We honor the life of Colin Jerwood, singer of the anarcho-punk band Conflict, who contributed to the resurgence of combative anarchism in the 1980s.
"The more you oppress the more we'll resist
We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"
-Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"
https://colinjerwood.muchloved.com/
"The more you oppress the more we'll resist
We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"
-Conflict, "The Ungovernable Force"
https://colinjerwood.muchloved.com/
CrimethInc. Ex-Workers Collective
We honor the life of Colin Jerwood, singer of the anarcho-punk band Conflict, who contributed to the resurgence of combative anarchism in the 1980s. "The more you oppress the more we'll resist We will win because we have to, we've got nothing to lose no more"…
With the benefit of four decades' distance, we can see how fortunate we were to inherit the militant and exuberant counterculture that Colin and his comrades helped to build.
You can hear the music that Conflict recorded here:
http://conflictpunk.bandcamp.com/
But for the full experience, you have to go to a punk show, bring home a Conflict LP, put it on the turntable, and read the lyrics while contemplating what kind of trouble to get into.
Better still, you should form a punk band yourself.
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For background on how punk contributed to the resurgence of anarchism in the late 20th century:
https://crimethinc.com/punkutopia
You can hear the music that Conflict recorded here:
http://conflictpunk.bandcamp.com/
But for the full experience, you have to go to a punk show, bring home a Conflict LP, put it on the turntable, and read the lyrics while contemplating what kind of trouble to get into.
Better still, you should form a punk band yourself.
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For background on how punk contributed to the resurgence of anarchism in the late 20th century:
https://crimethinc.com/punkutopia
« Cet hôtel est un centre de rétention »
https://crimethinc.com/2025/04/09/-cet-hotel-est-un-centre-de-retention-un-temoignage-du-front-de-la-lutte-contre-les-expulsions-en-france-1999
Un témoignage du front de la lutte contre les expulsions en France, 1999.
#Français
https://crimethinc.com/2025/04/09/-cet-hotel-est-un-centre-de-retention-un-temoignage-du-front-de-la-lutte-contre-les-expulsions-en-france-1999
Un témoignage du front de la lutte contre les expulsions en France, 1999.
#Français
Minneapolis to Feds: “Get the Fuck Out”
How People in the Twin Cities Responded to a Federal Raid
https://crimethinc.com/June3Minneapolis
An array of federal agencies attempted to carry out a coordinated raid in Minneapolis on the morning of Tuesday, June 3, precipitating an angry response. Locals surrounded the federal officers and police, chanting “Get the fuck out!” and eventually forcing them to retreat.
We present two firsthand accounts of the events of June 3 along with a few strategic reflections on how best to resist these raids.
This article includes footage by Taylor Dahlin.
How People in the Twin Cities Responded to a Federal Raid
https://crimethinc.com/June3Minneapolis
An array of federal agencies attempted to carry out a coordinated raid in Minneapolis on the morning of Tuesday, June 3, precipitating an angry response. Locals surrounded the federal officers and police, chanting “Get the fuck out!” and eventually forcing them to retreat.
We present two firsthand accounts of the events of June 3 along with a few strategic reflections on how best to resist these raids.
This article includes footage by Taylor Dahlin.
Mutual Aid, the Commons, and the Revolutionary Abolition of Capitalism
Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity
https://crimethinc.com/RevolutionaryMutualAid
Much has been made of the distinction between charity and mutual aid. Charity is top-down and unidirectional, while mutual aid is supposed to be horizontal, reciprocal, and participatory. In practice, however, the majority of today’s self-described mutual aid projects remain more or less unidirectional efforts to provide goods and services to those in need.
This has contributed to a situation in which conventional non-profit organizations are rebranding themselves with the language of “mutual aid,” while some anarchists have given up on the concept entirely, fed up with a rhetoric that some say amounts to “mutual aid being good and radical, and charity being bad and conservative.”
Is there more to the distinction than this? How can we unlock the revolutionary potential of mutual aid?
Revisiting the Difference Between Mutual Aid and Charity
https://crimethinc.com/RevolutionaryMutualAid
Much has been made of the distinction between charity and mutual aid. Charity is top-down and unidirectional, while mutual aid is supposed to be horizontal, reciprocal, and participatory. In practice, however, the majority of today’s self-described mutual aid projects remain more or less unidirectional efforts to provide goods and services to those in need.
This has contributed to a situation in which conventional non-profit organizations are rebranding themselves with the language of “mutual aid,” while some anarchists have given up on the concept entirely, fed up with a rhetoric that some say amounts to “mutual aid being good and radical, and charity being bad and conservative.”
Is there more to the distinction than this? How can we unlock the revolutionary potential of mutual aid?
In January 2017, when Donald Trump announced the Muslim Ban—a complete ban on travel to the United States from seven predominantly Muslim countries—protesters converged at airports around the country, shutting down travel.
Now he is banning travel from twice as many countries.
https://crimethinc.com/airportblockades
It's worth revisiting the events of 2017 to understand the scale of resistance. 5000 protesters shut down all international flights at SFO in San Francisco. 30,000 shut down a large section of the financial district of Manhattan while thousands protested at JFK. Protests like this took place at dozens of airports and business districts around the country.
In the wake of those protests—and not a moment before—a judge declared the Muslim Ban unconstitutional. When we take action together, we can change the course of history.
Don't let Trump and his cronies bury their oppressive acts in a news cycle filled with noise. Let's show up for each other in solidarity. Resist.
Now he is banning travel from twice as many countries.
https://crimethinc.com/airportblockades
It's worth revisiting the events of 2017 to understand the scale of resistance. 5000 protesters shut down all international flights at SFO in San Francisco. 30,000 shut down a large section of the financial district of Manhattan while thousands protested at JFK. Protests like this took place at dozens of airports and business districts around the country.
In the wake of those protests—and not a moment before—a judge declared the Muslim Ban unconstitutional. When we take action together, we can change the course of history.
Don't let Trump and his cronies bury their oppressive acts in a news cycle filled with noise. Let's show up for each other in solidarity. Resist.
On June 3, a crowd drove federal agents out of Minneapolis following an attempted raid. On June 4, people confronted ICE in Chicago and Grand Rapids. Today, there are clashes with ICE in Los Angeles.
Don't let them keep harming people.
You can print this poster out here:
https://cdn.crimethinc.com/assets/articles/2018/07/01/apply-heat-melt-ice.pdf
Don't let them keep harming people.
You can print this poster out here:
https://cdn.crimethinc.com/assets/articles/2018/07/01/apply-heat-melt-ice.pdf
Los Angeles Stands up to ICE
https://crimethinc.com/LosAngelesJune6
In this report, participants in the clashes of June 6 describe how people came together to defend their community from federal agents.
This details the response to the initial raids, the standoff at the detention center, and how a crowd chased ICE out of Chinatown later that night.
https://crimethinc.com/LosAngelesJune6
In this report, participants in the clashes of June 6 describe how people came together to defend their community from federal agents.
This details the response to the initial raids, the standoff at the detention center, and how a crowd chased ICE out of Chinatown later that night.
The Trump administration began by attacking immigrants—both documented and undocumented—because they believe immigrants to be the most vulnerable target with the least widespread support.
But whatever they can do to immigrants today they will do to the rest of us tomorrow.
Even the most milquetoast centrists must understand that the outcome of the conflict that is ramping up now will determine the prospects for every other target Trump has lined up in his sights, from Harvard University to those who simply wish to be able to afford groceries.
Our future is at stake in this fight. We cannot stand aside.
http://crimethinc.com/LosAngelesJune6
But whatever they can do to immigrants today they will do to the rest of us tomorrow.
Even the most milquetoast centrists must understand that the outcome of the conflict that is ramping up now will determine the prospects for every other target Trump has lined up in his sights, from Harvard University to those who simply wish to be able to afford groceries.
Our future is at stake in this fight. We cannot stand aside.
http://crimethinc.com/LosAngelesJune6
Trump has signed a memorandum deploying 2000 National Guard to Los Angeles—the next step in his power grab.
The best thing that people can do in solidarity is to take action outside LA. They want to isolate and suppress us one by one.
Stand up in solidarity.
https://crimethinc.com/posters/the-border-is-everywhere
The best thing that people can do in solidarity is to take action outside LA. They want to isolate and suppress us one by one.
Stand up in solidarity.
https://crimethinc.com/posters/the-border-is-everywhere
Los Angeles szembeszáll az ICE-vel
https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/los-angeles-szembeszall-az-ice-vel-kozvetlen-beszamolo-a-junius-6-i-osszecsapasokrol
Június 3-án a tömeg elűzte a szövetségi ügynököket Minneapolisból, miután azok rajtaütöttek egy taco étteremen. Június 4-én a környék lakói konfrontálódtak az amerikai bevándorlási és vámhatósági ügynökökkel, amikor azok rajtaütéseket hajtottak végre Chicagóban és Grand Rapidsban. Június 6-án, pénteken a los angelesiek válaszoltak az ICE razziájára, ami egész napos összecsapásokhoz vezetett, amelyek ma is folytatódnak.
#Magyar
https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/los-angeles-szembeszall-az-ice-vel-kozvetlen-beszamolo-a-junius-6-i-osszecsapasokrol
Június 3-án a tömeg elűzte a szövetségi ügynököket Minneapolisból, miután azok rajtaütöttek egy taco étteremen. Június 4-én a környék lakói konfrontálódtak az amerikai bevándorlási és vámhatósági ügynökökkel, amikor azok rajtaütéseket hajtottak végre Chicagóban és Grand Rapidsban. Június 6-án, pénteken a los angelesiek válaszoltak az ICE razziájára, ami egész napos összecsapásokhoz vezetett, amelyek ma is folytatódnak.
#Magyar
Los Angeles erhebt sich gegen ICE
Ein Bericht aus erster Hand über die Zusammenstöße vom 6. Juni
https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/los-angeles-erhebt-sich-gegen-ice-ein-bericht-aus-erster-hand-uber-die-zusammenstosse-vom-6-juni
Am 3. Juni vertrieb eine Menschenmenge Bundesbeamte nach einer Razzia in einer Taqueria in Minneapolis. Am 4. Juni stellten sich Menschen den Agenten der US-Einwanderungs- und Zollbehörde (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) entgegen, als diese in Chicago und Grand Rapids Razzien durchführten. Am Freitag, dem 6. Juni, reagierten die Menschen in Los Angeles auf eine ICE-Razzia, was zu ganztägigen Zusammenstößen führte, die bis heute andauern. Im folgenden Bericht aus erster Hand beschreiben die Teilnehmer, wie die Menschen zusammenkamen, um ihr Bestes zu tun, um zu verhindern, dass Bundesbeamte Menschen aus ihrer Gemeinde entführen.
#Deutsch
Ein Bericht aus erster Hand über die Zusammenstöße vom 6. Juni
https://crimethinc.com/2025/06/08/los-angeles-erhebt-sich-gegen-ice-ein-bericht-aus-erster-hand-uber-die-zusammenstosse-vom-6-juni
Am 3. Juni vertrieb eine Menschenmenge Bundesbeamte nach einer Razzia in einer Taqueria in Minneapolis. Am 4. Juni stellten sich Menschen den Agenten der US-Einwanderungs- und Zollbehörde (US Immigration and Customs Enforcement) entgegen, als diese in Chicago und Grand Rapids Razzien durchführten. Am Freitag, dem 6. Juni, reagierten die Menschen in Los Angeles auf eine ICE-Razzia, was zu ganztägigen Zusammenstößen führte, die bis heute andauern. Im folgenden Bericht aus erster Hand beschreiben die Teilnehmer, wie die Menschen zusammenkamen, um ihr Bestes zu tun, um zu verhindern, dass Bundesbeamte Menschen aus ihrer Gemeinde entführen.
#Deutsch