For everyone printing their own stickers, we’ve added this one to the sticker page on our site:
https://crimethinc.com/stickers/they-dont-give-a-fuck-about-you
You’ll probably receive some if you put in an order for books or posters from us, too.
We’ve prepared a zine version of “Protecting Our Neighbors from ICE: A Do-It-Yourself Community Defense Skills Workshop Guide.”
Print these out and distribute them!
Build the capacity to protect your neighbors from racist mercenaries!
https://crimethinc.com/zines/protecting-our-neighbors-from-ice
Protecting Our Neighbors from ICE
A do-it-yourself guide to community defense skills with which you can protect your neighbors from ICE and other federal mercenaries.
https://crimethinc.com/StopICETactics
Adapted from de-arrest tactics popularized by participants in protests against police, this guide outlines several strategies that community members can combine with rapid response networks, patrols, neighborhood hubs, and other yet-to-be-conceived models to protect our neighbors from abduction. Ideally, people who are working together to resist ICE should organize a one-hour community defense workshop to learn and practice these skills, using this material.
Spanish antifascist prisoners celebrate their liberation from the Nazi death camp at Mauthausen with a banner reading “The Spanish antifascists salute the liberating forces” on May 5, 1945.
Among them is the anarchist Antonio García Barón, who fought in the Durruti Column during the Spanish Civil War.
The stakes are just as high today.
The May Days: Stories of Courage and Resistance
Scenes from a century and a half of strikes, rallies, riots, prison breaks, and direct action in honor of May Day.
Know your history!
http://crimethinc.com/maydayhistory
“Our joyous acts of rebellion do not point to a world in which workers are paid a little better for their labor, but to the possibility that we could sweep away all the forms of oppression that stand between us and the tremendous potential of our lives.”
ICE Melts in the Spring
https://crimethinc.com/ICEmelts
What shared principles could serve as the foundation for a powerful movement against the persecution of immigrants?
We suggest ten baselines for collective struggle.
As people prepare to strike for May Day, we recommend this text comparing the last two general strikes that took place in Oakland, California (in 1946 and 2011) in order to distill lessons about how to organize a general strike today:
http://crimethinc.com/twoGeneralStrikes
The conclusion summarizes what it takes to organize a general strike in an era of informal and precarious labor, emphasizing the need for grassroots organizing models that could connect people the way that the unions did in 1946 and the Occupy assemblies did in 2011.
“What would a modern-day general strike look like? It would involve a broad range of precarious workers, unemployed people, and other rebels taking disruptive action to shut down the economy from outside. However the strike might begin, it would have to proliferate horizontally, spreading beyond any single demographic as a contagious rebellion exceeding the control of any organization. It would entail targeting the choke points of the economy—physical locations like ports, highways, and distribution centers as well as online venues and other forms of infrastructure, not to mention the workplaces, schools, neighborhoods, and prisons in which most of us spend most of our lives. It would necessitate defying politicians, union representatives, community leaders, and everyone who defends their legitimacy. It would be controversial. To persist, it would require seizing and redistributing resources. Many of these actions would take place within workplaces, but to center the agency of official unions or other organizations that have legal standing under capitalism would be to ensure defeat in advance.”
25 years ago, in April 2001, at the high point of the movement against capitalist globalization, anarchists from around North America converged in Québec City to oppose a summit intended to establish a “Free Trade Area of the Americas” (FTAA).
The clashes during the FTAA summit arguably represent the apex of the powerful anti-capitalist movement of the turn of the century, at least in North America.
In this narrative, a participant in the resistance in Québec City recounts the street battles and explains the ambitions of those who fought in them:
For Steal Something from Work Day, we present two narratives from nurses who explain why they are compelled to steal from the corporate healthcare industry in order to care for their patients and other members of their community.
https://crimethinc.com/stealfromwork2026
One of them describes reappropriating medical supplies from the hospital in order to equip people confronting the ICE occupation of the Twin Cities.
Whatever happens in the Hungarian elections this weekend, it’s important to understand that Hungarian democracy has served to concentrate autocratic power in Viktor Orbán’s hands for decades. Even if Orbán concedes power without a fight, the system itself is the problem.
Reigning governments always establish procedures that tend to reinforce their control. Coupled with the extreme concentration of wealth, this inevitably trends towards autocracy. We need a better analysis of the ways that representative democracy exists on the same spectrum with authoritarianism.
Real change will only come from grassroots action, on a horizontal and decentralized basis.