Seattle-Tacoma (US), April 2025— Angry demonstrators march to the ICE Federal Detention Center. Many had taken copies of Red Flag.
Fighting Fascism: Communist Relationships Today Prepare for the Communist Revolution That Will Win
SEATTLE (US), April 2025— “Why is this happening to us?” asked immigrants who were camping outside the Federal Detention Center in 2017, protesting ICE’s family separations.
The first Trump regime was separating children from their parents at the US-Mexico border. The adults were shipped to this prison.
“It’s not just you,” answered a friend. He described how immigrants had been exploited and imprisoned as long as Seattle had existed.
Angry Boeing workers in the Seattle area responded collectively. Work slowed inside the factory as friends and comrades discussed what to do. Black, White, Latin, and Asian workers, US-born and immigrants, prepared to attend the demonstration at the detention center. They were among tens of thousands there.
Eight years later, the struggle continues.
On April 5, 2025, another demonstration marched to the detention center. It was smaller than the 2017 rally, but very clearly international. Filipino/a, white, and Black activists from the US attended alongside immigrants from Mexico, Central America, and Africa. Boeing workers came again. The fight against deportations is an internationalist struggle, not a nationalist one.
Many demonstrators welcomed Red Flag newspaper, the only one that called for the working class to “Mobilize the Masses for Communism.” Activists were also interested in the ICWP pamphlet that called for a world without borders.
New friends shared their contact information and old friends greeted us. Friends who couldn’t come called to see how it went.
A retired Boeing worker recently returned from her native country in Asia. She called to find out what was happening in the US. “Will the demonstrations stop the fascists?” she asked.
No. Building our Party for communist revolution is the only way to stop fascism. But contacting activists at these demonstrations is one way to do that. That’s why we go.
Participating in these demonstrations has sparked initiative among our friends. One friend, C, told us it’s time for a protest at the Veterans’ Administration (VA). The fascist US government is threatening to fire 80,000 VA workers and cut services for veterans.
C has helped spread communist ideas before, but now she is taking initiative. She is advocating for concrete action among the party and her friends. She noted that the attacks on veteran soldiers were not just about Trump or Musk.
C learned a great deal about communist politics marching in the streets, talking with striking Boeing workers, reading Red Flag, and socializing in comrades’ homes. Sometimes comrades aren’t immediately aware that the small quantitative steps our friends make, over months and years, are leading to a qualitatively new level of commitment.
Another friend who works at a café uses Red Flag to show how “capitalism is the enemy of all workers and soldiers.” She has plans to distribute and discuss a dozen Red Flags in two meetings with high school students.
She tells them that we can’t have capitalism without racism, and we can’t win if we allow wage slavery to continue. She invited her friends to the ICWP May Day Potluck. These youths – future workers, soldiers, and comrades – are key to expanding our relationships among anti-fascist masses.
This May Day we aim to strengthen the communist relationships we have already built and promote communist initiative among friends and comrades. To crush advancing fascism, the working-class needs to win masses dedicated to fighting for communist revolution.
The pathway to success is expanding and strengthening unbreakable communist social and political relationships among active multitudes.
