Oppressions

For the moment we still celebrate the birth of Dr. Martin Luther King as a federal holiday. This year commemorates the holiday’s 40th anniversary. Born Jan. 15, 1929, King is one of the seminal figures of the Black liberation struggle. His importance cannot be overestimated. He provided a major impetus for the giant leap in the struggle at […]

(También en español) The movement's experience in LA demonstrates the that there are masses of people willing to take action to stop ICE. It also demonstrates that we need a lot more organization to be able to stop ICE consistently.

The immigrant rights movement today must have labor’s full participation in opposition to the Trump regime’s terror. The fact that a Teamster local like 705 is standing up for immigrant workers is important given that Sean O’Brien, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, has consistently made disparaging comments about immigrants on his podcast.

The fates of workers, students, and oppressed people in Venezuela and in the United States are intimately connected. Just as the U.S. invaded Venezuela for the benefit of Big Oil and the banks, those same ruling-class forces are decimating the gains of the civil rights, labor, and other social movements in this country.

The administration is using every pretext to amplify the propaganda against the immigrant population. Listening to the administration and its spokespersons, all immigrants detained and deported are criminals. African immigrants are facing greater legal obstacles in both the U.S. and Europe despite their presence for decades. For Africans seeking refuge in the U.S. and Europe, gaining asylum is nearly impossible.

The region comprising the Chotanagpur plateau and Eastern Ghats accounts for the most mineral rich region of India. For centuries, this region remained dominated by autonomous tribal communities. Today, private domestic capital has stepped in where the British once ruled to accelerate the exploitation of these peoples

Winning against ICE is going to take more than what NGOs have to offer. We need a democratic mass movement that can go beyond the Democratic Party formula

The Trump administration has decided that the limited humanitarian protections offered by Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for millions of refugees is “contrary to the national interest.” This includes the protections previously offered to refugees from a list of countries victimized by U.S. imperialism, including Haiti, Honduras, and Afghanistan—along with the latest country in the sights of the imperialist war machine, Venezuela.

By BRIAN CRAWFORD Texas, on the command of Donald Trump, fashioned a new congressional map with the intent of gaining five additional seats to secure the Republican Party’s majority in the House of Representatives. Republican legislatures already envision permanent majorities in their states—why not in Congress? In response, governors in Democratic states, most notably California, […]

By TAYTYN BADGER This article is based on a speech delivered by the author at a Palestine solidarity rally in Saskatoon on Oct. 4. Good afternoon! My name is Taytyn Badger. I’m a two-spirit Nehiyaw man from Sucker Creek First Nation, and I hope folk could figure out from the placard, a member of Workers’ […]

By ERWIN FREED ICE agents kidnapped Victor Sánchez at a routine immigration check-in in Hartford, Conn., on Wednesday, Sept. 24. Victor is a community leader, father, and worker. He is involved not only with immigrant justice organizing but also helping people achieve sobriety. Victor has been in the United States since 2004. According to a […]

By AVA FAHY and ERWIN FREED Early Wednesday morning, Sept. 24, three detainees at the ICE field office in Dallas were shot by a gunman who was later identified as Joshua Jahn, 29. According to reports, the shooter then turned the gun on himself and died by suicide. Three immigrant detainees were shot, and out […]

By ERWIN FREED and AVA FAHY Kilmar Abrego Garcia—a union sheet-metal worker, husband and father, and member of the immigrant advocacy group CASA—was finally released from a Tennessee jail on Friday, Aug. 22. Unfortunately, he was re-detained three days later, on the morning of Aug. 25, during an ICE “check-in.” A press conference organized by […]

By JOHN LESLIE Immigrant Justice activists and their allies are demanding the release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, a respected community organizer and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient. Xóchitl was seized by Border Patrol agents at the El Paso airport on Sunday, Aug. 3, while she was traveling for work. Agents disregarded her legal […]

BY ROSA AURELIA On Thursday, July 24, Yale Medicine and Yale New Haven Health announced that they would be ending their surgical (and medication based) gender-affirming health care for patients under the age of 19. This decision came immediately after Connecticut Children’s Medical said it would do the same. These developments have grave implications for […]

By ERNIE GOTTA Unions have been at the forefront of the opposition to raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and President Trump’s growing authoritarianism. Anti-ICE mobilizations have included thousands of union members across the U.S. who demand an end to ICE terror in their communities. The mass opposition to ICE shows a dynamic initial […]