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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.