January 27, 2026

Stand with Minnesota:
Strike against police state USA

Armed with whistles, courage and the conviction that they have the right to stand against illegal acts by their government, Minnesotans are in the streets despite sub-zero weather. For protecting their neighbors from the armed and masked ICE thugs, the people of Minneapolis are being murdered, sprayed with chemicals, violently thrown to the ground and arrested. Children, such as five-year-old Liam Ramos, are being used to get immigrant parents to sign away their legal rights. These displays of brutality are the naked face of a system determined to rule on behalf of the billionaire class by crushing all resistance. 

In the first weeks of 2026, two Minnesotans, lesbian mother Renee Good and VA nurse Alex Pretti, were shot dead by ICE/Border Patrol as they witnessed government hoodlums conducting sweeps in the city’s Southside immigrant neighborhood. Good and Pretti were not threatening the deputized goons hired by Homeland Security. They were murdered by the state for exercising their constitutional rights to speak, protest and assemble.

They aren’t the only casualties in the month of January 2026. Keith Porter, Jr., a 43-year-old Black man and father of two, was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE officer in Northridge, California. Six people from Latin America and Asia died in ICE detention. Venezuelan immigrants Luis David Nico Moncada andYorlenys Betzabeth Zambrano-Contreras were shot and wounded by a Border Patrol officer in Portland, Oregon. 

The attacks on immigrants and their defenders in Minneapolis and other cities are the current front line in the U.S. war on working people. Next in the crosshairs could be trans people standing up for their personhood, women demanding the right to control their own bodies, federal workers defending their jobs, or scientists speaking out against deranged health policies. Oppressed peoples and believers in human rights are all in this together and also together in common cause with struggles for freedom and survival from Iran to Gaza to Syria to Sudan. 

U.S. workers are part of a worldwide battle against those destroying resistance and enshrining forces of reaction and patriarchy. It is a struggle we cannot lose. 

Now is the time to stand in solidarity and in the streets to speak out for justice. To decry the criminalization of protest and acts of imperialist aggression by the Trump administration. To exercise workers’ untapped power to shut the system down through a general strike. 

This is a historic moment. Join the fight!

Joint statement by: 
Radical Women and Freedom Socialist Party
radicalwomen.org  *  socialism.com