For the 54-year anniversary of the Stonewall rebellion, please read our reflection on those events, "Stonewall Means Riot Right Now."

https://crimethinc.com/2020/06/28/stonewall-means-riot-right-now-what-the-queer-uprisings-of-1969-share-with-the-george-floyd-protests-of-2020

From comrades in Brazil:

On June 30, the Superior Electoral Court voted to ban ex-president Jair Bolsonaro from running for office for eight years. Just like the lawsuit against Donald Trump for keeping secret documents at home, Bolsonaro's mild punishment shows that far-right political leaders can be openly racist and misogynistic, can propagate hate as state policy, can even weaponize the COVID-19 pandemic to bring about mass casualties without consequences, which are reserved for technical infractions.

Only revolt, popular organization, and open confrontation with the institutions through which Bolsonaro and Trump held power can open the road to liberation.

We recommend these articles on efforts to confront the pandemic, fascism, and the attempts of the institutional left to sabotage forms of radical organization:

Only Revolt Can Bring Down Bolsonaro

https://cwc.im/Brazil2021

Left Electoralism, Fascist Direct Action, and Anti-Fascist Resistance

https://crimethinc.com/BrazilElection2022

为纳赫尔伸张正义
法国现在的起义的源头

https://crimethinc.com/2023/07/02/wei-na-he-er-shen-zhang-zheng-yi-fa-guo-xian-zai-de-qi-yi-de-yuan-tou

#中文

The British comrades who made an A2 format printing of our new gender poster remix have received the printing and are mailing them out!

If you are in the UK, you can still order them here:

https://seditionist.uk/distro/visuals/posters-visuals/gender-self-determination-poster-a2/

Giustizia per Nahel
Radici delle rivolte in Francia

https://crimethinc.com/2023/07/02/giustizia-per-nahel-radici-delle-rivolte-in-francia-1

Il seguente testo ci è stato inviato dai compagni francesi il terzo giorno di disordini seguiti all’assassinio dell’adolescente Nahel Merzouk da parte della polizia francese nella città di Nanterre, un sobborgo di Parigi. Fornisce un’analisi della situazione e una panoramica della lotta contro la brutalità della polizia in Francia a partire dagli anni ‘70.

Oggi questo movimento sta affrontando un’intensa repressione nelle strade, nei media e nei tribunali. Ad oggi, oltre a Nahel, sono state uccise almeno tre persone. Piuttosto che concentrarci sul dispiegamento di poliziotti militari specializzati in tutto il paese, preferiamo iniziare con gli sforzi dei giovani che stanno rischiando la vita per difendere Nahel e per se stessi.

#Italiano

We've prepared a zine version of "Living in an Earthquake: The Fight Against Cop City Confronts Unprecedented Repression," part three of our history of the movement to #StopCopCity.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/living-in-an-earthquake

In this account and analysis, participants in the movement in Atlanta trace its trajectory from the fifth Week of Action that began on March 4, 2023 through the City Council vote of June 5.

Feel free to print and distribute!

Update from France, July 5

A little more than a week after Nahel’s passing, following five nights of revolt, the French state is using the full weight of the judiciary system to crush the uprising.

More than 300 people were sentenced to prison last night. Yesterday, at Créteil, in the southern part of the Paris region, almost all the youth who were being judged were sent to prison. It didn’t matter whether they had good lawyers or bad lawyers, whether there was evidence or not, whether they had good personality references, whether they had snitched. At the end of the day, everyone went back to Fresnes with sentences from 6 to 30 months.

The news from other courthouses across the Paris region is just as bad. The judges are following a directive of June 30 from Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, in which he calls for a “firm and fast response” with strict “safety measures”—in other words, imprisonment. The prosecutors and judges are eagerly complying.

Across France, people as young as 12 years old are being systematically sentenced to months or more in prison. In the streets, the affect is more and more nihilistic: “they can’t catch us all.” Still, for the past few days, things have been calmer at night. It could be that the repression is working to intimidate people; or that mothers are keeping their kids at home; or that the looting has slowed down because the stores need to be filled up with goods again; or that people are waiting for the weekend of July 14, the French national holiday, to set things ablaze once more.

You can read more about *comparution immédiates* ("immediate judgement"), which has been used in almost all the cases this week, here:

https://paris-luttes.info/la-justice-enferme-les-revolte-es-17244?lang=fr

Background:

https://crimethinc.com/Nahel