Otra guerra era posible

Revisando el movimiento contra la globalización capitalista desde nuestro presente distópico

https://crimethinc.com/2025/07/01/otra-guerra-era-posible-revisando-el-movimiento-contra-la-globalizacion-capitalista-desde-nuestro-presente-distopico-1

Al revisar las luchas que tuvieron lugar a principios del siglo desde el punto de vista actual, podemos comprender cuánto está en juego en las luchas de hoy.

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Today, even Jair Bolsonaro should be wishing he had been a prison abolitionist!

An analysis of the coup attempt that finally landed him in prison, written by Brazilian anarchists immediately after the events:

https://crimethinc.com/January8Brazil

"The biggest shame for the left as a whole—and especially for those who consider themselves radicals—is that the government of Jair Bolsonaro and his militias reorganized the entire state structure, dismantling public health, education, and environmental protections while targeting Black and Indigenous people, women, and LGBTQI+ people, all in the midst of a global pandemic that killed more people in Brazil than the per capita average worldwide. Yet we were unable to respond throughout those events—neither with a general strike, nor by shutting down cities and highways, nor by invading the president’s palace.

"Now all of those actions, which we should have taken to defend ourselves against the far right, are associated with the far right. This contributes to a discourse that will paralyze us, rendering it impossible to wield the leverage we need to against fascists both outside and inside state institutions, not to mention the other parties that will also use the institutions of government to continue imposing the worst effects of capitalism on us.

"We need to foment popular revolt that includes all the disenfranchised sectors of society, everyone who is targeted by fascists, everyone who suffers under capitalism even when it is managed by a progressive government. We must not delegitimize insurrection when the state apparatus is in the hands of the center-left while the streets remain in the hands of fascists and security forces. We must find ways to resist, rejecting the blackmail of those who claim that the most important thing is to maintain order, with their eternal moralism in defense of private property and state power."

"No one colonizes innocently, no one colonizes with impunity either; a nation which colonizes, a civilization which justifies colonization and therefore force, is already a sick civilization, a civilization which is morally diseased."

—Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism

In recognition of the Day of Mourning that the United American Indians declared on this day in 1970, and in hopes of offering important context to colonial mythology about early Thanksgivings, we offer the story of Metacomet’s War:

https://crimethinc.com/Metacomet

Charting a trajectory from the punk underground of the 1980s to today's struggles against autocracy, a participant in CrimethInc. projects spoke with the Woodbine podcast about the importance of institutional memory in radical politics and the advantages of explicitly anarchist organizing.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/35-crimethinc-on-144924986

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When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE

A Guide from Chicago Organizers

https://crimethinc.com/StandUptoICE

Are masked agents stalking your town, looking to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect each other, but don’t know where to start?

We hope this guide will help you prepare to stand up to federal agencies like Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as they attempt to abduct people from your community. It is based on the knowledge that an array of people have accumulated in Chicago over the past several months during “Operation Midway Blitz.”

As federal agents expand their assaults on communities across the country, it is crucial to share and build on these practices.

Today is the birthday of Errico Malatesta, a tireless anarchist organizer and author active on four continents across six decades. To observe the occasion, we invite you to read about how he and his comrades organized mutual aid to address the cholera epidemic of 1884.

https://crimethinc.com/cholera

Malatesta began his revolutionary career in Italy in the 1870s. Flirting with left nationalism as a teenager, he concluded that only anarchism offered real change, and joined the famously insurrectionist Italian section of the International.

Having seen how republican nationalism had only brought a new regime to power in Italy and reinforced existing social inequalities, he opposed statist models for social change in favor of grassroots labor organizing and militant resistance.

After being exiled to imprisonment on an island, Malatesta managed to escape Italy concealed in a box of sewing machines. He went on to assist in establishing the labor movement in Argentina, survived an assassination attempt in New Jersey, and organized one clandestine newspaper and uprising after another.

He remains an example to us all. 🏴

There is nothing more despicable than those who choose to do harm to their neighbors in return for a paycheck.

Such people will do anything—tell any lie, commit any atrocity, wrest a child from her parents.

All humanity should band together against the mercenaries.

https://crimethinc.com/StandUptoICE