Off Our Streets, Out of Our Communities: Abolish ICE & Border Patrol for Good — NOW!
Solidarity National Committee
Posted January 18, 2026
A GOVERNMENT THAT claims the right to blow up unarmed boats at sea in the Caribbean and eastern Pacific will also feel free to kill its population at home.
A government that kidnaps the ruler of a foreign country, seizes its resources, and proclaims the intention to “run the country for years” will trample the democratic freedoms and civil rights of its own population with equal arrogance.
The violent terror campaign unleashed against immigrants has resulted in the murder of Renee Good, who answered a call to observe ICE presence. Trump has doubled down by threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act to quell the growing tide of protests in Minneapolis and beyond. This is designed to intimidate anyone who stands up against ICE and Border Patrol terror. It arises out of the tradition that U.S. police have used against Black and Indigenous people since the founding of the United States: surveying, stopping, arresting, killing.
Trump’s assertion of a “Donroe Doctrine,” threats to take Greenland, and pursuit of a white supremacist, domestic agenda all reflect an attempt to dominate the world on behalf of Trump and his cronies. The fights to stop these atrocities at home and abroad are really one and the same struggle.
Said a snarling ICE agent, “Haven’t you learned from the last two days?” as he confronted a woman protester, grabbing and throwing her phone to the ground. In fact, YES: Hundreds of thousands, even millions of people across this country have learned from the execution of Renee Good that we are in a fight for our rights and our lives.
The year 2025 was the deadliest on record for deaths in ICE’s infamous privately run detention and torture facilities, with 32 fatalities recorded among the more than 68,000 people they currently hold. And Keith Porter, Jr. — an African American father with two children — was shot to death on New Year’s Eve by an off-duty immigration officer at his Los Angeles apartment complex.
Six federal prosecutors in…
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Twin Cities Outrage and Resistance
Randy Furst
Posted January 27, 2026
LIKE MOST MINNESOTANS and residents of Minneapolis, the assault by ICE is personal to me. I’ve lived here since 1971. We are aghast and angry and fed up….
Another Street Execution: ICE Murders on Minneapolis Streets
Malik MIah
Posted January 27, 2026
ON SATURDAY MORNING, January 24th, Alex Jeffrey Pretti was on Nicollet Avenue in Minneapolis, filming with his phone masked ICE agents as they interacted with a group protesting their presence.
Observing that one of the agents shoved a protester to the ground, he placed himself between the two and reached to help her up. The goon pepper sprayed Pretti as others moved in, grabbing him from the back and forcing him down. Although he tried once more to help the woman, he was hit several times with the…
New Doctrine of U.S. International Policy Under Trump, or Neo-fascism at the Helm of the World’s Leading Military Power
Éric Toussaint
Posted January 21, 2026
THE PUBLICATION OF the new U.S. national security doctrine in early December 2025 marks a sharp break with the past due to its openly militaristic, authoritarian, and ideologically reactionary nature. Under the guise of strategic realism, the Trump administration is now embracing a logic of unapologetic imperial dominance, fueled by neo-fascist references, climate denial, and an explicit rejection of human rights and multilateralism. In this Q&A, Éric Toussaint analyses the document, placing…
Trump in Greenland: Old-fashioned Colonialism and Acceleration of the Climate Catastrophe!
Yorgos Mitralias
Posted January 20, 2026
Almost everyone is currently talking, and rightly so, about Trump’s clearly stated intention to occupy and annex Greenland “by hook or by crook.” However, no one has even mentioned what would be by far the most important and serious consequence of this imperialist and colonialist act of unbridled Trumpism: the enormous….
Petition – For the immediate release of socialist activist Lyes Touati
Posted January 15, 2026
On 14 December 2025, Lyes Touati, the internationalist socialist activist, figurehead of the 2019 popular movement (Hirak) and the environmental struggle, among others; leading member of the Socialist Workers’ Party (PST), was arrested once again near his home in the town of Aokas in Algeria.
The Bejaia examining magistrate ordered that he be remanded in Oued Ghir prison. He is being prosecuted under Article 87 bis of the Criminal Code for alleged ‘links with the MAK’. He faces between 5 and 10…
Why Syria Needs Better Governance… and a New Kind of Opposition
Joseph Daher
Posted January 14, 2026
LARGE RALLIES IN support of Syria’s ruling authorities were organised last month across various cities controlled by Ahmed al-Sharaa’s government. Whilst they were presented as demonstrations ‘against division’ and for the unity of the country, sectarian slogans were heard amongst protesters.
It was a similar case for the massive demonstrations celebrating the first anniversary of the Assad regime’s fall. These events highlight….
Against the theocratic and authoritarian regime in Iran and imperialist interference: solidarity with the struggle of the Iranian people
Executive Bureau of the Fourth International
Posted January 14, 2026
The ongoing protests rocking Iran express deep popular anger, born of decades of dictatorship, high living costs, uncontrollable inflation and the collapse of living conditions for millions of people. International sanctions and the disastrous economic policy of the Islamic Republic of Iran have caused a deep slump, while the regime’s elites and the Revolutionary Guards have amassed immense fortunes.
Starting with traders in Tehran’s Grand Bazaar, the social unrest quickly spread to more than 80 cities,…
Washington State: Extreme Flooding and Our Future
Linda Kerth
Posted January 13, 2026
December 17, 2025: More rain today. After at least 10 days of continuing rain, with only short breaks in between. Yesterday there was a high wind warning as well. There are literally rivers of rain hitting the Northwest Coast, coming all the way from Hawaii. One after another atmospheric rivers, at least five, so far. Small towns like Sumas (right on the Canadian border), Everson and Nooksack are still recovering from equally bad flooding the occurred in 2021.
Melt ICE for Good! Agent Executes Minneapolis Mother of Three
Malik Miah
Posted January 12, 2026
RAGE HAS ERUPTED across the United States following the cold-blooded execution of Renee Nicole Good, 37, by Immigrant and Customs Enforcement agent Jonathan Ross on January 7 as masked ICE gangs roamed the cold streets of Minneapolis looking for suspected immigrants to snatch.
The fury of demonstrators marching in their hundreds, or thousands, in dozens of cities was inflamed by the immediate announcements of Trump officials that the shooting was a “justified self-defense” provoked by…
Eleni Varikas (1949-2026)
Alan Wald
Posted January 11, 2026
This article, written by Alan Wald, is on behalf of the Against the Current editorial board.
ELENI VARIKAS, A revolutionary Marxist-Feminist French-Greek professor of political philosophy, best known for her pioneering use of the concept of gender in French research, died of heart failure in Paris in early January 2026. She was 76 years old and the life partner of Michael Löwy, the French-Brazilian Marxist sociologist and philosopher. Both were contributors to ATC and good friends…
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