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They are coming down hard on protestors because the powers the be are scared and weak. They are stretched thin and are incompetent. They lost Vietnam, they lost the Middle East, they lost Cuba, they lost North Korea, they lost Ukraine and they'll eventually lose the world.
You are currently in the claws of the beast and the beast is dying. You will be free of it's clutches, keep biting its hands. It's squeezing you because your bites hurt it. Do not give up.
Reading this at first I thought "no it won't fail without intervention". But this time it's different (also arguably we just ignored fascism last time but whatever). It's not just a single country or two, it's basically the "world government/police" that is fascist. But we are also no longer in a mono-polar world, people have non-state affiliated media, and within the empire the lives of the empires subjects are falling apart.
The "good guy" narrative is falling apart.
But we definitely need to organize before things get too bad.
This has been thoughts whilst pooping (a subsidiary of TED talks).
There is a course called organizing for power through the Rosa Luxemburg foundation. But be worth a look for anyone who needs help getting started.
It looks at organizing through the lens of Unions, though I suspect it's mostly to make sure they don't get shut down by the freedom loving German police