Notices by CrimethInc. Ex-Workers (crimethinc@todon.eu)

Stop the Israeli assault on Iran!

“The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. The difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same.”

-Marjane Satrapi

https://cdn.crimethinc.com/assets/posters/marjane/marjaneprint.pdf

These fliers are for distributing at the "No Kings" demonstrations on June 14, 2025, in response to Trump's attempt to seize power via military occupation.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/it-is-fascism-start-acting-like-it

"The decisive moment has arrived. Disruptive, courageous action is our only chance. If we fight, we will win."

Liberals fear that if people act unruly, Trump will be able to impose totalitarian control.

That gets things backwards. Trump is already imposing totalitarian control. That's what is driving people into the streets.

It's too late to avoid this fight.

We can be passive and lose—or give it our all.

https://crimethinc.com/saferinthefront

On June 3, a crowd drove federal agents out of Minneapolis following an attempted raid. On June 4, people confronted ICE in Chicago and Grand Rapids. Today, there are clashes with ICE in Los Angeles.

Don't let them keep harming people.

You can print this poster out here:

https://cdn.crimethinc.com/assets/articles/2018/07/01/apply-heat-melt-ice.pdf

Donald Trump's plan to waste tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to throw a military parade on his birthday this June is not just the whim of an aging autocrat.

It is intended to send the message that we are now living in an authoritarian dictatorship.

Every mercenary who serves him is an enemy of all humanity.

ICE are not invincible. Police are not invincible.

In this footage from May 5, students at the University of Washington and their supporters force back police officers, protecting an occupation of the engineering building in protest against the complicity of Boeing in the arms trade and in solidarity with those experiencing genocide in Gaza.

https://crimethinc.com/UW2025

"Until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope."

-Robert Barron, appointed by Donald Trump to the so-called "White House Commission on Religious Liberty"

Only a few hours passed between this statement and the appointment of Robert Prevost as successor to Pope Francis.

We honor the courage of those who occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building at the University of Washington to protest the university's ties to Boeing.

As the Israeli military prepares to step up the pace of the genocide in Gaza, such solidarity actions are needed more than ever.

https://crimethinc.com/Encampments2024

Just in time for May 6, Luigi Mangione's birthday, the December 4th Legal Committee has raised over $1 million for his legal defense. This consists of over 28,000 donations with a median contribution of $20.

https://www.givesendgo.com/legalfund-ceo-shooting-suspect

Countless people see Luigi as a symbol of resistance. This is significant in a time when Donald Trump has staked his popularity on televised spectacles of brutality.

The shooting of the CEO of UnitedHealthcare galvanized such a powerful response because it posed the question: should violence be enacted against the most vulnerable—or the most responsible?

https://crimethinc.com/sacrificialviolence

The gas chamber executions at the Mauthausen concentration camp went on until Hitler committed suicide on May 1, 1945.

On May 5, Spanish prisoners welcomed liberation with this banner:

“The Spanish antifascists salute the forces of freedom.”

This is what's at stake.

https://crimethinc.com/MayDayHistory

Why celebrate May Day?

This year, in taking the streets, we are showing each other who is prepared to fight:

"Take a stand—we'll be there, too."

And every year, by coming together once more, we show that we are part of a story much greater than ourselves, a story that stretches back centuries.

Life reinventing itself in defiance of death.

https://crimethinc.com/MayDayHistory

In response to the highest court in United Kingdom claiming the right to define others' gender for them, let's revisit the words of a famous French anarchist:

"To be gendered is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, & enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so...

"To be gendered is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored.

"That is gender; that is its justice; that is its morality."

—Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in drag

Against all states, judges, laws and rights—for freedom and anarchy! :anarchoheart1: :anarchoheart2:

25 years ago today, on April 16, 2000, tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC to take action against the meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank. Building on the mobilization that shut down the summit of the World Trade Organization in Seattle the previous November, they sought to demonstrate the virtues of global solidarity as an alternative to neoliberal capitalist globalization.

This oral history captures the events and the spirit of the times in vivid detail.

http://crimethinc.com/A16

"The black bloc came at that moment when blood was streaming down people’s faces and essentially pushed the police out of our intersection. They were just this wall of bodies that pushed them out and saved our intersection from any further police abuse. I’ve forever been grateful to that black bloc for hearing on the walkie talkies that we needed help and coming so powerfully to our aid."

"As participants in the black bloc, the thinking was: we’re not going to get voluntarily arrested; we’re not going to sit in the street while they put pepper spray in our eyes. We are going to fight back against police abuse."

Even the Financial Times admits that Donald Trump is building a police state.

This should give everyone a new perspective on the movement to abolish the police, which was so controversial a few years ago. Despite tremendous outcry against racist police killings, the Biden administration doubled down on promoting the legitimacy of police and channeled considerable quantity of resources towards them, all of which they will now use to impose Trump's agenda on us.

The movement to abolish the police was our best hope of countering the forces via which autocrats like Trump will impose fascism.

It still is.

"The only possible way out of this mess is to develop the ability to wield power on our own terms, horizontally and autonomously, stripping the police of legitimacy and shattering the illusion that they are invincible. This has been the common thread between practically all the significant movements of the past several years."

We said that in 2014.

crimethinc.com/cwc/bluefuse

Today, Donald Trump made it clear that he intends to have people deported to El Salvador without due process, including United States citizens.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn has something to say to us about this moment.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If… if… We didn’t love freedom enough. And even more—we had no awareness of the real situation… We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

– Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago

"Abolish ICE" sounded like a radical demand to Democrats, though ICE itself only dates to 2003.

Today, it should be clear to even the most deluded liberals that if you establish institutions for the sole purpose of brutalizing people, authoritarians will inevitably use them to consolidate power.

The Trump administration is intentionally circulating photographs of dehumanized prisoners crowded into bunks reminiscent of the famous photographs from within the death camp at Buchenwald during the Holocaust. Spectacular violence is central to the fascist program, which hinges on accustoming people to spectatorship and passivity.

https://crimethinc.com/sacrificialviolence

ICE posted—and then deleted—this advertisement on Instagram and the fascist-owned platform X/Twitter, announcing themselves as the thought police stopping ideas from entering the United States.

It's not just about attacking undocumented people, or immigrants, or dissidents—they aim to prevent thought itself.

If Hitler's Nazi Party were still in power today, its Instagram feed would look exactly like the ICE Instagram: a series of photographs of captured, brutalized human beings.

ICE represents fascism. Resist by all means.

https://crimethinc.com/MahmoudKhalil

"Before 1914, the earth had belonged to all. People went where they wished and stayed as long as they pleased. There were no permits, no visas, and it always gives me pleasure to astonish the young by telling them that before 1914, I travelled from Europe to India and America without a passport and without ever having seen one."

-Stefan Zweig

Borders as we know them are a recent concoction.

The passport system as we know it dates to the First World War. ICE was founded in 2003 as part of the so-called "War on Terror," a disaster for freedom in every way.

These institutions are neither timeless nor beneficial nor inevitable.

https://crimethinc.com/borders

At the turn of the century, during the movement against capitalist globalization, we used to say that it was a travesty that products could move across national borders more easily than human beings.

The solution is not to impose more controls on products as well as on human beings.

The tariffs are not intended to benefit the United States economy, nor the capitalist class as a whole. They chiefly benefit Donald Trump and his lackeys, functioning as a tool with which they can punish adversaries and negotiate for personal gain.

This is a hallmark of authoritarian rule.

The arbitrary and autocratic state policy exemplified by these tariffs is emerging as a consequence of the tremendous disparities in wealth and power that the neoliberal world order produced.

The solution is not to try to go back to neoliberalism, but to abolish capitalism.

https://crimethinc.com/work

Those who seek to oppress us are not invincible.

Whatever power they acquire, whatever technology they employ, they make mistakes, they overlook vulnerabilities.

And they are motivated by bigotry and greed, which are not the most powerful forces in the human spirit.

https://crimethinc.com/ActionResources