An incomplete roundup of responses to the shooting of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, and the arrest of Luigi Mangione, the person being charged in connection to it—including graffiti, posters, corporate media interviews, public demonstrations, and more.
News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava A Russian anarchist volunteer speaks on the collapse of the Assad regime, the future of Russia, and the looming threat of a Turkish-backed invasion of northeastern Syria. image
One way to prepare for the second Trump era is to organize a screening of "Fell in Love with Fire," a feature-length documentary about the popular uprising that swept Chile in 2019. It explores how demonstrators took control of the streets while remaining leaderless.
As Turkish proxy forces prepare to invade northeastern Syria in order to carry out ethnic cleansing targeting the Kurdish population, it's important to understand the roots of Turkish fascism. image
Although Assad has fallen, the tragedies in Syria continue. The Syrian National Army, a Turkish proxy force, has captured the city of Manbij and aims to storm Kobane next. Turkey intends to conquer all Rojava and carry out ethnic cleansing there. In 2014, with the tacit support of the Turkish government, the Islamic State took over most of northern Syria, carrying out massacres as they gained ground. In the town of Kobane, locals managed to halt their advance only a few miles from the Turkish border. Now, Kobane is at risk once again. In Rojava, multiethnic militias including anarchist volunteers from around the world did most of the fighting and dying in the struggle against the Islamic State. Now the international community is preparing to look away while they are massacred. We must not let this happen. As in 2019—the last time Turkey mounted a major offensive against Rojava—solidarity actions are urgently needed. image
We can imagine FBI agents investigating the killing of the UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson struggling to make a *short list* of people who have been wronged by the insurance company. How did insurance companies become so hated? Modern-day insurance has its origins in grassroots mutual aid programs such as the "Friendly Societies" in which workers motivated by care for one another would pool their resources and take care of each other. Insurance only became a racket after this model was captured by the state and for-profit corporations. Though the proponents of capitalism and the state claim that centralization and privatization are essential for scaling up social infrastructure and making it run "more efficiently," state bureaucracy and for-profit models have chiefly served to concentrate control over everyone's lives in the hands of a few oligarchs. And the more unevenly power is distributed in a society, the more volatile that society is bound to be. image
WTO Anniversary Reading List Today marks 25 years since anarchists and other protesters shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle. This was the public debut of what journalists dubbed the “anti-globalization movement”—in fact, a global movement against neoliberal capitalism. This analysis explores the origins of that movement and what it can teach us today: *** For a strategic analysis of how anarchists and other rebels were able to successfully blockade the WTO summit, we recommend "Netwar in the Emerald City," included in our zine N30, which you can print here: *** For a spirited account from the front line in the streets on November 30, 1999, read "The Power Is Running": *** In 1999, opposing neoliberalism was an extremist position. Decades later, Donald Trump appropriated this narrative and rode it to victory. This was only possible because of reformist currents in the original movement—and because we hadn't overthrown capitalism ourselves. Studying the WTO protests, we can learn how a relatively small number of people can act effectively when they organize horizontally and ambitiously—and grasp the stakes of today's fights. The struggle continues. 🏴
The billionaires want us to spent our lives on a treadmill of exploitation and consumption—producing a profit for them in the workplace, then buying back the products of our labor in our leisure time so they get us coming and going. No wage, and nothing we could buy on the market, could make it worth giving up the precious hours of our lives and turning the world over to their destructive control. We only do those things because we have not yet worked out how to defend ourselves. But the hour is becoming late, indeed. #BlackFriday (sic)
The Case for Resistance: What We’re Up Against—and What It Could Look Like to Fight We have prepared a full analysis of what we can expect from Donald Trump’s second term and how we can prepare to confront it. If you're wondering how to resist, please review these proposals. image
The photograph shows our Brazilian comrades tabling at the anarchist book fair in Porto Alegre last weekend with many of our publications in Portuguese, including our new poster design, "Capitalism is the dance of death." It's also available in Basque and Spanish! If you ever need any of our publications in a language other than English, whether an article, a poster, a zine, a book, or something else, just look at its page on our site. Under the title, you'll see a list of the languages in which we offer it; just click on the one you need. Thanks to the tireless work of translators, we have material available on our website in four dozen different languages. We announce all non-English versions of our projects as they appear on our Telegram channel ( ), as that is the most widely followed by non-Anglophones—and we don't want to overload those who follow our other platforms.