Federal: DHS Targets Protest Tactics as “Violent Extremism”
On January 11, President Trump indicated on the Truth Social platform that he was authorizing ICE to “protect itself,” with particular direction to arrest protestors against ICE terror. Additionally, DHS has issued guidance labeling common protest tactics, like linking arms, livestreaming, chanting, or wearing hoodies, as signs of “violent extremism.” Even backpacks and water bottles are now suspect.
Reports obtained by the NGO Property of the People indicate that DHS is well aware of the disdain the masses have for them, and expect resistance to their mass abductions to continue and grow. They blame media coverage as well as the federal deployment of military troops to the streets of Los Angeles as the cause for this, rather than the masses just and powerful class hatred for them and their State. However, at the same time they instruct ICE officers to treat masks, flashlights, cameras, and other common protest items as “precursors to violence.” Clearly on some level they understand that they are enemies of the people who serve the capitalists, and aim to escalate their repression as the masses escalate their resistance.
This is about preemptively criminalizing organized, defiant workers, youth, and the nationally oppressed masses. From the George Floyd Uprising to the student encampments, the state fears the growing wave of spontaneous resistance to its class dictatorship. Every advance in immigrant repression demands an advance in revolutionary people’s defense.
California: ICE-Backed Cannabis Raid Leaves One Worker Dead, Hundreds Arrested
On July 11, a massive armed raid on cannabis farms in California left one worker dead and hundreds detained. The raid was a joint operation between local sheriffs, federal immigration authorities, and anti-narcotics units. Its targets were not the wealthy white landowners or capitalists running illegal grows for profit, but largely undocumented, exploited workers living in labor camps and working in brutal, unsafe conditions.
This operation is a textbook example of how the imperialist system disciplines labor through violence. The raid combined the war on drugs with the war on immigrants, leaving corpses, cages, and terrified families behind. But what corporate media won’t report is the resistance: in multiple areas, workers fought back and fled, defending each other with improvised weapons and delaying law enforcement long enough for dozens to escape.
The people must defend themselves. Mass raids like this demand militant people’s defense, neighborhood and block committees, workers’ self-organization, and a powerful united front of anti-imperialist and class-conscious organizations fighting together for the toiling and oppressed masses.
Federal: Epstein Case Sealed to Protect the Ruling Class
In a quiet July 9 announcement, the Department of Justice officially closed the Epstein investigation, declaring his death a suicide and denying the existence of any “client list.” This came just days after Attorney General Pam Bondi, a Trump ally, publicly promised the list would be released. Within 48 hours, Trump disavowed the statement, the FBI scrubbed its own files, and the media narrative shifted to closure.
This is a protection racket. Epstein was a node in a global elite network of sexual violence, surveillance, and blackmail, used to build loyalty, destroy enemies, and secure profits. Trump’s close relationship with Epstein, well-documented through photos, interviews, and overlapping social circles, is being buried alongside this case. The liberal press collaborates in the cover-up, treating “closure” as institutional legitimacy.
This is what depravity at the top looks like: sex rings operated with impunity, protected by presidents, CEOs, judges, and intelligence agencies. It’s not about one man, it’s about a system that feeds on the exploited, dispossessed, and vulnerable, children among them. Revolutionaries must reject the fake “scandal” coverage and expose the total complicity of the ruling class in the daily exploitation, abuse, and destruction of life. The call must be for for the annihilation of the structures that made Epstein possible.
Pennsylvania: Philly Strike Ends in Sellout Deal
After eight days of mass walkouts, trash piling in the streets, and a partial shutdown of city services, AFSCME DC 33 reached a tentative agreement with the City of Philadelphia on July 9. The union bureaucracy is spinning it as a win: a 9% raise over three years, a $1,500 bonus, and a new fifth salary step. But behind the headlines lies a familiar betrayal.
This deal was not won, it was handed down. The union’s original demand—20% over four years, was dropped. Health care contributions remain untouched. Pensions and residency reforms were abandoned. Workers who kept the city running through the pandemic, inflation, and endless crises and austerity were offered scraps. Worse, key sectors like 911 dispatchers were ordered back to work under court injunctions, showing the real power of the State lies in its repressive apparatus, not “negotiation.”
This is the logic of state unionism: ride on the legitamte demands and anger of the workers only to sell them out in some backdoor deal to keep their bosses, the capitalists and their government, happ y. The real lesson isn’t just the weakness of this deal, it’s the need for worker-controlled labor formations that are run by and serve the workers rather than capital. Philly’s trash piled high, but the stench came from the city hall, from the back-door meetings where the real negotiating occurred. Now the task is clear: expose the sellouts, unite militant city workers, and organize strikes that aren’t sold out when they start becoming inconvenient for the state union’s political handlers.
Brazil: Schools in Minas Gerias Militarized
In the previous week, the school systems in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais received a list of 700 schools that could become designated as “civic-military,” meaning teachers and children could be monitored and policed by local and state police of the old Brazilian State. Along with the list, the notification also stated the “community” must “vote” on such a decision between the 5th and 17th of July, under the banner of “make schools safer” but nothing could be further from the truth. In Brazil the old State works to repress and surveil the working-class, poor and oppressed masses in new and more expansive ways in order to crush resistance against them, including among the popular youth. The schools are a site of struggle, as the old semi-colonial Brazilian ruling class works to indoctrinate the youth in reactionary ideology and monitor all facets of working-class life.
As Brazil walks down the path of New Democratic revolution toward a new popular Brazil, mass organizations like MEPR and the Liga Operaria mobilize, politicize and organize the Brazilian masses around their popular and democratic demands, such as the struggle against the militarization of schools. This attempted militarization is, as the MEPR points out, part of the broader effort by the Old State and the Brazilian capitalists to march towards fascism, with the support of U.S. Imperialism.
India: Two Government Soldiers Injured y PLGA in Bijapur
The Communist Party of India (Maoist) is marching forward after the tragic assassination of General Secretary Basavaraj at the hands of the old Indian State in late May, with their army, the People’s Liberation Guerrilla Army, continuing to fight. This is clear, as seen when two officers of the State’s Central Reserve Police Force were injured last Tuesday by an improvised explosive device built and planted by PLGA fighters in the Bijapur district of Chhattisgarh state. It is clear that despite the celebrations of “victory” by the old Indian State against the Maoists, the armed struggle continues on. The masses will always continue to rebel, and there will always be those taking up the path of armed struggle to fight to build a new society.
Philippines: Oppression of Vegetable Farmers in Bukidnon and Lanao del Sur in the Philippines
In the border towns of Bukidnon and Lanao del Sur in the Mindinao municipality, the poor peasants till, on average, one hectare or less of land, planting plentiful vegetables including squash, potato, carrot, bell pepper, sweet potato, and corn while enduring landlessness and low prices for the products of their exploited labor. As seen within the semi-colonial and semi-feudal conditions of the Philippines, the poor peasantry are forced to sign and accept loan agreements with the landlords and local financiers of the landlords, imposing ridiculous interest rates in the form of cuts in total harvesting. This “maintainer” system subjugating the deepest sectors of the peasantry to money lending from landowners seeking to cultivate land. They are burdened with shouldering production costs and strenuous labor in land cultivation, facing being cheated out by prices determined by the landowners, pushing the poor peasants deeper into financial debt. They sell their produce to be stored in warehouses, to their disadvantage.
In short, farmers are charged 100 kilos per sack, and have to pay ₱250-₱300 per sack as warehouse rent, as means for landowners and their financiers to steal more money from their peasants. Whereas the landowners earn ₱115,000 before deducting wages, they also collaborate with cartels and other underground networks serving the old Philippine State, affecting supply prices exacerbated by said government themselves. The poor peasants and farmers are struggling for demands including fair pricing, higher wages, lower warehouse rent and fairer interest rates on loans and loan agreements. In a nutshell, the recent actions of concrete semi-feudal oppression of the poor Filipino (and indigenous) peasantry further exposes the landlords as the exploiters they are, as they and their families continue getting off on exploiting their labor and disenfranchising them on the land they are working to cultivate and produce.
Palestine: Zionist Attacks Continue to Escalate in Occupied West Bank
Israel continues to demolish homes in the West Bank’s Tulkarm Camp, persisting in their military occupation of the West Bank since January. In recent weeks, according to governor Abdullah Kamil, 106 homes and 104 other buildings were destroyed by the Zionist military in botth the Tulkarm and Nur Shams camps. The mass escalation in the destruction of homes and buildings on indigenous Palestinian land is related to an expansive plan put forth by the genocidal Israeli government to build 22 brand-new illegal settlements in the area, an unprecedented offensive since the capitulationist Oslo Agreements. On the morning of July 10, one Palestinian man in the Jenin town of Rummandah was shot and killed, stealing his corpse and detaining his sons. That same day, Israeli settlers ambushed the Masafer Yatta village south of Hebron, injuring a Palestinian woman, and destroying a water pipeline connecting the Aqraba and Majdel Bani Fadel villages south of Nablus. The next day, on July 11, lombriz settlers attacked and beat two Palestinians to death in Sinjil north of Ramallah, injuring another 40 Palestinians; on the same day, settlers attacked the al-Minya town east of occupied Bethlehem, firing tear gas and causing respiratory suffocation amongst the fighting masses, and injuring two young men in their attack in Masafer Yatta.
Hamas, leading the armed struggle against the settler-colonial Israeli state and world imperialism, called on the oppressed Palestinian masses to resist against such attacks by the settlers, initiating confrontations of the Zionist enemy camp against their aggressions. As a result, an IDF soldier was injured last Monday by resistance fighters in Nablus, and two personnel were eliminated with more wounded near the Gush Etzion function north of Hebron City. No matter how much destruction Israel causes on the homes and land of Palestinians, and however many henchmen are sent to attack the occupied in their towns, and however they spike baby formula and intensify famine and bombs on the Palestinian people, the Palestinian masses and resistance does not let down their guard and their responsibility to defeat the Zionist and imperialist enemy, and liberate their land and people by any means necessary.
International: Trump Praises Liberian President for His “Good English”
The legacy of US-backed Black settler colonialism in Liberia made a splash with US imperialism once again in a Wednesday meeting at the White House, between Trump and five comprador African leaders, one of whom is Liberian President Joseph Boakai. In this meeting, Trump showered Baokai with praise and admiration about his “beautiful” English, despite Liberia being an fairly English-speaking country due to the work of US colonialism. In 1822, Liberia was created, against the wishes of the indigenous nations that inhabited the area, as a colony for freed Black Americans, as a solution put forth by mainly white Americans to send Black Americans abroad after their emancipation from the system of chattel slavery. Through the efforts of US capitalism, Liberia became a republic in 1947. It is a country of 5 million people, with an elite comprised of the descendants of the that Black settler class, and popular masses largely composed of the indigenous peoples including the Mende, Temne, Kissi, Kuwaa, and Gbandi nations.
Today, semi-colonial Liberia is headed by Boakoi, who also exchanged praise with Trump during their Wednesday meeting, thus showcasing the tie between the comprador elite of Liberia and the US as a friendship in service of the growing reactionary tide of world imperialism and neo-colonialism. This meeting between Trump and the comprador leaders of Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Gabon, Mauritania and Senegal, was a salute to the imperialist theft of Africa’s natural resources and rare minerals, buttering these countries up as having “wonderful people” and “great oil deposits,” and offering to kidnap and deport human beings to these countries in oppressed Africa. As imperialism decays into outright reaction and genocidal repression of the masses as a result of the growing ramifications of its ongoing crisis to sustain itself, it is important for the nationally oppressed and working-class masses of the world, and their allies such as the class-conscious students, to realize their revolutionary duties and not only defeating the US imperialist machine, but to defeat the comprador systems of their respective countries, whether in Brazil, Jamaica, Haiti, Liberia, or Nigeria, linked with the workers and poor/lower-middle peasants of Africa and the oppressed New Afrikan nation inside the United States.
