In Elgin, a town just northwest of Chicago, an undocumented worker who has been in the state for more than two decades was arrested by ICE after officers initiated a violent raid that pulled his family from their home in the early hours of the morning.
Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan is supervising the mass repression in Chicago, while state and local Democratic Party officials do nothing.
After an exceptionally lethal year at the prison, the warden was forced out, but families are still awaiting answers on the causes of their loved ones’ deaths.
Workers at the plant on the south side of Chicago last Monday reported arriving to locked gates as well as delivery drivers unaware the plant was shut down permanently.
Parents at Fuentes Elementary organized a demonstration to protest the closure of their children’s school. Acero, the charter network, is closing seven schools this year, impacting 2,000 students and 250 jobs in primarily working class communities.
The Democratic Party is overseeing a historic assault on public education in the nation’s third largest school district.
On Tuesday, Dakkota parts workers in Chicago denounced the UAW for bringing back a sellout deal identical to one they previously rejected overwhelmingly.
In its plunder of Ukraine and intimidation of anti-war opposition, the Democratic Party has partnered with Banderovites in Chicago, just as it has in Kiev.
The city is reneging on its earlier pledge not to arrest peaceful protesters as it links up the fascist-ridden Chicago police with federal law enforcement agencies.
The assault took place three days after President Joe Biden denounced the protests as violent and anti-semitic, virtually indemnifying Zionist and fascist provocateurs who also attacked encampments and assaulted students over the weekend.
The extreme violence of the trigger-happy police evident in the videos reveals a level of hostility to the lives and the rights of all citizens characteristic of an occupying military.
There was significant opposition to the Gaza genocide in the March 26 Illinois primary.
In the days immediately after the young boy’s death, Mayor Brandon Johnson’s office issued a statement that included the claim, “The child does not appear to have died from an infectious disease.”
One day before the City Council vote, high school students held anti-war rallies and sit-ins at City Hall to demand passage of the ceasefire resolution.
DSA alderpersons have either issued apologetics for the horrific conditions migrants are being held in or joined in reactionary racialist tirades.
Organizers attempted to enforce a “no politics” rule, but the crowd made it clear to a White House representative that the Biden administration's war policy and the corporate media have contributed to the atmosphere that led to the 6-year-old’s brutal killing.
The resolution was aimed at intimidating social opposition to conditions of oppression and exploitation in both Palestine and Chicago itself.
The day before Mack Trucks workers voted down his contract, UAW President Shawn Fain attended a mutual aid benefit with the Democrats.
The plan to have private security firm GardaWorld build and operate migrant camps, is provoking popular revulsion and anger and deepening the crisis within the Democratic Party.
The “Socialism 2023” conference was dominated by the self-absorption and reactionary politics of the upper middle class milieu populating the DSA, the fraudulent “reformists” of the trade union bureaucracy and pro-imperialist state operatives.
