Then They Came for the Palestinians: How to Respond to the Kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil

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Then They Came for the Palestinians

How to respond to the kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil and why it matters.

We explore the strategy of the Trump administration in targeting a Palestinian activist and what is at stake in our response. To get some perspective, we present the experiences of anarchists whose comrade was similarly kidnapped for participating in the Occupy ICE movement in San Antonio, Texas in 2018.

On March 8, Department of Homeland Security agents kidnapped Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist and grad student at Columbia University. Khalil had permanent residency in the United States. Trump's fascist State Department arbitrarily revoked it. They are holding Khalil in Louisiana, over a thousand miles from home. First they came for the Palestinians. Martin Niemöller's poem is happening right now. Today, people will demonstrate in solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil in New York City. Some demonstrators will be distributing this flier. You can print out copies here yourself:

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Remember 2020 — We Can Win

First they are coming for Palestinians and our migrant neighbors. If they succeed, there will be fewer people to fight when they come for you. This...

Without the ever-escalating violence of amoral mercenaries, it would be impossible to preserve the disparities in wealth and power that make it possible for men like Elon Musk to buy up elections while millions go hungry. Abolish billionaires. Abolish the police.

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Police: An Ethnography

We let police officers speak for themselves about what they are trying to do and why. And as the saying goes, a picture is worth a thousand words.

We've just received the fourth printing of our introduction to anarchism, To Change Everything. This text explores why authoritarian structures cannot solve the crises they produce and how to weave our personal revolts together into a collective struggle for liberation. This printing brings the total number of English-language copies in circulation to 225,000. The text is also available in 32 languages, including European and American versions of both Spanish and French. You can access the text online here:

To Change Everything, an anarchist appeal

The case for complete self-determination—a guide for the furious, the curious, and the pure of heart

You can order print copies here in bulk, for the costs of paper and postage alone:

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To Change Everything

To Change Everything is a full-color 48-page booklet. In fresh, accessible language, it explores the virtues of self-determination, illuminates why...

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We keep hearing a binary narrative in which criminal oligarchs are undermining the rule of law. It would be more precise to identify three camps: —centrists who fetishize the rule of law as a good in and of itself; —oligarchs aiming to overhaul the current courts and laws to be even more brutal; —and those who reject both camps in favor of real freedom and equality. In the first camp, we find those who believe that a certain amount of self-determination is acceptable, as long as it falls neatly within whatever laws happen to be on the books. They are also at ease with a wide range of ruthless self-seeking oppressive activity, provided it complies with the law. In the second camp, we find those who are determined to consolidate power in their own hands, regardless of what laws happen to be on the books. Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their various capitalist and fascist backers aim to replace the current laws and courts with something even worse. In the third camp, we find those who believe that regardless of what laws happen to be on the books, no one should be able to dominate anyone else—whether by hoarding access to resources or wielding the instruments of state repression. There is no excuse for tyranny.

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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...

As Donald Trump's tariffs go into effect, imposing gratuitous financial burdens on ordinary people on both sides of the borders, it's important to remember that the original resistance to neoliberalism came from anti-capitalists who wanted to "make the earth a common treasury for all," not reactionary nationalists trying to return to the Gilded Age. At the high point of the movement against capitalist globalization, hundreds of thousands of protesters repeatedly shut down global trade summits in order to call for a more equitable distribution of resources and agency. Anarchists were at the forefront of this, calling for the reinvention of the commons. Neoliberals and neoconservatives banded together to suppress this so-called "anti-globalization" movement by brute force. As a result, nationalists like Trump were able to pretend to be the only alternative to neoliberalism. But the nationalists only offer an even more brutal form of capitalism, as we are seeing today. Even if their model succeeds neoliberalism as the new global order, that will not be the end of the story. Capitalism will render the earth uninhabitable, or we will abolish it. The struggle continues.

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Trump and the Legacy of the Anti-Globalization Movement

Really, Mr. Trump, it’s been surprising to hear some of the language you’ve been using in your Presidential campaign: globalization is a bad th...