This is Pacific Palisades, one of the wealthier neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Capitalism is humanity making war on itself in slow motion. Now the process is speeding up and impacting more and more people, including some who were previously protected from the immediate consequences. The climate crisis is just one aspect of this catastrophe. The floods in Porto Alegre and Valencia—Hurricanes Helene and Milton—the wildfires destroying LA. Neither corporations nor politicians will offer real solutions. We have to take direct action to defend each other and address the root causes.

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Ahead of Another Summer of Climate Disasters, Let's Talk about Real Solutions

Why the strategies that mainstream environmental movements are employing to halt climate change are failing—and what we could be doing instead.

Content warning: discussion of suicide. *** What's striking about the manifesto left by the Trump supporter who shot himself and set his truck on fire outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas is that the desire to harm others merges with the urge to self-destruction. Arguably, this characterizes millions of Trump supporters. It's no coincidence that a man the FBI described as a "heavily decorated combat veteran" would end his life saying "I needed relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” Being a killer for hire weighs heavily on the conscience. These mercenaries are damning themselves to living hell so that billionaires like Trump and Musk can turn a profit. This sort of tormented anger is common among Trump supporters. On some level, they must sense that the climate disasters smashing their communities are caused by the oil profiteers they defend—that they are more to blame for the problems of this society than undocumented people or trans people. Their self-righteousness masks self-hatred. Their fantasies of civil war conceal a desire to kill themselves.

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Sacrificial Violence and Retribution

We explore the responses to the killings of Jordan Neely and Brian Thompson as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are contend...

Nationalism means bigotry, chauvinism, and ultimately war and ethnic cleansing. It promises self-determination and delivers tyranny. Internationalism means we regularly publish articles in seven languages, collaborating with comrades all around the world to pursue collective liberation.

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CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective: Your ticket to a world free of charge

CrimethInc. is a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the princ...

Carrying out “the largest deportation operation in American history,” as Trump has explicitly 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 inside the borders of the United States provides more material advantages to Trump’s supporters than deporting them ever could. And by any measure, it’s a waste of resources: 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 regard as worth the expense because they experience the need for violence so intensely. The solution to low wages is solidarity among all workers—employed or unemployed—on both sides of every border against the billionaires who seek to exploit and oppress us. Deporting people is chiefly a form of performative violence intended to channel anger away from those who are the true cause of our suffering. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mass-deportation

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Sacrificial Violence and Retribution

We explore the responses to the killings of Jordan Neely and Brian Thompson as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are contend...

An incomplete roundup of responses to the shooting of Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, and the arrest of Luigi Mangione, the person being charged in connection to it—including graffiti, posters, corporate media interviews, public demonstrations, and more.

CrimethInc.

Sacrificial Violence and Retribution

We explore the responses to the killings of Jordan Neely and Brian Thompson as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are contend...

News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava A Russian anarchist volunteer speaks on the collapse of the Assad regime, the future of Russia, and the looming threat of a Turkish-backed invasion of northeastern Syria.

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News from the Front: The Reflections of a Russian Anarchist in Rojava

The reflections of a Russian anarchist in northeastern Syria on the defeat of Assad, the withdrawal of Putin's troops, and the threat from Turkey.

One way to prepare for the second Trump era is to organize a screening of "Fell in Love with Fire," a feature-length documentary about the popular uprising that swept Chile in 2019. It explores how demonstrators took control of the streets while remaining leaderless.

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Fell in Love with Fire

Five years in the making, this hour-long documentary explores the uprising that swept Chile from October 2019 to March 2020.

As Turkish proxy forces prepare to invade northeastern Syria in order to carry out ethnic cleansing targeting the Kurdish population, it's important to understand the roots of Turkish fascism.

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The Roots of Turkish Fascism

How did an autocratic government gain control in Turkey, forging an alliance between a once-secular nationalism and fundamentalist Islam?

Although Assad has fallen, the tragedies in Syria continue. The Syrian National Army, a Turkish proxy force, has captured the city of Manbij and aims to storm Kobane next. Turkey intends to conquer all Rojava and carry out ethnic cleansing there. In 2014, with the tacit support of the Turkish government, the Islamic State took over most of northern Syria, carrying out massacres as they gained ground. In the town of Kobane, locals managed to halt their advance only a few miles from the Turkish border. Now, Kobane is at risk once again. In Rojava, multiethnic militias including anarchist volunteers from around the world did most of the fighting and dying in the struggle against the Islamic State. Now the international community is preparing to look away while they are massacred. We must not let this happen. As in 2019—the last time Turkey mounted a major offensive against Rojava—solidarity actions are urgently needed.

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Call to Action: Solidarity with Rojava—Against the Turkish Invasion!

We are calling for people around the world to take action at Turkish consulates, US government offices, arms manufacturers, and elsewhere.

We can imagine FBI agents investigating the killing of the UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson struggling to make a *short list* of people who have been wronged by the insurance company. How did insurance companies become so hated? Modern-day insurance has its origins in grassroots mutual aid programs such as the "Friendly Societies" in which workers motivated by care for one another would pool their resources and take care of each other. Insurance only became a racket after this model was captured by the state and for-profit corporations. Though the proponents of capitalism and the state claim that centralization and privatization are essential for scaling up social infrastructure and making it run "more efficiently," state bureaucracy and for-profit models have chiefly served to concentrate control over everyone's lives in the hands of a few oligarchs. And the more unevenly power is distributed in a society, the more volatile that society is bound to be.

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