San Diego Socialist Alternative

TOMORROW! Socialist Alternative endorses the January 30 national day of action called by students at the University of Minnesota. Swipe to see steps to organize your coworkers and classmates. We need to call on major unions to set a date for a nationwide general strike to SHUT IT DOWN!
     

Healthcare workers across the country demand that healthcare unions call for a nationwide strike against Trump and ICE!

Healthcare unions need to follow the lead of the labor movement in Minnesota and shut it down. These deportations don’t make anyone safer—not burned out workers or terrified immigrant patients.

We demand justice for Alex Pretti, ICE out of our workplaces, and abolish ICE to fund healthcare, affordable housing, and schools!

Sign the petition: Tinyurl.com/HealthcareAgainstICE

ICE is completely out of control. We cannot wait for the empty words of toothless politicians like Minneapolis Mayor Frey or Governor Walz to materialize into action. Yesterday, we showed our power in shutting down the Twin Cities. We need to shut it down again on Monday. This time we don’t stop until ICE leaves.

Read our statement at socialistalternative.org

         

Are you overwhelmed and angry about ICE terror, Trump, war, and capitalism? None of these terrible things will end without us getting organized to overthrow the capitalist system that spawned them.

We need to get organized, because we have no faith in the corporate Democrats to build the mass movement necessary to take on Trump and shut down his attacks.

We need mass organizing meetings, coordinated rapid response groups in every city, escalated direct actions, and the labor movement to prepare for a one-day strike to shut down Trump.

From Minneapolis to Venezuela, we need to take on the whole rotten system and fight for socialism!

Join San Diego Socialist Alternative next Thursday 1/15 at 6:30pm for our open branch meeting to discuss how we can build the most effective movement against ICE, war and capitalism.

Renee Nicole Good, a mother, poet, and musician, was legally documenting ICE activities when ICE agents approached her vehicle and tried to force open her door. An agent then shot her in the face as she tried to drive away, and she died as ICE blocked ambulances from reaching her.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem justified the ICE agent as acting in self-defense against an “act of domestic terrorism,” which video of the shooting reveals to be a clearly ridiculous charge. Trump doubled down on these claims and blamed the “radical left.”

The simmering outrage in the Twin Cities has broken the surface based on this horrific act of right-wing violence. Demonstrations have been ongoing since the murder, and more are being organized for the coming days, as well as across the country.

Swipe through to read our analysis of the situation, and what working class people outraged at this brutality, on top of ICE’s abductions, can do to win justice for Renee and all victims of state violence.

Trump has begun a new US imperialist war for regime change in Latin America. After months of bullying, threats and indiscriminate murderous attacks in the Caribbean, US warplanes descended on Venezuela last night, bombing multiple locations and capturing Nicolás Maduro.

This brutal aggression must be urgently resisted by the international working-class movement, in Latin America and beyond, including in the US. We must take to the streets to say: Hands off Venezuela!

Trump's ruthless regime's intentions are clear: to install a puppet government in Caracas which returns the world's greatest known oil reserves and other natural resources to the unfettered control of US billionaires.

Just like in the Middle East, Ukraine, Africa and the Pacific, Trump is acting undeterred by "international laws and norms" to grab resources and combat the influence of rival imperialist powers especially China. His regime seeks to reassert itself in the Western Hemisphere. Chinese capitalism is the main target of this aggressive US strategy: Venezuela under Maduro is its ‘crown jewel’, biggest debtor by far and key oil supplier.

But Latin America is noone's "back yard". Its people have a right to control their own destinies. The banner of resistance to imperialism has moved millions throughout the continent's revolutionary history and must do so again today.

In 2002, the Venezuelan working class and oppressed people defeated a US-backed coup to remove Hugo Chávez from power. Today, imperialism can again be defeated if working people organize their power. Democratic committees of action should be formed in communities across the country to resist further attacks and any attempt to impose a new far-right regime.

While Washington's rivals on the global stage will issue words of condemnation at Trump’s attack, no trust can be placed in any imperialist power to defend the Venezuelan people. Opposition to US-imposed regime change to place the far right in power must also not mean political support for the Maduro government, which does not represent the continuity of the Bolivarian revolution, but instead has deeply undermined its conquests.

To defeat imperialism and win real control over Venezuela's future, an independent movement of the workers and poor must fight for the public, democratic ownership and control of the country's natural resources and key industries.

International Socialist Alternative stands in solidarity with the Venezuelan people and in favour of a socialist Venezuela, as part of a free and voluntary socialist federation of Latin America.

What comes after the student encampments? How can students and workers fight ICE raids? Join us on Thursday 630PM for a discussion on the next steps we can take to fight trump, and why a socialist program is necessary!

Join us for a public meeting this Thursday at 6:30pm the Peace Resource Center to discuss what it’s going to take to push back against Trump and the right wing's escalating attacks on trans people and the wider LGBTQ community.

Trump’s attacks on the working class and an emboldened right wing requires a militant working class struggle–we cannot rely on the Democrats and the courts to save us!

We need mass organization in our workplaces, schools, and communities to win rights for q***r people, stop deportations, and end the funding of imperialist wars.

We must uproot this rotten capitalist system and fight for a socialist transformation of society!

Let's talk about how to do it! See you then! ✊

It's time to get organized! Public meeting in City Heights 6/26. Save the date 📆.