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Iran: “Women, Life, Freedom” against the War

https://crimethinc.com/Iran2025

This statement by Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani internationalist feminists argues that we must oppose the US and Israeli military assault on Iran while also refusing to endorse the repressive Iranian government.

Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us.

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We've prepared a zine version of "Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism," revisiting the difference between mutual aid and charity and exploring the role of mutual aid in struggles to change the world.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/mutual-aid-the-commons-and-the-revolutionary-abolition-of-capitalism

Please print and distribute!

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We Are Not Demonstrating, We Are Fighting

Migrant Defense in Seattle, June 9-14

Participants in a series of clashes in and around Seattle describe how they have prevented ICE from kidnapping people at court appearances, demonstrating a way forward for the movement.

https://crimethinc.com/Seattle2025

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Resistance Reader

This zine brings together nine important texts about resistance to ICE, Trump, and fascism that have appeared in various venues over the past two weeks, offering an overview of our situation and the stakes of the fight.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/resistance-reader

Please print these out and distribute them freelly!

Contents:

- Don’t Let LA Stand Alone: A Message to the Gathering Resistance

- Seven Steps to Stop ICE

- Minneapolis to Feds: “Get the Fuck Out”—How People in the Twin Cities Responded to a Federal Raid

- Los Angeles Stands up to ICE: A Firsthand Report on the Clashes of June 6

- LA Protesters Aren’t Inviting Violent Authoritarianism, They’re Mobilizing to Stop It

- Melt ICE, Be Water: Report-back from a Hot Summer Demonstration in Austin, Texas

- The Los Angeles Protests Are an Act of Self-Defense

- ICE’s War on Home

- It Is Fascism—Start Acting like It

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As seen in the resistance to federal raids around the country over the past week!

We send out these stickers for the costs of production and shipping alone.

Make it clear that immigrants are welcome in your community—and ICE mercenaries are not.

https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/stickers/products/immigrants-welcome

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Melt ICE, Be Water

Report-back from a Hot Summer Demonstration in Austin, Texas

https://crimethinc.com/AustinJune2025

All around the country, people are taking on ICE in solidarity with those enduring military occupation in Los Angeles.

In this account, participants in a combative protest in Austin, Texas describe how they shook off the control of party organizers who tried to limit the potential of the protest, then evaded police for two hours in order to escalate the pressure on those who seek to establish a fascist autocracy.

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"We can handle one 10,000-person protest, but ten 1000-person protests throughout the city will overwhelm us."

-LAPD Chief Michel Moore, discussing the 2020 uprising

Decentralization is key. Don't let anyone tell you our movements need centralized leadership or control.

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Trump has signed a memorandum deploying 2000 National Guard to Los Angeles—the next step in his power grab.

The best thing that people can do in solidarity is to take action outside LA. They want to isolate and suppress us one by one.

Stand up in solidarity.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/the-border-is-everywhere

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Los Angeles Stands up to ICE

https://crimethinc.com/LosAngelesJune6

In this report, participants in the clashes of June 6 describe how people came together to defend their community from federal agents.

This details the response to the initial raids, the standoff at the detention center, and how a crowd chased ICE out of Chinatown later that night.

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In January 2017, when Donald Trump announced the Muslim Ban—a complete ban on travel to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries—protesters converged at airports around the country, shutting down travel.

Now he is banning travel from twice as many countries.

https://crimethinc.com/airportblockades

It's worth revisiting the events of 2017 to understand the scale of resistance. 5000 protesters shut down all international flights at SFO in San Francisco. 30,000 shut down a large section of the financial district of Manhattan while thousands protested at JFK. Protests like this took place at dozens of airports and business districts around the country.

In the wake of those protests—and not a moment before—a judge declared the Muslim Ban unconstitutional. When we take action together, we can change the course of history.

Don't let Trump and his cronies bury their oppressive acts in a news cycle filled with noise. Let's show up for each other in solidarity. Resist.

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**Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism**

*Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity*

https://crimethinc.com/RevolutionaryMutualAid

Much has been made of the distinction between charity and mutual aid. Charity is top-down and unidirectional, while mutual aid is supposed to be horizontal, reciprocal, and participatory. In practice, however, the majority of today’s self-described mutual aid projects remain more or less unidirectional efforts to provide goods and services to those in need.

This has contributed to a situation in which conventional non-profit organizations are rebranding themselves with the language of “mutual aid,” while some anarchists have given up on the concept entirely, fed up with a rhetoric that some say amounts to “mutual aid being good and radical, and charity being bad and conservative.”

Is there more to the distinction than this? How can we unlock the revolutionary potential of mutual aid?

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**Minneapolis to Feds: “Get the Fuck Out”**

*How People in the Twin Cities Responded to a Federal Raid*

https://crimethinc.com/June3Minneapolis

An array of federal agencies attempted to carry out a coordinated raid in Minneapolis on the morning of Tuesday, June 3, precipitating an angry response. Locals surrounded the federal officers and police, chanting “Get the fuck out!” and eventually forcing them to retreat.

We present two firsthand accounts of the events of June 3 along with a few strategic reflections on how best to resist these raids.

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We honor the life of Colin Jerwood, singer of the anarcho-punk band Conflict, who contributed to the resurgence of combative anarchism in the 1980s.

https://colinjerwood.muchloved.com/

With the benefit of four decades' distance, we can see how fortunate we were to inherit the militant and exuberant counterculture that Colin and his comrades helped to build.

"The more you oppress the more we'll resist...

We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"

-Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"

You can hear the music that Conflict recorded at their bandcamp page:

http://conflictpunk.bandcamp.com/

But for the full experience, you have to go to a punk show, bring home a Conflict LP, put it on the turntable, and read the lyrics while contemplating what kind of trouble to get into.

Better still, you should form a punk band yourself.

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Today is the birthday of the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin.

A Russian comrade of ours prepared this photoessay and virtual tour of his birthplace and family home, Priamukhino, including the museum documenting his life and the lives of his relatives and friends—since it's not easy to visit Russia these days.

https://crimethinc.com/Priamukhino

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Louise Michel was a 40-year-old schoolteacher when the Paris Commune broke out. She fought in the front lines, was sentenced to life in exile, supported an anti-colonial uprising during her imprisonment in New Caledonia, and dedicated her life to anarchist resistance. Today is her birthday.

Revolution is another word for the profound ways that we can change our lives to come to grips with the struggles of our times.

https://crimethinc.com/MichelCaledonia

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Five years ago today, after Minneapolis police murdered George Floyd, demonstrators forced them to abandon the Third Precinct and set it on fire—a profound act of solidarity and faith in the possibility of social change.

This account describes how they did it:

https://crimethinc.com/thirdprecinct

Not long after, a Newsweek poll found that fully 54% of those questioned believed the burning of the Minneapolis Police Precinct was justified after George Floyd’s killing.

At that time, Joe Biden was polling around 46% and Donald Trump at 38%.

Never let them tell you resistance can't be popular.

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Anarchists in the Movement against Police and White Supremacy

From the Los Angeles Riots to the George Floyd Uprising

https://crimethinc.com/antipolice2025

To observe the five-year anniversary of the burning of the Third Precinct at the beginning of the George Floyd Revolt, we've prepared a timeline tracing the trajectory of anarchist contributions to uprisings against the police from the Rodney King riots of 1992 to the 2020 uprising in Minneapolis.