Why Trump’s 2025 USA Is Not Fascist: An Anarcho-Communist Analysis

From The Polar Bl@st

In 2025, as Donald Trump re-enters the White House, a familiar discourse reignites across left-leaning and liberal spaces: “Trump is a fascist.” For many, especially in the mainstream, it’s an emotionally satisfying shorthand for what they experience as authoritarian, cruel, and dangerous leadership. And to be fair, much of what the Trump regime has done—both in the past and now in its return—has been undeniably authoritarian and reactionary.

Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace

From CrimethInc.

As Donald Trump and Elon Musk subordinate the United States government to their pursuit of totalitarian power, their opponents remain in a defensive posture, accusing them of lawlessness. But neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of resistance, to take direct action on a horizontal and participatory basis—in other words, to become anarchists.

Conjunctural Analysis 2025: Crises and Collective Action

From Black Rose Anarchist Federation

Conjunctural analysis is a method of assessing what is known as the correlation of forces or the balance of power between social forces within a particular context (local, regional, national, etc) in the current moment. It also takes into account the relationship between these shifting social forces and the relatively permanent structures that shape society. In other words, it is a way of understanding the context in which we want to intervene politically. Conjunctural analysis is based on the following basic premises:

A glance at claimed illegal actions on US anarchist blogs

ISD analyzed six notable radical anarchist[1]movement blogs in hopes of offering an evidence-based review of the broader scene they represent, where sober analysis is often lacking. A review of posts published between January 1 and June 1, 2024, included a grab-bag of anonymously–claimed illegal activities against property including arson, vandalism and property destruction. None claimed direct violence against individuals. Researchers also found that the six analyzed blogs heavily focused their messaging on issues surrounding law enforcement, environmental destruction, the Israel-Hamas War, and corporate interests in those issues.

WAR, CRISIS, AND ANARCHY

From La Nemesi, machine translated

The financial avalanche of these days represents the first visible repercussion of the war on the health of "our" economies. It is important to know how to listen to these creaks, still modest without a doubt, and to intervene to aggravate the situation.

The Angle Grinder of Revolution: Against the Commuter and its World

A new essay and zine published anonymously by Filler PGH.

The commuter is the modality through which every other identity is shaped and borne within this techno-industrial prison. The negation of the commuter is the negation of civilization and the bare life it has enforced; the negation of the commuter is the affirmation of wildness, of freedom, of possibility.

We therefore affirm again, our hearts full with insurgent ferocity: every commuter is a target.

Lessons from the 2020 Uprising

This article provides a brief overview of some criminal cases from the Portland 2020 uprising, and discusses some lessons that can be learned from them. We try to identify and name snitches, including informants and journalists whose work has helped the state, and describe the tactics used by law enforcement, especially undercover agents. This article is obviously incomplete, and there is far more evidence, cases and stories than we could possibly find ourselves and include here.

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