A year ago, students established an encampment at Columbia in solidarity with Gaza.

Donald Trump claims that the camp was a hotbed of antisemitism. Anyone who visited knows this is a lie. Who brutalized Jewish students at Columbia? The police did—to punish them for opposing genocide.

The Gaza solidarity encampments that sprang up around the US in response represented the most successful voluntary collaboration between Muslim and Jewish students taking place anywhere in the world. If university administrations claimed it was necessary to destroy them in order to "keep the peace," this reveals what they mean by peace.

In seeking to crush solidarity organizing and smear Jewish anti-Zionists as antisemitic, paving the way for Trump to deport students on account of their beliefs, the university administrations showed that centrism is not an alternative to authoritarianism, but a means of bringing it to power.

Horrifically, the genocide in Gaza continues. Free Palestine.

https://crimethinc.com/columbia2024

Centrists are beginning to call for an uprising against Donald Trump. Yet they helped create this situation by working to suppress the powerful social movements of the past decade.

No wonder those who would participate in an uprising are suspicious of those who invested the police with more money and power after the uprising of 2020. That betrayal created the conditions for Trump to return to power.

To involve enough people, any movement against Trump will have to address the material needs of the oppressed. If we don't want autocracy, we must organize against all forms of oppression.

https://crimethinc.com/becomeananarchist

We’ve prepared a poster in homage to Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the self-styled “street gang with an analysis” active in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in the late 1960s. They played an instrumental role in popularizing the concepts of affinity groups and direct action. The text is taken directly from an Up Against the Wall Motherfucker broadside.

In a time of escalating repression and desperation, it is bracing to revisit the avowed optimism of our revolutionary forebears. This optimism concerns not just whether it is possible to win, but what would constitute victory and who stands to benefit.

https://crimethinc.com/uawmf

Two years ago today, three anarchists were killed in battle near Bakhmut: an American named Cooper Andrews, an Irishman named Finbar Cafferkey, and a Russian named Dmitry Petrov. People in our networks have shared undertakings with all three of these comrades over the years.

In this eulogy, we explore the life of Dmitry Petrov, which doubles as a snapshot of the past two decades of struggle in the post-Soviet world.

https://crimethinc.com/petrov

As the United States descends further into autocracy, we have much to learn from Dmitry, who courageously fought tyranny in Russia, Belarus, Syria, and Ukraine. 🏴

Longevity is important.

It is how we pass on collective memory from one movement to the next, from one generation to the next. It is how we let new participants know it is safe to invest themselves fully in this struggle, showing that it can be the calling of a lifetime, through the best of times and the worst of times.

We'll still be doing this next year—and in 30 years.

You can consult 30 years of texts on our site:

https://crimethinc.com/library

Anarchiści na fali protestów w Indonezji

https://crimethinc.com/2024/09/23/anarchisci-na-fali-protestow-w-indonezji

W sierpniu 2024 r. Indonezją wstrząsnęła fala protestów, rzekomo w odpowiedzi na polityczne machinacje mające na celu namaszczenie następcy prezydenta Joko Widodo, popularnie zwanego Jokowi. W anglojęzycznym świecie pojawiło się bardzo niewiele informacji na temat tych protestów. Aby poznać głębsze aspekty tych wydarzeń, skontaktowaliśmy się z anarchistami z różnych części Indonezji.

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For years, we warned that as soon as Donald Trump consolidated control of the state, Democrats' rhetoric that "No one is above the law" would be used against them.

Confronting a tyrannical regime, it's better to remember what Hannah Arendt said: “No one has the right to obey.”

https://crimethinc.com/becomeananarchist

"With Trump in control of the government, 'No one is above the law' is a self-defeating narrative. What happens when his lackeys in Congress pass new laws and the judges he appoints rule in his favor? Then all this rhetoric legitimizing the law as a good in itself will only strengthen Trump’s hand."

"Continuing to emphasize the centrality of law in objections to Trump’s agenda can only hamstring future movements, discouraging the emergence of the only kind of resistance that could offer any hope once he has completed his takeover of the federal government."

We've compiled a list of May Day events here:

https://crimethinc.com/2025/04/08/may-day-means-resistance-a-call-to-take-action-on-may-first#events

So far, the list includes events in over two dozen locations across the United States, as well as a few outside it.

The majority of them are organized by anarchists or involve anarchist contingents.

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