Evan R. | Red Phoenix correspondent | Oregon–

Yesterday, ICE agents on a mission to terrorize and deport immigrants in Minneapolis, Minnesota, murdered innocent bystander Renee Nicole Good, 37, in broad daylight and in cold blood. Although Trump, Secretary Kristi Noem, and the Department of “Homeland Security” claim that Good was a domestic terrorist and the shooting was in self-defense, video evidence shows otherwise. Good was murdered in the streets for the crime of protesting against the fascist Trump regime and its armed terrorists. 

Sadly, this is not the first time that ICE has murdered one of our neighbors. ICE agents killed Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez in Chicago on Sep. 12, 2025, and made similar false claims about an an alleged attack by the victim. Another American citizen, Marimar Martinez, was also shot in Chicago after Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents claimed that she “boxed in” their vehicles and attacked them with a handgun. All charges against Martinez were dropped after it was found that the agents openly lied about the event. No charges were filed against CBP nor the agents responsible, in yet another demonstration of the impunity enjoyed by the agents of the fascist state.

When they kill our neighbors, the only repercussion is paid vacation, but when we resist it so often comes at the cost of our lives. And what more could be expected of those from the petty classes that vehemently oppose masks when they regard a matter of public health, but defend wearing them when protecting the anonymity of jackboot thugs? Such hypocrites claim to be opposed to political violence, except when they are driving through anti-fascist protesters, such as when a neo-Nazi murdered anti-racist activist Heather Heyer in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 2017.

The American Party of Labor condemns these murders and all other ICE and CBP operations in the strongest possible terms. To be clear, the APL considers all resistance against ICE and other armed agents of this white supremacist regime to be legitimate and justified. ICE must be abolished, and all its agents and officials prosecuted for their crimes.

The responses by our elected officials show that our government cannot be trusted to provide security or justice to its people. Although our representatives talk a big game, none of them have yet done anything substantial to stop ICE and its invasion of our cities. As the Democrats issue strongly worded statements, ICE brags openly about how many of our neighbors it has kidnapped and deported to for-profit concentration camps. The Democrats have neither the will nor the ability to protect us.

In the capitalist press, great noise has been made after Minneapolis Mayor Frey commented that the murderous agent’s excuse is “bullshit.” While Gov. Tim Walz has floated the idea of calling up the Minnesota National Guard to protect Minnesota residents from ICE, this amounts to posturing for the time being, as all attempts to work with federal officials in investigating the “bullshit” assertions of the ICE stormtroopers have so far been denied. Walz went on to threaten protesters in the succeeding days with arrest if they aren’t passive and agreeable enough to his liking.

Yes, leave it to the National Guard, which absolutely stands a chance against Trump’s army in miniature, to sit meekly by as the federal government shuts the door in the face of truth, and wag your finger at the only people who can and must achieve justice for this, and all the barbarities of American fascism! Walz, like all Democrats, is a clawless rooster, certainly crying out loud enough, but flees the wolves circling around, feeding on the leavings of their slaughter. 

Indeed, the “beloved” Democratic president Barack Obama referred to himself as the “Deporter-In-Chief,” lied to the world when he claimed that ICE would only target “criminals, not families,” and set records for deportations during his regime, only for those records to be broken by Joe Biden. The only problem the Democrats have with ICE is not one of substance, but one of tone. They believe that the mass deportation of our neighbors should be done quietly and with “respect for the law,” rather than with the braggadocious excess of Trump and his rabid supporters. 

The end result for immigrant communities is the same regardless of whether a sitting president wears a red tie or blue: families are torn apart and workers are deported in a desperate attempt to keep wages low and profits high. This is not the fault of any individual politician nor political party, but inherent to the nature of capitalism itself. As the system inevitably declines due to its own internal contradictions, it turns to its most favored weapon, fascism, to maintain the power of capitalism. It is working people like Renee Good, Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez, Marimar Martinez, and so many others who pay the ultimate price.

It is becoming increasingly clear that all progressive Americans must rally together, organize into truly revolutionary organizations and fight back against state terror using all appropriate means available. For too long, the people’s resistance has been ineffective because of disorientation and disorganization. While the people can and do rise up against state terror, they lack the leadership, organization and ideological basis necessary to form a truly effective front against the ever-rising tide of fascism. That must change.

Together, we can get justice for the blood of our friends, neighbors, and comrades. 

Together, we can get justice for all the victims of this state’s terrorism, be it from ICE or any other agent of this capitalist dystopia.

Together, we can build a better world and a better society, where innocent people are no longer murdered in the street by white supremacist thugs and their names dragged through the mud by fascist politicians.

To build this world, we must come together and struggle as one unified, proletarian movement. We must resolutely combat spontaneity and fight together in a planned, principled manner designed to organize the broadest possible masses of the working people into a disciplined front which is capable of offering real, tangible resistance against the state’s terror. We must demonstrate to the people that the path of passive resistance is not adequate, and show them that a better way is possible.

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