Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression

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Make Ready: Safeguarding Our Movements against Repression

Donald Trump has declared that he is designating “Antifa” a “terrorist organization.” What does that mean? How can we prepare to weather th...

Donald Trump has signaled that he is expanding his offensive against immigrants to target critics of his regime as well. In directing repression at an invented category ("antifa") rather than a specific organization or form of activity, he means to convey that regardless of who you are or what you do, you, too, could become a target. Fortunately, there are already groups that have experience dealing with this kind of repression, and there are concrete steps we can all take to prepare our communities to weather the coming storm. Rather than spreading panic, this will enable us to approach this situation calmly and effectively. Everyone should read this guide.

The crackdown that JD Vance and Stephen Miller are planning is not the result of anything that radicals or leftists did. Protestations of innocence and statistics about who is more violent are beside the point. They have been planning a crackdown regardless. It's part of their playbook. If the crackdown takes place, it will not happen because of what we did, but because of what we *did not do.* But there's still time to act.

JD Vance and Stephen Miller capitalizing on the shooting of Charlie Kirk to plan a crackdown on a wide range of their opponents is directly out of the textbook that Adolf Hitler used to consolidate power. We must not simply identify this as fascism—we must act accordingly while there is still time.