Before there is confusion about why people would smash windows at the Democratic Party building in Portland, remember, it is Democratic politicians that oversee ongoing police violence in Portland, along with imprisonment and deportations.

Democratic politicians are actively inflicting evictions and homelessness on people in Portland:

https://twitter.com/PortlandDSA/status/1350566558913839104

And this same march was attacked from the beginning by police overseen by Democrats:

https://twitter.com/R3volutionDaddy/status/1352029010755162118

Rather than just being grateful that the lesser of two evils is in power, let's keep organizing to resist oppression.

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“The usual passive attitude that is typical for these kinds of protests has been abandoned. People are fighting back against the police. Likewise, these rallies aren’t just in the typical places, nor are they comprised of just the same politically active upper-class people. From the city of Chita, we hear stories that the cops have been routed. In Perm, a crowd applauds after anarchists speak about rebellion, self-organized activity, and solidarity against repression. In Irkutsk, people are receiving anarchists and their words warmly as well. In one place, people block police cars, while in another, they de-arrest a protester. On one street, a man knocks out a cop, while on another, people chant “Freedom! Freedom!” as a woman wrestles a baton from a cop’s hand. Beyond the growing interest in anarchist ideas, which is certainly exciting, there is an even more exciting anarchic potential in the revolt that broke out today, however humble.”

A letter from Russian anarchists on the protests shaking the country this week:

https://crimethinc.com/2021/01/24/letter-from-russia-on-the-protests-of-january-23

“The people are not sheep”

Yes, Joe Biden's decision to repeal Trump's ban on transgender people serving openly in the military will mean less fear and danger for those who have no better option.

But the best way to support trans people is still to ensure that everyone has a better option than enlisting in the military.

True liberation means abolishing all militaries. Institutions like the US military have always been used against those on the margins. The stronger they are, the less assured our own freedom will be.

https://cwc.im/transban2

From inclusion to resistance!

"Transgender people today are at a crossroads. Which side of the barricades will we be on? Will we be letting our commanding officer know which pronoun we prefer them to use as they order us to shoot tear gas canisters at our neighbors? Or will we be joining everyone who hungers for the freedom to determine our lives, our genders, our sexualities, and our futures together, as we see fit, outside the boxes offered to us by enlistment forms and cellblocks?"

On January 25, 2011, demonstrations around Egypt called by the Facebook page “We Are All Khaled Said”—named for a victim of police brutality—initiated the uprising that toppled the dictator Mubarak.

Today, all around the world, we remain stuck at the same historical point—facing the same police.

While the ensuing revolution changed the heads of state, it left the architecture of power in place. An election put Morsi from the Muslim Brotherhood in power; when oppression and unrest continued, the military took advantage of this to install a new autocrat, el-Sisi.

We need to make structural changes in our societies, not just swap out rulers or trust electoral politics to fix things. We need to transform our relationships profoundly via deep-rooted movements based in global solidarity, ultimately abolishing the institutions of oppression.

We can learn a great deal from comrades in Egypt who have lived through the success and appropriation of a full-scale revolution, followed by years of intense repression.

A short reading list on the Egyptian Revolution:

"Egypt Today, Tomorrow the World"—Our analysis from February 2, 2011, when the revolution was underway but Mubarak still held power:
https://cwc.im/d

"Fire in Cairo: an Egyptian anarchist talks about the January 25th revolt" (May 2011)
http://libcom.org/library/fighting-dictators-old-new-egyptian-anarchist-talks-about-january-25th-revolt

Egypt: the necessity of revolutionary violence (April 2013)—Obama misrepresented the revolution that toppled Mubarak as nonviolent, but, as this author recalls, "Without revolutionary violence, there would be no revolution."
https://roarmag.org/essays/egypt-violence-revolution-state-collapse/

"Egypt’s Ongoing Uprising"—A report from the streets of Egypt on the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the revolution.
https://cwc.im/egypt

"Letter to the Egyptian Black Bloc"—An open letter from US black bloc participants in February 2013
https://cwc.im/lettertoegypt

A short reading list on the Egyptian Revolution, part II:

"Goodbye, Welcome, my ‘Revolution’" …Egypt, The Military, The Brotherhood & Tamarod—On the coup of July 2013 in which the military took advantage of popular unrest to seize power
http://mohamedjeanveneuse.blogspot.com/2013/07/goodbye-welcome-my-revolutionegypt.html

"Fetishizing the State"—Analysis from August 2013
http://baheyya.blogspot.com/2013/08/fetishizing-state.html?spref=tw

"Things I learned on how not to remember the revolution"—10 years since the Arab Spring: Beyond the monument of history
https://madamasr.com/en/2021/01/25/opinion/u/things-i-learned-on-how-not-to-remember-the-revolution/

Finally, these sites offer a tremendous amount of useful archival material:

http://she2i2.blogspot.com
https://tahriricn.wordpress.com

Solidarity to those still fighting in Egypt and throughout North Africa today. May we survive to meet in a world without dictators, presidents, armies, or borders.

على أمل بأن نلتقي في شوارع عالم بلا دولة.

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As new crackdowns emerge on the stock market to insulate hedge funds and capitalists from innovative disruptions to the system, we look back to our reflections immediately on the heels of the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement:

“The same technology that helped capitalists outflank the resistance of the 1960s has produced new forms of revolt, from file-sharing to viral riots. Without the advance endorsement of Anonymous, for example, Occupy Wall Street might never have gotten off the ground. We can expect to see a worldwide authoritarian backlash against the internet-spread and twitter-savvy revolts of 2011.
Much of this clampdown will take the form of direct surveillance and censorship. We take for granted that those are chiefly employed in places like Syria and Tunisia; in fact, most of the censorship technology those governments use comes from Silicon Valley—and was first applied right here in the US.”

https://crimethinc.com/2012/01/18/2012-the-empire-has-no-clothes-whats-at-stake-in-the-new-year

Republicans are pretending that it's "not capitalism" for the wealthy to make the rules benefit them.

But capitalism always concentrates wealth in the hands of a privileged class who use it to hoard power.

That's how it works:
cwc.im/work

Down with fake revolts.

The power of Wall Street is the logical outcome of a profit-driven system.

It is grotesque buffoonery—if not outright anti-Semitism—for Republicans to protest their own favorite system on the grounds that it is bringing "elites" to power.

Abolish capitalism and the state.

January 28, 2012: During a standoff with police, a participant in Occupy Oakland demonstrates the proper meaning of armchair anarchism.

Used properly, just about anything can be a weapon.

http://cwc.im/Contradictionary

Not that we begrudge anyone their comfort, mind you!