Enquanto estudantes bloqueiam escolas na França e incendeiam o Ministério da Educação na Albânia, pessoas na Espanha e pela Catalunha ocupam praças e se mobilizam para impedir despejos.

Militantes em Madri e Barcelona trazem uma visão de dentro do movimento:

http://crimethinc.com/MaricarmenMadri

#Portugues

Today, people around the world are watching to see how the US midterm elections turn out.

But no politicians are prepared to break with the oligarchy that is steering our society into disaster. No governments can make the changes we need.

It's up to us. Fortunately, momentum is building worldwide.

Lutamos Porque Gostamos - Mantendo Nosso Moral Contra Desafios Aparentemente Invencíveis

Uma reflexão sobre como entender o projeto anarquista fora de uma narrativa milenar pós-cristã de redenção.

https://pt.crimethinc.com/PorqueGostamos

#Portugues

We've argued since 2014 that state power is a hot potato. In a globalized world, governments can no longer mitigate the impact of capitalism on ordinary voters—so whoever holds power loses popularity.

It's good to see Trump losing control. But we'll keep see-sawing back and forth between political parties in wilder and wilder oscillations until we make real changes in the system itself.

After living through the Prague Spring of 1968, Milan Kundera wrote that the ideal form of government is a crumbling dictatorship. As we enter the twilight of the Trump era, we will confront similar risks and opportunities.

We've been thinking through what that will mean since last April.

https://crimethinc.com/soundandfury

When a discredited regime begins to collapse, creating a tension between what people see around them and what they are able to imagine, large numbers of people can begin to ask questions about how they might wish to change the structure of the society. This offers a window of possibility, but such a window rarely remains open for long before people become accustomed to a new social order that often does not address the old problems.

Although Trump's party has lost this round of elections, we still have to confront and defeat the ones who brought Trump power: billionaires, fascists, bigots, militarists, Zionists and Christian nationalists, cryptocurrency hucksters, tech moguls, corporate and social media platforms, federal agencies like ICE and the police and sheriffs that abet them.

Likewise, we must not forget how centrists and Democrats paved the way for the tragedies of the second Trump era by suppressing grassroots resistance at the conclusion of the first. Nor can we afford to let them impose their agenda on us this time around, lest the same tragedies recur yet again.

The collapse of radical social movements at the end of 2020 is a cautionary tale. We must sustain our organizing so that we exit the second Trump era stronger than we entered it.

This is especially important because the real battles are only just beginning—against mega-capitalists like Elon Musk and their repressive technologies.

立ち退きとジェントリフィケーションに反対するテント村運動

マドリーとバルセロナからの報告

https://crimethinc.com/2026/10/15/tachinoki-to-gentrification-ni-hantai-suru-tentomura-undou-madrid-to-barcelona-kara-no-houkoku

2026年9月23日、スペイン当局は、不動産会社「ウルバヘスティオン」との長きにわたる法廷闘争の末、障がいのある87歳の女性マリカルメン゠アバスカルをマドリーの自宅から暴力的に立ち退かせた。彼女はその家に70年間住んでいたが、最近の家賃値上げを負担できなくなっていた。これに対し、その日、1万人が抗議のために街頭へ繰り出した。3日後、更に大規模なデモ隊がプエルタ゠デル゠ソル広場にテント村を築いた。この広場は、米国のオキュパイ運動の引き金となった15-M運動 （2011年）の舞台でもある。

マリカルメン゠アバスカルは、立ち退きに伴うストレスが原因で10月7日に亡くなった。イベリア半島の多くの都市では、抗議者達が引き続き広場を占拠しており、11月11日にはゼネストが呼び掛けられている。

ここでは、マドリーとバルセロナの記者が、スペインとカタルーニャ全土に広がる、立ち退きとジェントリフィケーションに反対する運動を内部の視点から伝える。

#日本語

The Hot Potato Changes Hands Again
On the 2026 Midterm Elections

https://crimethinc.com/hotpotato2026

The Republicans' loss in the midterms sets us up for a volatile two years.

Ultimately, the Democrats are no more capable of addressing the root causes of popular anger than the Republicans. State power will continue to swing back and forth more and more wildly between different parties until our rulers consolidate an autocracy or we manage to effect revolutionary change.

At best, the election results should function as a mandate for grassroots resistance to the Trump administration's policies, not as a pressure valve to diminish the urgency we feel.

We must build the grassroots capacity to defend and care for our communities.

If we succeed, Democratic politicians will probably try to co-opt whatever we have achieved by offering to do the same things for us through the state. But they will only offer us what we demonstrate the ability to accomplish ourselves, and it is better to develop the ability to address needs directly and consistently than for the well-being of our communities to depend on the outcome of elections.

https://crimethinc.com/hotpotato2026

We can imagine an alternate reality in which Trump—chastened by the midterm results—seeks to deescalate.

In that case, spineless Democrats would be in a position to collaborate with the administration, passing joint legislation and preserving Trump's agencies and policies into the future.

Instead, by elevating white nationalist Stephen Miller to White House Chief of Staff, Trump is doubling down on a combative strategy, setting the stage for an open conflict between his administration and the rest of society.

This is probably for the best.

But it will be up to us to mobilize grassroots resistance, rather than imagining that politicians will defend our communities for us.

https://crimethinc.com/hotpotato2026

On September 23, Spanish authorities evicted an 87-year-old woman from her home of 70 years—sparking a countrywide movement against evictions and gentrification.

On November 11, the movement will carry out a general strike—the first in Spain in over a decade.

Background:

https://crimethinc.com/Maricarmen

For more background, you can read here about how the combative general strike that took place in Spain on March 29, 2012 erupted into massive street-fighting in Barcelona as participants wrested control of the streets from riot police.

https://crimethinc.com/texts/rosefire