing In Solidarity With Migrants In Chicago
A critical report, reflection, and analysis on anarchist organizing in Chicago, IL in solidarity with migrants, largely from Venezuela. (From It’s Going Down, 24/01/2024) A deepening economic crisis resulting from U.S. sanctions, colonial extractivism, and inter-imperial disputes has been fueling … Continue reading
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Tagged anarchism, immigration, no borders, united states
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Mike Davis: The Fire Boom
From the Verso books blog. Mike Davis’s essay on LA as a locus of ecological destruction, taken from his classic work Ecology of Fear: Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster. Mike Davis (14/01/2025) In this excerpt from Mike Davis’s classic … Continue reading →