Some of my favorite slogans include:
"Property is theft", "War is the health of the State", "Whoever you vote for, the government wins", "Whoever you vote for, we are ungovernable", "Today's empire is tomorrow's ashes/ruins", "Capitalism is the crisis", "We are the crisis", "People not profits", "Climates not capitalists", "The system works FOR THEM", "To protect and serve THE RICH", and who can forget the classics, "Fuck the police!" & "MAKE TOTAL DESTROY".
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Some of my favorite chants include:
Off the cops,
Fire to the prisons,
a-n-a-r-c-h-ism
One direction: insurrection
One solution: revolution
The rich / will never / defeat the poor
The only solution: class war
Capitalism? No thanks!
We'll burn the fucking banks
Eat your pheasant / drink your whine
Your days are numbered, bourgeois swine
No borders / No nations
Fuck deportations
Occupy, Decolonize
Liberate & Organize
No more petitions
Kill the politicians
Take no shit / Take no orders
No more banks & no more borders
From <our town>, to Greece
Fuck the police
From <our town>, to Iraq
Fight back, fight back, fight back
1,2,3,4
Escalate the social war
5,6,7,8
Fight the bosses, fight the State
No justice, no peace,
Fuck the police
Kill, kill, kill the rich!
No more throne, no more crown
Fuck shit up & burn it down
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Slogans and chants are often overly reductionist, and sometimes counterproductive, but have their use and can be fun. We need to use them strategically. Slogans are useful to get people to start thinking or to simply remind them or larger critiques in the moment, but can often go over peoples' heads if they don't have a common understanding of the concepts and analyses we mean to articulate. They can also diminish the role of critical thinking.
Chants especially can quickly unite or divide gatherings and incite action, separating for example, anarchists and liberals. Which can be desirable or undesirable depending on the circumstances.
As fun as slogans and chants can be, nothing is as boring as getting hundreds of people together to the streets to simply repeat the same 3-part chant "No States / No classes / Organize the masses" and end up doing nothing.
