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As Trump prepares to take power once again, this is a good time to revisit how anarchists responded last time he entered office.
In 2017, thousands assembled in DC to disrupt the inauguration and set a precedent for resistance in the Trump era.
Afterwards we published a blow-by-blow account and analysis of the day's events, showing how demonstrators took on much better-equipped adversaries and why police lost control, distilling the strategic lessons.
It still makes for instructive reading for anyone who might one day experience a similar situation:
https://crimethinc.com/J20analysis
Read on for a full thread about this history.
It kinda did. People showed they were able to take decisive, visible and collective actions and that through solidarity they were able to withstand the repression (all charges dropped).
This should be inspirational to all kind of (direct) action
And then not do that, it clearly didn’t work
It kinda did. People showed they were able to take decisive, visible and collective actions and that through solidarity they were able to withstand the repression (all charges dropped).
This should be inspirational to all kind of (direct) action
It actually worked really well. Things could have been much worse. I think they weren’t because of our efforts.