While many around the country have been stymied, waiting for someone else to show how to resist autocracy, last week young people occupied the engineering building at the University of Washington to protest the genocide in Gaza, demonstrating what resistance can look like.

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The Occupation of the Sha'ban al-Dalou Building

Participants in the occupation of the engineering building at the University of Washington explore their motivations and recount the events in detail.

Ben Morea—of Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the anarchist "street gang with an analysis" that popularized the idea of organizing in affinity groups—appeared in New York City on Thursday for the release of his memoir. The poster we made in tribute to UAWMF could be seen all around the neighborhood.

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The Vanguard of Fantasy

We've prepared a poster in homage to Up Against the Wall Motherfucker, the self-styled “street gang with an analysis” active in the 1960s.

We honor the courage of those who occupied the Interdisciplinary Engineering Building at the University of Washington to protest the university's ties to Boeing. As the Israeli military prepares to step up the pace of the genocide in Gaza, such solidarity actions are needed more than ever.

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Why the State Can't Compromise with the Gaza Solidarity Movement

Participants in the movement of Gaza solidarity encampments and occupations explore the strategic questions the movement confronts today.

The gas chamber executions at the Mauthausen concentration camp went on until Hitler committed suicide on May 1, 1945. On May 5, Spanish prisoners welcomed liberation with this banner: “The Spanish antifascists salute the forces of freedom.” This is what's at stake.

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The May Days: Stories of Courage and Resistance

A century and a half of rebellions, uprisings, daring escapes, and adventures celebrating May Day and our collective capacity for freedom and self-...

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...