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Trump Administration Targets Pro-Palestine Activism in Multi-State Raid

ANN ARBOR, MI — Federal prosecutors have indicted eight revolutionary pro-Palestine activists in Michigan, including a member of the Revolutionary Student Union, or RSU, in an escalation of the FBI’s campaign against the anti-imperialist movement. This follows more than two and a half years of repression against Palestine solidarity organizing at the University of Michigan, or UM, beginning…

Delaney Hall Concentration Camp Strike Enters Seventh Day as ICE Cracks Down

By The Masses Editorial Board NEWARK, NJ — Over three-hundred immigrants detained at the Delaney Hall Detention Center began a hunger and labor strike May 22, protesting illegal detention, medical neglect, spoiled food, forced labor, and retaliation inside the privately run ICE concentration camp. Delaney Hall is operated by GEO Group, a private prison corporation, and is one of the largest…

Joint Statement: Justice for the 19 Massacred in the Philippines!

On April 19th, the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the armed thugs of the Philippine Old State and puppets of the US government, massacred 19 civilians and displaced 653 residents in the peasant communities of Toboso in Negros Occidental. Among the victims, the mass activists RJ Ledesma, Alyssa Alano, Maureen Keil Santuyo, and Errol Wendel have been identified. The AFP in Negros Occidental…

Reactionary Government of Puerto Rico Holds Equality and Statehood Summit 2026

by Dulce Alvarez On March 3-5, 2026, Puerto Rico Governor, Jenniffer González-Colón, lead the second-ever Puerto Rico Equality and Statehood Summit in Washington D.C. The Summit’s intended purpose was “educating and motivating” Congress and to raise the voices of Puerto Ricans in the diaspora to take up the position of statehood for the island. Yet another statehood bill will be drafted and…

Protests Follow Incident of Transphobic Discrimination at Uptown Lounge

Uptown, Chicago — On the night of March 15th, Val, a young trans woman beginning her transition, was kicked out of the women’s restroom of Uptown Lounge, a late night bar owned by Gene Stokes and his wife, Julie Clarkson-Stokes. Val was kicked out even though the bar has been a community hub for trans and queer people in the neighborhood for years. This reputation for…

Joint Statement Condemning Illegal Detention and Torture of Activists in Delhi

The Masses is sharing a statement authored by the Forum Against Corporatization and Militarization, a joint platform fighting against corporate loot, displacement of indigenous people, and state violence in India. We extend our utmost solidarity with the 11 targeted activists who have faced abduction, detention, torture, rape, and more. We encourage all readers to show their solidarity with these…

The Masses: New Editorial Board & Line

We are glad to introduce the new Editorial Board of The Masses, which has been operating since late September of 2025. In our current form, we are a fairly new publication, and hope to humbly report on the topics that concern the working and oppressed people of the United States. As our name suggests, we hope to be a newspaper of the masses, rather than for the ruling class. In service of this…

Kansas Government Forces Social Detransition

Kansas ‒ The past weeks have seen escalating attacks on the trans community at the state and federal levels. On February 26th, SB 244 in Kansas invalidated all driver’s licenses with an updated gender marker. There was no grace period, so many transgender Kansans found themselves without a valid driver’s license overnight. It also requires that transgender people use the restroom corresponding to…

CPD Chases, Pins, and Murders Man in His Car in East Garfield Park

By E. Reed East Garfield Park – Shortly before 6:00 PM on March 9, 2026, on the 800 block of Homan and Chicago Ave., Chicago police officers chased and cornered a man in a vehicle fled from them down Chicago Ave, and then fired into the car six times after it had become trapped between a Chicago Transit Authority bus and a flock of CPD squad cars, killing him. Video of the shooting was captured…

ON IWWD, UNLEASH THE FURY OF WOMEN!

Note from the Women’s Department of the People’s Defense Committee In commemoration of International Working Women’s Day, the People’s Defense Committee is excited to announce concrete advancements in the task of creating a combative, class-conscious women’s movement through the formation of a new National Women’s Department. With the creation of the Women’s Department, we take up the task of…

Joint Statement of Support for the Prairieland Defendants

On July 4th, activists from Dallas-Fort Worth participated in a noise demonstration outside of the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas. These activists were there protesting against the detention of immigrants as well as the inhumane conditions these detainees are subjected to. The purpose of a noise demonstration is to demonstrate solidarity with detainees via loud noise, so they can…

Uprising of Immigrant Families Inside Texas Detention Center

By E. Reed DILLEY, TEXAS — On January 24, families inside an immigrant detention center in South Texas came together to demand their freedom. An immigration attorney who was visiting the premises to meet with clients informed press that the guards swiftly ordered visitors to leave, and that the voices of children could then be heard over the walls of the facility, chanting “Let us out!” and…

ICE Agents Trained to Break Fourth Amendment

By Kellen Blackwell On the evening of Jan. 21, the Associated Press obtained an ICE internal memo published through Whistleblower Aid. In this memo, “acting ICE director Todd Lyons authorizes ICE agents to forcibly enter into certain people’s homes without a judicial warrant, consent, or an emergency.” Instead, they are to use Form I-205, which is not a judicial warrant. Previously, use of Form…

Trump’s Assault on Fed. Chair Jerome Powell

By Aeneas Leviné WASHINGTON – The Trump regime’s escalating pressure campaign against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has triggered an unusual display of unity from the world’s top central bankers; sixteen of whom said in a joint statement, “we stand in full solidarity with the Federal Reserve System and its Chair Jerome H. Powell.” This move comes as the U.S. Justice Department pursues a…

US Moves to Exploit Venezuelan Oil as Rodríguez Capitulates Further

By June Johnson On January 29, the U.S. Treasury Department lifted legal restrictions that had prevented American oil companies from investing in Venezuela. This move marks an important advance to open Venezuela’s energy sector to U.S. interests, less than a month after the kidnapping of Nicolás Maduro. A “general license” was issued by the Treasury Department, allowing U.S. companies to…

Transgender Sports Cases Begin in Two States

By Kellen Blackwell Oral arguments for West Virginia vs. BPJ and Little vs. Hecox, two cases of trans girls banned from participation on their high school or college sports teams, began on Jan. 14th. Both cases challenge these bans as violations of the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause from the state level in West Virginia and Idaho. West Virginia vs. BPJ also argues a violation of Title…

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