Washington, D.C: Trump Deploys National Guard, Seizes Control of Local Police
On Monday, August 11th, 2025, US President Donald Trump declared a “public safety emergency” due to “crime, bloodshed, bedlam and squalor and worse” in the US capital, Washington D.C. This declaration is a pretext to further federal control over, and increase the militarization of, the capital. Under its auspices, US imperialism is mobilizing hundreds of of national guard to patrol the city’s streets, and putting the entire metropolitan police department under federal control. While the original emergency declaration allows control of the police department for only 30 days, Trump has stated that he hopes to extend federal control “long-term” and hopes to expand this type of order to major cities around the country. This is just the latest example of the rapid march towards fascism, and the eroding of capitalist democratic rights, which is occurring around the country.
Indiana: ICE Expands Detention with Indiana “Speedway Slammer”
The ruling class continues its war on migrant workers with ICE’s new 1,000-bed “Speedway Slammer” detention center in Indiana. Behind the Trump regime’s propaganda about jailing “the worst of the worst” lies the reality: this expansion will cage working-class immigrants whose only “crime” is crossing borders drawn by capital. It is part of a $170 billion build-up of ICE as a political police force, meant to terrorize migrant communities into silence and keep all workers, documented or not, in fear and underpaid.
Richmond, VA: ICE Raid on Richmond Apartment Complex Sparks Outrage
At dawn on July 30, ICE agents stormed a Richmond apartment complex, smashing a car window and kidnapping a 21-year-old on his way to work. These raids are military-style assaults on entire working-class neighborhoods, carried out to remind immigrants that they live under occupation by the capitalist class.
National: White House Pushes Quotas While DOJ Denies Them
In May, Trump’s top immigration enforcer Stephen Miller publicly demanded ICE make 3,000 arrests a day, while Justice Department lawyers denied in court that any quotas exist. This two-faced strategy shows the state’s contempt for both truth and the people. They are creating an industrialized deportation machine, built not to “uphold the law,” but to break the back of the most vulnerable sectors of the working class.
Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Hospital Accused of Firing Doctors for Unionizing
Two pediatricians organizing for better staffing and patient care were fired in July at Cleveland’s University Hospitals, accused of “misusing a texting app.” In reality, this is textbook retaliation, corporate health care cannot tolerate workers, even highly trained ones, acting collectively to challenge unsafe conditions. This fight is not about “one workplace dispute,” but about whether profit-driven medicine will keep punishing those who put patients before management’s bottom line.
California: UC Can’t Ban Hiring Undocumented Students
On August 6 California court ruled the University of California’s ban on hiring undocumented students illegal under state law. While this is a reform won by popular pressure, the working-class knows all too well that it cannot rely on the courts to guarantee even these small victories long-term, especially in a context of rising fascism. Fighting and breaking these racist hiring bans and other oppressive measures must be a key demand of revolutionary students everywhere.
Palestine: Palestinian Resistance Reaffirm Continuation of Armed Struggle Until Independent Palestine
Palestinian resistance factions led by Hamas released a joint statement on July 31 to reaffirm the right of the Palestinian people to attain national liberation. The Resistance saluted the steadfastness of the masses in the face of genocide, especially during the ongoing starvation campaign by Israel, and pledged to “restore our national unity and establish a true partnership worthy of the sacrifices and legendary steadfastness of our people.”
India: Week of Action in People’s War
On August 4, the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army carried out several armed actions, injuring 3 security personnel in an IED blast in Chhattisgarh and blowing up a railway track on the Jharkhand-Odisha border. Additionally, they interrupted train communications in Sundargarh via an IED plant. The Indian people, under the leadership of their Communist Party, continue in their struggle even after the martyrdom of Cde Gen. Secretary Basavaraj in late May.
Angola: 22 Angolans killed during mass protests against rising fuel prices
On August 4, a three-day strike against fuel prices led by taxi drivers in the capital of Luanda grew into mass demonstrations all across the country. In response, the revisionist Angolan State attacked the masses, with 22 demonstrators killed, hundreds injured and over 1,200 detained. This comes after the July 1st decision by the old State, encouraged by the imperialist IMF, to raise fuel prices by 33%. Angola generates billions of dollars from its oil reserves each year, yet none is in the control of its people. Despite a long struggle against Portuguese colonialism, Angola today remains a neo-colony of US and Chinese imperialism, as the ruling Angolan revisionists sell out the country to the highest bidder.
The Gambia: Youth-led anti-corruption movement surges in The Gambia
Gambians Against Looted Assets (GALA) initiated countrywide anti-corruption protests on July 23. Youth took to the streets demanding accountability for the purposeful mismanagement of former dictator Yahya Jammeh’s assets after his 2016 ousting. Jammeh’s massive assets, seized after his 22-year military dictatorship, were sold for cheap to members of the ruling class.
Brazil: 30th Anniversary of the Heroic Armed Resistance of Santa Elina
On August 3, the League of Poor Peasants (LCP) released a statement in honor of 30 years since the peasant armed resistance in Santa Elina, affirming “land to the tillers”. In 1995, 600 peasant families rose up to fight for the land they work and live on and were met by brutal massacres from the old State. Today, families of the victims continue to struggle for justice, as the LCP mobilizes landless peasants across Brazil to conquer the land.
