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** Hello, friends.
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Since you last saw us here, we have published over 20 new articles, dozens of translations, and an hour-long documentary film on the 2019 Chilean uprising — Fell in Love with Fire ([link removed]) — as well as two new posters ([link removed]) . Before we go much further into 2025, we’re sharing our 2024 year in review. Let’s ground in the events we have just lived through, to steady ourselves for what is to come.

It’s time to take stock of the year have just lived through and get oriented for the year ahead. Here, we review the events of 2024 ([link removed]) and our own contributions to the fight for a better world.

A year that began amid genocide in Palestine and war in Ukraine and Sudan is concluding as Donald Trump prepares to return to power. This has grim implications in the United States, where Trump has explicitly promised to carry out “the largest mass deportations in US history ([link removed]) ,” but also elsewhere, as Trump may attempt to seize new territory ([link removed]) , permit Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to resume invading Syria in order to carry out ethnic cleansing ([link removed]) , and make deals with other fellow autocrats at everyone else’s expense.

From this vantage point, we can see that we have been living through the rise of a new reactionary nationalism that is now positioned to supplant neoliberalism as the dominant political paradigm. It has been gaining power almost everywhere—from Russia to Italy and Germany ([link removed]) , from Brazil to Indonesia ([link removed]) . It is clear now that the Biden era did not interrupt the rise of autocracy, but simply represented a stage of its rise, during which liberals demonstrated that they, too, were eager to militarize the police, fund genocide, and normalize extrajudicial violence—even if that meant preparing the way for an authoritarian regime that will do away with democracy ([link removed]) as they knew it.

For decades now, we have been fighting on two fronts against neoliberalism and fascism. These are challenging conditions: winning a battle is no guarantee that we will not have to fight that battle again and again, and every time we lose a battle, we are forced to fight it once more, but on worse terms. That makes it all the more important that the ways that we fight demonstrate our values and reflect the sort of life we consider worth living.

As 2025 begins with an explosion in Las Vegas ([link removed]) and an attack in New Orleans ([link removed]) , it looks like we are in for a bloody period. As we have already seen in Trump’s aggrandizement of various murderers and, on the other side of the battle lines, in the support for Luigi Mangione, this era is shaping up to be a clash between different kinds of violence ([link removed]) . It is not the future we would have chosen, but the story is not over and there may be better days yet to come.

This year, the challenge will be to fight as hard as we have to in order to defend ourselves and our communities while nourishing the parts of ourselves that are imaginative, that are tender, that can not only desire a better world but believe it into being. We will have to do these things in the midst of turmoil, rather than waiting for more peaceful times. We can do this.

Happy new year, dear comrades.

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** Zines
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We’ve released zine versions of several of our recent articles. Please print these out and distribute them!
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** Languages
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In 2025, we have added several of our articles in Italian ([link removed]) , Polish ([link removed]) , Russian ([link removed]) , Spanish ([link removed]) , Danish ([link removed]) , Bulgarian ([link removed]) , and Indonesian ([link removed]) .


If you can help us translate our work into any language, please contact us (mailto:[email protected]?subject=&body=) . We count on your assistance to make what we are doing accessible as part of a global conversation.


** The Path Ahead
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All of our projects are copyright free. We distribute them for free, or else, where that is impossible, sell print versions for the costs of production and delivery alone. We do this work freely, without seeking financial compensation. The future of our species and of all life on earth is more important to each of us than turning a profit at others’ expense. True wealth is collective, not individualistic.


If you want to help us expand the scope of our efforts, you can support our projects financially ([link removed]) . But the most important thing right now is to form networks that are capable of mutual aid, collective defense, and transformative revolutionary change. Find people who share your desire for a better world and practice taking action ([link removed]) together.


For a selection of resources on how to prepare for turbulent times, you can begin here ([link removed]) .
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