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.

A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security

Fighting Back, Staying Free

https://crimethinc.com/opsec

How do police and federal agents identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder this kind of repression? In this anonymously submitted text, one affinity group explores how they address these questions.

Once upon a time, only those who intended to engage in high-risk confrontational protest activity had to concern themselves with surveillance and security. Today, surveillance and policing are becoming much more invasive and arbitrary. Even if you never violate any law, the state may nonetheless seek to make an example of you. Everyone who might participate in a demonstration at some point should familiarize themselves with the security protocols that radicals have developed over the years.

Today, it has been 25 years since we received the first printing of our first book, Days of War, Nights of Love.

It remains a powerful testament to what people are able to accomplish when they imagine life beyond the constraints of capitalism and hierarchy.

https://crimethinc.com/books/days-of-war-nights-of-love

Struggling to finance the project, we debated whether to make 1000 copies or 1500. One collective member finally resolved the debate by declaring that he would pay for the additional 500 himself, whatever it took, and give them out on street corners if need be.

We sold out of the whole printing in a month. It funded many subsequent projects, including our free primer, Fighting for Our Lives.

President Grover Cleveland made "Labor Day" an official holiday in order to sap momentum from May Day, the day of revolutionary resistance that anarchists established in 1886.

But efforts to reform capitalism have failed. The gulf between the wealthy few and the rest of us is wider than ever today. We need a revolution.

Let's not simply ask for more crumbs from the table—let's fight for the abolition of capitalism and work itself.

http://crimethinc.com/antiwork

"When we say anti-work, we don’t mean an abstract political position disapproving of work; we mean a practice that actively abolishes the necessity to work, the way that anti-matter annihilates matter."

Keep the pressure on them! Border Patrol recruitment events in September:

https://careers.cbp.gov/s/connect-to-recruiter/event-calendar

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-9/12-14 Queen Creek, AZ (Gun Expo)
-9/13-14 Snohomish, WA (Spartan)
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-9/16-17 College Station, TX (College Career Fair)
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-9/19-21 Huntington Beach, CA (Fitness Festival)
-9/19-21 Loudon, NH (NASCAR Race)
-9/24 Houston, TX (College Career Fair)
-9/26-28 San Diego, CA (Air Show)
-9/27 Fort Carson, CO (Tough Mudder)
-9/30 Corpus Christi, TX (College Career Fair)
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-10/8 Houston, TX (Career Fair)