The Masses

Throughout the summer, worsening climate disorder, rising global temperatures, and a ‘Super’ El Niño have combined to batter Europe with extreme heat and drought. The conditions have led to shuttered schools, heat-related medical emergencies, disrupted power supplies, and wildfires, resulting in an estimated 20,000 deaths. Throughout July, the spreading wildfires have additionally displaced…

LIMA, Peru – Keiko Fujimori, daughter of genocidal dictator Alberto Fujimori, took office July 28 as president of Peru, returning the Fujimori family to executive power more than two decades after her father’s regime collapsed in disgrace. The first round, held on April 12, featured 36 candidates; of these, most had no coherent platform. Two candidates advanced to the second round: Keiko…

On July 16, the U.S. State Department gathered government officials from 66 countries for its “Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism.” The meeting sought to increase collaboration between reactionary governments to repress the global class-conscious masses by focusing narrowly on the poorly defined threat of “far-left terrorism.” A State Department press release about the summit…

OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. — On July 6, Nolan Wells, an 18-year-old New Afrikan-Filipino American freshman football player at Southwest Mississippi Community College, was found dead on the northwestern tip of Horn Island, 10 miles off the Mississippi Gulf Coast. On the 250th anniversary of the founding of the capitalist-imperialist U.S. Old State, Wells went on a boat trip with three of his friends,…

WASHINGTON — Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ICE, arrested more than 10,000 people from June 25 to July 1 as the Trump regime escalated its nationwide deportation campaign and pushed federal agents toward a standing quota of 2,000 arrests a day. The late June surge marked one of the sharpest accelerations of immigration arrests since Trump returned to office. The scale far exceeds the…

TROY, NEW YORK – Since April 1, Troy, New York has been in a state of emergency declared by its mayor, Carmella Mantello. The emergency in question is not a natural disaster, nor is it a wave of violence, or a mass uprising: it is the City Council’s refusal to approve funds for the city’s Flock contract, which renewed automatically only days after the Council decided to table their vote on the…

Allegations of medical neglect are mounting in migrant concentration camps across the country. The last year and a half, 2025 and 2026, have been the deadliest period on record since the Department of Homeland Security was created in 2003. At least 18 detainees have died since Jan. 1, putting this year on pace to surpass last year’s death toll. In total, 51 people have died in ICE custody since…

Some comrades may have noticed that for the last few months a publication known as The Worker has written a series of unhinged “polemics” directed at what they refer to as the Right Opportunist Headquarters. The series of articles are likely a very strange spectacle to most onlookers, with their use of unique terms like “feces-stained mouths,” “diapers of division,” “septic tank,” etc. Yesterday,…

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Supreme Court issued major rulings in June expanding state power over immigrants, federal agencies and oppressed people, including decisions allowing the Trump regime to end protections for hundreds of thousands of immigrants and restrict asylum processing. Even where the court rejected parts of Trump’s program, its overall direction strengthened the Old State’s machinery…

AFRICA – Social murder and the ruthless national oppression of the East and Central African peoples by world imperialism continues as the Ebola outbreak claims the lives of nearly 380 out of 1,300 Congolese in the Ituri, North and South Kivu provinces. The haemorrhagic virus has also made its way to Uganda, with 650 suspected cases and more than 150 suspected deaths in Kampala and two other…

The Masses Editorial Board is republishing the following call for aid from the All-Chicago Tenant Alliance. ACTA is a class-conscious organization of tenants organizing collectively against landlords in the city, and whose work highlights the growing need for a united class-conscious tenants movement in the USA. ACTA’s Strike Fund is one of the many ways tenants can push collective struggle…

BIDDEFORD, Maine — On the morning of Monday, July 13, 2026, shortly after 7 AM, ICE agents murdered Joan Sebastian Guerrero, a 26 year old father from Colombia in Biddeford, Maine. According to official reports, Guerrero left his home accompanied by his partner and young daughter. As they traveled down Pool Street, ICE thugs surrounded Guerrero and his family, causing him react evasively The…

On May 11th, eight activists detained in Prairieland Texas were found guilty of “providing material support to terrorists” and sentenced up to a century in prison; and a combined 450 years in federal prison. Among the evidence the state used to argue that the detained activists were part of an “antifa terrorist cell” was the possession of left-wing literature. This decision is clearly intended to…

INDIANA – On June 5th, 2026 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld Indiana law prohibiting journalists from witnessing state executions in a divided 2-1 decision. Beyond the prison warden, medical staff and up to eight members of the victim’s family, state law limits execution witnesses to up to five family members or friends of the convicted person and their spiritual adviser…