Report on Revolutionary Students Mobilizations across US
Feature image: Student march led by Seattle Revolutionary Youth and other organizations in Seattle on February 5
During the last months there have been an increase across US of revolutionary student mobilizations against the ICE terror. The students reject US imperialism and the attack on migrant workers. The students also denounce the murder of the anti-ICE activist by the State forces and the abductions increasingly carried out in cities like Minneapolis.
We hereby share the mobilizations reported from last months:
In Washington, students from middle and high schools mobilized to protest ICE activity and to denounce US imperialism. In Seattle, over 1,000 students marched in downtown Seattle, organized by Seattle Revolutionary Youth and other organizations. They rallied and made speeches that linked ICE terror to the broader imperialist system and expressing solidarity with anti-imperialist struggles in the Third World.
Around 100 students walked out of class to protest on February 4, organized by Seattle Revolutionary Youth. The protesters called for the abolition of ICE, denounced US imperialism, and rejected electoral cretinism. They also burned American and Israeli flags in protest of US imperialism and the US-Zionist genocide against Palestinians.
Similar demonstrations took place in Issaquah, where over 150 students from high and middle schools protested ICE and US imperialism. In Bellevue and Portland (Oregon), the mobilizations by the Revolutionary Youth and the Beaverton Revolutionary Student Front respectively gathered over 500 people and slogans such as “It Is Right to Rebel” and “Organize, Fight, and Resist ICE terror” were chanted.
In California, students from the University of California Santa Cruz, University of California Davis participated in demonstrations and walkouts to protest ICE and US imperialism. In Santa Cruz, around 400 students rallied and marched through the college campus, organized by Revolutionary Student Organization—Santa Cruz, and denounced ICE terror, US imperialism, and the genocide against the Palestinian people. During the march, demonstrators beat an effigy of Donald Trump and chanted slogans such as “We will fight for worker power, make these paper tigers cower!”.
In Texas, around 500 students participated in a demonstration against ICE at the University of Texas San Antonio (UTSA), organized by Right to Rebel San Antonio. The demonstration featured the burning and desecration of the US flag and condemned UTSA’s collaboration with ICE. A hoisted banner reading “LEARN FROM CHAIRMAN GONZALO, UNITE UNDER MAOISM!” was seen.
Former US presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke attempted to co-opt the protest with a speech to promote the electoral campaign, but activists from Right to Rebel disrupted it, denouncing O’Rourke and the Democratic Party.
In Purdue University, Indiana, over 600 students, workers and faculty participated in a protest organized by West Lafayette Revolutionary Student Front (RSF). Activists from RSF gave speeches denouncing electoralism, connecting ICE terror to US imperialism and calling for a revolutionary struggle against the ruling class. Reformist and revisionist organizations boycotted the protest or attempted to co-opt the demonstration, but their speeches and agitation efforts were shut down by RSF activists.
The source of all images is The Worker.
