The Chicago Alliance is a branch of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression


 
 

NAARPR is a mass defense organization that defends the rights of Black people and all oppressed peoples to unite, organize and fight for freedom, justice and equality. We were founded in 1973 and our parent organization was National United Committees to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners. Today we see the police occupation of communities and mass incarceration as the two greatest obstacles to our fight for democracy and liberation.


Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR)

For Immediate Release: Friday, September 19th, 2025

Statement by Frank Chapman: How the Enemies of Our Movement Are Using the Kirk Assassination

There have been many analyses that have been put forth that Trump and his minions represent an attempt at a fascist takeover at worst, and a turning back of the clock in terms of the trade union movement, the women’s movement, the Black liberation movement, every progressive movement that has occurred in the United States over the last couple of centuries at best. They’re attempting to turn back the clock on all of those movements to bring us to a point where we have no democratic rights whatsoever to organize and protest for systemic change or the progressive elimination of the status quo. 

From their own declarations and proclamations, we know that Trump and his minions are racist to the core, anti-union to the core, anti-LGTBQ, anti-women, and anti-immigrant. In a word, none of these movements have any rights that Trump and his minions feel bound to respect. In fact, they don’t even acknowledge the right of these movements to exist. They want to criminalize all opposition to the status quo and the backward reactionary policies of the Trump regime. 

We must put the assassination of Charlie Kirk in the context of where the Trump-led ultra right is and where they want to go. Historically the only thing I think that we can compare this with is the burning of the Reichstag in Germany right before Hitler took power. 

That is not to say that I think that the fascist movement in Germany and the Trump-led movement in the United States are historical twins. There are many differences. But the point I want to make is about their use of the same tactics and strategies for creating a moral and political climate conducive to political terrorism. And we don’t have to speculate as to what that political terrorism is going to look like, whether it’s going to look like Nazi Germany or whatever. What we need to do is focus on what it is in fact right now. 

What it is in fact right now is that Trump is acting like a dictator. He is acting by means of executive fiat and by eliminating the checks and balances between the three branches of government. He’s ignored court orders. He’s vilified judges who go against him. He has a vendetta program in action for punishing his political opponents, particularly those who were opposed to him overthrowing the elections in 2020. He pardoned 1,500 insurrectionists, who were responsible for the murders of several people and the vandalizing of the halls of Congress. He’s definitively come out against free speech on the part of the press, public figures and entertainers. So, these are actions that Trump has perpetrated in the past and as President of the United States, is currently engaged in. 

We can talk about the coming of an oppressive police state. But we should be focusing on how Trump is executing a police state right now and what we need to do to stop it. It is clear that the corporate media, the Democrats, and unfortunately some forces in the progressive people’s movement are capitulating instead of fighting back. They’re capitulating by focusing their response to this assassination by condemning political violence as a general concept, divorced from the reality that we presently face, which is one of unchecked power for the ultra-right. 

Domestic terrorist acts, including mass murders, that have been perpetrated in the United States since 1995 have come overwhelmingly from the right. We’re not just arbitrarily saying this, this is true from Timothy McVeigh to the present. While President Obama was in office, nine Black people were killed at Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Whether these white terrorist acts claim the lives of white children, as in the case of Timothy McVeigh, or Black people, as in the case of Dylann Roof, the terrorists were usually white and driven by right wing racist politics.

The Trump forces have made it clear to us that just as Hitler used the Reichstag to blame the communists, Trump is using this assassination to blame the left. And what is the left in his opinion? Everyone who doesn’t agree with him. It includes news commentators, comedians, the Democratic Party, any and everybody that doesn’t agree with him. He has made that clear. Our duty and responsibility as a movement to stop Trump is to stay focused on his actions and not be distracted by his proclamations and declarations, which are clearly designed to mislead us. 

Here’s where our focus should be. ICE is currently illegally occupying Chicago, poised to attack protesters and kidnap immigrants, and in fact has murdered one immigrant already, Silverio Villegas-Gonzales. ICE has used pepper balls and teargas on protesters at the Broadview ICE facility here in Illinois. Trump has also identified New Orleans, Baltimore, Memphis, and other cities as places where he will carry out the same policies, if he’s not carrying them out already. Los Angeles and D.C. fought back when their streets were occupied, and they’re still fighting back. Chicago is fighting back, although seemingly Trump backed down from military occupation, he’s gone full steam ahead with ICE. Baltimore is poised to fight back. Memphis is fighting back. 

Of course we support the people’s movement forming the broadest united front and fighting the political thuggery and storm trooper tactics of Donald Trump and his minions on every level by every means necessary. This is why we must focus on putting masses of people in the streets to stop these vicious and deadly attacks against democracy. We support using every legal means available to us, and we also support using civil disobedience to the extent necessary, to stop Donald Trump in his tracks. 

We’re not condemning or being critical of people who have denounced the use of political violence in general. We’re just saying that such denunciations don’t make clear what the battle lines are between our movement and its enemies. In this moment, they are killing us, we’re not killing them. 

We can’t wait for things to get worse before we fight for things to get better. The watchword for us is now is the time. This narrow now is the time to act, not some projected future which we won’t see if we don’t act now. 

Resist Now! All Power to the People!

Statement by the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR) on Trump’s Threats to Deploy Federal Troops to Chicago

Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression (CAARPR)

For Immediate Release: Monday, August 25, 2025

The Trump train is coming to town and we need to stop it in its tracks. The President’s threats to bring federal troops to Chicago  are a clear, blatant attack on the Black community and the immigrant community. That’s what this is aimed at, repressing Black communities under the guise of fighting crime and repressing immigrant communities by implementing mass deportations and violating the right to due process of law. 

This is far deeper than any constitutional crisis that we’ve ever had in this country since the Civil War. Not only should we take it seriously, and we do take it seriously, but we are calling on all the people, including their political representatives, to resist to the fullest extent of the law and through whatever means of resistance we can muster to stop Trump in his tracks and keep this military occupation of our community from happening. 

Trump is violating the law. He has no legal, constitutional right to do what he’s doing. Neither the mayor or the governor of this state have called on him to deploy federal troops. This is an illegal military occupation of our community, and we have an inalienable democratic right to resist it. 

 

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NAARPR 2025 CONFERENCE

NAARPR 2025 Conference Call to Action:

Build the Movement to Defeat Trump's Agenda & Win Community Control of the Police!

Chicago, IL - November 14 - 16, 2025

We issue this call for our fourth National Conference since our refounding in 2019. The National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression (NAARPR) was founded as a blacksled, mass defense organization dedicated to defending the people’s movements. Today, we see the need to build an even stronger unity against the racist and reactionary agenda of Donald Trump and everything he represents. We call on all branches of NAARPR, our affiliate organizations and all sections of the people’s movement to join us in Chicago, Illinois at the Chicago Teachers Union Hall on November 14th-16th for our fourth National Conference.

Every day, we see the attacks launched by the Trump administration on basic democratic rights. From the administration targeting immigrants, federal workers, continued assaults on indigenous rights, healthcare and welfare funding, diversity, inclusion and equity programs, reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights along with continuing the genocide abroad in Palestine, we see a deliberate attempt to disarm our movements for human dignity and rollback gains so many have fought for. We see the rise of white supremacist vigilantism and an ever-increasing police and prison state that seeks to curtail our efforts.

However, as NAARPR, we have been on the front lines through it all, demanding community control of the police, uniting with families to win justice along with fighting to free political prisoners and the unjustly incarcerated. We have stood with our immigrant comrades to fight back against the unlawful and illegal deportations from ICE along with continuing to stand with the movement to stop the genocide in Gaza. We have and shall continue to fight back against the police and prison state. We have grown to well over thirty branches and affiliate organizations across the U.S., with new branches forming daily.

We organize on the basis of the slogan Unity + Organization + Struggle = Victory, and our movement has had several significant victories in the two years since our last conference. The Tampa 5, activists targeted by the University of South Florida with felony charges for standing up to Ron DeSantis's attacks on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, had those charges dropped as a result of a successful mass defense campaign. Leonard Peltier, the longest serving political prisoner in U.S. history, whose defense campaign the National Alliance has been involved in since the 1970s, was finally brought home by executive pardon this year. In Chicago, over 200 wrongfully convicted people were freed by the Cook County State's Attorney's Office under Kim Foxx due to our movement's continuous organizing efforts, and Kevin Jackson had his sentence reversed by the appellate court, the first of the survivors of crooked sergeant Brian P. Forberg to be freed. These victories remind us that organizing works, and we have the tools to build the movement needed in this moment of heightened repression.

It is obvious Trump represents a clear and present danger to our communities. His movement is rooted in white supremacy and at its core rides the backlash of the Floyd rebellion in 2020, a rebellion that we took a clear part in advancing. There have even been conversations within the administration to pardon killer cop Derek Chauvin. Police killings continue with impunity, while so many of our communities remain under occupation. We understand that through fighting side by side with the families who are victims of police terror, we are able to organize against the cutting edge of racist national oppression, building stronger ties in our communities and advancing the people’s agenda.

It is clear that solidarity and organization remain our biggest weapon to defend our movements and communities and to defeat Trump's agenda.

This conference will be a space to organize, strategize, and mobilize. Together, we will continue to grow, learn from each other and build a movement for black liberation and the liberation of all oppressed peoples. Join us this November.

 
 
 

WELCOME TO THE RESISTANCE:

STOP THE TRUMP AGENDA!

On Inauguration day, we united with a coalition of 80+ organizations committed to fighting back against Trump's reactionary agenda and against the ongoing genocide in Palestine, as well as to honor the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.  

Our points of unity are: 

  1. with Trump's commitment to ramp up repression, we need to forge the broadest unity we can in order to defend our movements

  2. We unite around the demands to Fight the Racist & Reactionary Republican Agenda, Defend & Expand Immigrant Rights, Stand with Palestine, Defend the Right to Unionize & Strike, Stop Police Crimes, Defend Women’s, LGBTQIA+ & Reproductive Rights, and Defend Education & Academic Freedom

  3. It is only by uniting the combined forces of our movements to fight for all of our demands that we can not only defend our communities, but win greater power 

 

The People, united, will never be defeated! 

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The People, united, will never be defeated!  〰️

 

CPOP NOW!

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CPOP NOW! 〰️

 
 
 
 

RECENT STATEMENTS FROM CAARPR

 

A statement from FRANK CHAPMAN & the Chicago Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression

THE TRIIBE: An open letter to the movement on the need for unity

 

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