As Congress sends threatening letters to the Party for Socialism and Liberation and immigrant rights organizations, the entire left must unite to defend them, regardless of our differences and while remaining honest in our criticisms of them.

For two years, Firebrand local branch the Denver Communists has campaigned against the Drip Café, which is operated by an explicitly anti-LGBTQ+ Christian church. Here we detail the protest campaign’s history and tactics, from confrontations with neo-Nazis to street performances by drag queens, as the café storefront has become a battleground in the broader struggle against reaction and organized bigotry in the US.

Rodney Hinton Jr., who allegedly killed a sheriff’s deputy after cops murdered his teenage son in Cincinnati, has become a folk hero and lightning rod for rage against the system of racist policing in the US. Though vigilante violence is not the way forward, we find political significance in Hinton’s actions, and he has our unconditional solidarity.