"How do you feel about people who would say that direct action, shutting off the streets to traffic and so on, is really not a democratic way to go on? What would you say to that?"

"I don't agree with democracy, anyway, because democracy is about handing your power over to other people, it's still about a minority of people controlling the lives of everyone. Direct action is really simple, it just means taking control of your life, taking your freedom, which comes with your responsibility and your self-awareness and your awareness of your impact upon other human beings."

https://crimethinc.com/ReclaimtheStreets

From the text about the collective defense against the J20 charges:

"Let us pause in awe at the stupefying hypocrisy of those who profess to believe in the 'rule of law.' How can it be that the prosecutor, the court bureaucracy, and two grand juries were permitted to terrorize two hundred defendants with multiple nonexistent felony charges for nearly a year? Surely, if anyone is still naïve enough to earnestly believe in the rule of law, they should consider those who are complicit in pressing nonexistent charges to be the number one threat to civil society. Prosecutors, police, and judges neither believe in nor uphold the rule of law any more than the most iconoclastic anarchist does. The difference is that anarchists are honest about this and propose an ethical alternative, whereas the professionals of the justice industry shamelessly pursue personal gain and little else."

A week and a half after we published this text, the Democrats finally compelled Joe Biden to withdraw from the 2024 presidential race. But our argument stands—not just because it took almost a month for Biden to withdraw, and not only because he simply passed the torch to Kamala Harris, who represents the same policies and the same ossified bureaucracy, but because all the problems we face remain as intractable as they were before he dropped out.

A real solution would not change who the Democratic candidate for president is—it would render it irrelevant.

https://crimethinc.com/BidenDoomed

124 years ago today, Gaetano Bresci, an Italian anarchist who had already risked his life to save Errico Malatesta from an assassination attempt, sacrificed his life to impose consequences on the king of Italy for the deaths of hundreds of poor working people.

Under interrogation, he insisted that he acted alone, and said:

“I’m sure I was not wrong to do what I did. I do not even intend to appeal. I appeal only to the next proletarian revolution.”

In his honor, we produced our first singing zine (sound on!). This particular zine performs “Alla stazion di monza,” one of several traditional Italian songs about Bresci’s courageous act of self-sacrifice.

You can read our biography of Bresci here:

https://crimethinc.com/bresci

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Was ist Sicherheitskultur?

https://crimethinc.com/2004/11/01/was-ist-sicherheitskultur

Eine Sicherheitskultur ist eine Reihe von Angewohnheiten, die von einer Gruppe geteilt wird. Eine Sicherheitskultur ist so entworfen, dass sie für Menschen, die vom Staat verfolgt werden könnten, das Risiko senkt geschnappt zu werden.

#Deutsch

The wave of racist attacks taking place around the UK is, in part, the consequence of right-wing billionaires acquiring control of social media. After Elon Musk bought Twitter, he reinstated the accounts of Tommy Robinson and many other fascists. One of Tommy Robinson's key henchmen posted the video that contributed to setting off this wave of attacks. Musk has continued to stoke the fires.

While liberals may respond by calling for more crackdowns on "extremism" on social media, such crackdowns would inevitably target the anti-fascists who represent the last line of defense against despotism. Instead, let's start by asking what it is that billionaires like Elon Musk stand to gain from scapegoating immigrants and promoting civil war, then consider what it will take to stop them.

https://crimethinc.com/twittercanary

This collection of reports from the UK offers a glimpse into the wave of far-right attacks sweeping the country and documents how police are targeting anti-fascists who seek to defend their communities.

https://itsgoingdown.org/uk-mass-community-defense-far-right-attacks/

Trying to find our books in Europe? Black Mosquito finally has all our English noscripts back in stock, along with their German versions.

https://black-mosquito.org/de/lesen.html?buch_autor=755