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.

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

The above poster is a revision of a 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

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

Briser l’ICE : une lettre de la ligne de front

https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/26/briser-lice-une-lettre-de-la-ligne-de-front-compte-rendu-dune-manifestation-anti-ice-a-philadelphie

Compte rendu d’une manifestation anti-ICE à Philadelphie sur comment passer de manifestations symboliques et d'une organisation descendante à une action autonome efficace.

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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.

Ser “pacífico” y “respetuoso con la ley” no detendrá el autoritarismo

Un mensaje desde Alemania

https://crimethinc.com/2026/01/21/ser-pacifico-y-respetuoso-con-la-ley-no-detendra-el-autoritarismo-un-mensaje-desde-alemania

Anarquistas de Alemania exploran cómo los acontecimientos de la historia alemana deberían inspirar a quienes se resisten a la consolidación del poder autoritario en Estados Unidos hoy.

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They're 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.

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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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! 🏴