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ICE Arrests 10,000 in Five Days as Trump Regime Escalates Nationwide Terror Campaign

WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, arrested more than 10,000 people from June 25 to July 1 as the Trump regime escalated its nationwide deportation campaign and pushed federal agents toward a standing quota of 2,000 arrests a day. The late June surge marked one of the sharpest accelerations of immigration arrests since Trump returned to office. The scale far exceeds the…

ICE Arrests 10,000 in Five Days as Trump Regime Escalates Nationwide Terror Campaign

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A City’s Battle Over Flock: the City Council, the Mayor, and the Struggle Against Surveillance

TROY, NEW YORK – Since April 1, Troy, New York has been in a state of emergency declared by its mayor, Carmella Mantello. The emergency in question is not a natural disaster, nor is it a wave of violence, or a mass uprising: it is the City Council’s refusal to approve funds for the city’s Flock contract, which renewed automatically only days after the Council decided to table their vote on the…

A City’s Battle Over Flock: the City Council, the Mayor, and the Struggle Against Surveillance

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ICE Concentration Camps Kill Migrants Through Medical Neglect

Allegations of medical neglect are mounting in migrant concentration camps across the country. The last year and a half, 2025 and 2026, have been the deadliest period on record since the Department of Homeland Security was created in 2003. At least 18 detainees have died since Jan. 1, putting this year on pace to surpass last year’s death toll. In total, 51 people have died in ICE custody since…

ICE Concentration Camps Kill Migrants Through Medical Neglect

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The Hypocrisy of The Worker

Some comrades may have noticed that for the last few months a publication known as The Worker has written a series of unhinged “polemics” directed at what they refer to as the Right Opportunist Headquarters. The series of articles are likely a very strange spectacle to most onlookers, with their use of unique terms like “feces-stained mouths,” “diapers of division,” “septic tank,” etc. Yesterday,…

The Hypocrisy of The Worker

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Supreme Court June Rulings Expand State Power Over Immigrants And The Oppressed

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court issued major rulings in June expanding state power over immigrants, federal agencies and oppressed people, including decisions allowing the Trump regime to end protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants and restrict asylum processing. Even where the court rejected parts of Trump’s program, its overall direction strengthened the Old State’s machinery…

Supreme Court June Rulings Expand State Power Over Immigrants And The Oppressed

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U.S. Imperialism And The Ebola Crisis In East And Central Africa

AFRICA – Social murder and the ruthless national oppression of the East and Central African peoples by world imperialism continues as the Ebola outbreak claims the lives of nearly 380 out of 1,300 Congolese in the Ituri, North and South Kivu provinces. The haemorrhagic virus has also made its way to Uganda, with 650 suspected cases and more than 150 suspected deaths in Kampala and two other…

U.S. Imperialism And The Ebola Crisis In East And Central Africa

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All-Chicago Tenant Alliance Call For Aid

The Masses Editorial Board is republishing the following call for aid from the All-Chicago Tenant Alliance. ACTA is a class-conscious organization of tenants organizing collectively against landlords in the city, and whose work highlights the growing need for a united class-conscious tenants movement in the USA. ACTA’s Strike Fund is one of the many ways tenants can push collective struggle…

All-Chicago Tenant Alliance Call For Aid

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ICE Murders Two Fathers In One Week, From Texas To Maine

BIDDEFORD, Maine — On the morning of Monday, July 13, 2026, shortly after 7 AM, ICE agents murdered Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26 year old father from Colombia in Biddeford, Maine. According to official reports, Guerrero left his home accompanied by his partner and young daughter. As they traveled down Pool Street, ICE thugs surrounded Guerrero and his family, causing him react evasively The…

ICE Murders Two Fathers In One Week, From Texas To Maine

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Trump Regime Breaks Ceasefire And Reignites Its War Of Aggression Against Iran

Trump Regime Breaks Ceasefire And Reignites Its War Of Aggression Against Iran

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What the Prairieland Verdicts Mean for the Class-Conscious Mass Movement

On May 11th, eight activists detained in Prairieland Texas were found guilty of “providing material support to terrorists” and sentenced up to a century in prison; and a combined 450 years in federal prison. Among the evidence the state used to argue that the detained activists were part of an “antifa terrorist cell” was the possession of left-wing literature. This decision is clearly intended to…

What the Prairieland Verdicts Mean for the Class-Conscious Mass Movement

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No Witnesses to State Killings: Indiana Bars Press From Executions

INDIANA – On June 5th, 2026 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld Indiana law prohibiting journalists from witnessing state executions in a divided 2-1 decision. Beyond the prison warden, medical staff and up to eight members of the victim’s family, state law limits execution witnesses to up to five family members or friends of the convicted person and their spiritual adviser…

No Witnesses to State Killings: Indiana Bars Press From Executions

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A Worker’s Guide to: Canvassing

The Masses Editorial Board is re-publishing the following piece which we find unity with and was written by our comrades at the New Labor Press. This piece contains vital information on the taking up of mass work and agitational propaganda. Canvassing is a basic tool for any organization seeking to expand its membership. Labor unions, political parties, non-profits, and even social clubs canvas.…

A Worker’s Guide to: Canvassing

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The Battle of Greasy Grass and the Living Struggle for Indigenous Self-Determination

The Masses Editorial Board received the following piece on July 4, 2026, the date marking celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the establishment of the United States of America on Indigenous land. CROW AGENCY, MONTANA – On June 25, members and descendants of over 20 Indigenous nations across the continent gathered on the rolling plains along the Little Bighorn River to commemorate the 150th…

The Battle of Greasy Grass and the Living Struggle for Indigenous Self-Determination

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U.S. Imperialism Tightens the Noose as Cuban Revisionism Deepens Market Reforms

CUBA – U.S. Imperialism is intensifying its siege on and preparing for a military invasion of Cuba, after facing a strategic defeat in its unpopular war on Iran. On June 12, amidst these preparations, the revisionist Communist Party of Cuba and its First Secretary, Miguel Diaz-Canel, announced the implementation of market reforms through its ratified Economic and Social Program for…

U.S. Imperialism Tightens the Noose as Cuban Revisionism Deepens Market Reforms

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.S. Imperialism Tightens the Noose as Cuban Revisionism Deepens Market Reforms By Naweza Shakur CUBA – U.S. Imperialism is intensifying its siege on and preparing for a military invasion of Cuba, after facing a strategic defeat in its unpopular war on Iran. On June 12, amidst these preparations, th

U.S. Imperialism Tightens the Noose as Cuban Revisionism Deepens Market Reforms

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Four Deaths at Palmetto Distribution Center Expose the Deadly USPS Privatization Drive

By Jonas Vilkas PALMETTO, Georgia — U.S. Postal Service worker Demarcus Little Sr., 45, collapsed and died June 3 while working at the Palmetto Regional Processing and Distribution Center, marking the fourth reported worker death at the facility since it opened in February 2024. Little’s fiancée, Laura Wheaton, is fighting to get out the truth about his death. Wheaton told Atlanta News First…

Four Deaths at Palmetto Distribution Center Expose the Deadly USPS Privatization Drive