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Pictured: Los Angeles (USA) August 19 –Teachers and community activists protest the ICE kidnapping of high-school student Benji Guerrero.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LOS ANGELES (USA), August 23\u2014 \u201cThe genocide in Gaza and the ICE reign of terror have a lot in common,\u201d said Guam\u00e1. \u201cBoth are the results of invasion. The National Guard in Washington, DC, mass incarceration and constrained movement, here and in Palestine, ICE bounty hunters and the slave catchers of the 1850s, family separation\u2014it\u2019s more the same than different.\u201d
\nAt a carne asada potluck, teachers, students, comrades, and friends talked about genocide, fascism, and the role of the schools. Much of the discussion centered on the daily kidnapping of workers and youth by immigration police (ICE).
\nWe recalled past struggles against racist deportations\u2014in Los Angeles in the 1970s, the 1990s, the early 2000s, and in Arizona in the 2010s. \u201cI didn\u2019t know about the raids in the 1970s,\u201d said Veronica. \u201cThis helps me see how deep the problem is.\u201d
\nFascism is immediate. A Black teacher shared his experience of a racist police stop the night before, which could easily have turned deadly. ICE terror and racist policing endanger us and the people we love.\u00a0Most of us have been in protests, large and small, since the ICE reign of terror began in June.<\/p>\n

\nFighting the Genocide in Gaza is Harder<\/strong><\/p>\n

Armando read \u201cIf I Must Die,\u201d by Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer, murdered by Israeli forces in December 2023. It\u2019s harder to talk about the genocide in Gaza. Alice said that she can\u2019t stand to watch any more horribly explicit videos from Gaza. \u201cI don\u2019t know who to shout at about Gaza.\u201d
\n\u201cIt\u2019s the international capitalist system,\u201d said Armando. \u201cThe imperialists\u2014Russia and Iran on one side, the US and the Zionists on the other, are mobilizing to kill our class siblings in Gaza. Our job is not just to shout, but to mobilize the masses to overthrow capitalism.\u201d
\n\u201cWe can\u2019t be immobilized by despair,\u201d said Lucy. \u201cOur comrade Hamza in Gaza is still alive. He\u2019s injured, but still organizing his friends for communism and distributing Red Flag.\u201d
\n\u201cSo are our comrades in Tel Aviv,\u201d said Armando.
\n\u201cCapitalism began with genocides of Indigenous people of the Americas and with the transatlantic slave trade,\u201d said Lucy. \u201cIts history is exploitation and suffering of the working-class masses. The genocide in Gaza exposes its true nature. As people revolt against that genocide, it can become a revolutionary movement that ends capitalism itself.\u201d
\n\u201cI hope so,\u201d said Alice.
\n\u201cIt was inspiring to be part of a conversation between you and some Zionist youth in Santa Monica,\u201d said Lily. \u201cYou kept your cool and explained your points so effectively.\u201d
\n\u201cWe\u2019re teachers,\u201d said Henry. \u201cWe do this every day.\u201d
\nWe turned to what we could do.<\/strong>\u00a0 One thing is to fight against nationalism everywhere. Armando spoke about unity of Jews and Arabs in Tel Aviv, fighting the genocide, distributing Red Flag, organizing for revolution. Guam\u00e1 talked about people of all colors uniting to confront ICE in northeast Los Angeles, running them out of the neighborhood.
\nThe best thing we can do in solidarity with our class siblings in Gaza and everywhere is to talk to everyone we can about communism and organize them into the ICWP.
\n\u201cWe have more in common as workers than differences,\u201d said Henry. \u201cIn my classroom, I push these ideas forward. With the party, I know I\u2019m on the right path.\u201d
\n\u201cThe work that you do inspires me,\u201d said Guam\u00e1. \u201cOlder teachers recruited their students who are now communist teachers in the classroom, carrying the fight forward. That\u2019s the example I want to follow.\u201d He took several copies of Red Flag to share with friends.
\nSo did Alice. \u201cI can talk to the people in my daily life about communism,\u201d she said
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been on the defensive during these attacks,\u201d concluded Tony. \u201cBut the rulers are breaking every law\u2014here in LA and in Palestine. It\u2019s time to take the offensive. We must organize and recruit workers, students, and soldiers. The bosses\u2019 laws won\u2019t protect us. We have to build our own Red army. We need communist revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n

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