No kings.

And—for the very same reasons—no presidents.

https://tochangeeverything.com/

Five years ago, on a platform now owned by a fascist, we posted this analysis:

> In the end, the praetorian guard got to determine who ruled the Roman Empire.
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> Likewise, in a social order maintained by violent force, the police want to call the shots in courts and government.

Indeed, the security guard who killed two politicians in Minnesota today works for a company named Praetorian Guard.

It should also be lost on no one that the violence inflicted on Gaza, the West Bank, and Southern Lebanon is coming back to the United States in the form of political assassination.

The military occupations around the country and the parade in DC represent the culmination of a long-term shift from persuasion to coercion as disparities in wealth and power intensify. Autocracy requires mercenaries—despicable scum who sell their capacity to inflict violence to the highest bidder.

For autocracy to triumph, people must suppress their empathy, confining themselves to selfish materialism. Their aspirations to community must be replaced with jingoistic conformity. And many of them must be desperate enough for employment that they will accept a wage to do harm to others like themselves.

Yet as economic and ecological crises intensify, millions of people are waking up to the reality that solidarity and mutual aid offer our best chance of survival, whereas the mercenaries who serve autocracy—and the inclination to do violence for a wage—pose the greatest threat to us.

Thank you to everyone who resists. It requires considerably more courage and integrity to be a rebel than to be a mercenary. 🏴

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Reinforced Banners

How to build and employ reinforced banners that can function as a mobile shield wall, protecting demonstrators from police violence.

https://crimethinc.com/reinforcedbanners

Tecnologias usadas em guerras contra inimigos externos são adaptadas e usadas para aterrorizar populações internas tornadas inimigas. Uma reforça a outra: as tropas que Lula enviou ao Haiti foram mobilizadas para implementar as Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora nas favelas do Rio de Janeiro.

Hoje, Gaza é a imagem de um futuro possível para todas as favelas, guetos e territórios rebeldes em qualquer lugar do mundo. Se não conectarmos essa luta e resistência, a repressão estatal conectará nossa miséria, transformando o mundo inteiro em uma zona de sacrifício.

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