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 No. 76, June-October 2025 Table
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Democrats Shield ICE – Mobilize Workers for Feds Out Now!
Abort Trump’s Police State!
Break with the Parties of Capital – For a Revolutionary Workers Party!
Under the administration of Donald Trump, the United States is building out a police-state regime, in which the arbitrary actions of the executive power are virtually unchecked by courts, laws, Congress or the Constitution they swear by. The U.S. is not there yet, it is only in the early stages, gutting institutions and softening up the population with a barrage of militarized repression. The military is being repurposed for internal war and the various agencies of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) turned into an all-purpose paramilitary police force. Spearheading this is Trump’s campaign of mass deportations of immigrants, who make up a vital section of the U.S. workforce, but the ultimate target is all working people. As the White House has unleashed its masked agents to seize immigrants in their homes and on the streets, and the population comes out to oppose them, from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C. to Chicago, Democratic officials have ordered their police to ride interference for the feds. Trump has called on his supporters, federal police and military to go after leftists with a vengeance. It is to the power of the working class that we must look to fight this drive for naked capitalist dictatorship. Abort Trump’s Police State! (October 2025)
Democrats and Courts Won’t Stop ICE Gestapo
For Workers Strike Action – Feds Out Now!
Chicago Under Siege: Thousands Demand
Stop Deportation Raids!
Since early September, the federal government has been waging a militarized campaign of immigration raids in Chicago under the code name “Operation Midway Blitz.” Federal agents have been terrorizing the city, cruising through residential and downtown neighborhoods grabbing people off the street, solely on the basis of their ethnic/racial appearance, to demand their identification papers. Over 3,000 immigrants have been seized so far, along with scores of U.S. citizens. The mass deportation campaign has become the spearhead of the Trump regime's drive to police-state rule. Unlike in much of the country, Democratic officials have shot back at threats from the White House and denounced federal agents’ wanton physical attacks, but they are ultimately part of the machinery of the capitalist rule and will not stop the deportations. Looking to the courts and the Democratic Party of racist U.S. capitalism is a dangerous illusion. Around the city hundreds and thousands of residents have courageously come out to stand up to the migra (immigration police) thugs. But what is urgently needed is a mobilization of the power of the working class to stop the deportations and racist repression. Chicago Under Siege: Thousands Demand Stop Deportation Raids (27 October 2025)
Mobilize Against Yankee Imperialist Threat to Venezuela!
On September 2, Donald Trump announced that he had personally ordered a U.S. military strike on a boat in the Caribbean, killing eleven people on board, claiming that they were “narcoterrorists." Over the next several weeks, as the U.S. moved warships and warplanes into the region, three more boats were struck. In reality, the terrorists roaming the Caribbean are the United States Navy and Air Force, and they threaten all of Latin America. For decades, U.S. imperialism has been attempting the overthrow the populist nationalist regime in Venezuela and install puppets who will be unconditional lackeys of whoever is in office in Washington. U.S. rulers want to go after Venezuela as a stepping stone to overthrowing the Cuban Revolution, which it has been trying to do since 1960. The League for the Fourth International calls to defend Venezuela against imperialist attack and threats, and against the U.S.-sponsored domestic opposition, while giving no political support to the bourgeois populist government of Nicolás Maduro. Mobilize Against Yankee Imperialist Threat to Venezuela! (13 October 2025)
No to U.S./U.N. Colonial Rule – For an Arab/Hebrew Palestinian Workers Republic in a Socialist Federation of the Middle East
Gaza “Ceasefire”: There Is No Peace
Transport Workers: Stop All War Cargo to Israel!
On October 9, representatives of Israel and Hamas signed an agreement for a ceasefire in the monstrous two-year Zionist genocidal war on the Palestinian population of Gaza. The truce was announced the day before by Donald Trump. When bombs stopped falling the next day, crowds of Palestinians in Gaza City, who had lived through 24 months of hell on earth, were jubilant. And when 25 Israeli hostages were returned alive, there was rejoicing in Tel Aviv. But this was only a pause in the unending Zionist war on the Palestinian people. There is no peace. Over 9,000 Palestinians are still being held as hostages in Israeli jails and camps, the “yellow line” to which Israeli troops pulled back still leaves them in control of 53% of Gaza, Israel is only letting in a quarter of the aid trucks a day agreed on, and bombings continue: the genocide has not stopped. Defenders of the Palestinians must oppose Trump's phony “peace” plan, which would mean colonial rule of Gaza. Class-conscious workers should step up the fight for workers action to stop all military goods to Israel. A common struggle by the workers of the myriad peoples of the region against national oppression and capitalist exploitation requires above all building genuine communist parties on the internationalist program of Lenin and Trotsky. Gaza “Ceasefire”: There Is No Peace (October 2025)
Jack Heyman Speaks at International Dockworkers Meeting
European Port Workers Call for Strike Action to Stop Arms
On September 26-27, a meeting of European dockworkers was held in Genova, Italy to discuss common action around the watchword, “Dockers Will Not Work for War.” The meeting built on recent actions by port workers in Morocco, France, Italy and Greece blocking arms to Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza. The unions vowed to strike again if Israel attacked the Global Sumud Flotilla, which it did on the evening of October 1, seizing hundreds of volunteers bringing aid to Gaza. Immediately, protesters went into the streets all across Italy. On October 3, another “general strike” was held, this time with some 2 million marchers in 100 cities. Once again, ports were closed, rail lines and highways blocked. The League for the Fourth International has called from the outset for workers action against the shipment of arms to Israel and Ukraine. Jack Heyman, longtime longshore and maritime activist, brought greetings to the meeting from International Longshore and Warehouse Union Local 10 in Oakland, California. In his speech, which highlighted the contributions of the LFI, Heyman slammed the bureaucratic backstabbing that has blocked effective international solidarity action. This struck a chord with some at the conference. European Port Workers Call for Strike Action to Stop Arms (8 October 2025)
Mass Strike for Gaza Brings Italy to a Halt
For International Strike Action to
Stop U.S./Israel Gaza Genocide!
Transport Workers: Block Arms and All Transport to and From Israel!
Build a Leninist-Trotskyist Communist Party!
As devastating famine spreads through Gaza as a result of Israel’s policy of deliberate mass starvation of the Palestinian population, on September 17 the army launched its long-threatened, full-scale assault on Gaza City. The unrelenting Zionist slaughter, which by now has claimed over 100,000 lives, is escalating daily. Horrified by the cataclysm they are seeing in real time, throughout the world millions of people are desperately crying out to stop the destruction of the Palestinian people. Now this outcry has combined with a dramatic mobilization of working-class power. On September 22 Italy was convulsed by a mass strike against genocide in Gaza called by militant rank-and-file unions. There were protests in 80 cities, with at least 300,000 demonstrators in Rome and up to 1 million nationwide. The Gaza slaughter is not just an Israeli crime, it is a joint Zionist/imperialist genocide. From the outset, the League for the Fourth International has called for workers action against the shipment of arms to Israel. Now this can become a reality internationally. The key is revolutionary leadership. For International Strike Action to Stop U.S./Israel Gaza Genocide! (24 September 2025)
Pax Americana Is Dead and Gone
Dying Imperialism Lashing Out
On the Road to World War III
Drive for Bonapartist “Strong State” Governments
Intensified Exploitation of Semicolonial Countries
The Only Solution: International Socialist Revolution!
Since January 20, the day Donald Trump took office for his second term as president of the United States, the whole world has been in turmoil. Capitalist governments around the world have stepped up repression, threatening fundamental rights. Alliances between imperialist countries that have lasted for 80 years, since the end of World War II, are tottering. A one-sided economic war has been launched, imposing sky-high tariffs amid unprecedented chaos in world trade. At the same time, the imperialists are up to their necks in their proxy war against Russia over Ukraine, in the genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, and in the attack on Iran in June. All these aspects of the global panorama are interlinked, and are further evidence of the fraying of the imperialist system in its advanced state of decay. They reflect the attempt, both by the prior Democratic administration of Joe Biden and by the Republican administration of Donald Trump, to prop up the crumbling imperialist hegemony of the United States. But these efforts are doomed to failure. Some “progressive” and petty-bourgeois leftist politicians want to go further, imagining a new “multipolar” world order. The fact is that imperialism will not peacefully give way to an alternative world order of harmony and cooperation. As we have stressed, this imperialist war drive is pointing to world war with the goal of dismembering Russia and provoking counterrevolution in China. And we warn that only international socialist revolution can stop World War III. Dying Imperialism Lashing Out On the Road to World War III (August 2025)
The Real “No. 1 State Sponsor of Terror” Against the Peoples of the World: U.S. Imperialism
Defend Iran Against Criminal U.S./Israel War,
Defeat Imperialist/Zionist Genocidal War-Makers
Iran Has the Right to Nuclear Weapons to Deter Israeli and U.S. Nuclear-Armed Terrorists!
In a monstrous criminal attack, in the early morning hours of June 22, U.S. warplanes bombed multiple sites in Iran on orders from President Donald Trump. At least a dozen monster “bunker buster” bombs were dropped on the Fordo nuclear site, as well as on other sites. In announcing his brazen act of war, Trump called Iran the “bully of the Middle East,” saying it was to put a “a stop to the nuclear threat posed by the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terror.” In reality, the world’s No. 1 terrorist power and global bully is U.S. imperialism, which has armed to the teeth the genocidal Zionist butchers of Gaza. Both under Trump and his Democratic predecessors, the imperialist U.S. rulers are careening toward a thermonuclear World War III that only international socialist revolution can stop. The League for the Fourth International and its U.S. section, the Internationalist Group, stand for defense of Iran against the criminal U.S./Israel war, and for defeat of the imperialist and Zionist war-makers. And we reiterate that Iran has a right to nuclear weapons to deter the nuclear-armed imperialist and Zionist terrorists. Defend Iran Against Criminal U.S./Israel War, Defeat Imperialist/Zionist War-Makers (22 June 2025)
Vote No on Ballot Proposals 2, 3, and 4
Zohran Mamdani and the NYC Housing Crisis
Not Democrats or Republicans – For a Revolutionary Workers Party!
On the eve of the New York City mayoral election, Democratic Party candidate Zohran Mamdani has maintained and even widened his double-digit lead over former governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican Curtis Sliwa. President Donald Trump has threatened to take reprisals if the “communist” is elected mayor of the center of world finance capital, which has no doubt won Mamdani votes, yet the Democratic candidate is no communist, or even a socialist, but a liberal capitalist politician. If Trump floods NYC with federal agents and troops, workers and students should shut the city down. For his part, Mamdani has spent the last four months trying to make nice with Wall Street. One way is by taking a dive on ballot propositions 2, 3 and 4, being pushed by real estate interests in order to “fast-track” construction projects by eliminating any semblance of democratic control. They would cut out the City Council, which has been where requirements for union labor, increasing the number of “affordable” units, and building schools and playgrounds have been added. Mamdani’s program to build 200,000 housing units over a decade is hardly radical, and would be financed by municipal bond issues, which Wall Street bankers love. A real answer to the present housing emergency would require expropriating the banks and real estate barons through workers revolution. Zohran Mamdani and the NYC Housing Crisis (31 October 2025)
For a Workers Party to Fight for a Workers Government
NYC Mayoral Primary: No Vote for Democrats, or for Any Capitalist Parties or Politicians!
Cuomo, Mamdani and the Rest Would All Do the Dirty Work for Capital
The impending Democratic Party primary election for New York City mayor, City Council and other citywide offices has awakened a great deal of interest, pitting widely despised former New York governor Andrew Cuomo against Queens assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a member of the Democratic (Party) Socialists of America, as well as a number of other liberals. The primary has come down to a heated two-man race, with conservatives and “moderates” lining up for Cuomo while left-liberals and many radical-minded youth are going for Mamdani. But the bottom line is that both of them – and all the rest – are candidates of the capitalist Democratic Party of racist police brutality “at home” and genocidal imperialist war abroad. As such, however “progressive” (or not) their agenda may be, once in office they will govern on behalf of Wall Street. What is vitally necessary is to fight for the political independence of the working class from the capitalist class, to break from Democrats, Republicans and all parties of capital to build a workers party to fight for a workers government. NYC Mayoral Primary: No Vote for Democrats, or for Any Capitalist Parties or Politicians! (23 June 2025)
War on Immigrants: Flashpoint Los Angeles
Labor Must Act: Drive I.C.E. Out of L.A.!
Bring Out Workers’ Power to Stop Mass Deportations, Police-State Occupation
Since Donald Trump began his second term on January 20, pressure has been mounting on immigrant communities across the country. On June 6, the pressure cooker exploded in Los Angeles. The start of militarized workplace raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) police predictably set off angry protests. In rapid-fire reaction, Trump federalized and deployed National Guard troops and activated Marines to invade Los Angeles. As Trump rules by decree in a drive toward a beefed-up “strong state” regime, he is seeking to get the population used to seeing the military repressing civilian protesters in U.S. streets. Trump’s war on immigrants is an assault on the democratic rights of all. The Internationalist Group calls on labor to mobilize its power to stop the police-state occupation and the I.C.E. raids and deportations. This requires a fight against both Republicans and Democrats, capitalist parties of mass deportations and genocidal war. Labor Must Act: Drive I.C.E. Out of L.A.! (13 June 2025)
Fight the Australian Labor Party’s
Union-Busting Attacks on the CFMEU
On June 18, Australia’s highest court rejected a union challenge to legislation the Australian Labor Party (ALP) government imposed placing the construction division of the Construction, Forestry and Maritime Union (CFMEU) into administration to a government-appointed team. The legislation enabling this government takeover of the most militant union in the Australian trade union movement was rushed through Parliament in August 2024 with the support of the conservative opposition Liberal/National Party coalition, which has long targeted the CFMEU for repressive legislation. Almost immediately after the anouncement of the takeover of their union, tens of thousands of construction workers took to the streets of major Australian cities. Yet following the announcement of the High Court decision, there was no national response from the CFMEU. The stranglehold of the century-and-a-quarter-old system of rigid state control of labor in Australia – both under right-wing and ALP governments – will only be broken by sharp class struggle, led by a vanguard of the working class and the oppressed armed with a transitional program that leads the fight for today’s urgent needs forward to international socialist revolution. Fight the Australian Labor Party’s Union-Busting Attacks on the CFMEU (October 2025)
For Workers Action to Stop the Deportations!
Students and Workers Demand “ICE Out!”
At Hunter College Speak-Out
On September 4, outside the City University of New York’s (CUNY) Hunter College campus, a speak-out was held in solidarity with immigrants and to demand “ICE out of New York! Stop the Deportations!” The speak-out was initiated by the Hunter Committee to Defend Immigrants (HCDI) and cosponsored by the Hunter chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the faculty/staff union at CUNY, and by the CUNY Internationalist Clubs. The Committee has insisted that rather than looking to university authorities, courts or the Democratic Party, we need to link up to the power of labor to defend immigrants.
This standpoint was highlighted in the September 4 speak-out by the presence of leaders and activists from the Labor Committee to Defend Immigrants (LCDI). Also among the speakers were health care workers and teachers. In response to speakers, the crowd chanted enthusiastically “Not Democrats or Republicans – Build a workers party!” Students and Workers Demand “ICE Out!” at Hunter College Speak-Out (September 2025)
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