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REBEL AGAINST FASCIST TERROR

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21 June 2025 323 hits

With ICE’s fascist abductions escalating across the country, Los Angeles workers and students are rising up in resistance. In neighborhoods from Paramount to Downtown LA, tens of thousands have taken to the streets—fighting back against racist state violence and standing in defense of their families, neighbors, and fellow workers. With fascism burgeoning in the U.S., the ruling class is unleashing ICE, its cold and callous gestapo, on immigrant workers and anyone who dares support them. Capitalism needs these nakedly racist attacks to build for fascism to try and keep the working class in check as the crisis of their system deepens. But this is a program LA workers showed bosses they aren't going for!

PLP comrades lead the way against ICE in the streets!

In February, students led mass actions against anti-immigrant attacks. This spring, those protests have only grown in strength. The Progressive Labor Party (PLP) was there—on the front lines, distributing CHALLENGE newspapers, talking with workers, and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the multiracial working-class community. 

The streets have now become sites of rebellion. In Paramount, residents stood outside their homes for blocks, confronting police barricades and razor wire. Protesters faced off against heavily armed cops, while some residents threw firecrackers, bottles, and rocks at the KKK-like occupiers. The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) fired blank rounds, rubber bullets, and tear gas. Protesters responded by building barricades and setting cars ablaze. 

Young people on bikes and in cars lined the streets—not just watching, but joining. One young protester told us, “We’ve been out all day, from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m.—this is our city and we are fighting back against ICE.” Another resident said, “We’re out here to support the ones who've disappeared—and if things go down, we’re here to protect those facing off with the police.” 

During the takeover of a freeway—mirroring February’s actions—PLP members witnessed Waymo self-driving cars set aflame and LAPD forces hiding beneath overpasses as protesters fought back. On horseback, cops tried to trample demonstrators, firing flurries of rubber projectiles and tear gas. But the protestors did not back down!

A protester wounded by a metal projectile was treated on the spot by a comrade. The fighting spirit never waned. Night after night, local youth launched car and bike caravans—horns blaring, engines roaring—keeping up morale and creating movement even as the police tried to scatter the crowds. 

Beating back capitalist terror 

This is more than a protest—it is class struggle. People are rising up not just against ICE, but against the entire capitalist system that enforces borders, racism, and exploitation. 

A friend of PLP who we know through the police murder fightback joined us for one of the trips into downtown. Her brother was killed by Long Beach police in 2017, and she has been one of the fiercest fighters for justice against police violence. Her immediate willingness to join us in this fight even after the fightback against police murder has died down shows that she is connecting the dots back to capitalism. Whether police, ICE, the National Guard, or the Marines, they all serve the state in terrorizing our class. The Party’s long term commitment to building a base in the working class positions us in the fight for a communist world.

Workers have the power

We rounded out a week of activity with an all out call to members and friends to rally outside of Inglewood City Hall, a community we have worked in for the last decade. We brought messages of multiracial unity, working class solidarity, and fierce fightback through our speeches and chants. Our leaflet and paper were well received by participants and those driving past. 

A Black mother with her two boys from the crowd gave a speech about standing up for each other because one day they come for your neighbor and the next day they will come for you. In talking to her after, we learned that her children’s school is one of the ones being closed in a racist attack by the school board and state. Capitalism is attacking workers constantly on all fronts. Our involvement in reform movements gives us opportunities to raise the Party’s line that capitalism is the root of all problems. We exchanged contact information with this sharp mother to stay in touch.

Workers laying on their horns as they drove by in their work vehicles led to an impromptu speech by a Party member about the power of our class to shut down the city. The crowd responded with thunderous cheers to that potential.

Workers in LA County are learning so many powerful lessons through these fascist attacks. We have heard people say:

*There are more of us than there are of them.

*They can’t take us all.

*We have to stand united for our neighbors.

*What do borders even mean? No one can own land.

These calls from members of our class for working class solidarity, multiracial unity, and to smash all borders give us so many opportunities to build for communism. Throughout these days of rebellion, PLP remained present—day and night. We are fighting to build a revolutionary movement of workers and students to smash racism, eliminate borders, and overthrow capitalism. Deportations, police violence, imperialist wars—they are all symptoms of a system designed to divide and exploit us. But we are one class, the working class, and united we have the power to destroy this rotten system. 

No more deportations. No more racist terror. No more borders. Join the PLP in the fight for a communist world.