Cincinnati Socialists

Ryan Hinton was murdered. Not by accident, and not by mistake, but by design. We will not let his name be buried under a prosecutor's press release. We will not accept a legal ruling as the final word on justice. We will not allow a stolen car to mean more than a stolen life.

The death toll in Gaza has surpassed a grisly 80,000. Per reports, Israeli forces have committed at least 19 separate massacres over the last month. Humanitarian aid corridors remain nothing more than state-managed execution grounds.

June's Cincinnati City Council meetings have revealed a clear pattern: more favors for police and developers, fewer answers for people footing the bill.

In the first half of 2025, there has been a dramatic increase in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in the Greater Cincinnati Area. ICE agents operating out of a field office in Blue Ash have begun conducting immigration raids, arresting, detaining and deporting local residents — many of whom have no criminal charges — without due process.

While Cincinnati Socialists encourages all people to militantly and unstintingly voice their opposition to the semi-fascist Trump régime, we are skeptical about the goals and class character of the organizers of events organized by liberal groups like 50501. The unequivocal lesson of history is that real resistance to state violence, state oppression, and state corruption can only come from the broad masses themselves, and not from the ruling classes, who—no matter how well-intentioned—will never jeopardize their own unity in the name of the people’s liberation.

Senator Josh Hawley, chair of the Senate Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism, sent letters to three left-wing organizations. Cincinnati Socialists stands in solidarity with these organizations and all who challenge the structures of oppression enforced by the state apparatus.