1). “Trump escalates coup by sending Marines to Los Angeles”, Jun 9, 2025, Patrick Martin & Joseph Kishore, World Socialist Web Site, (WSWS), at < https://www.wsws.org/en/
2). “Seven Days in June: Trump’s unfolding coup d’état”, Jun 9, 2025, Statement of the SEP (US) National Committee and WSWS Editorial Board, World Socialist Web Site, (WSWS), at < https://www.wsws.org/en/
3). “Nationwide protests multiply against fascist ICE raids and military deployment in Los Angeles”, Jun 9, 2025, Jacob Crosse, World Socialist Web Site, (WSWS), at < https://www.wsws.org/en/
4). “Trump orders Marines to LA in additional deployment as unrest calms”, Jun 10, 2025, Live Reporting, Edited by Alex Smith and Adam Durbin, BBC, at < https://www.bbc.com/news/live/
5). “Trump sends another 2,000 National Guards and 700 Marines to LA on fourth day of unrest”, June 08 / 09, 2025, Edited by Rorey Bosotti, Matt Spivey and Tinshui Yeung, BBC, at < https://www.bbc.com/news/live/
6). “Violent riots ERUPT in LA as protesters clash with National Guard over 'unlawful' deportations”, Jun 9, 2025, anon, Daily Express, includes 14:52 of video from Los Angeles from the past couple of days, at < https://www.youtube.com/watch?
~~ recommended by dmorista ~~
Introduction by dmorista: The protests in Los Angeles over the past few days have shown that, in Los Angeles and the Southern California area in general, there is widespread sympathy and support for the plight of immigrants, who are being rounded up by the Trumpista ICE forces. Unfortunately one effect of this is to draw attention away from issues where there is near unanimous hostility to the Trumpista Fascist operations, the giant Multi-Trillion Dollar tax giveaway to the rich that must be financed by looting the only real sources of public wealth that are still more-or-less intact and are vulnerable to theft by the rich: namely Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security. Discussion of the tax cuts and the vicious cuts to federal programs that help the poor, working class, and middle class Americans, had been making progress and was causing an increase in public awareness of these pivotal economic issues.
Trump and his minions love it when the focus of public attention is on immigration and particularly on undocumented workers (since the canard of huge numbers of violent criminals among immigrants living in the U.S. has been at least partly exposed for the lie that it is). This outbreak of protest has been provoked by the typical heavy handed ICE operations rounding up low-wage workers. There is also the close time for these protests and the Big Parade by the tanks and other heavy military equipment scheduled for Washington D.C. this coming Saturday, June 14th. Trump, closely advised by the likes of arch-fascist Steve Miller and former Fox News TV host Pete Hegseth, might well unleash some kind of military attack on the populace of one or more major American Cities and more-or-less formally establish an outright fascist dictatorship. And already the Chinese and Russians, watching the spectacle of disorder and intense struggle inside the U.S., are increasing the boldness of their foreign policy and military moves. The Chinese have sent naval vessels east of Iwo Jima for the first time ever, and the Russians continue to hammer Ukraine with missile and drone attacks.
The U.S. Empire is in its death throes. The only real question is will we manage to accomplish a “soft landing” and live in a society with such institutions of civilization as libraries, accessible education, universal healthcare, women's rights to abortion and contraception, and so on. Or will we descend into a fascist nightmare in which the rich strip the populace of every vestige of a decent life. Item 1)., “Trump escalates coup ….”; Item 2)., “Seven Days in June: ….”; and Item 3)., “Nationwide protests multiply ….”, all from WSWS discuss the theoretical and political issues we face and how the protests in Los Angeles play into those issues. As one person interviewed by WSWS in Item 3 pointed out: “We are here to fight for everybody, because I love my people. We are no different from Palestinians, from people in the Congo or Sudan.”
Item 4)., “Trump orders Marines ….”; Item 5)., “Trump sends another ….”; and Item 6)., “Violent riots ERUPT ….”, all provide reporting from on the ground over the first 3 days of protests.
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