the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Feb 17, 2025
About a dozen black-clad neo-Nazis gathered on an overpass, early in the afternoon on a Friday in February. They wore red masks as they waved flags emblazoned with swastikas over I-75, right at the entrance to Lincoln Heights, a historic black suburb of Cincinnati. They carried a banner reading “America for the White Man.” A couple brandished rifles.
Dozens of black residents arrived quickly. The neo-Nazis ran off. The police who turned up appeared to be focused on protecting the Nazi demonstrators. They escorted a U-Haul truck through the community protestors to allow the Nazis to make a hasty escape.
Kachara Talbert, a community member, later told CNN: “I’ve watched black men all my life in this community being frisked and detained without probable cause. But I didn’t see any rubber bullets that day. I didn’t see anybody getting shot, like during Black Lives Matter protests. I didn’t see gas. The calmness of the police overall, the way they were standing in front of them, it made us very upset.” Lincoln Heights residents later set up their own armed patrol.
With Trump in office, we can expect the extreme-right to keep “testing” the waters for their vile, racist crap. Working people will need to be ready to organize their own response, as those in Lincoln Heights did. The capitalist state is not meant to protect us!