As must be obvious to everyone by now, Elon Musk is a liar, an opponent of free speech, a supporter of fascists, and an aspiring autocrat. He is imitating the model demonstrated by Donald Trump, using the capital he has accumulated from exploiting workers and government subsidies to take over other aspects of our society. By promoting fascism and conspiracy theories, he hopes to redirect ordinary people towards bigotry and boot-licking rather than righteous anger at those who exploit and oppress us.

Solidarity with It's Going Down! For a world without billionaires!

"In a digitally interconnected world, whoever has the most robust networks, the right relationship between visible and opaque channels, and the most persuasive narrative will triumph. Communication and coordination trump brute force when any clash can draw in a potentially infinite number of participants on either side."

https://crimethinc.com/2022/12/09/canary-in-the-coal-mine-twitter-and-the-end-of-social-media#networks-of-resistance

Today, we honor the memory of Mohamed Bouazizi, who set himself on fire on December 17, 2010 in response to police violence, catalyzing a chain reaction of revolt that led to the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions.

By drawing back the curtain from injustice so people could come together to fight it, he gave us a precious gift, but a costlier gift than we have any right to receive. His death hangs in eternity as an irreparable tragedy.

https://crimethinc.com/sd

May despair become a transformative force, bringing people together where there was isolation, creating life where there was suffering.

A ellos no les interesas una mierda

Por cada multimillonario, millones pasan hambre. Esto es lo que crean los multimillonarios: la concentración de riqueza en pocas manos. Cuando escuches hablar de algún multimillonario que se presente para presidente o de algún otro multimillonario que compra Twitter mientras pasas por delante de campamentos de indigentes mientras vas a tu segundo trabajo, no te equivoques: todo está conectado.

Te dirán cualquier cosa para hacerte creer que tus problemas son culpa tuya, para enfrentarte a los demás, para que trabajes doble turno y así ganar más dinero para ellos. Pero por mucho que trabajes, ellos se llevan a casa más plata que tú. Esa es la naturaleza del capitalismo.

[...]

¡Por un mundo sin tiranos ni magnates!

https://crimethinc.com/posters/a-ellos-no-les-interesas-una-mierda

#español

This weekend, we're throwing copies of the zine "Beneath the Concrete, the Forest" into all the packages we send out through our mailorder, to inform people about the fight to defend the Atlanta forest.

To order something:

https://store.crimethinc.com/

To download and print copies of the zine yourself:

https://crimethinc.com/zines/beneath-the-concrete

Some Ways to Connect besides Posting on the Internet

https://crimethinc.com/2022/12/09/canary-in-the-coal-mine-twitter-and-the-end-of-social-media#some-ways-to-connect-besides-posting-on-the-internet

To conclude the past month of drama about Twitter, here's a list of suggestions about what we can do to connect with each other besides posting on social media sites.

Over the next two weeks, CrimethInc. is participating in three events in the UK.

The first two presentations are at the English and Scottish release events for Smash the System: Punk Anarchism as a Culture of Resistance, to which we contributed the foreword:

Freedom Bookshop, London, E1 7QX
Wednesday, December 21, 7 pm

https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/Freedom-Bookshop/t-yazjlvx

Lighthouse Bookshop, West Nicolson Street, Edinburgh EH8 9DB
Thursday, December 29, 6 pm

https://lighthousebookshop.com/events/smash-the-system-punk-anarchism-as-a-culture-of-resistance

The third event is a presentation revisiting the analysis in the CrimethInc. book, Work, about the ways that capitalism has changed over the past century and how those might inform resistance.

Star & Shadow Cinema Co-op, Warwick St, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE2 1BB
Tuesday, January 3, 7 pm

https://www.starandshadow.org.uk/programme/event/crimethinc-work-talk-event,6588/

All of these are free.

Dom skiter i dig

För varje miljardär går miljoner hungriga. Det är detta som skapar miljardärer: koncentrationen av rikedomar i händerna på några få. När du hör talas om en miljardär som ställer upp i val eller köper upp Twitter samtidigt som du passerar hemlösa på vägen till jobbet, låt dig då inte luras — allt hänger samman.

De säger vad som helst för att få dig att tro att dina problem är ditt eget fel, för att få dig att vända dig mot dina medmänniskor, för att få dig att ta extra jobbpass så att du kan tjäna mer pengar åt dem. Men hur hårt du än jobbar tar de alltid hem en större del av kakan. Sådan är kapitalismen.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/de-skiter-i-dig

#Svenska

Today is the birthday of Kuwasi Balagoon—Black Panther, Black Liberation Army fighter, and anarchist.

It's a good day to read some of the writing he left us. You could start with this collection:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/kuwasi-balagoon-a-soldier-s-story

Or this biography:

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/akinyele-k-umoja-maroon-kuwasi-balagoon-and-the-evolution-of-revolutionary-new-afrikan-anarchis

We endorse the call for noise demonstrations outside jails, juvenile halls, detention centers, and prisons on New Year’s Eve to express solidarity with prisoners and call for a world without the prison-industrial complex.

https://itsgoingdown.org/international-call-for-new-years-eve-noise-demonstrations-5/

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