FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
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“Sadly, this is the new normal,” said a US teenager. She added that she would soon have to decide how to become politically active and asked for the latest issue of Red Flag.
Capitalist-imperialist terror created the world we live in today. Our response must be to step up the struggle for communism.
Columbus in 1492 described the Caribbean Arawak people: “When you ask for something they have, they never say no. To the contrary, they offer to share with anyone.”
This was a communist way of life. It prevailed worldwide for most of human history. It’s the way we’ll live again, now based on scientific understanding. A society organized around cooperation and sharing will leave no room for terrorism.
Columbus enslaved the Arawaks. He had the hands cut off those who didn’t bring him gold to enrich himself and finance capitalism’s rise in Europe. Capitalist competition and exploitation inevitably bred racist terror.
Four hundred years later, King Leopold II of Belgium enslaved the indigenous people of Congo and massacred ten million. He had the hands cut off those who didn’t bring in “enough” rubber or diamonds. His French and British rivals were just as brutal.
Meanwhile, US imperialism was rising over the dead bodies of 1.5 million murdered Filipinos.
Twentieth-century powers institutionalized mass terror in their frantic competition to redivide the world: the Japanese in Manchuria. The Germans in Europe. The British in India/Pakistan and South Africa. The US in Vietnam, Iraq and Central America.
Groups like al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and Islamic State have learned at the feet of these capitalist-imperialist butchers.
In some cases, literally. The US Army “School for the Americas” at Fort Benning, Georgia trained fascist death squads. These continue to terrorize much of Latin America. The CIA’s huge Operation Cyclone armed and financed militant Islamic groups fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. Thousands of these fighters later joined Al Qaeda.
For that matter, the US Army trained Oklahoma City terrorist Timothy McVeigh to execute surrendering soldiers during the first Gulf War. Obama’s drones rain terror on Yemen.
Capitalist state terror and imperialist war dwarf the destruction created by clandestine terrorist cells. It would be suicidal to trust these profit-driven murderers to protect us. It would be worse still to fall for their appeals to workers to attack other workers in the name of nationalism, religion or anything else.
Western imperialism praised the “Arab Spring” pro-democracy uprisings of 2011. Now, stronger Islamist parties and more repressive military dictatorships flourish in Egypt and elsewhere. In Syria, civil war quickly became an inter-imperialist proxy war between Russia and Iran and their allies versus the US and its allies.
Terrorism against the masses is never justified. Terrorist groups offer young Muslim suicide bombers something to die for so that a few “caliphs” might rule oil-rich land. Communism offers us all something to live for: a sustainable world where we will work collectively and share the fruits as one family.
Communist revolution will liberate the masses from capitalist tyranny. But as long as capitalists rule anywhere on earth, they will use mercenary terrorists against us. We will need to mobilize the masses under the leadership of a Red Army to suppress them. Only the victory of communism worldwide can end terrorism forever.
The emergence of a massive global industrial working class in the 20th century should have buried capitalism. Instead, its survival exposed fatal errors of communist movements in the Persian Gulf region and elsewhere. They fought for national liberation and democracy, not for communism. They allied with pro-capitalist forces that soon smashed them. This created space for religious nationalists to mobilize alienated youth around the reactionary, anti-working-class politics of terrorism.
We must never make such mistakes again! That’s why the International Communist Workers’ Party (ICWP) organizes as ONE international party. We fight for a communist world without borders or nations. It’s why we mobilize masses for communism and nothing less. It’s why we encourage mass study of dialectical materialism, the philosophy that guides communist revolution.
The ICWP must build collectives in the townships of Marikana, the Paris banlieus, in the Indiramma Nagar of Hyderabad, in the favelas of Sao Paolo. We must organize in industrial centers, militaries, schools and working-class neighborhoods everywhere. These collectives must mobilize against terrorists and fascists who attack immigrants, Muslims, Dalits and other groups of workers. They must popularize the goal of a communist world. They will be the nuclei of a communist Red Army and, eventually, of communist society.
This time we must not fail. With your participation and that of thousands and then millions of others, communism will triumph.