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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.
Ah yes, we need fewer nationwide gatherings of solidarity to build connections and prepare to work together over the next few years, and more fruitless calls for violence. That will definitely work.
We need everyone, not just one person. Don’t get me wrong, what he did was praxis and it did have an effect. I don’t see that solving all our problems by itself, though. Diversity of tactics and all that.
we need less of this and more mangione. I don’t see how this helped anything.
Ah yes, we need fewer nationwide gatherings of solidarity to build connections and prepare to work together over the next few years, and more fruitless calls for violence. That will definitely work.
if the gatherings are fruitless destruction of property I will take the fruitfull action every day of the week.
One man’s action got us talking. What was the last nationwide gathering we were talking about? I forgot.
We need everyone, not just one person. Don’t get me wrong, what he did was praxis and it did have an effect. I don’t see that solving all our problems by itself, though. Diversity of tactics and all that.