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Christmas – An ancient pagan holiday occurring around the winter solstice, celebrating a variety of deities including sun gods, sons of God, and, most recently, Mammon https://crimethinc.com/books/contradictionary

The Trump administration's efforts to criminalize opposition to fascism are taking effect overseas. Two banks are shutting down the accounts belonging to Rote Hilfe—a German legal aid organization over a century old—because of Trump designating so-called "Antifa Ost" as a "foreign terrorist organization." The designation has no equivalent in German law. It's based on a single case with extremely questionable evidence. The German government has not adopted the designation, repeatedly emphasizing that the purely legal construct "Antifa East" poses no significant threat. Nonetheless, these cowardly German banks are permitting Donald Trump to determine who they work with—despite the fact that the Trump administration has made it clear that not only do they oppose anti-fascism in general, they explicitly consider those who resisted the rise of Hitler to be "terrorists." https://rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/kontokuendigung-wegen-antifa-banken-vollstrecken-us-politik-deutschland

Quando cambia la marea https://crimethinc.com/2025/12/16/quando-cambia-la-marea-come-lottare-per-uscire-insieme-dallera-trump Rivisitiamo le forze strutturali dietro al ritorno di Trump al potere, riguardiamo agli eventi del 2025 e proponiamo una strategia per uscire insieme lottando dall’era Trump. #Italiano

While Trump’s henchmen dishonestly claim that ICE is targeting “criminals,” the real wrongdoers are those who do harm to their neighbors in return for a bribe. Our counter-recruitment poster against ICE, seen wheatpasted across middle America. You can put them up, too: https://crimethinc.com/mercenaries

Today, to observe the birthday of the anarchist poet Kenneth Rexroth, we present his poem “Noretorp Noretsyh” scrawled across the walls and rooftops of three continents, along with historical annotations to explicate its various references. https://crimethinc.com/rexroth

Say it loud, say it over and over: The violence that the Trump administration is perpetrating is not the consequence of the resistance that people are engaging in. It is the consequence of the fact that not enough people are engaging in open resistance yet. https://crimethinc.com/TurningTide

что такое культура безопасности Этот зин вы можете напечатать и собрать самостоятельно, скачав с сайта дистро: https://crimethinc.com/zines/chto-takoie-kultura-biezopasnosti Культурой безопасности называют совокупность привычек, заведённых в сообществе с целью снизить риски для его участников и участниц, которым грозит внимание государства. C опорой на культуру безопасности нет необходимости под каждый новый повод заново вырабатывать меры предосторожности, в напряжённой обстановке она поможет заглушить паранойю или панику и, может статься, даже убережёт тебя от тюрьмы. #Русский

At the Turning of the Tide: How to Fight Our Way out of the Trump Era https://crimethinc.com/TurningTide A year into the second Trump era, authoritarians are in control of the federal government, but they have yet to gain control of society at large. They have done tremendous harm, but their assault has hit a plateau, if not yet an impasse. They have to project strength at all times precisely because they are not invincible. It is finally possible to imagine how we might not only defeat them but take advantage of the situation to make more profound changes than were thinkable before. In this analysis, we revisit the structural forces behind Trump’s return to power, review the events of 2025, and propose a strategy for how to fight our way out of the Trump era together.

When autocracy takes hold in a country, everything goes on as before—police go on policing, landlords go on collecting rent, people go on showing up to work. The transition takes place so smoothly because all the elements necessary to fascism were present under democracy. https://crimethinc.com/democracy People imagine fascism as the opposite of democratic governance. In fact, it employs the same police, courts, property rights, patriotic mythology, and habits of obedience as state democracy. Wherever there is a powerful state with a monopoly on violence, fascism is only an election away. This is why resistance to authoritarianism must take place at all times, not simply when an army is invading under swastika flags. We must never conflate the smooth functioning of the state with freedom itself. Assuming that the "rule of law" is identical with self-determination gives aspiring despots a free hand.

https://crimethinc.com/mercenaries In order to keep Donald Trump’s voter base entertained with spectacles of predatory violence, recruiters are offering bribes of up to $50,000 to seduce gullible individuals into hiring themselves out to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). While Trump’s henchmen falsely claim that ICE is targeting “criminals,” the real wrongdoers are those who are prepared to do harm to their neighbors in return for a bribe. In cooperation with subMedia and the Coordinadora Anarquista Tejiendo Libertad, we have prepared a video and poster campaign to counter ICE recruitment. Please help us circulate these everywhere that people are at risk.

We are just in time to celebrate the birthday of Peter Kropotkin—the geographer, author, and anarchist revolutionary widely known for helping to popularize the concept of mutual aid—with this account detailing his narrow escape from a St. Petersburg prison. https://crimethinc.com/KropotkinBreakout 🏴

A year ago, following the fall of Assad, as Russian occupying forces withdrew from their positions in Syria, they passed a Russian anarchist who gazed into their eyes. The anarchist's side in the conflict had outlasted them. May the same thing happen in Russia one day. http://crimethinc.com/Rojava2024

"Not only do I want to see them killed... I'd really like to see them suffer. I'd like Trump and Hegseth to make it last a long time." The chief goal of the Trump regime's operations murdering people in the Caribbean is to foster bloodlust in their supporters—to turn them into debased monsters like the ghoul in this video. Why would they do that? Consult René Girard on sacrificial violence: https://crimethinc.com/sacrificialviolence Meanwhile, Democrat politicians are objecting to the strikes in the Caribbean—as should everyone. But Democrats have supported the Israeli government in continuously perpetrating precisely these same war crimes, including "double tap" murders in which they strike a civilian target, then hit the survivors. Real change is up to us.

On this day in December 2008, in the Exarchia district of Athens, a Greek police officer murdered Alexandros Grigoropoulos, a 15-year-old Greek anarchist. In response, the whole country rose in revolt. This interview describes the organizingbehind the insurrection: https://crimethinc.com/organizeaninsurrection Ever since, people in Greece have observed the murder of Alexandros and the insurrection of 2008 with a day of demonstrations: https://crimethinc.com/6December Today, we remember Alexandros and honor the courage of those who stood up to the police who murdered him. Police will go on killing as long as capitalism exists. But together, we can show that this is a senseless tragedy and make it possible to imagine the end of a social order based on domination.

CrimethInc. at the XV São Paulo Anarchist Fair! This Saturday, December 6, the São Paulo Anarchist Fair will take place. Our comrades will be there with books, zines, newspapers, and posters available during the event. Come along, participate in the debates, and learn about the collectives and movements from Brazil and around the world that will be present. Learn more: https://feiranarquistasp.wordpress.com/ Access all CrimethInc. books in Portuguese here: https://pt.crimethinc.com/books

CrimethInc. na XV FEIRA ANARQUISTA DE SÃO PAULO! Nesse sábado, 6/dez, acontece mais uma Feira Anarquista de SP, Brasil. Nossos agentes agitadores estarão com livros, zines, jornais e posters disponíveis durante o evento. Compareça, participe dos debates e conheça os coletivos e movimentos do Brasil e do mundo que comparecerão. Saiba mais: https://feiranarquistasp.wordpress.com/ Acesse todos os livros CrimethInc. em português aqui: https://pt.crimethinc.com/books #Português

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

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. 🏴

When Malatesta's old comrade Andrea Costa renounced anarchism, entered Parliament, and set out to convince his peers that electoral politics represented the only way to pursue social change, Malatesta slipped back into Italy—despite facing a variety of unresolved charges—and challenged Costa to a public debate. Costa attempted to weasel his way out of it, but was ultimately compelled to meet with Malatesta in front of a large audience of laborers. He fled the city after being trounced in the discussion. Having won the argument, Malatesta went back to jail. Despite a three-year prison sentence hanging over his head, Malatesta joined other revolutionary anarchists on a daring mission to Naples—the heart of the cholera epidemic—to treat those suffering from the disease, showing that grassroots mutual aid can address even the most serious crises.

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.