by William F. Jasper
Are the anti-deportation/anti-ICE riots in Los Angeles pointing toward a replay of the devasting violence and chaos of the George Floyd/Black Lives Matter (BLM)/Antifa riots of 2020? It certainly appears so, as the violence and “resistance” has spread to Chicago; New York City; Boston; Washington, D.C.; Omaha; Portland; Phoenix; and other cities.
This alarming development will not come as a surprise to anyone who has been following the buildout of the militant “Open Borders” lobby over the past several decades. Literally hundreds of far-left nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and activists have received hundreds of millions of dollars from our government agencies and major left-leaning tax-exempt foundations and corporations to push the radical immigration/migration agenda. Are these groups simply advocating for “justice” and “fairness” for immigrants, migrants, and refugees, as they claim? Are they merely protesting “brutal,” “inhumane,” and “illegal” actions by the Trump administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)? Not hardly! As we will show below, the escalating wave of “mostly peaceful protests” accompanied by increasing violence and rioting follows a pattern, and is being fomented by Marxist-Leninist organizations with long records of orchestrating chaos and that openly admit they are pushing for “revolution,” “insurrection,” and “making this country ungovernable.”
Even more alarming is the accumulating evidence indicating that key activist groups and politicians leading the anti-ICE drive are being supported, directed, and funded by Communist China, which is using migration as an integral part of its “Unrestricted Warfare” scheme to create social turmoil.
But first, the situation in Los Angeles, which exploded in early June.
“Last night, over 1,000 rioters surrounded a federal law enforcement building and assaulted ICE law enforcement officers, slashed tires, defaced buildings, and taxpayer funded property,” the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stated in a press release on June 7, 2025. “It took the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) 2 hours to respond,” the press release noted (emphasis in original).
The DHS statement continued:
Our ICE enforcement officers are facing a 413% increase in assaults against them. Disturbingly, in recent days, ICE officers’ family members have been doxed and targeted as well.
These riots in Los Angeles and increased assaults on ICE officers come after Democrat politicians, including Hakeem Jeffries, Mayor [Michelle] Wu of Boston, Tim Walz, and Mayor [Karen] Bass of Los Angeles, have villainized and demonized ICE law enforcement. [Emphasis in original.]
“The men and women of ICE put their lives on the line to protect and defend the lives of American citizens,” said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin. “Make no mistake, Democrat politicians like Hakeem Jeffries, Mayor Wu of Boston, Tim Walz, and Mayor Bass of Los Angeles are contributing to the surge in assaults of our ICE officers through their repeated vilification and demonization of ICE. From comparisons to the modern-day Nazi gestapo to glorifying rioters, the violent rhetoric of these sanctuary politicians is beyond the pale. This violence against ICE must end.”
So, are DHS and ICE officials exaggerating the scope and seriousness of the attacks, as critics claim? Any reasonable person can see that they are not exaggerating simply by viewing the videos of the violent attacks on ICE and police.
The levels of violence directed at the officers caused President Trump to denounce Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and California Governor Gavin Newsom for contributing to the rioting by rhetoric and inaction, claiming they are doing an “absolutely horrible job.” “These are not protesters, they are troublemakers and insurrectionists,” he wrote on Truth Social. At a press conference, he cited videos showing “professional” activists bringing “heavy satchels of bricks” for throwing as deadly weapons and men wielding big hammers “like a military operation” to break curbs for chunks of concrete to hurl onto vehicles from freeway overpasses.
Rewind, Replay: Riots and Revolution
Have we seen this movie before? Unfortunately, many times. And many of the same players are back for repeat starring roles. Anyone remember the communist Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Weather Underground (WU) and the riots they staged in the 1960s and 1970s? Well, they were back helping to launch the BLM/Antifa riots of 2020, and are involved in the current anti-ICE riots. To the SDS/WU mix we can add a host of additional communist organizations such as the Communist Party USA, Freedom Road Socialist Organization, Revolutionary Communist Party, Workers World Party, Chinese Progressive Association, Refuse Fascism, United for Peace and Justice, National Lawyers Guild, World Peace Council, Institute for Policy Studies, Democratic Socialists of America, and Bernie Sanders’ Our Revolution.
Let’s get specific. Arguably the group most responsible for starting the George Floyd/BLM riots in Minneapolis in 2020 is the Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO), a radical Maoist group that idolizes the mass-murdering Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Not only does the evidence sustain that charge, but the FRSO itself boasts of its vanguard role in the riots. Two FRSO leaders, Steff Yorek and Jess Sundin, have been especially vocal in celebrating their part in causing the BLM havoc. The two lesbians (who are “married” to each other) self-identify as “communist revolutionaries” and say they want to “burn down” America.
Here is Yorek on video: “This is Steff Yorek, I’m the political secretary of Freedom Road Socialist Organization…. Mao and Stalin were both Marxist-Leninists. That is … how I identify as Marxist-Leninist as well.”
Here is Yorek as the opening speaker at the FRSO’s 8th Congress in 2018, two years before the deadly BLM riots: “Look around, this is a room of extraordinary people. We are revolutionaries. We want to transform society…. We are a group of people who are here because we intend to burn down the house and build a new world upon the ashes of the old.” (Emphasis added.)
Then there is Sundin. “Myself, I am a revolutionary, I have been a communist for more than 20 years,” says Sundin in a video. She also explains the FRSO’s leadership in organizing both the daytime “peaceful protests” and the nighttime riots and mayhem, such as torching the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct:
The first two weeks after George Floyd was killed saw an intense high level of organizing all day and all night, every day. During the day we would have marches and rallies, and at night the focus was often at the third precinct, which is the police station where George Floyd’s killers were working out of. I can’t tell you the joy it brought all of us to see the third precinct destroyed. There were marches, like I said, there were rallies, and lots of buildings were destroyed, some by fire, you know, some by brute force, sometimes it was golf club, sometimes it was baseball bats, and a lot of folks wanted to get out to other sites around the cities where there is, you know, really pitched battles happening, and we support all of that. And I want to be absolutely clear as an organizer, those night demonstrations, the emptying of the police department, the emptying of Target and other major stores is absolutely tied to, connected to, and part of the movement.
It was not just coincidence that within hours after Minneapolis exploded, FRSO organizers and their communist comrades in allied organizations ignited dozens of similarly deadly outbursts in cities across America. These revolutionaries did not do this because they sympathize with downtrodden black people, but because they intend to agitate and use black people to make America “ungovernable” and “transform” it into a communist country.
The same FRSO 8th Congress proudly announced the election to the FRSO Central Committee of Frank Chapman, a longtime leader of the Soviet-directed Communist Party USA. “We are making real progress in building a fighting communist organization … and building the Black liberation movement,” Comrade Chapman declared.
That FRSO Congress also read messages of support from the Communist Parties of Sweden, Greece, Germany, Belgium, Turkey, Italy, Great Britain, and other countries. Typical was the message from the Communist Party of the Philippines (CPP), which congratulated FRSO for “making Marxism-Leninism a truly vibrant and effective instrument of the proletariat for their class liberation.”
Next, let’s look at another leader in the George Floyd riots and the current immigration riots: Black Lives Matter. BLM is closely associated with Eric Mann, who is a FRSO leader, Maoist communist, and former Weather Underground terrorist. In a 2015 radio interview, years before the organization was catapulted to fame and fortune, BLM co-founder Patrisse Cullors boasted that she and her co-founders Alicia Garza and Opal Tometi are “trained Marxists.” Who trained them? None other than the above-mentioned communist Eric Mann, who, among other activities, runs the Labor Community Strategy Center (LCSC) in Los Angeles, where he trains up a new cadre of Mao’s Red Guards. Mann’s LCSC sells Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (also known as Mao’s Little Red Book), the bible of the murderous Red Guards who rampaged through China during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. It is prominently listed among “The 100 most important books for everyone to read to be a successful organizer and wage revolution!” at the LCSC’s StrategyAndSoulBooks.com bookstore.
In a 2018 interview, BLM’s Cullors explained:
I went through a year-long organising programme at the National School for Strategic Organising (NSSO), and it was led by the [Eric Mann’s] Labour Community Strategy Centre. We spent the year reading, anything from Marx, to Lenin, to Mao, learning all types of global critical theory and about different campaigns across the world, and most importantly every day, five days a week we were out on the ground actively recruiting people into the organisation we were in, as a way to learn how to bring people in, how to keep them in an organisation. There’s an entire skillset to this.[Emphasis added.]
The Mann/Cullors/FRSO/BLM emphasis on Vladimir Lenin is important. The Bolshevik leader’s essay “‘Left-Wing’ Communism: An Infantile Disorder”is prescribed for intense study by all Marxist-Leninists to understand the importance of “united front” work. Lenin wrote:
The more powerful enemy can be vanquished only by exerting the utmost effort, and without fail, most thoroughly, carefully, attentively and skillfully using every, even the smallest, “rift” among the enemies, of every antagonism of interest among the bourgeoisie of the various countries and among the various groups or types of bourgeoisie within the various countries, and also by taking advantage of every, even the smallest, opportunity of gaining a mass ally even though this ally be temporary, vacillating, unstable, unreliable and conditional. Those who fail to understand this, fail to understand even a particle of Marxism, or of scientific, modern Socialism in general. [Emphasis in original.]
Thus, all communists “carefully, attentively and skillfully” use “every, even the smallest, ‘rift’ among the enemies,” exploit “every antagonism of interest,” to create social turmoil, hatred, division, and chaos, all the while they proclaim to be for peace, justice, unity, and harmony. So, we have Afro-Leninists, Chicano-Leninists, Homo-Leninists, Enviro-Leninists, Trans-Leninists, etc., who agitate for reparations, LGBTQ “rights,” no borders, net zero/climate change, “End Fossil Fuels,” Green New Deal, no bail, “defund the police,” and a hundred other wedge or “rift” issues.
Beijing’s Hand
This is where the CCP’s United Front Work Department (UFWD) comes in. Following Lenin’s directive, the UFWD is carrying out a massive, aggressive, worldwide United Front campaign utilizing every imaginable “rift” to destabilize its enemies, which are all countries that aren’t already communist-controlled. Through exchanges and sister-city programs, it recruits activists (such as members of FRSO and BLM) and politicians (such as Mayor Karen Bass and Governor Tim Walz) to come to China for further indoctrination.
It also runs influence, propaganda, espionage, intimidation, and repression operations inside the United States through campus and community organizations such as Confucius Institutes and the Chinese Progressive Association.
Considering the extraordinary scope of the UFWD in America and the extreme threat it poses to our national and personal security, it is outrageous that our major media largely turn a blind eye to this issue, as do most of our politicians, whose sworn duty is to protect us from enemies foreign and domestic. The UFWD is not some deep secret; many alternative-media articles, scholarly studies, and government reports have chronicled this growing peril.
Like the CCP’s fentanyl offensive, Covid offensive, tech theft, cyber hacking, patent and copyright piracy, election interference, bribery, and other attacks on the United States, China’s UFWD operations involving militant U.S. politicians and organizations at the forefront of the anti-ICE/open-borders issue should be viewed as another example of “war by other means.”
The CCP’s troops in this war include not only a swarm of immigration/migration NGOs, but defiant “sanctuary city” mayors such as Boston’s Michelle Wu and Los Angeles’ Karen Bass, both of whom have been caught taking CCP funds. This is but the tip of the CCP iceberg that has already been exposed; there’s undoubtedly more that (hopefully) the FBI and congressional investigations will uncover — and that the Department of Justice will prosecute. Consider the massive CCP funding of far-left environmental groups to cripple production of U.S. energy and critical minerals. That subversion went on for years before being exposed. The open borders/migration issue is every bit as strategic a matter for the CCP as energy. That is why China has stepped up its involvement in, and funding for, the UN’s migration and refugee agencies (including the International Organization for Migration, UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and UNICEF) that have become the main conduits for the millions of migrants from more than 140 nations that illegally flooded across our borders unvetted during Joe Biden’s four-year reign.
Even more outrageous, though, is the fact that the CCP has plenty of help financing the hate-America radicals (which are not limited to the Mao-adoring Antifa thugs) who chant, “No Border, No Wall, No USA at All.” Remember, when hundreds of millions of dollars started rolling into Black Lives Matter’s coffers, it was revealed that those mountains of cash were being administered by Thousand Currents, which boasted Susan Rosenberg, a convicted “former” terrorist of the Weather Underground and the May 19th Communist Organization, as its vice chair. Heated controversy over those revelations caused BLM to shift its assets from Thousand Currents to the Tides Center/Tides Foundation money-laundering complex, which is a mega funder of left-wing advocacy, including abolishing ICE, erasing borders, and other radical lunacy. Tides is a convenient dark money spigot through which the giant foundations such as Ford, Rockefeller, Soros, Hewlett, Packard, et al., slosh hundreds of millions of dollars into Marxist-Leninist causes. If not technically criminal violations of the foundations’ tax-exempt status, these CCP-aligned activities are clearly subversive and treasonous, and a looming danger to our national security. The president and Congress must immediately tackle this imminent threat to our survival.