FIGHT FOR COMMUNISM!
	International Communist Workers Party
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Brexit, the vote for Britain to leave the European Union (EU), tells us that the capitalists “austerity programs” are creating an ungovernable working class, a class capable of being racist or revolutionary.  It is a nightmare for the capitalists because, given their economic crisis,  they can offer only austerity programs and war.
Their nightmare becomes our opportunity. It allows us to address an enlivened working class about the deadly limits of democracy. It strengthens our call for building a revolutionary communist alternative.
“Brexit” is both a result of global capitalist crisis and a cause of the sharpening of that crisis.  It heightens the danger of imperialist war and expands opportunities for communist revolution. 
It demands that we redouble our efforts to mobilize masses everywhere for communism.
Brexit is a casualty of the rapid decline of US imperialism and the rapid rise of Chinese imperialism. Never in history has such a repositioning happened so quickly. Brexit reflects a serious shift in the sharpening rivalry among the world’s imperialists.

If Brexit is carried through, it is a blow to US imperialism, which has counted on the UK to support it in the EU and NATO. The disintegration of the EU would be a geopolitical disaster for them.
The UK, like any other nationalist ruling class sees an opportunity. They are looking to China to invest in everything from their nuclear power to high speed rail.
These contradictions will drive Russia, Germany, and France to strengthen ties.
This makes World War III closer.
The masses can’t live in the old way.  Incredibly, 65.3 million people are refugees today:  one person out of every 123 in the world.  One in ten lacks clean water – 75.8 million in India alone.  One of us out of every nine does not get enough food.
We don’t have to live like this.  And we don’t have to live in the “old way” — capitalism never met the needs of the masses.  Workers produce everything.  When we break the chains of capitalism’s wage slavery we can produce and share everything we need. 

That means communist social relations of production.  We must organize ourselves as a mass international party that collectively makes and carries out all decisions in the best interest of the world’s workers. 
Communism means no racism.  The Brexit vote mobilized a significant section of the working class around anti-immigrant nationalism and racism – against its own class interest. 
In contrast, communism unites the working class.  It fights all divisions by “race” and nation, gender and religion.    A communist world will have no borders!
Mass mobilization for communism will create the material basis for ending racism, nationalism, and imperialism forever. 
The rulers can’t rule in the same old way.  Capitalist competition inevitably leads to global crises of overproduction.  “There is a glut of global commodities, particularly oil,” wrote  a capitalist analyst.  “There is a glut of labor, with elevated unemployment in much of the world.” 
Too much labor!  In communism there will be no such thing.  Everyone will work to produce things we need, to take care of each other, and to expand the realms of human creativity.
Communism has no use for money and markets.  Money allows a handful of capitalists to extract unheard-of wealth from workers’ labor.  Worldwide, 62 individuals own more than the 3.7 billion people!
Sharpening inter-imperialist competition means world war sooner than you might think.  Brexit suggests “the potential for a reordering of power, economic relationships, borders and ideologies around the globe,” an end of the post-1945 order imposed by the US and its allies.
Brexit makes the world less stable. 
Brexit has already undermined the US diplomatic “pivot to Asia Pacific.”  That makes US military presence there even more important.  It increases the likelihood of a confrontation with China.
China stands to gain from Brexit and the trouble it is causing the US. 
Russian capitalists are also winners.  Russia Times openly encouraged Brexit.  An EU without Britain is less likely to enforce sanctions on Russia.  Russia hopes that European turmoil will weaken NATO. 
US rulers, seeing a weaker Europe, might try harder to build direct relationships with Ukraine and Central Asia.  This would increase the chance of a US-Russia military confrontation.
In this period of global “reordering of power” it is all the more important to organize for communism inside the bosses’ militaries as well as in the factories, the schools and the streets.
Brexit reveals the emergence of an objectively revolutionary situation worldwide. Communist revolution is the only way out of the bosses’ crisis.  But no revolution can happen without the consciously communist organization of the masses. 
Join the ICWP and help to turn the bosses’ crises and wars into mass mobilization for communism! 

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