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Today is the anniversary of the historic demonstrations against the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank that took place in Washington, DC on the weekend of April 16, 2000.

In this photograph, anarchists charge the police in Washington, DC with two sections of fencing at the high point of that day's events.

Far-right nationalists like Donald Trump later attempted to appropriate the rhetoric of the reformist elements of the movement against capitalist globalization, but the core of the movement was always dedicated to abolishing all forms of hierarchy. Nationalists have never done anything to halt the ravages of capitalism—they only seek to pit people against each other in order to distract from violence that the ruling class is inflicting on all of us. Globalize resistance, not capitalism!

You can read a history of the whole mobilization against the IMF and World Bank here:

https://crimethinc.com/A16