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Don't miss our latest podcast interview with @miaagainstfash on how antifascists exposed growing crossover between the GOP and fascist groups like the Proud Boys. https://itsgoingdown.org/proud-boys-miami-exposed/

DC wheatpaste poster. VIA: @AshAgony

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a great time at the pdx june 11 event! thanks to pdx abc and the distros that showed up from pdx, oly and eugene and to everyone that came in spite of the rain.

Led by a former informant who marched with neo-Nazis at Unite the Right, #Miami Proud Boys moved from the streets to the local GOP, winning multiple seats on the executive committee. We spoke with @miaagainstfash on how they exposed this growing alliance. https://itsgoingdown.org/proud-boys-miami-exposed/

As the #January6thCommittee zeros in on the Proud Boys + Oath Keepers who stormed the DC capitol, largely out of view of the public are high ranking military brass who helped grease the wheels of the #J6 attempted coup. An antifascist critical analysis. https://itsgoingdown.org/internal-sabotage-j-6-committee/

As the January 6th Committee hearings proceed I am not going to be caring much about this underlying discourse of government protecting "democracy" that forms the foundations of the narrative.

Rather, it is critical for us all to look at the ways that the campaign to seize power was structured, as well as the ways in which right wing group activity is being mapped within the narrative.

From the labor movement to Earth First!, sabotage has long been a part of struggle. As actions against encampment sweeps, attacks on abortion + in defense of the #Atlanta forest grab headlines, our new column 'Night Owls' chronicles the unfolding conflict. https://itsgoingdown.org/night-owls-seasonal-chronicle-of-sabotage-and-direct-action/

This week on Canadian Tire Fire, fighting against wage-theft and rent-hikes in #Toronto, repression and resistance continues on Wet'suwet'en territory; group creates police misconduct database; #DrugCrisis continues as #SafeSupply activists continue to rally. https://itsgoingdown.org/canadian-tire-fire-38/

"Two tree sits have been built and occupied in the site of the proposed “Cop City,” in the Weelaunee/South River Forest in south Atlanta. Last week, Atlanta Police attempted to start work preparing the forest for mass clear-cutting of trees, even as popularity for the project has taken a massive downturn locally, and national opposition grows." https://itsgoingdown.org/as-public-opposition-grows-atlanta-police-attempt-to-begin-work-on-cop-city-protestors-occupy-trees/

Updating the General Strike for the 21st Century

https://crimethinc.com/TwoGeneralStrikes

What would a general strike look like today? In this history, we compare the last two general strikes in the US—both in Oakland, in 1946 and 2011.

Looking at the strikes of the 1940s, we can see that any combative labor resistance that breaks out today will likely emerge in defiance of union leadership rather than because of it. Looking at the general strike of 2011, we can see that to succeed, combative organizing must begin outside the workplace as well as within it, connecting the struggles of the unemployed and precarious with those of the employed. Exploring how the strategies that people experimented with in 2011 over the decade since, we draw up new proposals about what to bring to tomorrow’s uprisings.
As it has become increasingly difficult for workers to exert leverage on employers on a workplace-by-workplace basis, the general strike might represent a way to wield power against the capitalist class as a whole.