My Communist Resistance During the ICE Raids Siege here ♦ A Communist World Without Borders? A Conversation Among Coworkers here ♦
My Communist Resistance During the ICE Raids Siege
In the midst of the fascist ICE raids terrorizing immigrant communities across Los Angeles, I’ve been on the ground—organizing, resisting, and refusing to be silent. These raids aren’t just policy decisions. They’re deliberate attacks meant to divide, isolate, and disappear working-class people. In this moment of fear and anger, I’ve spoken with members of the National Guard, challenging their role in this repression and distributing Red Flag as acts of defiance, solidarity, and a symbol of the future we fight for.
I’ve been at varying levels in action— distributing literature at a “No Kings” rally. As I showed up with comrades to distribute literature to the masses, I got a text from a friend: “Where are you?” I replied, “Downtown,” where my friend was too.
“This is my first ever protest!” my friend exclaimed in excitement as they had been politically activated due to the recent ICE raids here. We’ve spoken in the past about events in the news, but in that moment I had Red Flag in hand and shared my political communist views more openly. I introduced my friend in my personal life to my comrades. By the end of the protest, an older comrade said, “I’m glad to meet your chosen family. I hope we see each other again soon.”
A couple of weeks later I engaged with students and the masses in the streets of Santa Monica about communism, abolition, and a world without borders. The students were not won over to our ideas. Some, including a few Israeli students, were hesitant or defensive. But I didn’t see it as a loss. I saw it as practice. Practice in opening up conversations, in staying grounded while introducing radical visions of what the world could be.
Those moments built bridges—not just with students, but with fellow community organizers who stood beside me, exchanging experiences and building deeper unity. In a city split by class lines and state violence, any space where we can organize and dream together is sacred.
As I organize, I’m also fighting my own contradictions—figuring out how to merge my personal life and my communist politics without collapse. There’s no clean blueprint for living the politics we preach, especially in a world built to wear us down. I’m learning to be honest with comrades, to ask for help, and to be held accountable.
The internal struggle to stay rooted while navigating burnout, family, and capitalism’s everyday chaos is real. But I know this work is about transformation—collective and personal.
—Comrade in Los Angeles (USA)
A Communist World Without Borders? A Conversation Among Coworkers
Recently, when the raids in Los Angeles were raging, a conversation arose with some coworkers. It all started when L mentioned the chaos and fear caused by being detained for not having documents. I took the opportunity to introduce a bit of our party’s line into the conversation: “What if we lived in a communist world without borders?”
C immediately burst out laughing and said, “That’s not possible! Who would control a world like that?”
I replied, “The idea isn’t for a government to control everything, but for us to share resources and decisions collectively. No nations to divide, no walls to separate human beings.”
J asked, “And the incentive? Who would want to work if everything belongs to everyone?”
I explained that work would cease to be an obligation to survive and would become a way to contribute. “Imagine a world where no one dies of hunger because the entire planet takes care of everyone.”
M, who had been silent, said something that motivated me: “I don’t know if it’s possible now, but the idea of a world without inequality or borders seems very good to me.”
And I was left thinking that while we have these conversations, it sounds far-fetched to many. But if more people dare to imagine it, as a comrade from Mexico once said, more opportunities will open up to recruit new comrades to the party.
Despite the fear this situation has caused me personally, often talking not only with people we want to recruit but also with comrades in the party helps us feel communist solidarity and face those fears with courage and struggle.
—Comrade Communist
Fight For the Day When No Worker Will be Called Foreigner: here