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Basic Banalities Concerning the January 31 Demonstration in Turin Reflections on Conflict Following a Night of Street Fighting in Italy https://crimethinc.com/Turin2026 On December 18, 2025, police evicted the historic Askatasuna social center in Turin, which had been squatted since 1996. A call circulated for a demonstration in response on January 31. Newspapers report that 50,000 people took the streets. In the street where Askatasuna was located, clashes with the police continued for several hours—an intensity of confrontation that is extraordinary in Italy today. Something is changing in Italy. The pro-Palestinian movement that erupted in support of the flotillas that sailed for Gaza in fall 2025 drew millions of participants into the streets, including a new generation that had not previously participated in direct action. The events in Turin last month show that this momentum has not abated. While authoritarianism is gaining power all around the world, we are also seeing a rising desire to revolt.

Filter Blockades A Tactic from the Twin Cities to Fight ICE and Defend Your Neighborhood https://crimethinc.com/filterblockades Filter blockades are a simple and effective way to resist the occupation of our communities. All you need is a few determined friends or neighbors and some widely available materials. The goal is to slow traffic, without fully blocking it, in order to identify potential ICE vehicles. The more filter blockades, the more effective the strategy becomes. Here, we present a guide to maintaining filter blockades, share accounts from filter blockades in the Twin Cities this past week, and conclude with a broader look at the history and potential of the model.

Some people have described the movement against police and white supremacy that emerged into the public eye in May 2020 as a "failure" because it didn't win legislative changes. But the Twin Cities have been able to stand up to ICE because of networks that developed at that time. Changing a system that exists to perpetrate oppression is the work of decades. What is needed is not a minor reform that can be implemented politicians, but the kind of structural change that requires long-term grassroots struggle. https://crimethinc.com/antipolice2025

What is violence? Is it tossing a tear gas canister back to the mercenaries who shot it at you? Is it blowing a whistle at bounty hunters who are trying to abduct someone? Perhaps, rather than asking whether an action is "violent," we should ask— Does it perpetrate oppression? Or interrupt it? https://crimethinc.com/violence

„Gesetzestreu“ und „Friedlich“ zu sein wird den Autoritarismus nicht stoppen https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/21/gesetzestreu-und-friedlich-zu-sein-wird-den-autoritarismus-nicht-stoppen-eine-nachricht-aus-deutschland-1 In der nachfolgenden Analyse, erkunden Anarchist*innen aus Deutschland, wie Ereignisse der deutsche Geschichte diejenigen informieren sollten, die Widerstand gegen die Konsolidierung der autoritären Herrschaft in den USA heutzutage leisten. #Deutsch

With the complicity of Democrat politicians who truly don't care if you live or die, the fascists who control the federal government are trying to rebrand ICE as a kinder, gentler Gestapo. Body cams will make no one safer. The mercenary who murdered Renee Good was filming when he shot her. https://crimethinc.com/bodycams The purpose of ICE is to terrorize the general population and impose a totalitarian regime through ethnic cleansing. Reforms and compromises are underhanded attempts to pacify us while they advance further down the road to fascism. There is only one solution. ABOLISH ICE! 🏴

We finally have the second pressing of the Catharsis "Hope Against Hope" LP in stock, this time on red vinyl. You can order them here: https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/music/products/catharsis-hope-against-hope-lp *** "The passion, the sheer musical force, and the stubborn drive are more than enough to make it stand out not only as one of the releases of the year, but as one of its defining events." -DIY Conspiracy "One of the original innovators of metallic hardcore return with one of the most ferocious and relentless albums of the decade." -Noob Heavy "This might be an even stronger and more cohesive album than its two predecessors. It would have sent shockwaves through the hardcore scene in any era. In 2025 it proves that music this vital and incendiary does not age." -Encyclopaedia Metallum "CATHARSIS perfects the musical vision of AMEBIX, TRAGEDY, and INTEGRITY layered over the lyrical focus of CRASS and this latest LP really drives that home." -Razorblades & Aspirin

On Tear-Gassing Children The Federal Assault on the ICE Out! Labor March in Portland https://crimethinc.com/PortlandTearGas On January 30, ICE agents attacked a demonstration in Portland, blanketing the whole neighborhood in tear gas and injuring a number of small children. An account from eyewitnesses.

Ser “pacífico” y “respetuoso con la ley” no detendrá el autoritarismo Un mensaje desde Alemania https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/21/ser-pacifico-y-respetuoso-con-la-ley-no-detendra-el-autoritarismo-un-mensaje-desde-alemania Anarquistas de Alemania exploran cómo los acontecimientos de la historia alemana deberían inspirar a quienes se resisten a la consolidación del poder autoritario en Estados Unidos hoy. #Español

Oltrepassare il limite: davanti è veramente più sicuro Attorno alla struttura ICE di Portland https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/29/oltrepassare-il-limite-davanti-e-veramente-piu-sicuro-attorno-alla-struttura-ice-di-portland-1 Un partecipante alla manifestazione di Portland descrive com'è stato oltrepassare collettivamente il limite e scatenare la rivolta. #Italiano

Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike An Analysis from the Twin Cities https://crimethinc.com/2026generalstrikes On January 23, 2026, a general strike against the ICE occupation paralyzed the Twin Cities. Seven days later, a second strike took place, on January 30. The first of these mass strikes drew significantly more participants than the second. In this analysis, participants in the resistance to ICE operations in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of these strikes, looking for ways to remove obstacles to the growth of the movement.

Franchir le pas : on est vraiment plus en sécurité à l’avant L’encerclement du complexe de l’ICE à Portland https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/29/franchir-la-ligne-cest-vraiment-plus-sur-detre-devant-lencerclement-du-complexe-de-lice-a-portland Un·e participant·e à une manifestation à Portland décrit l'expérience collective qui a conduit à franchir le pas vers la révolte. #Français

Franchir le pas : on est vraiment plus en sécurité à l’avant L’encerclement du complexe de l’ICE à Portland https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/29/franchir-la-ligne-cest-vraiment-plus-sur-detre-devant-lencerclement-du-complexe-de-lice-a-portland Un·e participant·e à une manifestation à Portland décrit l'expérience collective qui a conduit à franchir le pas vers la révolte. #Français

Briser l’ICE : une lettre de la ligne de front https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/26/briser-lice-une-lettre-de-la-ligne-de-front-compte-rendu-dune-manifestation-anti-ice-a-philadelphie Compte rendu d’une manifestation anti-ICE à Philadelphie sur comment passer de manifestations symboliques et d'une organisation descendante à une action autonome efficace. #Français

Democrats are seeking "reforms" like bodycams for federal agents (so they have more footage to make commercials promoting mercenary violence), marked ICE vehicles (so we can't pressure car rental agencies), stricter codes of conduct (while thousands of bounty hunters go on terrorizing us). Even if the regime is forced to slow down a bit, their goal is full totalitarianism. Trump is implementing fascism as fast as we let him. By treating this as something to be "reformed," Democrats are complicit in normalizing it. If, under Adolf Hitler, the Nazis had been compelled to behave themselves more politely while they rounded up and disappeared people, if they had been discouraged from murdering German gentiles as they carried out the Holocaust, would that have addressed the problem? No. ICE is ethnic cleansing. https://crimethinc.com/MessageGermany

Sacan al ICE en el norte de Minneapolis Un relato de primera mano sobre la respuesta a otro tiroteo del ICE https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/15/sacan-al-ice-en-el-norte-de-minneapolis-un-relato-de-primera-mano-sobre-la-respuesta-a-otro-tiroteo-del-ice Después de que agentes del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) dispararan al menos a una persona en el norte de Minneapolis en la noche del 14 de enero, una multitud se congregó y los enfrentó, rompiendo la cinta amarilla que habían colocado alrededor de la zona. La policía reforzó a los mercenarios federales, uniéndose a ellos para disparar una gran cantidad de gas lacrimógeno y granadas aturdidoras contra las personas manifestantes, así como contra los autos y casas que pasaban por el distrito residencial. Sin embargo, los agentes perdieron el control de la zona y se retiraron, cediendo las calles a las personas que las habían desafiado. #Español

The above poster is a revision of a poster we made in March 2003 to promote the walkouts and blockades with which people protested the senseless invasion of Iraq, which ultimately cost nearly a million lives. That should drive home the stakes of this fight today. https://crimethinc.com/posters/stop-me-before-i-kill-again

We've updated an old poster of ours to support the strikes against ICE. "Our best protection from fascism is that they depend on us to keep their society running. WHEN THE SHOOTING STARTS, AMERICA STOPS." Shut it all down! https://crimethinc.com/posters/stop-me-before-i-kill-again-trump-edition

MINNEAPOLIS BRAUCHT DICH! Minneapolis ist der Damm, der die Flut der Tyrannei zurückhält. Der Widerstand ist stärker denn je, aber wir brauchen deine Hilfe. Zu mehreren ist man sicherer und es sind bereits Tausende auf den Straßen. Minnesota zieht bereits eine Rote Linie. Worauf wartest du noch? CRUSH ICE BEVOR SIE ÜBERALL SIND. Ein neues Solidaritätsposter: https://de.crimethinc.com/posters/minneapolis-braucht-dich-alle-nach-vorne Und ein Bericht und eine Anleitung zu den Lärmdemos in Minneapolis: https://cwc.im/LaermdemosMinneapolis

MINNEAPOLIS BRAUCHT DICH! ALLE NACH VORNE Minneapolis ist der Damm, der die Flut der Tyrannei zurückhält. Der Widerstand ist stärker denn je, aber wir brauchen deine Hilfe. Zu mehreren ist man sicherer und es sind bereits Tausende auf den Straßen. Minnesota zieht bereits eine Rote Linie. Worauf wartest du noch? CRUSH ICE BEVOR SIE ÜBERALL SIND. https://crimethinc.com/posters/minneapolis-braucht-dich-alle-nach-vorne #Deutsch