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and welcome to another sedition of

It's the End of the World as we Know it

and I Feel Fine - the show where

the future looks fucking bleak!

Donald Trump is likely going to be

the Republican nominee for president.

It's Trump all the way!

I think he may be the next president

of the United States.

♫ Cowardice... are you serious?

Apologies for freedom?

I can't handle this! ♫

I am your host the Stimulator

and for weeks now, Paris, the so-called

city of love, has been transformed into

the city of mothafuckin rage!

Ever since the terrorist attacks

that rocked France's capital last November

the whole fucking country has been

under a state of emergency - after

its chinless President, Francois Hollande

dredged up an old law drafted in

19 fucking 55, as part of France's

dirty counterinsurgency war in Algeria.

This emergency law, which places limits

on protests, and grants additional powers

to the state security forces,

was extended for a second time

on February 16th, and will now

be in place until at least May 26th

It's a real challenge to see when

we will come out of this stage

of emergency.

When do we stop it, and how?

So far, the French state has mainly used

its expanded powers to harass

and further alienate the nation’s large

Muslim population.

Mosques and Halal restaurants have been

targeted, thousands of warrantless raids

have been carried out,

and hundreds of peeps have been placed

under strict house arrest without trial.

I was woken up by a noisy pounding

and shootings at the door.

My daughter was hit in the neck.

Probably by some shotgun pellets.

Tension against this atmosphere

of generalized repression has been

steadily building for months and

multiple flashpoints across the country

have since begun to converge into

a generalized movement of anti-capitalist

and anti-state resistance.

Not surprisingly,

one of these flashpoints is La ZAD

- the sprawling land defense occupation

that for years now has been

actively opposing the construction of

the planned Notre Dame Des Landes airport.

Back in January a court handed down

a ruling upholding the state seizure of

several farm houses on the occupation site

and the eviction of their residents.

Unmoved by the court’s decision,

residents of La ZAD have vowed to defend

their encampment from any future attacks

and have called on their allies for

solidarity and support.

On February 20th, militants in the

nearby city of Nantes answered this call,

taking to the streets to denounce

the extension of the state of emergency

and to express their solidarity with

the intransigent residents of La ZAD.

During the demonstration, paint bombs

and other projectiles were lobbed at

police lines

and peeps took the opportunity to

redecorate a number of banks

and high-end shops.

Another flashpoint has been

the Calais Jungle

the infamous refugee camp

home to thousands of migrants trapped

in France on their way to the UK.

The demolition and forced eviction

of the southern section of camp began

on February 29th, sparking resistance

from camp residents, including

a hunger strike launched on March 2nd

by a dozen Iranian refugees,

several of whom sewed their mouths shut.

This hunger strike concluded on March 25th

after the French government backed off

from plans to demolish the

northern section of the Jungle,

but suffice to say...

tensions are still fucking high.

So…. within this context

of simmering social unrest

on March 9th

in an amazing display of chutzpah

the French government decided to

introduce a harsh labour reform bill,

the so-called El Khomri law,

which seeks to eliminate the country's

sacrosanct 35-hour workweek cap,

which most French workers view

as a hard-won achievement

earned through decades of

militant class struggle.

For many peeps in France

this was the last fucking straw

and the response has been a resounding

FUCK YOU!

Unions have launched a series of

coordinated strikes and

taken to the streets across the country,

where they have been joined by

tens of thousands of striking high school

and university students.

At a massive demonstration on March 17th

crowds of pissed off youth clashed with

the French po-po in the streets of Paris

lobbing rocks and flares

and attacking police vans.

One week later, the country was rocked by

an even rowdier series of protests

as the piss-licking capitalists

of the so-called Partie Socialiste

met again to try to introduce

a slightly-revised version of the law.

In Paris, black clad hooligans

rained a hail of bottles down

on the militarized swine

of the French po-po,

several undercovers were unceremoniously

ejected from the crowd

and several cars were burnt to a

crispy crisp.

Later that day, after footage of the pigs

assaulting a high school student

went viral, youth responded by

smashing up two fucking cop shops

and looting two grocery stores

seizing food and redistributing it to

peeps on the street.

Taco. Free Taco?

This latest wave of protests culminated,

on Thursday March 31st, in a nationwide

general mothafuckin strike.

266 different protests took place

with a reported 1.3 million peeps

participating nationwide.

Marches were held in every major city

in the country

many of which led to street-fighting

with the police.

In Paris over 30,000 peeps participated

in a demonstration that quickly descended

into violent attacks on the mothafuckin pigs.

Check this shit out!

Real change requires real action.

I am no hero... just a citizen

who decided to get up and do something.

I've done my part.

Now it's your turn.

At the time of writing, shit in Paris

is still popping the fuck off,

and given the intractable nature of

the multiple issues fueling

the current wave of unrest,

it’s a fair guess that things won’t be

calming down anytime soon.

Bravo France. Bra-fucking-vo.

Some of y’all might remember that

a couple of months ago,

me and my subMedia slaves put out

a brief report on the masturbatory

spectacle that’s been

dominating the headlines for much

of the past year in the United Snakes.

This is a red high chair.

I wanna have a baby

so I can bop it with a sharp

peanut shell.

That's friggen weird.

As we explained at the time,

we did so because as anarchists,

we're sick and motherfuckin tired

of having to explain to peeps

that revolutionary change doesn’t come

through the ballot box.

And since the main proponents of this

brainwashed fucking delusion

tend to be leftists of the

liberal-progressive variety,

that’s who we took to task.

We gonna bring the neoliberal era

to a close, my sister.

We gonna fight the neo-fascism of Trump

in the name of neo-populism.

And we're gonna invite you to get on

the Bernie Sanders love train.

Oh. My. God.

Buuuuuuuuuuut while we were

not altogether surprised by

the temper tantrum this provoked from

die-hard supporters of Bernie’s

so-called “political revolution”….

I gotta say I was honestly

pretty fucking shocked to see

some peeps misinterpret our attack on

electoral politics as a tacit endorsement

of Republican front-runner

and human fucking sphincter,

Donald Trump.

Well she does have a very nice figure.

I've said that if Ivanka weren't

my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her.

Oh. My. God.

So... although I’m amazed

I even have to say it,

just so there’s no misunderstanding.

FUCK DONALD TRUMP!

Now… while Trump’s liberal detractors

often view his supporters as

an unidentified mass of wife-beating

truck-nut aficionados,

disillusioned Christian fundamentalists

and a garden variety of

white supremacists of all stripes,

the uncomfortable truth is that Trump

speaks to the injured pride of a broad

cross-section of working-class Americans

who despite growing up being told that

they lived in the greatest country

on earth, have nonetheless

seen their livelihoods gutted by decades

of neoliberal restructuring

and corporate trade deals

pushed through by Washington elites

like Hillary Clinton.

It’s also no fucking secret that

the United Snakes is teeming with masses

of peeps who are generally pissed off

because shit’s fucked

I don't want lunch. I want breakfast.

Yeah well hey. I'm really sorry.

Yeah? Hey, I'm really sorry too.

HE'S GOT A GUN!

yet lack a nuanced understanding of the

intricate workings of global capitalism

and its influence on geopolitics.

Hence the huge following for

populist bullshit artists like Alex Jones.

It is an alien force, not of this world.

This is not human intelligence, okay?

IT'S NOT HUMAN INTELLIGENCE!

Oh. My. God.

And to all those who’d prefer to blame

their very real everyday problems

on the colour of Obama’s skin

or the fact that he’s a shape-shifting

reptilian from another dimension,

Trump might seem like a rational choice.

Plus... the muthafucker was on TV!

The United Snakes has a storied history

of electing celebrities from the

entertainment industry into office

whether the Governator

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I'll be back.

Jesse “the Body” Ventura

The Body will get to the bottom of this.

or even the ol’ Gipper himself…

Ronnie fuckin Reagan!

I like what you're doing with the car.

Just stick with that.

Trump is just the latest embodiment

of this phenomenon - a reality TV star,

failed real estate tycoon

and professional Gordon Gecko impersonator

with a hilarious spray tan

and a goofy fucking hairdo

that closely resembles a toupee

crafted out of the carcass of

an albino squirrel.

Buuuuuuut what’s novel about Trump

is that his whole celebrity persona

is crafted around him being

a total fucking prick

or as it’s known in the professional

wrestling circuit, a heel.

Get in the ring Vince. Get in the ring!

Yup…. the current front-runner

for the Republican party is a straight-up

mothafuckin villain.

And he’s still getting votes!

From his call for the construction of

a literal fucking wall

on the Mexican border

to his balls-out fascist promise to bar

Muslim visitors to the United Snakes,

the fact that this openly bigoted

They're bringing drugs.

They're bringing crime.

They're rapists.

sexist figure

Must be a pretty picture

you dropping to your knees.

is resonating with millions of Americans

is fucking terrifying.

I don't know what it is,

I just like the guy.

Let me tell ya, I'm a really smart guy.

IT'S NOT HUMAN INTELLIGENCE!

So… to learn more just about what the fuck

is going on south of the border,

we recently caught up with B Traven,

an operative with the CrimethInc.

ex-Workers’ Collective,

a US-based anarchist network producing

analysis and tools for revolution.

Hey B... how the fuck are you?

Oh, I'm doing alright.

Trump's election bid has unleashed some

pretty ugly displays of

reactionary politics in the United Snakes.

His campaign has managed to draw

the vocal support of leading members

of the KKK... but despite that,

it has simultaneously resonated with

millions of American voters.

What do you think that this says about

the current state of American society?

Basically I think that Trump's success

tells us about where we are

in the crisis of capitalism.

When things polarize, some people

go looking for a better boss.

They look for a better authority figure

to usher them through the crisis.

This means blaming down the hierarchy.

Blaming the people who have less power

than you.

Which is less intimidating than blaming

the people who have more power than you,

because if you blame the people who have

more power than you, you have to go to war

with people who are stronger than you.

Who have more money, who have more guns.

But of course the real problem is that

these structures of power exist that could

put a person like Trump in the position

of power that he's already in.

Let alone, enable him to take more power

by becoming president.

Trump's campaign has also been targeted

by protestors who have shut down rallies

in Chicago and Kansas City

and have taken to the streets

in New York and Arizona.

What do you think of these tactics?

Well, I appreciate the courage

that it takes for someone to

put themselves in that dangerous situation

to interrupt the spectacle of everybody

worshiping Donald Trump.

That kind of spectacle has always been

important to authoritarians,

to dictators... to show the sort of image

of everybody celebrating the great hero.

The protagonist. The great man.

I think it's important to show that Trump

doesn't have everyone behind him.

And to show that what he's doing

can be interrupted.

To show that he can't control us, y'know?

I really appreciate the things that

people are doing.

Of course the most important thing

in the long run, is not to be able

to make symbolic gestures, but actually

to interrupt the functioning of those

institutions themselves.

Many commentators,

including Noam Chomsky, have likened

Trump's candidacy to the rise of

the Nazi Party in the 1930s in Germany.

What do you make of this comparison?

I think it is significant that Hitler

came to power by a democratic election

as well.

I mean, democracy itself is just

a set of procedures that can put

anyone in power, really.

Trump recently came out warning

that there will be riots if

the GOP deny him the party's nomination.

Republican and Democratic

National Conventions have historically

been sites of protests,

from the 1968 DNC in Chicago,

to the RNC and DNC counter-demonstrations

of the anti-globalization era....

buuuuuuut the spectre of a mass of pissed

off Trump supporters thrown into the

mix would change this dynamic totally,

possibly leading to a three-way clash

between his supporters, his opponents,

and the mothafuckin pigs.

What are your thoughts on this...

or is it even worth speculating about?

Since the Ukrainian Revolution a couple

of years ago, we've seen right-wing

or nationalist groups appropriating

the tactics that we develop...

like the Occupy model.

In not just Ukraine, but Brazil

and Venezuela.

In Romania, and Bulgaria and Macedonia.

Y'know... in the US, this means that

the right-wingers now want to...

y'know... they wanna have, like,

right-wing occupations or something.

They want to develop, like a street-level

grassroots activity.

And that's what makes the Klan

really dangerous in this situation.

Because they're an example of a group

that can channel this.

As for the three way clash that you're

talking about... that's also contemporary

of our era, where the state breaks down

y'know...rival groups compete to be the

alternative to the ruling order.

And this situation makes it really

important for us to demonstrate

that we are the ones who have

a liberating vision for how we can

take on the government and win,

so when people are trying to decide

what they're going to do with their rage

about the oppression that

they're experiencing... that we will

be the ones to make contact with them.

Not the Klan.

So... what the fuck do anarchists have

against democracy?

Well, we're anxious about Trump

coming to power, right?

But the real problem is that any person

could wield so much power through

those institutions.

Let's look at the institutions

of government itself.

Think about... ministries

the military

the police, the court system.

Now, all of these institutions are older

than democracy.

They are the same institutions that

served kings.

They were invented under kings

during the monarchy, for ruling people.

For wielding power over people.

And now we're supposed to identify with

these authoritarian institutions...

just because every four years, or every

two years we can have a little bit

of a say on who pilots them.

But the institutions themselves

are fundamentally authoritarian.

Government itself is a means of rule.

A means of imposing control over people.

And any system that functions through

majority rule is going to need

lines of exclusion and means of coercion.

Lines of exclusion could be borders,

it could be citizenship... but it means

that there are people who are included

and people who are excluded.

In a racist society, you know who

that's going to be.

As for means of coercion...

if you have majority rule, you have to

have a way of imposing those decisions

on people, right?.

That's going to mean the police.

That's going to mean the court system.

But it means that in the end,

you're not the one who has power

over your life, right?

The institutions have power

over your life.

Anarchists are often criticized

by liberals and so-called "progressives"

for sitting on the sideline

during elections, and failing to take

a pragmatic approach to social change.

Are there ways that you think

anarchists can or should engage

with elections outside of voting?

Well the most pragmatic thing that we can

do, of course, is to develop our own

capacity to act directly to implement

the changes that we want

so that we're not dependent on politicians.

Historically, whenever we come up with

a narrative or a set of tactics

that actually could work to do this,

we see politicians run along behind us

promising to give us all the things we've

finally become capable of doing

for ourselves.

So if you want to have an influence

on the political system,

rather than canvassing or, you know,

trying to promote some politician,

the best thing is to develop your own

autonomous power.

And then you'll see them trying to

appropriate your narratives.

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