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Puhe ihmisoikeuksista ei ole onnistunut pysäyttämään Gazan kansanmurhaa Jaffalainen anarkisti siirtomaavallan vastaisten vapautusstrategioiden välttämättömyydestä #Suomi

“Ydinasesupervalta ja riistetyt ihmiset” https://crimethinc.com/2023/10/08/ydinasesupervalta-ja-riistetyt-ihmiset-an-anarchist-from-jaffa-on-the-escalation-in-palestine-and-israeli-repression Lokakuun 7. päivänä Gazan kaistaa hallitseva Hamas-puolue rikkoi sitä ympäröivän piiritysmuurin ja teki useita iskuja. Israelin hallitus on vastannut täydellä sotilasoperaatiolla. Molemmat osapuolet ovat kohdistaneet hyökkäyksiään siviileihin ja sotilaisiin, mutta näitä tapahtumia voidaan ymmärtää vain vuosikymmeniä kestäneen sorron ja etnisen puhdistuksen kontekstissa. Tuolloin olimme juuri lopettamassa Jonathan Pollakin haastattelua, joka oli anarkisti Jaffasta — palestiinalaisesta kaupungista, jossa oli vielä viime aikoihin asti enemmistönä arabeja. #Suomi

Maitasunari buruzko oharrak https://crimethinc.com/2024/02/14/maitasunari-buruzko-oharrak Kontsumismoz eta azaleko erromantizismoz betetako garaian, New Yorkeko burkide baten manifestu honek maitasuna aztertzen du militantziaren oinarri gisa. #Euskara

Notas sobre el amor https://crimethinc.com/2024/02/14/notas-sobre-el-amor En un día a menudo lleno de consumismo y romanticismo superficial, este manifiesto de un camarada de Nueva York explora el amor como fundamento de la militancia. #Español

El discurso de los derechos humanos ha fracasao en detener el genocidio en Gaza https://crimethinc.com/2024/02/13/el-discurso-de-los-derechos-humanos-ha-fracasao-en-detener-el-genocidio-en-gaza-un-anarquista-de-jaffa-sobre-la-necesidad-de-estrategias-anticoloniales-para-la-liberacion Un anarquista de Jaffa explica por qué no debemos confiar en las instituciones internacionales para poner fin al genocidio en Gaza. #Español

The Maidan Diary of Dmitry Petrov An Eyewitness Account of the Ukrainian Revolution of 2014 https://crimethinc.com/PetrovUkraine Dmitry Petrov cut his teeth in various anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian, and ecological struggles. He traveled to Kyiv to support Ukrainians as they resisted a government that was aligned with the same autocracy that anarchists were fighting in Russia. What Dmitry saw in Kyiv was by turns exhilarating and disheartening. In his reports, he documents how militarism, nationalism, and hierarchical organization channeled the movement away from the kinds of profound social change that he sought. At the same time, even in the face of fascist threats, he did his best to make a space for anarchist proposals in the Maidan protests. We have translated Dmitry’s reports from February 2014 because they offer insight into historic events, but also because the questions that Dmitry faced there continue to confront us today.

"Let love be the fire that burns this world. Let love be the seed that grows from its ashes." https://crimethinc.com/notesonlove

"Leadership is a social disorder in which the majority of participants in a group fail to take initiative or think critically about their actions. As long as we understand agency as a property of specific individuals rather than a relationship between people, we will always be dependent on leaders—and at their mercy. Truly exemplary leaders are as dangerous as the obviously corrupt, in that all their praiseworthy qualities only reinforce their status and others’ deference, not to mention the legitimacy of leadership itself." https://tochangeeverything.com

“Every leader kills people, including my leader. Every leader kills people. Some kill more than others. Leadership requires killing people.” -Tucker Carlson Liberal outrage over Carlson saying this to excuse Vladimir Putin—immediately before Putin had Alexei Navalny killed—is beside the point. Supporters of Carlson, Putin, and Donald Trump admire killers. Liberals are only offering a more milquetoast version of the same political model, which puts them at a disadvantage today. The anarchist alternative is to seek to distribute agency horizontally: not to worship leaders and glorify the state and its violence, but to make it impossible for anyone to rule. In the long run, this is the only real alternative to authoritarianism.

Navalny himself does not interest us. As a Russian anarchist put it a couple years ago, "Navalny is an opportunistic ultra-nationalist bigot of a politician who paints himself as a populist using a narrative of anti-corruption politics that would only prop up a different batch of oligarchs." Still, the protests when Navalny was arrested in 2021 were arguably one of the last expressions of the kind of mass resistance that could have prevented the invasion of Ukraine: https://crimethinc.com/2021/01/24/letter-from-russia-on-the-protests-of-january-23 (See attached video.) The recent events in Russia show that when authoritarians like Putin or Donald Trump gain power, it is only the beginning of the bloodshed. But the tendency to rally around opposition figures rather than developing horizontal networks of resistance is part of the problem.

Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny has died in prison, presumably murdered on the orders of Vladimir Putin. In the run-up to the rigged Russian elections this March, the puppet opposition figure Boris Nadezhdin became a rallying point for genuine anti-war sentiment and subsequently began to act in defiance of the Kremlin—not unlike how Yevgeny Prigozhin began as Putin's lackey but eventually struck out on his own. In this context, Putin likely feels that he cannot afford to permit any opposition figure to remain alive.

As Egypt builds a five-meter-high concrete wall to seal off off a five-square-kilometer area along the Gaza border, we cannot help but think of the "no-go zone" on the border of Poland and Belarus, in which thousands of refugees have been enclosed over a period of years, trapped between countries, left to die. https://crimethinc.com/NoBordersTeam Since 2021, the government of Belarus has used thousands of refugees displaced by wars in Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, Ethiopia, and elsewhere to exert pressure on the European Union. EU governments have left these refugees in limbo between two militarized borders, establishing a restricted zone so that observers cannot see them die. The majority of the inhabitants of Gaza were already refugees from other parts of Palestine. The world has turned a blind eye to Israeli ethnic cleansing in Gaza. If we permit them to complete that process by forcing the survivors into a containment zone across the Egyptian border, it will set a precedent that will be repeated elsewhere.

"Love is a quality of attention, a sensitivity to the world and everything that is possible in it. When we fight on the basis of what we love, rather than in service of ideology or cowardice, we open ourselves to serve as a channel through which everything beautiful in the world can defend itself. To choose love is to choose to keep feeling the blows when others are under attack—everyone facing felony charges, everyone threatened with deportation, all the rivers and animals and plants that sustain us despite all the violence inflicted upon them. Love is not reducible to peace." https://crimethinc.com/withbarricades

Дискурс прав человека не смог остановить геноцид в секторе Газа Анархист из Яффо о необходимости антиколониальной стратегии для освобождения https://crimethinc.com/2024/02/13/diskurs-prav-chielovieka-nie-smogh-ostanovit-ghienotsid-v-siektorie-gaza-anarkhist-iz-iaffo-o-nieobkhodimosti-antikolonialnoi-stratieghii-dlia-osvobozhdieniia-1 Спустя четыре месяца после нападения на Газу израильские военные вытеснили более миллиона беженцев к границе с Египтом и теперь бомбят их, угрожая организовать наземное наступление. В следующем тексте Йонатан Поллак, давний участник организации Анархисты против стены и других инициатив антиколониальной солидарности объясняет, почему нам не следует обращаться к международным институтам или протестным движениям внутри израильского общества, чтобы положить конец геноциду в секторе Газа, и призывает простых людей к действию. #Русский

"All power to joy, which will remake the world." -Diane di Prima, Revolutionary Letter #50 https://crimethinc.com/texts/joinresistance

Notes on Love https://crimethinc.com/notesonlove On a day often filled with consumerism and shallow romanticism, this manifesto from a comrade in New York City explores love as a foundation for militancy—a means of resisting, redeeming, and transforming.

Today marks four years since the passing of Aragorn!, a tireless polemicist and curator of anarchist infrastructure. In this elegy, we explored the ways that his legacy challenges us, concluding with remembrances from comrades who shared some of his journey. https://crimethinc.com/2020/02/19/aragorn-elegy-for-an-antagonist-on-hostility-and-its-limits You can also read this interview conducted in summer 2018, in which he recounts his childhood in Grand Rapids, his youth in the hardcore scene, his introduction to anarchism, the motivations that drove him, and what it means to commit oneself to a life against the grain—traversing four decades of anarchist history. https://crimethinc.com/2020/02/19/a-hell-of-a-mistress-the-beautiful-idea-an-interview-with-aragorn

Human Rights Discourse Has Failed to Stop the Genocide in Gaza https://crimethinc.com/GazaGenocide Four months into the assault on Gaza, the Israeli military has forced over a million refugees to the edge of the Egyptian border and is now bombing them while threatening to mount a ground assault against them. Jonathan Pollak, a longtime participant in Anarchists Against the Wall and other anti-colonial solidarity efforts, explains why we should not look to international institutions or protest movements within Israeli society to put a stop to the genocide in Gaza and calls on ordinary people to take action.

Human Rights Discourse Has Failed to Stop the Genocide in Gaza https://crimethinc.com/GazaGenocide Four months into the assault on Gaza, the Israeli military has forced over a million refugees to the edge of the Egyptian border and is now bombing them while threatening to mount a ground assault against them. In the following text, Jonathan Pollak, a longtime participant in Anarchists Against the Wall and other anti-colonial solidarity efforts, explains why we should not look to international institutions or protest movements within Israeli society to put a stop to the genocide in Gaza and calls on ordinary people to take action.