By An international anarchist organization is calling on supporters to stage disruptive actions reminiscent of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests during nationwide demonstrations against President Donald Trump planned for this weekend.
The group, known as CrimethInc, issued a statement encouraging “anti-authoritarian” participation in the “No Kings” events set for Saturday. The announcement urges supporters to organize “direct action,” which the collective defines as rallying individuals to create public disturbances that may lead to arrests.
In an anonymously authored post, CrimethInc warned that broad participation is needed to confront what it described as escalating threats from the Trump administration. “To face down Donald Trump’s power grab and his terror campaign targeting ‘antifa,’ we need everyone, of all walks of life, to proclaim that opposition to fascism is both laudable and urgent,” the statement reads.
Security analysts have warned about the organization.
Crimethinc is an international agitprop element of the Antifa network.
It's building what Stalin called a "united front," the revival of which Gus Hall called the "all-people's front."
Anarchists and Communists working in tactical alliances with "bourgeois" liberals. https://t.co/bFQcpog0p8 pic.twitter.com/5HiUKBUp56
— J Michael Waller (@JMichaelWaller) October 11, 2025
The Daily Caller reported that the group maintains online contact points in Olympia, Washington, and the United Kingdom. The post referenced a prior CrimethInc publication from June 2020, Snapshots from the Uprising, which included images of a Minneapolis police precinct engulfed in flames. The riots following George Floyd’s death left at least 24 people dead and caused more than $1 billion in property damage nationwide.
By contrast, No Kings organizers have emphasized nonviolence. Their website affirms a “commitment to nonviolent action” and instructs participants to “seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation” and “act lawfully at these events.”
While they may be genuine, it’s hard to imagine that Democrats hosting these events would tell their more violent protesters to leave. After all, few Democrats have shown an ability to call out some of their nominees in state races who have explicitly called for violence against Republicans.
As of last Friday, No Kings organizers said 2,500 demonstrations were planned across all 50 states, as well as in Europe and Canada. Anchor rallies are scheduled in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New Orleans, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., along with smaller events in towns such as Bozeman, Montana.
“If you are cynical, you might not understand the utility of simply standing together and showing the massive agreement in this moment around our disdain for a president who believes he is a king,” Lisa Gilbert, co-president of Public Citizen and one of the rally’s organizers, told The American Prospect.
Gilbert said the goal is to spark civic engagement and resistance. “We’ve seen in other countries in the world that the thing that enabled people to fight back was an activated populace,” she said. “That’s what we’re trying to achieve here, just this groundswell of activation.”
Ellen Chapman, of the progressive group Indivisible, said the Sacramento rally will also promote Proposition 50, a California ballot measure that would redraw congressional maps to favor Democrats ahead of the 2026 midterms in hopes of taking the House of Representatives next year.
Republican officials have dismissed the many of the protests as “hate America rallies,” while the Trump administration has reportedly opened investigations into Indivisible and other liberal groups that have been funded by George Soros and allegedly been connected to stoking violence with paid protestors.
While No Kings organizers emphasize peace, federal authorities remain wary of online calls for “direct action” from groups like CrimethInc. Law enforcement agencies have flagged previous incidents—such as Antifa-linked sites encouraging demonstrators to target aircraft with lasers—as potential threats.
The group also encouraged activists to coordinate using the encrypted messaging app Signal. Whether Saturday’s demonstrations unfold as peaceful mass gatherings or spiral into unrest may depend on how successfully these rival impulses—lawful protest versus confrontation—coexist beneath the same “No Kings” banner.
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