Today marks two years since Russia initiated the full-scale military invasion of Ukraine.
https://crimethinc.com/AntiwarRussia2022
The invasion would never have been possible if Putin’s regime had not spent the past decade crushing every social movement in Russia—using torture to extract false confessions from arrestees and imprisoning or assassinating countless people. But this is not limited to Russia alone.
Everywhere on earth, governments are relying on more and more repressive and invasive policing to control restless populations. The war in Ukraine is part of a story that is familiar in Syria, Yemen, Ethiopia, Myanmar, Sudan, Palestine, and elsewhere. It represents the same strategy that governments around the world are employing within their territories, expanded to the scale of geopolitics: the recourse to brute force to suppress resistance and extend control.
Wherever we fight against state repression, we are fighting against a future of war.
In this picture, anarchists march today in Vilnius.
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“Wait…but there’s no broken glass or even graffiti.”
“And?”
“I mean the shelves are all empty. Did they just evacuate all the merchandise?”
“Haha what?! No. We looted it, the whole neighborhood. Well, women and children first.”
“And no one destroyed… anything?”
“Listen, we don’t want them to get a bigger insurance claim. Besides, if things keep going the way they are, that building may soon be ours.”
“I hope so. I can’t imagine things ever going this far in the states. Good luck with your struggle.”
“NO! No no no, brother—OUR struggle. You’re here. You’re in this. Tell people.”
“I don’t even know how I’d explain this to anyone back home.”
“Explain it like this: neoliberalism was born in Chile, and here it will die.”
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On the four-year anniversary of the 2019-2020 revolt in Chile, join us for an event in Tucson, Arizona featuring memes, videos, and stories from the uprising.
October 18, 2023
7:30 PM
@BCCtucson
101 E. Ventura St.
with a special guest
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Tonight, after a judge dropped the murder charges against the police officer who killed Eddie Irizarry, people in Philadelphia engaged in multiple forms of protest, including looting corporate stores like Apple and Foot Locker.
This is a rational protest tactic in a society in which police murder hundreds of young people of color with impunity every year, in which millions are forced to scrape by in poverty while billionaires flaunt their wealth.
In the words of one witness of tonight's protests in Philadelphia, "Everybody must eat."
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As thousands of refugees pour into Armenia from Nagorno-Karabakh, we've added the perspective of another anarchist in Yerevan to our coverage of the situation.
https://crimethinc.com/ArmeniaAnalysis2023
In this analysis, the author argues that within Armenia, the ongoing Nagorno-Karabakh crisis has been used to quell dissent and discourage criticism of Armenian nationalism. Politicians on both sides of the conflict have used the threat of war to consolidate power and fatten their wallets. Now, despite having been partly responsible for creating this tragedy, the political opposition in Armenia is using Azerbaijan's seizure of the region opportunistically with the same intent as before.
There is no nationalist solution to oppression or war.
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Participants in the movement to #StopCopCity have called for a mass action to shut down construction November 10-13. This follows the indictment of 61 people on trumped up RICO charges and the Atlanta city government's outrageous decision to reject a petition signed by over 100,000 locals demanding a referendum on whether to build Cop City.
https://atlpresscollective.com/2023/09/12/block-cop-city-group-issues-call-for-mass-action-to-stop-construction/
This is the next stage of a historic struggle.
Those who hold power today intend to deal with ecological and economic crises by channeling more and more money towards police in order to repress the victims. The outcome of the movement in Atlanta will determine what the future looks like for all of us.
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