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"Until America goes into political decline, there won't be an American pope." -Robert Barron, appointed by Donald Trump to the so-called "White House Commission on Religious Liberty" Only a few hours passed between this statement and the appointment of Robert Prevost as successor to Pope Francis.

We honor the courage of those who occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building at the University of Washington to protest the university's ties to Boeing. As the Israeli military prepares to step up the pace of the genocide in Gaza, such solidarity actions are needed more than ever. https://crimethinc.com/Encampments2024

The gas chamber executions at the Mauthausen concentration camp went on until Hitler committed suicide on May 1, 1945. On May 5, Spanish prisoners welcomed liberation with this banner: “The Spanish antifascists salute the forces of freedom.” This is what's at stake. https://crimethinc.com/MayDayHistory

The gas chamber executions at the Mauthausen concentration camp went on until Hitler committed suicide on May 1, 1945. On May 5, Spanish prisoners welcomed liberation with this banner: “The Spanish antifascists salute the forces of freedom.” This is what's at stake. https://crimethinc.com/MayDayHistory

Why celebrate May Day? This year, in taking the streets, we are showing each other who is prepared to fight: "Take a stand—we'll be there, too." And every year, by coming together once more, we show that we are part of a story much greater than ourselves, a story that stretches back centuries. Life reinventing itself in defiance of death. https://crimethinc.com/MayDayHistory

Making plans for May Day? Or just looking to be inspired by the scope of the worldwide movement for liberation? Consult our list of events! It now includes well over a hundred events in nearly as many locations. https://crimethinc.com/mayday2025list See you all tomorrow! 🏴

On April 29, Atlanta officials cut the ribbon on Cop City, a $117-million police militarization facility. It cost four times the original estimate—not counting the person murdered by police and the 61 people facing trumped up RICO charges. And that's just the beginning. The real costs are still in the future: the lives and freedoms that the police who train at this facility will take from us. Under the current regime, there can be no more illusions: every dollar that goes to police is a dollar for autocracy. Like Donald Trump, the city officials who suppressed the referendum on Cop City are making no pretense of democracy anymore. At the same time, those who resisted Cop City have pointed the way to the kind of struggle it will take for us to get free. Now more than ever, it is crucial to learn from the fight to #StopCopCity. https://crimethinc.com/CopCity2025

Benito Mussolini's career of tyranny came to an end on this day in 1945. Fascism is a spectacle glorifying domination at the expense of all that is beautiful in humanity. No matter how powerful our oppressors may appear, their lust for power is not the only force at work in the world. "I await the end of the tragedy and—strangely detached from everything—I do not feel any more an actor. I feel I am the last of spectators." -Benito Mussolini, shortly before his death

At the insistence of our comrades overseas, we've begun expanding our list of May Day events to include events around the world: https://crimethinc.com/mayday2025list So far, it includes three locations in the Netherlands, five in Sweden, and more in Belgium, Denmark, Germany, and elsewhere. 🏴 🏴 🏴

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. 🏴🏴🏴

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."

It is urgent that we organize to confront tyranny. But *how* we organize will determine whether agency is concentrated in a few hands or distributed horizontally to all. And this will determine how effective, egalitarian, and resilient our organizing can be. https://crimethinc.com/democracy

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. #Polski

24 years ago today, anarchists from across North America converged in Québec City to oppose a transcontinental summit intended to establish a “Free Trade Area of the Americas.” You can read a blow-by-blow account of the organizing initiatives and epic street battles here: https://crimethinc.com/QuebecFTAA

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

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. 🏴

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

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

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