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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At the conclusion of 2022, we honor all those who have risked their lives and freedom to strive for a world without war, oppression, or exploitation—in Iran and Sri Lanka, in Russia and Ukraine, in Sudan and everywhere else around the planet.

Our hearts go out to the imprisoned, to those enduring grueling impoverishment while billionaires accumulate fortunes at others' expense, to everyone who has lost a loved one to state violence, racist or anti-Semitic attacks, environmental disasters intensified by climate change, or the pandemic.

In 2023, we will continue to do our best to contribute to movements for the liberation of all humanity and the dignity of all living things.

All the best in your adventures. May they intersect with ours.

https://crimethinc.com/2022inReview

For a free world—for anarchy.

We're starting 2023 by including a new sticker in the packages we send out.

https://crimethinc.com/store

We have more designs on the way as we double down on offline outreach. They can't stop us!

Big Brother: "Read 1984."

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary

In response to the destructive December 13 police raid on the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta and the trumped up charges against six young forest defenders, friends of the forest are calling for a National Weekend of Solidarity, January 13-15:

"Host an info night, a protest, a party, a movie screening, or anything else that moves you in your local context."

@DefendtheForestATL

Full call to action:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CnA0sGBO6lq/

Background:

https://crimethinc.com/CityintheForest

Two years after Donald Trump's ignominious failure of a coup attempt, we recommend this text about why it was a godsend to the state as a way to change the subject from popular revolt to the preservation of normalcy.

https://crimethinc.com/January6

"Counting on the state to hold the threat of fascism at bay leaves us in an extremely vulnerable position. It’s not unthinkable that at some point, a far-right coup will succeed, at least in some parts of the country, and we—not just anti-fascists, but all people of good conscience—will find that our concerted action is the only thing that stands between us and the establishment of an even more authoritarian society. That is precisely what happened in Spain in 1936."

Today, in grotesque mimicry of Trump's failed coup on January 6, 2021, far-right supporters of previous Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro invaded the National Congress in Brasilia.

Across the world, the far right and fascists are attempting to build the capacity to seize power by force.

Background on the situation in Brazil:

https://crimethinc.com/BrazilElection2022

Relying on the state to prevent the far right from coming to power will only strengthen the institutions that they hope to wield against us:

https://crimethinc.com/January6

Billionaires and their far-right supporters are attempting to gentrify the concept of revolt itself. We must not let them appropriate or discredit the idea of rebellion:

https://crimethinc.com/RealAnarchy

This footage shows Bolsonaro supporters breaking the windows of the National Congress in Brasilia and entering it. They have also invaded the Planalto Palace.

Source: https://twitter.com/reporterenato/stat

Footage from the Planalto Palace bears a strong resemblance to the footage of the events of January 6, 2021 in the United States.

source: https://twitter.com/Metropoles/status/1612160776898285569

Bolsonaro supporters in the plenary of the Federal Senate in Brasilia:

https://twitter.com/muriloffagundes/status/1612164883684130816

Though this will probably not succeed as a coup attempt—Bolsonaro is currently in Florida, far from Brasilia—it will function as a pressure tactic to convey that governance in Brazil will be very difficult without appeasing Bolsonaro's fascist supporters. Even if this effort backfires for them, it will reinforce the idea that the only political options today are to side with the centrists who defend capitalist democracy (Biden, Lula) or to permit fascists (and the oligarchs who lead them) from seizing power.

Both centrist neoliberals and far-right fascists benefit from suppressing the possibility of participatory transformative change.

In this footage, anarchists and anti-fascists mobilize in Belo Horizonte, #Brazil today against the threat of #fascism.

It is crucial that we do not rely on the state to protect us from fascism, but organize on a grassroots basis, building strength that cannot be taken from us by an election or coup.

https://crimethinc.com/January8Brazil