Imagine for a second crowds of people marching and chanting in the street, networks organized and working together in various coalitions and group chats, all gathered by the thousands in freezing temperatures with the common goal of eliminating not the icy terror of the frigid sub-zero, but the terror of a cold, heartless organization of sycophantic, Trump-supporting white-supremacists who commit their acts of imperialism under the guise of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. I would invite you then to turn on your television set or open your newspaper of choice and you will see scenes that seem to be torn straight from history books— colorized and modernized. Those are the conditions of Minneapolis, Minnesota in January 2026.  A 50,000+ Person march against ICE in Minneapolis | Credit: Fight Back! News Operation Metro Surge— the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s code-name for ICE’s fear campaign in Minnesota— is the largest operation that ICE has ever carried out and de...

An ongoing argument that I have frequently found myself entrenched in is an internal and external debate between careerism and revolutionary commitments. My careers in academia and in organizing began at almost exactly the same time and since then there has been pressure from all sides of my social environment;— this pressure has largely been dedicated to encouraging my towards the path of careerism and building up myself such that I may find a strong working life and take my place alongside my immediate family in the petty bourgeois class. Encouragement towards liberalism and capitulation towards authority has been uttered to me with approaching the frequency of my own name.  I must admit that the path given is appealing. Given the increasing struggle of revolutionism and the tone of my own skin, it is quite understandable that those close to me would prefer that I orient myself towards focusing on my studies and put my political work— that is admittedly dangerous and carries seve...