The much maligned US immigration agency ICE has now been arresting Native Americans in its round-ups of so-called “immigrants”. The agency is formally tasked with removing people not born in the United States, which makes the detention of Indigenous people, native to this land, entirely outside even its own legal pretext. These arrests are not about immigration. They are acts of racialised class control, enforced through skin colour and state power.

This is not an irony or a mistake. It is the logical outcome of a long term settler state that has always asserted the right to decide who belongs on stolen land. From the Indian Removal Act to the reservation system, from the Dawes Act to the carving of artificial borders through Indigenous nations, native existence has been criminalised whenever it obstructs expansion and profit.

The United States is not accidentally racist. It is a settler-colonial capitalist project built on enslavement, land theft, and the violent disciplining of labour. Agencies like ICE function to police the working class, terrorise surplus populations, and enforce racial hierarchies that suppress wages and fracture communities.

Law, citizenship, and “border security” are not neutral principles but tools of class rule, dressed in moral language and exported globally as freedom. What is happening now is not a deviation from American values, but their clearest expression. The mask has slipped revealing the true face of imperialism.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/01/15/native-americans-ice-minneapolis/

Shocking stat of the day:

The top 10% of US earners now reflect a record 49% of all consumer spending.

This percentage has risen +13 points over the last 30 years, marking a dramatic shift in spending power.

At the same time, the bottom 80% of earners represent just ~37% of total consumer expenditures, down -11 percentage points since 1995.

This means the top 10% account for a record 33% of US GDP, as personal consumer expenditures account for 68% of total economic output.

Meanwhile, the bottom 80% account for just 25% of the US economy.

Asset owners are the only winners in this economy.

• Kobeissi

US oligarchs have all the money. American’s often claim Russian oligarchs have all the money and everyone in Russia is dirt poor but the statistics* are Russia (33.0) is closer to Norway (26.5), then it is to the US (41.8). Other sample numbers UK (32.4), Germany (32.4), Spain (33.4), Australia (33.8).

*Gini index = lower the number the more equal and higher the number the more inequality

@Slavyangrad

Blaming Trump for every crime committed by the US state is counter-productive. Biden, Obama, Bush — all of them presided over war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The problem isn’t the individual at the top, it’s the system itself. Imperialism doesn’t disappear when you swap out one servant for another. If we want real change, we have to expose imperialism in all its forms to the working class, not personalise a machinery that grinds on regardless.

The U.S. Empire.
Grease on its hands. Blood on its flags. Chains for anyone who won’t submit.

The role of social democracy and the bureaucratic layer of the ‘professional-managerial-class left’ is clear, whether it be the British Labour party and those nominally ‘outside’ of it like Jeremy Corbyn, or the US Democrats and those nominally ‘outside’ of it like Cornel West.

It exists to prop up imperialism and tie the working class in the west to its own exploiters via social chauvinism, bribery, and the cooptation of our mass movements.

Millions of well-meaning workers are being misled by bourgeois education and history. Those of us who have an instinctive ‘gut reaction’ against Iran, but are not really sure why, need to stop and think: Am I victim of western media lies?

We must not allow ourselves to be duped by our class enemies. If we want to get free, we are going to have to remove the blinkers from our eyes and the traitors from our midst.

https://thecommunists.org/2026/01/21/tv/joti-brar-nick-cruse-fake-left-supports-regime-change-iran/

The main conversation on the left is that fascism is “on the rise”. We say no — it is being prepared and normalised.

What we’re witnessing across Britain, Europe, and the US isn’t a sudden surge of jackboots and salutes, but something quieter and far more dangerous. Anti-immigration sentiment wrapped in nationalist rhetoric, migration framed as invasion, protesters criminalised, police powers expanded, and courts increasingly weaponised, all while rising poverty at the heart of imperialism is blamed on everything except capitalism.

Fascism isn’t a movement, it’s an administration.

When capitalism enters a permanent crisis, it can no longer rule by consent, so it turns instead to force, fear, and division. Liberalism doesn’t collapse in opposition to fascism; it gives birth to it, then acts shocked at the language it produces. The far right doesn’t come from nowhere — it is cultivated and funded, then brought to the fore when useful. The state doesn’t fear fascism, it fears organised workers.

Anti-fascism itself has been remodelled into a set of safe capitalist reforms, while anything that moves beyond this, into real confrontation or organisation, is recast as the problem. The state and its actors perform the old switcheroo, blaming resistance for the conditions repression creates.

We need people to understand what fascism actually is before reactionaries are allowed to sell them more untruths. History has always been one of class struggle, and the next battle will be no different.

"The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.”

— Antonio Gramsci

Mental Health and Capitalism – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2025/11/22/mental-health-and-capitalism/

Comrade Jason's An infrequent reminder of all the glorious achievements of Trotskyism.

Another innocent person has been killed by the ICE militia. An organisation supposedly created to deal with illegal immigration has now killed two people in the space of a month, neither of whom were immigrants. Both were targeted during protests against this vile agency.
This is not “law enforcement”. It is political violence carried out by the state against its own population.

If this were happening in any country outside the United States, it would be condemned, sanctioned, and used as a pretext for intervention. But when the empire does it at home, it’s seen as defending US democracy.

Michael Parenti (September 30, 1933 – January 24, 2026)

Michael Parenti was an American Marxist political scientist, historian, author, lecturer, and anti-imperialist. He sadly passed away yesterday at the age of 92, surrounded by family, leaving a towering legacy. His books included the seminal Blackshirts and Reds, To Kill a Nation, and the under-read masterpiece The Assassination of Julius Caesar, a materialist history of Rome. He taught generations of readers to understand class power and to oppose imperialism. Parenti was a committed working-class intellectual, a teacher, and polemicist who never wavered in his loyalty to the working class.

Farewell comrade.

Reform present themselves as an alternative to the rest in politics, but they are nothing more than another outlet for British capitalism, dressed up in anger and nationalism. They may chest beat about the ruling classes, but will carefully avoid making any challenge to property, profit, or imperialism.

What they offer workers is not strength just misplaced anger, not change but distraction. Immigration is the convenient target, while capitalist exploitation and declining living standards are treated as facts of life rather than symptoms of a dying system.

Any party unwilling to confront capital essentially exists to defend it. Reform are no exception. Their role is not to break the system but to stabilise it by redirecting legitimate working-class anger away from the bourgeoisie.