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Mass Mobilization Against The Alt-Right in Washington DC, August 10-12

We are calling all anti-fascists and people of good conscience to participate in international days of action August 10 through August 12 and a mass mobilization in Washington DC.

This is for Heather Heyer, ICE abolition, open borders, dismantling the prison industrial complex, and ending the settler colonial system. We will confront fascism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, white supremacy, and state violence on August 10-12.

Our lives were forever changed on August 12, 2017, when neo-Nazis, KKK and militia members, and Alt-Right trolls from across the US and North America converged on the town of Charlottesville, Virginia.

White supremacists lit torches and attacked students as young as 17 last year while the police looked on and did nothing. The next day, people bravely confronted hundreds of armed racists. In the ensuing confrontation, one person gave her life, and many more were scarred forever. Tens of thousands immediately took to the streets. Suddenly the world would never be the same.

Old statues fell. And a new street-based, grassroots power rose.

Now the white supremacists want to come back. On August 12, 2018, the Alt-Right will hold “Unite the Right 2” in Washington DC in front of the White House at Lafayette Square. Jason Kessler, Richard Spencer, and the Trump Adminstration are all implicated in the murder of Heather Heyer. The Alt-Right relentlessly harass and threaten people of color, women, sex workers, trans and non-binary people, and the undocumented.

Their rallies are all public displays of violence and calls for genocide. They are Brian Trainer and every killer cop. They are the ICE agents. They are the prison system that breaks up families. In Portland, DC, and Philly, the movement grows. We occupy ICE offices, confront racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, xenophobia, and white nationalism.

We will be in the streets on August 10-12, and we intend to win.

For updates follow @ShutItDownDC on Twitter

Email: [email protected]

Other Calls to Action

For the CrimethInc. international call to action

In Charlottesville: Community members are mobilizing to show that anti-racist, anti-fascist resistance continues regardless of whether Nazis actually show up. Join and support them on August 11-12.

Inside D.C.

Jason Kessler will find no rest, no refuge, no respite. Communities in DC will unite against hate, borders, prison, and the vision of Unite the Right.

Outside D.C.

If you can’t make it to Washington DC on August 10-12, take to the streets wherever you are. We call on our comrades to organize demonstrations and other actions for the night of August 12. Occupy an ICE office, shut down a police station, or demonstrate at the home of a local racist, ICE agent, or prison profiteer.

Outside the United States

If you are living outside the US, you can take action at US embassies, borders, or other symbols of colonial power. Our allegiance is not to “making America great again,” but to all of humanity and the planet.

Signed,

 Black Lives Matter Charlottesville

 Black Lives Matter D.C.

 Charlottesville Summer of Resistance Welcoming Committee

 Crimethinc Ex-Workers Collective

 Crushing Colonialism

 D.C. Antifascist Collective

 Fredrick Socialists

 The Future Is Feminist

 Holler Network

 Hoods4Justice

 Interntional Capoeira Angola Foundation, D.C.

 March for Racial Justice

 Maryland Antifa

 Millenials for Revolution

 One People’s Project

 Philly Antifa

  Resist This (Former DisruptJ20)

 Rising Tide North America

 Smash Racism D.C.

 Showing Up for Racial Justice Charlottesville

 Workers Against Racism

How a ragtag crew of leftist revolutionaries and soldiers of fortune helped defeat ISIS

** Proud to be anti-fascist - a short report  **

Over 500 of us met at the site of the International Brigades Memorial in Jubilee Gardens, South Bank in opposition to the creeping fascism of the “Free Tommy” mob. After a tough few weeks of organising a grassroots mobilisation in London and beyond, we collectively pulled off an amazing, disciplined bloc on the streets under the banner of “We are all Anti-Fascists!”.

As we marched from Jubilee Gardens to Parliament Street via Westminster Bridge, there was a completely different sense from previous outings, we were powerful on the streets and as we approached Westminster Tube station we finally managed to face down the dozens of fash Tommy supporters. As they blabbed at us with their empty slogans we drowned them out, with the bloc chanting “Working class traitors! Working class traitors!” - you could see the uncomfortableness on their faces. We met up with the SUTR demonstration to loud applause and merged the two demonstrations.

Our objective was to form a defensive bloc at the top of Parliament Street and prevent any large groups of fash attacking the demo. Our presence and the presence of militant anti-fascists ensured an increased police presence which in turn meant no such attack happened in Whitehall. However, further down the road 40 hardcore fascists attacked RMT members including RMT Assistant General Secretary Steve Hedley outside a pub, leaving Steve with a bad cut under his eye.

In one of the best displays of organisation on the streets for a long long time, we sensibly defended our bloc and those around us, produced a strong sense of collective power on the streets and proved that from assemblies to the streets we can all work and co-operate together.

All in all we estimate there were 2,000 anti-fascists and around 4,000-6,000 Free Tommy supporters.

As incidents of violence increase, it is becoming a duty to build bigger and better mass mobilisations, not only for anti-fascists and anti-racists but for all Londoners.

Rojda Felat is the Commander of the Raqqa Operations:

“We reach a building just outside al Hishah, and I am instructed that Commander Rojda Felat is on the roof. Jan and I slowly walk up an outdoor concrete staircase, and first see Rojda standing with her back to us- a stout figure looking out over the horizon with a tactical radio in hand. She is short in stature, and this is only exaggerated by a long thick braid of dark hair which falls past her lower back. Her voice is strict and authoritative, and several female fighters beside her scribble notes as she dictates. Suddenly, Rojda notices us, smiles and waves, but then returns to her radio. It’s buzzing with reports from the commanders of the various groups in the coalition. As she dials through each radio channel, her eyes are fixed in the distance, as if visualizing the movements being described to her in the open plains ahead.

Twenty minutes later, there is a pause in the radio chatter, and things seem to calm. Rojda walks over to me, and through Jan’s translation, she apologizes for making me wait. I explain that no apology is necessary- (uhh, I know you are busy fighting ISIS.)

As I explain that I wish to embed with her and take photographs, Rojda’s large round eyes study me closely, as if trying to read my intentions. The authoritative tone heard over the radio is gone, and she is warm and friendly, often with a big toothy smile spreading across her face. When speaking, she barely breaks eye contact, and uses a calming hypnotic voice I have found to be common among former guerrillas who spent time training in the Qandil Mountains. It is uncertain if she has, but her new role is clear- she is a key lynchpin in the SDF.

Rojda agrees to let me tag along and photograph her, but explains that she is very busy now, and will pick me up the following morning. Together, we will travel to each new position, and observe the ongoing battle. It’s getting late, so she suggests my driver take me to a YPG position so I can bunk with a nearby male unit”.

Allegedly drunk, scantily clad Russian soldiers from Moscow’s largest foreign military base got a shock when partying in the Tajik town of Kulob: a gang of Tajik youth unimpressed with their behaviour soon set on them.

2010 - A father whose payments for his disabled child had been cut by the government leapt from a balcony in the Romanian parliament in protest against the decision. He was not seriously injured.

A loud thud reverberated in the chamber after the man, Adrian Sobaru - identified by the country’s public television station as one of its engineers - hit the benches shortly after Prime Minister Emil Boc greeted the lawmakers.

diversity meant adding white gays to the main cast… 

still does apparently

like…

and it’s been going on for fucking ever

HELL…

I only possess a rudimentary understanding of Marxism, but what I have learned has pushed me to ask the question: Could Revolutionary Catalonia, during the Spanish Civil War, be seen as an example of the dictatorship of the proletariat?