The military occupations around the country and the parade in DC represent the culmination of a long-term shift from persuasion to coercion as disparities in wealth and power intensify. Autocracy requires mercenaries—despicable scum who sell their capacity to inflict violence to the highest bidder.
For autocracy to triumph, people must suppress their empathy, confining themselves to selfish materialism. Their aspirations to community must be replaced with jingoistic conformity. And many of them must be desperate enough for employment that they will accept a wage to do harm to others like themselves.
Yet as economic and ecological crises intensify, millions of people are waking up to the reality that solidarity and mutual aid offer our best chance of survival, whereas the mercenaries who serve autocracy—and the inclination to do violence for a wage—pose the greatest threat to us.
Thank you to everyone who resists. It requires considerably more courage and integrity to be a rebel than to be a mercenary. 🏴
For autocracy to triumph, people must suppress their empathy, confining themselves to selfish materialism. Their aspirations to community must be replaced with jingoistic conformity. And many of them must be desperate enough for employment that they will accept a wage to do harm to others like themselves.
Yet as economic and ecological crises intensify, millions of people are waking up to the reality that solidarity and mutual aid offer our best chance of survival, whereas the mercenaries who serve autocracy—and the inclination to do violence for a wage—pose the greatest threat to us.
Thank you to everyone who resists. It requires considerably more courage and integrity to be a rebel than to be a mercenary. 🏴
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We've published a zine version of our report from the angry community response to an ICE raid in Minneapolis on June 3 that inspired resistance to ICE all around the country.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/minneapolis-to-feds-get-the-fuck-out-how-people-in-the-twin-cities-responded-to-a-federal-raid
Please print and distribute!
https://crimethinc.com/zines/minneapolis-to-feds-get-the-fuck-out-how-people-in-the-twin-cities-responded-to-a-federal-raid
Please print and distribute!
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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Reinforced Banners
How to build and employ reinforced banners that can function as a mobile shield wall, protecting demonstrators from police violence.
https://crimethinc.com/reinforcedbanners
How to build and employ reinforced banners that can function as a mobile shield wall, protecting demonstrators from police violence.
https://crimethinc.com/reinforcedbanners
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We've prepared a zine version of "Los Angeles Stands up to ICE," detailing June 6, the first day of the uprising.
In this firsthand report, participants describe how people came together to protect their communities from federal attacks.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/los-angeles-stands-up-to-ice-a-firsthand-report-on-the-clashes-of-june-6
Please print and distribute!
In this firsthand report, participants describe how people came together to protect their communities from federal attacks.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/los-angeles-stands-up-to-ice-a-firsthand-report-on-the-clashes-of-june-6
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We've prepared a zine version of our text "Melt ICE, Be Water,"
in which participants in a demonstration against ICE in Austin, Texas on June 9, 2025 describe how they escaped the control of party organizers who sought to control the protest, then evaded police for hours.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/melt-ice-be-water
Please print these out and distribute them!
in which participants in a demonstration against ICE in Austin, Texas on June 9, 2025 describe how they escaped the control of party organizers who sought to control the protest, then evaded police for hours.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/melt-ice-be-water
Please print these out and distribute them!
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Chicago contro l’ICE: “La migra, la policía, la misma porquería”
https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/13/chicago-contro-lice-la-migra-la-policia-la-misma-porqueria-resoconto-delle-manifestazioni-del-10-giugno
Il 10 giugno, i partecipanti a un'intera giornata di manifestazioni e scontri a Chicago si sono interrogati sulle potenzialità della resistenza contro l'ICE.
#Italiano
https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/13/chicago-contro-lice-la-migra-la-policia-la-misma-porqueria-resoconto-delle-manifestazioni-del-10-giugno
Il 10 giugno, i partecipanti a un'intera giornata di manifestazioni e scontri a Chicago si sono interrogati sulle potenzialità della resistenza contro l'ICE.
#Italiano
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No domingo, 15/06, protestos em solidariedade a Gaza ocorreram em São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Brasília e outras cidades brasileiras. Ao mesmo tempo, prefeitos de várias cidades brasileiras se escondiam em bunkers em Israel, enquanto uma comitiva de políticos de vários países estava em Israel para uma feira de tecnologia. Quando dizemos que Gaza é um laboratório de repressão para o mundo inteiro, isso não é uma metáfora. Israel exporta armas, veículos, tecnologias e limpeza étnica para todo o planeta.
O encarceramento da população negra, a segregação e matança promovidas por governos de esquerda e direita nas periferias do Brasil encontram ecos no que Trump faz com imigrantes nos Estados Unidos e no que Israel faz em território palestino.
#Português
O encarceramento da população negra, a segregação e matança promovidas por governos de esquerda e direita nas periferias do Brasil encontram ecos no que Trump faz com imigrantes nos Estados Unidos e no que Israel faz em território palestino.
#Português
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
No domingo, 15/06, protestos em solidariedade a Gaza ocorreram em São Paulo, Belo Horizonte, Brasília e outras cidades brasileiras. Ao mesmo tempo, prefeitos de várias cidades brasileiras se escondiam em bunkers em Israel, enquanto uma comitiva de políticos…
Tecnologias usadas em guerras contra inimigos externos são adaptadas e usadas para aterrorizar populações internas tornadas inimigas. Uma reforça a outra: as tropas que Lula enviou ao Haiti foram mobilizadas para implementar as Unidades de Polícia Pacificadora nas favelas do Rio de Janeiro.
Hoje, Gaza é a imagem de um futuro possível para todas as favelas, guetos e territórios rebeldes em qualquer lugar do mundo. Se não conectarmos essa luta e resistência, a repressão estatal conectará nossa miséria, transformando o mundo inteiro em uma zona de sacrifício.
#Português
Hoje, Gaza é a imagem de um futuro possível para todas as favelas, guetos e territórios rebeldes em qualquer lugar do mundo. Se não conectarmos essa luta e resistência, a repressão estatal conectará nossa miséria, transformando o mundo inteiro em uma zona de sacrifício.
#Português
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Guía de Supervivencia del Levantamiento
https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/los-angeles-se-enfrenta-a-la-migra-un-reportaje-de-primera-mano-de-los-enfrentamientos-de-este-seis-de-junio#apendice-ii-guia-de-supervivencia-del-levantamiento
Está claro. El levantamiento en Los Ángelesse ha robado los corazones y la maginación de millones de personas.
La respuesta del gobierno ha sido brutal. Necesitamos hacer nuestra parte para difundir la rebelión contra la máquina de deportación y el sistema que la sostiene. Los partidos Republicanos y Demócratas han colaborado para construir un régimen racista que amenaza a todas nuestras comunidades.
Pero juntos, podemos derrotarlo.
#Español
https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/los-angeles-se-enfrenta-a-la-migra-un-reportaje-de-primera-mano-de-los-enfrentamientos-de-este-seis-de-junio#apendice-ii-guia-de-supervivencia-del-levantamiento
Está claro. El levantamiento en Los Ángelesse ha robado los corazones y la maginación de millones de personas.
La respuesta del gobierno ha sido brutal. Necesitamos hacer nuestra parte para difundir la rebelión contra la máquina de deportación y el sistema que la sostiene. Los partidos Republicanos y Demócratas han colaborado para construir un régimen racista que amenaza a todas nuestras comunidades.
Pero juntos, podemos derrotarlo.
#Español
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The Ex-Worker podcast #112: "From Minneapolis to Los Angeles—The Origins of the Wave of Resistance to ICE"
https://crimethinc.com/exworker112
In this episode, we share reports from Minneapolis and Los Angeles, tracing the origins of the revolt against federal raids that has spread across the United States.
https://crimethinc.com/exworker112
In this episode, we share reports from Minneapolis and Los Angeles, tracing the origins of the revolt against federal raids that has spread across the United States.
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As seen in the resistance to federal raids around the country over the past week!
We send out these stickers for the costs of production and shipping alone.
Make it clear that immigrants are welcome in your community—and ICE mercenaries are not.
https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/stickers/products/immigrants-welcome
We send out these stickers for the costs of production and shipping alone.
Make it clear that immigrants are welcome in your community—and ICE mercenaries are not.
https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/stickers/products/immigrants-welcome
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Resistance Reader
This zine brings together nine important texts about resistance to ICE, Trump, and fascism that have appeared in various venues over the past two weeks, offering an overview of our situation and the stakes of the fight.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/resistance-reader
Please print and distribute!
This zine brings together nine important texts about resistance to ICE, Trump, and fascism that have appeared in various venues over the past two weeks, offering an overview of our situation and the stakes of the fight.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/resistance-reader
Please print and distribute!
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Postscript on Legalism
https://crimethinc.com/Legalism
Donald Trump and his administration employ the laws and courts wherever it suits them. Wherever laws and courts pose an obstacle to their program, they disregard those right up to the limit imposed by the current balance of power within the state.
It is clear for all to see that for them, the law is simply one of many weapons—it has no power to bind them. Yet many of Trump’s opponents continue hamstring resistance by focusing on questions of legality and other niceties, failing to grasp the reality of the situation.
https://crimethinc.com/Legalism
Donald Trump and his administration employ the laws and courts wherever it suits them. Wherever laws and courts pose an obstacle to their program, they disregard those right up to the limit imposed by the current balance of power within the state.
It is clear for all to see that for them, the law is simply one of many weapons—it has no power to bind them. Yet many of Trump’s opponents continue hamstring resistance by focusing on questions of legality and other niceties, failing to grasp the reality of the situation.
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We've prepared a zine version of "Chicago against ICE," in which participants in a full day of breakaway marches and confrontations in Chicago on June 10, 2025 reflect on the potential of this moment and what it will take to unlock it.
https://crimethinc.com/zines/chicago-against-ice-la-migra-la-policia-la-misma-porqueria
Please print and distribute!
https://crimethinc.com/zines/chicago-against-ice-la-migra-la-policia-la-misma-porqueria
Please print and distribute!
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We Are Not Demonstrating, We Are Fighting
Migrant Defense in Seattle, June 9-14
Participants in a series of clashes in and around Seattle describe how they have prevented ICE from kidnapping people at court appearances, demonstrating a way forward for the movement.
https://crimethinc.com/Seattle2025
Migrant Defense in Seattle, June 9-14
Participants in a series of clashes in and around Seattle describe how they have prevented ICE from kidnapping people at court appearances, demonstrating a way forward for the movement.
https://crimethinc.com/Seattle2025
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