How do you topple an autocrat?
First, identify segments of his support base that are not permanently committed to his reign, but whose backing is essential to his power.
Analyze their interests. Identify what is more important to them than maintaining his reign. Identify their vulnerabilities.
Identify a form of activity that could put that segment of the autocrat’s supporters in a situation in which they will prefer to withdraw their support.
Engage in that activity—whatever it takes.
Repeat as needed until enough sectors of society shift their commitments.
The anti-Tesla protests of spring 2025 demonstrated the effectiveness of this strategy.
Facing a unified front of fascist demagogues, Christian nationalists, and tech billionaires, protesters applied pressure to Tesla dealerships and forced Musk out of Washington within just three months.
https://crimethinc.com/TurningTide
First, identify segments of his support base that are not permanently committed to his reign, but whose backing is essential to his power.
Analyze their interests. Identify what is more important to them than maintaining his reign. Identify their vulnerabilities.
Identify a form of activity that could put that segment of the autocrat’s supporters in a situation in which they will prefer to withdraw their support.
Engage in that activity—whatever it takes.
Repeat as needed until enough sectors of society shift their commitments.
The anti-Tesla protests of spring 2025 demonstrated the effectiveness of this strategy.
Facing a unified front of fascist demagogues, Christian nationalists, and tech billionaires, protesters applied pressure to Tesla dealerships and forced Musk out of Washington within just three months.
https://crimethinc.com/TurningTide
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«Миром правит сила»
о Венесуэле
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/06/-o-vieniesuelie
Корпоративные СМИ выполняют свою классическую роль лояльной оппозиции: они задаются вопросами о законности операции, демонизируют Мадуро и одновременно заигрывают с его правой оппоненткой Марией Кориной Мачадо. Для анархистов и всех, кто стремится противостоять империализму, важно рассматривать нападение на Венесуэлу в более широком контексте, продумать, какой может быть действенная оппозиция, и определить формы ответа.
#Русский
о Венесуэле
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/06/-o-vieniesuelie
Корпоративные СМИ выполняют свою классическую роль лояльной оппозиции: они задаются вопросами о законности операции, демонизируют Мадуро и одновременно заигрывают с его правой оппоненткой Марией Кориной Мачадо. Для анархистов и всех, кто стремится противостоять империализму, важно рассматривать нападение на Венесуэлу в более широком контексте, продумать, какой может быть действенная оппозиция, и определить формы ответа.
#Русский
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伊朗：内忧外患中的起义运动
三种视角
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/07/yi-lang-nei-you-wai-huan-zhong-de-qi-yi-yun-dong-san-chong-shi-jiao
自 2025 年 12 月 28 日起，伊朗全国爆发新一轮抗议浪潮。抗议起初源于严峻的经济困境，随后迅速演变为要求推翻现政权的政治运动。这已是伊朗在过去十年中至少出现的第五次大规模抗议，其社会动员延续了此前的劳工抗争与女性主义抵抗传统。
利害关系从未如此之高。我们有责任去了解伊朗的基层运动，并给予它们支持：既因为它们正直面一种近乎绝境的处境，也因为必须防止一个服务于以色列和美国利益的傀儡政权上台。基于此，本文呈现了对过去一周半以来这场起义的三种不同视角。
#中文
三种视角
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/07/yi-lang-nei-you-wai-huan-zhong-de-qi-yi-yun-dong-san-chong-shi-jiao
自 2025 年 12 月 28 日起，伊朗全国爆发新一轮抗议浪潮。抗议起初源于严峻的经济困境，随后迅速演变为要求推翻现政权的政治运动。这已是伊朗在过去十年中至少出现的第五次大规模抗议，其社会动员延续了此前的劳工抗争与女性主义抵抗传统。
利害关系从未如此之高。我们有责任去了解伊朗的基层运动，并给予它们支持：既因为它们正直面一种近乎绝境的处境，也因为必须防止一个服务于以色列和美国利益的傀儡政权上台。基于此，本文呈现了对过去一周半以来这场起义的三种不同视角。
#中文
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We've reprinted Expect Resistance, our visionary treatise from 2007.
Expect Resistance is comprised of two books—a novel allegorically exploring a generational cycle of resistance, repression, and resilience, and an accompanying work of anarchist theory.
Together, they comprise a third book, a sort of field guide to a life of joyous and transformative struggle.
https://crimethinc.com/books/er
Expect Resistance is comprised of two books—a novel allegorically exploring a generational cycle of resistance, repression, and resilience, and an accompanying work of anarchist theory.
Together, they comprise a third book, a sort of field guide to a life of joyous and transformative struggle.
https://crimethinc.com/books/er
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Iran: un’insurrezione assediata da dentro e da fuori
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/07/iran-uninsurrezione-assediata-da-dentro-e-da-fuori-tre-prospettive
Tre prospettive sulla rivolta cominciata in Iran il 29 dicembre 2025 e sulle forze che la minacciano da dentro e da fuori.
#Italiano
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/07/iran-uninsurrezione-assediata-da-dentro-e-da-fuori-tre-prospettive
Tre prospettive sulla rivolta cominciata in Iran il 29 dicembre 2025 e sulle forze che la minacciano da dentro e da fuori.
#Italiano
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Punk — Uma Utopia Perigosa:
Revisitando a relação entre punk e anarquismo
https://pt.crimethinc.com/UtopiaPunk
Como o punk emergiu das contraculturas dos anos 60 e ajudou no ressurgimento do anarquismo no final do séc. XX? Como prefigurou a mídia participativa da era digital e o que pode nos ensinar hoje?
#Português
Revisitando a relação entre punk e anarquismo
https://pt.crimethinc.com/UtopiaPunk
Como o punk emergiu das contraculturas dos anos 60 e ajudou no ressurgimento do anarquismo no final do séc. XX? Como prefigurou a mídia participativa da era digital e o que pode nos ensinar hoje?
#Português
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By concentrating their forces on the Twin Cities, ICE is attempting to break the spirit of the whole country, erase the legacy of the George Floyd uprising, and set a precedent that they can repeat everywhere.
But if ICE can converge, so can everyone else. All out to the Twin Cities to resist them.
Thousands of people across the Twin Cities are mobilizing against ICE. Federal mercenaries roam the city attacking people at random—but everywhere they go, they meet fierce resistance.
What happens in the Twin Cities will determine what happens to us all.
Don't surrender to fascism.
https://crimethinc.com/ICEmurder2026
But if ICE can converge, so can everyone else. All out to the Twin Cities to resist them.
Thousands of people across the Twin Cities are mobilizing against ICE. Federal mercenaries roam the city attacking people at random—but everywhere they go, they meet fierce resistance.
What happens in the Twin Cities will determine what happens to us all.
Don't surrender to fascism.
https://crimethinc.com/ICEmurder2026
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Democrats focusing on the 2026 elections have to understand that what happens in Minneapolis this month will determine whether the elections even matter.
If Trump's de facto secret police can murder anyone in the full light of day without consequences, the regime will conclude that elections can take place—or not—at their discretion.
https://crimethinc.com/TurningTide#the-elections
If Trump's de facto secret police can murder anyone in the full light of day without consequences, the regime will conclude that elections can take place—or not—at their discretion.
https://crimethinc.com/TurningTide#the-elections
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خیزش دی ۱۴۰۴ در محاصره دشمنان داخلیوخارجی
گزارشی از اعتراضهای اخیر مردمی در ایران
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/07/khyzsh-dy-1404-dr-mhsrh-dshmnn-dkhlywkhrjy-gzrshy-z-trdhy-khyr-mrdmy-dr-yrn
نزدیک به یک دهه است که جامعه ایران بارها شاهد موجهای پیاپی اعتراضات خیابانی علیه نظام سیاسی حاکم، جمهوری اسلامی، بوده است. اگرچه این اعتراضات هر بار با محرکهای فوری متفاوتی آغاز شدهاند، اما همگی ریشه در بحرانهای ساختاری عمیق و حلنشدهٔ اقتصادی، سیاسی و اجتماعی دارند که همچنان زندگی روزمره در ایران را شکل میدهند.
#فارسی
گزارشی از اعتراضهای اخیر مردمی در ایران
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/07/khyzsh-dy-1404-dr-mhsrh-dshmnn-dkhlywkhrjy-gzrshy-z-trdhy-khyr-mrdmy-dr-yrn
نزدیک به یک دهه است که جامعه ایران بارها شاهد موجهای پیاپی اعتراضات خیابانی علیه نظام سیاسی حاکم، جمهوری اسلامی، بوده است. اگرچه این اعتراضات هر بار با محرکهای فوری متفاوتی آغاز شدهاند، اما همگی ریشه در بحرانهای ساختاری عمیق و حلنشدهٔ اقتصادی، سیاسی و اجتماعی دارند که همچنان زندگی روزمره در ایران را شکل میدهند.
#فارسی
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News is circulating that ICE agents just shot two more people in the Twin Cities. They are now firing tear gas at people at the scene of the shooting.
Do you want to live in a country in which fascist mercenaries go around shooting people at random?
If the answer is "No," you may have to shift your priorities to focus more energy on organizing and fighting back.
Abolish ICE.
Do you want to live in a country in which fascist mercenaries go around shooting people at random?
If the answer is "No," you may have to shift your priorities to focus more energy on organizing and fighting back.
Abolish ICE.
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After ICE agents shot people in Minneapolis tonight, a crowd faced them down and eventually chased them away, despite federal mercenaries and police shooting a tremendous amount of tear gas.
ICE agents abandoned their vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, gear, and operational plans.
Demonstrators apparently retrieved these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they kidnap people.
This "coin" is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
ICE agents abandoned their vehicles in the area, containing IDs, paperwork, license plates, gear, and operational plans.
Demonstrators apparently retrieved these "challenge coins" that ICE mercenaries receive when they kidnap people.
This "coin" is decorated with a skull wearing a crown.
ICE mercenaries serve king death. They are evil incarnate.
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On January 14, after ICE carried out yet another shooting in Minneapolis, a crowd chased them out of the neighborhood and gained control of their vehicles.
In this firsthand account, an anonymous participant describes what took place.
https://crimethinc.com/MinneapolisResists
In this firsthand account, an anonymous participant describes what took place.
https://crimethinc.com/MinneapolisResists
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Trump is now threatening to use the Insurrection Act to put troops on the streets of the Twin Cities, where federal mercenaries continue to terrorize, kidnap, and shoot civilians.
He is threatening to do this because ICE lost in the streets last night. After they shot a man, the responding crowd forced them to flee, abandoning their vehicles.
We've reached the year 1859.
https://crimethinc.com/MinneapolisResists
He is threatening to do this because ICE lost in the streets last night. After they shot a man, the responding crowd forced them to flee, abandoning their vehicles.
We've reached the year 1859.
https://crimethinc.com/MinneapolisResists
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North Minneapolis caccia ICE
Un resoconto di prima mano della risposta a un altra sparatoria di ICE
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/north-minneapolis-spinge-fuori-ice-un-resoconto-di-prima-mano-della-risposta-a-un-altra-sparatoria-di-ice
Dopo che l'ICE ha compiuto l'ennesima sparatoria a Minneapolis, una folla li ha messi in fuga e ha preso il controllo dei loro veicoli. Un resoconto di prima mano.
#Italiano
Un resoconto di prima mano della risposta a un altra sparatoria di ICE
https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/north-minneapolis-spinge-fuori-ice-un-resoconto-di-prima-mano-della-risposta-a-un-altra-sparatoria-di-ice
Dopo che l'ICE ha compiuto l'ennesima sparatoria a Minneapolis, una folla li ha messi in fuga e ha preso il controllo dei loro veicoli. Un resoconto di prima mano.
#Italiano
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16.01.26: Nos quitaron todo, pero no el miedo
Soli-Fritten ab 19 Uhr 🍟
20 Uhr Doku: Fell in Love with Fire – Chilenischer Aufstand 2019/20, Rebellion & Mutual Aid!
Ab 21:30 Unregierbar 🖤
📍Subtilus Norder 41
Flensburg
https://de.crimethinc.com/2024/10/21/fell-in-love-with-fire-an-documentary-about-the-2019-uprising-in-chile
#Deutsch
Soli-Fritten ab 19 Uhr 🍟
20 Uhr Doku: Fell in Love with Fire – Chilenischer Aufstand 2019/20, Rebellion & Mutual Aid!
Ab 21:30 Unregierbar 🖤
📍Subtilus Norder 41
Flensburg
https://de.crimethinc.com/2024/10/21/fell-in-love-with-fire-an-documentary-about-the-2019-uprising-in-chile
#Deutsch
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Rapid response networks have evolved swiftly over the past several months. Besieged by 3000 federal mercenaries, volunteers in the Twin Cities have continuously updated their rapid response model, developing a dynamic and resilient system.
This report explores how you can learn from their model to build your own.
https://crimethinc.com/MNRapidResponse
This report explores how you can learn from their model to build your own.
https://crimethinc.com/MNRapidResponse
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