This is a photograph of Beirut under siege in 1982, before Hezbollah even existed.

The Israeli military operation in Lebanon is not just about Hezbollah. They are using the same playbook they used in Gaza. The Israeli military is using Hezbollah as an excuse to target civilians according to ethnicity, intentionally murder journalists, and displace people in order to seize land.

Ethnic cleansing is a core goal in all Israeli foreign policy.

https://crimethinc.com/lebanon2026

Today, it has been three months since ICE agents brutally murdered Alex Pretti.

Federal officials rushed to spread blatant lies, claiming that Pretti had assaulted ICE agents even though widely available video showed this to be false. They had spread the same lies about Renee Good when ICE agent Jonathan Ross murdered her two weeks earlier.

It's impossible to overstate this: the Trump regime wants to be able to murder you with impunity and lie about why they did.

We honor the courage of the demonstrators who immediately responded to Pretti's murder. Let's create a world in which mercenaries can neither kidnap nor murder members of our communities.

https://crimethinc.com/AlexPretti

Día de «Robar algo del trabajo» 2026

https://crimethinc.com/2026/04/15/dia-de-2026-por-que-los-y-las-enfermeras-roban-para-salvar-vidas

Por qué los y las enfermeras roban por el bien común.

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Yet another shooting, this time in DC.

Centrists will provide cover for Trump by treating this shooting as a worse tragedy than the tens of thousands of annual gun violence fatalities.

Whether they are motivated by fear or genuine concern for human life, the consequence will be to give the Trump administration and its supporters a free hand.

Remember, Trump and his henchmen are hastening into fascism as fast as they can. They have already scripted the scenes in advance. They will make use of whatever opportunities arise, however far-fetched. The important question is whether others will enable them to do so.

The burning of the Reichstag in February 1933 enabled the Nazis to consolidate power in Germany only because others responded to it by granting the Nazis emergency powers. The way to stop a Reichstag fire is not to attempt to control those who act in response to state violence, but rather, to refuse to legitimize fascist initiatives or narratives under any circumstances.

Anything else is complicity.

What We Want for May Day

https://crimethinc.com/MayDay2026

What do we want for May Day? In short, to take another step towards freedom from all forms of oppression—towards what we call anarchy, by which we mean egalitarian relationships based in self-determination, solidarity, and mutual aid. Anarchists have been central to May Day since its origins as a labor holiday in 1886, when police in Chicago attempted to suppress anarchist labor organizers who were fighting for right to the eight-hour workday.

Today, as intensifying authoritarianism propels more and more people into action, we have a window of opportunity to make real change. But what does a general strike look like in 21st-century capitalism?

We present some starting points and a handbill to promote them.

On January 23, over 300,000 people withdrew from the economy in the Twin Cities, carrying out a general strike to exert leverage against the ICE occupation.

Ahead of May Day, it's worth revisiting this example of how we can wield collective power—and what can hinder us from doing so.

https://crimethinc.com/2026generalstrikes

"We need a movement that cannot be held back or hijacked by any leadership, a movement that compels every aspiring vanguard to hurry after it, setting aside their squabbles and petty ambitions. That was what made the general strike of January 23 so powerful...

"The important question is whether an organizational model is reproducible, serving to empower whoever makes use of it to resist oppression, or extractive, serving to concentrate power in the hands of leaders."

ICE Melts in the Spring

https://crimethinc.com/ICEmelts

What shared principles could serve as the foundation for a powerful movement against the persecution of immigrants?

We suggest ten baselines for collective struggle.

After Congress voted to fund parts of the Department of Homeland Security without funding ICE, CNN is reporting that [House Speaker Mike] "Johnson and his GOP have effectively lost their ability to govern.”

Good.

The less they can govern us, the better. ICE is just the tip of the iceberg.

“To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.

"To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”

― Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Qué queremos para el Primero de Mayo

https://crimethinc.com/2026/04/27/que-queremos-para-el-primero-de-mayo

Reflexiones sobre lo que podría significar una huelga general para el Primero de Mayo, incluyendo algunos puntos de partida para la acción y un folleto para distribuir.

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Looking for handbills to give out during May Day demonstrations? Look no further!

What we want for May Day:

https://crimethinc.com/zines/what-we-want-for-may-day-2026

Ice Melts in the Spring:

https://crimethinc.com/zines/ice-melts-in-the-spring

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