Catharsis: “Hope against Hope”

It has been years since our last music release—but desperate times call for desperate measures.

Taking up arms against a wave of authoritarianism and despair, North Carolina’s premier hardcore band, Catharsis, has recorded a new full-length album, “Hope Against Hope.”

https://crimethinc.com/HopeAgainstHope

You can download it from us via the CrimethInc. bandcamp page:

https://crimethinc.bandcamp.com/

Or pre-order the LP on vinyl from us here:

https://store.crimethinc.com/products/catharsis-hope-against-hope-lp

It’s also available on streaming platforms.

"This record picks up where the band’s last material left off, continuing to push the envelope in terms of what hardcore can do. They don’t retread the ground they broke on their previous albums, but press forward into ever more abrasive and dynamic territory. Politically, they remain uncompromisingly radical in their lives as well as lyrics. Hardcore draws its dramatic power from the connection between word and deed."

خوانشی از خودانحلالی پ.ک.ک. و پیامدهای آن برای خاورمیانه

https://crimethinc.com/2025/07/13/khwnshy-z-khwdnhlly-pkhkh-w-pymdhy-an-bry-khwrmynh

آن‌چه در معرض تهدید قرار دارد، فقط سرنوشت یک گروه مسلح نیست، بلکه امکان‌پذیری یک پروژه‌ی سیاسی است که پارادایم‌های مبارزه در خاورمیانه را بازتعریف کرده است.

#فارسی

Border Patrol agents raided a Home Depot in Los Angeles today, kidnapping over a dozen people in what they called "Operation Trojan Horse."

They borrowed this tactic from Patriot Front, a neo-Nazi group that rents box trucks to transport its members to marches. Now that the fascists hold state power, they are using the same tactics on a larger scale.

But as frightening as is to have state fascists in military gear carrying out surprise assaults on our streets, remember—this tactic has been producing diminishing returns for non-state fascists. The less popular they become, the more rapidly they have to move and the more vulnerable they are to mass resistance.

Watch for an opportunity and treat them like the scum they are.

https://crimethinc.com/stopice

The fascists are in power now. If we do not fight them like they are fascists, they will systematically destroy everything that is precious in the world.

https://crimethinc.com/saferinthefront

Catharsis—the hardcore band whose new LP, "Hope against Hope," we released one week ago—will be performing in the Southeast this weekend:

8/8 Durham, NC: The Pinhook
8/9 Asheville, NC: Sly Grog
8/10 Atlanta, GA: Eyedrum

For information about the album and the shows:

https://crimethinc.com/HopeAgainstHope

Now it has been eight years since anarchists and other anti-fascists assembled in Charlottesville to block the rise of a fascist street movement.

The few hundred anti-fascists who gathered in Charlottesville in 2017 were outnumbered, underprepared, and terrified. In the end, however, their courage proved more powerful than fascist hatred.

This is important to remember today, when we face a new threat on a much greater scale, and it is difficult to imagine how to meet the moment. This is not the first time we have confronted what feels like impossible odds.

https://crimethinc.com/Charlottesville2024

Catharsis: “Hope against Hope”

Il nuovo album di una band hardcore che non scende a compromessi

https://crimethinc.com/2025/08/01/catharsis-hope-against-hope-il-nuovo-album-di-una-band-hardcore-che-non-scende-a-compromessi-1

È passato molto tempo dall’ultima volta che abbiamo pubblicato un disco, ma a mali estremi, estremi rimedi. Per combattere l’ondata di autoritarismo e disperazione, il principale gruppo hardcore del North Carolina, Catharsis, ha registrato un nuovo album completo, “Hope Against Hope”. 🏴

#Italiano

Die Selbstauflösung der PKK verstehen.

https://de.crimethinc.com/2025/07/13/die-selbstauflosung-der-pkk-verstehen-was-bedeutet-das-fur-den-nahen-osten

Am 12. Mai 2025 gab die Kurdische Arbeiterpartei (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê, PKK) nach mehr als vier Jahrzehnten bewaffnetem Kampf gegen die türkische Regierung ihre Auflösung bekannt. Dies geschah unmittelbar nach einem Aufruf des inhaftierten PKK-Führers Abdullah Öcalan, die Organisation aufzulösen. Am 11. Juli nahmen PKK-Kämpfer*innen an einer Zeremonie teil, die die Entwaffnung symbolisierte. Was bedeutet dies für die kurdischen Befreiungsbewegungen und für den Nahen Osten im Allgemeinen?

#Deutsch

»Es geht nicht nur um das Schicksal einer bewaffneten Gruppe, sondern um ein politisches Projekt, das die Parameter des Kampfes im gesamten Nahen Osten neu definiert hat.«

Der Versuch einer Einordnung und Analyse erschienen auf crimethinc.com

As Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin wrap up their meeting in Alaska—two autocrats representing the two colonial powers that have occupied and sold that land without regard for its native inhabitants—this is a lucid statement from Indigenous Alaskans about what the invasion and occupation of Ukraine has to do with the colonial oppression of Alaska.

https://www.nativemovement.org/nm-blog/2025/8/14/no-deals-with-war-criminals-on-alaska-soil

Poster: "For Spirits..."

As long as socially constructed gender norms have existed, there have been those who would not or could not conform to them, and those people have been a force for everyone's liberation.

We have prepared a new poster drawing on centuries-old art and poetry to celebrate this.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/for-spirits

The text is from John Milton, writing in Paradise Lost:

For Spirits, when they please,
Can either sex assume, or both
And works of love or enmity fulfill.

The artwork is by Ida Rentoul Outhwaite.

For further discussion of gender, gender abolition, and gender self-determination, you could start here:

https://crimethinc.com/GenderPoster2023

“The One the State Missed”: Karl Garside, Animal Liberationist, 1966–2025

A Life Lived Freely in Defiance

https://crimethinc.com/KarlGarside

From sabotaging hunts and abattoirs to exposing cruelty through covert investigations, Karl Garside was among Britain’s most prolific Animal Liberation Front militants, dedicating over 40 years to the fight for total liberation.