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"All talk to the effect that
historical conditions have not yet
'ripened' for socialism is the product of
ignorance or conscious deception. The
objective prerequisites for proletarian
revolution have not only 'ripened,' they
have begun to get somewhat rotten.... The
historical crisis of mankind is reduced to
the crisis of the revolutionary
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Welcome! The Internationalist Group, section of the League for the Fourth International, fights for international socialist revolution, the conquest of power by the working class, led by its Leninist party, championing the cause of all the oppressed. After a decade and a half in which the ruling class trumpeted the supposed "death of communism," the imperialists are bogged down in losing wars of colonial occupation in the Near East while a global economic crisis shakes the foundations of the capitalist order. With mass unemployment, poverty and hunger ravaging the planet, once again there is talk of socialism and revolution. But as in the past, the key question is that of forging a vanguard to lead the struggle of the workers and the oppressed.
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The founding statement of the Internationalist Group is available on this site, as well as the LFI's declaration, Reforge the Fourth International, in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Tagalog.
Dockworkers Have the Power to Stop Imperialist War Cargo and Win Union Control of Technology – Use It!
As Donald Trump’s phony Gaza "peace plan" unravels, his bombing of Iran hasn’t made a dent in its nuclear program and he gears up for a military strike against Venezuela, the U.S. president has met resistance. Port workers from Morocco to France, Italy and Greece have refused to handle war cargo for Israel’s genocidal war against Palestinians while Italian dockers’ action touched off two mass strikes, on September 22 and October 3. While Mediterranean port workers are preparing coordinated strike action to stop arms to Israel, now a conference has been called in Lisbon by the U.S. East Coast International Longshoremen’s Association (ILA) and the International Dockworkers Council (IDC) to deal with job-threatening port automation. This is a vital issue for waterfront workers, but the conference call says nothing about union action in the ports. Instead, ILA leaders have looked to Trump to stop automation. In fact, as the IDC was recently meeting in June, ILA president Harold Daggett sent a letter to Donald Trump praising his bombing of Iran. The international delegates’ embarrassed response was a vague call for “peace.” Class-struggle trade-unionists call instead for workers to fight for union control of technology, to ensure that it benefits the workers; and for workers strike action to stop the military death cargoes to the Zionist militarists. Dockworkers Have the Power, Use it! (31 October 2025) .
The Internationalist No. 76
Democrats Shield ICE – Mobilize Workers for Feds Out Now!
(June-October 2025)
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Abort Trump’s Police State!
Break with the Parties of Capital – For a Revolutionary Workers Party!
Under the administration of Donald Trump, the United States is building out a police-state regime, in which the arbitrary actions of the executive power are virtually unchecked by courts, laws, Congress or the Constitution they swear by. The U.S. is not there yet, it is only in the early stages, gutting institutions and softening up the population with a barrage of militarized repression. The military is being repurposed for internal war and the various agencies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) turned into an all-purpose paramilitary police force. Spearheading this is Trump’s campaign of mass deportations of immigrants, who make up a vital section of the U.S. workforce, but the ultimate target is all working people. As the White House has unleashed its masked agents to seize immigrants in their homes and on the streets, and the population comes out to oppose them, from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. to Chicago, Democratic officials have ordered their police to ride interference for the feds. Trump has called on his supporters, federal police and military to go after leftists with a vengeance. It is to the power of the working class that we must look to fight this drive for naked capitalist dictatorship. Abort Trump’s Police State! (October 2025)
Democrats and Courts Won’t Stop ICE Gestapo
For Workers Strike Action – Feds Out Now!
Chicago Under Siege: Thousands Demand
Stop Deportation Raids!
Since early September, the federal government has been waging a militarized campaign of immigration raids in Chicago under the code name “Operation Midway Blitz.” Federal agents have been terrorizing the city, cruising through residential and downtown neighborhoods grabbing people off the street, solely on the basis of their ethnic/racial appearance, to demand their identification papers. Over 3,000 immigrants have been seized so far, along with scores of U.S. citizens. The mass deportation campaign has become the spearhead of the Trump regime's drive to police-state rule. Unlike in much of the country, Democratic officials have shot back at threats from the White House and denounced federal agents’ wanton physical attacks, but they are ultimately part of the machinery of the capitalist rule and will not stop the deportations. Looking to the courts and the Democratic Party of racist U.S. capitalism is a dangerous illusion. Around the city hundreds and thousands of residents have courageously come out to stand up to the migra (immigration police) thugs. But what is urgently needed is a mobilization of the power of the working class to stop the deportations and racist repression. Chicago Under Siege: Thousands Demand Stop Deportation Raids (27 October 2025)
Mobilize Against Yankee Imperialist Threat to Venezuela!
On September 2, Donald Trump announced that he had personally ordered a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean, killing eleven people on board, claiming that they were “narcoterrorists." Over the next several weeks, as the U.S. moved warships and warplanes into the region, three more boats were struck. In reality, the terrorists roaming the Caribbean are the United States Navy and Air Force, and they threaten all of Latin America. For decades, U.S. imperialism has been attempting the overthrow the populist nationalist regime in Venezuela and install puppets who will be unconditional lackeys of whoever is in office in Washington. U.S. rulers want to go after Venezuela as a stepping stone to overthrowing the Cuban Revolution, which it has been trying to do since 1960. The League for the Fourth International calls to defend Venezuela against imperialist attack and threats, and against the U.S.-sponsored domestic opposition, while giving no political support to the bourgeois populist government of Nicolás Maduro. Mobilize Against Yankee Imperialist Threat to Venezuela! (13 October 2025)
No to U.S./U.N. Colonial Rule – For an Arab/Hebrew Palestinian Workers Republic in a Socialist Federation of the Middle East
Gaza “Ceasefire”: There Is No Peace
Transport Workers: Stop All War Cargo to Israel!
On October 9, representatives of Israel and Hamas signed an agreement for a ceasefire in the monstrous two-year Zionist genocidal war on the Palestinian population of Gaza. The truce was announced the day before by Donald Trump. When bombs stopped falling the next day, crowds of Palestinians in Gaza City, who had lived through 24 months of hell on earth, were jubilant. And when 25 Israeli hostages were returned alive, there was rejoicing in Tel Aviv. But this was only a pause in the unending Zionist war on the Palestinian people. There is no peace. Over 9,000 Palestinians are still being held as hostages in Israeli jails and camps, the “yellow line” to which Israeli troops pulled back still leaves them in control of 53% of Gaza, Israel is only letting in a quarter of the aid trucks a day agreed on, and bombings continue: the genocide has not stopped. Defenders of the Palestinians must oppose Trump's phony “peace” plan, which would mean colonial rule of Gaza. Class-conscious workers should step up the fight for workers action to stop all military goods to Israel. A common struggle by the workers of the myriad peoples of the region against national oppression and capitalist exploitation requires above all building genuine communist parties on the internationalist program of Lenin and Trotsky. Gaza “Ceasefire”: There Is No Peace (October 2025)
Jack Heyman Speaks at International Dockworkers Meeting
European Port Workers Call for Strike Action to Stop Arms
On September 26-27, a meeting of European dockworkers was held in Genova, Italy to discuss common action around the watchword, “Dockers Will Not Work for War.” The meeting built on recent actions by port workers in Morocco, France, Italy and Greece blocking arms to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The unions vowed to strike again if Israel attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla, which it did on the evening of October 1, seizing hundreds of volunteers bringing aid to Gaza. Immediately, protesters went into the streets all across Italy. On October 3, another “general strike” was held, this time with some 2 million marchers in 100 cities. Once again, ports were closed, rail lines and highways blocked. The League for the Fourth International has called from the outset for workers action against the shipment of arms to Israel and Ukraine. Jack Heyman, longtime longshore and maritime activist, brought greetings to the meeting from International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 in Oakland, California. In his speech, which highlighted the contributions of the LFI, Heyman slammed the bureaucratic backstabbing that has blocked effective international solidarity action. This struck a chord with some at the conference. European Port Workers Call for Strike Action to Stop Arms (8 October 2025)
Mass Strike for Gaza Brings Italy to a Halt
For International Strike Action to
Stop U.S./Israel Gaza Genocide!
Transport Workers: Block Arms and All Transport to and From Israel!
Build a Leninist-Trotskyist Communist Party!
As devastating famine spreads through Gaza as a result of Israel’s policy of deliberate mass starvation of the Palestinian population, on September 17 the army launched its long-threatened, full-scale assault on Gaza City. The unrelenting Zionist slaughter, which by now has claimed over 100,000 lives, is escalating daily. Horrified by the cataclysm they are seeing in real time, throughout the world millions of people are desperately crying out to stop the destruction of the Palestinian people. Now this outcry has combined with a dramatic mobilization of working-class power. On September 22 Italy was convulsed by a mass strike against genocide in Gaza called by militant rank-and-file unions. There were protests in 80 cities, with at least 300,000 demonstrators in Rome and up to 1 million nationwide. The Gaza slaughter is not just an Israeli crime, it is a joint Zionist/imperialist genocide. From the outset, the League for the Fourth International has called for workers action against the shipment of arms to Israel. Now this can become a reality internationally. The key is revolutionary leadership. For International Strike Action to Stop U.S./Israel Gaza Genocide! (24 September 2025)
Pax Americana Is Dead and Gone
Dying Imperialism Lashing Out
On the Road to World War III
Drive for Bonapartist “Strong State” Governments
Intensified Exploitation of Semicolonial Countries
The Only Solution: International Socialist Revolution!
Since January 20, the day Donald Trump took office for his second term as president of the United States, the whole world has been in turmoil. Capitalist governments around the world have stepped up repression, threatening fundamental rights. Alliances between imperialist countries that have lasted for 80 years, since the end of World War II, are tottering. A one-sided economic war has been launched, imposing sky-high tariffs amid unprecedented chaos in world trade. At the same time, the imperialists are up to their necks in their proxy war against Russia over Ukraine, in the genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, and in the attack on Iran in June. All these aspects of the global panorama are interlinked, and are further evidence of the fraying of the imperialist system in its advanced state of decay. They reflect the attempt, both by the prior Democratic administration of Joe Biden and by the Republican administration of Donald Trump, to prop up the crumbling imperialist hegemony of the United States. But these efforts are doomed to failure. Some “progressive” and petty-bourgeois leftist politicians want to go further, imagining a new “multipolar” world order. The fact is that imperialism will not peacefully give way to an alternative world order of harmony and cooperation. As we have stressed, this imperialist war drive is pointing to world war with the goal of dismembering Russia and provoking counterrevolution in China. And we warn that only international socialist revolution can stop World War III. Dying Imperialism Lashing Out On the Road to World War III (August 2025)
The Real “No. 1 State Sponsor of Terror” Against the Peoples of the World: U.S. Imperialism
Defend Iran Against Criminal U.S./Israel War,
Defeat Imperialist/Zionist Genocidal War-Makers
Iran Has the Right to Nuclear Weapons to Deter Israeli and U.S. Nuclear-Armed Terrorists!
In a monstrous criminal attack, in the early morning hours of June 22, U.S. warplanes bombed multiple sites in Iran on orders from President Donald Trump. At least a dozen monster “bunker buster” bombs were dropped on the Fordo nuclear site, as well as on other sites. In announcing his brazen act of war, Trump called Iran the “bully of the Middle East,” saying it was to put a “a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terror.” In reality, the world’s No. 1 terrorist power and global bully is U.S. imperialism, which has armed to the teeth the genocidal Zionist butchers of Gaza. Both under Trump and his Democratic predecessors, the imperialist U.S. rulers are careening toward a thermonuclear World War III that only international socialist revolution can stop. The League for the Fourth International and its U.S. section, the Internationalist Group, stand for defense of Iran against the criminal U.S./Israel war, and for defeat of the imperialist and Zionist war-makers. And we reiterate that Iran has a right to nuclear weapons to deter the nuclear-armed imperialist and Zionist terrorists. Defend Iran Against Criminal U.S./Israel War, Defeat Imperialist/Zionist War-Makers (22 June 2025)
Vote No on Ballot Proposals 2, 3, and 4
Zohran Mamdani and the NYC Housing Crisis
Not Democrats or Republicans – For a Revolutionary Workers Party!
On the eve of the New York City mayoral election, Democratic Party candidate Zohran Mamdani has maintained and even widened his double-digit lead over former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. President Donald Trump has threatened to take reprisals if the “communist” is elected mayor of the center of world finance capital, which has no doubt won Mamdani votes, yet the Democratic candidate is no communist, or even a socialist, but a liberal capitalist politician. If Trump floods NYC with federal agents and troops, workers and students should shut the city down. For his part, Mamdani has spent the last four months trying to make nice with Wall Street. One way is by taking a dive on ballot propositions 2, 3 and 4, being pushed by real estate interests in order to “fast-track” construction projects by eliminating any semblance of democratic control. They would cut out the City Council, which has been where requirements for union labor, increasing the number of “affordable” units, and building schools and playgrounds have been added. Mamdani’s program to build 200,000 housing units over a decade is hardly radical, and would be financed by municipal bond issues, which Wall Street bankers love. A real answer to the present housing emergency would require expropriating the banks and real estate barons through workers revolution. Zohran Mamdani and the NYC Housing Crisis (31 October 2025)
For a Workers Party to Fight for a Workers Government
NYC Mayoral Primary: No Vote for Democrats, or for Any Capitalist Parties or Politicians!
Cuomo, Mamdani and the Rest Would All Do the Dirty Work for Capital
The impending Democratic Party primary election for New York City mayor, City Council and other citywide offices has awakened a great deal of interest, pitting widely despised former New York governor Andrew Cuomo against Queens assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic (Party) Socialists of America, as well as a number of other liberals. The primary has come down to a heated two-man race, with conservatives and “moderates” lining up for Cuomo while left-liberals and many radical-minded youth are going for Mamdani. But the bottom line is that both of them – and all the rest – are candidates of the capitalist Democratic Party of racist police brutality “at home” and genocidal imperialist war abroad. As such, however “progressive” (or not) their agenda may be, once in office they will govern on behalf of Wall Street. What is vitally necessary is to fight for the political independence of the working class from the capitalist class, to break from Democrats, Republicans and all parties of capital to build a workers party to fight for a workers government. NYC Mayoral Primary: No Vote for Democrats, or for Any Capitalist Parties or Politicians! (23 June 2025)
War on Immigrants: Flashpoint Los Angeles
Labor Must Act: Drive I.C.E. Out of L.A.!
Bring Out Workers’ Power to Stop Mass Deportations, Police-State Occupation
Since Donald Trump began his second term on January 20, pressure has been mounting on immigrant communities across the country. On June 6, the pressure cooker exploded in Los Angeles. The start of militarized workplace raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) police predictably set off angry protests. In rapid-fire reaction, Trump federalized and deployed National Guard troops and activated Marines to invade Los Angeles. As Trump rules by decree in a drive toward a beefed-up “strong state” regime, he is seeking to get the population used to seeing the military repressing civilian protesters in U.S. streets. Trump’s war on immigrants is an assault on the democratic rights of all. The Internationalist Group calls on labor to mobilize its power to stop the police-state occupation and the I.C.E. raids and deportations. This requires a fight against both Republicans and Democrats, capitalist parties of mass deportations and genocidal war. Labor Must Act: Drive I.C.E. Out of L.A.! (13 June 2025)
Fight the Australian Labor Party’s
Union-Busting Attacks on the CFMEU
On June 18, Australia’s highest court rejected a union challenge to legislation the Australian Labor Party (ALP) government imposed placing the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Union (CFMEU) into administration to a government-appointed team. The legislation enabling this government takeover of the most militant union in the Australian trade union movement was rushed through Parliament in August 2024 with the support of the conservative opposition Liberal/National Party coalition, which has long targeted the CFMEU for repressive legislation. Almost immediately after the anouncement of the takeover of their union, tens of thousands of construction workers took to the streets of major Australian cities. Yet following the announcement of the High Court decision, there was no national response from the CFMEU. The stranglehold of the century-and-a-quarter-old system of rigid state control of labor in Australia – both under right-wing and ALP governments – will only be broken by sharp class struggle, led by a vanguard of the working class and the oppressed armed with a transitional program that leads the fight for today’s urgent needs forward to international socialist revolution. Fight the Australian Labor Party’s Union-Busting Attacks on the CFMEU (October 2025)
For Workers Action to Stop the Deportations!
Students and Workers Demand “ICE Out!”
At Hunter College Speak-Out
On September 4, outside the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Hunter College campus, a speak-out was held in solidarity with immigrants and to demand “ICE out of New York! Stop the Deportations!” The speak-out was initiated by the Hunter Committee to Defend Immigrants (HCDI) and cosponsored by the Hunter chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the faculty/staff union at CUNY, and by the CUNY Internationalist Clubs. The Committee has insisted that rather than looking to university authorities, courts or the Democratic Party, we need to link up to the power of labor to defend immigrants.
This standpoint was highlighted in the September 4 speak-out by the presence of leaders and activists from the Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants (LCDI). Also among the speakers were health care workers and teachers. In response to speakers, the crowd chanted enthusiastically “Not Democrats or Republicans – Build a workers party!” Students and Workers Demand “ICE Out!” at Hunter College Speak-Out (September 2025)
Publication of the Revolutionary Internationalist Youth and of students from the Internationalist Clubs at the City University of New York (click on masthead to go to Revolution archive)
Raids, kidnappings and deportations by masked agents of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement); federal troops sent to one city after another; mass firings and union-busting; the trampling of academic freedom, trans rights, public health … All this and more, on top of two years of unbearable images of mass murder and devastation in Gaza, “Made in USA” under “Genocide Joe” Biden and then Donald Trump. It seems like a new hell each day – but it didn’t come from nowhere. The accelerating drive toward authoritarian rule, backed by some of the world’s wealthiest profiteers and ideologues of “free-market” dictatorship is the result of the spiraling decay of the capitalist system of inequality, exploitation, racism and war. The basic Marxist point is that voting for or otherwise supporting Democrats (or Republicans or any other capitalist politicians) is counterposed to what is urgently needed. Against this class collaboration, what we desperately need is mass, militant class struggle in defense of the rights of us all. The political fight to unchain working-class power is crucial to building worker/student action to stop the raids and deportations. For Mass Worker/Student Action to Stop Raids and Deportations (October 2025)
ICE Terror’s Toll (October 2025)Mamdani Says: “Be My Democrat”
No Way – You Can’t Fight Trump with Democrats
For a Revolutionary Workers Party!
Zohran Mamdani’s campaign to be elected mayor of New York City on the Democratic Party ticket has saturated every corner of the city and grabbed headlines nationwide. After the 33-year-old state assemblyman of South Asian descent who is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America scored an upset victory in the June primary, now Democratic Party candidate Mamdani is poised to be elected mayor of NYC. While we denounce racist scaremongering and bigoted threats aimed against him, revolutionary Marxists call for no vote to any candidate of any capitalist party. Democratic Party “socialists” seek to prop up capitalist society and give its discredited political system a makeover. And the closer Mamdani gets to election day, the more he underscores this, courting business leaders and apologizing to the police for having called the NYPD racist, homophobic and a “threat to public safety” back in 2020. Faced with decaying capitalism’s escalating dangers and attacks against workers, youth and all the oppressed, it is more urgent than ever to unchain the power of the working class, break the stranglehold of capitalist politics and build a revolutionary workers party. No Way – You Can’t Fight Trump with Democrats (October 2025)
Capitalism and Slavery in NYC: A Review of The Kidnapping Club
Wall Street’s Slave Catchers and the Fight for Black Freedom
Today, as masked Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conduct raids across the United States, kidnapping people and taking them away in unmarked cars, one can hear the echoes of the slave catchers who in the decades before the Civil War prowled through the streets and alleyways of New York City. The close connections between New York’s ruling circles and the Southern slavocracy was central to the city’s economics and politics going back long before the Civil War. This is brought to life in The Kidnapping Club: Wall Street, Slavery, and Resistance on the Eve of the Civil War (2020) by historian David Wells. The book also shows the role of New York’s then-nascent police force, its courts, jails and Democratic Party-run political machine in blatantly serving the intertwined interests of Southern slave masters and Wall Street financiers. Bounty hunters, lawyers and informants in the employ of Southern slaveowners prowled the North looking to cash in on the kidnapping of black people. Despite Wall Street’s hope that slavery’s opponents in Northern cities would resign themselves to the slaveowners’ power, militant resistance broke out in a series of places, including the mass upheaval of May 1854 in Boston. In 1857, outrage intensified still further when the Supreme Court’s Dred Scott stated that nobody of African descent was or could be a citizen of the United States and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in any federal territory. In April 1861, the “Confederacy” of secessionist Southern states launched what Karl Marx called the “slaveholders’ rebellion,” unleashing the Civil War that smashed chattel slavery – the Second American Revolution. Wall Street’s Slave Catchers and the Fight for Black Freedom (October 2025)
When the White House Sent Marines to Seize Fugitive Slaves (October 2024)Learning from Our History
Revolutionary Marxists and the Fight for Women’s Liberation
Every year the Internationalist Club at Hunter College of the City University of New York holds a forum celebrating International Women's Day. This year’s forum took place amidst a sweeping assault on basic democratic rights across the board, from the rights of immigrants to the right of women to get an abortion, from transgender health services to scientists’ research, the right of teachers to teach and students to learn the actual history of this country. The forum emphasized how women’s oppression is interwoven with the emergence of class divided civilization, and how under capitalism the nuclear family is the central institution keeping women chained to the home, to domestic tasks and child rearing. It stressed that women’s oppression, like black oppression, is bound up in the very roots of this deeply racist, sexist society, and that it is necessary to uproot it by doing away with its material basis, as summed up in our slogan, “Women’s liberation through socialist revolution.” The speaker highlighted the history of our comrade Marjorie Stamberg, who died last year, and how her experience in the class struggle drove home the need to break with feminism and embrace revolutionary Marxism. She waged the fight for Trotskyism in election campaigns and in struggles for labor/black mobilization against KKK terror, and later as a teachers union delegate and founder of Class Struggle Education Workers. Revolutionary Marxists and the Fight for Women’s Liberation (October 2025)
Elizabeth Catlett, From D.C. to Mexico City Exile
The Inspiring Odyssey of a Black Radical Artist
This past Spring, members of the Internationalist Club at the City University of New York and of the Revolutionary Internationalist Youth visited the Brooklyn Museum exhibit of the work of black revolutionary artist Elizabeth Catlett. The beauty and expressiveness of her work, and its revolutionary message struck the comrades from the moment they entered the exhibit with its huge fist in deep brown wood. In addition to her well known works, including the portrait of a sharecropper and the print of Harriet Tubman with a rifle, the collection of her drawings, sculpture, linocut prints, and oil paintings were a stunning indictment of Jim Crow racism in the United States, and U.S. imperialist domination of Latin America in particular. She studied with artists at Howard University who had been part of the Harlem Renaissance and became interested there in socialist ideas. She went on to teach ceramics at the Communist Party’s Jefferson School, worked at the George Washington Carver School in Harlem, targeted by anti-communist witch hunters as a “Red Front school” and in 1946 moved to Mexico. There, she worked closely with the Taller de Gráfica Popular, a group of radical print makers, many of them Communists. Some of her most striking works concerned the 1968 massacre of students at the National University of Mexico (UNAM), where she taught, and protests against U.S. wars in Central America in the 1980s. Denied a visa to return to the U.S. in 1969 she proudly declared that she was, had been “and always hope to be a Black Revolutionary Artist.” Elizabeth Catlett’s defiant courage in the face of racist reaction, and her inspiring art spoke powerfully to us at this time when all of our hard-earned rights are under attack. The Inspiring Odyssey of a Black Radical Artist (October 2025)
Immigrant Worker Organizer and Revolutionary
Remembering Our Comrade Fernando López
As the youth section of the Internationalist Group (IG), the Revolutionary Internationalist Youth draws on the IG’s history of bringing the revolutionary working-class program of Trotskyism into the struggle to defend immigrant rights. As the struggle intensifies today, we learn from this history. Our late comrade Fernando López embodied many important aspects of that, working in sweatshops, becoming a garment workers union organizer, being arrested and jailed by la migra and developing into a Marxist revolutionary. We reprint here an article The Internationalist in April-May 1999 that told the story of Fernando’s life. Remembering Our Comrade Fernando López (1999)
On “Home Front” of U.S./Israel War on Gaza
Congressional Witch Hunt Comes to CUNY
On July 15, the House of Representatives’ Committee on Education and the Workforce hauled the heads of the City University of New York, the University of California at Berkeley and Georgetown University to inquisitorial hearings on Capitol Hill. The hearing, titled “Antisemitism in Higher Education: Investigating the Role of Faculty, Funding, and Ideology,” was the latest in a series aimed at regimenting and purging colleges and universities, while providing opportunities for right-wing politicians to advance their careers. The pretext for this ongoing witch hunt is the vile slander that it is “antisemitic” to protest the genocidal war on Gaza, defend the Palestinian people or oppose Zionism. The top inquisitor, the self-styled “ultra-MAGA” New York Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, went after CUNY chancellor Felix Matos Rodríguez, who was most eager to highlight the measures taken against student protest. Democrats as well, from U.S. president Joe Biden to NY governor Kathy Hochul, have played a leading role in demonizing and repressing pro-Palestinian protesters. At protests at CUNY and elsewhere, the Internationalist Clubs and Revolutionary Internationalist Youth have denounced the new McCarthyism, calling for students, teachers and staff to connect with the power of the multiracial working class, enmphasizing that breaking from the parties and politicians of capital is crucial to the fight to defend our rights. Congressional Witch Hunt Comes to CUNY (October 2025)
Columbia Caves (October 2025)
Who’s Witch-Hunting CUNY (October 2025)
For Student-Teacher-Worker Mobilization Against Police Repression!
Vicious Cop Riot Against Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Brooklyn College
By the CUNY Internationalist Clubs
On May 8, a phalanx of several dozen New York City Police officers stormed onto the campus of Brooklyn College (BC), part of the City University of New York (CUNY), to violently repress and viciously beat demonstrators protesting the escalating genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. It was a deliberately laid trap. The minute the student protesters were pushed out the gate, the militarized NYPD Strategic Response Group (SRG) let loose. Multiple extensive videos show the SRG thugs, including supervisors, repeatedly punching demonstrators, throwing them to the pavement, slamming them up against a fence. The police riot at Brooklyn College was emblematic of the broad assault on universities and pro-Palestinian protests today. This attack comes at the same time as the escalating push by the Trump administration for mass deportations. The Professional Staff Congress, the faculty/staff union at CUNY initiated a mass petition campaign demanding “No ICE/DHS at CUNY!” which the Internationalist Clubs and Hunter Committee to Defend Immigrants helped circulate widely, gathering thousands of signatures. This and the strong denunciation by the PSC of the police attack on the pro-Palestinian protesters at Brooklyn College underscore the need for student-faculty-worker action against attacks on free speech and immigrants’ rights. Vicious Cop Riot Against Pro-Palestinian Protesters at Brooklyn College (June 2025)
McCarthyite Firings and Star-Chamber InquisitionsTrump, White House Witch-Hunters Besiege Academia
As the witch-hunters in Congress gear up for a new round of inquisitorial hearings of university administrations, this time including the City University of New York (and the University of California/Berkeley), CUNY authorities fired four professors at Brooklyn College as part of the same campaign of McCarthyite repression that unleashed the brutal NYPD attack on May 8. McCarthyite Firings and Star-Chamber Inquisitions (June 2025)
The Gleichschaltung of American Universities
U.S. universities are under attack like never before. It began on March 8 with the seizure of Mahmoud Khalil, a politically moderate Palestinian graduate of Columbia University. In the following weeks, while pushing to deport international students, the federal government launched an assault on academic freedom and freedom of speech on campus intended to be much more deep-going than even the McCarthyite witch hunts of the 1950s. Washington is seeking control over hiring, enrollment, governance and course content, while demanding the expulsion of liberal “activist” faculty and students. The basic outlook of the administration can be summed up by the title of a 2021 speech delivered by now vice president J.D. Vance: “The Universities Are the Enemy.” As Vance put it in a July 2024 interview, the Trump regime seeks to “replace the existing ruling class with another ruling class.” As the U.S. lurches toward authoritarian rule, we are facing a drive to control all education, whipping educators into line to march in lockstep with the MAGA agenda, imitating the German Nazis’ Gleichschaltung (synchronization) of the schools. The Gleichschaltung of American Universities (May 2025)
NYC Higher Education Unions Rally Against Attacks on Universities, Immigrants
Hunter Internationalist: “We Are All Under Attack!”
In early March, the Trump administration began abducting pro-Palestinian international students for deportation, simultaneously threatening to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding from elite universities deemed insufficiently hard on protests against Gaza genocide. The initial response of college administrations (epitomized by Columbia University) was to capitulate. But when it was announced that 17 international students at the City University of New York had their visas revoked, the CUNY faculty/staff union Professional Staff Congress along with students from the CUNY Internationalist Clubs sharply protested. Shortly afterwards, a national day of action was called by higher education unions for April 17. A student representing the CUNY Internationalists and the Hunter College Committee to Defend Immigrants spoke at the NYC rally. Hunter Internationalist: “We Are All Under Attack!” (May 2025)
Video of Hunter Internationalist’s speech (May 2025)
Picket Lines Mean Don’t Cross, Period!
Victory to the Philly DC 33 City Workers Strike!
On July 1, 9,000 Philadelphia city workers in AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) District Council 33 went on strike – its first since 1986. The wage “offer” by Democratic Philly mayor Cherelle Parker of 8.7% over three years (or 2.9% a year!) is an insult to the workers who toiled straight through the COVID pandemic at risk to their lives, particularly the key sanitation workers who are the backbone of the strike. The Internationalist Group says: Victory to the DC 33 Strike! All city labor should join with them in this historic struggle. The strike battle lays bare the role of the Democratic Party, which is a bosses’ party even as some Democratic politicians sometimes pose as (phony) “friends of labor.” The strike also underscores the role of the police as professional strikebreakers, “the armed fist of capital.” To enable militant strikers to hold out, it is essential that the rest of Philly’s labor movement come to their aid. In particular, Transport Workers Union Local 234 should shut down SEPTA buses and trains now in support of the DC 33 strike. Beyond the militant tactics needed to win this strike, class-conscious workers must draw the political lessons of this battle and break the chains that bind them to the bosses’ Democratic Party. Victory to the Philly DC 33 City Workers Strike! (6 July 2025)
The Internationalist No. 75
Not the Democrats, But Workers Action Against Mass Deportations and Layoffs!
(January-May 2025)
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Trumpland USA: Lurching Toward Authoritarian Rule
Against Police-State Repression: Fight for Workers Revolution!
The second presidency of wannabe autocrat Donald J. Trump started with a tsunami of executive orders, 26 on Inauguration Day (January 20), now up to 141 by Day 100, an all-time record. As the barrage of decrees targeting one group or institution after another has kept up, with a new abomination every day, fear has spread among vulnerable populations across the U.S. First on Trump’s hit list are immigrants, now facing mass deportations. Next came witch hunts in academia, deporting pro-Palestinian international students and slashing budgets of institutions that failed to fall into line. Then Trump declared a trade war against just about every country on earth, setting off panic. The talk is of chaos, but the avalanche of actions shows a well-prepared plan: Trump is systematically preparing a counterrevolutionary war on China. The Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International say you can’t fight Trump with the Democrats and fight for workers action in the struggle to stop deportations. Defending China and Russia against the imperialist war drive, we warn that there is no reformist alternative to the drive by all wings of the imperialist bourgeoisie for a “strong state” based on a militarized police apparatus. The answer is to fight for international socialist revolution, and to forge a workers party on the program of Lenin and Trotsky to lead it. Trumpland USA: Lurching Toward Authoritarian Rule (29 April 2025)
Elon Musk Goes After Federal Workers, and He’s Coming for Your Social Security (29 April 2025)For Workers Action to Stop Mass Deportations
White Supremacists Push State-Enforced Pregnancy (29 April 2025)
Fascism, Bonapartism and Donald Trump
There is a lot of talk, especially from Democratic “progressives,” about Trump supposedly being a fascist, which we have said is not accurate. Trump traffics in fascistic rhetoric. He is ultra-reactionary, aiming at a regime that would rule with semi-dictatorial powers, but that is not identical with fascism. Fascism is based on a mass movement of “declassed” elements, filled with rage at having lost status, notably due to economic crisis, particularly from the petty bourgeoisie, that is mobilized in the interests of the big bourgeoisie as a battering ram to destroy the workers movement. The bourgeoisie does not need that in this country at the present time. What they are pushing for is a beefed-up “strong state,” or “Bonapartism.” Fascism, Bonapartism and Donald Trump (29 April 2025)
In neighborhoods across the U.S., immigrants are being targeted and seized by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) police and other federal agents as the government ramps up its operations to implement President Donald Trump’s campaign threat of the biggest mass deportations in U.S. history. It is a war on the working people of this country. The Internationalist Group and fraternally allied groups are organizing in the labor movement to form committees to defend immigrants in schools and workplaces. In the Pacific Northwest, Class Struggle Workers – Portland put forward a “Resolution to Defend Immigrants Against Mass Deportations and Racist Violence” which was passed by six area unions. In New York City, a Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants (LCDI) was established at a conference on January 9 attended by more than 70 members, organizers and officers from unions, worker-organizing and immigrant-rights groups, including six Teamsters locals. The Committee has established working groups including construction and building workers, education, healthcare, hospitality, transport and warehouse workers, students, and outreach. Class-conscious workers and immigrants’ rights defenders around the U.S. are encouraged to undertake similar initiatives. For Workers Action to Stop Mass Deportations (May 2025)
Mobilize Workers Power to Defend Democratic Rights!
For a Black-Centered Workers Government!
Trump Embraces Afrikaner Racist Trope
Among the more than three dozen executive orders and actions by President Donald Trump on Inauguration Day was one banning all refugee admissions to the United States for 90 days. But before that deadline was up, even as immigration police abduct immigrants across the country, on May 12, a plane landed in Washington, D.C., bringing 59 so-called refugees from Africa to the United States. This was no act of benevolence by the imperialists toward people desperately fleeing armed conflicts in, say, Sudan or Congo. Rather, it was a sinister and racist PR stunt headlined by the white-supremacist in chief. The “refugees” were Afrikaners, mostly farmers, ditching South Africa for greener, or should we say whiter, pastures in the United States. Trump Embraces Afrikaner Racist Trope (May 2025)
South Africa: Drop the Charges Against Xolani Khoza! (8 May 2025)Smash Imperialism with International Socialist Revolution!
Defend and Extend the Vietnamese Revolution!
On April 30, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese lined the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) to participate in the official celebration of the 50th anniversary of the liberation of South Vietnam and national reunification. The decades-long struggle of the Vietnamese workers and peasants put an end to colonial and capitalist rule in Vietnam, and 1975 marked the ignominious end of the U.S. imperialist war that killed more than 3 million Vietnamese. At the time, the revolutionary Trotskyists declared: “We hail this stunning defeat of U.S. imperialism, the first in a major war during this century and greet the victory of our class brothers and sisters in Indochina with internationalist proletarian solidarity.” At the same time, they cautioned that the Stalinist leaders of Vietnam still sought “peaceful coexistence” with imperialism. That remains true today, even as Donald Trump slapped 46% tariffs on Vietnamese exports to the United States. Against the threats of imperialism and counterrevolution, the League for the Fourth International calls to expropriate the dangerous capitalist sector and replace the Stalinist bureaucracy that promotes it by genuine xô viết rule of workers councils with an internationalist communist leadership. Defend and Extend the Vietnamese Revolution! (May 2025)
Not Democratic “Faux Friends” But a Revolutionary Workers Party!
Against Trump’s Blitzkrieg of Bigotry, Labor Must Defend Trans Rights
Starting on the first day of his second presidential term, Donald Trump unleashed a series of attacks on one of the most vulnerable social groups in the United States: transgender people. In his inaugural address on January 20, he proclaimed that “there are only two genders, male and female.” With a stroke of the pen, Trump & Co. seek to erase transgender people. Trump’s executive order had many immediate effects, among them assaulting transgender health services. For us as revolutionary Marxists – whose outlook is based on science and reason, not obscurantist prejudice – decisions on such intimate and consequential questions, and on medical issues in general, are a matter for the person and their doctor. We say: Hands off trans kids! While Democratic liberals started posturing as trans people’s “allies” in the recent past (only to abandon this when they decided it was electorally expedient), revolutionary Marxists’ support for gay and trans people’s democratic rights goes back well over a century. Remembering that “an injury to one is an injury to all,” labor must use its power against the deadly dangerous offensive targeting the rights and very existence of transgender people. Against Trump’s Blitzkrieg of Bigotry, Labor Must Defend Trans Rights (May 2025)
Trump, White House Witch-Hunters Besiege Academia
The Gleichschaltung of American Universities
U.S. universities are under attack like never before. It began on March 8 with the seizure of Mahmoud Khalil, a politically moderate Palestinian graduate of Columbia University. In the following weeks, while pushing to deport international students, the federal government launched an assault on academic freedom and freedom of speech on campus intended to be much more deep-going than even the McCarthyite witch hunts of the 1950s. Washington is seeking control over hiring, enrollment, governance and course content, while demanding the expulsion of liberal “activist” faculty and students. The basic outlook of the administration can be summed up by the title of a 2021 speech delivered by now vice president J.D. Vance: “The Universities Are the Enemy.” As Vance put it in a July 2024 interview, the Trump regime seeks to “replace the existing ruling class with another ruling class.” As the U.S. lurches toward authoritarian rule, we are facing a drive to control all education, whipping educators into line to march in lockstep with the MAGA agenda, imitating the German Nazis’ Gleichschaltung (synchronization) of the schools. The Gleichschaltung of American Universities (May 2025)
Heading Toward a Bonapartist Police State
Italy: For a Real General Strike to Stop the “Security” Decree and Arms Build-Up!
Build a Leninist-Trotskyist Revolutionary Workers Party!
For Workers Action to Stop Arms to Israel and Ukraine!
On April 4, the right-wing Italian government of premier Giorgia Meloni approved a decree putting into effect the repressive measures of a draconian “security” law DDL This police-state law would outlaw such things as street blockades or even picket lines. On April 10, the government pushed a motion through parliament to participate in the ReArm Europe plan to spend hundreds of billions of euros to build up European Union military forces. And on April 17, Meloni will travel to Washington to plead for lower tariffs on goods made in Italy in the trade war unleashed by U.S. president Donald Trump. Under the regime of Meloni and her fascist Fratelli d’Italia (Fd’I), Italy supplies arms to the Zionist butchers in the genocidal U.S./Israel war on Gaza, and to the fascist-infested Ukrainian puppet government in the imperialist proxy war against Russia, while waging class war against working people in Italy. The Nucleo Internazionalista d’Italia urges class-conscious workers to fight for a united, unlimited general strike to STOP the security decree and arms build-up! Italy: For a Real General Strike to Stop the “Security” Decree and Arms Build-Up! (April 2025)
Meloni, Trump and Musk (April 2025)May Day 2025
On May 1, more than a quarter million people took to the streets across the United States on the international workers day. They were driven by opposition to the assault on working people by the administration of President Donald Trump, attacking immigrants, transgender people, universities and everyone on the Republicans’ hit list. Democratic Party front groups, meanwhile, held large parades in early April with slogans such as “Hands off NATO.” The Internationalist Group organized contingents in the May
Day marches in New York City, Portland, Oakland and Los Angeles
focusing on calls for workers action to stop the mass deportations, marching with Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants contingents in NYC and Portland, alongside ILWU Local 10 (longshore workers) in Oakland, and with Transport Workers Against Deportations in Los Angeles. May Day 2025 (May 2025)
Student/Labor Protests Stop Immigration Cops’ Provocation at CUNY Campus
On February 27, a campaign of protest and exposure caused the Customs and Border Protection agency to cancel a special recruitment session it scheduled at one of the main campuses of the City University of New York (CUNY). The planned session at the John Jay College career fair was a dangerous provocation, seeking to make the largest urban public university in the U.S. a recruiting ground for the Trump administration’s “mass deportation” drive. It was stopped as the result of two protests, initiated by the CUNY Internationalist Clubs, demanding “DHS/ICE, Border Patrol: Out of CUNY Now!” in front of the campus building where the job fair was held. The first, on February 25, on the opening day of the “CareerCon” fair, drew some 150 students and faculty/staff union members. Many students came from Hunter College, under the banner of the Hunter Committee to Defend Immigrants. Linking up with the power of NYC’s labor movement was a key theme of the protests. More than a dozen members of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) faculty/staff union from different campuses participated, and several spoke, as did a Teamster warehouse worker, an NYC teacher, a restaurant worker and students from several campuses. Another important theme was that the deportation machine Trump relies on was beefed up by Democratic “Deporter-in-Chief” Obama and his successors in the Biden/Harris administration, point to the need for a revolutionary workers party. Student/Labor Protests Stop Immigration Cops’ Provocation at CUNY Campus (March 2025)
Giorgia Meloni and Her Fascist Fratelli d’Italia
When Giorgia Meloni, the leader of Fratelli d’Italia (Fd’I, Brothers of Italy), took office as prime minister in late October 2022, there was a wave of concern internationally about a first-ever Italian government headed by a party descended from the fascist movement of Benito Mussolini. In Italy not so much. While leftist anti-fascists protested against the new right-wing coalition government, the “mainstream” bourgeois parties and media have long since “normalized” the Fd’I. Even much of the left routinely refers to Meloni’s party as just another party of the bosses. Many circumlocutions are used: in the press. Fratelli d’Italia is often referred to as “populist,” “right-wing populist” or at most “radical right-wing populist.” The Fd’I defines itself (in its 2017 Trieste Theses) as a “patriots movement” and “national conservatives.” Another frequent label is “post-fascist.” For our part, the Nucleo Internazionalista d’Italia and League for the Fourth International hold that there is nothing “post” about it: while the Fd’I may adapt its electoral pitch, it is the latest iteration of the post-WWII fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI). And the aim of the right-wing coalition government that it leads is to erect a bonapartist “strong state.” Giorgia Meloni and Her Fascist Fratelli d’Italia (April 2025)
The Fraud of Italy's “Anti-Fascist” Constitution
One factor behind much of the blindness as to the fascist nature of Fratelli d’Italia is confusion about the so-called “anti-fascist Constitution” of 1947. This was not a great “democratic conquest” in “the direction of socialism,” as Communist Party leader Togliatti claimed. It was a cover for the betrayal of the workers revolution of 1943-45 by the Stalinist leaders, who ordered the disarming of the partisans. It also served to mask the general amnesty of almost all fascist officials, which Togliatti proposed and carried out. The Fraud of Italy's “Anti-Fascist” Constitution (April 2025)
Italian Fascists Spearheaded Cold War Anti-Communist TerrorismOur Answer to RCI Rally in Rome: Program Is Decisive
Giorgia Meloni never renounced the fascist Italian Social Movement (MSI), defending it as “a party of the democratic right.” But while the MSI was electorally marginalized, behind the scenes it was well-connected with top levels of the Italian military and intelligence services, as well as coup plotters and fascist terrorists. Italian Fascists Spearheaded Cold War Anti-Communist Terrorism (April 2025)
Fascists and Hobbits
In the late 1970s, the Italian fascists latched onto the fantasy novels of J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Starting in 1977, the fascist youth organized annual “Hobbit Camps.” In the U.S. and elsewhere, Tolkien’s works were associated with hippie counterculture, but in Italy they served as a fantasy version of the anti-Soviet Cold War. Also in Ukraine, the fascist-infested military adopted the allegorical figures of Tolkien's works in the imperialist proxy war against Russia. And in the U.S., Lord of the Rings is an icon of the libertarian and “technofascist” power brokers of Silicon Valley, including vice-president JD Vance and Peter Thiel. Fascists and Hobbits (April 2025)
The “Little Black Shirts” of the Fratelli Youth
The Fratelli d’Italia youth of Gioventù Nazionale has an estimated 50,000 members, while its high school group, Azione Studentesca, claims of 50 groups across Italy. They hold yearly “training camps” they call agoge, after the camps in ancient Greece that trained warriors for the armies of Sparta. These junior-league squadristi not only train for street combat, they have attacked leftist youth in high schools and universities. This is not some tiny Nazi sect but the youth organizations of the fascist leading party of the right-wing coalition government of an imperialist power. The “Little Black Shirts” of the Fratelli Youth (April 2025)
Proclaiming Yourself a Communist Doesn’t Make You One
This past June [2024], several hundred delegates from a number of different countries met in central Italy and bombastically proclaimed themselves the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI). As Marxist materialists do not believe in a virgin birth, one would have to ask, where does this new international, with groups and supporters in several dozen countries, come from? The answer is that the RCI, which today postures as super-revolutionaries, is the transmogrification of the International Marxist Tendency (IMT), heirs of the Militant Tendency that for over three-quarters of a century was buried in the arch-reformist British Labour Party. The is a product of this social-democratic milieu, specializing in "deep entrism," including in bourgeois parties. It has long sidled up to police and prison guard "unions." The RCI/IMIT has nothing to do with authentic Trotskyism, and has systematically capitulated to imperialism. Proclaiming Yourself a Communist Doesn’t Make You One (November 2024)
Chris Knox (1944-2025)
Chris Knox died on 14 April 2025. We honor him in particular for his invaluable contribution in formulating the guidelines for revolutionary working in the trade unions which have guided our intervention ever since, first in the Spartacist League and the international Spartacist tendency (from 1989 on the International Communist League), and then in the Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International. Chris Knox (1944-2025) (May 2025)
¡Acciones obreras para poner alto a las deportaciones en masa!
En barrios de todo Estados Unidos, los inmigrantes están siendo perseguidos y detenidos por la policía del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas (ICE) y otros agentes federales a medida que el gobierno intensifica sus operaciones para implementar la amenaza de campaña del presidente Donald Trump de las mayores deportaciones masivas en la historia de Estados Unidos. Es una guerra contra el pueblo trabajador de este país. El Grupo Internacionalista y grupos fraternalmente aliados se están organizando en el movimiento obrero para formar comités que defiendan a los inmigrantes en las escuelas y lugares de trabajo. En la ciudad de Nueva York, el 9 de enero se creó un Comité de Trabajadores para la Defensa de los Inmigrantes que ha iniciado grupos de trabajo entre los trabajadores de la construcción, la educación, la sanidad, la hostelería, trabajadores del transporte y los almacenes, los estudiantes y otros. Se insta a los trabajadores con conciencia de clase y a los defensores de los derechos de los inmigrantes de todo EE.UU. a emprender iniciativas similares. ¡Acciones obreras para poner alto a las deportaciones en masa! (mayo de 2025)
NYC Higher Education Unions Rally Against Attacks on Universities, Immigrants
Hunter Internationalist: “We Are All Under Attack!”
In early March, the Trump administration began abducting pro-Palestinian international students for deportation, simultaneously threatening to cut hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding from elite universities deemed insufficiently hard on protests against Gaza genocide. The initial response of college administrations (epitomized by Columbia University) was to capitulate. But when it was announced that 17 international students at the City University of New York had their visas revoked, the CUNY faculty/staff union Professional Staff Congress along with students from the CUNY Internationalist Clubs sharply protested. Shortly afterwards, a national day of action was called by higher education unions for April 17. A student representing the CUNY Internationalists and the Hunter College Committee to Defend Immigrants spoke at the NYC rally. Hunter Internationalist: “We Are All Under Attack!” (May 2025)
Video of Hunter Internationalist’s speech (May 2025)PROTEST – NEW YORK CITY – TUESDAY, FEB. 25
DHS/ICE, Border Patrol: OUT OF CUNY NOW!
Beginning this Tuesday, February 25, agencies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – which the mass deportation machine of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol are part of – will be recruiting at a job fair at the City University of New York’s John Jay College. They’re trying to recruit shock troops for the anti-immigrant, racist onslaught of raids and deportations – right here at CUNY! The CUNY Internationalist Clubs call on all defenders of immigrant rights and opponents of police-state terror to join us this Tuesday in front of John Jay College, 59th Street between 10th and 11th Avenue, Manhattan, in a rally of protest and exposure demanding DHS/ICE, BORDER PATROL: OUT OF CUNY NOW! We say: Stop the raids and deportations! ICE out of New York! DHS/ICE, Border Patrol: OUT OF CUNY NOW! (24 February 2025)
For a Revolutionary Internationalist Workers Party
German Elections 2025: For Class Struggle Against Militarization, Austerity, Mass Layoffs and Deportations!
Mobilize the Power of the Working Class to Defend Refugees and Immigrants Against Racist Persecution
The German Bundestag (parliament) elections on February 23 are taking place in an atmosphere of generalized crisis. Hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets “against the right.” Brazen U.S. intervention in the German election campaign. A NATO crisis over Russia and Ukraine. Repression of protests against Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Hysteria about “migrant crime.” But despite the polarization, all major parties are for increased militarization, more austerity cutbacks and stepped-up deportations. However the usual coalition dance ends, the next federal government will continue the reactionary policies of its predecessor, only worse. There is nothing in these war-and-austerity elections for working people and the oppressed. From worker/immigrant mobilization against racist/fascist attacks and deportations to factory occupations against the threat of layoffs, the key is to form the nucleus of a revolutionary workers party. German Elections 2025: Class Struggle Against Mlitarization, Austerity, Mass Layoffs and Deportations (19 February 2025)
No Vote for the Bosses’ Parties and Politicians!
On Ballot Props: Vote for Defending Basic Rights
The Internationalist Group has called repeatedly to “Break with the Democrats, Bosses’ Party of Racist Repression, Imperialist War and Gaza Genocide,” for “no vote to any capitalist party or politicians” and for a revolutionary workers party. Now that the elections are upon us, some who oppose both major capitalist parties, and the alternatives, nevertheless feel the urgency to vote on hotly contested ballot propositions, particularly on abortion. In many states there is a plethora of initiatives, often confusingly worded, and we have received a number of queries about where revolutionary Marxists stand on those issues. This article is in response to those questions. On Ballot Props: Vote for Defending Basic Rights (4 November 2024)
Democrats, Republicans vs. Public Education
We Need a Class-Struggle Workers Party
By Class Struggle Education Workers/UFT
During the past school year in which Democrats as well as ultra-rightist Republicans slandered pro-Palestinian, anti-Gaza genocide protests as supposedly “antisemitic” and brought in police to shut them down. Now the final spurt to the November elections is in full swing, and teachers unions are going all out to elect the Democratic Party slate. After President (“Genocide Joe”) Biden dropped out, the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association jumped Kamala Harris. Adding to the enthusiasm was her vice-presidential pick, Minnesota governor Tim Walz, a former high school football coach and teacher. As the Democrats posture as supposed friends of labor, women and educators, over the years, the historic alignment of the teachers unions with the Democratic Party has not put an end to, or diminished Republican attacks on public schools and teacher-bashing. On the contrary, Democrats have chimed in on the agenda of charterizing, corporatizing and privatizing public education. Teachers unions are in the crosshairs of racist reactionaries and Wall Street money men, Democrats and Republicans alike, because they are an obstacle to the drive to gut public education.The Democratic Party is a capitalist party, a party of the bosses. We need is a fighting workers party prepared to lead hard class struggle to defeat the bipartisan capitalist war on public education. CSEW: We Need a Class-Struggle Workers Party (16 October 2024).
The Fruits of Mayoral Control (16 October 2024)Labor: All Out to Support Boeing Machinists Strike!
On Friday, September 13, some 33,000 workers of the aircraft manufacturing giant Boeing near Seattle, Washington went out on strike for the first time since 2008. The strikers are members of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM), and although the union leadership had negotiated a tentative agreement with the company, the deal was overwhelmingly voted down (with over 94% of the members voting against it while 96% voted to strike). This is a key class battle for unions and working people not only in the Pacific Northwest but nationwide, and all of labor should pitch in to help win it. Key demands are a greatly increased pay scale (right now, starting pay for Machinists is below that of fast food workers in Seattle) and to bring back defined-benefit pensions, which the IAM tops negotiated away in 2013. A strike to restore pensions would galvanize the labor movement coast-to-coast. Given Boeing’s abysmal safety record, another key demand would be for union control of safety. Labor: All Out to Support Boeing Machinists Strike! (15 September 2024)
Argentine Economy in Freefall, Brutal Austerity On the Way
Argentina Elections: Mr. Chainsaw vs.
Washington’s Favorite Peronist
Workers Left Front (FIT) Tailing After the Peronists
On November 19, Argentine voters went to the polls in the second round of presidential elections in the midst of an economic crisis that has hit the most vulnerable sectors of the working class, while the dramatic fall in purchasing power and real wages affects all but the elites. The election was won by Javier Milei, an ultra-conservative, free-market economist and supporter of dollarization, running against Sergio Massa, the minister of economy of the incumbent Peronist government and the official candidate of “stability” (i.e., more of the same). Milei is a supporter of former U.S. president Trump (and of his Brazilian counterpart Bolsonaro) while Massa has collaborated closely with the Biden administration. For the working class, the programs of both bourgeois candidates would result in an economic crisis even more brutal than the current escalation of prices bordering on hyperinflation. There was no choice for the workers in the election. However, in the face of the hysteria of sectors of the government and the left about a supposed “Argentine fascism,” not one of the components of the Workers and Left Front (FIT) called for a “no” vote (blank ballot). This electoral cartel only serves as a left pressure group on Peronist bourgeois populism. Argentine workers should have cast a blank ballot while preparing for sharp class struggle against the coming austerity. Argentina Elections: Mr. Chainsaw vs. Washington’s Favorite Peronist (16 November 2023)
Class Struggle Education Workers Protest D.O.E. Attempt to Ban Opposition to U.S./Israel War
Down with the Gag Order Against NYC Teachers!
By Class Struggle Education Workers
Almost immediately after Israel launched its massive bombing campaign against Gaza, Israel’s imperialist backers went on the warpath to squelch opposition to the unfolding Zionist slaughter. In the United States the repressive campaign was directed at universities in particular, where support for the Palestinians is widespread, but also against K-12 schools. Any and all protests against Israel’s mass murder were labeled anti-Semitic. In New York City, as Palestinian solidarity protests mushroomed, ex-cop mayor Eric Adams and his schools chancellor David Banks issued a joint statement blasting “toxic rhetoric and division at educational institutions.” Then, on the day before a November 9 day of action, walkout and after-school rally, which was endorsed by several teacher groups, Banks fired off an email decreeing that teachers and staff “should not express their personal views about political matters during the school day” or while on school grounds, or “even outside of the workplace and via social media posts or otherwise.” Class Struggle Education Workers responded with a protest outside the Department of Education headquarters on November 16. Down with the Gag Order Against NYC Teachers! (30 November 2023)
Un folleto de Trabajadores Internacionales Clasistas
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As the coronavirus pandemic erupted in the United States, the first epicenter was in the neighborhoods of New York City with the highest number of immigrants, where Trabajadores Internacionales Clasistas (Class Struggle Immigrant Workers) has been active. Read the reports from TIC activists and teachers in Class Struggle Education Workers on the impact of this capitalist disaster, and the lessons to be drawn from it. Also reports from the strike of packinghouse workers in Yakima Valley, Washington. (In Spanish)
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Defend Combative Immigrant Workers Against Repression
Italy: Draghi Government of Repression, Impoverishment and Death
Mobilize the Entire Working Class to Defeat All-Sided Attack!
No to Dead End of Reformism – Forge a Revolutionary Workers Party!
In the ongoing emergency of this second year of the coronavirus pandemic, the Italian bourgeoisie decided to dump the weak and unstable coalition government of the Democratic Party and Cinque Stelle (Five Stars) movement, replacing it with Mario Draghi, the former head of the European Central Bank. The first shots of the Draghi government have been to increase repression against the workers movement, in particular against the S.I. Cobas “rank-and-file” union of mainly immigrant workers. Some of the most deeply exploited sectors of the working class have undertaken trade-union and solidarity actions, centered on logistics. The response of much of the ostensibly socialist left has been to form an Action Pact with political supporters of S.I. Cobas, a political coalition of heterogeneous forces based on a reformist 15-point political program. This program consists overwhelmingly of appeals for the capitalist government to take action, rather than for workers themselves to enforce their demands. What genuine communists must say to the masses in the harrowing coronavirus crisis is that the working class must establish its revolutionary class rule, seizing and collectivizing the means of production and organizing production to satisfy human need, not the profits of the few. This fight requires above all the forging of a revolutionary workers party. Italy: Draghi Government of Repression, Impoverishment and Death (26 April 2021)
For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution!
Slavery and the Constitution: Origins of U.S. Capitalist “Democracy”
Long ago and far away in the B.C. (Before Coronavirus) era, bourgeois politics in the United States fixated briefly on impeachment. The Democrats leading the lower house of Congress did not, of course, impeach Donald Trump for his crimes against the oppressed, for example his vicious persecution of immigrants in the U.S. After all, the record deportations under the Democratic administration of “deporter-in-chief” Barack Obama paved the way for Trump. Trump was “brought up on charges by the wrong class for the wrong crimes,” we noted at the time. One generation after another is brought up with the mythology of the Constitution as an embodiment of “democracy” in general, to be worshiped alongside the “Founding Fathers.” Yet the authors of the Constitution understood very well that they represented not “the people” in general but the ruling class of planters and merchants, and wrote it to safeguard their interests, in particular to bolster and uphold the power of the slaveowners in the newly established American republic. The U.S. Constitution established a series of institutions that are strikingly anti-democratic. They remained so even after slavery’s abolition through the Civil War. Revolutionaries explain the need for a revolutionary workers party to lead a socialist revolution to overthrow the entire capitalist system. Slavery and the Constitution: Origins of U.S. Capitalist “Democracy” (August 2020)
PSL Targeted for Marches Against Cop Murder of Elijah McClain
Defend Denver Anti-Racist Protest Leaders!
On Thursday, September 17, police raids were carried out in Denver, Colorado against the organizers of protests denouncing the racist murder of Elijah McClain, a young black man, by police in suburban Aurora in August 2019. Six of the protest leaders were arrested, including four members of the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), which has played a leading role in the protests. They have outrageously been charged with multiple serious felonies, including the absurd charge of “kidnapping.” Following Trump’s failed attempt at imposing martial law in Washington, D.C. and the subsedquent the dispatch of federal agents to Portland, Oregon, and Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Denver arrests mark a new escalation of police-state measures that are a threat to the civil liberties of all. The Internationalist Group and Revolutionary Internationalist Youth denounce this ominous attack on the right to protest. We demand that the arrested activists be immediately released and that all charges against them be dropped. Defend Denver Anti-Racist Protest Leaders! (18 September 2020)
Elijah McClain (1996-2019) (August 2020)“We’re All in This Together.” You Think?
Top Ten Lies in the Time of Coronavirus and Mass Protests
By Charles Brover
U.S. capitalism is in the midst of a triple whammy crisis – economic, social, and public health. Inspiring massive protests against racism and cop terror not seen in their size and scope since the 1960s have set this nation’s cities aflame day after day, and have spread internationally. The historic protests are occurring against the backdrop of unconscionable government delay, deception, ignorant happy talk, and anti-scientific incompetence. Official public health malpractice has driven the confirmed death toll from COVID-19 to over 160,000. This plague is disproportionately ravaging black, Latino, and immigrant working class communities. For Marxist revolutionaries the racist system that is at the root of the oppression of black people in the U.S. (and elsewhere) is class-based capitalism. While the cities are in paroxysms of rage, grief and plague; while millions are fighting to save their livelihoods and their lives, the capitalist rulers, their politicians, and tamed pundits promote lies, damn lies, and even more murderous lies. Here are our top ten picks. Top Ten Lies in the Time of Coronavirus and Mass Protests (8 August 2020)
Millions of Undocumented Immigrants and Their Families Facing the Abyss
New York: We Demand Equal Treatment and Emergency Support for Excluded Workers!
Declaration of Class Struggle International Workers (TIC)
In the sixth month of the health crisis unleashed by the COVID-19 pademic, infections are spiking in much of the country while mass unemployment continues to grow and marches against racist police brutality continue. New storms of crisis are coming for the working class, and for immigrants in particular, beginning with a threatened wave of evictions. Nationally, undocumented immigrants are denied “stimulus” aid, unemployment benefits or any official support. In New York some 200,000 undocumented workers have lost their jobs or cannot find work, while over a million workers considered “essential,” a majority of them immigrants, receive poverty wages while running great risk of contracting the virus. Class Struggle International Workers demands that the state of New York include all workers, particularly the undocumented and those in the “gig economy,” among those eligible for unemployment benefits; that state and city governments make up for the exclusion of immigrants from federal support; and that rent be canceled and all residential evictions be prohibited during the pandemic. New York: We Demand Equal Treatment and Emergency Support for Excluded Workers! (11 August 2020)
Urgent: Protest Arrest of Leftists in Bolivia
The rightist de facto government of Bolivia that seized power in last month’s “civic-police-military” coup has carried out a new act of repression, arresting Carlos Cornejo, correspondent of leftist Internet publication La Izquierda Diario, and the artist Leonel Jurado, charging them with “sedition.” They were seized yesterday afternoon in the city of El Alto, where they were helping prepare an event in solidarity with families of the at least ten people killed in the police massacre against a protest at the Senkata gas plant there on November 19. The Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International demand the immediate liberation and dropping of all charges against Carlos Cornejo, Leonel Jurado and all victims of rightist repression in Bolivia! Urgent: Protest Arrest of Leftists in Bolivia (17 December 2019)
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Socialist Action’s “Solidarity with Solidarity”
How Fake Trotskyists Carried the Bags for Imperialism
While the reformist left in the United States is in profound crisis, tripping over each other as they chase after the Democratic (Party) Socialists of America, Socialist Action has remained relatively stationary and appears more red in comparison with those social democrats who are now being devoured by their own opportunism. In reality, SA’s program is pink social democracy. At every key juncture where defense of the degenerated/deformed workers states has been posed point-blank, Socialist Action has lined up with imperialism, from Poland in 1981 to the USSR in 1991 and continuing today. Poland was a key episode in the imperialist drive against the Soviet bloc, which led to capitalist restoration whose devastating consequences continue to be felt around the world. Today SA denounces China as imperialist and North Korea as capitalist while genuine Trotskyists defend them against imperialist threats and attack. And it’s not just words. When the chips were down, these fake-Trotskyists hailed their comrades’ direct and concrete role in delivering vital CIA-financed equipment to counterrevolutionary Polish Solidarność. Read the details here. How Fake Trotskyists Carried the Bags for Imperialism (April 2019)
“American Apartheid” by Design
A Review of Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
By Charles Brover, Class Struggle Education Workers
After more than a decade of hard struggle and the passage of laws in the mid-1960s against official Jim Crow segregation, the civil rights movement suddenly stopped. What was termed de facto segregation was deemed off-limits, or at least had to be left for another day. Rothstein’s book conclusively proves that rigid residential segregation and discrimination against African American, Latino and Asian minorities was always de jure, officially sanctioned. This has had a devastating effect on everything from school integration to murderous police repression. But while laying out key elements of the structural foundation of black oppression in the U.S., The Color of Law fails to go to their root in the system of racist American capitalism. In the United States in 2016 there were 2.3 million evictions: 6,300 a day, four every minute. And with over 3.5 million homeless people in the country, there are 19 million unoccupied dwellings. This powerful essay from Class Struggle Education Workers demonstrates that it will take nothing short of a socialist revolution to solve the housing question. “American Apartheid” by Design (21 November 2018)
While “Democratic Socialist” Ocasio-Cortez Chimes In
Bipartisan War Criminals Celebrate War Hawk John McCain
U.S. imperialism lost one of its most vocal and active warmongers on August 25 – Arizona Republican senator John McCain. Universally praised by ruling-class politicians as a “war hero” and “maverick,” McCain’s funeral at the National Cathedral was attended by some of the most infamous mass murderers of this and the last century, from Henry Kissinger to former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Far from being a “war hero,” a “man of honor” or paragon of “human decency,” Senator John McCain was a war criminal who bombed civilians. He was shot down over North Vietnam on a bombing run against a civilian factory. But McCain’s most valuable service to U.S. imperialism was as an inveterate war hawk in Congress. From Afghanistan to Iraq to Ukraine, Libya and Syria, he beat the drums for murderous imperialist intervention. What’s striking about McCain’s war crimes and endless warmongering is that in virtually all cases, he was joined or supported by Democratic politicians. And, notably, among those praising McCain was Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) superstar Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her eulogy was consciously paying the price of admission to the bipartisan imperialist club of the U.S. Congress. Bipartisan War Criminals Celebrate War Hawk John McCain (September 2018)
As The Boss, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Blames Black Community for Violence
Chicago: Democrat-Led Cops Continue Racist Killing Spree
For Black Liberation Through Socialist Revolution
On July 14, Chicago police gunned down yet another black person, Harith Augustus, a barber. “Snoop” Augustus, known as a peaceful man, was stopped on the pretext of exhibiting the “characteristics of an armed person,” and was shot dead even though he had a valid gun license. For the police in this rigidly segregated city, and throughout this country founded on the bedrock of slavery, it is always open season on black people. And on Latinos, immigrants, Native Americans … the list goes on. Moreover, in Chicago and almost every other big city, Democrats are the bosses of the racist killer cops. This is all coming to a head in the upcoming trial of killer cop Jason Van Dyke for the murder of Laquan McDonald in October 2014. And Democratic mayor Rahm Emanuel, running for a third term, is stoking racist reaction by blaming lax “morals” in the black community for the violence engendered by rampant poverty, unemployment and brutal police occupation. Yet some of the same themes are echoed in protests, where instead of denouncing racist police repression the focus is on opposition to “gun violence” in general. Talk of “reforming” the police or controlling guns only serves to divert protest away from a revolutionary perspective and to strengthen the repressive agencies of the capitalist state, while leading protesters into the dead-end of bourgeois pressure politics. The stark fact is that there is no solution to war, poverty and racist repression under capitalism. Chicago: Democrat-Led Cops Continue Racist Killing Spree (August 2018)
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“Democratic Socialism” in the Service of U.S. Imperialism (February 2018)
DSA Debacle Over Cop “Union” Organizer (September 2017)
DSA Dodges Debate: “Socialism: What It Is (and Isn’t)” (January 2018)
Bernie Sanders and the Pressure Politics of the Opportunist Left (June 2015)
No, Bernie Sanders Is Not a Socialist (March 2016)
Yesterday’s “Obama Socialists,” Today’s Bernie Boosters (December 2015)
James P. Cannon on “Third Parties”
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Bourgeois Populism and Social-Democratic Reformism: A Dead End
Italy: Anti-Immigrant Election Hysteria
The campaign for the March 4 Italian elections has been dominated by vile xenophobic anti-immigrant chauvinism. All the competing bourgeois parties and coalitions attack the bogeyman of “illegal immigration.” The racist Lega (ex-Nord) rails about the “invasion of aliens, drug pushers, delinquents and illegals,” raising slogans such as “Italians first! Now or never! Stop the invasion!” With the populist Cinque Stelle (Five Star) movement running first in the opinion polls, its historic leader, Beppe Grillo, recently called for immediately deporting all “illegals.” The strategy of the Democratic Party government has been to put itself at the head of the anti-immigrant hysteria by aggressively extending the sway of Italian imperialism in the Mediterranean, Libya and to the south. This imperialist drive to the south is accompanied by a campaign of all-sided racist repression against immigrants and refugee seekers in Italy. What the domesticated left is counterposing to the three main bourgeois coalitions of Forza Italia/Lega, Cinque Stelle and the PD with its various appendages of homeless bourgeois politicians, is a mixture of bourgeois populism and social-democratic reformism. in the present climate of anti-immigrant hysteria and fascist attacks, what is needed are mass mobilizations bringing out the power of the working class to stop the fascists. Above all, we must forge a genuinely Leninist-Trotskyist vanguard. Italy: Anti-Immigrant Election Hysteria (24 February 2018)
(italiano) Elezioni del 4 Marzo: Isteria anti-immigrati (24 febbraio 2018)Boston: Let Siham Byah Come Home! No Deportations!
By Class Struggle Education League
On January 27, hundreds of defenders of immigrant rights from many leftist organizations, labor unions, churches and sanctuary networks rallied in Boston to protest the deportation of Siham Byah. A prominent Occupy Boston activist and single mother, Byah was grabbed by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) police last November 7, torn from her son, beaten in a local jail, driven to Virginia and then deported to Morocco. The Class Struggle Education League, based in Lowell, Mass. and New Hampshire participated in the protest, emphasizing the importance of mobilizing the power of workers action to stop the I.C.E. deportation machine. It also noted the parallel to the struggle against slave-catchers under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, a battle which came to a head in Boston and set the stage for the U.S. Civil War. The CSEL is undertaking joint work with the Internationalist Group. Boston: Let Siham Byah Come Home! No Deportations! (4 February 2018)
Guess Who’s Bernie Sanders’ Foreign Policy Go-To Guy, and What Power Bishop Is His Vatican Fixer
But, of course, one and the same Jeffrey Sachs who designed the post-counterrevolution “shock treatment” in Poland. Also in Bolivia where it led to tens of thousands of workers fired and brutal anti-union repression. In preparation for the no-photo-op pope-meet-and-greet, Bernie and Jeffrey dined with Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga of Honduras, “the pope’s right-hand man and one of the Vatican’s top power players.” This is the same cardinal who helped engineer (together with Hillary Clinton) the 2009 Honduran coup, and before that covered up for bloody massacres and “disappearances” in the 1980s. But then, Pope Francis himself is a veteran of Argentina’s 1970s dirty war. Guess Who's Bernie Sanders’ Foreign Policy Go-To Guy, and His Power Bishop Vatican Fixer (17 April 2016)
A Question of Whose Class Interests Prevail
Flint Water Crisis: Capitalism Is Poisoning Us
The residents of Flint, Michigan have been living a nightmare ever since in early 2014 the city’s state-appointed “emergency manager” and the governor’s office decided to switch the water supply from Lake Huron to the Flint River. As a result, the population has been subjected to lead poisoning, particularly affecting the very young and elderly. The levels of contamination are astronomical. For almost two years Republican state authorities and Democratic federal officials refused to do anything about complaints. Now an emergency has been proclaimed, but the water is still undrinkable. Meanwhile, the same “emergency manager” has been overseeing Detroit schools as they descend further into the abyss. The emergency has been created by decaying capitalism: industrial pollution, closing factories and a bipartisan attack on teachers and public education. The dictatorial managers must be kicked out, but changing parties will change nothing. The bottom-line issue is which class is in power. Capitalism is literally poisoning our futures. Flint Water Crisis: Capitalism Is Poisoning Us (3 March 2016)
The State of Pennsylvania Seeks to Bar His Lawyer
The Frame-Up of Corey Walker
By Charles Brover
Corey Walker was arrested in July 1996 on a bogus murder charge from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He has been behind bars ever since. Evidence of his innocence was withheld. He is the victim of prosecutorial misconduct and incompetent legal representation. Lorenzo Johnson, who was arrested in the same case, also remains in prison even though a federal appeals court recognized the insufficiency of the evidence against him, but was overruled by the U.S. Supreme Court. Now the state is trying to deny Walker the attorney of his choice, Rachel Wolkenstein, who has defended Mumia Abu-Jamal. Pennsylvania authorities will stop at nothing to cover up lying and manufacture of evidence, coercion of witnesses and suppression of evidence of innocence by police and prosecutors. This requires silencing Corey Walker and short-circuiting his legal appeal. In seeking to disqualify Wolkenstein from representing him, the state attorney general's office cites her political views that the judicial system is an organ of racist oppression that must be overthrown by socialist revolution. This witch-hunting attack and the continued incarceration of Walker and Johnson go to the heart of Jim Crow “justice system.” Free Corey Walker and Lorenzo Johnson! The Frame-Up of Corey Walker (4 February 2016)
Jim Crow Justice and the Capitalist State (4 February 2016)Occupation of Hundreds of Schools Blocks Threatened Closures
Whose Life Is On the Line? Cop Stats (4 February 2016)
Bad Apples, Broken Windows, and Other Myths About the Police (4 February 2016)
Student Revolt Shakes São Paulo, Brazil
By Class Struggle Workers/UFT
For the last three weeks, the city of São Paulo, Brazil has been convulsed by a combative upheaval of high school students protesting the state government’s plan to close 92 schools and order hundreds of thousands of students to change schools. When the state governor tried to ram through this plan without consultation, students responded by occupying almost 200 schools. Then, when military police began clearing out occupied schools this week, students took chairs and tables and set up class in busy intersections and highways. The students, backed by teachers, also refused to take high-stakes test. After several days, the governor backed down. This is a dramatic example of how the international capitalist offensive against public education should be fought – by mass action in the streets, bringing out students, teachers, parents and mobilizing the power of the working class. Student Revolt Shakes São Paulo, Brazil (4 December 2015)
The Haitian Revolution and U.S. Imperialism
July 28 marks the 100th anniversary of the first U.S. invasion of Haiti in 1915, under Democratic president Woodrow Wilson. This led to an occupation of 19 years, as well as occupations of the Dominican Republic next door, of Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras and Veracruz, Mexico, and followed the 1898 U.S. invasion and occupation of Cuba, Puerto Rico and Philippines. But the occupations didn't stop there. In 1994, Democrat Bill Clinton invaded Haiti a second time, and in 2004 Republican George Bush II invaded a third time. Haiti today continues under imperialist occupation, this time outsourced to a United Nations “peacekeeping” force. As proletarian internationalist opponents of imperialism, on this centenary we republish articles from Workers Vanguard when it was the voice of revolutionary Trotskyism on the 1915-34 U.S. occupation, and a two-part series on Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution that led to the first black republic in history, as well as sparking slave revolts throughout the Caribbean and in the United States. (30 July 2015)
Yankee Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934Protest the Police Lynching of Sandra Bland
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, Part 1
Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, Part 2
On July 10, Sandra Bland, a 28-year-old African American activist and education worker, was driving from Illinois to her new job at the historically black Prairie View A&M University in Texas, her alma mater. Sandra was pulled over by a Texas Ranger, supposedly for changing lanes without signalling. The trooper abusively demanded she get out of the car, theatening to use a Taser electric shock on her. After having her head slammed on the ground, Sandra was arrested for supposed “assault on a public servant,” for insisting on her rights. Three days later, she was found dead in her cell in Waller County, Texas. The authorities claim she committed suicide. We say the police are guilty. Sandra was lynched by the cops. On July 22, hundreds gathered in New York City's Union Square to protest the police murder of Sandra Bland. Class Struggle Education Workers, CUNY Internationalist Clubs and the Internationalist Group joined in. Protest the Police Lynching of Sandra Bland (22 July 2015) (video)
NYC May Day 2015
The Internationalist Group, CUNY Internationalist Clubs and Class Struggle Education workers had a spirited contingent in the May Day march in New York City. Leading the contingent was a group with red flags with the hammer, sickle and 4 of the Fourth International. Then came a banner made by the Hunter Internationalist Club, proclaiming:“Ayotzinapa-Ferguson-NYC, Smash the Racist Capitalist State, Workers to Power. Signs emphasized the call to Defend Black Baltimore following the occupation of the city by the National Guard to squelch the upheaval over the police murder of Freddie Gray, and to free Mumia Abu-Jamal, who faces execution in prison by deliberate medical neglect. Also highlighted was the call for workers action against police terror, noting the historic action by ILWU Local 10 that shut down the port of Oakland on May Day and marched on City Hall calling to stop police terror.NYC May Day 2015 video (9 May 2015)Sunset Park Fights Back Against Police Attack
NYC May Day 2015 photos (6 May 2015)
NYC May Day 2011 video
NYC May Day 2010 video
It’s been only two months since Eric Garner was chokeholded to death in Staten Island by the racist cops, and barely a month and a half since the police murder of 17-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. But despite the national outcry and a thousands-strong march in New York in late August, two incidents in the Sunset Park neighborhood of Brooklyn show once again the face of racist police violence under liberal Democratic NYC mayor Bill de Blasio. The first involved a heavy‑duty arrest of a vendor after a festival in the park; in the second, a cop slammed a pregnant woman on the pavement on her abdomen and her son and husband were arrested. The residents of this heavily immigrant neighborhood feel singled out for aggressive enforcement under NYPD chief William Bratton’s “broken windows” strategy of massive arrests for minor infractions. On Saturday, September 27, some 300 people came out to protest against the brutal police siege. While many called for Bratton’s resignation, racist cop terror is endemic in capitalist America. To put a stop to it will require nothing less than workers revolution. Sunset Park Fights Back Against Police Attack (28 September 2014)
Defend North Korea and China Against Imperialism and Counterrevolution
U.S. War Provocations Push Korea to the Brink
For the Revolutionary Reunification of Korea, North and South!
Over the last month and a half, the United States and South Korea have engaged in an escalating series of military provocations against North Korea. Simultaneous “war games” have simulated a nuclear aerial bombing of the North, a ground invasion from the South, annihilation of the leadership and the “insertion” of tens of thousands of U.S. troops searching for nukes. While the imperialist media are, as usual, strenuously demonizing the North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and playing up blustering statements coming out of the North Korean capital of Pyongyang, the Pentagon has been laying the basis for a military strike against the North. The whole operation is part of detailed plan elaborated by the Obama administration, dubbed “the playbook,” for U.S. shows of force. But this is no football game. The Internationalist Group and League for the Fourth International defend North Korea, a bureaucratically deformed workers state, against the war provocations, economic blockade and any attack by U.S. imperialism and its South Korean junior partners, no matter how it starts. We also defend North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons, its main deterrent against a war by the power which laid waste to the North in the Korean War. U.S. War Provocations Push Korea to the Brink (13 April 2013)
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