Postscript on Legalism

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Postscript on Legalism

Many of Trump's opponents continue to hamstring resistance by focusing on questions of legality and other niceties, failing to grasp the reality of...

Donald Trump and his administration employ the laws and courts wherever it suits them. Wherever laws and courts pose an obstacle to their program, they disregard those right up to the limit imposed by the current balance of power within the state. It is clear for all to see that for them, the law is simply one of many weapons—it has no power to bind them. Yet many of Trump’s opponents continue hamstring resistance by focusing on questions of legality and other niceties, failing to grasp the reality of the situation.

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.

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Immigrants Welcome Sticker

The border is not a wall—it’s a system of control. It doesn’t protect people; it pits them against each other. It doesn’t foster togetherne...

These fliers are for distributing at the "No Kings" demonstrations on June 14, 2025, in response to Trump's attempt to seize power via military occupation.

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It is fascism. Start acting like it.

It Is Fascism. Start Acting Like It. Yes, Trump probably has a Master Plan to use riots to justify military occupation. And just like his Master P...

"The decisive moment has arrived. Disruptive, courageous action is our only chance. If we fight, we will win."

As we've seen in Los Angeles, any pretense of noncooperation between the police and the federal mercenaries who are terrorizing our communities dissolves as soon as we stand up for each other. Together, all of these institutions comprise a single apparatus of repression. Police not welcome.

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Police Not Welcome Sticker

Trust, respect, and communication are essential to healthy community; protect your friends and neighbors from uniformed gang member and other suspi...

Liberals fear that if people act unruly, Trump will be able to impose totalitarian control. That gets things backwards. Trump is already imposing totalitarian control. That's what is driving people into the streets. It's too late to avoid this fight. We can be passive and lose—or give it our all.

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It's Safer in the Front

Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation. But this is...

"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 to be under centralized leadership or control. Elon Musk personally banned our Twitter account in 2022, but this post from 2020 remains good advice today.

The Trump administration began by attacking immigrants—both documented and undocumented—because they believe immigrants to be the most vulnerable target with the least widespread support. But whatever they can do to immigrants today they will do to the rest of us tomorrow. Even the most milquetoast centrists must understand that the outcome of the conflict that is ramping up now will determine the prospects for every other target Trump has lined up in his sights, from Harvard University to those who simply wish to be able to afford groceries. Our future is at stake in this fight. We cannot stand aside.

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Los Angeles Stands up to ICE

Participants in the clashes of June 6 describe how people came together to stop federal agents from harming their community.

Los Angeles Stands up to ICE

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Los Angeles Stands up to ICE

Participants in the clashes of June 6 describe how people came together to stop federal agents from harming their community.

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.

On June 3, a crowd drove federal agents out of Minneapolis following an attempted raid. On June 4, people confronted ICE in Chicago and Grand Rapids. Today, there are clashes with ICE in Los Angeles. Don't let them keep harming people. You can print this poster out here: 📄.pdf

Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity

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

To get the most out of mutual aid, we ought to create participatory commons in which everyone can contribute and there is no fundamental division b...

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?