UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA): AND: Rebellion against mass deportation in the USA grows (Red Herald)

 

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June 11, 2025

Masses wave the Mexican Flag in front of burning vehicles. Source: Etienne Laurent/AFP/Getty Images

Hereby we publish an unofficial translation of an article published by A Nova Democracia.

Demonstrators of the United States (USA) are combating against two thousand National Guard troops on the third day of protests against Donald Trump government mass deportation policies. The confrontations started on Friday the 6th of June in Los Angeles after an escalation in the kidnappings made by the immigration service (ICE) and now they spread to other states.

The protests started on the last Friday after an escalation in the number of imprisoned immigrants captured by ICE. At least 44 migrants got arbitrarily captured, what provoked demonstrations in different locations in Los Angeles.

The people took to the streets and during Sunday, they confronted the ICE and police forces with sticks and stones, and fireworks. Barricades with improvised ballistic shields and burned cars also were broadly used.

Demonstrators confiscate shop items, a graffiti says “Fuck ICE” Source: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

On Monday the 9th of June, the protest against the deportation also extended to San Francisco. The march initiated there like a solidarity demonstration, but rapidly evolved when the police started the repression and the demonstrators responded by throwing objects.

National Guard arrives

The ultra-reaccionary Donald Trump, frightened with the possibility of a new wave of protests like those that occurred after the assassination of George Floyd in 2020, activated the “national insurrection” law, allowing unproportionate mobilization of the national guards to unleash barbarism against the demonstration.

The National Guard troops invaded Los Angeles in the first hours of Sunday, with camouflaged vehicles and automatic arms. Still, nothing seemed to intimidate the demonstrators. Raising the Palestine, Mexico and other oppressed countries’ flags, they responded in an indomitable form against the imperialist aggression, transforming the streets of Los Angeles in real trenches of struggle for the migrants’ rights.

Demonstrators form a defense line in front of the National Guard. Source: Eric Thayer/AP

While the armed vehicles invaded Los Angeles, the inhabitants of the city mobilized, forming more barriers and took preparations. The first confrontation occurred in front of the federal prison that gathers dozens of migrants. The Yankees shot teargas, pepper spray and rubber bullets, but couldn’t achieve to stop the people’s fury, that kept on advancing shouting “ICE leave!”

The last time the National Guard took actions by a decision made alone by the president – ignoring the governors – it happened in march 1965, more than 60 years ago, while the upcoming racial segregation in the country. On that occasion president Lyndon B. Johnson ordered a violent intervention against the civil rights march of Alabama, sending massively the hounds of the State to disperse the demonstrators.

These episodes were extraordinary, because generally, when there comes a situation that the north American authorities consider as “they are not equipped sufficiently to take care of it themselves”, it is awaited that the president leads the sinister work of “containing” together with the governor.

Bomb with moral effect explodes close to the detention center. Source: Eric Thayer/AP

It was what happened 1992, in one of the bloodiest episodes of racism in the United States, what also occurred in Los Angeles: a filthy police violation against the people’s struggle, that occurred in response of a pardoning of two agents who have beaten up brutally Rodney King, a black working man. That also occurred in 2020, when guardian soldiers where mobilized against more then 20 States to oppress the protests against the genocide of the black people.

Threat of marine corps

With all, what you could see during the demonstrations today is even more brutal, because the secretary of defense of the United States, Pete Hegseth, threatened to send the soldiers of the marines to massacre the demonstrators, abusing the force of the repressive forces of the State. About 500 gunmen of the marines in Twentynine Palms are in preparations to intervene, in accordance with the North Command of the United States.

It is necessary to highlight that the county of Los Angeles, that has a population that is made up by 34% of foreigners, making it to one of the main centers of immigrant hunt, led by the ultra-reaccionary government of Donald Trump.

Therefore the president Trump threatened to open fire at the same time against the peaceful demonstrators, giving promise to “position the troops everywhere”. The governor of California, Gavin Newsom, sees this action as a “severe violation of the State’s sovereignty”.

Until now, the people’s struggle continues without stepping back, confronting the implacable police brutality.

Demonstrations and protests for honoring Comrade Basavaraj and to support the People’s War in India -info

June 11, 2025

Featured image: protest rally against the murder of Maoists in India, carried out in Dakha, Bangladesh. Source: Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement (RSYM)’s Facebook account.

We hereby share some new actions done accros the world.

In India, numerous mobilizations and protests have taken place against the murder of Comrade Basavaraj and the other martyrs of the massacre on May 21. The Revolutionary Students’ Front (RSF) has carried out several of these actions since the end of May:

The Revolutionary Student-Youth Movement of Bangladesh (RSYM) held a rally with speeches carried out by various members of social movements and organizations protesting against the murder of Maoists in India, highlighting the case of Comrade Basavaraj, and demanding an end to Operation Kagaar:

In Helsinki, Finland, Anti-Imperialists Helsinki held a solidarity barbecue where materials about the people’s war in India were distributed, and a pro-Palestinian organization also participated:

 

Source: Punalippu

 

Anti-Imperialists Helsinki has also called for a demonstration in front of the Indian embassy in the same city for Sunday, June 15. They have done graffiti in Helsinki and Vantaa, and put up posters in Tampere:

 

Source: Punalippu

 

TKP/ML militants have put up posters and hanged up banners in places such as Switzerland, France and Netherlands:

In Norway several actions were carried out in honor to Comrade Basavaraj. In Bergen posters were put up and graffiti were done in Oslo:

 

Source: Tjen Folket Media

 

In Leipzig, Germany, graffiti honoring Comrade Basavaraj were done:

 

Source: Dem Volke Dienen

 

In Albacete,Spanish State, posters were put up in the Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM):

 

Source: Servir al Pueblo

 

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INDIA: El Comité Central del PCI (Maoísta) convoca a Bharat Bandh (un paro) para el 10 de junio.

El Comité Central del PCI (Maoísta) convoca a Bharat Bandh el 10 de junio en respuesta al asesinato de Namballa Kesava Rao (Camarada Basavaraj) por parte del gobierno de Modi Los maoístas convocan a Bharat Bandh el 10 de junio para protestar por el encuentro con el líder Keshav Rao El portavoz del Comité Central del PCI (Maoísta), camarada Abhay, convocó a un Bharat Bandh el 10 de junio para condenar el asesinato del secretario general del partido maoísta, Namballa Kesava Rao, alias Basavaraj, en un enfrentamiento en Chhattisgarh el 21 de mayo. El camarada Abhay dijo que, siguiendo las instrucciones del Primer Ministro Narendra Modi y del Ministro del Interior Amit Shah, un gran número de fuerzas de comando y paramilitares y de la Policía Estatal hicieron una redada en los bosques de la zona de Maad del distrito de Narayanapur de Chhattisgarh y mataron a muchos cuadros del EGLP (el brazo armado del PCI (Maoísta)). Del 11 de junio al 3 de agosto se llevarán a cabo reuniones conmemorativas en honor de los maoístas asesinados en todo el país para condenar el encuentro y protestar contra la 'Operación Kagaar', declaró el camarada Abhay.

El camarada Abhay declaró que Kesava Rao, en sus 51 años de vida revolucionaria, hizo grandes contribuciones al partido y que su muerte fue una gran pérdida para el movimiento maoísta, y agregó que a pesar de esta pérdida el partido maoísta se reagruparía y se recuperaría. Durante los últimos 53 años, el PCI (Maoísta) perdió a muchos líderes del Comité Central y Estatal en enfrentamientos, pero el partido maoísta continuó su lucha por las clases oprimidas y los sectores más pobres de la sociedad, señaló el camarada Abhay.

FILIPINAS: Honour and glory to comrade Ka Louie!

 

Ka Louie Jalandoni, 90

It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Ka Louie Jalandoni, beloved by the masses, a true internationalist, revolutionary leader and stalwart of peace. Ka Louie passed away peacefully at around 9:05 in the morning in Utrecht, the Netherlands (03:05pm Philippine time) on June 7, 2025. He was 90 years old.

In his final moments, Ka Louie was surrounded by comrades, his wife Ka Coni, and his family.  The Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines expresses its condolences to Ka Louie’s family, whose love, strength, and support accompanied him through decades of service to the Filipino people’s revolutionary cause.

Central Committee                                    National Council

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Follows the statement of the CPP Central Committee honoring Ka Louie.

Honor and uphold the revolutionary legacy of Ka Louie Jalandoni: stalwart of peace, revolutionary!

June 7, 2025

Central Committee

Communist Party of the Philippines

In recognition of his lifelong dedication and contributions to the people’s democratic revolution, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Philippines confers its highest honors to Ka Louie Jalandoni. His contributions to building and strengthening the Party and the National Democratic Front, and to waging the people’s democratic revolution, principally through armed struggle, as well as other forms of struggle, including through the peace negotiations are indelible.

Ka Louie passed away today. He was 90.

Ka Louie lived a life that was nothing short of extraordinary. He was born on into a family of big landlords and sugar barons in Negros Island on February 26, 1935. Despite the comfort and privilege he was born into, Ka Louie developed a deep political consciousness through his immersion in the lives and struggles of sugar workers who toiled endlessly in the sugar fields of Negros.

He took seriously the maxim of “preferential option for the poor” as a guiding principle in life. As a former Catholic priest, he took part in the “Church to the Barrios” program, leading initiatives in neglected rural communities and learning firsthand the harsh realities of poverty, exploitation, and state repression. His work among the masses transformed him, and deepened his resolve to act not just a shepherd of faith, but as a servant of the revolution.

On February 17, 1972, Ka Louie played a key role in founding the Christians for National Liberation (CNL) as he organized progressive-minded religious workers like himself to resist the fascist state terror of the Marcos Sr. dictatorship. In its founding assembly, both Ka Louie and his wife Ka Coni were elected to the National Executive Board. The following month, in March 1972, Ka Louie joined the Communist Party of the Philippines. The CNL would later become one of the founding allied organizations of the NDFP in 1973.

When Marcos declared martial law, Ka Louie went underground in defiance of the fascist dictatorship. He and Ka Coni were arrested in 1973 and detained at Fort Bonifacio. There, Ka Louie was kept for almost a year in a dark, windowless cell with six or seven others. A wave of protests and campaign efforts by religious and international human rights groups forced the Marcos regime to release them in July 1974.

Ka Louie resumed revolutionary work upon his release. In 1975, he helped organize coordinate the historic La Tondena workers’ strike in Manila – the first major labor strike under martial rule. The strike effectively shattered the climate of fear caused by martial law and marked the resurgence of a series of mass struggles and widespread demonstrations through the late 1970s and early 1980s.

In 1976, Ka Louie went abroad to lead international relations work for the Party and to expose the Marcos dictatorship’s brutal crimes. Due to threats on their lives and the certainty of persecution should they return to the Philippines, Ka Louie and Ka Coni sought and were granted political asylum in the Netherlands – becoming the first Filipinos to do so. From exile, Ka Louie worked tirelessly in building support for the Philippine revolution.

In July 1977, Ka Louie was formally designated as the International Representative of the NDFP. He played a vital role in building the NDFP’s International Office in Utrecht and organizing global support for the Filipino people’s resistance against the US-Marcos dictatorship. He was a key organizer of the People's Permanent Tribunal on the Philippines in 1980 which exposed the regime’s gross violations of human rights and recognized the NDF as the genuine representative of the Filipino people.

As the NDFP’s chief international representative, Ka Louie undertook proto-diplomatic work and established relations with foreign governments, international agencies, solidarity groups, and revolutionary movements and parties across the globe. He helped amplify the voice of the Filipino people by articulating the revolutionary movement’s just cause.

In 1989, Ka Louie was assigned as chief negotiator of the NDFP in peace negotiations with the Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP). In this role, he exemplified the revolutionary movement’s firm commitment to achieving a just and lasting peace – one that addresses the roots of armed conflict: landlessness, poverty, and foreign subjugation. Through countless rounds of negotiations, Ka Louie firmly stood as a pillar of integrity and revolutionary resolve, always placing the Filipino masses at the center of the process.

We express our deepest gratitude to Ka Louie Jalandoni for dedicating his life to the Filipino people, to the National Democratic Front, and to the Communist Party of the Philippines. We will forever cherish the immense contributions he made in advancing the people’s struggle for national and social liberation. As we mourn his passing, we firmly vow to carry forward his legacy of selfless service, boundless humility, revolutionary integrity, and commitment to waging the people’s democratic revolution until final victory is won.

Mabuhay ang alala ni Ka Louie Jalandoni!

Ipagpatuloy ang kaniyang dakilang rebolusyonaryong pamana!