Neither the preservation of the democratic system nor having the left in power actually solve our problems. In the state of Bahia, for example, governed by the Workers' Party for 20 years, police kill more people every year than they do in the entire United States.

The fascism that Bolsonaro and his allies represent won't be stopped by imprisoning him. Other forms of authoritarianism remain on the streets and in public office.

We have to break this cycle from below.

We'll be tabling Saturday at the New York City Anarchist Book Fair. Come choose from an array of books, zines, posters, and stickers!

The hardcore band Catharsis, whose LP "Hope against Hope" we just released, will be performing in NYC the night before:

https://www.propertyistheft.org/events-1/nyc-anarchist-book-fair-rs792

Congratulations to the demonstrators who shut down the Vuelta a España in Madrid on September 14 in solidarity with Palestine.

The Israeli government is perpetrating genocide on a massive scale right now. We have a responsibility to interrupt every effort to normalize this.

http://crimethinc.com/Gaza2024

JD Vance and Stephen Miller capitalizing on the shooting of Charlie Kirk to plan a crackdown on a wide range of their opponents is directly out of the textbook that Adolf Hitler used to consolidate power.

We must not simply identify this as fascism—we must act accordingly while there is still time.

One simple step is to make sure that every political faction that does not desire to live in an autocratic society understands that anything less than total resistance to the crackdown means complicity. Democratic politicians must not be permitted to sit on the fence. Their complicity must be clear to all.

https://crimethinc.com/saferinthefront

The crackdown that JD Vance and Stephen Miller are planning is not the result of anything that radicals or leftists did. Protestations of innocence and statistics about who is more violent are beside the point. They have been planning a crackdown regardless. It's part of their playbook.

If the crackdown takes place, it will not happen because of what we did, but because of what we did not do.

But there is still time for us to take action.

https://crimethinc.com/becomeananarchist

Catharsis: “Hope against Hope”

Novo Disco Totalmente Inédito de Uma Banda Hardcore Radical

http://crimethinc.com/Catharsis2025

Tempos desesperados exigem medidas desesperadas. Lutando contra uma onda de autoritarismo e desespero, a principal banda de hardcore da Carolina do Norte, Catharsis, gravou um álbum totalmente inédito, “Hope Against Hope.”

Você pode baixá-lo pelo bandcamp do CrimethInc.:

https://crimethinc.bandcamp.com/

Ou pedir o vinil no Brasil e América Latina aqui:

https://nogods-nomasters.com/nogodsnomasters/produto/catharsis_hope_against_hope/

Este disco retoma de onde o último material da banda parou, continuando a expandir os limites em termos do que o hardcore pode fazer. Eles não retomam o caminho que trilharam em seus álbuns anteriores, mas avançam para um território cada vez mais áspero e dinâmico. Politicamente, eles permanecem intransigentemente radicais em suas vidas, bem como em suas letras. O hardcore extrai seu poder dramático da conexão entre palavra e ação.

#Português

It has been 14 years now since the beginning of Occupy Wall Street. The participants were protesting the grievous disparities in wealth and power that capitalism has created.

These disparities are the root cause of today's crises—autocratic control of the state, the media, and the resources that everyone depends on for bare survival. The existence of billionaires is itself fundamentally authoritarian, as it grants a few people tremendous power at everyone else's expense.

Barack Obama and the other politicians who presided over the brutal suppression of the Occupy movement are responsible for preventing us from addressing this problem before it reached this point. Today, we desperately need a much fiercer anti-capitalist movement.

http://crimethinc.com/Occupy2024

Our colleagues at Municipal Adhesives are running a "MAJOR" 50% off sale on "ANTIFA" stickers.

From their announcement:

"We are pleased to inform our many Super Soldiers that we are designating ANTIFA STICKERS & STENCILS ON A MAJOR DISCOUNT.

"We will also be strongly recommending that those slapping ANTIFA stickers up in their neighborhood as a result of this discount donate the money they saved to

https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/the-international-anti-fascist-defence-fund

at the highest dollar amount they are able. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

50% off:

Big, shiny eggshell Death to Fascism stickers: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1259759673/

Little vinyl Death to Fascism stickers: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1206584709/

Mylar Death to Fascism stencils: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1771178266/

Also available discreetly over email at municipaladhesives@riseup.net!

Comment répondre aux menaces de Donald Trump sur le mouvement antifasciste

https://crimethinc.com/2025/09/18/comment-repondre-aux-menaces-de-donald-trump-sur-le-mouvement-antifasciste

Le 17 septembre, dans un post publié sur Truth Social, Donald Trump a déclaré qu’il allait désigner « Antifa » comme « une organisation terroriste majeure ». Qu’est-ce que cela signifie ? Comment pouvons-nous nous préparer à affronter la tempête ?

#Français

Donald Trump said he would "run the country like a business." Now we see what that means: censorship, sycophancy, despotism—just like in so many workplaces.

Wasn't it the capitalist economy that put power in the hands of these aspiring autocrats in the first place?

If you hate Trump, you should understand the urgency of abolishing capitalism, which is systematically enriching the most selfish and brutal at everyone else's expense.

"If a mafia took over our entire society, would it be any different?"

https://crimethinc.com/posters/capitalism-is-organized-crime

Parasocial identification with leaders is a fundamental element of fascism. Ordinary people who can barely pay their bills live and die vicariously through figureheads they will never meet.

The function of their Nuremberg rallies is to convey that the life of one sycophant is worth more than all of our lives combined. They laugh when Israeli soldiers murder thousands of small children in Gaza, they scoff when shootings take the lives of schoolchildren in Texas and Ohio, but when something happens to one of their elect, we are all supposed to mourn ostentatiously.

Une autre guerre était possible

https://crimethinc.com/2025/07/01/une-autre-guerre-etait-possible

En revisitant les luttes de ce début de siècle du point de vue de notre dystopie actuelle, nous pouvons bien mieux comprendre tout ce qui ce joue dans les combats d’aujourd’hui.

#Français

Luego vinieron a por los palestinos: Cómo responder al secuestro de Mahmoud Khalil

https://crimethinc.com/2025/03/11/luego-vinieron-a-por-los-palestinos-como-responder-al-secuestro-de-mahmoud-khalil

Aquí exploraremos lo que está en juego en este momento y compartiremos la experiencia de anarquistas cuyo compañero fue secuestrado de manera similar por participar en el movimiento Occupy ICE en San Antonio, Texas, en 2018.

#Español