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https://www.workers.org/2026/06/93144/
A hunger and labor strike by 300 immigrant detainees that started on May 22 at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has thrown a spotlight on GEO Group, the Florida-based company that, along with Core Civic, oversees most Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers in the United States. While GEO Group also operates state prisons, around half of its revenue comes from ICE contracts.

GEO Group currently has 26,000 contracts with the federal government, charging around $165 per detainee bed per day. In 2025, the first year of Donald Trump’s second term in office, GEO group’s profits increased 700% over the prior year. Already in 2026, with profits of $705.2 million, GEO Group has experienced a 17% increase over 2025.

The links between the company and ICE are expected to get even closer since Trump appointed David Venturella, a former GEO Group executive, to serve as acting director of ICE on May 13. Venturella’s most recent appointment — one that does not require congressional approval — exposes the revolving door between the for-profit prison company and ICE. Venturella had been a career official with ICE and the agency that preceded it off and on since the 1980s. In 2012, he joined GEO Group where he worked for 12 years before returning to the federal government last year.
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GEO Group and the Prison Industrial Complex A hunger and labor strike by 300 immigrant detainees that started on May 22 at Delaney Hall in Newark, New Jersey, has thrown a spotlight on GEO Group, the Florida-based company that, along with Core Civic, oversees most Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centers in the United State

https://www.workers.org/2026/06/93314/
Freedom of the Press Foundation hosted an important webinar on June 12 featuring journalists who had experienced police brutality and harassment while covering daily protests outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, beginning in late May.

Caitlin Vogus, the senior adviser for advocacy at the Foundation, hosted the program, which featured freelance journalist Amanda Moore, independent photojournalist and documentary filmmaker Wali Khan, and Stephanie Sugars, the senior reporter at the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker. All three journalists had spent time documenting events outside Delaney Hall and experienced the day-to-day state brutality. Adam Rose, deputy director for advocacy at the Foundation, also participated in the discussion.

The three journalists described how Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents used batons, chemical irritant sprays, pepper balls and bright lights against protesters and press alike. New Jersey state troopers engaged in a higher level of crowd control through the use of munitions, tear gas and mounted officers who advanced into the crowd. Local Newark police were predominantly involved in enforcing a curfew briefly put in place by Newark Mayor Ras Baraca, establishing barricades and limiting press access during mass arrests.
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State’s response to Delaney Hall protests targets journalists Freedom of the Press Foundation hosted an important webinar on June 12 featuring journalists who had experienced police brutality and harassment while covering daily protests outside the Delaney Hall detention center in Newark, New Jersey, beginning in late May. Caitlin Vogus, the senior adviser

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Join activists in Iran and the US for this webinar to protest the, FIFA organized, World Cup games being held in the U.S. and the insulting treatment of the Iranian and African teams, as well as the continuing US/Israeli threats on Iran.

This webinar is the day before the next Iranian football match and the day after the formal signing of the MOU ceasefire between Iran and the U.S. This will be addressed, as well as Iran’s support for Palestine and Lebanon.

World Cup/War Cup
Hands off Iran
Saturday, June 20, 12 PM Est

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: World Cup/War Cup - Hands off Iran. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Join U.S. and Iranian antiwar activists for this webinar to protest the, FIFA organized, World Cup games being held in the US and the insulting treatment of the Iranian and African teams, as well as the continuing US/Israeli threats on Iran. This webinar will be the day before the next Iranian footb...

https://www.workers.org/2026/06/93280/

Boston — June 14. High school seniors belonging to the Somerville High School Local History Club have restored three years’ worth of video footage of LGBTQIA2S+ liberation activist Leslie Feinberg discussing the struggle against gender oppression. With help from teachers and Edward Childs, longtime Boston Workers World Party member and Unite Here Local 26 organizer, the student volunteers worked on the project for the entire last year. They spent hours after school at the Somerville Media Center, where they restored the footage, which otherwise could have been lost.

In one recovered video, shot in 1996 at Arlington Street Church in Boston, Feinberg discusses the interconnected struggles for gender and class liberation she explored in her now-classic book, “Trangender Warriors,” published that year. “I needed to know if I can turn to others in societies who don’t face the same oppression that I do and ask for their solidarity and express mine,” Feinberg said of the inspiration for Transgender Warriors.

“We don’t just need language to talk about our oppressions,” Feinberg added. “We need to go to places, to go where we’re safe, places to go where we’re honored and recognized as allies. Even if what we experience every day isn’t identical, we’re up against the same enemies out there. We get just as wounded and weary out there, and we need to find each other.”
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Leslie Feinberg speaks! Boston — June 14. High school seniors belonging to the Somerville High School Local History Club have restored three years’ worth of video footage of LGBTQIA2S+ liberation activist Leslie Feinberg discussing the struggle against gender oppression. With help from teachers and Edward Childs, longt...

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The significance of Juneteenth �By Monica Moorehead posted on June 20, 2022�"And now with Juneteenth being elevated on a national level, the ruling class and its media mouthpieces will attempt to co-opt this holiday by finding ways to make profits and by putting their own spin on “looking back at the past,” as a diversion from granting full equality. ��Instead, Juneteenth should be a clarion call for reparations for the descendants of once-enslaved people, whose unpaid labor was superexploited by white plantation owners. The inspiration of Juneteenth can inject a heavy dose of anti-racist solidarity to help move the classified struggle forward by workers of all nationalities, ages and genders, uniting to organize for a liveable wage and more humane working conditions. Read whole article: workers.org/?p=64925/
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The significance of Juneteenth This year marks the first anniversary of Juneteenth as an official federal holiday since it was signed into law June 17, 2021, by President Joe Biden. The day is a recognition that on June 19, 1865, enslaved Black people were liberated in Galveston, Texas — two and a half years following the ena

https://www.workers.org/2026/06/93270/
Almost two weeks before the 250th celebration of the “founding” of the U.S., Juneteenth, a federal holiday, will take place on June 19. Making Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021 was a long overdue recognition that on June 19, 1865, enslaved Black people were liberated in Galveston, Texas — two and a half years after the enactment of the Emancipation Proclamation made by President Abraham Lincoln.

This historic day did not prevent Black people from being kidnapped from Texas to countries like Cuba or Brazil, where slavery still existed until the late 1880s, or even murdered by Texas enslavers.

Juneteenth is viewed by Black communities as the “second day of independence,” following the U.S. “independence” from Britain in 1776. Even before Juneteenth — also known as “Freedom Day” — was made a legal holiday, Black people celebrated this anniversary countrywide with marches and rallies, along with an array of social and cultural events.

Fast forward 161 years and the real meaning of Juneteenth — the ongoing fight for full social equality for Black people — continues to be under assault by an outright white supremacist U.S. president. Once #47 took office for the second time, he wasted little time laying off hundreds of thousands of federal workers, a hugely disproportionate number of them Black women. Many of these same workers were among those whose Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits were temporarily suspended.
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Juneteenth and 250 years of hypocrisy Almost two weeks before the 250th celebration of the “founding” of the U.S., Juneteenth, a federal holiday, will take place on June 19. Making Juneteenth a federal holiday in 2021 was a long overdue recognition that on June 19, 1865, enslaved Black people were liberated in Galveston, Texas — t...

https://www.workers.org/2026/06/93267/
On June 1, a jury in South Carolina found Chikiei Rick Chow not guilty of the murder of 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack Belton. Chow had accused Belton of stealing, chased him down for 130 yards and shot him in the back, killing him.
Both Chow and his defense team’s main claim is that Belton, while being chased by Chow and his son, turned and attempted to aim a gun at them. This claim was debunked by the prosecution through the evidence of the gun, which turned out to be an airsoft gun that had fallen out of Cyrus’s pocket while he was being chased. It was also contradicted by Chow himself: in bodycam footage, Chow talked about everything except the claim that Cyrus Carmack Belton had pulled a gun on him or his son, Andy. (WIStv.com, Nov. 4, 2025)

With this evidence and more, Chow should have been found guilty. But here, in the belly of the beast, the “justice system” does nothing for the oppressed, it merely maintains the status quo. Even in the rare cases where the system “works” and a conviction is handed down, the sentences are often laughably light compared to the crime.
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The Chow Trial is over, and injustice was the verdict, as it always is under this system. So what do we do? We organize. We educate. And critically, we let Black comrades lead this struggle, especially the struggle to end capitalism, because Black comrades, along with other comrades of color and oppressed peoples, understand how this system functions and what has to be done to it: It has to be removed and replaced with a dictatorship of the proletariat.

But before any of that can happen, there has to be a real connection with the people. And that connection is built by struggling alongside the people, especially Black people, as it becomes increasingly clear that Black people, as well as Latine, Indigenous, LGBTQIA2S+, women and gender-oppressed people and other oppressed peoples are the primary targets of ruling-class terror. Only by building that connection, by helping carry this struggle forward together, can we win, not just workers’ liberation, but Black liberation too.

And right now, that’s not just one front among many for the socialist movement. It’s the front that determines whether the movement survives at all.

The worth of a Black youth’s life in the empire On June 1, a jury in South Carolina found Chikiei Rick Chow not guilty of the murder of 14-year-old Cyrus Carmack Belton. Chow had accused Belton of stealing, chased him down for 130 yards and shot him in the back, killing him. Both Chow and his defense team’s main claim is that Belton, while

https://www.workers.org/2026/06/93243/
Hundreds of Registered Nurses (RNs) carried out a one-day strike on June 11 in front of Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital here. They had called the strike to protest the hospital bosses’ illegal firing of six pro-union nurses who have helped lead an organizing campaign.
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RNs across Chicagoland and the U.S. are attracted to NNOC/NNU’s strong patient advocacy and class-conscious politics. NNOC/NNU was the first U.S. trade union to openly call for the abolishment of ICE and has publicly condemned imperialist wars.

Class struggle unionism was reflected in the nurses’ chants. Picketers chanted “What’s disgusting? Union busting!” in addition to “Money for healthcare, not for warfare!” RNs on the picket line are excited about their upcoming election and their collective ability to place patient care over the hospital bosses’ greed.

Chicago nurses strike to protest anti-union terminations Chicago Hundreds of Registered Nurses (RNs) carried out a one-day strike on June 11 in front of Saint Mary of Nazareth Hospital here. They had called the strike to protest the hospital bosses’ illegal firing of six pro-union nurses who have helped lead an organizing campaign. Bedside nurse

https://www.workers.org/2026/06/93238/
Towards the end of May, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it was ending the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) and pulling up four data gathering arrays consisting of hundreds of electronic instruments that gathered real time data, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
The announcement followed the abrupt dismissal of the entire National Science Board, the advisory committee to the National Science Foundation.

These actions showed how the current MAGA regime in Washington is abandoning any priority for scientific tracking of changes in climate as it affects the oceans and humanity in general and instead is maintaining the priority of profits for private energy monopolies producing fossil fuels.

The United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported in 2021 and 2022 that global warming was producing megastorms, heatwaves, droughts, wildfires, torrential precipitation, flooding, bleaching of coral reefs and destruction of kelp forests in the oceans, as well as the intense loss of biodiversity.

The great melting of Arctic sea ice accelerates global warming because dark open water absorbs the sun’s energy while ice reflects it. The presence of more and more freshwater from the melting of sea ice and glaciers changes the flows that bring warm waters to more temperate areas of the world.
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t costs relatively little to run OOI, considering its important task. It was budgeted for $48 million a year, far less than the value of the data it collected.

But it collected data that disputed the deeply held, ignorant opinions of MAGA, that “global warming” is a hoax, that it’s a scam designed by the liberal elites to cost the economy money that would be better spent on fossil fuels. These opinions were clearly laid out in Trump’s 2025 speech to the U.N.’s General Assembly.

Two days after the NSF announced the end of OOI, the Trump administration proclaimed that it was going to spend $700 million on two new electricity generating plants fired by coal. These are the first new coal-fired plants built in the last 13 years.

MAGA regime rips out sea monitors, prefers profits Towards the end of May, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it was ending the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) and pulling up four data gathering arrays consisting of hundreds of electronic instruments that gathered real time data, from the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Th

https://www.workers.org/2026/06/93230/
Massive demonstrations of Indigenous Bolivians, workers and farmers have escalated into a nationwide siege demanding that President Roderigo Paz resign. Since May 9, they have built over 90 blockades surrounding the capital, La Paz, and isolating major cities.
Roderigo Paz is a U.S. client aligned with right-wing leaders of some of the Latin American countries, such as Javier Milei in Argentina. Paz is slandering the protesters as vandals out to destroy democracy. On June 7, Bolivia’s legislature passed a law granting the president the power to declare a state of emergency, giving the green light for him to deploy a military crackdown on protesters and clear the roadblocks.
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Bolivian Indigenous-led protests inspire the world Massive demonstrations of Indigenous Bolivians, workers and farmers have escalated into a nationwide siege demanding that President Roderigo Paz resign. Since May 9, they have built over 90 blockades surrounding the capital, La Paz, and isolating major cities. The blockades are choking off t