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⁨⁨Grim news from Texas.

Absurdly, a jury has decided to convict all of the defendants in the Prairieland case on most of the charges—including, to name one example, "Corruptly Concealing a Document" for moving a box of zines.

The jury's verdict:

https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/verdict-prairieland-alvarado-ice-facility-federal-trial/

Background on the case:

https://crimethinc.com/Prairieland

This verdict is a reminder not to count on the courts to stop the rise of fascism. This is only the first of several trials in the case.

This case is intended to set a precedent enabling the government to suppress resistance of all kinds. Yet this outcome must not discourage us from fighting as hard as we can against them.

On the contrary, it should drive home the stakes of the fight.⁩ If we lose, no one will be safe, no matter how obedient and passive. Let's fight them with everything we've got while there is still a chance of victory.

Lebanon: “History Is Repeating Itself”

https://crimethinc.com/Lebanon2026

The war that the US and Israel are waging in the Middle East is not solely directed at Iran.

Israeli airstrikes are pummeling Lebanon, driving over 800,000 people from their homes.

To understand the consequences for people in Lebanon, we reached out to Elia Ayoub, who has previously reported to us from within Lebanese social movements.

From February 25 to March 1, the Twin Cities hosted hundreds of people who traveled to Minnesota to take part in the Melt the ICE week of action.

You can read a full reportback on the week of action here:

https://crimethinc.com/weekofaction2026

Several events took place daily—including marches, blockades, noise demos, speaking events, and trainings. These actions and workshops served to bolster the resistance to the ICE occupation in Minnesota and to teach activists from all over the country how to export the Twin Cities’ rapid response model to their hometowns.

The fight against ICE continues.

Happy International Women's Day. 🏴

Tomorrow is March 8, International Women's Day.

In 1910, Clara Zetkin proposed this event at an international women’s conference at Folkets Hus, headquarters of the Danish labor movement.

That building later became the historic autonomous social center Ungdomshuset—famously evicted and reduced to rubble in one of the biggest Danish police operations since the Second World War on March 1, 2007. The occupiers relentlessly pressured the government until it was forced to turn over another building for their use.

The cycles of resistance continue.

You can read the whole history here:

https://crimethinc.com/ungdomshuset

The latest polls shows that less than 40% of people are convinced that ICE should exist at all.

The disparity between the number of politicians calling to abolish ICE and the proportion of the population that is clamoring to abolish ICE aptly illustrates the fundamentally reactionary character of political representatives as a class.

Change is going to have to come from us, from grassroots initiatives and direct action.

https://crimethinc.com/zines/seven-steps-to-stop-ice

Melt the ICE: The Fight Continues

https://crimethinc.com/BlockWhipple

On March 1, demonstrators converged on the Federal Building outside the Twin Cities, temporarily blockading ICE inside it.

On one side of the building, fifty people established a shield wall. Sheriffs attacked immediately, but they held their ground for almost an hour.

At least 400 people marched on the other side of the federal building to demand that ICE withdraw from Minnesota and return the land that Fort Snelling occupies to the Dakota people. Many Native people participated in the march, including members of the Dakota, Ojibwe, and Chippewa tribes.

Even after the withdrawal of thousands of ICE agents from the Twin Cities, more than 400 remain—an unprecedented number before the surge of federal mercenaries into the city two months ago.

Thankfully, people are not finished fighting ICE.

Donald Trump is replacing Kristi Noem, who was head of the Department of Homeland Security until a few minutes ago.

In short, Kristi Noem has not succeeded in achieving dictatorial control of the population of the US via DHS. Trump is trying a new strategy aimed at the same goal.

This shows that the day-to-day resistance to ICE has prevented them from achieving their chief objective. They aimed to normalize the violence of federal mercenaries as an accepted part of daily life. So far, they have failed.

Thanks to the brave people of the Twin Cities and everyone all around the country who is fighting back.

This fight is far from over.

https://crimethinc.com/Escalation2026

Trump's kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro did nothing to change the distribution of power in Venezuela. It only put the pieces in place to loot the country of its natural resources for the benefit of elements of the US ruling class. The attack on Iran is meant to do the same.

For the Israeli government, the entire Mideast is now the West Bank. The attack on Iran shows that they are determined to subject hundreds of millions to the violence they have already been inflicting on Palestinian, Lebanese, and Syrian people.

In the US, Trump’s decision to declare war without consulting Congress shows that he already understands himself as a dictator. The attack on Iranians is meant to strike terror into Trump’s foes all around the world, including in the United States.

The same weapons Trump and Netanyahu use against Iranians today will be turned on anyone who resists them tomorrow—unless we stand up to them together.

https://crimethinc.com/IranWar2026

What is AI good for?

They're not investing billions in it just so you don't have to write your own emails and your kids never learn to draw.

If you want to understand why AI is important to them, look at Gaza.

In cheerful corporate lingo, they are preparing massacres on an unimaginable scale.

These are ICE agents. They have not bothered to cultivate skills with which to do anything useful for other people. All they do is lick boots, terrorize communities, and rake in your tax dollars.

All humanity should band together against such parasites.

https://crimethinc.com/mercenaries

A massive vinyl print of our “Immigrants Welcome” design hanging in the window of Burning Books in Buffalo.

You can order them as stickers here:

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

If you run a bookshop or community center and you want one of these, send us a message—we might be able to help supply one.

Did the classical anarchists also experience drama in their romantic relationships?

Oh yes, yes they did.

http://crimethinc.com/polydrama

For Valentine's Day, read about steamy and tragic love triangles featuring the Bakunins, Malatesta, Severino di Giovanni and América Scarfó, Émile Armand, and more.

The Road to Prairieland

The Crackdown on Anti-ICE Activists in Texas Reflects a Pattern of Intensifying Repression

https://crimethinc.com/Prairieland

Pay attention to the Prairieland case that goes to trial in Texas next week.

By saddling the defendants with indiscriminate charges, holding them without bail, and isolating them from lawyers and the public, prosecutors are attempting to terrorize them into signing guilty pleas in order to set a precedent criminalizing dissent itself.

Some of the defendants in the Prairieland case apparently never set foot anywhere near the protest in question. Just as authorities sought to crush the #StopCopCity movement by randomly indicting people on baseless charges, here they aim to scare people out of acting in solidarity with immigrants.

The murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti show what lies at the end of this road. In those public executions, there is no role for the judicial branch of government at all—the executive branch chooses the target, pulls the trigger, and declares the victims guilty of terrorism afterwards. That is the kind of "justice" that the Trump administration aims to carry out. If they get away with what they are trying to do to the Prairieland defendants, we will be a step closer to that.

We've prepared a zine version of our text "Rapid Response Networks in the Twin Cities," describing the dynamic and resilient system that people in the Twin Cities have developed to keep the pressure on ICE.

Please print and distribute!

https://crimethinc.com/zines/rapid-response-networks-in-the-twin-cities

Five Years of Coup: Burmese Anarchists within and without the Revolution

https://crimethinc.com/Myanmar2026

An activist who has organized in Burma and Thailand across a period of decades discusses the various ways people have resisted even under a military coup.

Activists elsewhere in the world will find this instructive, as rule by brute force is becoming more and more widespread.

Just now, while testifying before the House of Representatives, commissioner of Customs and Border Protection Rodney Scott described anti-ICE protesters as "coordinated well-funded insurgencies" as he called for even more funding and legislation to enable ICE to violently repress US citizens.

Why haven't federal agents begun widespread crackdowns on US citizens? Donald Trump has already called clearly for these—for example, by declaring the nebulous category "antifa" to be "a major terrorist organization."

The answer is simple: federal agencies still have their hands full kidnapping and deporting immigrants. But as soon as they can, they will use the same infrastructure and tactics against US citizens. Fighting for immigrants is fighting to protect ourselves and each other.

Neither law enforcement nor Democrat politicians' hollow calls for minor reforms will protect us. Federal officials have already cast their lot with fascism. We, too, must understand that the only options before us are revolution or autocracy.

It's safer in the front.

https://crimethinc.com/ReallySafer

The Rojava Revolution in Peril, the Struggle for Free Life Continues

https://crimethinc.com/Rojavaperil

With the backing of the Turkish government and the blessing of the United States and European governments, the Syrian military is surrounding the self-governing communities of Rojava, seeking to forcibly integrate them into the Syrian state. Although the Syrian Democratic Forces in Rojava have signed a peace treaty agreeing to integration, the outcome remains to be seen.

A statement from American, Chinese, and Russian anarchists who have fought to defend Rojava about what this means for the future.

Organizers are inviting you to come to the Twin Cities to participate in a week of action against ICE from February 25 to March 1.

Come help with local ICE watch and rapid response efforts—and learn from the models that have developed in the Twin Cities.

Join in protests and other efforts targeting complicit politicians and corporations.

https://melttheicemn.com/

Bring the heat—melt ICE!

February 7 marks one month since ICE mercenary Jonathan Ross murdered Renee Good.

It was not the first public execution ICE carried out. But because rapid responders caught it on film, there can be no question about what happened—and because angry locals forced ICE to withdraw afterwards, there can be no question about whether it was a tragedy.

Resisting makes us safer.

https://crimethinc.com/ICEmurder2026

Basic Banalities Concerning the January 31 Demonstration in Turin

Reflections on Conflict Following a Night of Street Fighting in Italy

https://crimethinc.com/Turin2026

On December 18, 2025, police evicted the historic Askatasuna social center in Turin, which had been squatted since 1996. A call circulated for a demonstration in response on January 31.

Newspapers report that 50,000 people took the streets. In the street where Askatasuna was located, clashes with the police continued for several hours—an intensity of confrontation that is extraordinary in Italy today.

Something is changing in Italy. The pro-Palestinian movement that erupted in support of the flotillas that sailed for Gaza in fall 2025 drew millions of participants into the streets, including a new generation that had not previously participated in direct action. The events in Turin last month show that this momentum has not abated. While authoritarianism is gaining power all around the world, we are also seeing a rising desire to revolt.

Filter Blockades: A Tactic to Defend Your Neighborhood from ICE

https://crimethinc.com/filterblockades

Filter blockades are a simple and effective way to resist the occupation of our communities. All you need is a few determined friends or neighbors and some widely available materials. The goal is to slow traffic, without fully blocking it, in order to identify potential ICE vehicles. The more filter blockades, the more effective the strategy becomes.

We review how to establish and maintain filter blockades, share accounts from filter blockades in the Twin Cities this past week, and conclude with a broader look at the history and potential of the model.

Some people have described the movement against police and white supremacy that emerged into the public eye in May 2020 as a "failure" because it didn't win legislative changes.

But the Twin Cities have been able to stand up to ICE because of networks that developed at that time.

Changing a system that exists to perpetrate oppression is the work of decades. What is needed is not a minor reform that can be implemented by politicians, but the kind of structural change that requires long-term grassroots struggle.

https://crimethinc.com/antipolice2025

What is violence?

Is it tossing a tear gas canister back to the mercenaries who shot it at you?

Is it blowing a whistle at bounty hunters who are trying to abduct someone?

Perhaps, rather than asking whether an action is "violent," we should ask—

Does it perpetrate oppression? Or interrupt it?

https://crimethinc.com/violence

With the complicity of Democrat politicians who truly don't care if you live or die, the fascists who control the federal government are trying to rebrand ICE as a kinder, gentler Gestapo.

Body cams will make no one safer. The mercenary who murdered Renee Good was filming when he shot her.

https://crimethinc.com/bodycams

The purpose of ICE is to terrorize the general population and impose a totalitarian regime through ethnic cleansing. Reforms and compromises are underhanded attempts to pacify us while they advance further down the road to fascism. There is only one solution.

ABOLISH ICE! 🏴

We finally have the second pressing of the Catharsis "Hope Against Hope" LP in stock, this time on red vinyl.

You can order them here:

https://store.crimethinc.com/collections/music/products/catharsis-hope-against-hope-lp

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On Tear-Gassing Children
The Federal Assault on the ICE Out! Labor March in Portland

https://crimethinc.com/PortlandTearGas

On January 31, ICE agents gratuitously attacked a demonstration in Portland—blanketing a six-block area in tear gas, injuring a number of small children, and further polarizing the whole city against them.

An account from eyewitnesses.

Crowd Control: Appeasement, Vanguardism, and the General Strike

An Analysis from the Twin Cities

https://crimethinc.com/2026generalstrikes

On January 23, 2026, a general strike against the ICE occupation paralyzed the Twin Cities. Seven days later, a second strike took place, on January 30. The first of these mass strikes drew significantly more participants than the second.

In this analysis, participants in the resistance to ICE operations in the Twin Cities reflect on the lessons of these strikes, looking for ways to remove obstacles to the growth of the movement.

Democrats are seeking "reforms" like bodycams for federal agents (so they have more footage to make commercials promoting mercenary violence), marked ICE vehicles (so we can't pressure car rental agencies), stricter codes of conduct (while thousands of bounty hunters go on terrorizing us).

Even if the regime is forced to slow down a bit, their goal is full totalitarianism. Trump is implementing fascism as fast as we let him. By treating this as something to be "reformed," Democrats are complicit in normalizing it.

If, under Adolf Hitler, the Nazis had been compelled to behave themselves more politely while they rounded up and disappeared people, if they had been discouraged from murdering German gentiles as they carried out the Holocaust, would that have addressed the problem? No.

ICE is ethnic cleansing.

https://crimethinc.com/MessageGermany

We've updated an old poster of ours to support the strikes against ICE.

"Our best protection from fascism is that they depend on us to keep their society running. WHEN THE SHOOTING STARTS, AMERICA STOPS."

Shut it all down!

https://crimethinc.com/posters/stop-me-before-i-kill-again-trump-edition

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The new poster is a revision of the poster we made in March 2003 to promote the walkouts and blockades with which people protested the senseless invasion of Iraq, which ultimately cost nearly a million lives.

That should drive home the stakes of this fight today.

https://crimethinc.com/posters/stop-me-before-i-kill-again

Crossing the Line: It Really Is Safer in the Front On Saturday, January 24, in response to the murder of Alex Pretti, demonstrators gathered outside the ICE facility in Portland, Oregon. A participant describes the experience of collectively crossing the line into resistance and discovering that, when everyone does this together, our oppressors’ power evaporates. https://crimethinc.com/ReallySafer "In the middle of the chaos, someone yelled, 'It’s safer in the front!' The crowd surged forward together, larger and more unified than before. "What happened that night was grief turning into action. It was rage turning into protection. It was the understanding that when the government murders someone for defending others, the only moral response is to stand up. Together. "As a consequence of that kind of solidarity, not one single person was snatched by the feds for crossing their blue line."

On this day, January 28, in the year 2012, in a face-off with police during the Occupy movement, this enterprising young man in Oakland taught us the proper meaning of "armchair anarchist." Anything can be a instrument of social change if you use it right. 🏴🖤 https://crimethinc.com/contradictionary

Being “Peaceful” and “Law-Abiding” Will Not Stop Authoritarianism A Message from Germany https://crimethinc.com/MessageGermany In this analysis, anarchists from Germany explore how events from German history should inform those who are resisting the consolidation of authoritarian power in the United States today.

The Trump administration's efforts to criminalize opposition to fascism are taking effect overseas. Two banks are shutting down the accounts belonging to Rote Hilfe—a German legal aid organization over a century old—because of Trump designating so-called "Antifa Ost" as a "foreign terrorist organization." The designation has no equivalent in German law. It's based on a single case with extremely questionable evidence. The German government has not adopted the designation, repeatedly emphasizing that the purely legal construct "Antifa East" poses no significant threat. Nonetheless, these cowardly German banks are permitting Donald Trump to determine who they work with—despite the fact that the Trump administration has made it clear that not only do they oppose anti-fascism in general, they explicitly consider those who resisted the rise of Hitler to be "terrorists." https://rote-hilfe.de/meldungen/kontokuendigung-wegen-antifa-banken-vollstrecken-us-politik-deutschland

Although Assad has fallen, the tragedies in Syria continue. The Syrian National Army, a Turkish proxy force, has captured the city of Manbij and aims to storm Kobane next.

Turkey intends to conquer all Rojava and carry out ethnic cleansing there.

In 2014, with the tacit support of the Turkish government, the Islamic State took over most of northern Syria, carrying out massacres as they gained ground. In the town of Kobane, locals managed to halt their advance only a few miles from the Turkish border.

Now, Kobane is at risk once again.

In Rojava, multiethnic militias including anarchist volunteers from around the world did most of the fighting and dying in the struggle against the Islamic State. Now the international community is preparing to look away while they are massacred.

We must not let this happen. As in 2019—the last time Turkey mounted a major offensive against Rojava—solidarity actions are urgently needed.

https://crimethinc.com/RojavaSolidarity