As unrest spreads in China today, it's a good time to revisit the uprising that took place in Hong Kong in 2019.

In this interview, anarchists in Hong Kong analyze the months-long revolt, reviewing its achievements, identifying its limits, celebrating the inspiring moments of mutual aid and defiance, and critiquing the ways that it failed to pass beyond a framework based in appealing to authority.

https://crimethinc.com/hongkonginsurrection

Solidarity to everyone fighting against authoritarian power, everywhere around the world.

Right now, on Elon Musk's private platform, Twitter, the far-right troll who convinced him to ban CrimethInc. is comparing CrimethInc. to ISIS, while Musk is still pretending to be a proponent of "free speech."

The comparison to ISIS is especially absurd, because some of our comrades died fighting ISIS while that particular troll's followers were murdering civilians in the US.

Read this eulogy:

https://crimethinc.com/TekoserRafiq

Likewise, Musk is not in favor of "free speech." He is banning accounts like ours at the same time that he reintroduces fascists to Twitter.

"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."

Jean-Paul Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew, 1946.

We won't succeed in fighting the latest wave of anti-Semitism by expressing outrage or surprise at its spokespersons. We have to prepare to directly counter the violence that they are inciting before everyone's eyes.

https://crimethinc.com/wheatpaste2022

In case you prefer to paste up posters the old-fashioned DIY way rather than just buying wallpaper paste or spray adhesive, we have made a zine version of our Field Guide to Wheatpasting. Please print these out and distribute them to anyone who might be interested in communicating on a platform that isn’t run by a pro-fascist billionaire!

Οδηγός για αφισοκολλήσεις με σιταρόπαστα

Όλα όσα πρέπει να γνωρίζετε για να καλύψετε τον κόσμο με αφίσες

https://crimethinc.com/2017/07/18/odegos-gia-aphisokolleseis-me-sitaropasta-ola-osa-prepei-na-gnorizete-gia-na-kalupsete-ton-kosmo-me-aphises

Όπως και το γκράφιτι, έτσι και οι αφισοκολλήσεις με σιταρόπαστα (‘wheatpasting’) είναι μια τεχνική άμεσης δράσης για επικοινωνία με τους γείτονές σας και την εκ νέου διακόσμηση του περιβάλλοντος σας. Επειδή είναι εύκολο να δημιουργηθούν μαζικά αφίσες, η αφισοκόλληση με σιταρόπαστα σας δίνει τη δυνατότητα να αναπτύξετε ένα έγχρωμο, σύνθετο μήνυμα σε μεγάλο αριθμό τοποθεσιών με ελάχιστο κόπο και κίνδυνο. Η επανάληψη κάνει το μήνυμά σας οικείο σε όλους και αυξάνει τις πιθανότητες να το σκεφτούν οι άλλοι.

#Ελληνικά

For many years, the FBI targeted ecological activists as their #1 priority. This is one of the chief reasons environmental devastation has continued unchecked.

Seventeen years ago today, on December 7, 2005, the FBI opened a new phase of their assault on earth and animal liberation movements with the arrests and indictments of a large number of activists. This became known as the Green Scare.

You can read about it here:

https://crimethinc.com/greenscared

In a text published today, one of the defendants, Daniel McGowan, recalls his arrest and first night in jail:

https://medium.com/@danielmcgowannyc/my-own-pearl-harbor-232b11321499

Canary in the Coal Mine: Twitter and the End of Social Media

https://crimethinc.com/TwitterCanary

Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter confirms the end of social media as we have known it, at least for the purposes of positive social change. Now all the major platforms that played roles in the movements of the past decade have been brought under the direct control of reactionaries determined to make sure that they cannot be used to coordinate resistance.

The question is what comes next. Will reactionary billionaires determine all we can discuss and imagine? Or will we establish other channels via which to communicate, other forms of connection?

Il Canarino nella miniera di carbone: Twitter e la fine dei social media

https://crimethinc.com/2022/12/09/il-canarino-nella-miniera-di-carbone-twitter-e-la-fine-dei-social-media

Twitter stesso è come un canarino in una miniera di carbone. L’acquisizione della piattaforma da parte di Elon Musk conferma la fine dei social media come li conosciamo, almeno ai fini di un cambiamento sociale positivo. Tutte le principali piattaforme che hanno avuto un ruolo nei movimenti dell’ultimo decennio sono stati portati sotto il diretto controllo di reazionari, determinati ad assicurarsi che non possano essere utilizzate per coordinare la resistenza.

La domanda è cosa succederà dopo. Saranno i miliardari reazionari a determinare ciò che possiamo fare, pensare e sognare? O stabiliremo altri canali di comunicazione, altre forme di connessione, altri mezzi di coordinamento?

#Italiano