NATIONAL NEWS
United States: Fear, Repression & Brain Drain: U.S. Campuses Reeling as Trump Freezes, Revokes Student Visas
Escalating the fascist offensive even further (and doubling down on their decades-long “model minority” facade), the U.S. empire and the Trump administration had announced Wednesday they will conduct an “aggressive” revoking of visas for Chinese students, freezing visa processing and requiring additional social media “vetting” for applicants. Gusano Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s reasoning for Chinese students as a specific target are supposed “links” to the now social-imperialist Chinese Communist Party and “critical fields” Chinese students are studying, when, in reality, it is a sadistic cover for the U.S. empire to hide the true nature of its relationship to Chinese social-imperialists: inter-imperialist war that, along with the ravaging genocide against Palestinians by the Zionist satellite State of Israel, is resulting in a heightened worldwide crisis for the imperialist system.
Ironically enough, fascist Trump targeted Harvard (an Ivy League school that is also a former slave plantation) and revoked the school’s certification for admitting international students, despite over half of Harvard being populated by international students. Many of those students are now in the process of transferring to another school because of the growing offensive against them, with international graduates at Harvard’s commencement ceremony on the 29th demonstrating against these actions.
It is comedic that American society can use Asian nationals as a “model minority” and pit them against other nationally-oppressed students, but once the joyride runs out and cannot operate as before, they go far and beyond to target the “model minority” itself and revoke the privileges and aspirations of social and political mobility against the Asian peoples.
Illinois: Chicago State University, Predominately Black Institution in Chicago’s Roseland community, affected by federal cuts under fascist offensive
Racialized fascism by the U.S. empire from within is hitting Chicago State University hard; the school is 75% Black students with 60% of CSU’s students originating from low-income backgrounds, the only public university in Chicago with such a demographic. Unlike Northwestern and Harvard, the school has far less money and investment overall, with $5 million in federal cuts. So far, the school has lost five grants, including one for the school’s 20-years-running Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in STEM program. Without such a grant for the program, students and research assistants will not have the monetary support that would aid them in their training, along with losing four staff members.
On top of a long string of disinvestment from the State of Illinois, CSU is now grappling with federal cuts affecting Black students in their Ph.D programs in the sciences. Per the words of the school’s President Zaldwaynaka “Z” Scott, “college changes everything.” So there is no wonder the empire is not only coming after Chinese and other international students, but especially New Afrikan students too. In an empire where New Afrikan students, workers, and poor people are many times nationally oppressed, disenfranchised, and terrorized inside and outside their national landbase, the Black Belt, the empire is making her politics crystal clear once again: Black students and workers, for over 400 years, are the bane to the Yankee’s domination.
New York: Judge Shields Columbia Student Yunseo Chung from Deportation Ahead of June 5th Hearing
Chung, a South Korean national student at New York City’s Columbia University who’s lived in the U.S. since the age of 7, has just been shielded from deportation on an extended restraining order ruled by a federal judge in New York. Targeted by Gestapo immigration pigs for her organizing around Palestinian liberation and the genocide, community members, including the Korean liberation organization Nodutdol, held a rally in support of Chung and her legal team Thursday.
Yunmi, one of the members of the Nodutdol, expressed the following: “She’s being attacked because she has views that go against the Trump administration and their desires in Israel and also against the general ruling class. So, by persecuting her on also baseless grounds — there’s no evidence against her — who can say what the Trump administration and the federal government are willing to do next to anyone, regardless of their immigration status?”
Idaho: New Afrikan Chick-fil-A Worker Faces Anti-Black Violence from Co-Workers; Called “Ape”, Threatened to be “Put in Cage”
In the spirit of capitalism-imperialism using racism as a tool for dividing labor between the nationally-oppressed and white settler, this is not anymore clear than a recent lawsuit against Chick-fil-A by Thomas Wade, a New Afrikan former back-of-house cook in Idaho Falls, ID, against the sheer racist abuse inflicted by his white co-workers.
From incessant slurs to violent insults ranging from “of course, he works at Chick-fil-A; he’s Black, so he must love chicken” to being told he was a piece of “antique farming equipment,” in reference to the chattel enslavement of Afrikans by the old white slaveowning capitalist class, he filed 25-30 complaints to management about the anti-Black abuse he was facing inside the franchise’s workplace. One occasion even included the white supervisor’s son whipping another employee with a towel, telling Wade that “he would know about getting whipped” because he is Black.
Along with other racial epithets and graffiti variations of the N-word found in the restaurant’s freezers, Wade had had enough. He was fired October 16, 2023 — nine days after the Al-Aqsa Flood uprising. The franchise owner, Laurie Mosteller of Woodstock, GA, denied “each and every” complaint Wade made. The denial is a time-honored tradition of the U.S. capitalist class and its white labor collaborators against New Afrikan proletarians — an ongoing campaign of internal fascist terror.
Illinois: 19-year-old Boricua youth Nathaniel Fejerang martyred in Chicago’s West Humboldt Park neighborhood by CPD pigs
Another blow for U.S. imperialism’s domestic terrorism, especially on the Puerto Rican youth, as in late Thursday night, when CPD pigs murdered 19-year-old Fejerang in his own backyard, next to an alleyway connecting Grand and Kolin Ave., right next to the city’s North Avenue.
The pigs claim a Stop-and-Frisk led to a chase and struggle, where a gun “went off” and they responded with four shots — one to the head. The CPD has already been caught in lies and cover-up, with Fraternal Order president John Catanzara having “seen the wrong video.” Local witnesses contradict the official narrative, with several stating Nathaniel never had a weapon and was surrendering. He was reportedly shouting “I’m not resisting!” before being gunned down.
The Borike’n Liberation Front, part of the People’s Defense Committee, is organized an emergency rally alongside his family at the site of the murder.
Source: https://the-masses.org/2025/05/31/four-shots-and-a-cover-up-justice-for-nathan-fejerang/
National: ReBuild! Collective’s Special Theoretical & Ideological Issue: “From One Generation to the Next, Until Independence is Won!”
A sweeping compilation of historical and current revolutionary thought for New Afrikan liberation, including:
- New Afrikan Communism: An Historical Overview
- Excerpt from Chairman Fred Hampton’s 1969 speech
- New Afrikan Land Claims in the National Territory
- Alliance calls from Native support groups
- “Decolonize to What?” by Comrade Bukasa
- Yaki on Race, Centennial tributes to Fanon, Lumumba, Malcolm, Medgar, and Robert F. Williams
- “Are New Afrikans Settlers?”
- Educational struggles in Mississippi
- On Communism and National Liberation
Cabral’s warning echoes: “The ideological deficiency… constitutes one of the greatest weaknesses of our struggle against imperialism.”
Source: https://www.rebuildcollective.org/_files/ugd/633c20_f635e7957fb248d89cace957537bb063.pdf
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Brazil: Workers and Students Hold Protest Against Education Budget Cuts
Following the signing of new austerity measures by President Lula, Brazil’s federal government has deepened its assault on public education by slashing funds previously allocated to key academic institutions. Among the hardest hit is the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), one of the most prominent public universities in the country, which now faces the possibility of paralyzing core programs due to an alarming reduction in funding.
This wave of disinvestment, under the guise of “budget discipline” and “fiscal responsibility,” directly affects not only the quality of higher education, but the survival of research, scholarships, and employment for education workers. Long criticized by revolutionary and democratic sectors as a servant of Brazilian monopoly capitalism and landlordism, Lula’s administration has continued the anti-people trajectory of prioritizing debt payments to imperialist financial institutions over health, education, and housing.
In response, students and education workers across Rio de Janeiro have risen up in protest. At UFRJ, protests erupted demanding the reversal of the budget cuts and the defense of public education. Demonstrators condemned the attacks on working-class youth’s access to knowledge and a dignified life, chanting slogans that denounce the servility of the Brazilian state to imperialist interests. Placards read: “Education is not a commodity!” and “Cut the debt, not education!”
Across Brazil, a pattern is emerging—one where workers, students, and the poor are forced to fight for the most basic necessities against a state increasingly aligned with banks, landlords, and foreign powers. The struggle in the universities is part of a broader national resistance against the fascistization of the state, the militarization of campuses, and the creeping reassertion of military and landlord rule under a “progressive” mask.
Source: https://anovademocracia.com.br/estudantes-trabalhadores-rj-educacao-contra/
Palestine: Zionist Massacre at “Aid Site” Exposes U.S.-Backed Genocide
Three more Palestinians have been murdered in Rafah—killed not during combat, but while trying to access food. Dozens were wounded when Zionist occupation forces opened fire near one of the so-called “safe humanitarian zones” manufactured by the U.S. and Israeli military. These zones are nothing but killing fields surrounded by barbed wire and camera crews, built to sanitize the siege while death rains down just outside their borders.
Even the United Nations has been forced to acknowledge the scale of this slaughter, with more than 54,000 Palestinians martyred since October 2023. And yet, instead of aid, the U.S. sends more bombs, more white phosphorus, more bulldozers, and more diplomatic cover to its Zionist settler colony.
The resistance of the Palestinian people has not ceased for one moment. While the U.S. creates Potemkin aid zones and genocide corridors, the youth of Gaza dig tunnels, bury their martyrs, and carry forward the torch of struggle. No deal, no donor conference, no fake ceasefire will erase the blood on the hands of Zionism and U.S. imperialism.
Syria: U.S. Greenlights Integration of Foreign Jihadists into Syrian Army
In a move exposing the full criminality of the Trump regime’s Middle East policy, Washington has approved a Syrian government plan to formally absorb thousands of foreign ex-jihadists—including members of groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Turkistan Islamic Party—into a new elite division of the Syrian army.
These fighters, many of whom waged brutal sectarian war across Syria during the imperialist-orchestrated counter-revolution, are now being rebranded and salaried under the banner of “national unity.” Their new patron? The same U.S. empire that bombed Syria for a decade and armed their militias through CIA backchannels.
The Syrian masses, whose revolution was crushed by both Assad and jihadist proxy armies, are now being forced to watch their executioners put on uniforms and pledge loyalty to a “post-war” military that answers to imperialist dictate.
Let there be no illusions: U.S. imperialism didn’t just destroy Syria’s future—it now seeks to rebuild a loyal garrison state, filled with warlords and sectarian killers, for the next stage of conquest.
Western Sahara: Britain Backs Colonial Autonomy Plan, Sides with Morocco’s Settler State
The United Kingdom has formally endorsed Morocco’s so-called “autonomy plan” for occupied Western Sahara—a scheme that denies the Sahrawi people their right to independence and instead cements the illegal Moroccan occupation under imperialist cover.
Foreign Minister David Lammy’s visit to Rabat was not a diplomatic tour—it was a ceremony of subservience to French, Spanish, and U.S. investments in Moroccan settler-colonial infrastructure. The UK now joins the chorus of Western powers backing Morocco’s theft of Sahrawi land in exchange for trade deals, military cooperation, and contracts for World Cup stadiums.
The Polisario Front and the Sahrawi resistance have long warned that these “autonomy proposals” are just recolonization by another name. What the Sahrawi masses demand is not economic integration with their occupiers—it is national liberation and the right to govern their own territory free of Moroccan and imperialist boots.
The sands of Western Sahara have soaked up too much blood for diplomacy. What will free the Sahrawi people is not the United Nations, not another treaty—but organized people’s war against the occupiers.
Nigeria: 151 Dead as Colonial Underdevelopment Turns Rain Into Mass Death
The death toll from flash flooding in Nigeria’s Niger State has risen to 151, with more than 3,000 displaced and entire communities submerged. But this was not simply a natural disaster—it was a massacre foretold by centuries of colonial underdevelopment and post-independence comprador betrayal.
Nigeria’s ruling class, fattened by oil money and foreign loans, has refused for decades to build drainage, housing, or flood infrastructure for the masses. Entire neighborhoods are built on unstable terrain, while public funds are funneled into militarized police, IMF payments, and privatized “green energy” boondoggles.
Every rainy season becomes a massacre. Every monsoon exposes the lie of “development.” The people of Nigeria are not dying because of rain—they are dying because of the state’s refusal to plan for their survival. Because the state, in every real sense, serves the imperialist extraction of wealth, not the lives of the oppressed.
The revolutionary road in Nigeria is not through “climate resilience” programs crafted in European NGO offices—it is through armed people’s defense of land, life, and sovereignty. As long as imperialism rules, every storm will be another funeral.
Source: https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/death-toll-nigeria-floods-rises-151-2025-05-31/
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