In 2016, we debated whether it was accurate to describe Donald Trump as a fascist. In 2024, even his former appointees agree with our conclusion: Trump indeed represents fascism.

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Yes, Trump Represents Fascism

Earlier this week, we published a text from a comrade entitled Does Trump Represent Fascism, or White Supremacy? We’ve received this counterpoint...

We now offer a zine version of "Ya Ghazze Habibti—Gaza, My Love" in which an anarchist from occupied Palestine reviews the history of Zionist colonialism and Palestinian resistance, makes the case for an anti-colonial understanding of the situation, and explores what it means to act in solidarity with Palestinians.

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Ya Ghazze Habibti—Gaza, My Love

You can read this text in its entirety online here, complete with hyperlinks and footnotes.

“Live Free, Ride Free, Fuck NYPD” A Report from a Mass Fare Evasion in New York City

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"Live Free, Ride Free, Fuck NYPD"

A report from a mass fare evasion in New York City.

On Sunday, September 15, New York City police officers shot live rounds at random into the L train at the Sutter Avenue station at the border of Brownsville and East New York, Brooklyn. They were pursuing a Black man who had allegedly skipped the $2.90 fare. They shot him and two unfortunate bystanders—one in the arm, one in the head. On Wednesday, September 18, hundreds of people gathered at Union Square to carry out a mass fare evasion in response to this heinous attack.

Rebellious souls in Russia have sent us a photograph of this banner hanging over the train tracks in the Leningrad region. It reads "ПРИЗНАЙСЯ, ЧТО ХОЧЕШЬ ВОССТАНИЯ!"—"Say You Want an Insurrection," the title of our classic text discussing insurrectionary anarchism. While the title has an ironic aspect in English on account of the association with a certain song by the Beatles, in Russian, it comes across more like "Admit it: you want to revolt!" Along with the photograph, we received this message: "Rebellion is a time when fear turns into joy. This time is not in the past and does not wait in the future. Rebellion lives in the present. The rebellion of ungovernable lives against the military death machine, of unbridled diversity against xenophobia and patriarchal cynicism, of everything strange against the general fatigue, apathy, and boredom. "The uprising speaks in each of us in the transcendant languages ​​of rage and love. Our distant friends, we are beside you, we are among you. isn't it time for us to admit, together, that we want the same—many and different—uprisings!" It is heartening to know that even under conditions of intense repression and autocracy, the desire to revolt thrives.

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Say You Want an Insurrection

So do we—a total break with domination and hierarchy in all their forms, involving an armed uprising if need be. Until that’s possible, we’ll...

This week, there are demonstrations in New York City after police attacked a person they accused of dodging the fare on the subway. Multiple police opened fire, shooting the suspect, each other, and several other people who happened to be in the station. It's senseless to have police randomly shooting people to enforce a $2.90 fare. Make the subways free as a step towards the abolition of capitalism and police.

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Friday, November 29: Nobody Pays!

On November 29, nobody pays. This is a call for a strike against the rising cost of living. Hop the turnstiles. Open the gates. Sabotage the machines.

Thirteen years ago today, 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, we can see how dramatically the terrain of social movements has changed as our society has polarized. The organizers of Occupy Wall Street proposed to create a movement that could bring all society together against the ruling order and the few who profit from it, mobilizing under the slogan “We are the 99%.” Today, the divisions that cut through our society have only deepened, rendering it more difficult to imagine social change. Now, the capitalist order is not stabilized by the illusion of general consent, but rather by the looming threat of violent conflict. Yet if anything, this only renders it more important to learn from and experiment with the legacy of the Occupy movement today.

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Reflecting on Occupy Wall Street, Thirteen Years Later

Revisiting the Occupy movement today, we can see how dramatically the terrain of social movements has changed as our society has polarized.

As the news cycle focuses on the latest apparent assassination attempt, the real story here is that arms profiteers have flooded the United States with weapons—while social crises have intensified—to such an extent that even billionaires like Donald Trump are experiencing the consequences. There have already been hundreds of mass shootings in the United States in 2024. Trump is just getting a small taste of how the rest of us live. The difference is that the rest of us don't have the Secret Service and millions of dollars in security to protect us. As usual, the ruling class create a threat to us, profit on it, then pretend to be the chief victims. The solution is not more police repression, nor more state-imposed gun control (since that would only be enforced via more police violence). We have to organize collectively and horizontally to defend ourselves against arms profiteers, police, and politicians.

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Their Guns Won't Protect You, but They Can Get You Killed

Neither Republican calls for more policing nor Democrat demands for more gun control can put an end to the epidemic of mass shootings in the US.

The attacks that took place on September 11, 2001 left much of the US population more stunned than bellicose. Yet politicians had prepared a flood of new legislation and military interventions in advance for precisely such an opportunity. They initiated a new round of colonial wars and crackdowns on domestic dissent. More than a million people died as a consequence of the subsequent invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq and the resulting turmoil. The rise of the Islamic State and, later, the disorganized withdrawal of the US military from Afghanistan showed how little these operations achieved their professed objectives. Yet by creating this disaster, George W. Bush managed to ride the coattails of war to another term as president. Since October 7, 2023, the Israeli government has pursued a similar course, taking advantage of the opportunity to destroy Gaza and butcher tens of thousands of Palestinians. This will not make anyone safer in the region—neither Palestinians nor Israelis nor anyone else. It is calculated to create an ongoing crisis that will keep the most chauvinistic Israeli politicians in power at everyone else's expense. Today as in 2001, our leaders will not protect us, but they can get us killed. Stop the genocide in Palestine.

The French 9/11

A dialogue with the French news source Lundimatin about the Terror War, state security, and what the aftermath of September 11 can teach people in ...

In 1930, the German state of Thuringia was the first in which the Nazi Party won the elections. This week, the fascist party Alternative für Deutschland won the highest number of votes in Thuringia. The resurgence of fascism in Germany is reflected in a wave of Nazi street violence around the country. Around the world, neoliberal regimes have brutally repressed anti-capitalist movements, creating a situation in which fascists can pretend to represent the only alternative. Fascism will continue to gain momentum until we create grassroots movements that can crush it while addressing the problems capitalism creates. Background:

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Germany: In the Streets against Fascism, Again

Anti-fascists explore the recent rise of fascist politics in Germany and the potential of the current street mobilizations against it.