On March 28, No Kings and dozens of unions, community organizations, and left-wing groups across the country are calling for a mobilization under the slogan: No ICE, No War, No Kings. This cannot be just another mobilization; it must be a historic surge of millions so that Donald Trump and the Epstein gang hear us loud and clear.

Trump and the Far Right were defeated in Minneapolis by the massive grassroots movement that brought about the end of Operation Metro Surge and the firing of Kristi Noem as head of the Department of Homeland Security.

The Epstein scandal has shown millions that capitalism and violence against women and children go hand in hand with the systematic oppression of the most vulnerable by those who rule the world. Further, it revealed that several leaders of the ruling class from both parties are responsible for the rape, torture, and trafficking of over a thousand women and girls.

In this first year of Trump’s presidency, the rights of trans people have been trampled upon in a super-conservative offensive that demonstrates just how authoritarian and reactionary the Far Right’s agenda is.

Despite his unpopularity at the polls, Trump, together with Israel, launched a new imperialist war against the people of Iran almost a month ago, massacring innocent civilians with the weapons of mass destruction of the two most powerful armies on the planet. This war on Iran comes on the heels of Trump’s similarly unpopular attacks on Venezuela earlier this year where the United States kidnapped President Nicolás Maduro and has held the regime and the country’s oil hostage to the whims of U.S. imperialism. Trump has also leveraged that influence to stop oil shipments to Cuba, essentially starving out the country and threatening them as his next target.

But the massive uprising of the working class in Minneapolis against ICE, the resistance against Trump across the country, the growing sentiment among the American people that the bombings targeting the most vulnerable in other countries are part of the same authoritarian offensive in the United States — a country terrorized by the fascist-like methods of Trump’s new Gestapo — and the massive scale of the No Kings mobilizations demonstrate that there is a widespread will to fight.

These struggles have shown the potential for unity between workers, students, and communities from below mobilizing in the streets, schools and workplaces against Trump and the Far Right. They’ve shown that when we fight, we can win, and that Trump is not omnipotent.

As part of the broader discontent, a vanguard of young people and workers is developing a radicalized anti-imperialist consciousness in the wake of the genocide in Gaza, with hopes of building a future free from war, exploitation, and oppression — that is, a socialist future. This vanguard is part of left organizations like DSA, PSL, and many others across the country.

This coming No Kings mobilization will be a great opportunity for this vanguard and the Left to present an alternative to what the Democrats and the union and social movement bureaucracies are putting forward. These bureaucracies, which will rightly be mobilizing this Saturday, believe that can defeat Trump and the Far Right by pressuring the Democrats to vote against war powers for Trump in Congress, or voting for Democrats in the midterm elections.

Based on this strategy, these bureaucracies call for mobilization, but not for deepening our unity and organizing. And they do not call for us to become more radical, potentially disrupting the peaceful path towards the November elections. They “forget” that it was President Obama, with the enthusiastic support of Hillary Clinton and the whole Democratic Party, who deported more immigrants than any other president. They “forget” that it was Joe Biden who armed Israel to the teeth to commit genocide against the Palestinian people.

We believe that for the socialist and anti-imperialist Left to present a genuine alternative to the Democrats, we must participate vigorously in the coming No Kings and to campaign together for a different platform. Because in addition to abolishing ICE, the movement in solidarity with immigrants must go further and draw on the lessons of the Civil Rights Movement led by Black people, to win every single immigrant right: citizenship, social security, voting rights, the right to protest, the right to work, the right to organize unions, the right to education, and the right to live.

The anti-imperialist Left and the leftist sectors of the immigrant rights’ movement must also enthusiastically support the unity of the resistance against Trump on the streets with everyone who opposes ICE and the war. We must demand that unions and social movements take the lead in the struggle, while we organize our movement in the streets, from our workplaces and from our schools, empowering the rank and file.

We believe that the anti-imperialist Left should bring to No Kings the demand to defeat the United States and Israel in their war against Iran. These two countries’ victory will only advance the ethnic cleansing of the
Palestinian people, the offensive against the Cuban people, and the offensive at home against immigrants. Defending Iran from the Imperialist attack does not mean supporting the Iranian regime that oppresses its own people and the whole Iranian working class. And the anti-imperialist Left should loudly demand U.S. Hands off Cuba, and Oil for Cuba Now!

With these messages and slogans, we invite the socialist Left, activists, anti-imperialist collectives, and everyone who agrees with this perspective to join Left Voice in New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles, to take the streets together to demand loud: Abolish ICE, Full Rights for Immigrants, the Defeat of Imperialism in Iran, and Hands off Cuba!

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