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Chicago Workers Rise Up Against Deportations
Angry masses are rising up against the fascist attacks of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) that are targeting Black US citizen workers as well as immigrants. In a military-style late-night raid, three hundred ICE Gestapo agents landed in Blackhawk helicopters on the roof of a five-story South Side apartment building. They rappelled down the walls and broke into apartments. Every resident, from small children to elders, was zip-tied (some almost naked) and forced to sit outside for hours. Later that morning, ICE raided a nearby church-run homeless center.
“There’s a spirit of shock, anger, fear, and fighting back,” reports a friend there.
Hundreds of protesters have surrounded the ICE detention center in suburban Broadview. In at least one Chicago neighborhood, dozens of cars and pedestrians have blocked ICE vehicles and prevented the kidnapping of a fellow worker. The fascists have responded with barricades, tear gas, pepper spray, and arrests. They have shot at least one protester.
Some residents compare the ICE assault on Chicago to a military invasion. In truth ICE’s budget is now larger than those of all but fifteen of the world’s armies. It will take a new Red Army of workers, youth, and rebellious military personnel to defeat fascism in Chicago and everywhere with communist revolution.
Fascist Immigration Centers Show Need for Communist Revolution
October 6—On September 6, more than 100 detainees protested against unsanitary conditions and mistreatment at the new 2,560-person Immigration Processing Center in California City, California. They staged sit-ins and refused meals. These protests reflect a broader wave of protests at immigration centers.
“It’s cheaper for them to deport than to fix the legal status of millions of workers because this way they avoid providing retirement payments,” said a friend. Many immigrant workers share this sentiment.
Another detention center on the east side of Youngstown, Ohio, is generating significant profits. These are driven by what it described as “unprecedented growth opportunities” stemming from an increase in the number of people detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
CoreCivic operates both facilities. The corporation’s second-quarter net income more than doubled to $38.5 million over the same period last year. CoreCivic operates prisons and detention centers. It’s the largest private owner of real estate used by US government agencies, such as ICE.
The corporation’s CEO, Damon T. Hininger, a major Trump donor, noted that rising demand from ICE contributed to the strong results. And that the nationwide detainee population in ICE custody has reached an all-time high. CoreCivic’s revenue from ICE, its largest government partner, grew 17.2%, reaching $176.9 million in the quarter.
Globally, we have reached a crossroads where two paths intersect.
In front of us are the path to fascism and the path to communism. Which will we choose? However, in the end, it’s not a matter of choice, but of necessity.
The ruling classes impose fascism from El Salvador to South Africa, from India to Palestine/Israel, each with its distinctive deadly characteristics. A mega-prison for 40,000 inmates in El Salvador, massive and alarming unemployment in South Africa, rampant corruption in India, and an ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The goal of the International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP) is to mobilize the fighting masses toward a new world, a communist world. And in every one of the areas mentioned above, ICWP is present and growing. Join us in this liberation project!
Here in the US, the face of fascism, for the moment, is mass deportations. Daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, and grandparents are taken from their families, kidnapped, and deported.
Everywhere, the masses are resisting, yearning for a different world. A fraternal one governed by the collectivity and the assurance of the well-being of every human being. A world without money or hierarchies, where money does not exist and all resources are shared among all humanity.
One characteristic shared by the capitalist rulers who advance fascism is the connection of corporations to the government.
In the 1930s, German corporations such as IG Farben, Krupp, and Volkswagen collaborated with the fascist Nazi regime. They benefited from state contracts for war production and the use of slave labor from concentration camps. In return, the government welcomed and empowered these corporations. It considered their success essential to national strength and militarization.
Earlier, in the 1920s, many Italian corporations, including Fiat, aligned themselves with the fascist ruler Mussolini.
In both cases, German and Italian fascism formalized a corporate state, generating enormous profits with disastrous results. The bosses of the private prisons in the US are the descendants of these fascists, as is their boss in the White House.
But history has shown that it was the communists of the old Soviet Union, under Stalin’s leadership, who defeated Hitler’s fascist hordes, thus dismembering European fascism.
At the crossroads we face, driven by the need to free ourselves from fascism and the need to liberate the masses of the world, we will take the path towards communism, a world without borders, without fascist goons, whether police or immigration agents, nothing less and nothing more.
Read our pamphlet: Fight For the Day When No Worker Will be Called Foreigner here