Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US! – The Militant

[….] U.S. Border Patrol officers were surrounded and confronted by some 50 people provocatively blowing whistles and shouting and filming them. Alex Pretti, a nurse and U.S. citizen who was part of the provocation, was shot and killed by federal agents.

Video shows Border Patrol agents try to push Pretti away. Then he moved to get between the agent and a woman they had pepper sprayed, and he was thrown to the ground and pummeled. As one agent appears to find and take a gun from Pretti, another shouts “gun,” and others start shooting. Pretti was shot 10 times and died at the scene.

The liberal media paints Pretti as a saint, and Trump officials immediately stuck a “domestic terrorist” label on him and accused him of being there to “massacre law enforcement.” Both sides prevent working people from drawing the necessary lessons in order to build an effective response. First, Pretti was not at a protest, but a confrontation organized to interfere with the Border Patrol agents.

Much has been said about Pretti’s Second Amendment right to bring a gun into a protest. But experienced, conscious working-class leaderships go out of their way to avoid giving the capitalist state and its agencies an excuse to victimize fighters in struggle. There is a perfect example that working people could draw from. That is, the example of the Minneapolis Teamsters struggles in the 1930s, where the leadership took away weapons from trade unionists going into combat with the cops.

These frequent confrontations, as well as peaceful vigils at makeshift memorials, are taking place in neighborhoods across the Twin Cities.

The same day the shooting occurred the Minnesota National guard was activated and is now on the streets.

And true to form, the following night antifa thugs, who have a continuity here dating back to the violent actions that ended up destroying the protest movement around the death of George Floyd in 2020, smashed up the front glass windows of a hotel where ICE agents are said to be housed, painting “F–k ICE” graffiti on the walls. This is a blow to efforts to build the kind of mass movement needed.

The ICE arrests and brutality are an attack on workers’ rights — documented and undocumented. But how workers and our unions can make progress needs to be debated out.

Join fight for amnesty for all immigrants in the US! – The Militant

Re: provocations & confrontations with ICE

“This is a course for disaster. What’s needed here and across the country is a union-led fight for amnesty for all undocumented workers, a movement that would unify the working class. One that immigrant workers and others can participate in and help lead.”

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https://themilitant.com/2026/01/16/working-people-unions-need-to-fight-for-amnesty-for-immigrants-in-the-us/

‘Peace Board’ aims to advance US imperialism – The Militant

[….] One key aim of Trump’s Board is to block Israel from decisively defeating Hamas. The Tehran-backed group is several months into re-arming and rebuilding since Israel dealt it heavy blows. It’s reasserting its hated dictatorial rule over Palestinians in Gaza.

Israel, the one country that offers Jews an unconditional refuge, is the only force that today will fight and defeat Hamas. Anything short of that will inevitably lead to more and more deadly pogroms.

Washington also aims to use this body to advance its influence with Arab and other governments, including Tehran and Ankara, across the Middle East....

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‘Peace Board’ aims to advance US imperialism – The Militant

Mamdani takes office, overturns orders against Jew-hatred – The Militant

[….] One of the orders Mamdani threw out barred city officials from discriminating “against the state of Israel, Israeli citizens based on their national origin, or individuals or entities based on their association with Israel,” in the awarding of city contracts or in any other policy.

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Mamdani takes office, overturns orders against Jew-hatred – The Militant

Condemn Washington’s Attack on Venezuela Sovereignty! US Out Now! – The Militant

....This military assault abroad goes hand-in-hand with the rulers’ deepening attacks on the working class in this country. They use the US assault on Venezuela to reinforce their anti-immigrant demagogy, a deadly danger to the unity of the working class.

The defense of Venezuela’s sovereignty is in the interests of all working people in the US and beyond. The trade unions should take the lead in protesting Washington’s outrageous aggression.

US hands off Venezuela!

US hands off Cuba!

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Condemn Washington’s Attack on Venezuela Sovereignty! US Out Now! – The Militant

Workers face blows as today’s crisis of capitalism deepens – The Militant

Workers face blows as today’s crisis of capitalism deepens – The Militant

Pro-Hamas thugs attack Toronto meeting defending Israel – The Militant

[….] Some 40 or 50 thugs forced their way into the building shortly before the program was to begin. They smashed through a glass door screaming “Free Palestine,” and attacked Jonathan Karten, one of the Israeli soldiers. Six of the attackers were arrested and charged by police.

A video posted on YouTube shows people at the meeting barricaded inside a room as the pro-Hamas mob broke through the door. It also shows Karten step up to defend the meeting.

In a post on Instagram, meeting organizers wrote their “peaceful event … turned into absolute chaos,” describing “broken glass, blood everywhere — all because we’re Jewish.”

Karten and one of the students were taken to a nearby hospital. The Israel Defense Force soldier then returned and gave his talk. “I wasn’t going to let them take that away from us,” he said.

Students for Justice in Palestine had issued a call to “shut down the event,” posting on Instagram, “ALL OUT TO 49 ELM STREET NOW! Zionist war criminals have once again been welcomed into this city. … War criminals will never be welcome in our communities.”

Students for Justice in Palestine here is part of a North American-wide organization. It considers Hamas’ massacre of 1,200 Jews and others, rape and mutilation, and the seizure of hostages on Oct. 7 as an act of national liberation.

The group was one of the organizers of a two-month-long encampment at the University of Toronto in May-June 2024. It was one of 100 or so encampments held in the U.S. and Canada marked by Jew-hating slogans like “Death to the Zionists”; “We say justice! You say how? Burn Tel Aviv to the ground!”; and “Go Hamas, we love you. We support your rockets too.”

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Pro-Hamas thugs attack Toronto meeting defending Israel – The Militant