Assembled at his inauguration, we see the oligarchs who lined up to bring Donald Trump back to power. Capitalism has always meant rule by billionaires, but it is especially noxious that this particular billionaire has returned to office by pretending to oppose "the elite." In fact, the new Trump administration represents the intensification of state violence for the benefit of the ultra-rich. They regard the rest of us as disposable resources in their quest for total domination. We have to fight them with everything we've got. https://crimethinc.com/resist2025

Donald Trump is threatening to begin his second presidency with a new round of gratuitous violence targeting undocumented families. In 2017-2018, people around the US blockaded airports, freeways, and ICE facilities. There were school walkouts, demonstrations, and barricades. By fighting back ambitiously, people limited the scope of what ICE could do. There are things we can do to resist. Let's stand up for each other. 🏴

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The ICE Age Is Over

In accounts from the ICE occupations in Portland, Tacoma, and Atlanta, participants reflect on some of the internal challenges facing movements aga...

Yesterday, on the Day of the Forest Defender, in honor of Manuel "Tortuguita" Terán—murdered by Georgia State Troopers two years ago while defending Weelaunee Forest—people took over a billboard on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway to celebrate Tortuguita's courage. From a statement: "The writers of this message took over a billboard on one of NYC's largest highways, used by 130,000 vehicles daily. We covered a CopShot police billboard—that recruits informants with a $10,000 bribe—with a tribute to Tortuguita and all land defenders. In the context of a city that spends $29 million dollars a day on policing, off the side of a highway that displaced thousands of families with a stroke of a pen, we replace the state's cowardly propaganda with a commemoration of land defenders' sacrifice and struggle. Collective memory animates our will to destroy this empire that is killing us and our planet. As the US funnels billions into building Cop Cities across the country in its latest attempt to repress us, they concede what we already know—that rebellion is inevitable. "Viva Tortuguita and All Land Defenders. We Will Destroy This Empire, with Earth as Our Witness." Full statement: www.instagram.com/p/DFBfjbayKvX More background:

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Solidarity with the Movement to Stop Cop City and Defend Weelaunee Forest

We call on all people of good conscience to stand in solidarity with the movement to stop Cop City and defend the Weelaunee Forest in Atlanta.

Yesterday, over 600 people gathered in Sacramento to participate in a variety of discussions and trainings about community defense. At the same time, 200 gathered in Chicago to prepare to fight mass deportations. Next weekend, gatherings like these will take place all around the US. You can see a list of these here:

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Festivals of Resistance

A call for gatherings on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Trump takes office.

It's time to get our communities together, to share skills and prepare to fight for each other. 🏴

This is Pacific Palisades, one of the wealthier neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Capitalism is humanity making war on itself in slow motion. Now the process is speeding up and impacting more and more people, including some who were previously protected from the immediate consequences. The climate crisis is just one aspect of this catastrophe. The floods in Porto Alegre and Valencia—Hurricanes Helene and Milton—the wildfires destroying LA. Neither corporations nor politicians will offer real solutions. We have to take direct action to defend each other and address the root causes.

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Ahead of Another Summer of Climate Disasters, Let's Talk about Real Solutions

Why the strategies that mainstream environmental movements are employing to halt climate change are failing—and what we could be doing instead.

Content warning: discussion of suicide. *** What's striking about the manifesto left by the Trump supporter who shot himself and set his truck on fire outside the Trump hotel in Las Vegas is that the desire to harm others merges with the urge to self-destruction. Arguably, this characterizes millions of Trump supporters. It's no coincidence that a man the FBI described as a "heavily decorated combat veteran" would end his life saying "I needed relieve myself of the burden of the lives I took.” Being a killer for hire weighs heavily on the conscience. These mercenaries are damning themselves to living hell so that billionaires like Trump and Musk can turn a profit. This sort of tormented anger is common among Trump supporters. On some level, they must sense that the climate disasters smashing their communities are caused by the oil profiteers they defend—that they are more to blame for the problems of this society than undocumented people or trans people. Their self-righteousness masks self-hatred. Their fantasies of civil war conceal a desire to kill themselves.

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Sacrificial Violence and Retribution

We explore the responses to the killings of Jordan Neely and Brian Thompson as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are contend...

Nationalism means bigotry, chauvinism, and ultimately war and ethnic cleansing. It promises self-determination and delivers tyranny. Internationalism means we regularly publish articles in seven languages, collaborating with comrades all around the world to pursue collective liberation.

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CrimethInc. ex-Workers’ Collective: Your ticket to a world free of charge

CrimethInc. is a decentralized network pledged to anonymous collective action. We strive to reinvent our lives and our world according to the princ...

Carrying out “the largest deportation operation in American history,” as Trump has explicitly pledged to do, will wreck the US economy. It will deliver no material gains to the vast majority of his supporters, who benefit from the underpaid labor of the undocumented and the resulting cheapness of commodities. From a purely economic perspective, exploiting the labor of the undocumented inside the borders of the United States provides more material advantages to Trump’s supporters than deporting them ever could. And by any measure, it’s a waste of resources: deporting a million people in one year will cost eighteen times more than the entire world spends annually on cancer research. In other words, mass deportations are a costly luxury indulgence that Trump’s supporters regard as worth the expense because they experience the need for violence so intensely. The solution to low wages is solidarity among all workers—employed or unemployed—on both sides of every border against the billionaires who seek to exploit and oppress us. Deporting people is chiefly a form of performative violence intended to channel anger away from those who are the true cause of our suffering. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mass-deportation

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Sacrificial Violence and Retribution

We explore the responses to the killings of Jordan Neely and Brian Thompson as a way to understand the different forms of violence that are contend...