Absolute 🔥 from @CrimethInc.

"A major Somali shopping center called Karmel Mall closed for the day. Daycare centers were forced to close when their staff demanded the day off. Workers forced a major AT&T call center to close. The biggest nursing home in the Twin Cities metro area held mandatory all-staff meetings to threaten to fire employees who participated, but those scare tactics failed and they faced mass absenteeism. The combined population of Minneapolis and Saint Paul is less than 750,000; that Friday, we saw an estimated 100,000 people take the streets in sub-zero temperatures. It is safe to conclude that at least one out of every eight Twin Cities residents took part in the general strike.

The leaderless character of the resistance to ICE in Minnesota is precisely what has made it effective. The decentralized nature of the rapid response groups has made them durable and agile. The initiative of autonomous fighters in the neighborhoods has enabled people to rise in revolt every time they have shot or murdered our neighbors. The horizontality of our mutual aid networks makes them opaque to the feds while enabling them to feed, clothe, and care for vulnerable families. No official organization would ever dare to call for the countless acts of bravery by which individuals have collectively propelled this movement forward. The everyday anarchism of the Minneapolis revolution is its greatest strength.

To the extent that we allow top-down forces to take control of the movement, we will compromise its structural integrity and set ourselves up to lose. With so much on the line, we can’t afford to let that happen."

https://crimethinc.com/2026/02/01/crowd-control-appeasement-vanguardism-and-the-general-strike-an-analysis-from-the-twin-cities

The Angry Workers argue in "Thoughts on the ‘Fundamental Principles of Communist Production and Distribution’" that while the "Fundamental Principles" are key to class liberation, they neglect the need for a long-term political struggle, urging an update and broader strategy. Hermann Lueer defends the core thesis of the "Fundamental Principles." Absolutely worth reading!

https://www.angryworkers.org/2025/07/30/thoughts-on-the-fundamental-principles-of-communist-production-and-distribution/

https://leftdis.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/anmerkungen-zum-debattenbeitrag-der-angry-workers/

Sie demolierten meine Kamera.
Nahmen mir die Speicherkarte weg.
Dann #Polizeigewalt.
Sie verschleppten mich in eine Zelle.
Klagten mich vor Gericht an.

Alles zwecklos.

Denn ich bin Investigativjournalist und gelte als hartnäckig. Mein Job: Missstände sichtbar machen – auch gegen Widerstände öffentlicher Stellen.

Dieses Foto kann die #Polizei #Bonn nie wieder aus der Welt schaffen.

📸 Jetzt ist das Foto vom Crash öffentlich:
👉 https://www.oppong.eu/polizeicrashs/

#Rassismus #Pressefreiheit #Polizeicrash

Making Sense of the PKK’s Self-Dissolution

https://crimethinc.com/Jasna2025

On May 12, 2025, the PKK announced its dissolution after more than four decades of armed struggle against the Turkish government. On July 11, PKK fighters participated in a ceremony signifying disarmament. What will this mean for Kurdish movements for liberation and for the Middle East in general?

"It is not just the fate of an armed group at stake, but of a political project that has redefined the parameters of struggle throughout the region."

Anarchist Akikhira Hajeuski-Khanada released

Today, 14 political prisoners were released in Belarus as a result of a visit of Keith Kellogg, US Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia, among them Akikhira. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison in 2022 for leading the “international criminal organization” Revolutionary Action.

The other defendants in this case remain behind bars, and an investigation is still ongoing against Mikalai Dziadok.