No. 36
September 11, 2025
Anniversary of 9/11
CPC(M-L)'s Condolences to All Victims of U.S. "War on Terror"
Twenty-Four Years of Criminal U.S. "War
on Terror" Give
Rise to More
U.S. State Terror
Talk of "Chipocalypse Now" and Danger of Open Civil War
U.S. Workers Fight State Organized
Assaults on Basis of Self-Reliance
and Defending Rights of
All
Resistance in Chicago, DC and Los
Angeles Shows
Self-Reliance Is the
Only Way
Actions Oppose Massive ICE Raid Against
Hundreds of
Workers at
Georgia Hyundai Plant
Worker at Hyundai Plant Protest Denounces
Immigration Raid
Carney Government's Capitulation
to U.S. Incursions into Canada
for "National Security"
Dangerous Measures Further Extend U.S. Police and
Military Powers into Canada
Anniversary of 9/11
CPC(M-L)'s Condolences to All Victims
of U.S. "War on Terror"
First responders on
the
ground following terror attacks on 9/11
On the occasion of the 24th Anniversary of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 in the United States, the Communist Party of Canada (Marxist-Leninist) once again joins the people of this country and the world to extend its profound sympathies to the families of all those killed in the terrorist attacks against the Twin Towers in New York City and in Washington, DC, as well as on the hijacked airlines and related events on that day.
Its sympathies extend to the families of the many thousands of first responders and residents of New York City who have died in the years since as a result of the toxic cancer-causing dust and debris from the attacks. As of March this year, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control attributes 8,215 deaths, including 5,844 responders, to diseases caused by exposure to toxic debris. As of June this year, the number of first responders and others diagnosed with 9/11-linked cancers has reached 48,579, a figure that has increased 143 per cent in the past five years. First responders involved in the 9/11 rescue operations have much higher rates of cancer than the rest of the population -- a 25 per cent increased risk of prostate cancer, a 41 per cent increased rate of thyroid cancer and a 219 per cent increase in leukemia, for example.
There is great appreciation among the people for the heroic efforts of the first responders on 9/11 and support for all those who need it to get the medical treatment they require.
CPC(M-L) also recognizes the generosity of many families and communities in Canada who helped take care of passengers of airlines diverted to Gander International Airport that day, as well as support the many families of Canadians whose lives were lost directly in the terrorist attacks that day.
On
this occasion, CPC(M-L) also once again extends its condolences to the
families and friends of the estimated 4.5 million killed due to the
wars of aggression, occupation and subjugation the United States has
waged since 9/11 in the name of the "War on Terror." This includes not
only
Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya among others, but also the victims of all the
"colour revolutions" for regime change carried out by the U.S., where
horrors occur in the name of the U.S. definition of human rights,
freedom and democracy.
CPC(M-L) decries Canada's participation in the state-terrorism of the United States against the peoples of the world.
CPC(M-L) also condemns the atrocities the U.S. is carrying out at this time, with Canada's support, all over the world, in the name of "law and order," opposing "terrorism" and standing for "peace and freedom." It condemns Canada's support for the U.S. war machine and excuses for the crimes it is committing against humanity.
CPC(M-L) expresses its full support for the heroic fights the U.S. working class and people are waging today against the use of Trump's police and military powers and our confidence in the line of march they are following of militant resistance based on self-reliance.
On this occasion, TML is producing a Supplement dedicated to the militant fight the working class and people of the United States are waging to hold the U.S. imperialists and their president in check.
Also on this day, CPC(M-L) reiterates its solidarity with the people of Chile and the Chilean community in Canada who suffered so greatly as a result of the U.S. coup d'ιtat carried out on September 11, 1973 which installed the brutal dictator Augusto Pinochet in power and unleashed the heinous Operation Condor which carried out the torture, disappearances and assassinations of tens of thousands of youth from the Southern Cone. The fight of the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean against current U.S. imperialist striving to dominate their countries is a crucial contribution to the resistance to U.S. war preparations.
Washington
DC, September 6, 2025
Twenty-Four Years of Criminal U.S. War on Terror Give Rise to More U.S. State Terror
We
Are All DC demonstration in Washington, DC, September 6,
2025
With the crimes taking place in the United States, in which police power and military power are being deployed in a terrorist manner in the name of law and order, security and the "national interest," the 24th anniversary of 9/11 is a time to reflect on the consequences of the U.S. government's "War on Terror."
Twenty-four years ago, after the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York City and the Pentagon, then President George Bush declared the "War on Terror" saying: "You are either with us or with the terrorists." This is the policy that the executive has used since then to decide who is and is not terrorist and brand and punish people and organizations as such. Today the label "narco-terrorist" is increasingly used to justify not only the use of terror at home against immigrants, refugees and all those the Trump administration qualifies as enemies, but also to justify military actions abroad.
At the time of the attacks 24 years ago, Congress was still playing a role in passing significant legislation and had yet to be disposed of as is taking place today. Legislation passed at that time included the Patriot Act 2001, which made "legal" the attacks by the executive and expanded the definition of "terrorism." It permitted government spying and sharing of information among policing agencies. It facilitated arrests of people guilty of no crime. Arabs, Muslims, Yemenis, and people from countries considered "anti-American" were all subject to state-organized attacks and deprived of their rights. Congress established the entire Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the Homeland Security Act of 2002. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was created as part of DHS and the broader criminalization of immigration matters, which come under civilian, not criminal law.
Various other "anti-terrorism" laws have been passed since then. In 2002, Congress also passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF), used since then to justify military action by the president. Such measures, at home and abroad, have expanded to unprecedented levels today.
Today,
in the name of this "War on Terror" and now "narco-terrorists," the
executive no longer even defers to Congress. Every president since Bush
has strengthened and expanded executive powers and impunity to the
point where the presidency now rules through executive orders and other
police
powers, including use of the military, with even less regard for U.S.
or international law.
The government is using its branding of individuals and groups as "narco-terrorist" to conduct mass arrests and deportations of people. This branding of "with us or with the terrorists," is being used far more broadly inside the country to attack anyone the president decides, as well as abroad. Increasingly, no distinction is made between inside and outside of the country for the unjust and illegitimate targeting and violence against the peoples, especially those standing up to oppose genocide and protect human rights, including the right to speak and organize.
The U.S. bombing of a speedboat in international waters in the Caribbean on September 2 was part of Trump's recent deployment of warships and a force of 4,000 Navy and Marines to the Caribbean. The unprovoked attack killed 11 people -- with no declaration of war or imminent threat or warning or trial or even evidence, just the U.S. claim that "narco-terrorists" were involved. This is but one example of the unfettered use of violence that even military officials said was illegal. Requirements for use of military force include warnings to halt, non-lethal force to capture, and lethal force only in cases of self-defense or resistance.
Trump has now openly renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War. Pete Hegseth, now called Secretary of War, referring to the U.S. bombing of the vessel in the Caribbean, said, "President Trump has shown whether it's the southwest border, whether it's the Houthis in freedom of navigation, whether it's Midnight Hammer in Iran, that the precise application of American power can have incredible impacts and reshape dynamics around the world and in the region."
This "precise application of American power" can be seen in the months-long bombing of Yemen, including killing top government officials and civilians and the unprovoked attack on Iran carried out with Israel, alongside the use of the military inside the U.S. at the southern border. Hegseth, speaking on Fox & Friends, again in relation to the killing of 11 people on the speedboat blown up in international waters, said, "This is a deadly, serious mission for us, and it won't stop with just this strike. Anyone else trafficking in the waters who we know is a designated narco-terrorist will face the same fate."
All of this shows that 24 years of the U.S. "War on Terror" has given rise to unfettered open terrorism, violence, and impunity by the Office of the President.
A further indication of the lawlessness and impunity that now characterizes the presidency has been Trump repeatedly either challenging or ignoring the courts, including condemning various judges. This has included ignoring rulings about deportations, which continue in the dead of night and are only blocked by the working class and people intervening with their immigrant defence and rights organizations playing their role.
At the same time, the U.S. Supreme Court is brazenly acting as an arm of the executive, often ruling in favor of Trump's illegal and racist actions. It has refused to rule against Trump's order to revoke birthright citizenship even though lower courts determined it is unconstitutional. Like the edict of being "with us or with the terrorists," the presidency is trying to put in place the dictate of "with us or no longer a citizen with rights." Unable to meet the needs of modern times, the rulers are madly wrecking the country and U.S. society.
The attack on birthright citizenship takes the working class and peoples of the U.S. back to the days when enslaved Africans were considered property, not human beings with rights. For the Civil War, President Lincoln saw enslaved Africans as part of a foreign war by the Confederacy. Laws of war meant human beings could be confiscated as property of the enemy. Citizenship rights did not apply to enslaved Africans in any way, shape, or form.
So too today, all those the Trump presidency declares are "narco-terrorists," "invaders" "insurrectionists," criminals and the like, are ipso facto relegated outside the law. They are subject to civil death -- no domestic laws, like due process, innocent until proven guilty, apply to them. Instead, people living in the U.S. for decades are associated with various foreign countries and are said to come under the foreign policy prerogatives of the president -- who can treat them under laws of war.
The Supreme Court also recently "paused" a lower court ruling in Los Angeles barring Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other federal policing agencies from detaining people solely using racial profiling, language spoken, jobs worked or any combination of these. All of it is for purposes of portraying workers as "enemy aliens" who are subject to the laws of war, not domestic law. On this basis, they can be subject to the notoriously racist, brutal, and arbitrary forces commanded by ICE, Border Patrol, and the FBI, who see themselves as free of any accountability. Already hundreds of workers and activists have been arbitrarily detained.
Far from succeeding in enforcing these laws of war, heroic resistance has arisen in Los Angeles and elsewhere, providing rapid-response protection and support for those targeted. Nowhere have attempts to intimidate the U.S. working class and people succeeded. On the contrary, the U.S. working class and people, comprised of peoples from nations worldwide, big, and small, are intervening as one force against injustice, impunity, and the crimes the U.S. administration is committing.
Thousands
rally in Chicago September 6, 2025 to oppose the surge in federal
agents for raids against their communities and the anticipated arrival
of National Guard or military forces.
Anarchy Raised to Authority
Underlying these developments over two decades is the crisis of the undemocratic and failed U.S. institutions, whether Congress, the courts or manipulated elections that bring reviled candidates to office. All have proven unable to end the violence and impunity against the peoples, which includes their support for U.S./Zionist genocide in Palestine.
Far
from the "War on Terror" solving problems of insecurity for the people,
the rulers are facing one failure after another in their foreign wars
and efforts at "regime change," whether Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya,
Yemen, Iran, Palestine, Venezuela, Cuba, Ukraine, the Balkans and more.
All are
failures.
Contention among the rulers is intensifying as to how to escape their crises and impose U.S. hegemony abroad and government of police powers at home. Certain quarters of the ruling class harbored illusions that Trump, with his blatant and broad impunity could provide escape but, instead, contention among the factions of the ruling class itself threatens civil war at home. Meanwhile, the resistance by the peoples affirms that only their united struggle against the ruling class will succeed in bringing about the changes the people require.
It is becoming increasingly evident that conditions require a democracy of the people's own making, where they have the power to decide on matters related to war and peace and all the issues that impact their lives. Instead, the power and authority of the presidency, system and institutions that allow such power, stand in the way.
Since the time of 9/11 and Bush's "War on Terror," a feature of U.S. governance is that anarchy has been raised to authority. The public authority on the basis of which the U.S. was founded has been destroyed in favor of privatization of even the state itself. The dysfunction at all levels has given rise to intense factional fights. The many authorities in the U.S. -- federal, state, and local -- are all highly armed and each has its own self-interests. None of these authorities respect any of the various forces that each contends with. All try to make use of the courts but cannot overcome the increasing anarchy and violence which breeds more violence. The possibility of open violent civil war is growing, as the rulers cannot resolve conflicts among themselves and cannot convince the working class and people that the current arrangements are viable.
No to U.S. State Terrorism!
One Humanity, One Struggle!
Our Security Lies in the Fight for the Rights of All!
Talk of "Chipocalypse Now" and Danger
of Open Civil War
Chicago, September 6, 2025
A significant development in the intensification of conflicts among the ruling circles, and their corresponding increased repression of the people, is that the presidency now sees actions against the people and state authorities as war. This was evident in Trump's recent social media post where he referenced the Vietnam War and Apocalypse Now, the 1979 movie about the war which promoted the U.S. military after the Vietnamese won the war and their liberation in 1975. The reference is in part to target the anti-war movement today. It also threatens Vietnam, Korea, and China while U.S. war games are taking place in that region.
In the post, an AI generated meme, Trump used the phrase "Chipocalypse Now" with helicopters "raining fire" on Chicago. He added, "I love the smell of deportations in the morning...Chicago about to find out why it's called the Department of WAR." The phrasing on deportations comes from a line in the movie, "I love the smell of napalm in the morning." None of these references to war are accidental as Trump gears up to attack the people of Chicago, including the use of chemical weapons like tear gas and pepper spray. Even the name Trump gave for the Chicago action, "Operation Midway Blitz" has war references, "Midway" being a WWII battle and "blitz" being an all-out, overwhelming military attack often associated with Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht.
As is already occurring at the southern border, Trump is guided by laws of war, not domestic law, and treating immigrants, as "alien enemies" to be summarily deported. War means no rights, as is already evident in actions by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the military in Los Angeles, and the many workers here for decades, often with documentation, now being deported.
Illinois Governor Pritzker responded to Trump saying, "The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal."
"Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won't be intimidated by a wannabe dictator," Pritzker added. What that means remains to be seen, but Illinois together with Chicago have significant military and police forces.
What is significant is that Trump is purposely provoking the possibility of direct military confrontation. For Chicago, between federalized National Guard troops, reportedly from Texas, and those of Illinois, commanded by the Governor. It is a trial of strength in many ways, just as would be done in conditions of war.
Similarly in California, Trump tested the readiness of California Governor Newsom to act against him. In ordering the California National Guard into Los Angeles, Trump was testing whether Newsom, as Commander of the state Guard, would call on them to stand down a main demand of protesters. Newsom did not and instead went to court. Now, with his provocation and declaration of war against Chicago, Trump is testing to see if Illinois Governor Pritzker, like Newsom, backs away from military confrontation with him.
More generally the contention among the ruling circles and authorities at the federal and state level is increasing to the point where the possibility of open violent civil war has drawn closer. The issue is not Trump, the racist and fascist individual, but rather the power of the presidency exercised against contending state and local forces with all threatening use of the policing agencies and military. This too is the legacy of 24 years of the "War on Terror," extreme disorder, violence, contention, and the danger of open violent civil war.
Declaring war in relation to immigration is significantly also a means to eliminate any conception of it as a civilian matter for the immigration courts. It also justifies more use of the military. Most recently, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth authorized 600 military judges (from the Judge Advocate General, JAG corps) to be used as immigrant judges, even though they are not trained or knowledgeable about law governing immigration and refugees.
In using laws of war and the military, along with language about "invasions" and "insurrectionists" Trump is striving to normalize the presence of the military on the streets of U.S. cities. Using military bases and aircraft for detention and deportations also makes it more difficult for lawyers, family, and community to provide support, as both are closed to the public. This also applies to the U.S. base in Guantanamo which is not U.S. territory and to the incarceration of internees in high-security private prisons abroad such as in El Salvador.
With the failure of existing institutions, the intense conflicts among the ruling factions and contention on how best to escape their crises while maintaining the "more perfect Union" they all defend, cannot be resolved. They also face staunch resistance which has persisted in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Chicago, and many other cities, and in Florida, Texas, Colorado and elsewhere. Mass raids and arrests and use of the many policing agencies and military have not stopped the just stand of the people. Mass demonstrations proclaim, No Human Being is Illegal! Stop Detention and Deportations!
Purposeful Targeting of Sanctuary States and Cities
Washington, DC, September
6, 2025
Trump is purposely targeting states, like California and New York, which are sanctuary states, as are many cities -- a result of fierce demands by the people to defend the rights of immigrants and refugees. This means their local and state police forces are not permitted to aid the federal policing forces in immigration matters. Trump is trying to get them to do so despite the sanctuary laws, as part of unifying local forces with federal forces -- also needed in conditions of war.
The presidency, in criminalizing immigration and calling for war, has ICE illegally detaining people at court houses, directly against the wishes of local police and legal forces who need people to come forward to report local crimes, be witnesses, etc. The anarchy of the federal forces in making raids is such that local forces must either stand aside or confront them, which has not occurred. But such confrontation is a possibility.
So far, contrary to local and state law, the Los Angeles police and others are standing with the federal forces by repressing the protests. They are the ones using tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, and making arrests against the organized and persistent resistance to protect and defend the workers under attack. And it is clear to all that the raids are aimed at workers, at dividing people, not protecting them.
People being unjustly arrested by federal forces, on appealing to local police to uphold the sanctuary status of Los Angeles, instead find the police assisting the federal agents. This is one aim of these live exercises, which is to get local and state forces used to working with and coming under the command of federal policing agencies and the military all working together to repress the peoples and their rights. There is not the order of law, but widespread anarchy and violence.
From the first days after 9/11 to today, the peoples in the U.S. have rejected this direction for the country and persisted in building their organized resistance and supporting resistance to U.S. imperialism abroad. The many demonstrations across the country in support of Palestine and defending rights, LA, DC and Chicago rejecting troops and ICE raids, are all examples of the people standing as one, defending the rights of all at home and abroad as the way to provide security and a way forward. That too is a legacy of 9/11.
U.S. Workers Fight State Organized Assaults on Basis of Self-Reliance and Defending Rights of All
Resistance in Chicago, DC and Los Angeles Shows Self-Reliance Is the Only Way
Chicago, September 6, 2025
The workers and people from all walks of life in Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Chicago and elsewhere are standing up to military occupation and the arbitrary, racist and unjust raids and arrests of federal policing agencies. While use of the military has only been threatened in Chicago, people in DC, Los Angeles, El Paso, and other cities along the southern border have already experienced military attacks on their cities.
In Chicago, mass actions were immediately called to reject any use of the military and oppose the raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). These actions supplement the Rapid Response Network in place that provides immediate assistance and support whenever ICE is spotted in communities. Various organizations -- immigrant rights groups, legal organizations, anti-war groups, Palestine organizations, the Chicago Teachers Union and many others -- are working together to block federal forces and defend rights, including the right to speak and organize. Thousands took action upon hearing that National Guard troops from Texas may be deployed. The resistance is not relying on elected officials but speaking in their own name to say No! Not in Our City!
Similarly, in DC actions are bringing together the many sectors and collectives of workers, including teachers, nurses, federal workers, Black, Latinx, Korean, Filipinos, Chinese organizations, anti-war and pro-Palestinian forces and more, all united as one to defend rights. The connection between genocide in Palestine and repression and the history and continued genocide at home, with racist mass incarceration, against Indigenous Peoples and sovereignty, is evident.
DC
now has more policing forces, federal and local, per capita than any
other city in the country. While its population is relatively small,
about 700,000, the metro area has the third largest Black population in
the country of 1.8 million. The government is repeatedly trying to
divide the
people, saying workers are criminals to be terrorized and punished. It
has nothing to do with drugs or gangs or "crime," but with repression
and intimidation. The people of DC have answered loud and clear, We Are All DC! They too are relying on their own efforts and expanding and
strengthening their resistance.
Organized resistance in Los Angeles has also persisted, such that most military forces have now been removed. Rapid Response Networks and self-defense committees are all mobilized. Everywhere, the people are coming forward to oppose raids by ICE and other federal forces and demand an end to these unjust racist attacks.
People have broadly condemned the role of the LA police, who instead of upholding the city's sanctuary status, have attacked and arrested protestors, using tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and more. The refusal of local police to defend people of the city has further shown that for the resistance, self-reliance is the only way.
Washington, DC
We Are All DC
Action
September 6, 2025
September 6, 2025: At least 20,000 people took part in the We Are All DC protest against Trump's deployment of the National Guard to Washington, DC. Participants gathered at Malcolm X Park and marched down 16th Street, passed under Scott Circle and headed toward Lafayette Square and the White House. The march ended in Freedom Plaza. The action united the many organized forces from different fronts of struggle around the demand to end the occupation of DC. A banner representing the call of participants read: Free DC, Free Palestine, Free us ALL. The three-starred flag of DC affirmed "home rule" -- the right of DC residents to determine their own affairs.
Chicago
Emergency Action Against Stepped Up ICE Raids
September 9,
2025
Coalition Against the Trump Agenda, the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, Palestinian, anti-war and other organizations joined an emergency rally on short notice, September 9, 2025, to protest the deployment of federal troops and the increased raids by ICE in Chicago through "Operation Midway Blitz," with "Midway" being a war reference. The attack includes having hundreds of Homeland Security officials operating from a naval base outside of Chicago.
No
Trump, No Troops!
September 6, 2025
Responding to the call No Trump, No Troops! thousands of Chicagoans rallied to oppose the surge in federal agents for illegal raids and detentions with impunity in their communities, along with the anticipated arrival of National Guard or military forces, September 6, 2025.
Labour Day
September 1, 2025
Working people in Chicago rally to
the call, Workers over Billionaires on the occasion
of Labour Day to defend the rights of all, September 1, 2025, alongside
other such similar
actions across the U.S. that day.
Actions Oppose Massive ICE Raid Against Hundreds of Workers at Georgia Hyundai Plant
Protest against ICE raid,
outside Hyundai battery plant, in Ellabell, Georgia, about 42
kilometres west of Savannah, September 6, 2025.
Demonstrations were quickly organized to denounce the massive raid by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), at Hyundai's plant in Ellabell, Georgia on September 4. People denounced the raids and demonstrated at the plant, while others across the country provided financial and other support.
At
the plant protesters rejected these policing actions at home and called
for U.S. troops to get out of Korea. They also opposed efforts to
divide workers. As one speaker brought out, "It is us, the workers of
this country, who will resist this cruel, racist system."
More than 475 workers were shackled and detained in what ICE called "the largest-ever single-site raid." About 300 of the workers were Koreans, many engineers, and highly skilled workers with green cards.
The south Korean government called the detentions unjust. President Lee Jae Myung said, "I hope that there will never again be an unjust infringement upon the activities of our people and companies in pursuit of the shared development of south Korea and the United States." Arrangements have been made by the south Korean government for the Korean workers to be flown home.
People are remaining vigilant and organizing to defend these workers, including the 175 still being detained by ICE. Nodutdol for Korean Community Development, for example, denounced the raid and provided means to support the workers. They also bring out that the U.S. still occupies Korea and keeps the country divided. Actions were organized in August against the U.S. war games in the region. Protesters are making clear that opposing these war games and the ICE raids contributes to defending workers in both countries.
Nodutdol and others have also brought out that the ICE raid came on the heels of South Korea pledging hundreds of billions in investments in the U.S., including a $26 billion commitment from Hyundai. It remains unclear if these will be withdrawn given the open slap in the face the detentions represent.
On Instagram, Nodutdol said, "South Korea has pledged $350 billion in state-backed investments and $150 billion in private sector investments for U.S. industry. Touted by Georgia lawmakers as the largest economic development project in the state's history, the $7.6 billion Hyundai plant predates the Trump-Lee summit -- and is the exact kind of large-scale manufacturing investments that Trump has demanded of south Korea and other dependent nations."
The Hyundai plant is under construction and will build electric vehicle (EV) batteries. In the U.S., Hyundai is the main competitor for Elon Musk's Tesla EVs. Not a few wonder if the disruption to construction caused by the detentions is for Musk's benefit.
The anarchy and incoherence of actions by ICE and Trump are such that they do not hesitate to slap south Korea in the face with these unjust detentions, while still demanding $500 billion in investments.
Workers at the plant and in both countries continue to organize against U.S. raids, detentions, and war games.
Worker at Hyundai Plant Protest
Denounces Immigration Raid
On September 6 a demonstration was organized at the Hyundai plant in Georgia to defend the hundreds of workers detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Below is a speech given by a worker at the action.
Thursday
[September 4] was the biggest raid in ICE history. Almost 500 people
were kidnapped inside this very factory. In a brutal instance, nearly
half of the workforce was abducted and held without due process. Shame!
At least 300 of these workers are Koreans like myself. Many of them
were
green card holders as well. But a green card did not protect
[pro-Palestinian student] Mahmoud Khalil, and a green card didn't
protect these workers.
It is the people who protect each other. It is the workers who protect each other. It is us, the workers of this country, who will resist this cruel, racist system.
[This raid] is no surprise. Korea is a country that has been under U.S. occupation for the last 70 years. The U.S. has 75 military bases on stolen Korean land. Imperialism is trying to hollow [out] the Korean economy for the U.S. corporations that fled the States in the 1980s for mega profits at the expense of cheap Korean labor.
Three workers have died at this plant since it opened. One of them being a 67-year-old Korean man that shouldn't have been toiling away in a U.S. factory. He should have been at home, comfortably retired, happily surrounded by a loving family. His death was because the bosses didn't want to pay to provide appropriate safety equipment.
Immigrant workers are workers just like us. Their pain is our pain. Their safety is our safety. Their struggle is our struggle. If we want better wages, better protections, expanded and solidified rights, then we must stand together shoulder to shoulder with our immigrant siblings.
We must fight with them. Advocate with them and protect them.
One Struggle, One Fight, All Unite for Workers' Rights!
Carney Government's Capitulation to U.S. Incursions
into Canada for "National Security"
Dangerous Measures Further Extend U.S. Police and Military Powers into Canada
Through a "readout" issued by Canada's Department of Justice, the people of this country were informed about an August 27 meeting called for by U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi with Canada's Attorney General and Justice Minister Sean Fraser, Public Safety Minister Gary Anandasangree and Canada's "Fentanyl Czar" Kevin Brosseau. All the Justice Department said was that it "held a productive first meeting." In language typically intended to obfuscate, the Justice Department merely added:
"They
discussed shared priorities and explored ways to strengthen
collaboration between their departments. It was an opportunity to
highlight Canada's ongoing efforts to keep communities safe on both
sides of our shared border in the fight against fentanyl and
transnational criminal
organizations, to strengthen the criminal justice system and border
security, to support victims, and to uphold the rule of law.
"They committed to maintaining an ongoing dialogue on key issues of mutual importance."
What the Justice Department did not inform Canadians about is that the U.S. is expanding its "Joint Task Force Alpha" to "now cover our northern border and Canada, of course, and all of our maritime borders." The expanded operation will include the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
The U.S. Joint Task Alpha was established on June 7, 2021. In the language that hides the increasing areas of life which are being put under direct federal control and treated as a matter of crime and punishment, Task Force Alpha is described as "a joint law enforcement effort that will marshal the investigative and prosecutorial resources of the Department of Justice, in partnership with DHS [Department of Homeland Security], to disrupt and dismantle human smuggling and trafficking networks that exploit and endanger migrants to the United States from the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, and from Mexico. The Joint Task Force will investigate and prosecute those who are criminally smuggling and trafficking individuals into the United States, with a particular focus on individuals and networks that abuse, exploit, or endanger those being smuggled, pose national security threats, or have links to transnational organized crime."[1]
Thus, the "readout" by the Department of Justice is amply revealed to be typical Carney government cover-up for Canada's capitulation to the escalating U.S. incursions into Canadian territory in the name of law enforcement, "national security" and "narco-terrorism," with which it is cooperating behind the backs of the people.
What the U.S. is up to was further revealed when Bondi held a press conference in Tampa, Florida on September 4, where she announced that the U.S. Department of Justice would "pursue the total elimination of cartels and transnational criminal organizations," many of which "are now classified as foreign terrorist organizations because they pose an extreme threat to not only our country, but to our world. They traffic drugs, weapons and people." These are the kind of actions the "War on Terror" unleashed by then President George W. Bush after 9/11 have given rise to, 24 years later.
Bondi went on to say that her department was "investigating and prosecuting their crimes more aggressively than ever, with Joint Task Force Alpha." She said that to that end, she was working with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
"We will strengthen our collaboration with foreign law enforcement throughout this world to protect not only their citizens but ours and return these criminals" to the U.S. "for prosecution," she asserted.
Bondi
also addressed Vermont's and New York's borders with Canada, claiming
she is "seeing unprecedented traffic" from migrants, with law
enforcement encountering people "from 97 countries." Bondi went on to
say that since President Trump had taken office, Joint Task Force Alpha
has charged 56
people, including someone who attempted "to bring in Indian nationals
who were eventually found dead in a blizzard." Last June, she
continued, the U.S. arrested a Canadian-American citizen who was
bringing people over the St. Lawrence River into the U.S.
As if the U.S. cares a fig about the safety of human beings and totally ignoring that it just bombed a boat with 11 people aboard to kingdom come in international waters off the coast of Venezuela, Bondi lamented: "One of the boats capsized, killing a family, including two children under the age of three."
Meanwhile, on the southern border, the U.S. is responsible for hundreds of unnecessary deaths, with many people dying of thirst in the desert as the U.S. illegally blocks entry into the country.
During her Florida press conference, Bondi was asked by reporters if there were any connections between the cartels operating on the southern border that have been designated as transnational criminal organizations and "foreign terrorist organizations" and known organizations in New York and Vermont.
Her answer: "[Y]es, these transnational criminal organizations, since we have secured completely our southern border, are finding various ways to come into our country."
"The northern border, it always has been, but it's gotten much worse, much more prevalent because it's a multi-billion dollar business, the smuggling of drugs, guns and humans and so they're not going to quit, once we secured our southern border. But yes, we're stopping them at our northern border and that's why we're also increasing Joint Task Force Alpha to include our maritime ports as well," Bondi said.
This was corroborated by United States Attorney for the District of Vermont, Michael P. Drescher who dutifully repeated the U.S. narrative which presents the brutal U.S. deployment of police and military powers against workers, immigrants, and refugees as legitimate. He spoke of the "gravity of human smugglers at the northern border," because "they aid and abet those who are seeking to enter the country illegally"; "they exploit those who are desperate and misguided enough to try to enter the country illegally"; "such crossings frequently involve trekking through forests and swamps in inhospitable and dangerous circumstances"; "they facilitate the unvetted aliens entering the United States for unknown and possibly nefarious purposes."
"In short," Drescher said, "offences such as those charged pose a risk to the nation's security." All of this was said without evidence and absent of concern for the human beings involved, the law or due process. Their rights as human beings are trampled in the mud as a matter of course.
These are the latest justifications for brutal violence and terrorism against peoples both sides of the border.
Note
1. Office of the U.S. Attorney General, Washington, D.C., June 7, 2021.
(CBC news, Government of Canada, Office of the U.S. Attorney General, Radio-Canada)
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