Ill Will

New Fascisms and the Reconfiguration of the Global Counterrevolution • Ill Will On the evolution of the fascist solution to capitalist crisis.

"The reality is that fascism is a historical product conditioned by the development of capitalism, and it obtains its characteristics from the context and epoch where it emerges; however, this precisely makes possible a variety of forms that share a basic feature: to protect a capitalism in crisis."

Breaking: DC residents begin spontaneous resistance against federal police in NW. Police were driven out by angry residents.

@illwill.bsky.social has been on a generational run lately, read their stuff

Get it, DC!

Réalité is a France based collective that confronts the turbulence of the present moment with the demand for a rigorous communist inquiry. Without dogma or posturing, we are building tools of analysis to make sense of the profound upheavals shaping our time - www.realite.world

This is so good; really hope some of y’all will take the time to read it.

Drawing on a range of thinkers from Bordiga and Mattick to Lazzarato and Endnotes, comrades from Chile trace the “fascist solution” to capitalist crisis from its roots in the 20th century to today.
illwill.com/new-fascisms

Vital Cells • Ill Will How do we become the kind of people who can take a revolutionary situation to its conclusion?

The English original can be read here: illwill.com/vital-cells

Células Vitales [Cibernética, Alcohólicos Anónimos y Organización Revolucionaria] Locura Proletaria

Locura Proletaria has published completed a Spanish translation of Kevin Suemnicht's "Vital Cells," an ambitious and polemical effort to use cybernetics to rethink revolutionary organization from the ground up.
lokuraproletaria.blogspot.com/2024/04/celu...

“An American fascism need not bear a likeness to Italian fascism or German National Socialism. Rather, its potential is ‘deeply enmeshed in histories of enslavement and extermination, dispossession, and domination that continue to shape the US present, materially and ideologically’.”

Drawing on a range of thinkers from Bordiga and Mattick to Lazzarato and Endnotes, comrades from Chile trace the “fascist solution” to capitalist crisis from its roots in the 20th century to today.
illwill.com/new-fascisms

On August 9, 2014, 18-year-old Mike Brown was murdered by a cop in Ferguson, Missouri. The cops left Brown’s body in the street for four hours...(1/2)

Part 1 of the Spanish translation of “Crossing the Rubicon” is now online at Colapso y Desvio

colapsoydesvio.noblogs.org/post/2025/08...

Destitution, Community, Situations It appears that the Trump regime managed to get around the paperwork of declaring martial law simply by declaring the entire population a potential terrorist threat then creating a 30 billion-dolla…

A distillation of destitution by Mike Templeton
templetondidelphis.wordpress.com/2025/07/31/d...

A French version of S. Prasad's "Crossing the Rubicon" is now online. Our thanks to the translators. Spanish forthcoming shortly as well.
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An interesting piece that adds more depth to the discussion that is in Michael Staudenmaier's book on the STO.

Beth Henson's account of struggles around sexual politics inside Sojourner Truth Organization, a revolutionary cadre group active in the 70s and 80s. An up-close reckoning with the often severe limits of gender politics inside revolutionary formations
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Beth Henson's account of struggles around sexual politics inside Sojourner Truth Organization, a revolutionary cadre group active in the 70s and 80s. An up-close reckoning with the often severe limits of gender politics inside revolutionary formations
illwill.com/phantom-phem...

"Theres a void in US revolutionary thought/ What has filled this void is BIPOC radicalism, a set of tendencies, patterns of acting & feeling, & ideologies which falsely claim to represent all non-white and western revolutionary perspectives. This politics serves as a brake on revolutionary activity"

New position paper on BIPOC politics from a revolutionary perspective
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New position paper on BIPOC politics from a revolutionary perspective
illwill.com/bring-the-sw...

Bring The Swords, Storm the Palaces • Ill Will A partisans of color position

"We want to bring about the BIPOCalypse: to explode the limits of our current discourse on race and forge a partisans of color fraction."https://illwill.com/bring-the-swords

"In its essence, the insurrectional impetus enacts the detotalization or fragmentation of existing socio-political orders. If it is to become a revolutionary opening, what is the nature of the party that could interact with detotalization or fragmentation and fulfill the necessity of revolution?"

Los Angeles, or the End of Assimilation • Ill Will Victor Artola on the origins of the anti-ICE rebellion in Los Angeles.

This is out now too

illwill.com/print/los-an...

Zines versions in English and French of "Los Angeles or the End of Assimilation" are now available in our print library.
illwill.com/los-angeles

I find this period endlessly interesting, not least because of what it implies for the emergence immediately thereafter of the thoroughly docilized, defanged and depoliticized Japan I lived in circa 2001 (and which we know today).

Crossing the Rubicon • Ill Will The uprising in Turkey is an image of the future.

What form will resistance to Trump take? What prevents unrest against right wing strongmen from mutating into insurrection, revolution? The uprisings in Turkey, Serbia, Georgia, and Bangladesh reveal a pattern with familiar limits and lessons.

illwill.com/crossing-the...

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The 2025 protests in Turkey offer us a glimpse of the shape that the coming movements against autocracy might take, and the limits that similar unrest will need to overcome, including protests against Trump closer to home.
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