"It’s not the barricade but the rifle that you have to hold onto."

-Buenaventura Durruti, born on this day in 1896

If you lose the barricade (for example, a social center, a forest occupation, a particular engagement with the state) but retain the rifle (the collective ability to fight, immunity to narratives that legitimize state violence, a commitment to solidarity over opportunism), you can still move from one engagement to the next, building capacity, even if you fail to hold a particular position in the fight.

If you lose the rifle but retain the barricade, it may appear that you have won, but thirty years later you will look around and find that you are inhabiting a museum surrounded by wine bars, like the once formidable squatting movements that retained a few properties in retain for ceasing to fight.

In a new filing in federal court, the government of Atlanta aims to shut down even the possibility of a referendum on the police militarization facility known as Cop City, arguing that the citizens of the city have no right to break off the city government's contract with the Atlanta Police Foundation.

Ordinarily, democracy functions as a sort of theater in which the authorities manage people's perceptions of what the general public desires. In this case, however, the authorities in Atlanta are so determined to channel millions of dollars to the police that they are prepared to do without any illusions about democracy or anything like it.

Background on the movement to #StopCopCity:

https://crimethinc.com/LivinginanEarthquake

Justice for Nahel

Grundlagene for oprøret i Frankrig

Følgende tekst blev sendt til os af franske kammerater på tredjedagen af det nuværende oprør, der antændtes af mordet på teenageren Nahel Merzouk begået af det franske politi i byen Nanterre, en forstad til Paris. Teksten forsøger at bringe en analyse af situationen samt et overblik over kampen mod politivold i Frankrig siden 1970’erne.

https://crimethinc.com/2023/07/02/justice-for-nahel-grundlagene-for-oproret-i-frankrig

#Dansk

Regarding the Eviction of the Self-Organized Refugee Camp in Lavrio, Greece

https://crimethinc.com/Lavrio

On July 5, 2023, the Greek government evicted a Kurdish refugee camp in Lavrio, Greece. The camp had existed for many decades, serving as an important center of organizing in southeastern Europe. Turkeys’ war on Kurdish people, the Greek government’s war on autonomous spaces, and the European Union’s war on migrants all intersect in this operation.

In this analysis, Beja Protner shows the connections between the different forms of systematic oppression involved.

Tomorrow will mark three years since the outbreak of the 2020 uprising in Belarus, when tens of thousands of people took the streets demanding the fall of Alexander Lukashenko's regime. Anarchists played an essential role in these events, being one of the only organized networks still active under his totalitarian rule.

The eventual crushing of the revolt helped pave the way for Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Here, you can read an analysis of the uprising from anarchist participants:

https://crimethinc.com/2021/06/30/belarus-when-we-rise-a-critical-analysis-of-the-2020-revolt-against-the-dictatorship

Nine years ago today, in Ferguson, Missouri, Darren Wilson murdered Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager—one of hundreds of cases every year in which a white police officer kills a young Black man in the United States.

Michael Brown's community responded immediately. For a week and a half, an ungovernable revolt raged in on the streets of Ferguson as angry residents and their supporters used a variety of tactics including arson, property destruction, looting, and gunfire to keep police at a distance and impose consequences for the murder. This set a precedent for subsequent rebellions around the country, culminating with the countrywide upheaval in response to the murder of George Floyd.

To understand the events of 2020 better, we can revisit the uprising in Ferguson and the practices and discourses that emerged in those days.

https://crimethinc.com/FergusonTimeline

Sull’espulsione del campo profughi autogestito di Lavrio, Grecia

https://crimethinc.com/2023/07/24/sullespulsione-del-campo-profughi-autogestito-di-lavrio-grecia-come-si-intersecano-le-guerre-della-turchia-contro-i-curdi-e-dellunione-europea-contro-i-migranti-1

Il 5 Luglio 2023, il governo greco ha sgomberato il campo profughi curdo di Lavrio, in Grecia. Il campo esisteva da molti decenni ed era un importante centro di organizzazione nell’Europa sud-orientale. Le guerre della Turchia contro i curdi, del governo greco contro gli spazi autonomi e dell’Unione Europea contro i migranti si sono intersecate in questa operazione. Nell’analisi che segue, Beja Protner mostra le connessioni tra le varie forme di oppressioni sistemiche coinvolte.

#Italiano

Speaking of book fairs, on August 19-20, we will participate in the third Belo Horizonte Anarchist Book Fair with materials in both English and Portuguese!

The bookfair is organized by the occupation Kasa Invisível and by COMPA (Coletivo Mineiro Popular Anarquista). It will take place in the Espaço Comum Luiz Estrela occupation and in the Vila Aparecida Social Center—including debates, book launches, film screenings and a large literary fair.

To learn more, attend, or register your collective to participate, visit:

www.instagram.com/feiraanarquistabhhttps://feiraanarquistabh.noblogs.org

Nota 3ª Feira do Livro Anarquista de Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil

Dias 19 e 20 de agosto, acontecerá a 3ª Feira do Livro Anarquista de Belo Horizonte e nossos colaboradores estarão lá com alguns de nossos melhores materiais disponíveis em inglês e muitos em português!

A Feira é organizada pela ocupação Kasa Invisível e pelo COMPA – Coletivo Mineiro Popular Anarquista e contecerá na ocupação Espaço Comum Luiz Estrela e no Centro Social Vila Aparecida, abrigando debates, lançamentos de livros, exibição de filmes e uma grande feira literária.

Para saber mais, visitar ou inscrever seu movimento ou coletivo, visite:
www.instagram.com/feiraanarquistabhhttps://feiraanarquistabh.noblogs.org

#Português

Tonight we give thanks that six years ago, on August 12, 2017, courageous people from around the southeastern United States gathered in Charlottesville, Virginia to prevent fascists from building a united street movement. At that time, few outside the anarchist and anti-fascist movements really understood the threat that the fascists gathering in Charlottesville represented. Afterwards, it was clear to all.

This was a costly victory—one person gave her life, and many others suffered life-threatening injuries. But if people had not confronted the fascists that day, they might have gained considerably more numbers and power, killing and injuring many more people.

Here, you can read an interview with an anarchist who participated in countering the fascist mobilization that day:

https://crimethinc.com/squaringoff