People around the country are planning demonstrations at Tesla outlets on February 15, protesting the efforts of Elon Musk and Donald Trump to consolidate power in the hands of a billionaire elite.

Others are already calling for follow-up demonstrations on March 1.

Here's a flier you can print and hand out at those demonstrations—or anywhere else—about why this is necessary.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/depose-trump-depose-musk

Depose Trump // Depose Musk

Using the market to exploit us and state violence to control us, Elon Musk and Donald Trump are trying to consolidate power in the hands of a billionaire elite. They want to establish a totalitarian dystopia in which artificial intelligence does away with our livelihoods while killer robots keep us in line. By targeting undocumented people and trans people, they hope to channel anger towards those who are most vulnerable while they get away with murder.

There is no point looking to the Democrats or the court system for help. The Democrats identified Trump as a fascist, then welcomed him into office. Trump already controls the highest court in the land; his lackeys dominate the legislative branch. The only thing that could stop them is widespread resistance.

Get together with the people that you trust. Build networks with others who feel the way you feel. Identify weak points in the ruling order and look for ways to go on the offensive.

When Trump tried to impose the Muslim ban in 2017, thousands blocked airports across the country. When millions filled the streets in 2020, Trump lost. We can’t vote out an unelected authoritarian billionaire, but we can deal with Elon Musk by cutting off his profits at the source. Start with Tesla.

Demonstrate at Tesla outlets on February 15 and March 1, 2025.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/depose-trump-depose-musk

Love is a quality of attention, a sensitivity to the world and everything that is possible in it. When we fight on the basis of what we love, rather than in service of ideology or cowardice, we open ourselves to serve as a channel through which everything beautiful in the world can defend itself.

To choose love is to choose to keep feeling the blows when others are under attack—everyone facing felony charges, everyone threatened with deportation, everyone facing water cannons and rubber bullets, all the rivers and animals and plants that sustain us despite all the violence inflicted upon them. Love is not reducible to peace. If you mean it, say it with barricades.

https://crimethinc.com/withbarricades

ICEを止めるためにあなたができる8つのこと

https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/11/icewozhi-merutamenianatagadekiru8tunokoto-1

トランプ政権は新たな収容所を建設し、第二次世界大戦中に日系米国人の強制収容を正当化するために使われた「敵性外国人法」を発動することで、大量強制送還の地固めをしている。

移民・関税執行局（ICE）の標的となった人々に連帯して立ち上がらなければ、同じ抑圧インフラがいずれ他の人々にも向けられるだろう。1人の負傷は全員の負傷なのだ！

ICEを溶かすために自分の役割を果たそう。

#日本語

Those who imagine that they can simply keep their heads down and wait out the Trump administration are deluding themselves. This is exactly what Russians told themselves during the rise of Vladimir Putin.

Trump seeks autocratic power. He won't be satisfied with minor concessions. He will take everything he can. If you do not fight now, you will have to fight later, when he has accumulated more power and you are in a weaker position.

Learn a lesson from anarchist organizing. The first compromise is the last one.

https://crimethinc.com/eightsteps

"Picture a self-education society without instructors, ranks, or lesson plans. Teenagers will teach themselves to play drums by watching other teenagers play drums. They won’t learn about politics in dusty tomes, but by publishing zines about their own experiences and corresponding with people on the other side of the planet. Every time well-known musicians perform, musicians who are just getting started will perform, too. Learning won’t be a distinct sphere of activity, but an organic component of every aspect of the community.

"Get everyone together in a space premised on horizontality, decentralization, self-determination, reproducible models, being ungovernable, and so on and let them discover the advantages for themselves."

- Punk—Dangerous Utopia: Revisiting the Relationship between Punk and Anarchism

https://crimethinc.com/punkutopia

The photograph shows the incredible Bad Brains performing at Valley Green Housing Complex in Washington, DC on September 9, 1979.

🏴 🏴 🏴

For Presidents Day, rather than celebrating George Washington, we invite you to learn about how the people that he enslaved or indentured sought to escape from captivity, and about the Native Americans who defended themselves against his attacks.

A real struggle for freedom.

https://crimethinc.com/Washington

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You can download this text as a zine here:

https://crimethinc.com/zines/escaping-washington-for-freedom

Or order it online from A Boulder on the Tracks here:

https://aboulder.com/product/escaping-washington-for-freedom/

"When we say anti-work, we don’t mean an abstract political position disapproving of work; we mean a practice that actively abolishes the necessity to work, the way that anti-matter annihilates matter. In other words, an activity aimed at doing away with all the mechanisms that serve to concentrate power—from debt to intellectual property rights and the prison-industrial complex. All the things that force us to keep putting our noses back to the grindstone when there are so many other things we’d prefer to be doing."

https://crimethinc.com/antiwork

Capitalism is Organized Crime

https://crimethinc.com/posters/capitalism-is-organized-crime

The real gangsters don’t have to get their hands dirty—they have police and courts and prisons to do their dirty work for them. They don’t have to run drugs or guns or illegal gambling rings—they run everything else. They can afford to let us choose between politicians, so long as the political system itself enforces their privileges. Some of us can join their ranks if we’re enterprising enough, as long as we participate in their racket and play by their rules. Rivalries play out between different gangs, but nothing threatens gang rule. If a mafia took over our entire society, would it be any different?

Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace

https://crimethinc.com/becomeananarchist

As Donald Trump and Elon Musk subordinate the United States government to their pursuit of totalitarian power, their opponents remain in a defensive posture, accusing them of lawlessness. But neither courts nor laws will halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take it upon themselves to organize concrete acts of resistance, to take direct action on a horizontal and participatory basis—in other words, to become anarchists.

For eight years, liberal politicians and pundits have counted on legal strategies to stop Donald Trump. Now that Trump has gained control of the executive and legislative branches of government and is consolidating control of the judicial branch, this isn't just naïve—it's counterproductive. It is past time to stop legitimizing the means they will use to repress resistance and focus on strategies that make use of the power we have when we act together, directly.

https://crimethinc.com/becomeananarchist

アナキストになるか、さもなくば永遠に口を噤むか

https://crimethinc.com/2025/02/21/anakisutoninaruka-samonakubayong-yuan-nikou-wojin-muka

ドナルド゠トランプとイーロン゠マスクが自分達の全体主義権力の追及に米国政府を従わせている中、彼等の敵対勢力は彼等の無法を非難しつつも、防衛的姿勢を崩していない。しかし、裁判所も法律も独裁政治への転落を止められない。大勢の人々が自ら進んで具体的な抵抗行動を組織し、水平的で参加型の直接行動を起こさねばならない－－つまり、アナキストにならねばならないのだ。

#日本語

When the Russian military initiated a full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years ago, it signaled the return of colonial militarism to center stage as capitalism entered a new period of crisis. Today—worse still—Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are conspiring to form an authoritarian international unifying the autocrats against those they oppress and exploit.

Those who follow protest movements in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and nearby know that Putin has played a central role in suppressing dissent of all kinds throughout the region. Russian anarchists are routinely tortured with electricity. Children go to adult prisons for putting up fliers.

Some citations:

https://crimethinc.com/AntiWarRussia

https://crimethinc.com/FSBtorture

https://crimethinc.com/2018/03/26/why-the-torture-cases-in-russia-matter-how-the-tactics-that-the-russian-state-uses-against-anarchists-could-spread

https://novayagazeta.ru/articles/2022/02/07/terrorist-garri-potter

The invasion of Ukraine has offered Putin a strategy for controlling—and reducing—the restless part of the Russian population that might otherwise participate in revolutionary upheavals. Upwardly mobile young people have fled the country, while hundreds of thousands of poorer young men have lost their lives.

Those from the English-speaking world who make excuses for Putin—or imply that all regimes are identical, regardless of whether they initiate colonial invasions or have their critics assassinated—render a service to oligarchs and autocrats like Donald Trump who aim to create an even more oppressive global order.

For these reasons, we honor those in Russia, Ukraine, and everywhere else around the world who have risked their lives to fight against Russian imperialism while seeking to organize towards a future without governments or militarism of any kind.

Some more citations:

https://crimethinc.com/2022/03/21/antijob-the-russian-anarchist-labor-site-that-terrifies-the-bosses-an-interview

https://crimethinc.com/2022/08/22/russia-the-anarcho-communist-combat-organization-an-interview-with-a-clandestine-anarchist-group

https://pramen.io/ru/2025/02/anarhisty-vilnyusa-prisoedinyayutsya-k-aktsii-v-podderzhku-ukrainy-23-fevralya/