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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."

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Kontokündigung wegen Antifa: Banken vollstrecken US-Politik in Deutschland

Innerhalb weniger Tage haben zwei Banken die Zusammenarbeit mit dem Verein Rote Hilfe e. V. beendet.

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.

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From Democracy to Freedom

*From Democracy to Freedom* grew out of years of dialogue between participants in social movements around the world. Exploring how recent uprisings...

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.

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 organizing behind the insurrection:

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How to Organize an Insurrection

One of the first reports from participants in the upheaval that shook Greece after police murdered 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos on December 6.

Ever since, people in Greece have observed the murder of Alexandros and the insurrection of 2008 with a day of demonstrations:

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I’ll Always Remember the 6th of December

A report from the demonstrations in Athens, Greece on the 10-year anniversary of the murder of Alexandros Grigoropoulos, including important context.

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.

When the Feds Come to Your City: Standing Up to ICE A Guide from Chicago Organizers

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

Are masked agents showing up in your town to kidnap your neighbors? Want to do your part to protect each other, but don't know where to start?

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? This guide 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.

On this day 26 years ago, demonstrators blockaded and shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle—demonstrating the power of direct action and horizontal, decentralized organizing. Today, as federal mercenaries attack our communities while state institutions strive even more blatantly to repress and impoverish us, we need the lessons of the Seattle WTO protests more than ever.

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Epilogue on the Movement against Capitalist Globalization

22 years after the victory against the World Trade Organization in Seattle, what can we learn from the networks that gave rise to that movement?

Gregory Bovino, the Border Patrol official leading the Trump administration’s anti-immigrant crackdowns, is bringing his forces to attack people in Charlotte, North Carolina next. Like LA, DC, and Chicago, the previous targets of ICE crackdowns, Charlotte has a Black mayor and is majority non-white. One of the chief purposes of these crackdowns is to normalize using federal forces to terrorize people of color. What's new is that Charlotte is in a swing state. This has ominous implications. ICE crackdowns have not been popular with the general public or good for the economy. Kidnapping laborers who work for disproportionately low wages is bad for business. Thus far, Trump has focused the crackdowns on cities controlled by Democrats as a means of exerting economic pressure while avoiding impacting his supporters. On the heels of Democrats' electoral victories and spineless capitulation ending the government shutdown, the decision to target a city in a swing state suggests that the Trump administration is not concerned about electoral blowback. Whatever elections the Democrats might win, they have shown that they will collapse under pressure. In other words—targeting a city in a swing state suggests that the Trump administration does not intend to leave power voluntarily.

They tell us that dangerous people are on the loose, threatening our communities. But if anyone is dangerous, it is those who would do harm to their neighbors in return for a bribe—those who sell their capacity to inflict violence to the highest bidder. Crush ICE.

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Seven Steps to Stop ICE

Seven Steps to Stop ICE 1) Form resistance groups. Form tight-knit groups to play roles in the resistance. You and your friends may already form ...

On November 11, 1887, in the midst of the fight for the eight-hour workday, four anarchists were executed as scapegoats for the Haymarket riot. This established May Day as a day of labor struggle around the world. "The day will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are throttling today." -August Spies

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The May Days: Stories of Courage and Resistance

A century and a half of rebellions, uprisings, daring escapes, and adventures celebrating May Day and our collective capacity for freedom and self-...

We concur with the members of a jury in Washington, DC that tossing a sandwich at a federal agent should not be treated as criminal activity. In completely unrelated news, everyone should know about jury nullification! A jury has an absolute right to return any verdict it chooses. You can return a verdict of NOT GUILTY if you consider a law, punishment, or prosecutor unjust. Mind you, if you mention this during selection, you may not end up on a jury. Pass it on!