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Help It’s Going Down Continue and Grow Into the New Year
December 21, 2021 3:48 pmDONATE HERE 2022 will mark the 7 year anniversary of the launch of It’s Going Down. Since we first began, IGD has... Read Full Article
Kite Line: Carceral Nonprofits
December 19, 2021 2:48 amLong-running abolitionist radio show Kite Line looks at the impact of carceral non-profits who steer radical change towards liberal reform under the... Read Full Article
This Week in Fascism #124: Patriot Front Gets Infiltrated and Exposed; DA Pushing Far-Right Conspiracies Slaps Antifascists With Conspiracy Charges
December 17, 2021 5:15 amphoto: @AlissaAzar Welcome fellow antifascists! This is an action packed column – with antifascists infiltrating Patriot Front, releasing their audio, and starting... Read Full Article
Why Anarchists Can’t Be Absent From the New Wave of Labor Militancy
December 6, 2021 2:02 amAnarchists must push for self-organization, direct action and mutual aid in the midst of a wave of mass strikes, workers walking off... Read Full Article
So, You’re an Abolitionist in Minneapolis, and You Just Lost at the Polls. Now What?: An Invitation to Revolt
December 3, 2021 1:40 amIn the wake of failed electoral strategies, anarchists and abolitionists look back at what made the George Floyd uprising powerful and argue... Read Full Article
Calling All Antifascist Bands!
December 2, 2021 12:47 amCall for submissions from antifascist bands for a compilation record benefiting prisoners and the Torch network. Do you dream of creating a... Read Full Article
In Contempt #11: 2021 Comes to a Close
December 1, 2021 9:57 pmWelcome! It’s December! In this month’s column, we’ve got lots of updates on political prisoners, George Floyd uprising defendants, and prison rebels.... Read Full Article
This Week in Fascism #123: Proud Boys, Patriots and White Nationalists See Rittenhouse Verdict as Signal From State for More Murder
December 1, 2021 2:46 amcover:@GraffitiRadical Welcome fellow antifascists! Anarchists in #Olympia made short work of banners from neo-Nazi group, Patriot Front, a re-brand of Vanguard America,... Read Full Article
Against the Snakes of Political Moderation and Centrism
November 9, 2021 2:23 pmConflating groups fighting oppression and repression with groups pushing for more oppression and repression is obscene and shameful. We reject the comparison, reject those we are compared to, and reject those making it.
Ενάντια στα φίδια της πολιτικής μετριοπάθειας και του Κέντρου
November 9, 2021 5:55 amΤο τελευταίο μας άρθρο έρχεται από έναν ανώνυμο συντροφο απο τα Βαλκάνια. Είναι μια κριτική της λεγόμενης θεωρίας των δύο άκρων –... Read Full Article
Contre les serpents de la modération et du centrisme
November 9, 2021 5:43 amCet article nous a été envoyé par un camarade des Balkans. C’est une critique de la célèbre “théorie du fer à cheval”,... Read Full Article
This Week In Fascism #121: Texas Cops Make Nice With Nazis; Facebook Feeds Off Qanon; GOP Promised DC Stormers Pardons
October 26, 2021 2:51 amWelcome fellow antifascists! We’ve been away for a bit, but we return this week with a new massive column! From Facebook knowingly... Read Full Article
Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage 2021: Action Report
October 18, 2021 6:14 pmReport back on Indigenous People’s Day of Rage 2021 actions. Originally posted to Indigenous Action. We saw banner drops, militant marches, paint... Read Full Article
A Letter to the Water Protectors
October 13, 2021 6:34 pmA critical look at the impact of repression on the Line 3 struggle. Originally posted to Earth First! The time is finally... Read Full Article
This Is America #149: The Mask on Biden Slips
October 11, 2021 5:12 pmWelcome, to This Is America, October 11th, 2021. On today’s episode, we dive into headline and resistance news, before switching to our... Read Full Article
The Struggle for the Megaphone: An Analysis of Activist Counterinsurgency in Lincoln, Nebraska Pt. 2
October 4, 2021 5:14 pmThe second in a two-part series, this essay continues to look at the counter-insurgent role that activist groups had in the anti-FIJI... Read Full Article
Philadelphia: Running Down The Walls 2021 Reportback
October 3, 2021 2:33 pmReport from Philadelphia Anarchist Black Cross on recent Running Down the Walls event for political prisoners. To listen to an interview with... Read Full Article
In Contempt #9: Running Down the Walls 2021; Eric King Trial, Hunger Strikes in Texas & Oregon
October 1, 2021 5:03 amIn this month’s column, we roundup the recent #ShutEmDown actions, Running Down the Walls events, and offer updates on ongoing hunger strikes,... Read Full Article
Where Movements Go to Die: An Analysis of Activist Counterinsurgency in Lincoln, Nebraska
September 21, 2021 12:05 amContent Warning: This essay focuses on a social justice movement and therefore discusses police violence against black people, sexual assault, and self-defense... Read Full Article
Encryption, Cell Phones, and Threats from the Surveillance State: A Presentation from the Civil Liberties Defense Center
September 14, 2021 11:21 pmOn this special edition of the It’s Going Down podcast, we present an audio recording of a recent webinar presentation from the... Read Full Article
Understanding A22 PDX: Broader Implications for Militant Movements
September 11, 2021 6:31 pmThe following is a response by Don H. to the discussion on Three Way Fight. It goes beyond the specifics of PDX... Read Full Article
The University Is Trying to Kill You. Do Not Let It.
September 9, 2021 1:04 amFrom an anonymous group of students from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln and originally posted to Irruptions, this piece looks at the... Read Full Article
Talk Amongst Yourselves: From White Guilt to Race Traitors
September 5, 2021 5:29 amA new critical editorial from City Inhospitable, originally posted to Ill Will, that looks at the role of white guilt in holding back... Read Full Article
In Contempt #8: #ShutEmDown2021; Running Down the Walls 2021; Biden Expanding Repression; Kinetik Justice on Hunger Strike
September 1, 2021 8:49 pmThis month’s column comes out right in the middle of two separate ongoing calls to action. Across the so-called US, Jailhouse Lawyers... Read Full Article
This Week in Fascism #118: Anti-Vaxx & Anti-Mask Movement Gets Violent; Communities Confront Proud Boys; Anti-Immigrant Trump Supporter Threatens DC with Bomb
August 31, 2021 1:26 amWelcome fellow antifascists! We’re back again with another action packed column. We bring you antifascist campaign reports from up and down the... Read Full Article
Abolitionist Block Party Kicks of #ShutEmDown2021 Actions in Milwaukee
August 18, 2021 4:02 amReport from Abolish MKE about a recent abolitionist block party in Milwaukee that kicked off a string of actions and events for... Read Full Article
Looking Critically at the Brooklyn Center Riot: An Interview from Anathema
August 18, 2021 3:19 amOriginally published in Anathema, an anarchist publication from Philadelphia, the following interview talks about the realities of the Brooklyn Center riot that... Read Full Article
A Response to “Seven Theses on the Three-Way Fight”
August 14, 2021 3:49 amResponse to Devin Zane Shaw’s, Seven Theses on the Three-Way Fight, by, Bob Day, an anarchist active in both Detroit Eviction Defense... Read Full Article
Blood on the Sand: The Department of Justice Investigates the Phoenix PD
August 13, 2021 2:56 amA look at the counter-insurgency role of the Department of Justice in investigating the Phoenix Police in the wake of the George... Read Full Article
“No, It Is the Children Who Are Wrong”: A Response to David Rovics
August 11, 2021 1:36 amA response to David Rovics. See Rovics’s original statement, published here. We want to start by stating that we are fans of... Read Full Article
Canadian Tire Fire #9: Youth Worker Solidarity, the Latest in COVID Policies, Defund the Police
August 9, 2021 5:14 amAcross so-called Canada this week, there were five documented deaths at the hands of police – a bleak start to a month... Read Full Article
“Energize the Movement”: Jailhouse Lawyers Speak on the Importance of the National Shut’Em Down Demonstrations
August 7, 2021 6:46 amAt It’s Going Down, we’ve been tracking, reporting, and interviewing people involved in the growing abolitionist and prisoner resistance movement since we... Read Full Article
Final Straw: Asheville’s Policing Crisis
August 2, 2021 10:46 amLong-running anarchist radio and podcast show The Final Straw presents a discussion on the crisis in policing in so-called Asheville, North Carolina.... Read Full Article
In Contempt #7: Charges Dropped, Charges Filed
July 28, 2021 2:38 amA lot has gone on this month. From comrades like Loren Reed getting out (again!), to abolitionists in Florida getting their charges... Read Full Article
The Only Way Out Is Always Through the Police: A History of the Rise and Fall of the 2020 New York Riots
July 15, 2021 3:31 amA deep and critical look at the rise and fall of the George Floyd rebellion on the streets of New York and... Read Full Article
Eric Laursen Owes Me a Lamp: Some Reactions to ‘The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State’
July 14, 2021 2:30 amAn anarchist review and critique of The Operating System: An Anarchist Theory of the Modern State, by Eric Laursen. by anonymous It... Read Full Article
Kairos: A Mutual Aid Exodus From Empire
July 12, 2021 2:21 amReport from Mutual Aid Disaster Relief about the massive and deadly impact on the coronavirus epidemic and the importance of continued mutual... Read Full Article
This Week in Fascism #115: Patriot Front Driven Out of Philly; Students Protest Neo-Nazi Student Liam MacNeil at UMass; LA Shuts Down Transphobes
July 7, 2021 2:49 amWelcome fellow antifascists! We got a summer offensive against fascism to cover! Just this past week, Patriot Front was driven out of... Read Full Article
The Growing Crisis in Policing: In Conversation with Alex Vitale
July 5, 2021 8:28 pmOn this episode of the It’s Going Down podcast, we speak with abolitionist Alex Vitale, author of the new book, The End... Read Full Article
Neo-Nazi Group Patriot Front Behind Wave of Racist Vandalism Chased out of Philadelphia
July 4, 2021 2:17 amReport from Idavox about how the Philadelphia community drove the neo-Nazi group Patriot Front off the streets. The neo-fascist group Patriot Front... Read Full Article