We’ve all seen the images and headlines over the past weeks. What is happening is no longer hidden or distant – it is visible, shared, and impossible to ignore. In Minneapolis, intensified police operations, raids, and detentions have turned entire neighbourhoods into sites of confrontation between communities and state authorities.
At the same time, immigration enforcement across the whole of United States is expanding again, with broader detention powers, accelerated deportations, and increased coordination between agencies. Policies framed as administrative measures translate into increased surveillance, further arrests, and a heightened level of state violence, that has lead to multiple killings of protesters and more people removed from their communities.
As the conflict increasingly unfolds within the country itself, it becomes clear that Immigration enforcement is not only about racist border laws, but labour also. Whilst capitalism’s profitability crisis continues, economic competition between major powers intensifies and governments seek to secure resources, production, and supply chains, the system itself demonstrates two of its main requirements: utilising deportations to scapegoat migrants for its inherent contradictions/failings, and responding to the material need of the state to manage its reserve army of labour.
This trajectory is not confined to one country. Technologies of control are advancing alongside policing powers;in Britain, new live facial recognition systems are being deployed in places like Croydon, where cameras scan thousands of faces in real time against police databases in everyday public space. What is introduced as a tool for safety marks a step toward the normalisation of permanent biometric monitoring. And the expansion of police powers has real human consequences: in England and Wales, 17 people died in or following police custody in 2024–25, while a further 60 people died by suicide within 48 hours of release.
For many people – migrants, activists, organisers – this kind of repression is not new. Across the US, Britain, and elsewhere, people have long been detained, surveilled, and removed by police and military structures. What appears shocking when it affects broader layers of society has often been routine for those already marginalised. In Britain, the direction of travel is clear: expanding surveillance powers, harsher migration regimes, and increasing criminalisation of dissent.
We stand in solidarity with all those resisting state repression, but we also know that solidarity alone is not enough. A system organised at the level of capital and the state cannot be defeated by fragmented resistance. The only force capable of stopping repression at its root is the organised working class acting collectively against the structures that produce it.
Building that organised power – conscious, disciplined, and united – is the task we are committed to.