In a wide range of different traditions all around the world, people give gifts to celebrate important occasions. This is because gift-giving is more meaningful and more fulfilling than buying and selling. It fosters stronger communities and healthier relationships—both to each other and to material goods.

This is one of the many reasons why we are anti-capitalists. 🏴

Noticias del Frente: Las reflexiones de un anarquista ruso en Rojava

https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/19/noticias-del-frente-las-reflexiones-de-un-anarquista-ruso-en-rojava-sobre-el-colapso-de-assad-el-futuro-de-rusia-y-la-inminente-invasion-respaldada-por-turquia

Las reflexiones de un anarquista ruso en el noreste de Siria sobre la derrota de Assad, la retirada de las tropas de Putin y la amenaza de Turquía.

#Español

Anunciando The Beautiful Idea
Un nuevo podcast

https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/15/anunciando-the-beautiful-idea-un-nuevo-podcast

Presentamos un nuevo podcast (sólo en inglés), The Beautiful Idea, que ofrecerá reportajes y análisis de la actualidad.

#Español

Opór wobec lokalnego autorytaryzmu i wielobiegunowych imperializmów w Gruzji

https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/11/opor-wobec-lokalnego-autorytaryzmu-i-wielobiegunowych-imperializmow-w-gruzji

W setną rocznicę powstania w Gruzji przeciwko sowieckiej aneksji, walka o niezależność od rosyjskich rządów pozostaje główną siłą napędzającą powszechną mobilizację, która narastała w ciągu ostatnich kilku miesięcy. Jednak dzisiejszy ruch wskazuje na horyzont wykraczający poza wybór między Europą a Rosją, dwiema imperialnymi potęgami walczącymi o wpływy w regionie. Wyraża on rosnący społeczny gniew zarówno na lokalny autorytarny reżim, jak i na uchwyt, w jakim zagraniczne potęgi gospodarcze trzymają cały Kaukaz.

#Polski

This year, the challenge will be to fight as hard as we must while preserving the parts of ourselves that are imaginative, that are tender, that can not only desire a better world but believe it into being.

We can do this.

Happy new year, comrades. 🏴🖤

(Footage from an anarchist demonstration outside a jail on New Year's Eve.)

Violenza sacrificale e vendetta

https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/23/violenza-sacrificale-e-vendetta

Esploriamo le reazioni agli omicidi di Jordan Neely e Brian Thompson come modo per comprendere le diverse forme di violenza che si contendono la nostra società oggi.

#Italiano

Notizie dal fronte: Le riflessioni di un anarchico russo in Rojava

https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/19/notizie-dal-fronte-le-riflessioni-di-un-anarchico-russo-in-rojava-il-crollo-di-assad-il-futuro-della-russia-e-lincombente-invasione-turca

Le riflessioni di un anarchico russo nel nord-est della Siria sulla sconfitta di Assad, il ritiro delle truppe di Putin e la minaccia della Turchia.

#Italiano

2024: Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire—The Year in Review

https://crimethinc.com/2024inreview

It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024, as well as some of our own humble contributions to the fight for a better world.

2024: Dalla padella alla brace
Analisi finale dell’anno

https://crimethinc.com/2025/01/01/2024-dalla-padella-alla-brace-analisi-finale-dellanno

Facciamo un bilancio dell'anno appena trascorso e orientiamoci per l'anno che verrà. Rivediamo gli eventi del 2024, compresi i nostri contributi.

#Italiano

Carrying out “the largest deportation operation in American history,” as Trump has pledged to do, will wreck the US economy. It will deliver no material gains to the vast majority of his supporters, who benefit from the underpaid labor of the undocumented and the resulting cheapness of commodities. From a purely economic perspective, exploiting the labor of the undocumented provides more material advantages to Trump’s supporters than deporting them ever could. Deporting a million people in one year will cost eighteen times more than the entire world spends annually on cancer research.

In other words, mass deportations are a costly luxury indulgence that Trump’s supporters see as worth the expense because they experience the need for violence so intensely.

The solution to low wages is worldwide solidarity against the billionaires who exploit and oppress. Deporting people is performative violence intended to channel anger away from those who cause our suffering.

https://crimethinc.com/sacrificialviolence

Refleksje rosyjskiego anarchisty w Rożawie

https://crimethinc.com/2024/12/19/refleksje-rosyjskiego-anarchisty-w-rozawie-on-the-collapse-of-assad-the-future-of-russia-and-the-looming-turkish-backed-invasion

Aby uczłowieczyć przynajmniej jedną z niezliczonych osób, których życie wisi na włosku, przedstawiamy refleksje rosyjskiego anarchisty-wolontariusza w północno-wschodniej Syrii, który od wielu lat uczestniczy w rewolucyjnym eksperymencie w Rożawie.

#Polski