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Militarized Raids Against Migrants Spark Mass Protests In Los Angeles

June 10, 2025 People's Dispatch. Resist! California, Donald Trump, ICE, Los Angeles, Mass Action, Militarization

Since Friday afternoon, mass protests have been taking place across Los Angeles in response to raids carried out by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The mass raids carried out by federal agents in military gear at three workplaces in Los Angeles on Friday, June 6 resulted in the detention of dozens of migrants. The intensified raids in the city are taking place as the Trump administration is scrambling to meet mass deportation quotas. Protests calling for an end to ICE raids continued into Monday, despite facing heavy repression from the Los Angeles police and the deployment of the National Guard at the request of President Donald Trump.

Los Angeles Demands: ICE Out Of Our Communities!

June 9, 2025 Otto Fors and Julia Wallace, Left Voice. Resist! California, ICE, Los Angeles, Mass Action

Los Angeles has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s escalating war on immigrants. On Friday, June 6, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raided a Home Depot parking lot in the city’s Westlake District, detaining several undocumented day laborers. Later, agents raided the city’s garment district. But ICE is meeting fierce opposition from community members. The raids sparked demonstrations, with protesters chanting and throwing eggs and rocks at the agents and police officers, who responded with pepper spray and tear gas. Forty-four people were arrested, among them California SEIU president David Huerta. The labor leader has been treated for injuries, but still in federal custody.

Anti-Austerity March To Oppose Labour Government Cuts

May 17, 2025 Ana Vracar, People's Dispatch. Organize! Austerity, Labor Movement, Mass Action, United Kingdom (UK)

Trade unions and campaigns focused on housing, welfare, and health rights are uniting for a mass demonstration against a new wave of austerity in Britain, set for June 7. Under the umbrella of the People’s Assembly, the groups will march to demand that the Labour government fund public services, prioritize workers over big business, and stop targeting disabled people. Their announcement comes shortly after the Labour Party suffered significant losses to the far right in local elections, leaving party leaders scrambling to regain support. “Attacking those with the least is easy,” the People’s Assembly stated, referring to Labour’s decisions to cut winter fuel support for the elderly, maintain the two-child cap, and reduce assistance for people with disabilities.

May 1: Cuba’s Determination And Resistance On Full Display

May 2, 2025 Bill Hackwell and Cheryl LaBash, Resumen English. Resist! Cuba, Mass Action, May Day, Revolution

The massive outpouring filled the emblematic Plaza of the Revolution in Havana this morning to show their resolve that they will not go back or give in to the maximum pressure that U.S. policy imposes on the Cuban people. For the first time since 2022 when the scaled back May Day celebrations gathered in other venues for economic reasons, today the march returned to the Plaza in an unmistakable response to the unrelenting extra territorial starvation measures imposed by Cuba’s rapacious neighbor to its north. At exactly seven o’clock, as the sun broke into the plaza, the first notes of the National Anthem were heard.

The Creative Playbook Behind Turkey’s Mass Protests

May 1, 2025 Ela Buruk, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Authoritarianism, Creative Action, Mass Action, Turkey

In late March 2025, Turkey was rocked by its largest protests in a decade after Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu — a leading rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan — was detained on corruption and terrorism charges. Outrage over his jailing and the subsequent closure of city services (such as metro and bus lines) under a protest ban quickly spilled into the streets. Yet alongside anger and defiance, an unexpected element emerged: humor and creative spectacle. Protesters of all ages, led by waves of university students, converged on city halls and public squares across Turkey, not only waving flags and chanting slogans, but also wielding costumes, memes and symbolic performances as tools of resistance.

Massive Protest For Palestine Rocks DC As Gaza Genocide Begins Anew

April 6, 2025 Jaisal Noor, The Real News Network. Resistance Report DC, Mass Action, Palestine, State Repression, Washington

I think what we’re hoping to achieve with protests like this is like the abolitionists years ago with the longterm campaigns of petitioning and other forms of pressuring the government, and their own forms of demonstrations and others is to help build a stronger moral conscious movement in this country in solidarity with the Palestinian people and to end this genocide. And we know this country is so undemocratic, it’s so gerrymandered, it’s so difficult to get the voices of the people, even when they’re in the majority, represented inside of Congress.

The Struggle For Immigrant Rights

March 9, 2025 Cristóbal Cavazos, Socialist Action. Resist! Deportations, Immigrant Rights, Mass Action, Trump Administration

Trump, who seeks to unleash ICE terror on immigrant communities as a racist smoke screen aimed to stoke white nationalism and xenophobia as he aggressively comes to the aid of an ailing US Imperialism at home and abroad consistently losing market share abroad to China and the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, Indonesia and South Africa along with Beijing). The US dollar is losing its dominance and a rising labor movement domestically is confronting economic warfare on the working class in the form of low wages, growing income inequality, etc. with growing labor strikes.

India: Farmers Intensify Mobilization Despite Government Crackdown

December 11, 2024 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! Farmers, India, Mass Action, Narendra Modi, Worker Rights and Jobs

Scores of women held candlelight vigils in support of over a hundred farmer leaders arrested by the Uttar Pradesh police in India on Tuesday, December 10. The protesting women warned authorities against intimidating the families of the farmers and demanded the immediate release of all those detained. The vigils took place in villages near New Delhi, where farmers have been agitating for months. Their demands include proper compensation for land acquired for the development of large townships, the return of 10% of developed lands to those affected, and adequate rehabilitation for families who have lost their only source of income under the Land Acquisition Act of 2013.

Farmers And Workers In India Unite Against Neoliberal Assaults

November 30, 2024 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! Farmers, India, Mass Action, Neoliberalism, Worker Rights and Jobs

Thousands of farmers and workers took to the streets in India on Tuesday, November 26 demanding minimum support price for their farm produce and preservation of labor rights in the country against the assaults from the pro-corporate government. The protests were called by all a joint platform of central trade unions and Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM), a joint platform of farmers groups formed during the 2020-21 farmers’ agitation against the three pro-corporate farms laws. The central demands of the protesters include repeal of four labor codes introduced by the ultra right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Indian Farmers And Workers Unite Again For National Mobilization

November 23, 2024 Abdul Rahman, People's Dispatch. Resist! Farmers, India, Mass Action, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

India’s major farmers and workers unions are coming together to launch a nationwide mobilization on Tuesday, November 26, to demand the government address the distress faced by the majority of the country’s population of farmers and workers. A call for nationwide protests was given by the united farmers front, Samyukta Kisan Morcha (SKM) and a joint platform of the Central Trade Unions earlier this month. Left-affiliated farmer’s organizations All India Kisan Sabha (AIKS), All India Agricultural Workers Union (ALAWU), and Center for Indian Trade Unions (CITU), one of India’s largest trade union federations, are part of the call to mobilize.

Martinique Masses Continue Rebellion Against French Colonial System

October 21, 2024 Abayomi Azikiwe, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Caribbean, France, French colonialism, Mass Action

The Caribbean Island of Martinique is classified as an overseas department of France but it is treated like a colony, lacking any voice in its own affairs. Social unrest has flared up again prompted by hyperinflation and the heavy-handed tactics utilized by security forces under the control of Paris. Due to its colonial dependency, the rate of rising prices in Martinique far exceeds that of the colonial power in France. During September, thousands of people took to the streets in response to the escalating prices for food and other consumer goods. Riot police from France were deployed to put down the unrest which involved industrial actions among the workers.

President Petro Is Not Alone: Colombia Marches Against Coup Attempt

October 13, 2024 Ana Perdigón, Orinoco Tribune. Resist! Colombia, coup, Gustavo Petro, Lawfare, Mass Action, National Electoral Council (CNE)

Colombians took to the streets to protest against the coup d’état that the Colombian right wing is attempting to carry out against President Gustavo Petro. With the slogan #MarchoContraElGolpe (“I march against the coup”), various political and social forces of the Colombian left gathered in Plaza Bolívar in Bogotá. The ruling coalition Historic Pact called for the demonstration that was held this Friday, October 11, to condemn the weaponized investigation launched by the Colombian National Electoral Council (CNE) on alleged irregularities in the limits of the financing of Petro’s presidential campaign.

Understanding The #OccupyParliament Movement In Kenya

October 9, 2024 Joel Mukisa, Black Agenda Report. Strategize! #OccupyParliament, Kenya, Mass Action, Neoliberalism, Occupy Parliament, State Repression

If you asked a think-tank team leader, a social sciences Professor at Nairobi University if they anticipated the scale and popularity of the protests that rocked East Africa’s economic powerhouse Kenya, only a few months ago many honest people would simply retort, NO! The protests that rather appeared spontaneous characterized mainly by a young generation of Kenyans known as Gen Z protesting the Finance Bill (an annually produced document that lays out the government’s fiscal strategy) that would introduce a cocktail of new taxes on essential and basic commodities.

Nigeria Unleashes Massive Repression After #Endhunger Protests

September 25, 2024 Salvador Ousmane, Black Agenda Report. Resist! Hunger, Mass Action, Nigeria, Repression, State Repression

The Nigerian government was clearly very worried by the scale and support for the protests in early August against its anti-human policies of increased fuel prices, higher electric tariffs, unpaid low minimum wages, higher school fees, higher tax rates, higher food prices, higher transport costs and bad governance. They hope that heavy repression will stop future protests against hunger, higher petrol prices and bad governance. The state tortured dozens and hundreds remain in detention. Some are being held well beyond the constitutional limit of 48 hours before going to court. The High Court in Abuja gave the police a further 60 days for holding over 70 young men from Kano.

Netanyahu Is Coming To New York City And Will Be Greeted By Mass Protest

September 24, 2024 Natalia Marques, People's Dispatch. Resist! Benjamin Netanyahu, Crimes against humanity, Genocide, International Criminal Court (ICC), Israel, Lebanon, Mass Action, Palestine, War crimes, Wars and Militarism

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to deliver an address at the United Nations General Assembly later this week. On Thursday, September 26, several anti-imperialist organizations, organized under the Shut it Down For Palestine Coalition, are holding a demonstration denouncing Netanyahu’s visit and demanding that he be arrested for genocide and crimes against humanity. In August, International Criminal Court (ICC) Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan urged ICC judges to rule on his request for arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant. Khan had applied for arrest warrants back in May for the two top Israeli leaders for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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