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

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

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May Day Means Resistance

A poster design to help you promote events for May Day and a list of suggestions for what you could organize.

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.”

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Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace

Neither courts nor laws will suffice to halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take direct action on their own ini...

"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."

In response to the highest court in United Kingdom claiming the right to define others' gender for them, let's revisit the words of a famous French anarchist: "To be gendered is to be kept in sight, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, & enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right, nor the wisdom, nor the virtue to do so... "To be gendered is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonored. "That is gender; that is its justice; that is its morality." —Pierre-Joseph Proudhon in drag Against all states, judges, laws and rights—for freedom and anarchy! :anarchoheart1: :anarchoheart2:

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.

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Become an Anarchist or Forever Hold Your Peace

Neither courts nor laws will suffice to halt the descent into autocracy. Massive numbers of people will have to take direct action on their own ini...

One year ago today, students established an encampment at Columbia in solidarity with Gaza. Donald Trump and his supporters claim that the camp was a hotbed of antisemitism. Anyone who visited knows that 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 to the one at Columbia 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 in order to suppress all dissent, 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 today. Free Palestine.

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“It Is an Honor to Be Suspended for Palestine"

Participants offer a blow-by-blow account of the Gaza solidarity encampment at Columbia and appraise the tactics that the demonstrators have employed.

Even the Financial Times admits that Donald Trump is building a police state. This should give everyone a new perspective on the movement to abolish the police, which was so controversial a few years ago. Despite tremendous outcry against racist police killings, the Biden administration doubled down on promoting the legitimacy of police and channeled considerable quantity of resources towards them, all of which they will now use to impose Trump's agenda on us. The movement to abolish the police was our best hope of countering the forces via which autocrats like Trump will impose fascism. It still is. "The only possible way out of this mess is to develop the ability to wield power on our own terms, horizontally and autonomously, stripping the police of legitimacy and shattering the illusion that they are invincible. This has been the common thread between practically all the significant movements of the past several years." We said that in 2014. crimethinc.com/cwc/bluefuse